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28Costochondritis and Exercise
It can be difficult to exercise with costochondritis - chest wall pain. Find out which movements to avoid, and which stretches and exercises will help!
7Best Apps for Learning Japanese
Using apps to help you learn Japanese keeps your motivation up and helps you learn more quickly. Use this list to grab the best Japanese language apps for iPhone and Android.
2Music Education Blogs
The best music education bloggers, helping students, performers and teachers succeed and reach their dreams.
3Simple mahjong rules for 3 or 4 players
Simple house rules makes a game of mahjong faster and more enjoyable, with easy-to-calculate scores. These house rules are great with 3 or 4 players!
5Digital clutter - are you an electronic packrat?
An uncluttered computer or mobile device runs faster, and you spend less time searching for and organizing your digital information. Read on to learn how to get control of your digital clutter!
11How to Take Better Photos in Winter
Winter is known as the most difficult season to photograph, with snow playing havoc with color and brightness. Follow these tips to get great winter shots!
6Clutter - the hidden costs
Clutter saps your time, energy and money, leaving you feeling overwhelmed and stressed. Learn how to fight the clutter monster and reclaim your happiness!
13Dark Chocolate Cake with a Kahlua Glaze
This rich dark chocolate bundt cake, with flecks of chocolate, smothered in a delicious, strong coffee-Kahlua syrup is a perfect and elegant dessert!
3Which DSLR lens should I get?
Are you overwhelmed by the choice of digital SLR lenses? Follow this guide to make your choices easy and painless, and avoid costly wrong purchases!
6How to choose a DSLR camera
Are you overwhelmed with the choices when upgrading to a digital SLR camera? Read this guide to choosing a DSLR camera body and lenses!
6The best plastic-free kettle - healthy and stylish
A plastic free kettle can protect you from BPA leaching into boiling water. An all metal kettle is a stylish addition to any kitchen!
7How to make a simple patchwork quilt
A first patchwork quilt is a daunting project for many quilters - but it doesn't need to be! You can make a beautiful and functional quilt quickly, by crafting your own block layout, and quilting in a simple design.
3Endometriosis medications
Endometriosis affects 10% or more of women worldwide. Many different medications are used to treat the symptoms, and shrink endometrial lesions, although there are no known cures yet. Find out which medications are used at which stage of the disease.
3Leipzig Zoo - a zoo of the future
The Leipzig Zoo is a great 1-2 day experience for adults and children alike. With themed exhibits, great viewing areas, restaurants and children's activities, it's a must-see destination in Leipzig. This 'zoo of the future' also plays an extremely important role in protecting many endangered species, with successful breeding and re-introduction programs.
16McKenzie exercises to reduce back pain
McKenzies Method exercises and stretches are a great way to combat lower back pain from bulging / herniated discs and compressed sciatic nerves. I've personally used these stretches to manage the sciatica that I developed as a young teen. I hope you can also find relief from back pain with these exercises!
18How to Take Stunning Autumn Photos
Follow these top 10 tips for both point-and-shoot and DSLR photography to capture fall in all its gorgeous color.
19Apple cake recipe with a rum glaze
Warm up in the cooler weather with a rum-soaked apple cake. Apples are in season in autumn, and make a beautiful and delicious bundt cake!
10How to take great bird photos
Frustrated with always snapping blurry bird photos? Follow these tips to capture beautiful bird pics, even with point and shoot cameras.
8How to Save Bean Seeds
Do you want to save money on your vegetable garden seeds next season? Easy! Save your own seeds! Beans are one of the easiest seeds to collect from your own garden for beginner seed-savers.
5Best Places and Wines in Margaret River, Australia
Margaret River - surrounded by wineries, national parks with soaring native trees, gourmet produce factories and with more than its fair share of gorgeous, deserted and pristine beaches. These are the best picks (and wines) of the region!
3How to Clean a Japanese Katana and Saya
Rust loves the high-carbon steel of katana blades, so they need to be cleaned and protected regularly. Here's how to keep your katana and saya in top condition.
4Honey orange roasted chicken recipe
Don't want to spend much time preparing dinner, but want a delicious, healthy and fragrant meal? This orange roast chicken with fresh herbs and ginger, cooked with a variety of roast vegetables, is quick to prepare, cooks while you are doing other things, and looks like it was made in a gourmet kitchen!
2Example Late Work Policies for Teachers
A consistent and clear late submission policy can improve classroom morale, prevent arguments, and make dealing with the regular piles of marking much less stressful. If your school or co-teachers do not have a late work policy, make your teaching life easier - develop your own.
11Endometriosis: If We Ignore It Will It Go Away?
It doesn't go away. And in fact, if you ignore endometriosis, it will continue to grow and can seriously damage multiple organs in the abdominal cavity.
5What is Idiopathic Pain?
Idiopathic pain is long term pain with no detectable cause. However a variety of treatments may reduce this chronic pain to a manageable level.
11Tips to Grade Writing Assignments Faster
Grading writing assignments is one of the more time consuming and thankless tasks of teaching. These tips and techniques will help you power through your piles of papers faster!
5Difficulties and Rewards of Teaching Seniors
Teaching old dogs new tricks requires some patience, and an understanding of the difficulties that senior students face. Classes for seniors are also very rewarding - both for the teacher and the students!
4Working in pain
Between 10% and 55% of the world's population suffer chronic pain, and many of these people still work and study. Learn how you can manage your pain levels at work and school.
6How to Manage Pain Without Medication
Learn how to manage chronic pain, with tips for your mind and your body. Actively seek to reduce your pain and stress, increase happiness and enjoy life!
10The best tomato pie recipe
Vine ripened tomatoes, vintage parmesan cheese, sauteed vegetables, and fresh, home-grown herbs combine to make a delicious summer pie.
6Costochondritis treatments: chest pain relief
When the pain of costochondritis flares, it can feel like a heart attack. Once cardiac causes have been ruled out, you are often just given a prescription. Try some of these other treatment options to heal and prevent costochondritis pain.
0How to Manage Fibromyalgia at Work
Working with fibromyalgia, having a successful career, is possible! Learn how to save energy, be productive and more healthy in the workplace.
84 Productivity Hacks for Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia sufferers are expected by many to be as productive as healthy people, despite dealing with constant pain and mental fogginess. These productivity tips can help fibromites manage their daily lives more smoothly.
11How to make healthy meals on a budget
Do you want to reduce costs or stick to your budget, but still eat healthily? Learn to prepare healthy meals even when grocery prices are rising!
4Backstage Photos from the Leipzig Opera
The Leipzig Opera House runs regular house tours, allowing visitors access to the stage, backstage, costume storage and much more. For those who can't visit in person, here is a virtual tour!
6Quilted cross stitch pillows: a framing alternative
A more casual alternative to a traditional frame, a pillow or cushion cover with a 'fabric frame' is a great way to display your completed cross stitch projects!
6The best fish soup recipe - French-style
A hearty and warming fish soup, with loads of fresh vegetables, herbs and spices. Great all year around, and freezes perfectly for a quick meal!
4Tangy lemon and lime cake recipe
Want a change from your standard lemon cake? Add a tangy lime glaze and candied lime peel for a stunning dessert cake. Dressed to kill and a flavor to die for!
0Orange marmalade with vanilla beans
Worried about a marmalade that refuses to set? Turn it into compote! This delicious orange vanilla compote is wonderful as a dessert, snack or with vanilla yoghurt for breakfast.
6Orange vanilla bean syrup
This orange vanilla syrup is fantastic on pancakes, as a glaze on cakes, with mineral water for a refreshing summer drink, and even as a hot drink!
8Best strawberry muffin recipe with a crumb top
Packed with vitamin C, strawberries are a summer treat. Fresh strawberries pair perfectly in muffin form with a crunchy walnut crumble topping - they won't last long!
18Video Toffee apple cake recipe
This toffee apple cake with walnuts and dried fruits is a sweet and flavorful dessert cake - a hit with adults and children alike!
18How to dye your hair purple or dark blue
Do you want to stand out from the crowd? Are you bored with natural hair colors? Here's how to get long-lasting results with blue and purple hair colors from Fudge.
14Indian tomato mint salad recipe
Bored of your average salad offerings at barbecues and picnics? Want to avoid unhealthy salad dressings? This tomato salad is naturally fat-free, and super-tasty!
2Designing new technology courses
You can choose from a huge range of areas when designing a Learning 2.0 course. Pick areas based on your needs, or those which sound intriguing!
0Benefits of technology courses for business, families and the elderly
Everyone can benefit from learning about new technology! See how these courses can benefit you, your workplace, family members or friends.
0New technology courses - an introduction
In an increasingly digital world, technology courses are important for creating supportive communities and closing digital divides between generations and social groups.
13How to plan a balcony garden
Have a balcony and want a garden? You can grow almost anything in containers, with a little planning and care. Follow these steps to plan your perfect balcony garden!
5Video Classical music history: Leipzig Notenspur music trail
Follow a trail through music history around Leipzig in Germany. Steeped in classical music, famous composers and musicians, the city is applying for UNESCO World Heritage Listing for their fascinating music sites.
20How to teach an English conversation class
Conversation classes are often unplanned and structure-less, or fall into the trap of patterned role-plays. Learn how to plan realistic and useful conversation lessons for your students.
14How to take better tree and plant photos
It is easy to ignore trees or the non-flowery parts of plants when looking for subjects to photograph. These tips will help you capture the best photos of plants and trees, no matter which camera you have!
23Sciatica - medications for sciatic pain relief
An overview and detailed look at the range of medications available to treat sciatica.
11Downshifting - how to achieve work life balance
Downshifting is a gradual process to find a work-life balance that fits you and your family best. Each person's path will be different - there is no right or wrong. Downshift to find the most healthy, happy and comfortable life for you, preferably before retirement!
0Nikko, Japan - Tamozawa imperial villa
Tamozawa Imperial Villa Memorial Park is a beautifully restored mansion, used by many members of the imperial family. One of the largest wooden buildings in Japan, with a large, gorgeous garden, and the only surviving Imperial residence from the Meiji villa, it should not be missed when visiting Nikko.
3Anime about music and music schools
To maintain interest and enthusiasm for learning an instrument, it is important to find inspiration. These three slice-of-life anime follow the budding classical musicians, from elementary school age through to university.
20Healthy baked chicken and asparagus recipe
This easy and healthy casserole is made with fresh, nutritious asparagus, white radish and low-fat chicken breasts. A quick and tasty dinner in spring or early summer!
4How to lose weight with chronic pain
Losing weight and becoming fit requires a lot of inner strength. Often, the people who should be the greatest source of support, sabotage and demotivate, sometimes without even realizing it! Learn how to recognize the saboteurs, and be a better weight loss supporter.
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Business skills for teachers
Teachers use business skills constantly - leadership, communication, marketing, presentation and organization are all necessary to plan and run classes effectively. Instead of waiting for teacher development courses run only in term breaks, choose an evening or online business skills, to improve your performance in and out of the classroom.
22How to frame your cross stitch
By cleaning and framing your finished needlework projects yourself, you ensure they are properly framed and cared for, and save a lot of money on professional framing!
8The Best Waterfalls in Nikko, Japan
Nikko in Tochigi prefecture is known for temples and shrines, but also for being surrounded by many stunning waterfalls.
2Fruit bun recipe
Easy, sweet and spiced fruit buns, perfect for breakfast or morning tea, and also as hot cross buns at Easter. Made with spice infused milk, and your favorite dried fruits, these fruit buns are worlds better than their factory made cousins!
8Fantastic kale recipes - how to cook kale perfectly!
A cool-weather super-food, kale is packed with vitamins. Enjoy it raw in salads, braised or stir-fried as a side dish, or incorporate it into a fantastic vegetable pie.
94Organic eggs vs. free range vs. cage free eggs
Which eggs are better: organic, pastured, free range, cage-free or battery eggs? A number of factors contribute to the answer: nutrition, contamination risks, animal welfare and environmental impact.
26Health effects of beer
Beer, in moderation, is a healthy addition to your diet. But you do need to weigh in the negatives before drinking a bottle every day!
73 healthy recipes using 1lb of ground beef
Many ground beef recipes are high in fat and cholesterol. These top three recipes add a pile of healthy vegetables, spices and herbs. Try one of these three, enjoy a healthy meal and save some money - vegetable-laden beef pasta sauce, chili with the lot or a spicy and fragrant Thai beef dish.
28Lime juice benefits
Limes are packed with vitamin C - important for your immune system, especially in the cold and flu season. But lime juice has also been shown in medical studies to fight more serious illnesses, such as malaria, cholera, golden staph and gastric inflammation.
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Sciatic Nerve Pain - Natural Treatments & Home Remedies
Lower back pain affects more than 80% of people, at sometime in their life. It hurts to sit, walk and lay in bed. These natural treatments are effective and can be done easily in your own home.
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Natural joint pain relief
Joint pain, caused by a myriad of health problems, can be debilitating and relief is hard to achieve. Find a natural joint pain solution that works for you.
34Is it safe to eat raw eggs?
Raw eggs are as safe as any other foodstuff, providing that they are handled following hygienic food-safety standards.
51How to take a photo with a blurred background
Blur the background in photos, and you will make your subjects stand out, focus your viewer's attention and make your photos look more professional. Perfect for portrait or macro photography.
8How to Deal With Burnout
Freelancers more often burnout than employed workers, although all are at risk. Learn how to notice the symptoms, and what you can do to recover and prevent work-induced exhaustion and illness.
4Best hike tracking apps
Four great apps and websites to track your hikes using iPhones, Android phones, Blackberries and other smartphones.
12How to relearn the piano after not playing for a long time
Returning and re-learning the piano can be frustrating. These tips will help increase motivation and enjoyment, and prevent burn-out.
13How to take great insect and spider photos
Photographing insects and spiders is both fascinating and scary. For many, it is as much an exercise in overcoming fear, as it is to capture a great photo.
266 Tips to Take Better Flower Photos
Flower photography has a reputation for being either easy as walking, or exceptionally difficult. However, patience, balance, a good eye for detail, and a willingness to take and process many photos, are the most important ingredients to taking gorgeous flower photos.
4Paperless home and office
Going paperless is a challenge that most would love to meet, but is difficult in reality. Recent advances in technology has given us a few gadgets that make it easier to switch.
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How to summarize and paraphrase
Summarizing and paraphrasing are important everyday skills, that make studying and working much easier. These skills can be learned and improved upon with a little practice.
34Food in middle earth - learning from hobbits
Tolkien inspired me to take an interest in so many aspects of life. Cooking, food and feasting is described brightly within pages of his novels.
10100+ ways to go green at home
A huge number of frugal ideas, can also help the environment. This is a collection of inexpensive ideas, plus a few expensive ones, to go green and save, both at work and home.
2Magnetosphere, the iTunes music visualizer
Music visualization can be simple or beautifully complex. See how you can control Magnetosphere, the music visualizer in iTunes, and watch your music dance with multicoloured stars around planets and through nebulae.
9Pineapple fruit cake recipe
A delicious, moist and easy to make fruitcake. Perfect for Christmas or any other time of year!
13How to make your own cheap cleaning products
Trying to save money, my health and help the environment are my resolutions for 2012. First in focus this year is simplifying and cleaning up my cleaning supplies.
14Traditional Japanese kimono fabrics
Kimonos are the traditional dress of Japan. Traditionally hand made from silk, modern kimonos are now often made from easy-care fabrics that are easier, faster and less expensive to manufacture. The fabric and its weave affect the comfort, durability, and warmth of the kimono. Rougher fabrics are less formal than the smoother silk kimonos, which are worn on formal occasions.
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On language and writing, inspired by Tolkien
Tolkien and his books taught me a lot about many things, writing, growing, hard times, and language. I devoured his books as a child. My language development, appreciation and use was shaped by what I learned within the pages of the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit and the other stories set in Middle Earth.
126 Ways Twitter Saves You Money
There are a number of ways to save money using Twitter. One that is not often considered by smartphone users, is using Twitter instead of writing text messages (SMS).
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Vitamin D deficiency and pain
Research is currently divided, the link between chronic pain and vitamin D is not yet proven. However, chronic pain sufferers may benefit from vitamin D supplements, if tests show they are deficient. Vitamin D can be gained from diet, or from sunlight, and is important for bone health.
53How To Take Better Sunset Photos
To pay attention to sunsets is to pay attention to the moment, noticing how light plays over the scene, how details are hidden in shadow, and how colours create a jewel-toned rainbow across the sky.
