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8th January 2020

How to Grow Salad Greens All Year

Salad greens growing under a shade net, where they are protected from intense summer heat. Though it’s hard to beat the nostalgic crunch of head lettuce, most of us have come to expect much more from our salads than crunch. Today, a top-notch salad contains many different colors, shapes, sizes, textures and flavors. And in addition to lettuces, it may also...

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7th January 2020

Kobudō: The path to fighting like a real Japanese warrior

In a society that values prescribed pathways to success, carving one’s way as an outsider is rarely the first choice in Japan, but for Alice Iwamoto, who is fashioning an independent acting career from scratch, it’s been the only choice. To achieve her goal, the 27-year-old former dancer has spent the two years since arriving from Australia feverishly acquiring the...

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7th January 2020

Top 10 Misconceptions About London

Who hasn’t dreamed of a citybreak in London at some point? It is, after all, one of the world’s most visited cities—attracting over 19 million international visitors in 2016. The home of some major global attractions, like Big Ben, the Natural History Museum and the London Eye, London is one of the world’s greatest cities. It’s just a shame that...

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2nd January 2020

The Beginner’s Guide to Intermittent Fasting

I have been intermittent fasting for over one year. I skip breakfast each day and eat two meals, the first around 1pm and the second around 8pm. Then, I fast for 16 hours until I start eating again the next day at 1pm. Surprisingly, since I’ve started intermittent fasting I’ve increased muscle mass (up 10 pounds from 205 to 215),...

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2nd January 2020

Danshari – The Ultimate Decluttering Discipline from Japan

Danshari (断捨離), or if you like the art of decluttering, is a Japanese concept that is gaining more and more popularity (although it is about less and less). The term is difficult to translate and it’s composed of three ideograms (断捨離), meaning “refuse”, “dispose” and “separate”. In a conventional sense, it is rendered as “cleaning” or “tidying up”. Danshari – Japanese...

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2nd January 2020

Japanese Minimalism: What Japan Can Teach You About Living Simply

In last years Europe has created a fascination for Scandinavian minimalism and simple, natural living. However, Scandinavians were not the only one who are in love simplicity – just look at Japan. Despite their vast distance, Japan and Sweden have similar design sensibilities. Like Scandinavia, Japan upholds design principles that use natural materials, clean lines, and straightforward construction or cut. ...

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2nd January 2020

Packing tips: The top 10 best travel packing tips

A friend’s husband once turned up for a two-week holiday in Bali with a giant suitcase straining at the seams. Among its myriad contents unpacked in the hotel room, she was amazed to discover no fewer than three pairs of sunglasses, three suits, a hairdryer, one pair of underpants and no socks at all. With baggage weight limits now being...

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2nd January 2020

10 Tips for Travelers Before Going to Vietnam

Marybeth Bond, Gutsy Traveler, just returned from Vietnam, an outrageously exciting country to travel to. A little preparation before you go can take the headache out of simple things like crossing the street or avoiding dog or cat meat. 1. Learn how to cross the street (–and stay alive), slowly wade out into the moving traffic of cars, motorbikes, rickshaws and...

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2nd January 2020

Redefining the Effects of Stress: New Study Shows it May Actually Be Good For You

Stress is only as bad for you as you believe it is, according to recent research published in the Journal of Health Psychology. The researchers who conducted the study divided participants into the following three groups: (1) those who experienced high levels of stress and believed that the effects of stress were detrimental to their health and wellbeing (2) those who...

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2nd January 2020

Ancient Chinese Stories: The Blind Woman and Heartless Neighbor

In a small village in Northeast China, there was an old blind woman called Grandma Liu. Although she could not see, she had a very kind heart. Whoever came to her for help, she would happily help them. She had a neighbor called Aunt Sun. Aunt Sun had many children at home, so she often went to borrow rice and...

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