I normally send silk garments to the cleaners for dry cleaning. I feel washing silk at home could shrink it.

Not if you do it this way.

Thanks for your tips. I used to soak my silk blouse. No wonder there are furry bits on the blouse and shrunk too.
It sure is waste to throw away the water. Maybe i could use it to soak under wear instead

I knew there had to be a way to wash silk because they wore silk a lot hundreds of years ago.

Writing down seems to be the secret of getting anything retained in one’s brain. I never did it when I was studying. May be I should pass this on to students who I may come across.

That is how I did it. When everyone was beating the books, I was on the beach. (UWI).

I actually do this kind of stuff. I read my notes every night then when the exam day comes, I usually remember the part of my notebook where I wrote it and I am somewhat amazed with myself in that manner 😀

YOu remember your own handwriting… it’s like a photograph

I always used to tell myself in school, that being attentive in class is a plus for everyone. When the teacher is teaching always take notes and listen. The best thing you can do for yourself is be a good listener that way everything gets in and you don’t forget what you have been taught easily.then when you go home go over what you ha e been taught that day. It may also help to read ahead of the teacher so that when they come to class all you need to add the knowledge that you will get from the teacher.

I am a senior and someone who made her presence felt in the good old days. I have withdrawn once I got a hint of a’do not lecture’ situation.
I do not advise anyone unless I am asked to which does not happen often.
Withdrawing gracefully is the way to go.

Say what they expect you to…

When women become old, for their society becomes gold by JH Sayyar is a perfect saying because old people are full of relations and life experience most valuable for the present generation that the younger cannot have at any cast.

Old stage is the final stage of our life. All living beings undergo a gradual development from neonatal stage to old age. But the situation is like that we are really scared to become old. In this modern age one want to dominate other in every field of action. So relationships are vanishing among todays generation. All are busy running in making money and they hide their fault in terms of time even though it is their fault that they are not caring their family members.

But they should remember one saying “When ripen leaves fall, green leaves laugh” without thinking that one day they have to face the same situation. Like that all children should realize that one day they also become old and if they want their family to consider them they should take care of their parents first.

I think more than just “Global Warming”, it is about the Climate Change- how the weather and climate patterns all over the world are changing. At times, we have excess heat, then sudden rains, at times December has warmer days- even 30 C when it shpuld have been a max of 21 to 24, and suddenly in a few days it becomes very very chilly, when it should have been gradual.
At some places, 2 months’ worth of rains comes in just 10 days- flooding, causing traffic jams and even loss of lives and displacement.

And reasons: Excessive use of fossil fuels, so many cars, so much Air-conditioning or Heating, and so many trees being cut.
But yes, we do have solutions in form of renewable energies, sustainable farming and yes rapid spread of Public means of transport over private.

“Global warming” is actually an outdated term. As the earlier warming spread, the polar ice caps began to melt, just like ice cubes melting in a glass of lemonade. This had the effect of increasing the volume of water in certain places on earth, but also of lowering the water temperature. And that water temperature, in turn, has an impact on the ambient temperature in the adjacent land masses.

Besides temperature, global climate change has also impacted things like the number and severity of storms like hurricanes and tornadoes. And it has changed the pH of water in some places to the point that some of the fauna living in those waters has been killed off.

To speak only of warming is to miss a good chunk of the bigger picture. That’s why we now speak of global climate change, in order to encompass all the different changes. Like the ones you are witnessing in Jamaica!

In the 1970s scientists warned of an on coming Ice Age. The world was due, as Ice Ages arrive every 10k -12k years.

Then there was an about face, and the babble was ‘Global Warming’ which many people still use instead of the new version; ‘Climate Change’.

We have absolutely no idea whatsoever what is the normal temperature for Earth.

There were millions of years where the Earth was much hotter, millions when it was completely covered in ice. There are bones of hippopotomi found in lakes in Wales. There was a time one could walk from Russia to Alaska, or France to England.

There is no ‘norm’ for Earth temperature.

This is excellent advice for anyone who wants to make any kind of dietary change, for whatever reason. Changes made in a slow and gentle way are more likely to become permanent because the person doesn’t feel deprived.

Too many people try to do it all at once and fail. I recall (this is funny) two people who are carnivores decided to ‘go vegetarian’ and stopped eating meat and after there big challenge they went back within a week saying they filled up with gas.

It struck me so funny that these two overweight people could try to ‘go vegetarian’ over night.

You must realise that meat is an acquired taste. It depends on what you are fed as a child. If you live near the sea and eat fish, if you live on a farm and eat produce, etc.

So many people in this world rarely taste meat. In America the over consumption of meat makes them believe it is normal to have bacon and eggs for breakfast, a box of KFC for Lunch and a steak for supper. It isn’t.

The sad part is that Americans have moved to a very unhealthy diet with all the adulterated ‘fast food’. Not to elevate the hot dog or the hamburger, but these used to be pure beef. Making a burger out of sirloin was a selling point.

Now, not only is it meat.. with all the draw backs… it is adulterated… pink slime, unsavoury bits, other kinds of meat… etc.

In my country we used to eat healthy. We used only pure coconut oil, we ate fresh ground provision or just caught fish. Then in came the Mcdonalds, the Burger King and whatever else. People began to eat junk.

They stopped drinking coconut water or juice, began swallowing soda.

We never had diabetes in Jamaica. Now, every other person does.

Hopefully, not everyone will go to kfc and coke

This is the first time I have come to know about this. May be our antivirus software puts some of our information in this category specially our bank transactions. It asks us if we want to connect through a safe connection.

Perhaps, but I prefer to use Tor, I know my connection is safe. It’s not hard to use it.

Right… so I use Tor; it’s dark web, it routes me all over the world. You can get it.. free of course.

When I worked in a hospital that had healthy, economical food in the cafeteria, I ate there every day. But for most people, taking a packed lunch from home just makes more sense. Even in Canada, where food safety is less of an issue, the health and financial benefits of taking a packed lunch from home are huge.

I carried lunch then stopped eating lunch. At one point there was this salad bar. Now… lunch from home. I don’t have to worry.

Depends on what is in the salad. I had a salad with avocado and walnuts in NY which was very filling…

That’s lovely. What inspired me is that everyone has to go out to lunch and you don’t know what you are eating. You don’t know what oil is used or reused.

Sometimes I would have a meal, save half for tomorrow’s lunch. It was cool to know what I was going to eat, how it would taste… I don’t want to find previous living creatures in my food.

Depends on your work… physical vs mental. If you have a lot of physical work… sure. If you have to think, you want your stomach a bit empty.

The reason I wrote it is because I became the office freak when I showed up with my lunch. Then everyone started to consider it was a better idea.

Survival of the fittest is what comes to my mind reading your blog. Google seems to know that very well. I have noticed that the moment I search for something that pops up where I am present.

I like your idea of adding water to the shampoo. It saves time, water and shampoo too. I will try that next time.

Saving is when we believe that drops make an ocean. It is those everyday drops that can save enough and plenty for the world to rid of shortages of any kind

In reality, this is great idea we usually neglect. The little do this the more we save much for ourselves.

Its a piece that worth trial.

What I used to do with a slow drip was catch the water in a pail and use it. So it wasn’t wasted.

Your blog took me down to a place I never knew existed. So Google plays games just as any other. So keywords is the name of the game. I shall play it well from now on atleast.

There was a writer on Hubpages who used to be the top one… every article was like this;

“All over the world people are interested in *. You have probably thought about *. There is really no mystery to *…..”

On and on.

She’d check “What’s trending…” and each day she’d pop in a new word in a typical find and replace. So Monday * could be bicycles, Tuesday * could be diet, Wednesday it could be electric cars… every day she’d have this article of 1000 words saying nothing.

If you do a search about knol (you can use Bing, dogpile, duckduckgo, instead of google) you’ll find out when it was launched, and how cleverly it ties into the Panda.

Oh, but why didn’t the site owners share these details with the users? And where did you get all this information?
So does everybody go out and start writing on one’s own blog, where hardly one in Thousands makes money by SEO??

There was a time that making $50 a month on Triond was no biggie. Many writers made more than that every month. I am talking from 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010; making more than $50 a month just from one site…

Once it was slapped down by Google it died.

It is Google and Google alone which caused this in their evil. What was once an open info highway, where you could read the views of people all over the world is now limited, for why write if you aren’t being paid?

Yes, that is true. Ezinearticles nearly close down too, but somehow they manage to stay afloat.
I think the intention of Google Panda is good, but it sure makes a lot of writers go hungry.

It was a trick. Google wanted to introduce a writing site which didn’t pay. No one would join if it didn’t pay… so it destroyed other sites.

Google fooled the public as it always does.

Google is like margarine. In the 1950s it was claimed to be a health food. Everyone pushed the public to use this product. It never was healthy.

Panda was not created to protect writing sites but to destroy them.

Yes, Google Panda is one of the best software that makes minus to the scammers in the world of internet. I like it most because it catches the scammers every year. I think it is thief and scammers catchers.

First of all, let’s start by discussing the Google algorithm. It’s immensely complicated and continues to get more complicated as Google tries its best to provide searchers with the information that they need. When search engines were first created, early search marketers were able to easily find ways to make the search engine think that their client’s site was the one that should rank well.

In some cases it was as simple as putting in some code on the website called a meta keywords tag. The meta keywords tag would tell search engines what the page was about.

As Google evolved, its engineers, who were primarily focused on making the search engine results as relevant to users as possible, continued to work on ways to stop people from cheating, and looked at other ways to show the most relevant pages at the top of their searches. The algorithm now looks at hundreds of different factors.

Panda first launched on February 23, 2011. It was a big deal. The purpose of Panda was to try to show high-quality sites higher in search results and demote sites that may be of lower quality. This algorithm change was unnamed when it first came out, and many of us called it the “Farmer” update as it seemed to affect content farms. (Content farms are sites that aggregate information from many sources, often stealing that information from other sites,

in order to create large numbers of pages with the sole purpose of ranking well in Google for many different keywords.) However, it affected a very large number of sites. The algorithm change was eventually officially named after one of its creators, Navneet Panda.