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Hacks to make Life Easier in your Kitchen

Avocadoes are sweet. This kind of sweetness can only be enjoyed if the fruit is well ripened. Finding the perfect avocado can be hard but it is not impossible to make a perfect one for yourself by making it ripen well. How to Ripen Avocados Quickly: Place 2-3 avocados in a brown paper bag and store at room temperature. If you don't have paper bags on hand, wrapping them in newspaper will also do. This will accelerate the natural ripening process. For even quicker ripening, add an apple, banana or a tomato to the bag. Check daily to see if avocados are ripe yet. Don't just judge by their color, as some varieties will retain their green color, even when ripe, rather than turning a deep greenish brown. Sourced from: http://vegetarian.about.com/od/cookingtipstools/qt/ripenavocados.htm Cooking is an art and therefore you need to ensure that your working space in the kitchen is not a mess. You should also ensure that you observe good hygiene in the kitchen....

Why Families Should be on Obesity Watch

Gone are the days when children would be allowed to eat whatever they craved for and it would be alright. Childhood obesity is becoming a serious health problem as the society is now having overweight children who are growing into obese adults. A new report that studied kids throughout childhood found that those who are obese at five years old are more likely to be heavy later in life. While other studies have hinted at that trend, those have generally involved what’s known as prevalence of the condition — or the proportion of a population, at a given time, that is considered obese. Such information doesn’t suggest the risk of developing obesity, which is revealed by studying a population over specific periods of time. So in the latest study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists tracked a group of 7738 children, some of whom were overweight or obese, and some who were normal weight, from 1998 (when they were in kindergarten) to 2007 (when they were in ninth...

Look at what I found

I was cleaning my clutter when I came across my poetry book which contains all the poems I have written since I was a teenager. So why not put them into good use, like helping you prepare for valentine. Sample it and let me know what you think. PHOTO/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM WILL YOU MARRY ME                     BY MERCY OPANDE What happened to us? Now that you think am an ass, You were free to come, you need not ask, Now you axe my heart! Hey what happened to us? Do you remember the time when my smile would take you a mile? My eyes in yours, a moment in time, Everywhere, all the time, you were mine, Now you are tired Cuty what happened to that? Am tired of loving you too, I do my thing, you do nothing, cause, you just want me, without giving, Or is it that we gave our all? Now there is nothing at all, Damn love ran out of stock. Am crazy over you, ...

Kenyans Committing Libel Unknowingly

Currently there are a lot of people who have and are being arrested for sharing things on social media and when they are arrested the first excuse they give is that the message did not originate from them. In media law there is a topic on defamation which covers both libel and slander. Many people are committing libel online unaware /PHOTO/juntariman.files.wordpress.com  Now one thing stands out very clearly and which most people do not know. Any person who spreads, shares a message or picture or caricature etc that makes the public question a person’s, reputation separately meets the requirements  of committing defamation and will be charged separately from the originator. There is a hashtag that is trending on Twitter today, Hastags are powerful but kindly only retweet or tweet when you know what you are doing. When someone shares a picture or statement or comment, please think before you regret. Anyone who shares, retweets, reposts, resnaps and all the sha...

Memory Improvement Guide

Knowledge is power but unfortunately if you cannot retain information for long then your reign of power will be short lived.  We use external hard drives or memory disks to store more information and we do so because we value information. But have you ever wondered why there are some of us who are able to retain information faster that others and because of that they beat us almost in everything? Well the truth of the matter is that such people are not geniuses neither are they lucky; they just got the memo on how to improve their brain power so as to retain information faster. Now we want you to get the memo too but a bigger one. We want to help you retain information by helping you to discover the simple things you have been assuming how a bigger impact they have on how your brain receives stores and disseminates information. So just get ready to have it all demystified and be surprised at how much you can achieve. How Can your Brain work better? Photo/Theartofhippy.com ...

How To Write a Good Article

It is said that the pen is mightier than the sword and for an article writer this simply means life or death on the frontline. Keywords The first thing that an article writer should work on is the keyword. Do proper research since the direction and purpose of the article is dependent on it.  Use the keyword sparingly at least once in every paragraph unless stated otherwise by the client. Do not just throw your keywords into the article without having them blend in with the flow. Ensure that your keyword is a natural fit so that the reader is not surprised by its presence but rather reads it as part of the whole article. Good writers put good effort/PHOTO/webwriterspotlight.com Tone From keywords the next thing to check on is the tone of the article. An article writer must be flexible enough to write to every kind of audience but when it comes to tones, there are two; professional and friendly. Ask yourself who are your audience and what is the purpose of the artic...

New Things Are Coming

Wow, first of all let me apologize for staying away for so long. You see am in final year of campus and boy oh boy am I doing a lot of running up and down and yet am not losing any weight. Anyway how have you been? I have missed you all. I am actually very sorry and send my condolences to people in Beirut, Syria, Nigeria and Paris. Terrorism is wrong, please let us be our brother’s keepers. So do you know what I have been up to all these months? Well apart from school, I have been doing new music and am happy that it is good music. You should check it out and send me feedback.                                                        My new song, Dreamer, enjoy. Well now that I only have 2 weeks to be done with campus, get ready for new and fresh stuff. Oh by the way, aren’t we all happy that Adelle is back? I am one of her fans and am s...