Aloe has remarkable natural healing properties and is a great natural remedy to use on unwanted sunspots. If you’re using a cream, apply a generous amount to the skin of your face, arms, and other sunspot-afflicted areas once in the morning and once in the evening. If you’re using the leaves of an aloe plant, squeeze the pith out from a 1 inch (2.5 cm) section and smear it directly onto your sunspots.  Look for aloe vera gels at health-food stores or in homeopathic medicine sections. Large pharmacies may also carry aloe vera gel. Look near the sunscreen and other skincare products. If you’d prefer just to purchase an aloe plant, look at a large plant nursery. Vitamin E has been proven to help lighten dark spots on the skin, including unwanted sunspots. Swallow 1 vitamin E tablet in the morning and 1 more at night to help lighten sunspots. Or, add vitamin E to your diet by upping your consumption of foods rich in vitamin E. These include foods like citrus fruits, papaya, spinach, broccoli, and tomatoes You can purchase both vitamin E oral tablets and liquid gel at a large pharmacy or drugstore. Cut 1 large lemon into quarters and hold a lemon section against your sunspots for 10–15 minutes per day. Lemons are mildly acidic, and the acid in the fruit aids in lightening dark sunspots. You’ll begin to notice that your sunspots are visibly lighter after about 2 months of daily use.  Rather than throwing away the sections of lemon that you don’t use each day, store them in a plastic bag in your refrigerator and use them the next day. Daily lemon application can also help to remove any dead skin cells from your face, arms, and shoulders. Take a sharp kitchen knife and chop 1 large red onion up into 6-8 large chunks. Pick up 1 of the onion chunks and rub it across a dark sunspot for about 30 seconds. The acid in the onion helps to lighten up the dark color of sunspots. Because the onion’s acid is relatively weak, you’ll need to continue the home treatment for months before you see much of a result.

Summary: Apply aloe vera gel twice a day to heal sun-damaged areas. Take vitamin E capsules by mouth twice daily to reduce sunspots. Slice a fresh lemon and apply it directly to your sunspots. Cut up a red onion and rub it over the sunspots.


If you're trying to repair a malfunctioning external hard drive or flash drive, plug it into one of your computer's USB ports.  Skip this step if you're attempting to fix a built-in hard drive. You may need a USB 3 to USB-C adapter if your Mac doesn't have traditional USB ports. It's a menu item at the top of your Mac's screen. A drop-down menu will appear. If you don't see Go at the top of the screen, click the Finder app icon in your Mac's dock (or click the desktop) to force it to appear. You'll find this option near the bottom of the drop-down menu. Double-click the Disk Utility app icon, which resembles a grey hard drive with a stethoscope on it. In the upper-left corner of the window, click the hard drive that you want to fix. It's an image of a stethoscope at the top of the Disk Utility window. Doing so will prompt Disk Utility to begin scanning (and repairing) your selected hard drive's bad sectors. Once the Disk Utility finishes repairing your drive, you should see a pop-up explaining what was repaired. If you don't see any repairs listed, your hard drive doesn't have any bad sectors to repair. For each time that a repair (or series of repairs) is listed, run Disk Utility again to scan for further issues. Once Disk Utility no longer reports repairs upon completing the scan, your Mac's hard drive is fixed.

Summary: Connect the drive to your computer if necessary. Click Go. Click Utilities. Open Disk Utility. Select a hard drive. Click the First Aid tab. Click Run when prompted. Wait for the repairs to complete. Run Disk Utility again.


Questions are crucial to any online (or in-person) chat, as they allow both partners to participate evenly and will keep the conversation interesting. Avoid overly serious (or sexual) questions, and instead ask questions that focus on her interests. To continue the chat, ask questions like:  “What kind of music do you listen to most often?” “What’s your favorite movie quote to use in conversation?” “What’s your favorite restaurant to order take-out from?” If you’ve matched with a girl on a dating app or website (like Tinder or Plenty of Fish) and are interested in maintaining a conversation, keep things light and fun. At least for the early stage of a chat conversation, avoid bringing up politics, religion, or any philosophical beliefs you may hold. If you start out with long, serious questions or statements, the chat will quickly become unpleasant and slow-paced for both you and the girl you’re talking with. Chatting with a girl online will allow you to communicate in ways that talking face-to-face won’t. Take advantage of the ability to send multimedia (audio, photos, videos, etc.) to each other, and use this to enhance or continue the conversation.  Send a funny video or GIF and ask the girl if she’s seen it before. Then, ask the girl to send you one of her favorite funny GIFs or short videos. Agree to answer a few of each other’s questions using only memes. If you’d like to talk with this girl again, end your current chat in a way that can lead to future conversation. Pick up on cues from the conversation(s) you’ve already had, and make it clear that you’d like to talk about a certain topic again. Or, if you don’t hear back from this girl within a week or so, you can use a topic as a conversation opener for the next chat.  For example, if she mentioned that she has an upcoming exam, you could say, “Let me know if you survive that test!” Or, if she’s mentioned that she’s planning to watch a movie or TV show, try saying: “Tell me what you think of the show once you’ve watched it.”

Summary: Ask questions that will lead to back-and-forth chatting. Keep the conversation light. Send her videos or pictures. Leave the door open for further conversations.


Try to find something that you have an exact number for, and that you have recently purchased as well. It is best to compare the prices of the same brand of item that was purchased as the same store. Again, the purpose of CPI is not to determine how much you are saving by shopping at a different store or switching to generic brands. Also avoid comparing sale items. The official CPI calculated by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics uses a large number of items found in a variety of locations in order to eliminate short-term fluctuations. Calculating the change for individual items is still worthwhile, but sales are another variable that should be eliminated. So, if a box of cereal once cost $2.50 but now costs $2.75, the result should be 1.1 (represented mathematically, 2.75÷2.5=1.1). Again, because the baseline for the CPI is 100--that is, the initial reference point, when compared to itself, equals 100%-- make your figure comparable. Using the example, the CPI would be 110. In the case of the example, 110 minus 100 equals 10. That means that the price of the particular item examined has increased by 10% over time.
Summary: Find the price of a single item that you purchased in the past. Find the current price of the same item. Divide the current price by the earlier price. Multiply the results by 100. Subtract 100 from the CPI to determine the change in prices.