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    kaylar posted an update in the group Group logo of dangerous Fearing sutuationsdangerous Fearing sutuations 8 years, 4 months ago

    I always do what I’m afraid of. If I know I’m scared, I will do it. For example; I am scared of hurricanes. I spent years hiding. Then I joined the Disaster Preparedness Group so I would be out there… in the storm.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Global Warming – Jamaica? Not here 8 years, 4 months ago

    I live in Jamaica.  That is a tropical country.  In 2014 I had to sleep with socks from November to May.

    Socks.

    I never had to sleep with socks.

    In 2015 I began to wear my socks from end of October u […]

    • 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.

      • You have to remember that in the 1800s going up to maybe 1960 people burned more coal than they do today. Also, a lot of places don’t have so many cars or even electricity, so although I agree there is pollution I don’t feel it is the whole answer.

        Maybe the Earth shifted a little on it’s axis?

    • “Global warming” is actually an outdated term.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.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Taking Meat Out of Your Diet 8 years, 4 months ago

    For many people, the idea of becoming a Vegetarian is like flying to the moon on a broomstick… impossible.

    This is because they have never explored non-meat alternatives or tried to go ‘cold turkey’, that is, […]

    • 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

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    kaylar wrote a new post, The Dark Web 8 years, 4 months ago

    What is dark web?
    You have probably heard the term; “Dark Web”, and maybe shudder.  You may assume that is where criminals congregate, drug deals go down. and kiddie porn rules.

    That isn’t wrong, but it isn’t […]

    • 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.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Carry Your Lunch From Home 8 years, 4 months ago

    Why you should carry your lunch from home?
     

    It really makes sense.   You know exactly what you are eating, and it will taste the way you created.  It works out cheaper and is convenient.

    I usually have an […]

    • 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.

      • Bringing your own lunch which is available when you want it, how you want it is really a power every one has and few take.

    • 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.

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    kaylar posted an update in the group Group logo of CrimeCrime 8 years, 4 months ago

    Crime in Jamaica far outstrips that in America. (take the population into consideration where having under 3M people and 1k murders a year is a lot.

    One of the ways to deal with crime is to offer a lot of rehabilitation in prisons. I once ran a program and the members had a 10% recidivism rate as opposed to the standard 75%

    • Crime is the product of society and its root is poverty and injustice. You abolish poverty crime will end automatically. No one pays attention to it because we have become selfish and the biggest selfish is the present government. Human being cannot abolish poverty from the whole country but to some extent it is the duty of government to abolish…[Read more]

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    kaylar posted an update in the group Group logo of Writing for the WebWriting for the Web 8 years, 4 months ago

    You are absolutely correct. If you tried to publish ‘Gone With The Wind’ as an ebook or online it would get no hits because everything is done by A.I. Search engines would ‘read’ the title and assume it was about a hurricane, and even popping in key words as tags wouldn’t help. Further, once a story goes over like 3k words, many people pull…[Read more]

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    kaylar posted an update in the group Group logo of Writing StoriesWriting Stories 8 years, 4 months ago

    I have started to write for booktango and bookcountry which are virtually the same. What I find so knock out is that I have written absolute fiction and have been confronted by their admin asking questions as if I’m writing fact.

    In one way it is impressive that I am writing about a city I have never seen, about imaginery people who I don’t…[Read more]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Goggle As a Search Engine 8 years, 4 months ago

    When I wrote about the demise of writing sites here I thought most people were aware of what had happened and why.

     

    The fact is, most people don’t know what happened.

     

    Google began as a search too […]

    • 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.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Stuffed Tomatoes/Stuffed Peppers 8 years, 4 months ago

    This is an easy and inexpensive meal.  And is good for you.

    You can use peppers or tomato although there are other possibles.  These two are easy and tend to link with each other.

    As a vegetarian I stuff m […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Easy Ways To Save Money 8 years, 4 months ago

    Many of these tips aren’t new, you might even be utilizing them now.

    Some may not have occurred to you.

    Although it might seem pennies, they quickly become dollars.

    Tips to save money
    Toothpaste
    We […]

    • 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

      • I buy body wash… which I use twice a day like every other month. I thin it and it lasts. I find with toothpaste, the little I use doing a brush around the edge is sufficient as we usually use way too much toothpaste.

    • 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.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, The Demise of Writing Sites 8 years, 4 months ago

    As late as 2010 there were a plethora of sites where people could write online and be paid.   Some paid more than others, some demanded more than others, but for the writer,  there was so much o […]

    • 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.

      • It was shocking because what they made one believe is that they were going after spam, so no one protested until it was done.

      • You’ll find the item which repeats a term as is, over and again, (something we were taught NOT to do in writing classes… y’know find ‘new ways’ to say something?)score higher than actual creative writing. I’m sure if one put a number of the best written books through a SEO they’d score very low.

    • 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.

      • The Panda DESTROYED paying online writing sites. That is What it did. It slapped down a whole site. So if there were 49,000 writers on Hubpages and only 9 were crap writers, it slapped everyone the same by giving the SITE a minus score. It wasn’t that there was a search and specific items were targeted… NO. Panda went after Online Writing Sites that Paid. This was to introduce its NON PAYING Knol.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Scam Proof 8 years, 4 months ago

    I never win.   This was proven at the supermarket some years ago when there were three prizes and four entries.

    All my life I have never won; save when I was 13 and at some charity auction won a round bed […]

    • Oh yes. One just has to be grounded in the fact that scammers are busy…and anything that can be hacked will be hacked.

    • Those ‘legacy’ mails are a common feature in my email folder. I do not open them but just delete them. But there have been some who acted on those mails and were robbed of the initial money that the emails demand before “processing the papers” not to speak of sending all personal details such as physical addresses and so on.

    • A lot of people fall for those scams. When you don’t live in the US they become comical, because the writers assume you live in America and shop at these places or applied for this credit card.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Watching Television Programs Online 8 years, 4 months ago

    For those of us who live in the 3rd or 4th world, getting any kind of first rate television program is more wish than reality.

    If we do get a top rated show you can be sure it is a few years old and that if the […]

    • With the slow internet connections I wonder if one can watch a full movie for example. How do you find it. Do you have a fast ISP? I will try and see and thank you for those addresses.

    • I don’t have that fast a connection, but what you do is if the show sort of halts, you hit the little arrow thing… it’s an arrow if it is not showing but loading, and to lines when it is showing. So you halt it, (as you would do if you were getting up to get coffee) and then give it a few minutes and start it…

    • You have the power to stop and start, so you use it. What you find is that if you halt the showing of it by pushing the arrow, as I mentioned, and then play a game,like solitare or write an item offline, for about say… ohhh… ten minutes… and when you go back the show ought have loaded to the extent that it flows.

      Cause my connection is no super shot

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    kaylar wrote a new post, How to Make Your Own Coconut Oil 8 years, 4 months ago

    This is labour intensive, but worth it.

    Get a number of dry coconuts, split them and take out the hard white meat.

    Get a grater and grate the hard meat until you have a lot of it.

    Now put it in a deep […]

    • WE feed the coconut to chickens as well. It doesn’t waste. It’s really good oil.

    • Is scraping good enough or could the scrapings be ground for faster result. This seems a good way to get oil. That stuff that remains must smell good. Have you tasted it?

    • Of course… I make it. I usually get a bunch of children and let them grater the coconut. I don’t like the custard, but they love it.. so I pay them in custard. Smells great of course…

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