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    kaylar wrote a new post, Getting Information in the Fourth World 7 years, 6 months ago

    In a previous article I mentioned the only two commercial television stations in Jamaica.

    For many years, Jamaica had Radio Jamaica and Rediffusion.   We got everything from that station, or from the BBC which w […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Scandal; no longer watching it 7 years, 6 months ago

    In 2014, CVM, one of the two Jamaican commercial television stations, got the chance to broadcast the World Cup.

    CVM was the new station.   TVJ, (television Jamaica) was born from the JBC (Jamaica Broadcasting […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Updates on the Jamaican Lottery Scam 7 years, 7 months ago

    If you don’t know about the Jamaican Lottery Scam, these are the basics.

    Part One

    A phone call is received by someone in the United States.   The caller says, (basically)  “Is this Mrs. [Name]?”

    “Yes…”

    “Of [ […]

    • As long as they can fool people,they will thrive in their scamming activities! No one should believe such gimmicks!

      • When the Scam started, we felt that; “Hey America! Don’t blame us cause you have dumb people!”

        But America didn’t feel like that. So we were punished. But I’m sure it is still going on.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, What Happens When the Site Dies 7 years, 7 months ago

    Many of the sites which offer free viewing of television programs or movies are bordering the edge. There is often some ‘copyright’ issue or, more usually, a gang of hackers hired by the owner of the rights to t […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Those who Make Friends; those who don’t 7 years, 7 months ago

    We were having one of those easy chats, and something came up.  Friendship.

    There are those who make friends and keep them until death.   People who will have their friends all their lives. Sometimes they are m […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, What Makes a Long Running Hit Show? 7 years, 7 months ago

    Some shows struggle through three seasons. Although the plot might be interesting, for some reason it doesn’t catch on. A few of these shows make it to four seasons with hope that maybe they will go for their f […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, The Good Old Days of On Line Writing 7 years, 7 months ago

    There really were ‘Good Old Days’ in online writing.

    If you could go back to 2010 you would enter a world of many online writing sites, many  online writing paying sites. A world of so  many publishing sites […]

    • I agree with you that Golden days of writing online and earning has gone.. Lot of improvements has come in with Google adsense over the years.. Most of the sites today does have no matter, but they are earning something for engaging people on their sites for longer time… Google is paying for that reason.. Moderators are in turn passing the portion of their earnings to their most valued members for their contributions

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    kaylar wrote a new post, People Who Hate To Go Home 7 years, 7 months ago

    When we were little kids. playing outside and having fun, we dreaded hearing our parents call our names, meaning that we had to come home.

    We looked forward to waking up on a weekend, eating breakfast then […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Jamaica suddenly realises it has an Obesity Problem 7 years, 7 months ago

    In the 1970s, living to 100 in Jamaica was no big deal.   There were a lot of people above 80 who were active.  Although, today, 2017 we have the oldest living person in the world, 117,  the fact is, the number of […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Why Some People Make So Much Noise 7 years, 7 months ago

    It doesn’t matter where you are.   School, Office, Street, very often you will encounter someone who never shuts up and who, if there is no one to talk with, starts to sing.

    This behaviour is startling.

    When […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, War With Korea? How Likely? 7 years, 7 months ago

    During the height of the Cold War;  people were terrified.  They assumed that Moscow would be dropping bombs and people were building ‘Fall Out Shelters’.

    I had a history teacher who told us all to calm d […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, People I May Know…on Facebook 7 years, 7 months ago

    I was wasting time on Facebook, and there was this list of ‘people I might know’. Hmmm?

    So I began to scroll through it. It looked like either the poster from a strip club or women for rent lease or hire.

    I rea […]

    • It is true, and many people especially young ones do not know the risks involved in plastering facebook with their photos! They are easy targets for scammers, etc.

      I do not accept friendships from people I do not know, so FB should stop such things as “people you might know!”

      • I totally agree with you. Anyone who clicks on these users has no idea who they are. I know my friends, but who is this? I could use any photo as myself… so do they.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Television Programs, Gentle Brain Washing 7 years, 7 months ago

    On many shows, especially those from America, there is always a   ‘secret message’.  The viewer ‘gets’ what is good or bad in general society by the characters, the plots, the words used.

    Although this may seem […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, The Biggest Ego on Earth 7 years, 7 months ago

    During the months I’ve referred to acting and actors and you probably guessed I know someone who crashed out of the Profession.

    This Chap, (who to protect his identity, I’ll call Tall Man) was born into a good […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Taking it From Whom it Comes 7 years, 7 months ago

    I am on Facebook.   I am skimming down the list of all the posts made which show up on my page.   I don’t read what ‘Too Busy to Write’ posts; for he makes twenty meaningless observations a day.

    I notice a c […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Working With Word Limits / Requirements 7 years, 7 months ago

    About two hundred years ago, people were paid by the word.  Novels which were serialised in News Papers would have a great deal of ‘extra’ to push up the cash.

    In 1922 Reader’s Digest came into being.   What it d […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, When You Take Away the Benefits 7 years, 7 months ago

    Australia was a venue for migrants.  People left South East Asia for Australia.  Thousands of people boarded shaky ships and set sail for Australia.

    When these migrants learned they would be shipped to New G […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Acting; where is the Common Sense? 7 years, 7 months ago

    Imagine you are an actor or actress on a hit serial.    The show airs once a week on television and people tune in to watch.   You’ve gotten attention, maybe you have a fan base.

    The show is going season after se […]

    • ‘you want more creative opportunities’?? LOL. LOL. You’re really know how to make me laugh. Substitute “lucrative” for the word “creative”. Sometimes it works out for them. Sometimes not. It does depend on the opportunities. It’s true if you get hooked on a show and they change cast, you keep watching it. But even though I keep watching the program, I find myself always comparing the new cast to the original cast that I really liked. The different cast members make the grade with me. MI-5 is the only show that ever kept changing its cast and I didn’t mind it all. That was an awesome. The only member of the cast that they took out that made me really mad was the lady who played “Ruth” (Nicola Walker). I really liked her. When she died I was furious!!

      • Typo. The different cast members make the grade with me. Meant to say “The new cast members don’t make the grade with me.”

        • I find that although I might have liked a particular actor, once he or she is gone, the show doesn’t suffer. The new actor fills the space and the show continues.

      • The actor/actress who gives that excuse usually becomes unemployed. Think of those who were on Grey’s Anatomy in the beginning. Where are they now? When was the last time they worked?

        Even those who claim to leave for some role in a movie… what movie? It is just a lack of sense. It isn’t anything else. It is as if they have a fantasy of hundreds of producers banging on their door.

        • My son watched Grey’s Anatomy. I was not a fan. I liked “Death in Paradise”, in the beginning. But even though I continue to watch it, I don’t really like the “replacements”. For me, it’s that way with a lot of TV shows I view regularly. It’s silly but I get attached to certain characters.

          • Greys began highly rated, was a little stupid, went down then started to pick itself up. The original 5 main characters; Meredith, Izzi, Alex, George and Christina wound up… Izzi was nominated for an award and refused because she didn’t think her character deserved it so she was written out. George got into an argument with Isiah Washington over homosexuality, and Isiah was dispatched to please the gay community and George was killed to get rid of him. Christina who had a very good role and won awards was one of the ‘creative opportunities’ morons so hasn’t been seen since 2012.

            On Death In Paradise, the star’s wife couldn’t take the heat so went back to England, and he followed her. So I guess he’s joined the dole.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Food is Love; he said 7 years, 7 months ago

    I was sitting with a guy, having a cup of coffee.   He, who was at least thirty pounds overweight, was having a large piece of cheese cake.   When he finished he started doing most of the talking.

    I knew his f […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Paying Up Front or by Hits? 7 years, 7 months ago

    Originally, (going back a decade) writing sites (or more properly named, publishing sites) paid users by hits.  That is, by how many people viewed your writing.

    If you received no hits, you got no coin.

    In […]

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