Monday, February 17, 2014

Planning My Day - Personal

Busy all day long. But is it really important to plan for your day? Or just go with the flow and see how?

My Sims Throw Up - Tutorial Games

My Sims Throw Up

Have you played the Sims Free Play? And were you able to see your characters vomit infront of you? Yes, it is gross yet some people enjoyed them. See how...

I know we have all heard of Gigwalk, the mobile app that you can get paid for doing small tasks in your area. I have used this and it does pay.

Well, Rewardable is just like Gigwalk just a bit less strict and more virtual tasks to do, I have been approved for 2 tasks already and they payout through paypal once you reach 5.00.

I enjoy doing tasks at both places. So give it a try if you want. go to the Google app store and download both and register.

http://rewardable.com/

If I was asked which one I would turn on more, it would be Rewardable, reason being I have had 3 tasks that Gigwalk never paid for due to the fact the store did not carry that one item and was expecting a shipment in. so I took 25 pics and due to the fact I did not take 26 pics and put in my notes that the item was not in stock. my time was not paid for. Oh so on my profile for Gigwalk they put it as a bad mark.

So if I am in a bind for money I will use both applications.

try it and see how you like it and let me know.

Birthdays Of Christian Artists - Month By Month Birthday List Of Gospel Artists

MercyMe and me photo property of Kathryn Darden

Have you ever wondered when your favorite gospel artist was born? Find out when your favorite Christian artists celebrates his or her birthday here!

Also see: Six Quotes & Bible Verses For Father's Day & Birthdays - Best Quotes For Dads

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Much of this article was previously published on Bukisa with my byline on Mar 9th, 2010.

KD214

Six Quotes & Bible Verses For Father's Day & Birthdays - Best Quotes For Dads

Photo property of Kathryn Darden

The special holiday for our dads, Father's Day, arrives the third Sunday of June each year in the United States. Do you who live in other countries also celebrate Father's Day? Let us know when and how you celebrate your dads in the comments below.

Unfortunately, no matter our country, we all usually take our fathers for granted while they are still alive, but when our dads are gone, we wish we could tell them how special they were and how much we miss them. Don't forget to tell your father you love him on Father's Day, and if you have a grandfather, stepfather or uncle who has played a big role in your life, it is a nice day to honor them, too.

To help you find the right words to say to your father, here is a list of six quotes and Bible verses to add to your Father's Day cards, messages or meditations to help you let your father know how special he is. Find more Quotes and Bible verses for Father's Day at Top Ten Quotes & Bible Verses for Father's Day and Top Ten Old Testament Bible Verses for Father's Day & Dad's Birthday

Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land which the Lord your God gives you. ~ Exodus 20:12
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~ Mark Twain
The widespread observance of this occasion is calculated to establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and also to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations. ~ Calvin Coolidge
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. ~ Ephesians 6:4
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. ~ Unknown
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. (21) Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.. ~ Colossians 3:20, 21

Also see:

Much of this article was previously published on Bukis under my byline on Jun. 20th, 2010.

KD214

Headache-The Body's Warning Signal

headache is one of the body’s most powerful warning signals and it can often be a sign of something physical or psychological. There are several different types of headaches and they vary depending on where the pain occurs.
These are tension, cluster, simple and combination headaches with migraines being extremely intense, with nausea and vomiting usually accompanying the migraine.
The pain can be started by a number of things. A very common cause is tense muscles in the head or neck. Headaches can also be symptoms of withdrawal from OTC pain killers, caffeine, emotional stress, allergies and alcohol to name a few.

Tension headaches: Many people feel pressure due to the change in the weather. The barometric pressure in the atmosphere causes the blood vessels in the head to constrict and expand which causes tense muscles in the back of the head or neck. The swelling of blood vessels, inflammation of the nerve endings or muscular contractions at the base of the skull causes the head to pound or throb.
Cluster headaches: Are recurring and can be due to a number of factors such as high blood pressure, injuries, or alcohol. Triggers can be hairsprays, perfumes, cleansers and many other things.
Simple headaches: Give you that pulsing, hammering feeling in the head. Fever, lack of oxygen, blood pressure or stress can cause this headache.

Combination headaches: Give you a dull pain that can start in the morning and is known to reoccur between migraine attacks. The cause is still unknown.
Migraines are severe and are caused by the dilation of the blood vessels in the brain. Often the pain is on one side of the head with possible loss of vision, flashing lights, fatigue, nausea, and vomiting. Causes can be hereditary or possibly circulatory trouble.

Some foods have been known to trigger a migraine such as chocolate, nicotine, tea to name a few.
There are some natural remedies that can be just as effective as prescription drugs. Some are relaxation exercises, massage and homeopathic treatment. These can help prevent or relieve the pain caused by the different types of headaches.

Headaches can be relieved by applying a cold wet compress to the area and putting a few drops of peppermint oil on the compress and apply for 15 minutes. Using acupressure, squeeze the fleshy webbing part of your hand between your thumb and index finger until you begin to feel relief. Using relaxation, give yourself a footbath which moves the blood from your head to your feet. You can restrict your contact with outside activity and getting fresh air will help

Herbal remedies help prevent some of these headaches. It is believed that Kava Kava, a member of the pepper family has been used to help with headaches. However the FDA has not approved it and there are many side effects.
Feverfew, a plant from the Balkan Mountains in East Europe and now grown in North and South America has been used to prevent migraines along with Gingko Biloba. But as always check with your doctor before taking any of these supplements.

This time tested home remedy can provide a quick relief from a headache. Put a few drops of fresh lemon juice into a cup of black coffee and drink it in small sips.

Warning…This is not for people with sensitive stomachs.

article taken from my Hubpage
http://macourt60.hubpages.com

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The Incompetence of all Technical Support Personal.

Well today it came apparent to me that a lot of the workers at any technical support from a major company or corporation have little or no proper education, or training on how to actually solve the problems people come to them with. This is true for AT&T, Verizon, Apple and lately Dish Network and Comcast. Why do I say this, well because after calling them it became more than clear that after being transferred to multiple departments, being in the phone over an hour explaining over and over the issue, trying to reach a solution the people they employ are incompetent and have no idea how to properly do anything to solve the issue?

After calling Dish today, being transferred to six different people, trying to get the XM music channels to properly display on my TV and channel guide, they could not help me. After I had given up on them I began to tick things around on my own and all it took to fix the problem was the push of a simple button and problem solved! I was furious with them before, when I figured how simple the solution was I was even more furious about the matter. No offense to anyone working in tech support if you actually know what you are doing, but there are a lot of people out there that have no idea, or have no care for providing actual help to their customers.

Mud is Mud

Tis the Season for Mud. I love snow, I love rain. I hate mud, but there is no way to have one and not the other. I don't like muddy floors, it barely have to time to mop them 2-3 times a week, much less 1-2 times a day.
What is with kids and mud? They love it. They stomp around in it all day and it never bothers them. I can't handle mud even being on my shoes. The next storm we get, snow or rain, I am going to be prepared! I will tape down towels everywhere. Or maybe I will just buy the kids each their own little mop and tell them to clean up their own messes.
I really am looking forward to spring, I just am dreading the mud that will probably come along with it.
I would like to share a little poem about mud. I wrote this when I had just about had enough and was about to lose my mind. I love being able to speak what it on my mind and not have anyone judge me for it. That is what is so great about sites like this and Bubblews.
Here it is:
Mud, Mud, Mud

Creative Commons -- Gateway to Black Hat Copyright Infringement

Will We Be Protected at Preferred Writers Group?

I am reprinting an older article from Bukisa for the Preferred Writers Group in hopes it opens some dialog on whether or not our articles will be copyright protected here. It would be nice to have a notice somewhere on the PWG that all articles are copyrighted by the writers, all right reserved.

Bukisa had so many issues with keyword stuffing, too many links and copyright infringement, they were shunned by Google search and reputable websites considered them spam links. My fears for Bukisa noted below were well-grounded; about a year or less after I wrote this article, the site had stopped payouts. I still can't log in to remove my old content.

Image from Wikimedia Commons/J.J.

Bukisa's Creative Commons -- Gateway to Black Hat Copyright Infringement

Why Bukisa's Creative Commons settings have become an open invitation for black hatters to steal your work

In the past two weeks, Google Alerts has been sending me a constant stream of my titles and quotes from my Bukisa articles appearing on other websites. Bukisa encourages use of the Syndication feature or the Creative Commons - Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported so we can "Gain more exposure and more readers, build backlinks to your articles and thus increase your search engine positions = more traffic = more views = more money for you." The Creative Commons - Attribution-No Derivative Works seems to offer more protection while still getting backlinks, so many Bukisa writers have opted for that setting.

Creative Commons - Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported

If you click the "What is this?" link next to the Creative Commons retting, you learn that Creative Commons - Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported means people may copy the article - as long as they link back to the original content on Bukisa. Supposedly those who want to use your work will read the terms which state that anyone is free to copy, distribute and transmit the work and to make commercial use of the work under the following conditions:

Creative Commons - Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported Terms of Use

Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).

What does "Attribute this work" mean?
The page you came from contained embedded licensing metadata, including how the creator wishes to be attributed for re-use. You can use the HTML here to cite the work. Doing so will also include metadata on your page so that others can find the original work as well.
No Derivative Works — You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.

With the understanding that:

Waiver — Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
Public Domain — Where the work or any of its elements is in the public domain under applicable law, that status is in no way affected by the license.
Other Rights — In no way are any of the following rights affected by the license:
Your fair dealing or fair use rights, or other applicable copyright exceptions and limitations;
The author's moral rights;
Rights other persons may have either in the work itself or in how the work is used, such as publicity or privacy rights.
Notice — For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to this web page.

Black Hatters Don't Follow the Rules

However, apparently the black hatters are not reading the terms, and many articles of mine on Bukisa, which were set with Creative Commons - Attribution-No Derivative Works, have been showing up on multiple websites with no back links and no attribution. Not only that, but the black hatters are back linking aggressively (some might say "spammishly") to MY articles on their sites, so those plagiarized articles rank HIGHER on their sites than the ones I originally wrote for Bukisa. What this means to me is NO INCOME. If people are reading my articles on other sites, I am not being paid for my work.

Interestingly enough, I never found one Creative Commons - Attribution-No Derivative Works article that was linking back to a Bukisa article - they were all simply plagiarized. The Creative Commons - Attribution-No Derivative Works setting seems to be an open invitation to copy. Apparently black hatters think by allowing some copying via the Attribution-No Derivative Works license, there won't be any ramifications for not providing correct attribution for intellectual property or backlinks to original articles.

Resetting the Creative Commons License

The first thing I did was check my settings and to my dismay, I found some articles had somehow slipped into Syndication mode. This must be a Bukisa glitch because I only set a handful of specific articles to Syndication. The rest were set for No Copying or the Creative Commons - Attribution-No Derivative Works. I immediately began to reset all my articles to No Syndication - No Syndication Allowed - No Copying/Altering, but I hit another snag. In my first couple of years on Bukisa, minimum article length was 250 words. Now it is 350 words, so to change the settings on my older, shorter articles, I must ADD ANOTHER 100 WORDS!

The Problem with Rewrites

This presents a couple of problems. One is I already wrote the article, and it is a pain to have to go back and add another 100 words just so I can reset the licensing terms. The second is -- you better believe I am going to get Google to remove the copyright infringing articles, and I hate to alter my original article when I am in the process of sending the links to Google to prove the articles were copied. I contacted Bukisa and explained the problem and received -- ABSOLUTELY NO HELP.

What Can You Do?

Read Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement: Thou Shalt Not Steal for a layman's look at plagiarism and copyright infringement.
Don't use the Creative Commons - Attribution-No Derivative Works or the Syndication license if you don't want your articles showing up on other websites and NOT linking back to you. The black hatters are ignoring the part about links, and you are not only losing your work, but you are not getting any backlinks. And Bukisa sure isn't going to go after these black hatters for violating the terms of the Creative Commons - Attribution-No Derivative Works license!
Set Google Alerts for your articles & poems
Visit Plagiarismtoday.com. They have Stock Letters you can send websites that steal your articles as well as contacts and other resources to help fight plagiarism and copyright infringement.
Use the Google AdSense DMCA complaint form when appropriate.
Add your own warning. Now I close all my articles with this:

Thank you for reading and sharing the link to this article. This article is NOT available for translating and/or copying to websites, blogs, Facebook, discussion boards or elsewhere. If you want to share this info, please share the link.

Also see: Earning Money Writing for Examiner.com

Much of this article was previously published on Bukisa with my byline on Jul 9th, 2011.

KD214

What Is Edema?

The human heart pumps about 5 quarts of blood per minute, circulating oxygen, water, and nutrients into the capillaries. The blood floods the vessel walls to reach all the bodies tissues.

When circulation is poor, fluid will build up in the tissues which is the condition called “edema”. The cause of edema can be a blocked flow of blood, an injury to the lymphatic or blood vessels, surgery, or trauma to the blood vessels.

Circulatory or kidney disease, tumors, and metabolic disorders all can hinder blood flow and cause edema. One of the most common causes of edema is cardiac insufficiency which is a condition in which the heart muscle is unable to pump or receive enough amounts of blood as a result fluid builds up in the tissues and causes edema.

There are natural medicinal plants that are diuretics and can be taken to promote drainage of the tissues.

Horsetail, goldenrod, dandelion and parsley are all excellent herbs and can be taken in tea or tincture form, which is stronger since it is concentrated.

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