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Media beatup or emerging catastrophe Looks like the food supply is in danger of getting severly affected by the bee deaths Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation's honeybees could have a devastating effect on America's dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet Honeybees don't just make honey; they pollinate more than 90 of the tastiest flowering crops we have Among them: apples, nuts,
Have we got death all wrong - when are you dead?
This amazing article shows that death, as we know it might be wrong when the body stops breathing, the cells in the body do not immediatly die, as medicine has supposed, but instead goes into a form of hybernation for up to an hour They only die when oxygen is pumped into the body - as when they are being resusitated May 7, 2007 issue - Consider someone who has just died of a heart attack His organs are intact, he hasn't lost blood All that's happened is his heart has stopped beating
Helium 3 - super fuel causing a new space race to the moon
Helium 3 promises to be the new super fuel that might stop Global warming by replacing existing fuel sources However its rare on Earth, and abundant supposedly on the moon According to some, that is the reason for the new race to the moon, The sooner countries get their hands on Helium 3 the sooner they can change their power systems over to this new fuel A single space shuttle load or roughly 25 tons could supply the entire United States' energy needs for a year And there is pl
Is Alzheimer's reversable? Maybe so if people are challenged
Apparently so from experiments with mice Putting people in environmentally enriching situations stimulates the growth of new neurons that replace the decaying ones With mice this reversed the onset of Alzheimera Unfortunately from my visits to nursing homes they can be some of them most unenriching environments I have ever seen Yet that situation is desired by the clients, they don't seem like change or variety beyond the options they are used to I wonder if making them all change r
New planet found media get all hyper about it
Don't worry the planet it so far away that humans won't get there in the near or far future If humanity ever manages to travel 20 lightyears, only then will they be able to say with any degree of sureity that the planet is potentially habital If the mass is 5x that of earth's it might mean that gravity is 5x that as well Not good if you have a bad back Rules it out from the start as "potentially habitable" Until then read the media hype and imagination But it sells papers
What was 20 feet tall, the largest organism in the world 350 mill years ago?
Yes your right! It was a fungus! Maybe those stories about people living in mushrooms was a form of species memory Prototaxites has generated controversy for more than a century Originally classified as a conifer, scientists later argued that it was instead a lichen, various types of algae or a fungus Whatever it was, it stood in tree-like trunks more than 20 feet tall, making it the largest-known organism on land in its day, 350 million years ago [quote]No matter what argument
Aspartame may cause cancer
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Do the bees have a form of AIDS or cancer?
The panic over the disapearing bees is increasing, now research has found that they may have a form of Aids, or cancer, weakening their immune systems Genetic testing at Columbia University has revealed the presence of multiple micro-organisms in bees from hives or colonies that are in decline, suggesting that something is weakening their immune system [b]The researchers have found some fungi in the affected bees that are found in humans whose immune systems have been suppressed by the
Huge fossilized rainforest found in coal mine
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Only 10 million more years until we all get fried by cosmic radiation
Every 62 million years life on earth gets fried by cosmic radiation Until now, however, even the scientists who first discovered the cyclical pattern had not been able to explain it[/quote] Melott said The Kansas researchers discovered that high rates of extinction in the cycle coincide almost perfectly with periodic "excursions" of the solar system outside the central plane of the Milky Way galaxy "Excursions to galactic north coincide with drops in biodiversity," Melott
Huge impact crater in the Sahara may have created glass
There goes the ancient nuclear warfare theory popular on the net A huge crater in the Sahara desert, said to be the largest one ever found in the region, and dwarfing Arizona's "Meteor Crater", poses new questions for geologists Is the crater related to the origins of the mysterious "desert glass" in the region Scientists suggest that a meteorite impact millions of years ago is the cause of the giant crater imaged above Recently discovered in satellite images of the area, th
Massive impact on moon rolled it over.
I thought it was the entrance to the Death Star An enormous impact basin located near the lunar south pole may have caused the Moon to roll over early in its history, new research suggests The biggest, deepest impact crater in the solar system lies near the Moon's south pole Called the South Pole-Aitken SPA basin, it is 2500 kilometres wide and 12 kilometres deep and is thought to have been created about 4 billion years ago Francis Nimmo of the University of California in Santa C
Only one anti aging creme works - product sells out - panic ensues
The BBC ran a documentary on anti aging cremes, and how 99% of them are useless But one anti aging creme came through and actually works The result, within 24 hours of the documentary the stock sells out and customers are beating down the doors for more Last week, after the BBC2 science series Horizon's March 27 programme investigated the increasingly outrageous claims on the jars of anti aging cremes from the elite cosmetics houses, its conclusion was that, yes, indeed, there was one ac
Are GM crops killing the bees, are we on the edge of another global catastrophe?
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Responding to Kerry, [Melkite Catholic] Patriarch Laham says war is taking place in Syria, not genocide
Gregory III criticises the US Secretary's claim because it is "no good" for Syria's ethnic and religious groups. For the bishop, it is necessary not to link religion and war; otherwise, matter will be worse. What is needed is more work on peace and coexistence. Syrian bishops call on the faithful to pray for the success of the Geneva talks.
[To paraphrase Shakespeare: Genocide by any other name would smell as rotten]
Damascus (AsiaNews) – US Secretary of State John Kerry's remarks about the Islamic State's "genocide" against Christians, Yazidis and Shia Muslims "are not helpful to the ethnic and religious groups present in Syria," said Melkite Patriarch Gregory III Laham.
Speaking to AsiaNews, the prelate does not mince his words about America's top diplomat. "The words come late, and bring bitterness and ill will between the various groups. This is no good."
Responding to appeals by Christian and other activist groups and organisations, in the United States and elsewhere, the US Secretary of State used the word 'genocide' for the first time to describe the violence carried out by Daesh (Arabic acronym for the Islamic State] in Iraq and Syria. In his view, the latter is "genocidal by self-proclamation, by ideology and by actions".
Gregory III, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, has always been critical of the intervention by the Western (and regional) powers, first in Iraq and then in the Syria, which have exacerbated the conflict.
"We must avoid labelling religion as a cause of war," he said. "Military interventions as well as economic and political interests are the cause of wars, whilst religions are exploited as a tool and a pretext."
For the Melkite patriarch, Kerry's stance "will not favour Christians"; on the contrary, it helps making matters worse, generating "animosity between groups, Sunnis vs Shias, Christians vs Muslims".
Russia's intervention has shown the ineffectiveness of US action. Perhaps for this reason, Washington is trying to regain some credibility and ground with these words in Christian eyes. However, for Gregory III, "it is a wrong approach because now is a time to work for peace and coexistence, not generate even more divisions."
The problem is that "the great powers like the United States have lost their credibility." At present, "there is more mistrust among peoples".
For this reason, Syrians bishops have called on the faithful to "pray for the ongoing talks in Geneva" that they may "yield results and be harbingers of peace."
For the patriarch, "emigration is the biggest danger". He warns though not "to overstate the numbers and statistics. We do not know how many are abroad, how many are internal migrants, how many leave and then come back."
Lastly, "As a Syrian Church, we have many projects and are grateful to those who are helping us to revive life in the country and give a future to its people. As the pope put it, we should never let the flame of hope go out."
Conflict in Syria began in March 2011 with a popular protest against President Bashar al-Assad, eventually morphing into a regional and international conflict involving extremist and jihadi groups.
The war has claimed so far the lives of 270,000 people, generating one of the most serious humanitarian crises in history, with 4.6 million Syrians forced outside the country in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt. Hundreds of thousands more have tried to reach Europe, with countless lives lost in the attempt to cross the Mediterranean.
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Mr. BENNET. Mr. President, I wish to thank the Senator from Minnesota for her remarks and say how much I appreciate her work on this legislation, on the Judiciary Committee and beyond.
The chairman is here today. I wish to thank him for his leadership both on the committee and on the floor.
One way or another, something important is going to happen here this
week--which should happen more regularly than it does, but it does not, in the 4 years I have been here; that is, a bill that actually is the result of thoughtful bipartisan--in some cases I even describe it as nonpartisan--work that has been done first by the so-called Gang of 8 that I was pleased to be part of, then in the Judiciary Committee itself, and now on the floor of the Senate.
Before I talk about immigration, I want to mention we are still struggling out in Colorado this summer with these terrible wildfires. We have appreciated the Federal cooperation we have received. It is a reminder to me, when I stand on this floor, how important it is for us to get past this partisan gridlock we have and into a position where we are actually making shared decisions that will allow us, among other things, to do the investments we need to do to make sure our forests have the fire mitigation that will prevent them from catching and burning the way they are this summer in Colorado.
Today we have the opportunity to try to work together on immigration. Opponents have come out and said this bill is going to cost us money, this bill is going to make the deficit worse. It is exactly the opposite. The Congressional Budget Office has said if we pass this bill, we will see nearly $1 trillion of deficit reduction over 20 years. This Congressional Budget Office tells us it will increase our gross domestic product by 5.4 percent over that same period of time. So this bill is a deficit reduction bill. People around here who talk about deficit reduction--and I am one of them--finally have a chance to do it in a thoughtful and measured way, in a useful and constructive way, rather than through a series of mindless across-the-board cuts which we have seen as a consequence of the sequester. Even in Washington, DC, $1 trillion is real money. That is one reason we ought to pass this bill.
Another reason we ought to pass this bill is it creates a visa system that is actually aligned to the economic needs of the United States of America.
Forty percent of Fortune 500 companies have been founded by immigrants. Nearly 1 in 10 business owners in Colorado are immigrants and generate $1.2 billion for our State's economy. Agriculture is a $40 billion industry in Colorado, and tourism is Colorado's second largest industry.
We have a growing high-tech sector in Colorado, and 23.6 percent of STEM graduates from our State research universities are immigrants. We want them to earn those degrees if they are doing it in the United States and then stay here in the United States, build businesses in this country, invest in our future with us in this country. Today, because we have a broken immigration system, we are saying to those graduates, Go back to China and compete with us; go back to India and compete with us; we have no use for your talents here in this country.
This bill fixes that. This bill has very important border security measures and measures to prevent future illegal immigration. I thank the Senator from Tennessee, who is on the floor, for his remarkable work with Senator Hoeven to get us to this point. The agreement on border security, which maintains a real and attainable pathway to citizenship which was a bottom line for the Gang of 8 Senators who were working on this bill, was the result of several Senators who were willing and determined to find a way to get this done. So I thank Senator Corker, I thank Senator Hoeven, and I thank Senator McCain and the other Republican Members of the Gang of 8 for getting us here. This is how the Senate should work--a process that leads to principled compromise.
On the border security amendment, some opponents of fixing our broken immigration system continue to say our bill doesn't do enough to secure the border. No reasonable person could look at this legislation and arrive at that conclusion: nearly $50 billion in additional spending at the border, 700 miles of fencing at the border; we double the number of border agents on the southern border of the United States; we go from roughly 22,000 to 44,000 border agents. Those numbers are directionally right. We double them. More money and Federal resources are devoted to securing our border than on all other law enforcement that the Federal Government undertakes, and now we are doubling it.
You might be critical and say, Well, you shouldn't spend that money, although, as I mentioned earlier, this bill results in deficit reduction of almost $1 trillion over 20 years. I could see how somebody might stand up and be critical about that. I can't see how somebody could seriously maintain this bill does not secure our border.
We call for an array of new technologies and resources at our border sectors to ensure 100-percent surveillance and rapid interdiction of threats and potential illegal crossings.
E-Verify is required to be used by every employer in the United States, so we don't end up the way we did the last time--with a broken system, where small businesses either became the INS or were given fake documents and people came here where there were jobs--illegally, not legally. This internal enforcement mechanism will allow us to make sure small businesses know who they are hiring, and we are turning away people who are here unlawfully and shouldn't work here in the United States of America.
This is the greatest country in the world. But 40 percent of the people who are here who are undocumented came lawfully to the United States, overstayed their visas, and it is the consequence of our having a system to check people on the way in but never checks them on the way out or whether they left at all. This bill fixes that problem with a complete entry-exit system, with improved biographic and biometric tracking of those who come into and leave our borders. It is about time for us to begin to apply 21st century technology to this broken immigration system we have.
There are many economic reasons why we should support this bipartisan legislation. We know it will help businesses, we know it will boost our economy, we know we are securing our borders. If people don't believe me on this, I hope they will listen to Senator John McCain and Senator Jeff Flake, who are the two Republican border Senators--Senators from a border State--who took me and others down there to see what the border actually looked like, who support this legislation, who have to go home to Arizona and be able to defend this legislation by saying it secures the borders of the United States of America. They know what they are talking about.
We also can't lose sight of what this bill means for families who are suffering under the current system. Here is one story from a bright young woman in Boulder, CO, who I had the fortunate pleasure to meet, Ana Karina Casas Ibarra. I first met Ana at a bagel shop in Boulder where my staff and I stopped in for a bite to eat. She waited on us and recognized me. When my staff overheard her explaining the dynamics of the 112th Congress, they suggested she apply for an internship in my office. She was an awesome intern. We had the opportunity to learn more about her story.
Fourteen years ago, her mother brought her and her two younger brothers to the United States to escape an abusive marriage. Her mom had consistently juggled two or three jobs to support them. Although Ana was a good student, an old Colorado law denied her in-State tuition. She had to work to pay for community college a few semesters at a time. Her brothers, who saw her opportunity denied, lost their motivation. One brother who speaks better English than Spanish was deported, and the other brother who has an American citizen wife and a baby is facing possible deportation right now. She just published her story in the Denver Post. She wrote:
Too many families share similar horror stories of separation. There are 11 million people who have entered this country illegally, and the time is now to provide them with a path to citizenship.
It is time for immigration reform.
I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a copy of the Denver Post op-ed.
Mr. BENNET. I just wish to say, again, how proud I am of the work Senator Corker and Senator Hoeven have done to get us to this point. I hope we will come to an agreement on some amendments between now and the end or that we will just take up this bill.
It is time for us to pass it. It is time for us to fix this problem for our economy and for the families all across this country. I believe we can do it, and I think it is an opportunity for this Senate to show it can work in a bipartisan way that produces a meaningful piece of legislation that is very important to the American people.
With that, I yield the floor.
Mr. BENNET. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.
Mr. BENNET. Mr. President, I wanted to come to the floor tonight to talk briefly about where we are in immigration reform. We are moving along this week. We have come out of several weeks of committee work, where there were a number of Republican amendments that were adopted as part of the process and a number of Democratic amendments adopted as part of the process.
As somebody who was involved in the negotiating group that led to the bill reaching the Judiciary Committee, I actually think it was improved by both Republicans and Democrats. It has been an unusual bipartisan effort, and it is the kind of effort the American people, certainly the people of Colorado, think is long overdue. They do not understand why we seem to be engaged in these fights that don't have anything to do with them instead of working to get together constructively to meet the challenges this country faces.
I think when it comes to this very difficult issue of immigration--and it is difficult, and there are strong feelings about it--it has been remarkable for that reason; that we have been able to see what I would describe not even as a bipartisan process but a nonpartisan process, with people actually coming together to resolve this issue. As a result, the objections to it, the substantive objections to it are falling away.
There was an objection that somehow the bill was being rushed through. Well, no, it went through the regular order, which is very rare for this place. It shouldn't be rare, but it is rare. It got a full hearing in the Judiciary Committee, and there has been a full hearing on the Senate floor.
There was an argument somehow it was going to create horrible deficits, and it turns out the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said, actually, in the first 10 years it is going to improve our deficit situation by $190 billion and over the next 10 years by another $700 billion--almost $1 trillion over the course of the next 20 years.
So, then, there was another argument, which was there is no border security as part of this legislation. In the Group of 8 we listened hard to what the border Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, two Republicans from Arizona, had to say about what they believed they needed at the border. We went and visited the border with John McCain and Jeff Flake to see what they believed they needed on the Arizona border. But there were other Senators who weren't satisfied by what we put in that bill, and so there was an effort that was then led by Senator Corker from Tennessee and Senator Hoeven to amend the bill, and we supported it. I supported that amendment.
In fact, that amendment got 68 votes the other night--or something like that. We were missing a couple of Senators. We would have had 68 or 69 if everybody had been here.
That is progress because that has built support for the bill--Republicans and Democrats coming together around the border security issue. I think it is very hard for anybody to make a real argument this is not a significant attempt to strengthen the border in this country.
We were already spending more money on border enforcement than we do on any other Federal law enforcement combined as it was. We had gone to about 22,000 Border Patrol agents already as it was. Now we are doubling that number--doubling--as an attempt to respond to a very reasonable concern the American people have that the border should be as secure as possible. So that is now part of this legislation.
So those are three things people have argued: The process was too fast, the bill was going to negatively affect the deficit, and our border is still insecure. Those were the arguments that were made.
Now we don't hear those arguments so much anymore. Now we hear scare stories about health care. We are hearing scare stories about how this will affect our economy even though the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said we are going to see five additional points of gross domestic product growth--GDP growth--in the second 10 years of this bill passing, as a result of bringing people out of the shadows.
It is not as if the 11 million people who are here and who are undocumented are not working. They are working. Many of them are working in this country. Many of them are working in the agriculture sector in my State and in this country. Many are working in other industries as well all across the United States. But they are working in an unlawful way. They are working in a cash economy. They are working in a situation where they are easily exploited. Because of that, they drag down the wages of everybody in America.
Workers in my State who are here and who are legal--l-e-g-a-l--are having to compete in a marketplace where there are people who can pay less because they know there are people who have to take less because they do not have lawful recourse.
All the protections we put in this bill, all the protections to make sure, and rightfully so, an American is offered a job first; to ensure, and rightfully so, we are not bringing in a whole bunch of new people when there are Americans looking for work--all of those protections pale in comparison to the protection of bringing 11 million people out of the shadows and out of a cash economy and into a place where they are paid a lawful wage and they are paying their taxes to the U.S. Government.
If all someone cared about, if the only thing someone cared about when they got up in the morning and went to bed at night was rising wages for Americans, solving this issue finally for the 11 million would be the most important thing you could do. And we do that in this bill.
The opponents of this bill are not seriously suggesting they are going to go to the expense of sending 11 million people back to where they came from. They are not seriously suggesting, in answer to this issue, that nothing in the CBO report is true, that none of it makes sense, that this is about ObamaCare when what we are really trying to do for once in this place is solve a set of challenging issues in a bipartisan way.
Mr. President, even more than that, for a decade or more, because of our broken immigration system, the policy of this country has been to turn back talented people--even people educated at our universities, even people educated to be engineers and mathematicians. When they have graduated from college here, at our expense, in many cases, we have not said to them: Stay here and build your business. Compete here and help us grow this economy. Start a business--as half of the Fortune 100 or 500 companies have been started by immigrants. No. We have said: Go home. Go home to India and compete with us from there. Go home to China and hire other people over there.
If we pass this bill, we will say once again that this nation of immigrants is open for business, that we are open to the most creative and talented people in the world, that we want them to drive our economy in the United States just as they have generation after generation going back to our Founders.
It is a great testament to who we are and to the nature of our country that people want to come here, and under the right circumstances we should have them here. The CBO report--and I don't even care about the CBO report--makes it very clear--makes it very clear--what businesspeople in my State already know: It makes it clear to the agricultural industry in my State, the high-tech industry in my State, the ski resorts in my State that the objections of people of goodwill on this bill have been met through compromise and through principled agreement.
This is a good piece of legislation. We shouldn't, in this ninth or eleventh hour or whatever it is--the ninth inning--allow ourselves to get distracted by the politics seeking to divide us in this Chamber or in this country. And I don't believe we will. So I urge my colleagues to support the passage of this bill.
With that, I yield the floor.
Source: http://thomas.loc.gov


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Third time's the charm for Sacred Heart 8-man football.
After losing its first two matchups of the season, the Gremlins forged a 50-point lead at halftime to guard its first victory, 58-30, through a running-clock second half from Zac Smith and Norborne-Hardin at Tiger Stadium in Sedalia, Friday, Sept. 9.
Sacred Heart lost by two points in week one, by 18 in week two and had no scheduled game Sept. 2. Head coach Ben Lyles said the Gremlins were locked-in after a week off.
"We played decent the first couple weeks," Ben said. "But there were too many turnovers, too many missed blocks up front, too many missed assignments … We were a lot more focused (Friday)."
The Gremlins led Norborne-Hardin Central 58-8 at halftime, and coaches agreed to play the second half with a running clock.
Junior quarterback Trent Lyles scored the first touchdown on an 11-yard quarterback keep, but Sacred Heart failed its 2-point conversion. Trent had three rushing and passing touchdowns apiece.
Norborne-Hardin answered on the next play from scrimmage. After Zac Smith slipped tackles near the sideline, he scored from 65 yards out and gave the Aggies an 8-6 lead.
The Gremlins scored the next 38 points.
RaeQuan Williams emerged from a scrum and delivered a 46-yard touchdown with 6:13 to play in the first quarter. Trent Lyles spun off a hit and scored two drives later. Both conversions were good, and Sacred Heart led 22-8.
Sacred Heart increased its lead after Trent connected with Micah Tanguay for a 26-yard score. A quarterback keep secured the 2-point conversion, and the Gremlins led 30-8 after one quarter.
The Aggies opened the second quarter with a fourth-and-long punt. Williams dashed 59 yards on the first play from scrimmage for a touchdown. Lyles found Easton Webb for the 2-point conversion.
Webb took snaps at quarterback in the second half, draining the clock with consecutive rushing attempts. Ben Lyles said the deep part of his 17-man roster got playing plenty of snaps during the victory.
"We were actually able to get, all the way down to our freshman, in the game tonight – which is kind of exciting," Ben said. "So now we have some film on them, and we'll be able to go back and critique it a bit. As a young kid, that's exciting."
Another Trent Lyles rushing touchdown lifted Sacred Heart to a 44-8 lead. The Gremlins snapped a streak of four successful 2-point conversions after its sixth score.
Nick Cashman delivered a block downfield for Alden Harding en route to a 37-yard touchdown reception. The Gremlins would not convert after its score, and led 50-8 with 4:02 to play in the first half.
The Gremlins face last year's 8-man Missouri state runner-up, North Andrew, in Rosendale, Missouri next week. Ben said a similar performance is required to knock off the undefeated (3-0) Cardinals.
"We're going to see a really, really good team next week," Ben said. "That's not going to be an easy game … We have to play at this intensity from the start and just keep getting a little bit better as things go on."
Williams, who ran for three touchdowns, positioned Sacred Heart at the Norborne-Hardin 15-yard line after a 28-yard gain. Lyles hit Tanguay high in the end zone on the next play. A penalty negated the Gremlin's initial 2-point conversion, but Lyles scrambled for another after the 10-yard setback.
Norborne-Hardin scored on its first series of the second half, concluded by Smith's second rushing touchdown for 39 yards.
The Aggies would not convert the 2-point attempt, and elected to let the clock continuously run after breaking the mercy-rule threshold. With 7:40 to play, Smith broke off a third touchdown, this time from 40 yards away. Norborne-Hardin converted, and trailed 58-22 as the fourth quarter ticked away.
Sam Hawkins recovered a Sacred Heart fumble to set up Smith's fourth touchdown in the game's closing minutes. Smith scored from 39 yards out for his fourth touchdown, and Hunter Higgins ran in the 2-point conversion to end the contest.
Sacred Heart (1-2) face North Andrew at 7 p.m, Friday, Sept. 9 in Rosendale, Missouri.
Alex Agueros can be reached at 660-826-1000, ext. 1483 or on Twitter @abagueros2


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HubPages helps pay the bills
Money is what I came here for
In the beginning, which is now over two years back, I came to hubpages in the hope of making money here. I had been searching on the Internet for ways of making money online and came upon a recommendation for this site.
I thought I would check it out and give it a go to see if I could make money by writing articles. I liked the ease of posting hubs here and also many features the site offers.
I enjoyed the community spirit here at hubpages too, and soon was making friends and also reading some excellent articles by other hubbers. I decided that I really liked hubpages and would become a regular user of the website.
Making money at Hubpages
Time went on and months flew by, and although I had added Amazon and eBay as affiliates that could potentially generate money from ads I was running, and although I had signed up with Google Adsense, I still found that I wasn't earning very much at all.
I read in the forums tips for making money at hubpages from more experienced hubbers. I read that you need to give it time here and also that you need to promote your hubs elsewhere, in fact in as many places as you can.
I began posting links to my hubs on my Facebook site, on Twitter, on blogger and on other social-networking websites, as well as on forums and saw the traffic increase immediately. Earnings were still not really happening though, but hubbers told me that it all takes time here. Patience is a virtue I am blessed with.
Fortunately, I had become addicted to hubpages and had praised the site so much that several friends, including CJ Stone and Mistyhorizon2003, had also joined and I was sticking around and posting hubs anyway whether I was earning money or not.
I saw hubpages as an excellent place to showcase my writings and to write about whatever I wanted. As a journalist I already had many articles that had been previously published in newspapers and magazines but had not been published on the Internet, so I decided to publish them as hubs too, as well as new original writings.
After a year, I finally got my first payment from Google. It wasn't a lot by many people's standards but it was exciting and proved that all the hubbers, who had said you need to persevere and that it can take as long as a year before you get results were right.
It gave me an incentive to look at this place again as a site to make money on, and not just a place to enjoy and to post my writings on. It had given me evidence of the reason I had originally come here as being valid. You really can earn money at hubpages and I had done so.
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Have you made money at HubPages?
Tips by Marisa Wright
- How to Optimize your HubPages to Make Money
Are you a Hubber who's been here several months, created lots of well-written Hubs, but isn't making money? This Hub is for you! ....
Tips to improve your money-making potential
Marisa Wright was the most helpful hubber to me in pointing out what I need to do to help improve the potential money-making power of my hubs. She even wrote an entire hub about it which I have included a link to below.
I have always prided myself on being a knowledgeable and talented writer, and the feedback I get supports this idea, but what Marisa pointed out to me was that it wasn't my writing or even my subject matter that was at fault but my layout.
Marisa explained that putting photos and videos at the beginning of a hub is a very bad move because that is a prime site for advertising. I had been wrongly thinking that a video or a photo looked good there, and so it does, but it does not help you make money.
Unfortunately I realised that nearly all of my hubs had videos to start and photos alongside what was often only one text box. Marisa explained that you should have more that one text box to increase the adverts being placed at the top of the page.
She also explained that having links to outside sites all through the text was not a good idea because people can click on them and leave your hub and maybe not come back. I hadn't thought of it that way but again could see the sense in what she was telling me.
Bearing all these tips in mind I began going through my hubs making changes for the better. I always remember Marisa's advice now when I put a hub together.
Misha told me my hubs needed Search Engine Optimization or SEO as it is commonly known. He also suggested that I would possibly stand to earn more from more popular subjects about stuff people want to buy than writing about some conspiracy theory or rare plant. I now try to do a far greater mixture of subjects for my hubs because it seems a logical move if I want to make money with my writings.
Sufidreamer encouraged me by telling me that he makes a living as an online freelancer and thought I could do so too. He knew that I needed to find a way to make more money and was doing what he could to raise my hopes about doing so.
Various other very successful hubbers here have inspired me in various ways by seeing what they have achieved in making money and in their popularity. In the list of links below I have included a few of the people who have directly or indirectly motivated me to keep on trying at improving my earning potential here.
Every time I read of fellow hubbers' achievements or I see hubbers who are able to maintain a score of 100 it inspires me to carry on with my efforts at making money at hubpages.
I found that entering hub challenges is well worth doing too to see both your score and traffic go up. I have completed the 30 hubs in 30 days hub challenge twice now.
I have just joined the Seekyt site too, as recommended by howtoguru, where I have been writing and submitting trailer feeds for links to my hubs.
I have a long way to go to become a high earner here but am on the way and I now often get around €100 payment from Google and have had over €50 from eBay. Obviously I can't live on these sums but they really do help to pay my bills and the only way is up.
Some hubbers who have helped me
- Sufidreamer on HubPages
Sufidreamer Freelance Writer for Hire Sufidreamer is an exiled Englishman, living in the beautiful Greek mountains, close to the ruins of...
- Misha on HubPages
Tired of bickering on HP forums? Forum for grown ups is here I love driving. I love this feeling of speed and control that driving my car...
- howtoguru on HubPages
SEEKyt! I built this Revenue-Sharing Social Bookmarking Site just for you! Join HubPages Today I am someone who loves to pass on knowledge. I...
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Glad to hear it is helping. I just got my hours cut at work so I'll be relying more on HubPages to fill in the gaps...
Thank you for the information.
Thanks for sharing my experience here
I came to HubPages for the same reason. Soon found out that the community in HP is really fun, active and helpful. Experienced hubbers are so willing to share their knowledge. Besides making some money here, I am also having fun. Kudos HP. And thanks for sharing your experience, Bard.
Glad to see that you're doing great Bard of Ely. I agree, the payouts are not enough to live by but then again, who knows? Maybe this Christmas, I'll see you posting a much (much!) higher earnings here. Anything's possible, right? Good luck. :)
Bard of Ely, your Hub is encouraging. This is another affirmation that "sweat equity", a love for writing, and a respect for readers are a recipe for success on HP. Write On!
I must admit the Hubpages have help me a lot to fill the gaps, The biggest one that I spent it with is it paid my daughter and myself entry pass to the Movie World and Dream World during our Gold Coast Holiday.
Blessings, Namaste' and Deeksha to you dearest Bard!!
Thank you so very much for writing this no nonsense Hub!! Plainly spoken, no hype or fluff with your authentic voice sharing true experiences!! Thank you!!
You are a treasure to read and to get to know!! I am proud to follow in your footsteps!!
Blessings always, Earth Angel!!
Bard, good info, thank you!
Yes very good information. I hope you continue to succeed and reach your monetary goals. All the best, cheers.
Hello Bard, thanx for the money-making info, maybe it won't be two years until I get my first $5 check because of all the excellent info shared by yourself and other hubbers. I love this place...
Yes it is a big learning curve and I am still climbing it lol
Thanks for sharing.
I've always enjoyed your writing and musicianship, Bard, and find this hub quite telling. You are a writer willing and happy to share your inspirations and muses!
Wonderful teachers make wonderful students.
Congratulations on your success.
Great hub Bard, inspirational for those like me who have only just begun! I appreciate the links to other hubs on similar topics and have bookmarked this for future reference. I'm still enjoying the thrill of seeing my written word on the internet but intend to get serious about earning money in the long term. I know this hub will help. Many thanks.
Thanks for sharing your experience, great tips to help us.
Well done for sticking at it! It took a very long time to get my first google cheque too, and I'm still waiting to get enough for a second, but you're proof positive that it pays to persevere.
Hi Bard.. great to see a positive and realistic hub. I always enjoy what you have to say and delighted to be following you. You have grown and continue to do so. I will never forget that you had made me feel so welcome when I joined. Let me take this opportunity to thank you for your heartfelt ways x
Great information! I'll be writing lots more hubs since I just lost my job.
Really excellent Hub Steve, and thanks for the link to my profile too. I am at the stage of a payout every second month right now and by my reckoning I have been on Hubpages 2 years and 4 months, but I don't write constantly as you know, (summer I am vegetable growing and that takes up most of my time). Happily hubpages is a great place to be and I am content plodding along and hoping my payouts creep up bit by bit. Thanks for the tip on the "hub-trails" too, I didn't know about this and have hubs that would probably be suitable I am guessing.
Glad you stuck around. One thing few people don't know is traffic peaks on average to a hub nearly three years after it's been published, so you should continue to see earnings grow faster now as you add new Hubs. The next 100 comes much more quickly:)
Thanks for sharing.
It's really nice to read such an encouraging message about writing on HP. So true, it takes time, and the rewards will be there if we keep working at it. "...the only way is up"...what a great motto! Thanks so much for sharing your experiences.
Thank you for that hub. being very new to HP( I've been on here for 5days and not 3months as it says on my profile) not sure where that came from. I am also from Wales and I'm thoroughly enjoying HP. Thanks again for your hub.
I posted the above comment without signing in. Hence no photo. I am getting to grips with it slowly.Diolch yn fawr.
Thanks for the mention Steve. With all the work you put in here you should be doing more than just paying the bills, but I guess it's better than nothing. Onward and upward!
Thanks for the tips. I get next to nothing from hubpages but have not researched the subject at all. I have heard of posting on other sites and putting a link back to hubpages but have not tried it yet. I have not heard of trailing before so thanks for that also. I especially like the idea of adding a second text. That makes good sense and is easy to do. I like that better than eliminating pictures. I will compromise between the two. Great hub and thnanks for the links to additional info.
Thanks for the clarification. I'll change the location of my photos and see what happens.
I also think posting at other blog sites and putting a link to your hubs is an effective policy, as you say. Maybe an affordable article submitting service would be easy and effective. SEO with long tail key words that get, I think it is between 5,000 and 14,000 searches a day,so you rank high on the page because there is less competition, is possibly effective. I've been meaning to do all these things but I am elderly and tire easily. Crumby excuse, right? lol
Great hub and very informative, just been through a three days sales training in course of my work and this hub is more informative than that,
Yes I love hubpages to and I'm also addicted to writing this is a great hub to read. I'm just struggling with bringing in followers. I'm making some ok money but yes patience is everything. Great things come to those who wait.
Hey! This is a neat little article, full of hope and needful tips. Thanks. I'll take your advice here.
wow! very informative hub, I like it.
I've made a little bit here, but it is hard to find the balance between writing about what interests me most and writing copy to attract readers just for affiliate marketing clicks. I still hope to find that balance while still offering myself a chance to write something that interests me. Good luck in your own online writing ventures.
I'm glad that you are doing better. Once I learned about backlinks I started getting more views, and earning more money. I don't bother with twitter or facebook since those readers seem to be more interested in the social scene than in buying anything. My favorite for backlinks is Xomba and their share of Adsense is generous.
This article was really helpful! It is a great compilation of good tips. Thanks :)
Planning on retirement in two years or so, I guess I came at the right time to the site, to supply me with a pension by then. This is a very useful hub, Bard and I appreciate the tips. Thank you.
This is a very encouraging hub. We have been around a while (in life as well as on HubPages) and are still looking for advice and guidance.
Great hub - I don't really want to make a living on HubPages, but a little extra cash certainly won't hurt. Good advice!
Make money great article Your hub page great information to earn money in internet thanks for sharing
Thanks for the encourageing words! It is always nice to read how someone else had patience and it is working for them. It makes the waiting more tollerable.
Bard of Ely, This is a great article, I hung on your every word as it really hits home. Glad to hear your moving up in your acheivements and send you much positive thought and energy. Thanks for the tips, I learned a thing or two. Marissa is a person I've learned much from as well, never heard of guru but will def check them out. Peace :)
Thank you very much
Great to hear you're sticking with it! It's motivating for a new hubber such as myself!
Good to hear yer bills are getting paid, enjoyed yer hub !
Yay, Bard, I'm so glad to hear your Hubs are working for you and that my advice helped a bit!
Glad you wrote this and I enjoyed reading it. It's taken me two years to feel like I've finally figured out Adsense. I've only made 36 cents from Amazon back in Feb. I've written more product-oriented Hubs but still no sale from Amazon despite traffic. I'm also looking at turning some of my Hubs in to e-books.
I just wanted to thank you for sharing the info on here with us !
I actually went through a few of my hubs the other day to edit the pictures at the top , so there are more adverts displayed. I have noticed today that my earnings have gone up ! I still have to edit a lot of them - but your advice rings true.
Like you I came here to earn cash , and so far have had 2 adsense cheques and sold some amazon products. It's great to see another expat trying to make a living on the web:)
hiu bard, thanjs for sharing.
my thoughts on reading this is that it is both a story of triumph, and sincere congratulations on what you've achieved, and a bit of a sad story too. So much effort and time for comparatively little reward. There's gotta be a better way one is tempted to think, because apparently the writers poring in their time and their souls, aren't making very much.
kindly correct my typos on the above comment if you can thanks Bard, its annoying me i cant go in and do a quick edit
do you build your own web sites too Bard and promote them ?
Great advice - just when I thought I knew what I was doing. I have a number of websites that bring in $500-$2000, depending on the month (summer is terrible for my sales) - but didn't know 1/2 of the ways you listed here to make an income on HP.
The other benefit is, even if it's only $200 or so a month - my goodness, for just a few hours of work? Perpetually?
Sign me up! Great tips, Bard!
Just wanted to remark what an informative Hub this was to read. I'm still new at this on HP, I make websites and do freelancing SEO gigs for a sizable sum for most of my money.
Thanks for the info.
Nice hub and good for information. I am glad to know your passion in hubpages. So do I, my friend. I get my first check after a year. With hard work, finally I get an income from writing. I love hubpages. This give me a new spirit to write and write. Thank for share your experience. Vote this up.
Rated up. I have a similar experience as yours and have found that following advice and tips from the accomplished hubbers helped me tremendously. Plus i stii learn something new everyday as i go along.
Great article Bard.
Thanks Bard, I had not heard about the hubtrails guide. Every bit of information helps, thanks for the info. Voted you up!
Hi Bard of Ely
I have read a few of your hubs and really like the way you write, I haven't earned any money here yet, I am a relatively new member, but, as you stated patience is indeed a virtue' and I have now also become addicted to the hubpages format and community, money will be a bonus. Your advise here is appreciated. Thankyou
Search Engine Optimization ... what does this do and how we proceed with this. Pls help.
Hi Bard. This is such a great hub with lots of good pointers. I think as hubs mature, there will be more traffic and values to them. Here's to more of your success.:) Hub up.
I remember a time in the forums when you were very discouraged. Glad you stuck it out.
wooow i have to learn with you about how ... my hub just 2, and it's so bad :)
Great hub> Keep the good info coming
I like your style. I wonder if you are from Cardiff? Anyway, I am your newest follower. Thanks
It's good to hear HubPages is working for you - and I hope it just improves and improves (your earnings) - keep it up.
Great to hear you are making money on hubpages. I remember when you were close to returning home. Keep on hubbing.
I suspect seanorjohn means when you had that period of not enough money to keep you in Tenerife for more than another couple of months, and not sufficient income from outside writing work. It was when you were also worried that if this meant you had to leave Tenerife what would happen to "Tiggy" as she wouldn't have a pet passport and would have had to go into quarantine if you took her with you.
Yes, that's what I was recalling. you got me worried there Bard. I am increasingly questioning my powers of recall.
I'm glad it works out for someone! I find it hard to earn much from Hubpages. I mean I get few clicks on adsense, but thats pennies.
Hey Steve - Congrats on the high score. I must say, don't be afraid of writing about niches - the highest hubpage I've had is mine on the US farm bill. Right now at Squidoo (where I usually write, but I'm looking to return to Hubpages) my highest ranked page is Ursula the Sea Witch (from Disney's Little Mermaid). I hope its not blasphemy to link to Squidoo from here (I know lots of people active at both sites), but here is my affiliate marketing history page https://hubpages.com/business/affiliate-mom .
Thanks for sharing your experiences here on HubPages. I'm pretty new here, with only 12 articles so far, but I have ideas for more.
HubPages is a great place to write and meet others--I've enjoyed being here!
This is an excellent hub with great advice! Thanks again!
Actually one thing I have found from selling my art and designs on Zazzle and other POD sites is sometimes subjects which are a little unusual or off beat are paradoxically often more popular than more mainstream subjects. This is mainly because subject matter which is more obscure presents less competition so provides a niche market. OTOH the market for more conventional mainstream subject matter is already well catered for, in which case it can be more difficult to get noticed.
Although art/design and writing are different disciplines I would argue in terms of Internet marketing and search engine optimization similar rules apply because at the end of the day most things are found based on key words.
So I'm not sure I entirely agree with your friend Misha that "writing about some conspiracy theory or rare plant" is a bad idea because it stands to reason it's easier to be a big fish in a small Pond than it is in an Ocean :) That said I think there are advantages in creating a broad mix of things because whilst people may find one's work through a more obscure avenue they may actually buy something which is more conventional, so the more variety one has the better :)
All this is very enlightening. I had no idea that One could make money posting articles on Hubpages until I posted an article. HP was just one of the sites suggested so I can, hopefully get links back to my site. I am new at article writing and feeling my way. I hope my articles will improve with time and experience. I am truly enjoying you Hubs and will be back to see what else you have written about. So please keep writing.
That's a very helpful article. I make a pretty decent living from affiliate marketing and have just started writing on hubpages because i really enjoy writing. Also who doesn't like money. Thanks for the hub. Useful. Bookmarked and Following.
Thanks to your tip about not putting photos or videos at the top of a Hub, I've just spent the morning editing all mine to change their layout. I hadn't thought of that, so thanks Steve.
Thank you for sharing your story and letting us know that it is possible to make some money on the internet.
Great information provided in your hub, thanks a lot!
Your story incentivates me to keep writing...I think pacience and constant writing is the key to success in this.
Thanks for this hub =)
yes there is a lot of help around here, and great you got a payment, that is a big pickme up isn't it? Good work, and I'll have to go back to Misha and look his hubs up... thanks for the new hubber to read. You are a blessing around here as well.
A great article for beginners like me, thanks and keep up the good work.
I definitely can learn something from your article and apply it to my hubs. Thank You for writing this article.
HUBS LIKE YOURS MAKES MAKING MONEY ON THE HUB PAGES COME A LITTLE CLOSER.I am not there yet but I am closing in the gap.I too have patience and I keep improving my writings.By the time I make money I will be able to correct all my writing mistakes.But the important thing of all I find it the most fun of all!!!!!
So hard to figure out when to write what you know vs write what pays.
Thanks for sharing this. Very inspirational to anyone who's thinking of giving up.
All the best to you Bard!
Thanks so much for motivating me, I was thinking of giving up before reading your article. Thanks
Thank you for being so honest.
As the bordello sweeper said, "All this and they pay me, too!" A great, honest and giving article, bro...Bob
Can't thank you enough. I am very new at this but I am really enjoying the spirit of hubpages. I am a patient person but it helps to know that my patience will pay off one day. Great information!
I was motivated to write at HubPages by my daughters after I retired from government service. It was to fill up my inaction and its perceived concomitant boredom. So I started, very patiently.
Although I'm not posting quantity hubs, I'm glad that I have loved the site along with friends who leave comments. I enjoy checking my account, although it will take a lot more effort, I believe I'm closer now to earning, too. What you do is what you get, I know I need to learn how to make more money from this hub. Thank you for sharing this.
I am a newbie and this article gave me some good tips. Thank you Bard of Ely for informative writing. I hope that in one year time I will have at least 100 hubs.
I am a newbie as well and this article gave me some good tips. I hope that in time I will have at least 100 hubs.Keep on hubbing and good luck. Thank you for sharing this.
Hey Bard... that was a really nice encouraging hub for all us newbies. I've been on for about a month writing like a lunatic, but I haven't really been too careful about format or SEO or even topics. Just lovely to write so much. However I think it's time I started to heed some of this good advice. Great links on here too. Good stuff!
Wow, you have a huge number of followers and hubs written. You must really like writing, only way I can see how you've been patient so long!
I found your hub very helpful thank you for the info!
Very Informative hub Bard of Ely, Thanks for sharing all these informations and your experience with us. Hubpages is really a very good place to stay for long. Still I havn't took Hub challenge, planning to take it soon.
Good Luck Karanda. I am new here. Hope this article helps me earn some money :)
In my case I don't rely on hubpages very much.
I've been here for about seven months and haven't made any money yet. I was just about to give up until I read your hub. I didn't realize that part of my problem might be my pictures. Thanks for the advice, it was well appreciated!
Great Inspiration I got from your hub,me also thought the same that by photos and videos I can increase my earning but from now i will concentrate on writings.
thankyou for your great hub as I am struggling on making anything really ...am goin to go over your points thank you :-)
Thank you for the information. You have certainly helped many of us shorten the learning curve.
Thanks for the great info and the encouragement. I joined seekyt through your link, thanks for the tip.
Excellent motivation!!! You have provided some great information, along with your own personal story It really ties it all together, and shows that it really can work, you just have to work at it!
This is a very interesting post. Thank you for sharing it.
Just when you think, "I don't want to write today," an article such as this fills the motivation tank back up.
Good stuff.
It used to be that a writer wrote out of passion and not by the dictates of his gastric juices, and society took care of them well.I can imagine how "market trends" impinges on your creativity as an artist/writer. Thanks for sharing. I too, have had to contend with this reality.Good luck to all of us!
It's good to know that Hubpages can help pay the bill. Not only that you enjoy expressing yourselves but it also helps you to have money from it.
I am yet to experience this as am new and would want to be like as you said it. thanks
These are fantastic tips, thanks for writing this hub! :)
nice article, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the hub BoE and the reminder about seekyt - I signe dup a while back but forgot all about them !
Great hub Bard! I know exactly what you mean. I am so thankful for hubpages.
hey thanks for the tips. this is the best hubpage ive seen on the topic!
You've got the right attitude about it to make make money and have fun and did a great job explaining this for people. It takes awhile to find the balance. To much emphasis on money and you might not have any fun and just get burnt out. Too much emphasis just on having fun and you won't end up making any money. Once you find that balance though, it feels really good. Especially when you get those checks that pay your electricity, gas and phone bills :-)
I have worked at making money with various writing and website ideas, but making money via advertising is definitely hard. Good hub Bard!
Yes good hub - thumbs up - thanks for the useful info
Great Hub. Very Informative for newbie. Voted up :)
Great hub. Thanks for posting.
Thats a great hub.
It inspired me a lot.
Thanks Bard!
Hey Bard,
Great tips on Hubpages!
Take Care,
Somehow my message was left twice so I deleted it to leave you this message.
Good hub, Bard.
I am glad to hear that things are improving for you in the area of earnings.
I agree about the advice not to include links in the body of your article. I usually follow this recommendation, but sometimes I deviate from it. I have a recent article that I feel is necessary to include outside links. However, I didn't insert them in the first third of the article. This gives a view "above the fold" of only text, plus Adsense ads. I think it could be a good strategy to use once in a while on an experimental hub -- meaning one which is destined to have short-term interest. The exposure is good, if nothing else.
I wish there were a magic formula to increase traffic and clicks, but I know better.
Good luck and continuing success here.
I have been looking for any information on the amount of traffic. I am curious to know how many hubs you had when you got your first check? I am wondering how much I will have to write to make money. I also want to know if you remember how many clicks you received during the beginning.
Hiya Bard
Now following you because, as a newbie, I can actually understand what you are talking about. I particularly enjoyed 'Hubpages pays the bills' as it stated in simple terms what to do to make money on Hubpages - eventually. And much as I love writing I need to make money too, so I'm in it for the long haul.
Lechid da!
its great to see you all guru's here. hope I will be supported
Nice tale. Just so u know, Am comin' after thee...& it must work here on hubpages!
Wow terrific information, thank you it will help me so much.
Some people have called hub pages a 'write for free' website since they were frustrated that they didn't really make any money with it.
its not true, such people are just judging by their own experience.
Thanks, Bard of Ely!!!My father has the name Ely. Glad you pointed out about 'links'. I might as well refrain from using such tool in order to focus more on my writing.
Thanks for the article .. hadn't heard of hub trails before cool deal.
Very helpful. I guess I have to modify my hubs ;)
Hello Bard:
Really enjoyed your hub in reference to earnings on hubpages. A lot of great information. I know that I myself, being here just five months now, have not made a ton of money either. But know that patience is real important when writing for this site. And eventually the money will flow. But more importantly is, that if you really enjoy writing like I do and know that you certainly do. Than this is the place for us and fellow hubbers alike, regardless of what we are currently earning. The sky is the limit as you also mentioned. Again thanks for sharing this great article with all of us that I voted very useful and found interesting tips within as well.
This is a very good hub. I see "lots" of shitty comments form persons who've joined and produced something or another, and then quickly got disappointed.
I suppose such persons have no real idea what the word "work" means.
The thing about the layout - it's mind blowing, isn't it? I'd have never known about it without someone telling me either. I could have lived a thousand years before realizing that pictures or videos do NOT go at the top right of the text that should be the first capsule.
My newest idea for increasing earnings here is that I should increase my "authority" in the niche topics that I write about. I've really already got too many niche topics or subjects going, but I'm going to concentrate on the topics that I seem to best score with so far as Google traffic.
I've never seen my author score be as high as yours always is. I got to 97 for about half a day once. I just can't seem to commit myself to . . . well, anything really.
Best of luck to us all.
You are very welcome, Sir. I must compliment you one your ability to be very interesting. I still really like the video with the "space ship" that you published a month or so ago.
That was pretty creative - I get tired really quickly. . . .of being able to predict what someone will say or do.
Cheers for your day!
A good read Bard and thank you for all the great information and tips, an excellent support.
Nice hub, I haven't made much either, but I'm still working on it, good luck to you.
these were some very good ideas. ty
yeah im hoping hubpages will pay my bills!
Just started but can see how I can make my hubs better just from your article. Will also check out some of those that helped you. Thanks
great advice. i'm just starting out and this helps so much.
Thankyou Bard, I too am starting out. Living the dream...is little steps, and it's great experienced writers share their knowledge! Love and Light to you!
Hi Bard, It has been a long time since reading one of your articles. Your hub on how HP helps pay the bills is an excellent article. I for one, is thankful for HP, and so glad I have stuck around here, and learned how to earn on HP, and still learning how to build my earning.
I have not heard of Seekyt, and on my way to checking out this site to see how I can build more traffic to my hubs from using this social networking site. Thanks for the info! Voted up!!


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States of Matter
Irregularly Shaped
There are 3 types of Matter
What is matter?
Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space.
Everything in the world is made of matter
is usually something you can not see, but sometimes we can see it...like steam coming from a cooking pot
What is a Solid?
Solid or not?
Solid objects are measured in cubic units.
Solid or not?
Orange Slice?
what are these?
Are they a Solid? why?
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What's the difference between the cup and the juice?
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Liquid does not have a shape. It must be contained in a cup, bottle, or receptacle in order to have a shape.
A solid is anything that holds a particular size and shape. The only way they can change their shape is by force
All matter takes up space. The amount of space that an object takes up, is called the object's
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Small amounts of liquid are measured in milliliters(mL).
Remember 1L=1,000mL
All liquid, from a drop of rain, a bottle of water, to the ocean, can be expressed in liters or milliliters
We use a graduated cylinder to measure a liquid's volume
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Nevada and Pitt's PG worries
October, 28, 2008
Quick hitters for Tuesday:
• Nevada coach Mark Fox said he has no idea when starting guard Brandon Fields and freshmen Ahyaro Phillips and London Giles will be reinstated after a shoplifting incident earlier this month.Fox was counting on Fields being his leader in the backcourt after he started all but one game last season. He was the Wolf Pack's third-leading scorer with 12.4 points a game. Nevada, the likely WAC favorite, could struggle without Fields. That's fine. Fox says he's not about to compromise. He's extremely disappointed with the incident. "It was a shock," Fox said. "I expect them to live up to a standard. There's no question we were counting on him." In Fields' absence, Fox said assistant coach Kwanza Johnson, who played at Tulsa, has had to practice. Fox said Johnson is still in good shape and the Wolf Pack need the bodies. He said Lyndale Burleson, a senior guard, will replace Fields, a junior, for the foreseeable future. Luke Babbitt hasn't been affected. The highly touted freshman forward is expecting to make a major contribution. Fox said he's living up to the hype with a terrific attitude, passing and ability to finish plays. • Pitt coach Jamie Dixon said LeVance Fields will do five-on-zero workouts this week but will not participate in any contact drills. The plan for Fields, recovering from foot surgery and an infection that occurred after the procedure, is to go two days on, one day off for the foreseeable future. Dixon said Fields is due for X-rays to check on the healing of the foot on Monday. • Virginia Tech is scrimmaging at Georgetown this weekend. Memphis is at Saint Louis. Nevada is at Saint Mary's. A number of these scrimmages are taking place across the country. Coaches prefer these to exhibition games, but at a number of schools they must play an exhibition game because they need the revenue of a home game. • The A-10 made its preseason predictions known Tuesday and it shouldn't come as a surprise that Xavier was the pick to win the league. Temple, Dayton, Saint Joseph's, Charlotte, UMass and Saint Louis were the top seven. Richmond, Rhode Island, La Salle, George Washington, Duquesne, Fordham and St. Bonaventure were the bottom seven. If there is one team in the top seven that could surprise and win the A-10 it is likely UMass. The Minutemen, under new coach Derek Kellogg, return the top backcourt in the league with Ricky Harris and Chris Lowe. Experienced guards are a must in this and any league. But what was obvious in looking at the three all-league teams, all rookie-team and all-defensive team is that this league is devoid of a star. That doesn't mean someone like Derrick Brown of Xavier or Dionte Christmas of Temple can't become one, but the league enters the season without a nationally known name. • The Missouri Valley conference issued its predictions and Creighton was the top pick. Southern Illinois, Illinois State, Drake, Bradley, Northern Iowa, Indiana State, Evansville, Wichita State and Missouri State round out the league. The top five in this league will all be competitive enough for postseason berths. It's still amazing to me how far Wichita State has fallen since Mark Turgeon left. I wonder if Gregg Marshall would have rather stuck it out at Winthrop and seen if he could have landed South Carolina last spring when Dave Odom retired. Instead, he was in Kansas while Darrin Horn of Western Kentucky was the opportunistic one, landing the job after a Sweet 16 appearance. • Saint Mary's coach Randy Bennett could have easily gone to Oregon State. Why did he stay? "Because I like it here," Bennett said last week in his office, which is adorned with multiple Australian flags. Bennett has had a history of luring Aussies to Saint Mary's and has five on this season's roster. "I like the players, the staff and the school. I like what it's about."
Bennett is entering his eighth year at the school and his decision to stay in Moraga will help Saint Mary's stay competitive with Gonzaga atop the WCC for years to come.• ESPN and coaches in the WCC should be pleased to know that McKeon Pavilion has new lights. Games at Saint Mary's have seemed dark on television and also to those who have coached in the games. The Gaels have three home games on the ESPN family of networks -- Gonzaga on Feb. 12, San Diego on Feb. 19 and the BracketBuster game on Feb. 21.
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A Bark In The Park – Doggin' America's Big Trees
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When European settlers arrived on these shores virgin forest stretched nearly unbroken to the Mississippi River. Early Americans were extremely adept at clearing land for farms and stripping forests for building materials. By 1900, out of five trees that stood in Colonial days, only one survived. You could travel with your dogs for days and hardly ever see a big tree. Today, much of the land has been reforested. Most eastern states whose slopes were cut bare in the 1800s now boast of more than 50% forestland. In a land of second- and third-growth woodlands "old growth forests" where trees have stood unmolested since the dawn of the America have become magical places. Old growth forests conjure up images of huge trees but these ancient forests are best characterized by their diversity. The woods are speckled with large snags that have broken in storms and mammoth trunks of decaying dead trees teeming with life litter the forest floor. A woodland hike through an old growth forest is like no other hike you can take with your dog. Here are some of the best...


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