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Sunday, February 16, 2014

I have received all my redemptions from Bubblews on time

I see many posts on Bubbles from members of not having received their redemptions for more than 2 months. Some even say they have not received any payments at all. In the beginning I thought it was just one of those things..
And then I saw a post here also which said that more than 14,000 bubblers have their redemptions pending. Hence this post.
I must state clearly that I have received all my redemptions from Bubblews till now. Some even before the 72 hours waiting period had passed. There is one redemption pending. This also I think it is because of as many 10 to 15 of my connections having their accounts deleted for violation of some rule. A couple of my other friends and connections are also having the same experience. They too have received all their payments till to date.
I do not believe that Bubblews is paying by random or is showing favoritism only to a few. Those of you who are also here, if you are receiving your redemptions on time, please tell us.
As far as I am concerned, Bubblews is a great place for exposure for our thoughts. Here is my default URL in bubblews. Please check my posts...

http://www.bubblews.com/account/111804-sincerewriter

Ginger we are calling you

We have all heard that ginger is the medical cure for many things and that you should have some ginger everyday. Well now Doctors are also telling patients to use ginger in their cooking and also to drink more ginger tea and eat cookies with ginger in them.

Ginger

For thousands of years, this spice was used to knock out nausea. But unless you went to an Eastern medicine doctor, you weren't going to hear about it from your MD. Then, along with the 21st century came a string of studies pointing to ginger's potential to combat nausea related to motion sickness, chemotherapy and pregnancy.

"Once the science was there, more doctors were willing to 'prescribe' it," says Patricia Raymond, MD, assistant professor of clinical internal medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va.

Try candied ginger, ginger tea or even ginger cookies the next time that you're feeling queasy.

A friend of mine uses GINGER for her cancer and it helps her she says.

Ginger root has a very high level of antioxidants -- higher than many berries -- making it an excellent defender against cell damage and associated disease caused by free radicals. Ginger continues to be the focus of research investigating its role in cancer prevention and treatment of lymphoma, breast, liver, skin, bladder and colorectal cancers. Ginger’s antioxidant activity is one of several mechanisms thought to explain its possible anticancer effects. Others include its ability to decrease cancer cell proliferation and suppress mechanisms that initiate cancer cell activation.

We put ginger in our smoothies and tea.

Other Ways for Writers to Make Money in their Extra Time

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So you're a writer! If I was a betting woman, I would bet most writers do other things to earn money, from eBay to promotions to other jobs. A few years ago I realized that the days of making BIG bucks writing were pretty much over for me. My best month writing across all my sites together has only netted me a little over $1,000--hardly an income I can thrive on.

I LOVE to write and will keep looking at new things like PWG hoping to find that magic mixture of work, writing, promotion, networking and sites that do a lot of the work, too. But in 2010, I started looking into other avenues, including franchises and business partnerships.

Franchises: With hard work and determination, owning a franchise can bring in a LOT of money, so this idea had a lot of appeal. However, franchises cost a great deal of money, with the LOWEST ones in the $20,000 range and average buying prices in the hundreds of thousands.

Schemes: Then there are the "make big money quick doing nothing" ads all over the internet that usually don't pan out and don't live up to their promises.

Direct Marketing: That's why many people end up turning to direct marketing which can have all the advantages of a franchise, or all the disappointments of a "get rich quick" scheme. So how do you find the right direct marketing business?

Look for one with a track record of success. Companies like Amway, Mary Kay and even Avon have been around for a long time. These companies have proven they are not a scheme that will take your money and leave you standing on the street corner selling pencils.
Look for companies that belong to the Direct Selling Association. This organization insists on the highest ethics and training in its member businesses.
Look for a great product line. Is it something you and your friends would use? Would you use it in ten years?
Look for companies that are already solvent. A new business, no matter how great the idea sounds, has a high chance of bankruptcy.
Look for a company in a booming industry, that is ahead of the trends, that will meet a need no matter how good or bad the economy gets.

Did I find a business I like that has earned me a more-than-decent monthly income working part-time hours from home? Yes, yes I did. In 2010, I chose an anti-aging skin care business because as the baby-boomer generation continues to age, as well as younger generations, our skin will continue to age with us. We all want to look our best. We all want healthy skin. I would use it now and in 10 years.

The dermatologists company I chose owns and created Proactive for acne, so they are WAY beyond solvent as well as award-winning members of the Direct Selling Association. They use social media and social networking much like we do for our articles to sell and promote the products, so it is a format I am very comfortable with. It is almost all done on the computer -- no products to carry or return. And it costs a small fraction of the lowest franchise fees to start my business.

If you want to know more, just ask me! I love to talk about skin care as much as I love to talk about writing now! And here are some links if you want to read more:

My skin care business
My skin care products
Exclusive: Dermatologists Changing the Face of Beauty with New Technology
A company overview
My Facebook page

Also see: How to Earn Money Writing for Examiner.com

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Just call me Numbers

When I started out on Bubblews, I also started some spreadsheets in Numbers - that's the Apple spreadsheet product - and I've been reasonably religious in keeping them up to date.

I can make a steady $50 redemption each week, and my figures are just under $1.00 a post. I write more, I get paid more, I guess.

I also look at other writers.

I see a few making over ten dollars a day, and one making over twenty. There's probably a lot more, but I only keep figures for those who catch my eye. I'm somewhere in the middle.

Turning to my stats, I find that over my career I have roughly 15 000 views, 5 000 likes and 1 500 comments. That's reasonably standard. Each figure a third of the one above.

Given the amount of time I spend writing and connecting, I can see that there's a limit, and I'm not all that far from it. I can tweak my style a little, but realistically, Bubblews is not going to be a great earner for me.

However, I noticed a few regular posters whose views/likes ratio is more like ten than three. Athena and javaman74 stand out. Javaman74 averages 8 posts a day, $2.70 a post and $21.50 a day.

Not to be sneezed at. So where are all those pageviews coming from? They must be coming from outside the Bubblews community, and the way to get those is to load up on SEO. That's my educated guess.

SEO keywords, social media and similar. They look like good ways to leverage writing effort.

Any ideas?

--Peter

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Ole Blue Died

Yes my oven died today and services will be on Monday at 2 Pm please RSVP if you plan on attending the funeral for ole blue, she was a good and faithful oven and she has baked one to many cakes that were lopsided. but she was faithful better then any relationship.

Ole blue never talked back and never got in the way when we had company, she just sat there quietly waiting to make us happy with what she bakes next.

Ole blue is now sitting there and she looks so alone and it is so sad since my cake that was in her oven is still there cold and flat as ice.

Please no flowers, we ask that if you feel the need to make a donation to the oven club up above at.

Http:// ovenclubupandabove, no such dot com. (not a real website)

For all of us who had loyal and faithful ovens, please take a moment to bow your heads in remembrance of all that have left us and remember all of the sweets they gave us (even when we were on that diet).

Ole Blue I will never forget you (tear drop) blowing my nose.

The Importance Of Grammar in Article Writing

Article writing is a special talent which only a few people have and it requires a creative mind and passion for research to be successful with it. There is one more thing which is important for people who do article writing and that is grammar. A good article should not only offer interesting and useful information to readers but should also be easy to read and understand.

Grammar is vital when writing articles and you should try and ensure that your articles don't have any grammatical errors. It is not very difficult to write an article free of any grammar mistakes. English may not be your first language but you can still write good articles which are free of grammar errors. You should just have the passion to produce high quality articles for your readers and this will inspire you to write articles which are free of any grammar errors. If you think you make grammar mistakes with your articles you can read articles from other writers which can help you improve over time and produce high quality articles which don't have any grammar issues.

Hoildays for most banks and Govt Offices in the USA

With the holiday set for Monday I forgot the banks and post offices would be closed. So here is the list of most holidays.

Jan 1	New Year's Day	Wednesday
Jan 20	Martin Luther King Day	Monday
Feb 17	Presidents' Day	Monday
April 20	Easter	Sunday
May 26	Memorial Day	Monday
Jul 4	Independence Day	Friday
Sep 1	Labor Day	Monday

Oct 13	Columbus Day	Monday
Nov 11	Veterans' Day	Tuesday
Nov 27	Thanksgiving	Thursday
Dec 24	Christmas Eve (close early)	Wednesday
Dec 25	Christmas Day	Thursday
Dec 31	New Year's Eve (normal hours)	Wednesday

I have to bookmark this, I really think banks should always be opened on Monday and Fridays, however knowing regulations a bank cannot stay closed for more then two consecutive days. SO Sunday and Monday I guess does good for them.

Every job I ever had I have always been off either Monday and Friday and it would be just my luck I would need to do my banking on one of those days and the bank would be closed.

So do you normally work on these holidays? I have always worked on most of these holidays (actual holiday date) it is double time and there are not to many people that are out and about so why not work the day and get double time for it.

Our family does not celebrate holidays like this, every day is a holiday as long as you wake up alive and you have your family near you. Man Made Holidays are not real holidays to our family, being born and dying are the only to important holidays anyone has in their lifetime.

So make sure to mark this on your calender so you do not forget them.

Unfinished Unicorn Cake

For quite some time, since I started accepting orders from clients, I had been hoping for somebody to commission me to do a cake with unicorn on it. Last month I had a call and wanted me to do a unicorn cake. I readily accepted it as I was hoping to have a free reign to do a cake, based entirely on my design.

I wanted a whole unicorn made from cake and that the unicorn will be sparkly silver and there will be lots of rosettes dotted all over the ground and some on the unicorn with vines crawling everywhere and that there will be some butterflies or fairies on some parts of the unicorn. Unfortunately they had their own design in mind and their budget was limited. So I wasn't left with much choice. I followed their design of rainbow cake from the inside and out.

The unicorn cake was commissioned by the mother of a very sweet and nice little girl called Lilly. Though I was a bit worried because I haven't made an edible version of the unicorn and so it entered my mind to just buy a plastic one or a figurine. But Lilly was very insistent that she only want a unicorn made from chocolate. So I didn't have much choice.

It was a bit tricky to make the horse in between lifelike and fairytale like. Lilly wanted a rainbow coloured mane and tail which glitters. To achieve this effect, I lightly painted some parts of the mane and tail with edible gold paint and I lightly sprinkled edible glitters. The result was very nice. Unfortunately my photo doesn't do justice to how it is in reality.

I will be publishing a photo of the finished cake in my next article. I am trying to learn how to watermark all my cake photos.

Are We all from Bubblews?

It is funny, however are most of us coming from Bubblews?

I think that is cool, so we can make money both places and share other places also. Make sure to let us know somewhere your username at bubblews so we can see if your on our connections list.

http://www.bubblews.com/news/2330772-notification-just-arrived-from-bubblews

http://www.bubblews.com/news/2352389-saturday-long-day-and-it-is-only-834-pm-pst

I really enjoy reading all of your posts here and learning about other writing sites,
I also write over at allvoices.com not often but when I think of a local story, a friend posts there about 20 times a day and for the life of me I do not know how he comes up with this stories.lol

You can check it out if you wish
http://www.allvoices.com/users/thedarlingdiva

So what other places do you all write at that is accepting all types of writers?

I am really trying to branch out with all of my other articles, however right now sports and local news are what I write mostly about, unless I do a few Spoken Word Poems. Sports has been my thing for the last 6 years.

Benefits Of Cayenne

The red pepper or cayenne is a small perennial shrub that is a native of South America, or any other warm of the world. This plant has white flowers, then green, and then eventually red or yellow pods.

Cayenne can be taken in capsules, extract form, or powder by just sprinkling it over your food, just go with a light hand unless you can take the heat.

The benefits of taking cayenne are very effective for treating a cold, poor circulation, or a weak digestion. In some of the tropical climates cayenne when taken actually cools the body by promoting sweating.

The health benefits are many there are prescription creams and liniments that can treat be shingles, arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and even sore muscles. The reason it is so effective is that there is an active ingredient called “capsaicin” which effectively blocks the transmission of the pain impulse in the body.

The burning sensation that you may feel after ingesting cayenne is normal and won’t hurt you, and in fact cayenne can help heal an ulcer rather than aggravate it.

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