Michael Mulcahy
I am a ICT Teacher and Lecturer In Economics And Social Science
Alcoholism: Yes, I Really Am An Alcoholic. This is a progressive disease. It is an obsession of the mind and a craving of the body and it only gets worse and never better. What do I mean when I say it is progressive? The disease of alcoholism continues to grow inside the body and mind of an alcoholic whether that person is drinking or not. An alcoholic could stop drinking for twenty years and if they suddenly began again it would be as if they had never stopped because the disease was doing pushups and preparing for that relapse so it could once again kick the ass of that alcoholic. I know this for a fact because I had to find out the hard way as I often have to do. I was sober from 1992-2002 and then relapsed and within three days I was no longer a functioning human being. My story is not unique! I, on the other hand, share for three reasons. Yes, I am that wino you see on the street corner, and I have no intention of ever returning to my own personal street corner again.
To Comment Or Not To Comment That Is The Question! Why Do We Do It? Page views mean that x amount of people have seen your hub. That means they have been exposed to y number of advertisements. This determines a portion of your earnings. In the short run the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Day hub, blew Sheridan's Pasta out of the water in terms of page views. But and it is a big but, the time of year had a lot to do with this result too. The daily and 7 day data, tells a much truer story. The sources of traffic also shows that the Shrove Tuesday hub was getting many more hits from Google and other search engines. The above data then, is skewed, because it is topical. The Sheridan's pasta hub had 211 views, with 122 views, coming from hubpages. This would be a wrong conclusion. This hub can be Updated? The hub can obviously be added to. If that new information, has some of the keywords from the hub, then the 'Bot' will nudge it higher in the search rankings. 'Really loved Sheridan's Pasta recipe.
Poohgranma on HubPages. Halloween From Origins To Costume Hire. The carving of scary jack o' lanterns relates to recreating the image of the dead. In Ireland they use Turnips and in America they used Pumpkins. The garish carvings may have been the result of people opening tombs and seeing the effects of death and decay on the faces of their relations. This would make a very scary bogeyman. Today these Halloween lanterns are created to scare away unwanted souls that are walking the earth but probably have the same effect on children.
Candy Festival? The wearing of costumes and trick or treating (the giving of candy) was a candy marketing scheme which had been adopted by many countries in recent years. It is doubtful that many people let their children ask strangers for candy these days. People today love to dress up in bogeyman outfits and costumes and the Halloween festival has stretched throughout the year. It's was never supposed to be scary. In the UK now and in many other countries Halloween is still a full on candy fest! Public libraries. Local Library I remember being a small child and being taken to our local library by my parents; it was not an experience that I enjoyed. Don't get me wrong, I loved books and would stare in wonderment at the huge choice of books displayed on the racks. The thought of being able to choose some books to borrow filled me with excitement as I spent forever selecting just the right books that would take me on adventures; taking me to fantasy worlds where I could meet fairies and princesses.
There was a downside though, the library was an old Victorian, imposing building and inside had wooden panels on every wall, uncomfortable chairs. I remember the librarian who frowned upon any kind of noise, often putting her fingers to her lips, telling me to be quiet if I had forgotten the "Silence Rule! " Visiting the library Thankfully today, the local libraries have been brought up to date with the 21st century.
Library closures Altogether in the UK there are just under 5,000 libraries. The future. Writers Singers Poets Artists We Need You Now. Molometer on HubPages. Webanswers. How Do I Get Paid Real Money Writing New Answers And Answering Questions. It pays to be a little selective in what you answer. Consider a few other things before wasting your time on a question. This is my opinion, you can of course answer whatever questions you like. If you want to know, how to get paid then follow these simple rules. These answers are being created and are used by search engines, so misspelled or poor grammar will not be used, It is fair to assume.
Search engines will often correct someones spelling when they are searching. So spelling correctly is very important. (1) Don't answer questions that are misspelled. (2) Some questions may be years old, you can still answer them and earn from these. (3) Don't answer questions with poor grammar. . (4) Look out for web bot questions. Sometimes the system generates it's own questions. These are usually on a theme i.e. variations on how to get pregnant and what to do if you are and don't want to be (phew!) (5) Don't answer questions that are ambiguous. Torrent of Money coming Your Way? P.S. Money Makers Earn Money Online The Barest Facts Not Fiction It's A Great Big Hub World. Your content is vitally important. All of these techniques are helpful, in improving your chances of being at least seen. Once you have a reader visiting your work, it has to be worth their while to stick around and read it. Your content then, is what will really make your hubs or web pages successful.
As it engages the reader. We all make errors from time to time but try to avoid as many as possible. Typos etc. Google analytics can help you identify your bounce rate. i.e. how long visitors stay on your website. This is also monitored by Google, so if someone comes to your site and immediately leaves and keeps searching. Check your hubpages stats to see how long people are reading your hubs. A word of caution on bounce rates.
You may still get the page view, but it hasn't satisfied the visitors search. Backlinking The blue links on this page can weaken or strengthen your hub or websites presence on the web. Though not as important as they used to be. Google loves Sharing. Housing Market Crash UK Is The End Of The Road In Sight Or The Edge Of The Cliff? House Price Data Updated 12th April. I don't want you to run away scared because of the subject discussed here but to listen for a couple of minutes. It might save you a lot of pain and definitely a lot of money. I will be quite candid and state the facts as I have interpreted them over the last 30 odd years. I am a teacher of ICT and economics and have lectured occasionally on Economics since 1989' I have seen UK house prices rise and fall over the last 30 years.
They do go up and down and people have short memories. Thankfully I managed to avoid the downswings on the housing market roller coaster during this 30 year period, by taking my own advice and ignoring what the mass media is/was pushing. So how did we get to this state of affairs, why are we still in them and what's the solution? The simple facts are:- (1) Your house and other peoples houses, are and have been overpriced. . (2) People are in denial that their house is worth a fraction of what they paid for it. That's it. Exactly now you're getting it. The British Weather Is So Changeable It Has Become A National Obsession. Now I can see the sense of not spending huge amounts of money on snow clearing equipment that is going to be used at best, for just a couple of days in the year. Financially and from a business perspective this is a very wasteful use of resources? So we don't and every year we have the same results.
Chaos! When someone somewhere finally sits down and adds up how much money has been lost due to people not being able to get to work, or the number of flights cancelled daily. Not to mention the loss of life and the cost to insurers (and us) for smashed up vehicles. There is a saying here. Our location on the planet, means that we are in a quite unique position to get our weather from several different directions all at once. We get the biting Northern Siberian Wind from the Arctic Circle that flies across the flat fenland of East Anglia and freezes everything in it's path. The warm sea and air from the equator is delivered to our shores courtesy of the North Atlantic Drift conveyor current.
St Ives Huntingdon Cambridgeshire Visit An Old Medieval Inn On An Ancient Quayside. Medieval and beyond In fact, the architectural evidence suggests, that it was a major centre for tourism for Europeans. To be able to travel by boat from any port in Europe, 60 miles inland of the UK; would have conferred many advantages, in the days of horse drawn transport. This medieval town was once a bustling cosmopolitan centre. You may have heard of the riddle of St.Ives. It is no surprise that the people in the riddle were all walking. A horse would have been too expensive for the general public at this time. Seven Wives Rhyme. The most common modern version is: 'As I was going to St IvesI met a man with seven wivesEvery wife had seven sacksEvery sack had seven catsEvery cat had seven kitsKits, cats, sacks, wivesHow many were going to St Ives?
' The Answer To The Riddle Is On This Hub. Source The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 376-7. Approaching from the River Ouse When approaching St Ives from the river. We're up to 9. Map Data Map. Farting Is Back With A Bang. In History The Royals And Top Celebrities Fart. So Wherever You Go, Let One Go! Farting Definition Farting performs an important function in the body, as it allows the release of trapped gases, that are created by the decomposition of food and drink in the stomach.
If it were not for this bodily function; we would be full of gas. Not a pleasant thought. Smelly farts can come about based on what we eat. The more decomposition the more gas or flatus. Onions for example. The only other way out would be via the mouth. Paula lets rip on X Factor. The smell occurs, due to a mixture of gases, including. Methane,(flammable) Hydrogen, Hydrogen Sulphide (rotten egg fart smell) Carbon Dioxide, Nitrogen and Oxygen. The methane can be ignited, (pyroflatulence) producing a blue flame. Gas Finance Getting Methane out of the ground is an expensive business. We could probably be self sufficient in gas, for cooking and heating. Alternative Urban Mining There are easier Methane deposits that we do use, it is trapped in the old landfill sites, all over the country. 'This Site Has Insecure Content!?' Google Chrome A Step By Step Guide How To Fix This Page Error Message!
The Google Chrome Browser Chrome is written in Hypertext Mark-up Language 5 (HTML 5) and comes with an editor, the Java console. Launch the Java console by right mouse clicking on the screen. I removed all links that were highlighted as errors. Once they were all gone, I launched the web page. Still the same warning 'This Site Has Insecure Content' what the heck is going on?
There were no hyperlinks on the page. Then I noticed those adverts that we see so often, they blend in and become part of the background scenery, virtually invisible. The Google Ads Capsules I removed every Google advert from the page and launched the web page again. It loaded and there was that warning again 'This Site Has Insecure Content', but as the page refreshed.
The little green SSL security padlock appeared letting me know that... Chrome Reloaded I loaded one advert capsule and then tested it. I continued to load adverts and then some hyperlinks, to my other websites and it remained stable. The Gadgets Conclusion. How To Improve And Increase Your Reading Speed And Comprehension. Strategies. Reading can fire your imagination Why is the book always better than the movie. Our imaginations fills in the blanks with visuals that can rarely be matched by a movie. The fact is, that when we are reading there is an awful lot going on, that you may not be fully conscious of. The images on the side. This happens to everyone at some stage. It is perfectly normal. How many times have you watched a movie and said. So how do you reduce these departures or ‘time outs’, when you are reading. We need to know how our eyes work with our brains. Our instinctual default view of the world, is to gather as much information about the world; as quickly as possible.
It is only after we have perceived a ‘no-threat’ environment, that our developed rational and logical functions come into play. The real problem Is What has this to do with basic reading. When you pick up a book on any reading material your eyes flit around and scan the page from top to bottom right to left, left to right and diagonally.
Map Data. Brandwashed Why You Really Bought That Particular Product? All this leads us to the concept of branding, and making us aware, of the 'best' brand that is going to satisfy our needs and wants. They have you in the store and they want you to buy something. This is where all that finance being pumped into advertising and marketing and branding a particular brand, comes into play and starts to pay off. Why do we pick up one tin of beans, instead of another? We have been raised in an environment, where we are literally bombarded with product information, marketing, advertising and branding. Older generations were also subjected to marketing, if less powerfully, and their choices of foodstuffs, that they made for their children, may influence our adult choices of food.
An astonishing 93% of 3 year old's, could recognise the difference between McDonald's & Burger King branding. Source Controlling the power of advertising is important Marketeers want to solve four basic problems. Why Are Women Still Paid Less Than Men What Has Happened To Equal Rights For Women? In Economic terms. Women have always been seen as:- A Reserve Army of Labour. Available to work, if the need arises. This aspect of the role of women in the workforce, is most noticeable in wartime. During the second world war, there was a shortage of labour. The propaganda was such, that many women felt guilty, if they did not contribute by working in the following industries.
Farming, Mining, Ship building, Weapons factories (Guns,Tanks, Bullets & Bomb making) House building, Plumbing, Electricians,Carpenters. When the war came to an end. The government realizing that there was not enough work to go around for the returning soldiers, then began producing reverse propaganda, aimed at women who were working. They were not 'feminine' if they were not at home, to cook for their husband. Their children were running wild, because 'they' were being selfish 'by working'? They were loose and out of control. They were second class citizens, only useful for housekeeping and child-rearing duties. Waterford Donegal Cut Glass Crystal Bowl. Made In Poland?
Factory Closed 2009 The end game for the Waterford factory has more twists and turns than a fiddlers elbow. To go into the full shenanigans, take my word for it, would make your head spin. Suffice it to say that the Waterford glass workers gradually lost ground to the changing ideas of the owners (WWRD Holdings Ltd) The global Financial the economic tidal wave, that was destroying the buying power of the US dollar; which accounted for almost 50% of sales. It was argued was the real culprit. Added to the fact that tastes were changing and, there are only so many high end customers (Waterford crystal is not cheap) Eventually all of these factors lead to the closure of the plant and manufacturing being transferred to?... The workers did not take this lying down and fought a terrific rear guard action and managed to get a compensation package totaling 10 million Euro's.
For Waterford Glass it was a way out. Bacik opened the company that we know today in 1947. But here's the thing. Map Data Map. How To Get Fit And Lose Weight In Just 12 Minutes A Month! It Really Is Possible. Are You A Night Owl? Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome. (DSPS) Reversed Sleep Patterns? Snoring Help! Suffering With A Snoring Husband Or Spouse. Wondering If It Is Ok To Wake Up Someone Snoring? Papworth Hospital Sleep Clinic Linda's Story. The Side Effects In The Treatment Of Central Serous Chorioretinopathy. #Debt #Crisis Update (#DebtCrisis) The Realtor Lawyer Daily. Photography The Art Of Michael Patrick Mulcahy. Molometer.
Getting started. The Highest-Paid Hubbers Make $650 to $3,800 per Month: Learning from their Stats - Part 2, Conclusions. Can I Make a Living with Just My Cellphone? Are You A Night Owl? Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome. (DSPS) Reversed Sleep Patterns? Updated 9th March 2012.