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The Difference between Alcoholics

March 9th, 2009

alcohol drinkerNeither having alcohol once in life time does not make someone alcoholic, nor leaving alcohol all of a sudden makes someone non-alcoholic.

There is a huge difference between an active alcoholic and a heavy drinker. A heavy drinker may face some problems to stop or even moderating their drinking levels, but they can manage to do so if they can convince their minds with some strong reasons. However, an active alcoholic rarely takes any ones advice or any self challenges to stop drinking.

Most active alcoholics continues to drink in an irregular pattern and either die premature due to alcohol related health problems or hit by family or friends related pressures and finally quit drinking. The later ones from either the active alcoholics or heavy drinkers are the fortunate ones who are able to quit drinking.

Real alcoholics are usually known as the master of justifiable excuses. These psychopaths fool nobody but the one in denial. This self denial is the common attribute of the character of many alcoholic and this is their major obstacle for the chances of recovery. These alcoholics might or might not have knowledge on the dangers of alcohol abuse, but it rarely does have any effect to influence the behavior of anyone obsessed with and seriously addicted with this poisonous mind altering beverage. Just like as nicotine addict continues to smoke cigarettes knowing it cause them lung cancer for sure, real alcoholics keep drinking they are going to die soon.

However, there are some alcoholics who quit drinking, but thy really are not non-alcoholics.
Like there are no success without a failure, for an alcoholic there is no recovery without deterioration. Such a lifestyle has to get to the drinker making them sick and tired of getting sick and tired by drinking alcohol. For the alcoholic, this can mean a lot of things depending in their physical and mental pain threshold. Some start drinking them to death after they have broke all ties with their friends and family members. Some start drinking if they have no money, no home, and no job or have no suitable life partner. In other words, peoples who are living their lives in complete misery and isolation form the healthy society end up bottling their days with alcohol. Eventually, these are drinkers who get to reach the peak of drinking and leave drinking due to betterment of conditions. May be one can get a job, or money, or get their relation back with their spouse or parents and suddenly quit drinking.

However, there are some peoples who manage to have a working relation with families or get a job or something, they just cannot stop drinking. They start to grow a fragile relation with their families due to these drinking habits but despite all, they just cannot stop drinking till death.

Even if they manage to get a job, they continue to drink. They do not have any functioning problems during the working hours and after work when they return home, they manage a bottle for themselves. These drinkers never manage to get out of alcohol ever in their lives.
The alcoholics who quit drinking eventually lead a much healthy life otherwise. They start taking all kinds of therapies to quit drinking and adopt all other healthy attitude like regular workouts and healthy food intake. They mentally change to a much positive thinking and eventually change their lives like nothing bad have ever happened in their lives.

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Climate Change And The Inuit

March 6th, 2009

igloo_outsideUnusual incidents are being reported across the Arctic. Inuit families going off on snowmobiles to prepare their summer hunting camps have found themselves cut off from home by a sea of mud, following early thaws. There are repots of igloos losing their insulating properties as the snow drips and freezes, of lakes draining into the sea as permafrost melts, and sea ice breaking up earlier than usual, carrying seals beyond the reach of hunters. Climate change may still be a rather abstract idea to most of us, but in the Arctic it is already having dramatic effects-if summertime ice continues to shrink at its present rate, the Arctic Ocean could soon become virtually ice-free in summer. The knock-on effects are likely to include more warming, cloudier skies, increased precipitation and higher sea levels. Scientists are increasingly keen to find out what’s going on because they consider the Arctic the ‘Canary in the Mine’ for global warming
- a warning of what’s in store for the rest of the world.

For the Inuit the problem is urgent. They live in precarious balance with one of the toughest environments on earth. Climate change, whatever it causes, is a direct threat to their way of life. Nobody knows the Arctic as well as locals, which is why they are not content simply to stand back and let outside experts tell them what is happening. In Canada, Where the Inuit people are jealously guarding their hard-won autonomy in the country’s newest territory, Nunavut, the believe their best hope of survival in this changing environment lies in combining their ancestral knowledge with the best of modern science. This is a challenge in itself.

The Canadian Arctic is a vast, treeless polar desert that is covered with snow for most of the year. Venture into this terrain and you get some idea of the hardships facing anyone who calls this home. Farming is out of the question and nature offers meager pickings. Humans first settled in the Arctic a mere 4500 years ago, surviving by exploiting sea mammals and fish. The environment tested them to the limits: sometimes the colonists were successful, sometimes they failed and vanished. But around a thousand years ago, one group emerged that was uniquely well adapted to cope with the Arctic environment. These Thule people moved in from Alaska, bringing kayaks, sleds, dogs, pottery and iron tools. They are the ancestors of today’s Inuit People.

These people are unique in their thought. They can turn down applications from scientists they believe will work against their interest, or research projects that will impinge too much on their daily lives and traditional activities.Some scientists doubt the value of traditional knowledge because the occupation of the Arctic doesn’t go back far enough. Others however point out that the first weather stations in the far north date back just 50 years. There are still huge gaps in our environmental knowledge, and despite scientific onslaught, many predictions are no more than best guesses. Traditional knowledge could help to bridge the gap and resolve the tremendous uncertainty about how much of what we are seeing is natural capriciousness and how much is the consequence of human activity.

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For Blind Internet Users

March 3rd, 2009

computer-virus8:57:22 – intrusion prevention monitoring 356 signatures
8:57:23 – intrusion prevention monitoring 356 signatures
10:29:48 – unauthorized access logged and stopped – 17 times
10:29:49 – unauthorized access logged and stopped – 19 times

This is today’s log of the ‘activity logs’ on your Norton Anti-Virus system software. This is just a simple example. Don’t shrivel your eyes. You do not believe me. But it’s true.  Lots of hackers, gremlins and cyber-mosquitoes, cyber-worms are trying to land inside your computer always; even every second of every minute.

Suppose you are driving on a highway blindfolded and backwards at speed of 100 miles per hour. What will happen? You know better than me! Within a few moments you will crash, no way. Like this when you are not using Norton Anti-Virus, McAfee and other protective software your PC can be crashed anytime. That’s why this software is so important to your computer as well as for its operating system.

Now, if your PC is not lucky enough to get the service of Norton or any other anti virus software (due to you block-headed people!), I would rather suggest you to shut down the PC at once and run, don’t walk, to wherever the CDs are sold. CD is recommended by me because if you again need to reload it (due to computer system upgrades, etc. etc.); this is much cheaper easier and than trying to download off the Symantec website on payment. Always remember that it is the computer insurance and the driving cost of keeping your computer online. Perhaps you may be going to be arrested for driving without insurance and putting everyone at the risk of a fatal virus or worm, who are in your address book, if you go without this important thing. Usually Norton updates daily for a year but I recommend for doing this every day manually.

You need other two items. These are firewall and spy ware zapper. Two common firewalls which you can buy are Zone Alarm and Norton. The alerts on these logs will make you amazed. You should turn off the log alerts, otherwise every few seconds the marked window will pop up and annoy you featuring the heck out of. You will be comforted to know that it is working without showing anything that, its working.

Spy ware zappers come with the Norton Security CD, although you can buy it. But Ad-Aware is one of the best, and it is highly recommended by Microsoft.  Its advantage is you can download this from Lava soft for free. spam email including excruciating elongated text forwarded jokes and e-cards, business opportunity of which I do not read and they are a total nuisance; Spy ware has a evil since of  launching stuff inside your computer that causes people to  see what you’re doing, and sometimes someone can infiltrate in your files. Lava soft zaps much of the spy ware.

Anti-virus software should be the number one at your priority list. One of these three should be your first choice. Firewall would be your second priority, and Ad Aware the third –. With the affect of these three things, you can save yourself from a big scary world of cyberspace easily and can go with your business free.

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