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Google Chrome has several versions of their browser which includes the stable version, beta version and development version. However, users can only run one instance of them at any given time. Google does provide another cutting-edge version called the Canary build. The Canary build is a nightly build and contains untested code and features which will be introduced in other version of Chrome at a later stage.
I prefer to use Google Canary builds because they usually contain cutting edge technologies and newer features which are not yet available in other versions and gives me a chance to test them out. However, the one thing I have had a problem with the Canary version is that Google does not allow you to set it as the default browser.
The explanation they give for it is that it is a secondary installation of Chrome and cannot be set as the default browser. Well, that is a problem for me because some times the dev version (which I also used) was buggier than the Canary version and was not updated as frequently to address the reported bugs.
So I decided to find a way to set the Google Chrome Canary version as default and found a neat registry hack at this forum. All you have to do is download a simple registry file listed in the forum post and edit it to replace your username in the Registry.reg file. Once you have done that just double click and click on the "Yes" button when prompted to add the entries to your registry.
After you have inserted the registry entry, Chrome Canary will be set as your default browser. If you are looking to reverse that, just head to control panel and change the default application or use your browsers' preference to set it back as the default browser. The forum in question requires you to register before you download the file as an alternative, you can download the file directly from here.
For Mac users all you need to do is run Safari and then head to preferences and change the "Default web browser" to Canary from the dropdown menu. You can visit this site to find visual instructions for doing that.


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Brandon Snyder's three-run homer in the sixth helped the Rangers blow open last night's 11-run win against the Orioles. Adam Jones had no chance to keep the ball in the park, but he certainly tried his best. The wall at Camden Yards, however, had much less appreciation for his effort.
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Bonn, Germany: Delegates from five continents will congregate in Bonn this month to prepare the ground for a world coalition of voluntary organizations.
The 'Sharing Global Voices' conference, to be held in Langer Eugen from 21-22 February, leads up to other major events this year for governments and civil society. In particular, the United Nations Department of Public Information's annual NGO global conference is set to come to Bonn in September.
The year 2011 marks both the European Year of Volunteers and the tenth anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers. Both campaigns aim to promote and recognize the value of volunteering, and support voluntary organizations in their work.
The International Year of Volunteers +10 campaign involves organizations such as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the World Organization of the Scout Movement (Germany's Pathfinders). The Bonn-based United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme acts as the focal point for the campaign.
A key aim is to activate national bodies and coordinating committees across the world to speak out for volunteers and the difference they make to society. At the 'Sharing Global Voices' meet, representatives of such bodies from Australia, Brazil, Jordan, Nepal, Senegal, Turkey and several other countries will for the first time have the chance to meet their European Union partners from Belgium, Poland, Sweden and elsewhere.
The overall campaign will culminate on 5 December with a United Nations General Assembly session on the volunteer sector, and the launch of the first State of the World's Volunteerism Report. This will outline the significance of volunteering not only for economic development but also for areas such as sustainable livelihoods, social inclusion, disaster risk reduction, governance and political participation.
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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (Thursday, May 1, 2014) – The Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer and Ciao Telecom (www.ciaotelecom.com) have signed a sponsorship agreement that will feature the global telecommunications company's logo on the Rapids uniforms through 2018. The Rapids will debut jerseys featuring Ciao in Saturday's match against the LA Galaxy, which kicks off at 7 p.m. MT at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City.
"Partnering with a global company like Ciao is a massive step forward for our entire organization, one that will be felt by everyone connected to the Rapids, as well as soccer fans throughout the country," said Tim Hinchey, President of the Colorado Rapids. "Ciao has a broad range of services that we can help them introduce in America, and we're excited for a long and successful relationship. This truly is a historic moment for our club."
"This is an incredibly important partnership for Ciao, and we're honored to become a part of the Rapids and Kroenke Sports family," said Don Pinkston, President of Ciao North America. "The Rapids are a successful, fast-growing club with local and national relevance and we could not think of a better company and platform to align with as we launch our company in the U.S. As we develop our product line, especially relating to the fan experience at sports venues, the chance to work closely with Kroenke Sports & Entertainment is a phenomenal opportunity."
"All of us at KSE are so very excited to welcome Ciao into our family of sponsors," said Tom Philand, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Kroenke Sports & Entertainment. "This is a momentous day for the Rapids, and to have an international company such as Ciao come on board and become our very first shirt sponsor speaks to the continued growth and relevance of this franchise. We are proud to be associated with Ciao and we look forward to being such a vital part of their launch strategy within the United States."
Ciao, partnered with Phoenix-based Global Logistics Solutions LLC, offers products including mobile devices, service plans, IT consulting, internet security, and more, with a goal of creating products and services that enhance the fan experience at sports facilities. Through the partnership with the Rapids, Ciao further aligns with soccer on a global scale, and will increase its presence in the United States through MLS and Kroenke Sports & Entertainment.
The agreement is the first ever front-of-jersey sponsorship for the Colorado Rapids, with the Ciao logo to be featured on the club's primary and alternate match jerseys, training and travel gear, as well as in stadium at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. The agreement was brokered by Denver-based Impression Sports & Entertainment (www.impressionsports.com). Financial terms of the sponsorship deal were not disclosed.
The Rapids match against the LA Galaxy kicks off at 7 p.m. MT on Saturday at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, with tickets still available by calling 303-825-GOAL or visiting www.ColoradoRapids.com. Altitude TV will have a live broadcast of the game, with a 30-minute pregame show featuring an interview from Richard Fleming with Hinchey and Pinkston about the new partnership.
About Ciao Telecom
Ciao Telecom, Inc., a technology company with telecommunications roots, was founded in the Silicon Valley in 2011 by Eugenio and Victor Santos together with Francesco Ricciulli. Ciao's mission is to provoke and lead a global disruption of the current static telecom industry to a dynamic model that provides technology solutions for the coming convergence of communications and computing. As a technology company, Ciao wants to innovate the immovable telecom sector. Ciao Telecom operates three business units: Ciao Telecom (Ciao is an NGN global telecom carrier), Ciao Technology (enterprise SaaS, ERP and consulting services), and CiaoZicom (security solutions through a joint-venture with Zicom, the Indian security solutions giant. Headquartered in Dallas, Tex., Ciao also has offices in São Paulo, Brazil, London, Dubai, and Milan, Italy. For more information on the company, please visit www.ciaotelecom.com.
About the Colorado Rapids
Established on October 17, 1995, the Colorado Rapids have achieved success both on and off the field, including the team's first MLS Cup championship in 2010. A leader in the community, the Rapids participate in many initiatives and causes, raising tens of thousands of dollars annually for Kroenke Sports Charities. The extensive Colorado Rapids Youth Soccer Club also provides opportunities for children to develop as players and people in a challenging, supportive, and safe environment. Based at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, the Rapids are a part of Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, owned and governed by E. Stanley Kroenke. More information on the team is available at www.ColoradoRapids.com.


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As you may be aware, the 2012 SMB Influencer program is in full swing for its second year running. Similar to last year, we have the privilege of sponsoring the initiative and working with Anita Campbell and Ramon Ray to remain active in the small and medium business community. The nomination and voting period for the top 100 SMB influencers of 2012 is now over (and the winners have been announced!), but the real fun is about to begin with the awards gala being held in New York City on October 17th.
The event serves to honor the SMB champions for their contributions to the community, but also represents a fantastic networking opportunity. This year it's being held in the Javits Center (Hall 1A) from 5:30pm to 9pm. Check out the details below and grab your ticket today:
October 17, 2012 at 5:30pm
Javits Center, Hall 1A, New York City
Our own Bryan Lee, Sr. Director in our B2B & IT channel sales group at Research In Motion® (RIM®), will be helping with the awards and discussing mobility in business at the gala. I'll be there too to capture all of the action, so stay tuned on the Inside BlackBerry® for Business Blog to see a recap after the event!
BlackBerry Solutions for Small Businesses
The SMB community holds so much enthusiasm and energy, and we love to be involved to help mobilize workers and keep business owners completely connected wherever they may be. It can be challenging to keep track of all of the details and to manage and unify mobile devices within a small organization. We've got a few great tools that can help:
BlackBerry smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets
When it comes to the device in your hand, it's important that you have access to information, contacts, email, BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™), and a ton of fantastic business apps that can help keep you on top of your work and available to colleagues and customers. When your smartphone works together with your BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet, BlackBerry devices become the ultimate productivity and communications tool at work and at home.
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express
There comes a point in time during the growth of a business where it's important to begin unifying and managing the mobile devices being used for work. For businesses using BlackBerry® 5, BlackBerry® 6, and BlackBerry® 7 OS smartphones, BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express is a fantastic (and free) option for connecting devices to your mail server, utilizing security controls, remotely protecting devices, and much more.
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Many small businesses use a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) strategy to help cut costs. When you have a mix of BlackBerry, iOS, and Android™ devices at work in your business, managing all of them doesn't need to be a challenge. BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion allows you to extend to these smartphones and tablets the security and management capabilities that RIM has offered for years. Deploying BlackBerry Mobile Fusion is also a step towards the upcoming BlackBerry® Enterprise Service 10, which will provide a complete and unified solution for enterprise mobility management. Find more BlackBerry solutions for SMBs here.
See you in New York!
Check out the wrap up of last year's event to learn more. Register at www.smbinfluencer.com for this year's event, and we'll see you on the 17th.
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I removed the "Latest Adobe News" (formerly MXNA, pilule Macromedia XML News Aggreator) feed from my own RSS feed today, which felt a little anticlimactic, considering how glued I used to be to the pulse of all things Flash/ActionScript. For the past several months, however, I have to admit I've barely glanced at it.
Who would have thought a few years ago that PHP, JavaScript and Objective-C would be my tools of choice eventually?
Thanks to the efforts of Laravel (PHP), JQuery/Angular/Node (Javascript) and Cocos2D/Cocoa (Objective-C) communities, those old-school technologies have truly become exciting over the past few years. Thanks to Adobe, however, Flash/Flex/ActionScript has become… I guess, limited at best.
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Returning to the gym after a post-London break, two-time Venezuelan Olympian Jessica López told IG she plans to take it "one year at a time" as the Olympic focus heads to South America and the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.
López was a standout gymnast at the University of Denver, reaching the apparatus finals at the NCAA national championships in both 2007 and 2009. After graduating in 2009, she has remained in Colorado and continues to train with former Denver assistant coach Nilson Medeiros Savage, a native of Brazil.
López has been one of the most frequent competitors on the international scene since her Olympic debut in Beijing, where she finished 43rd in qualification. Her many international medals include golds on uneven bars and balance beam at the 2010 Porto World Cup, and the gold on uneven bars at the 2011 Moscow World Cup. At the 2010 Worlds in Rotterdam, she made history for Venezuela with her 10th-place in the all-around final.
A strong all-arounder, the Caracas native has dominated continental and regional events as well, winning the all-around and three events titles at the 2010 South American Games in Medellín, Colombia. She also won the all-around and uneven bars titles at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
An untimely injury at the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo knocked López out of the 2011 Pan American Games, held shortly after worlds in October. Subsequent injuries nearly cost López the chance to qualify for a second Olympic Games, but she persevered and advanced to London, where she finished 18th in the all-around final.
A fan favorite, gymnastics' own "J Lo" is particularly known for her fluid movement, dynamic variety on uneven bars and an impeccable triple twist on floor exercise.
Her acrobatics also earned her a spot on ESPN's "Sport Science," which broke down the physics of her 2 1/2 twist on floor and Jaeger on bars as part of its 2012 Olympic coverage.
López, who turns 27 in January, recently traveled to Oklahoma to work with visiting choreographer Adriana Pop. After working with Pop on a new floor routine, López sat down with IG to chat about the Olympic year, her role as a Venezuelan role model and her future plans in gymnastics.
IG: What was your impression of the Olympics in London?
JL: I think it was amazing to see all the competitors out there. It was a very strong Olympics especially when you saw the all-around finals and event finals. I was very happy to be there and I think I did a pretty good job overall. It was very impressive to see everyone out there competing.
IG: What was the proudest moment for you in London?
JL: I think for me it was just getting there, because I went through so much the past year with injuries and everything. Just making it to the Olympics and being there and finally putting a good performance all together because the whole year was up and down. And finishing with the strong vault that I did — a double-full Yurchenko that was like the best vault I've done in my career — I think it was just amazing.
IG: Tell us about the injuries you went through before London.
JL: At the world championships in Tokyo, during the all-around finals, my last event was bars and I did the layout Jaeger and I fell. When I fell I injured my elbow and then I kept going, but I think I ended up falling like three mores times [laughs] because my elbow was bothering me. Then after that I couldn't go to the Pan American Games and for a month I couldn't do bars or anything much because of my injury.
Four weeks prior to the test event I had a third-degree sprain on my ankle, so we weren't sure whether or not I was going to make it to the test event. But I pushed through and even though I had to water down all my routines just to make it through, I did and I qualified for the Olympics.
But because I had to push through, I ended up getting a hairline fracture in my ankle so I ended up dealing with that for a long time. By that time it was February and I didn't have time to take off so much because we had to get ready for the Olympics. I was finally getting better and then I kind of tweaked my ankle again in May. Then I had to go back and slow down a little and finally I was healthy enough to put on a good show in London!
IG: What have you been doing since London?
JL: After London I took a month completely off gym, though I've been doing physical therapy and other treatments for my ankle and also my Achilles because I also have a small injury in my Achilles, chronic tendonitis. So we're trying to recover from all those injuries and get back into gymnastics shape.
IG: You're always very fit — is this natural for you? Were you blessed with good genes or do you have to work out a lot to stay so trim?
JL: Both. After London I took a month off but obviously you didn't see a change in my size because this size is natural for me, but at the same time when I get back into training it's different. I felt completely different, so of course I have to take care of it every day and I have to eat healthy and do the conditioning that everyone has to do to be fit.
IG: Do you feel pressure as the top female gymnast for Venezuela, to always have the best possible showing for your country?
JL: Not really. I do it for myself. It's pressure when it's competition time because you want to put the name of the country big and I want to represent my country the best I can at the same time. It's not like pressure but it is a responsibility to be the best.
IG: Do you receive a salary or stipend from the Venezuelan government, to help with training and travel expenses?
JL: They help me with everything they can, especially with the living costs because it can get very expensive here. So the government helps me with everything they can. The federation and the government divide the cost for competitions.
IG: How often do you go home to Venezuela? What does your family do?
JL: I get to visit about two to three times per year. I have three older sisters. One of them is an oil engineer and now she's in the states learning the language. The other one is a computer engineer and works in Venezuela. The other one has two degrees but because of her husband's job, they live in Curaçao.
My father is retired and mom is a baker. She makes all kind of cakes for weddings and things like that.
IG: Do you have a favorite cake that your mom makes?
JL: When I go home, she'll just make me a plain cake because I like it when it's fresh from the oven. After that I won't eat any more but when it's fresh from the oven, it's so good!
IG: Do you get a lot of recognition from young Venezuelan gymnasts who look up to you?
JL: Sometimes they write me on Facebook, and their parents write me too. It's really nice.
IG: What is your plan right now? Are you thinking at all about the 2016 Olympics in Rio?
JL: Four more years is a long time from now so I'm going to do one year at a time and see how my body reacts and responds to training.
IG: Do you have a little extra motivation to compete in 2016, in the first Olympics in South America?
JL: It is exciting, especially also for my coach, who is Brazilian. I think that would mean a lot to him to get over there. But it's four years from now so I keep that in the back of my mind. Definitely that would be so special to be there and represent my country.
IG: Prior to your injuries, you competed so often, all over the globe. Do you just love to compete?
JL: At the beginning of the Olympic cycle, the first few years we competed a lot. After the Olympics in 2008 when I was competing, nobody really knew me. It's a big deal putting your name out there to be exposed to the judges so they can see who you are and your routines and everything. So that was the plan for me to get experience because I didn't have that much international experience, so we wanted for me to get the feeling of competing internationally.
IG: Some people felt your bars routine in Tokyo deserved to be in the finals, but it seemed very harshly scored. Do you think you are scored fairly?
JL: No, especially in Tokyo. When you see my bar routine and my floor routine I think they were underscored a lot. In that competition in particular, when you compare my scores with other scores especially the execution score it's so low. I want to know all the deductions. I was talking to some judges and some of them can't find more than like 1.3, 1.5 points in deductions, but the judging panel took like 2.3 off and I don't know where they took off so much.
IG: Would you like to be a coach or a judge in the future?
JL: I would like to become a judge. I'm just getting ready to take the test for the Level 9s just to get a feeling and see how it is. Definitely judging is something I have in my mind.
I am coaching two times a week. I like it. With the little kids you have to repeat everything over and over. They are so fun to coach. They are learning and you get that satisfaction that you are teaching them not only gymnastics but in general.
IG: What is it like working with Adriana Pop?
JL: I like her. She's so spontaneous. She's so good at making the routines, she can make like 10 different routines from one piece of music. She works your style - she has her own style but she works it out so it's your routine so you can own it. She's so amazing to work with and so much fun.
IG: Of all the places you've been, where is your favorite?
JL: I think London! I had so many good experiences over there. I had a great time this Olympics. Maybe the all-around finals didn't go the way I wanted to but I was happy. There are no regrets for me. I think I did the best I could under all the circumstances I had throughout the whole year. I was very happy with how I got there and how I finished up. I think that was big for me to finish up with a strong performance on vault.
IG: Do you know when your next competition will be, and when we'll see your new floor routine in action?
JL: No, I have no idea [laughs].
IG: Thank you and good luck!
JL: Thank you!
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Volunteers must be at least 21 years of age and in good health. We accept couples only if they are married.
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A North Texas preacher and his wife's effort to get couples to be more intimate, in a godly way, has hit the roof – literally.
Pastor Ed Young and Lisa Young started a 24-hour "bed-in" on Friday, braving cold temperatures on a bed atop Young's Fellowship Church in Grapevine.
Fully clothed to stay warm, the Youngs are promoting their book Sexperiment, where they encourage Christian couples to be more intimate.
The Youngs are known for their frank talk about sex. They recently appeared on CNN, once again urging church members to have sex with their spouses every day for a week.
Dallas' WFAA paid a visit to the couple, who kept things PG. The "bed-in" was streamed live on the church's website.


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Industry Customer Engagement Forum (ICEF) with MOD Defence Digital
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Skype for Business - Industry Federation
This project is intended to provide increase the exploitation of Skype for Business functionality for virtual meetings, instant messaging and presence across Team Defence within the constraints of security and legal compliance to provide benefits from early implementations and set out a framework to simplify future implementations. more
DSN(T) - Defence Support Network (Transformation) Programme
The Defence Support Network (Transformation) (DSN(T)) concept phase has concluded and, following submission and approval of a Main Gate Business Case, the programme has entered its delivery phase that is expected to run until March 2020, although the transformation of the DSN will extend beyond this period. It is recognised that Industry is a key DSN(T) stakeholder, as a significant proportion of the spend on Defence support relates to outsourced activities. Accordingly, as part of the delivery phase, there will be an Industry Enablers work stream, within which a number of potential industry innovation projects have been identified more
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IdAM Services, procedures and governance framework - JIG Project
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Mobile Services Study - JIG Project
The requirement for this project was identified by the Defence & Industry Support Chain Optimisation Group (DISCOG) as a result of projects seeking to exploit mobile technology. It is intended to ensure coherence and compliance by reviewing and enhancing (where appropriate) policy, standards and specifications for Mobile Technology to provide a platform on which applications can be rapidly deployed. more
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The awesome folks at Fat Quarterly invited me to participate in their latest Designer's Challenge. Each designer was given one of these very cool Canvas Samplers by Basic Grey and some of their buttons, and then we could embellish it however we wanted. Hop on over to Fat Quarterly to find out how I designed my canvas and see my finished project.
Thank you Fat Quarterly and Basic Grey for inviting me to participate. I had a great time and I love how my canvas turned out!


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Some teachers in Baltimore City may have to switch schools before the end of the year.
WBAL-TV 11 News Education Alert reporter Tim Tooten said the number of teachers who must move will depend upon the number of students who end up on school rolls.
Final enrollment numbers will help principals staff their schools, and the numbers will also give school officials a better idea of how much state money they will have for students next year.
In Baltimore City, top school officials continue to comb through this year's enrollment numbers, looking to determine whether the district has schools with too many students, which means bringing in extra teachers from buildings where the numbers are low.
The Baltimore Teachers Union said it will not be easy for students even though the shift is necessary.
"This is very challenging and very disruptive when you have spent a month getting to know your children -- you've set up your room, you've probably made plans for the next couple of months -- and now you have to be uprooted and placed somewhere else," said Marietta English, president of the Baltimore Teachers' Union.
School officials said they will have the official student numbers by the end of October, at which point, they will also decide which schools will be affected by teacher reassignments.


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So I wrote one of the shorts in Paradox's new Sonic Seconds video
I'm still waiting to see if my attempts to sign up for EI have gone through or not. Phone lines are impossible to get through.
There's talk that they may have found a cure for the virus. Here's hoping.
Yeah, our D&D sessions and just going out for drinks at local breweries is basically gone right now. We're thinking of doing remote sessions but it's still not the same.
It just sucks cause my friends and I can't do our usual weekend stuff cause most of the restaurants we go to are closed or takeout only
I know exactly how you feel.
Yeah, there's a part of me that, as an introvert, should be totally OK with the concept of staying home. But there's also a huge part of me that is incredibly unnerved by the concept of having the choice taken away. Before, it felt like something I wanted to do, but now it just feels lonely and sad.
Ah, no worries. Thanks for clarifying. <3
I absolutely recognize that this is going to have a change in how we do things, for better or for worse. There's going to be some positive changes out of this and some negative changes as well. I get this is something we haven't seen in 100 years.
If I came off as insensitive, I should apologize and explained what I meant a bit more.
You misunderstand. My daily life consists of me going to work and going home. When I order food out I usually get take out anyways. See I work 2nd shift so my options of what I can/can't do is limited by time anyways and hasn't effected me as much, the only real thing being I can't sit down at the diner when I get out at 11pm-12am on a Friday night. So when I say I'm not changing much of my daily life it's because my routine is at a point where my interactions with people, in person, are limited to begin with
Regardless of how you feel Covid affects you personally, there's an absolute change this puts on everyone globally, especially small businesses and at-risk people. It will influence how we look at the media landscape, how we deliver entertainment and services, and workplace practices going forward, some long term, some short, some good and some bad. These sort of pandemics don't come around with zero wake, and we've already seen that and are seeing it right now. If you don't think anything is different, then you aren't looking hard enough.
No, Covid is it's already costing businesses and lives, and it's made life difficult for just about everyone I know, particularly in my industry where we've having to scramble to ship games from home. What you're doing is unwise and irresponsible, and you're not the only person in existence, so you can keep your "not really".
Not really. I'm still going about it as if nothing's different
Covid is going to screw up all our lives
I know your pain Ben, I know your pain...
Lucky you.
I still gotta work
It's only boring if you make it so. I'm stuffing my quarantine with as much art as I can muster.
Stupid COVID-19 got chess club canceled. I guess I should prepare myself for a particularly boring next few months.
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Alcohol Misuse and DependenceSkip to the navigation
Topic Overview
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This topic is about alcohol misuse and dependence in adults. For information about alcohol problems in teens or children, see the topic Teen Alcohol and Drug Use .
What are alcohol misuse and alcohol dependence?
Alcohol misuse means having unhealthy or dangerous drinking habits, such as drinking every day or drinking too much at a time. Alcohol misuse can harm your relationships, cause you to miss work, and lead to legal problems such as driving while drunk (intoxicated). When you misuse alcohol, you continue to drink even though you know your drinking is causing problems.
If you continue to misuse alcohol, it can lead to alcohol dependence. Alcohol dependence is also called alcoholism. You are physically or mentally addicted to alcohol. You have a strong need, or craving, to drink. You feel like you must drink just to get by.
You might be dependent on alcohol if you have three or more of the following problems in a year:
- You cannot quit drinking or control how much you drink.
- You need to drink more to get the same effect.
- You have withdrawal symptoms when you stop drinking. These include feeling sick to your stomach, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety.
- You spend a lot of time drinking and recovering from drinking, or you have given up other activities so you can drink.
- You have tried to quit drinking or to cut back the amount you drink but haven't been able to.
- You continue to drink even though it harms your relationships and causes physical problems.
Alcohol dependence is a long-term (chronic) disease. It's not a weakness or a lack of willpower. Like many other diseases, it has a course that can be predicted, has known symptoms, and is influenced by your genes and your life situation.
How much drinking is too much?
Alcohol is part of many people's lives and may have a place in cultural and family traditions. It can sometimes be hard to know when you begin to drink too much.
You are at risk of drinking too much and should talk to your doctor if you are: footnote 1
- A woman who has more than 3 drinks at one time or more than 7 drinks a week. A standard drink is 1 can of beer, 1 glass of wine, or 1 mixed drink.
- A man who has more than 4 drinks at one time or more than 14 drinks a week.
What are some signs of alcohol misuse or dependence?
Certain behaviors may mean that you're having trouble with alcohol. These include:
- Drinking in the morning, often being drunk for long periods of time, or drinking alone.
- Changing what you drink, such as switching from beer to wine because you think it will help you drink less or keep you from getting drunk.
- Feeling guilty after drinking.
- Making excuses for your drinking or doing things to hide your drinking, such as buying alcohol at different stores.
- Not remembering what you did while you were drinking (blackouts).
- Worrying that you won't get enough alcohol for an evening or weekend.
How are alcohol problems diagnosed?
Alcohol problems may be diagnosed at a routine doctor visit or when you see your doctor for another problem. If a partner or friend thinks you have an alcohol problem, he or she may urge you to see your doctor.
Your doctor will ask questions about your symptoms and past health, and he or she will do a physical exam and sometimes a mental health assessment. The mental health assessment checks to see whether you may have a mental health problem, such as depression.
Your doctor also may ask questions or do tests to look for health problems linked to alcohol, such as cirrhosis .
How are they treated?
Treatment depends on how bad your alcohol problem is. Some people are able to cut back to a moderate level of drinking with help from a counselor. People who are dependent on alcohol may need medical treatment and may need to stay in a hospital or treatment center.
Your doctor may decide you need detoxification , or detox, before you start treatment. You need detox when you are physically dependent on alcohol. When you go through detox, you may need medicine to help with withdrawal symptoms.
After detox, you focus on staying alcohol-free, or sober. Most people receive some type of therapy, such as group counseling. You also may need medicine to help you stay sober.
When you are sober, you've taken the first step toward recovery . To gain full recovery, you need to take steps to improve other areas of your life, such as learning to deal with work and family. This makes it easier to stay sober.
You will likely need support to stay sober and in recovery. This can include counseling and support groups like Alcoholics Anonymous. Recovery is a long-term process, not something you can achieve in a few weeks.
Treatment doesn't focus on alcohol use alone. It addresses other parts of your life, like your relationships, work, medical problems, and living situation. Treatment and recovery support you in making positive changes so you can live without alcohol.
What can you do if you or another person has a problem with alcohol?
If you feel you have an alcohol problem, get help. Even if you are successful in other areas of your life, visit a doctor or go to a self-help group. The earlier you get help, the easier it will be to cut back or quit.
Helping someone with an alcohol problem is hard. If you're covering for the person, you need to stop. For example, don't make excuses for the person when he or she misses work.
You may be able to help by talking to the person about what his or her drinking does to you and others. Talk to the person in private, when the person is not using drugs or alcohol and when you are both calm. If the person agrees to get help, call for an appointment right away. Don't wait.
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It's not clear why some people misuse alcohol or become dependent on it and others do not. Alcohol use problems often run in families (genetic), but your drinking habits also are influenced by your environment and life situations, such as friends or stress levels.
Signs of alcohol misuse
- You have problems at work or school because of your drinking, such as being late or not going at all.
- You drink in risky situations, such as before or while driving a car.
- After drinking, you can't remember what happened while you were drinking (blackouts ).
- You have legal problems because of your drinking, such as being arrested for harming someone or driving while drunk (intoxicated).
- You get hurt or you hurt someone else when you are drinking.
- You keep drinking even though you have health problems that are caused or made worse by alcohol use, such as liver disease ( cirrhosis ).
- Your friends or family members are worried about your drinking.
Signs of alcohol dependence
- You cannot quit drinking or control how much you drink.
- You need to drink more to get the same effect.
- You have withdrawal symptoms when you stop drinking. These include feeling sick to your stomach, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety.
- You spend a lot of time drinking and recovering.
- You have given up other activities so you can drink.
- You keep drinking even though it harms your relationships and causes health problems.
Other signs include:
- You drink in the morning, are often drunk for long periods of time, or drink alone.
- You change what you drink, such as switching from beer to wine because you think that doing this will help you drink less or keep you from getting drunk.
- You feel guilty after drinking.
- You make excuses for your drinking or do things to hide your drinking, such as buying alcohol at different stores.
- You worry that you won't get enough alcohol for an evening or weekend.
- You have physical signs of alcohol dependence , such as weight loss, a sore or upset stomach ( gastritis ), or redness of the nose and cheeks.
Signs of alcohol problems in children and teens can be different from the ones for adults. For more information, see the topic Teen Alcohol and Drug Use .
Do you have a drinking problem?
You might not realize that you have a drinking problem. You might not drink large amounts when you drink. Or you might go for days or weeks between drinking episodes. But even if you don't drink very often, it's still possible to be misusing alcohol and to be at risk for becoming dependent on it.
What Happens
Alcohol misuse or dependence can develop very quickly or happen gradually over years.
In the beginning, your drinking might not seem to be any different from the way other people drink. You may drink only with friends or at parties. It may stay like this, or you may begin to drink more. Your drinking might become a way for you to feel normal or to cope with life's problems.
You might think that you can quit drinking at any time. Many people who have alcohol problems quit for days, weeks, or even months before they start drinking again. But unless you can consistently keep your drinking under control and not fall back into unhealthy patterns, you need help.
Problems from drinking
Long-term heavy drinking harms your liver, nervous system, heart, and brain. It can cause health problems or make them worse. These problems include:
- Cirrhosis or pancreatitis .
- High blood pressure.
- Osteoporosis .
- Certain types of cancer, including breast cancer.
- Stroke.
- Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome .
Alcohol use also can contribute to stomach problems, interactions between medicines and alcohol , and sexual problems. It can lead to violence, accidents, social isolation, and problems at work, school, or home. You also may have legal problems, such as traffic tickets or accidents, as a result of drinking.
Drinking alcohol can cause unique problems for older adults , pregnant women , and people who have other health conditions. If you are pregnant, you should not drink any alcohol, because it may harm your baby.
Drinking also makes symptoms of mental health problems worse. When you have a drinking problem and a mental health problem, it's called a dual diagnosis . It's very important to treat all mental health problems, such as depression. You may drink less when mental health problems are treated.
What Increases Your Risk
Many people drink alcohol throughout their lives without any problems. Other people who drink alcohol have problems with it. Why do some people misuse alcohol and become dependent on it, while others don't?
Certain things make an alcohol problem more likely. These are called risk factors.
Risk factors include: footnote 2
- Genes. People with alcohol problems often have a family history of alcohol misuse and dependence.
- Being male. A man is 3 times more likely to develop problems with alcohol than a woman is.
- Early use. The younger you were when you first started drinking alcohol, the higher your risk for alcohol problems later as an adult.
- Mental health. If you have mental health problems, such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or anxiety disorders, you are more likely to use alcohol.
- Use of other substances.You are more likely to misuse alcohol if you misuse other things, such as tobacco, illegal drugs, or prescription medicines.
- Environment. If you live in an area where alcohol is easy to get, people drink a lot, or heavy drinking is accepted as part of life, you are more likely to drink.
- Friends. Your friends may influence you to drink by directly urging you to or by drinking when you're around them.
- Problems with others. You may be more likely to drink when you are having problems in your family or with friends.
- Not having purpose or satisfaction in your life. If you have no activities that give you a sense of purpose, you may be more likely to drink.
Just because you have risk factors for alcohol problems doesn't mean you'll have a drinking problem. A person who has many risk factors won't always become dependent on alcohol. And a person who has no risk factors can become dependent on alcohol.
When to Call a Doctor
Call 911 or other emergency services if you or someone else:
- Has the symptoms of alcohol poisoning . These can include vomiting, coughing up blood, gasping for breath, passing out, and seizures.
- Has a history of heavy drinking and is having severe withdrawal symptoms but is not willing to get treatment.
- Has delirium tremens (DTs) , which can lead to death. Symptoms can include seizure, shaking, a fast heartbeat, and seeing or hearing things that aren't there (hallucinations).
- Is thinking or talking about suicide or harming others. For more information, see the warning signs of suicide .
Call a doctor right away if you or someone you care about:
- Has withdrawal symptoms, such as confusion and trembling.
- Agrees to be seen for possible treatment. You need to call right away, because people who agree to get help often don't follow through with making the appointment.
- Has stopped drinking but starts drinking again (has a relapse ).
- Has severe stomach pain.
Call a doctor if you're concerned that you or someone you care about may have an alcohol problem. To learn what to look for, see Symptoms .
Watchful waiting
Watchful waiting is a wait-and-see approach. Watchful waiting is not a good choice for alcohol misuse and dependence. If you have concerns about your drinking or the drinking of someone you care about, talk to your doctor. Early treatment makes recovery more likely.
Who to see
Health professionals who diagnose and treat alcohol problems include:
- Family medicine doctors .
- General practitioners .
- Nurse practitioners .
- Physician assistants .
- Internists .
- Psychiatrists .
- Psychologists .
Other health professionals who can help with recovery include:
- Addiction psychiatrists , or other doctors who specialize in addiction medicine.
- Licensed mental health counselors .
- Social workers .
Find a health professional who has chemical dependency certification (CDC) or is a certified alcoholism counselor (CAC).
Support groups can also help you and your family:
- Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or similar support groups are for people with alcohol misuse or dependence.
- Al-Anon and Alateen (for teenagers) are for families and friends affected by someone's drinking.
Exams and Tests
Alcohol use problems may be diagnosed during a routine doctor visit or when you see your doctor for another problem. Many people don't go to a doctor for alcohol problems but for problems that are caused by long-term alcohol use.
Your doctor will ask about your medical history and do a physical exam . He or she also may ask questions or do tests to look for health problems linked to alcohol problems, such as cirrhosis .
To learn which type of questions your doctor may ask, use this short quiz:
People who drink also may have mental health problems. These may include depression, anxiety disorders, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). If you have a drinking problem and a mental health problem, it's called a dual diagnosis . A dual diagnosis can make treatment for an alcohol problem harder.
If your doctor thinks you have a mental health problem, he or she may do a mental health assessment .
Treatment Overview
Treatment for alcohol misuse and dependence usually includes group therapy, one or more types of counseling, and alcohol education. You also may need medicine. A 12-step program often is part of treatment and continues after treatment ends.
Treatment doesn't just deal with alcohol. It will help you manage problems in your daily life so you don't have to depend on alcohol. You'll learn good reasons to quit drinking.
Treatment helps you overcome dependence, but it doesn't happen all at once. Recovery from alcohol misuse or dependence-staying sober-is a lifelong process that takes commitment and effort.
Can you quit on your own?
If you are misusing alcohol and are not dependent on it, you may be able to cut back or quit on your own. But most people need help when they quit drinking.
If you want to quit, talk to your doctor. When you get a doctor's help, treatment for alcohol misuse or dependence is safer, less painful, and quicker. If you can't stop drinking alcohol with just your doctor's help, a treatment program can help you get through the first cravings for alcohol and learn how to stay sober.
How does treatment start?
You might start treatment with your family doctor, or your doctor may recommend that you enter a treatment facility. A friend may bring you to a self-help group, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, or you might go to a clinic that deals with alcohol misuse. You may just decide that you drink too much and want to cut back or quit on your own.
You may have a treatment team to help you. This team may include a psychologist or psychiatrist, counselors, doctors, social workers, nurses, and a case manager. A case manager helps plan and manage your treatment.
When you first seek treatment, you may be asked questions about your drinking, health problems, work, and living situation. Be open and honest to get the best treatment possible. Your treatment team may write a treatment plan, which includes your treatment goals and ways to reach those goals. This helps you stay on track.
Do you need detox?
Your doctor may decide you need detoxification , or detox, before you start treatment. You need detox when you are physically dependent on alcohol. This means that when you stop drinking, you have physical withdrawal symptoms, such as feeling sick to your stomach or intense anxiety.
Detox helps get you ready for treatment. It doesn't help you with the mental, social, and behavior changes you have to make to get and stay sober.
Whether you need detox and whether you can go through it at home or need to go to a clinic or other facility depends on how severe your withdrawal symptoms are. Most people don't need to stay at a clinic but do need to check in with a doctor or other health professional. Whether you need to spend time in a clinic (called inpatient care) also depends on other problems you may have, such as a mental health problem.
Your doctor may give you medicines to help reduce withdrawal symptoms.
What's the best treatment program for you?
Your doctor can help you decide which type of program is best for you.
- In outpatient treatment , you regularly go to a mental health clinic, counselor's office, hospital clinic, or local health department for treatment.
- In inpatient treatment , you stay at a facility and have treatment during the day or evening. This usually lasts 1 to 6 weeks. You most likely will then go to outpatient treatment.
- In residential treatment , you live at the facility while you recover. These programs may last for months. This may be a good option if you have a long history of alcohol or drug use, have a bad home situation, or don't have social support.
If you are thinking about going into a treatment program, here are some questions to ask .
What does a treatment program include?
Treatment programs usually include counseling, such as:
- Individual and group therapy, where you talk about your recovery with a counselor or with other people who are trying to quit. You can get support from others who have struggled with alcohol.
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), where you learn to change thoughts and actions that make you more likely to use alcohol. A counselor teaches you ways to deal with cravings and avoid going back to alcohol.
- Motivational interviewing (MI), where you resolve mixed feelings about quitting and getting treatment. A counselor helps you find personal motivation to change.
- Motivational enhancement therapy (MET), which uses motivational interviewing to help you find motivation to quit. It usually lasts for 2 to 4 sessions.
- Brief intervention therapy, which provides feedback, advice, and goal-setting in very short counseling sessions.
- Couples and family therapy, which can help you become and stay sober and keep good relationships within your family.
A treatment program may include medicines that can help keep you sober during recovery. You may take medicine that can help reduce your craving for alcohol or that makes you sick to your stomach when you drink.
Most programs provide education about alcohol misuse and dependence. Understanding alcohol problems can help you and your family know how to overcome them. Some programs also offer job or career training.
Support groups
Treatment programs often include going to a support group, such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) . Your family members also might want to attend a support group such as Al-Anon or Alateen.
What else should you think about?
- If you have an alcohol problem and a mental health problem, such as depression, you will need treatment for both problems. Doctors call this a dual diagnosis .
- Alcohol typically affects older adults more strongly than younger adults.
- Alcohol use in the military can interfere with military readiness.
- Some people are sent to alcohol treatment because of a court decision. This may happen if you have an alcohol problem and you commit a crime. A court may require treatment and keep track of your progress. Treatment often is available in prison.
Medicines can be used to help treat alcohol misuse and dependence. Some medicines reduce withdrawal symptoms during detoxification. Other medicines help you stay sober during the long process of recovery.
Medicines for withdrawal
Medicines most often used to treat withdrawal symptoms during detoxification include:
- Antianxiety medicines (benzodiazepines such as diazepam), which treat withdrawal symptoms such as delirium tremens (DTs) .
- Seizure medicines to reduce or stop severe withdrawal symptoms during detoxification.
Medicines for recovery
Medicines used to help you stay sober during recovery include:
- Disulfiram (Antabuse), which makes you sick to your stomach when you drink.
- Naltrexone (ReVia, Vivitrol), which interferes with the pleasure you get from drinking.
- Acamprosate (Campral), which may reduce your craving for alcohol.
- Topiramate (Topamax), which may help treat alcohol problems.
Vitamins and supplements
Alcohol use can cause your body to become low in certain vitamins and minerals, especially thiamine (vitamin B1). You might need to take thiamine supplements to improve your nutrition during recovery. Thiamine helps prevent Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome , which causes brain damage.
You also might need supplements to help replace fluids and electrolytes .
Recovery from alcohol misuse or dependence means finding a way to stay sober while changing your attitudes and behaviors. You will work to restore relationships with your family and friends and people at your job or school. You will need to find meaning and happiness in a healthy lifestyle that doesn't include alcohol.
To stay sober after treatment , focus on your goals. Find things to do, such as sports or volunteer work. Learn how to say no to alcohol and drugs .
Find support
An important part of recovery is being sure you have support. You can:
- Develop and use social support and support groups . Support comes in many forms. You can find it in seminars and groups led by professionals, 12-step groups with people who also have drinking problems, and your relationships with family and friends. You can make support groups more helpful by being an active member .
- Connect with family and friends. They can help you stop drinking and stay sober by encouraging positive steps. For them to do this, you have to be honest with them about your problems and help them by trying.
- Take part in recovery group activities. You may have used alcohol to make friends or be with a social group. Your counselor or doctor can help you learn skills to make friends without drinking. For example, your counselor may help you find a social skills training class.
- Find a sponsor , and work with this person. A sponsor is someone who has been in recovery for a long time and helps you stay alcohol-free.
Plan for lapse and relapse
Stopping alcohol use is very hard. It's not unusual to have setbacks, even years later. Very few people succeed the first time they try. Many people who are trying to recover from alcohol dependence will have lapses or relapses along the way.
- A lapse is the first time you use alcohol again after you have quit or brief episodes of alcohol use at later points.
- Arelapse is not being able to stay sober over time.
It's smart to plan for a lapse or relapse before it happens. Your doctor, family, and friends can help you do this.
Deal with stress
Some people find that relieving stress helps them during recovery. Although there is little research to show that managing stress helps you stay sober, you may find that it helps you feel better overall.
You can find ways to deal with stress, such as sharing your feelings with others or writing to express your journey through recovery. Do something you enjoy, like a hobby or volunteer work. Learn how to relax your mind and body with breathing exercises or meditation.
You can do many things to reduce stress. To learn more, see the topic Stress Management .
Have a healthy lifestyle
When you misuse or are dependent on alcohol, you often get away from some of the basics of good health. Part of recovery is finding your way back to a healthy lifestyle.
- Exercise and be active . This may give you something to do instead of thinking about alcohol, and it also can help reduce stress. People who are fit usually have less anxiety, depression, and stress than people who aren't active.
- Get enough sleep .
- Eat a balanced diet . This helps your body deal with tension and stress. Whole grains, dairy products, fruits, vegetables, and protein are part of a balanced diet.
Talk to your family about your drinking
Alcohol misuse or dependence can harm your relationships with family and friends. You and your family may feel you have turned against each other. You may be angry at your family and friends, and they may be angry at you.
If you can, talk with your family and friends about your drinking problem and recovery . Your family and friends need to know that they did not cause your alcohol problem but that they can help you during recovery.
- Try to be open and honest with loved ones about your drinking. This will help them understand what you're going through and how they can help. Many treatment programs offer counseling for families to help you solve problems at home.
- Talk about what may cause a relapse and discuss your relapse plan .
For Family and Friends
If someone close to you has had a drinking problem, you know how hard it can be. You know how living or dealing with someone who misuses or is dependent on alcohol can change and even destroy your life. You're an important part of your loved one's treatment and recovery. Your emotions and life may change too, and taking care of yourself is also important.
Encourage treatment
It can be very hard to live with a family member who has a drinking problem. It's best not to try to control, excuse, or cover up the person's drinking. Instead, encourage your family member to seek treatment. Find a good time to talk to the person.
Help with treatment and recovery
When the choice for treatment has been made, you play an important part. You can help your loved one stop drinking and help repair the damage done to your family or relationship. Here are some things you can do:
- If you drink, decide whether you want to keep alcohol in the house. Having alcohol in your home might make it harder for your loved one to stay sober.
- Be involved and patient. Attend recovery meetings with your loved one, and be supportive. Know that it may take a long time for you to trust and forgive the person and for the person to forgive himself or herself.
- Be aware that your loved one may seem like a different person after he or she is sober. You may find it hard to get used to this person. You may need to rebuild your relationship.
- Understand that you have the right to know how recovery is going, but ask about it in a respectful way.
- Help your loved one plan for a relapse . Most people relapse after treatment. This doesn't mean the treatment failed. Try to help your loved one see relapse as a chance to do better and to keep working on skills to avoid drinking.
- Focus on the positive actions your loved one is making.
Take care of yourself
Taking care of yourself while you help your loved one is important. You probably will feel relief and happiness when the person decides to get help. But treatment and recovery mean changes in your life too. Your emotions may become more complicated. You may:
- Resent what the person did to you in the past.
- Not trust the person. You may not want to give the person the house key, the car key, or money. You also may feel guilty about not trusting the person.
- Find it hard to give up or share your family role. For example, if you took over child-rearing when your partner was drinking, you may resent his or her becoming involved again. If you managed money, you may resent having to make shared decisions on how to spend money.
- Resent that the person is spending more time at meetings or with others in recovery than with you.
- Worry so much about relapse that you avoid anything that you think may upset the person. You also may resent this feeling.
These feelings are normal. You've been through a bad period of your life, and what happened is not easy to forget. Nor is it easy to forgive your loved one. Keep in mind that recovery is the road to a better life and that you can help your loved one get there.
Find your own support
You may find that talking to people who also have loved ones with alcohol problems helps your own recovery. Al-Anon and similar programs are for people with family members or friends with alcohol problems. Other support groups are specially designed for certain age groups, such as Alateen for teens and Alatot for younger children.
These programs help you recover from the effects of being around someone who misused or was dependent on alcohol. You also may try family therapy .
Related Information
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (2005). Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much: A Clinician's Guide (NIH Publication No. 07-3769). Washington, DC: National Institutes of Health. Also available online: http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/Practitioner/cliniciansGuide2005/clinicians_guide.htm.
- Schuckit MA (2009). Alcohol-related disorders section of Substance-related disorders. In BJ Sadock et al., eds., Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 10th ed., vol. 1, pp. 1268-1288. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
Other Works Consulted
- Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense (2009). Clinical Practice Guideline: Management of Substance Use Disorders (SUD). Available online: http://www.healthquality.va.gov/Substance_Use_Disorder_SUD.asp.
- Sadock BJ, Sadock VA (2007). Alcohol-related disorders section of Substance-related disorders. In Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry, 10th ed., pp. 390-407. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
- Sherin K, Seikel S (2011). Alcohol use disorders. In RE Rakel, DP Rakel, eds., Textbook of Family Medicine, 8th ed., pp. 1091-1104. Philadelphia: Saunders.
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Japan's nuclear safety failures that led to last year's disaster at Fukushima are being repeated in other countries that operate atomic reactors, according to France's top regulator.
Nuclear safety focuses too much on technology and not enough on the human side of preventing accidents, Andre-Claude Lacoste, 70, the outgoing head of the French Autorite de Surete Nucleaire, said in an interview. France is the most dependent country in the world on nuclear power, which is produced from state-owned utility Electricite de France SA's 58 reactors.
Regulators in some countries, which he declined to name, lack enough independence from industry and government to be able to identify nuclear safety shortfalls, Lacoste said. In some small nations, atomic experts regularly rotate between jobs at safety authorities, operators and research organizations, creating conflicts of interest and a deep-seated reluctance to raise the alarm about potentially dangerous situations.
"In some societies, solidarity between people is more important than transparency, and this means that errors aren't questioned and are hard to correct," said Lacoste, who has overseen French nuclear safety for two decades. "There are countries where transparency isn't a virtue."
Japan has acknowledged nuclear safety shortcomings after a tsunami in March 2011 knocked out power supply, disrupting the cooling process that led to reactor meltdowns at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant. The accident necessitated mass evacuations and led to long-term environmental damage. As a consequence, Japan plans to scrap atomic power by the end of the 2030s.
Peer Review
Lacoste headed a peer review of Japan's nuclear regulatory system in 2007, which he said "explicitly" warned the country of shortcomings and recommended creating an independent watchdog that would separate safety oversight from the government ministry that promoted atomic power.
"The Japanese situation wasn't good," said Lacoste. He was informed that the Japanese government had rejected his recommendations at the end of 2010. He has since called Fukushima a "collective failure."
Still, after overseeing the transformation of France's atomic regulator from being part of a government ministry into an authority whose independence is enshrined in a 2006 law, Lacoste refuses to publicly name countries where safety doesn't meet his standards. Finger-pointing would be counter-productive, he said.
Safety Rating
On March 14, 2011, three days after the tsunami at Fukushima, Lacoste held a press conference in Paris. He was the first regulator to publicly rate the event a 6 on the seven-step ranking of nuclear accidents, describing how a meltdown at the plant's reactors had probably already released more radioactivity than during the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, the worst in U.S. history. The 1986 accident at Chernobyl was rated a seven.
French atomic safety experts led by Lacoste continued their daily briefings for more than a week, commenting on methods used at Fukushima to deal with explosions and safeguard the population. They raised the alarm about dangerously high radiation levels likely received by emergency workers and provided estimates of how far radioactive fallout could travel around the world. The French were among the first in Europe to be informed when low levels of radioactivity from the Japanese site were detected on home soil.
That contrasted with the aftermath of Chernobyl, when French nuclear safety experts denied the radioactive cloud had passed overhead. It was also a departure from the secrecy that surrounded the country's worst atomic accident, the 1980 partial meltdown of a reactor core at Saint-Laurent-des-Eaux in central France.
Fukushima allowed Lacoste to test the French watchdog's independence, which granted him power to shut down nuclear installations. The stakes were high in a nuclear-dependent country, which had up until Fukushima enjoyed popular backing for the energy as well as support from major political parties. France's atomic energy program, started under President Charles de Gaulle, has spawned an industry employing hundreds of thousands of workers. Exporting nuclear technology is a key strategy of EDF and reactor-maker Areva SA. (AREVA)
Polls showed popular support wobbled in the months after the Japanese accident, triggering a political schism during the ensuing presidential election won by Socialist Francois Hollande. He has pledged to lower the country's reliance on atomic energy to half of power output from more than 75 percent today.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault yesterday said Pierre- Franck Chevet, the environment and energy ministry's top official, would be proposed to parliament as a replacement for Lacoste, whose non-renewable term at the ASN ends next month.
No Basis
Fukushima has slowed expansion of nuclear energy to countries that don't already have reactors. The disaster prompted the ASN to bar French companies from exporting reactor technology considered less safe that Areva's EPR model, a situation that would create "two-speed" safety, he said.
Less than 10 new countries will acquire the technology within two decades, according to Lacoste. His estimate is less than the some three dozen nations considered by industry group World Nuclear Association to be considering projects. Many of those are "the stuff of dreams," according to Lacoste.
"The challenge isn't to buy a reactor, it's to install and operate it," he said. "In many countries the infrastructure to develop nuclear energy is absent, there is a need for trained people, a legal framework and a watchdog. This takes time. A country can say they are going to get into nuclear energy but in reality there is no chance this will happen. Lots of these projects have no basis."


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An appetite for 'American Made'
Florida business Coaxial Components capitalizes on a trend toward quality products.
Stuart-based RF microwave component maker Coaxial Components is capitalizing on the favorable perception of American products abroad.
The 18-employee company, known as Coaxicom, makes military-grade connectors, adapters and cable assemblies used in sophisticated communications systems. For several years, customers had switched to cheaper Asian-made products, but the company says the lower quality eventually turned customers off. "There's an industry out there that's looking for quality products and made in the U.S.A.," says David Leiman, company founder and president. "Now in the international market … companies are no longer going toward the low-price products."
Coaxicom, which has seen a 500% increase in sales to Chile, for example, is not alone in benefiting from the trend. Between 2000 and 2011, exports manufactured in Florida grew 143%, and small businesses like Coaxicom account for 67% of the state's exports.
Although overseas customers have purchased from Coaxicom since a few years after its 1984 founding, it has done little active marketing outside of a couple of European countries where it has independent sales representatives. Mainly, Leiman says, "people found us." That's what happened in Chile, for instance, where Coaxicom's main customer is the government. But when another company approached Coaxicom about making private-label products for sale in South America, Leiman and his team began researching the market. Ultimately, he decided to hire an internal team devoted to international sales.
For the most part, Coaxicom, whose parts typically sell for between $5 and $10 apiece, is looking for independent sales representatives or authorized distributors in other countries. The company expects that approach will help it mitigate some of the risks of doing business outside the U.S. Risks include the cost of international collections on sales that tend to be small — between a few hundred and a few thousands dollars each. Also, because Coaxicom's parts have military applications, the company has to know exactly who its users will be. It's easier for a local company to do that vetting.
Leiman says the potential sales justify dealing with those hurdles. Right now, international business makes up only about 20% of Coaxicom's revenue, but he's so confident in its growth that he's looking to more than double the company's current space.


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Established in 2002, the web portal Muslim Heritage was the first major project of FSTC. It is a unique online education community of Muslims and non-Muslims seeking to advance human civilisation through the study of Muslim heritage. The website contains more than 1000 peer-reviewed articles, hundreds of short reports on news and events related to Muslim heritage research, and an interactive map and timeline.
Pioneered by FSTC, it is an ambitious project aimed at raising global awareness of the importance and relevance of this heritage. Web analysis software shows a range of 30,000 to 50,000 views per day.
As the academic channel of FSTC, MuslimHeritage.com will soon be improved in design and function to include MASDAR, a unique database established by FSTC as a major web based directory of 70,000 source documents relating to Muslim heritage. It will be the largest online directory of its type in the world available to researchers.
Visit Muslim Heritage for more information.


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Dinner Tonight: Chicken and Pineapple Stir-Fry Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
So where should I begin? I didn't have a wok. But this pork stir-fry recipe from Things Cook Love looked amazing, and I figured that I would be fine with a smoking-hot iron skillet. I trudged off to the market, only to find that they didn't have the right kind of pork. I got chicken instead, figuring, once again that it'd be fine.
I returned from the market to realize that, though I have a refrigerator full of Asian condiments, I didn't have the sesame soy marinade they were talking about. I didn't even know what it was. A fruitless search ensued in which I came across a dozen recipes that all sounded different. I just decided to wing it. I knew it had soy sauce and sesame oil.
To repeat: I didn't have a wok, didn't have the right meat, and I wasn't quite sure what the marinade was. So why did this thing come together perfectly? It was slightly spicy from the red chili paste and sweet from the pineapple. The chicken was tender and flavorful, and the vegetables were intensely fragrant and crisp. Though this recipe is really for two normal servings, I should admit that I ate both.
- 6 ounce chicken breast, skin removed and cut into 1 inch by 1/4 inch strips
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoons sesame oil
- 1/2 tablespoon red chili paste
- 1 tablespoon Canola oil
- 1/2 tablespoon finely chopped ginger
- Handful frozen peas
- 1/2 cup red bell pepper, stems and seeds removed and thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup pineapple, diced
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/4 cup scallions, chopped
- 1 tablespoon cilantro, chopped
- Cooked rice, for serving
Whisk together 2 tablespoons of the soy sauce, 1/2 tablespoon of the sesame oil, and the red chili paste. Add the chicken strips. Let marinate for 15-20 minutes.
Place a wok or an iron skillet over high heat. When really hot, pour in the canola oil. Add the chicken along with the marinade. Cook, stirring constantly, for about 1 minute. Remove the meat.
Dump in the the ginger and red bell pepper, cook for about 2 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Add the garlic, pineapple, frozen peas, and the chicken to the skillet. Cook for about 30 seconds. Add the rest of the soy sauce and sesame oil.
Serve with some rice. Garnish with cilantro and scallions.
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Janie Gonzales, of Vida Art Connections, is throwing Zimmer, an art exhibition, at her Rio Grande Estates home Saturday, Oct. 9 and Sunday, Oct. 10 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment after that.
Gonzales said the invitational art exhibition is in honor of Lis Zimmer, a former Albuquerque resident and community activist, who died this spring from breast cancer. A percentage of proceeds from this event will be donated to the New Mexico Cancer Center.
Vida Art Connections, formerly known as Vida Art Exhibitions tries to place high quality fine art in non-traditional venues for the mutual benefit of the viewer, the hosting organization, and the artists involved, according to Gonzales.
Gonzales set the event up to coincide with the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
Marian Berg, Travis Bruce Black, Susan Brown, Magda Rea Burger, Anna Carillo, Kim Eagle, Tina Garcia, Estevan Gonzales, Janie Perry Gonzales, Sydney Johnson, Linda Laitner, Margie Lucena, Cecelia McRoberts, Norma Mitnick, Andrea Ponzini, Holly Roberts, Todd Tibbals, Bob Wilson and Teal Wilson are participating at the event.
For more information or to set up an appointment, call Janie Gonzales at 888-2830.


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View the Esperanza webcam
The ship is the fourth of 14 fire-fighting vessels ordered by the Russian government between 1983 and 1987 from Stocznia Polnocna construction yard in Gdansk, Poland. Heavy ice class and speed were one of the requirements.
The Esperanza was one of 14 similar vessels commissioned by the Russian government and used by the Russian Navy as a fire-fighting ship in Murmansk.
Travel with the Esperanza - Visit the webcam on the bow of the ship to see where she is right now!
Lack of funds saw the ship laid up for some years in the late 80s,then sold a couple of times, finally working in Norway as a supply vessel.
At 72 metres length, and a top speed of 16 knots, the ship is ideal for fast and long range work.
The ship's ice class status means it can also work in polar regions.
It has taken many months to refit the ship in as environmentally friendly way as possible and these improvements include: the removal or safe containment of all asbestos; fitting a special fuel system to avoid spillage; newly fitted, more efficient, diesel electric propulsion; on board recycling of waste water, leaving only clean water pumped overboard; a waste based heating system; bilge water purifiers,15 times more effective than current legislation demands; TBT-free hull paint; ammonia based refrigeration and air-conditioning rather than climate changing and ozone depleting Freon gas - the first Dutch registered vessel to be so fitted; and an environmentally and economically efficient propulsion system to reduce CO2 emissions.
In addition, standard Greenpeace operating equipment has also been fitted. A new helicopter deck has been added, as well as special boat cranes to launch the inflatables.
Port of registry: Amsterdam, NetherlandsFormer Name: Echo FighterDate of charter: 2000Number of berths: 33Inflatable boats: 2 large rigid hull and 4 small inflatablesHelicopter capable: YesType of ship: expedition/researchCall sign: PD 6464Built: 1984 Poland GdanskGross tonnage: 2076 BRTLength o.a: 72.3mBreadth: 14.3mDraught: 4.7mMaximum speed: 14 knotsMain engines: 5.876 BHP, 2*2.938 BHP Sulzer V12
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Rumor has it that the Incom Corporation entertained design ideas for letters A-W before settling on the X-wing. Okay, I totally made that up but it sounded like a good intro for our next contest: The Alphabet Fighter Contest. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to design a kick sarlacc starfighter in the shape of any letter in the Latin alphabet. There are some epic prizes to win, something for first, second, and third place.
Contest-specific rules:
- Build a starfighter with a shape based on any one letter of the Latin alphabet. The starfighter must be spaceworthy, i.e. have an enclosed cockpit. For the record, the following is a list of allowable characters:
A, a, B, b, C, c, D, d, E, e, F, f, G, g, H, h, I, i, J, j, K, k, L, l, M, m, N, n, O, o, P, p, Q, q, R, r, S, s, T, t, U, u, V, v, W, w, X, x, Y, y, Z, z
- Ships forming any of the above letters representing an exotic font will not be accepted. The letter must be immediately recognizable.
- Submit up to 4 pictures of your fighter. One of your photos must show your starfighter in the shape of the letter it is representing. One picture must show the droid socket. The other 2 can be of your choosing.
- Ship must be minifig scale and seat a minifig pilot.
- Ship must include space for an astromech droid. Only fully assembled droids will be allowed consisting of a dome head, body and two legs.
- Submission deadline is 11:59pm Pacific Time (UTC -8) July 31, 2011. You may submit/edit/delete/resubmit your pics up until the deadline when the entries are locked in.
Standard Contest Restrictions:
No more than one entry per person.
No modified parts or stickers.
No unofficial elements.
No pre-existing or virtual models.
No changes allowed after the deadline.
How To Enter:
Simply post a photo of your model in a reply to this thread before the deadline.
You must have a forum account to enter. Entries by proxy will be not be allowed.
Optional: include a link to a gallery or MOC Showcase post with more images.
Do not post non-entry photos to the contest thread unless you want to be disqualified.
You must use Flickr to host your entry picture because we rely on the built in image resizing feature. If you do not have an account, you can sign up for free, or ask someone to upload it for you. Once uploaded you will need to embed the photo in the forum. To do so:
go to the flickr photo page for your image
click the little down arrow above your photo to the right of the icons
click "Grab the HTML/BBCode" from that drop down menu
check the bubble next to "BBCode" (HTML will not work)
copy the code from the box above and paste that into a reply here
do not add any more code tags
click Preview to verify that it worked, then Submit.
If it didn't work, send a PM to Solo.
Photography note: be sure to submit the best picture possible. Color and contrast correction is recommended if necessary. The only other image enhancement allowed is replacing the background with either a solid color or simple gradient. Your photo cannot be altered in any other way. For example; no composite views, special effects, text, graphics, or scenery will be permitted. Remember, the contest is about the models - not your image manipulation prowess.
1st place: Bothcon goody bag consisting of the following:
- Reusable LEGO Star Wars vinyl tote bag
- M-wing Kit
- Bothcon minifigure
- 30050 MINI Republic Attack Shuttle
- 2005 Star Wars Days LEGOLAND CA Duplo Brick
- 8084 Snowtrooper Battlepack
- 30051 MINI X-wing
- 3219 MINI TIE Fighter
- 8028 MINI TIE Fighter
1st place will also get:
- 6212 X-wing Fighter
- From Bricks To Bothans t-shirt
2nd place:
- 6212 X-wing Starfighter set.
- 30051 MINI X-wing
- From Bricks To Bothans t-shirt
3rd place:
- 30051 MINI X-wing
- From Bricks To Bothans t-shirt
Permalink: https://www.fbtb.net/contests/2011/06/15/announcing-the-alphabet-fighter-contest/


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After staying at my current house for the past 34 years, it is finally time to move. Where we are residing at the moment, my parents are finding it difficult to climb up the stairs due to their old age.
We had been progressively shifting some of the stuff during the last few weeks. But it didn't hit me until this moment, when I know that I won't be sleeping here any longer. I grew up in this apartment. There are a lot of nice memories here.
I decided not to take any pictures of this place as the best memories should always be kept inside the heart. I will miss this place a lot.


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