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Raspberry Pi Home Server – Install a CMS – WordPress
For some Raspberry Pi is the way to have a server at home cheaply (hard to beat !). But it is also possible to make its small web server and host its website. For this, nothing more simple thanks to a CMS. And tools open source this is not what is missing : WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.
Today, so, I will offer you to install one of the most used CMS : WordPress.
- First and foremost, It needs a web server ! And for those who follow the tutorials on this site, vous vous doutez que mon choix s'est porté sur Nginx 😉 Vous trouverez tout ce qu'il faut here. You have Nginx installed with PHP support.Here is my section of the configuration file for the server :
server { listen 8080; server_name localhost; access_log /var/log/nginx/wordpress_access.log; error_log /var/log/nginx/wordpress_error.log; location / { root/var/www/wordpress; index index.php; } location ~ .php$ { fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/PHP-fpm/PHP-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME/var/www/wordpress / $fastcgi_script_name; } }
- It is now a database. There is the MySql choice, SQLite, etc. I have MySql as easy to install and I know that it will be compatible without worries !Pacman-s php php - cgi php - fpm php-curl php - gd php-mcrypt mysql mysql-client
- Activate the automatic startup of MySql at the start of the Raspberry Pisystemctl enable mysqld systemctl start mysqld
- Configure and secure MySql by running the following script :/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation
- We will then prepare the MySql database for WordPress
- Connect to MySqlMySQL-u root-p
- Create a databaseCREATE DATABASE wordpress;
- Create the user associatedCREATE USER wp_user;
- Set the password of userSET PASSWORD FOR wp_user = PASSWORD("123456");
- Give the rights on the basisGRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO wp_user IDENTIFIED BY '123456';
- Purge the cache and close open tables to take account of the changesFLUSH TABLES;
- Exit MySql by entering exit
- Edit the file /etc/php/PHP.ini to enable the mysql extension. Just decomenter the following lineextension = mysql.so
- Download the latest version of WordPresswget http://WordPress.org/latest.tar.gz
- Since/var/www archiveCD/var/wwwtar zxvf /path/to/latest.tgz
- Change the rights to be the owner http of the Group httpchown-r http:http/var/www/wordpress
- Configure WordPress based on the provided default file
- Save the base case file where ;-)CP /var/www/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/wordpress/wp-config.php
- Edit the /var/www/wordpress/wp-config.php file to configure the connection to the databasedefine('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');define('DB_USER', 'wp_user');
define('DB_PASSWORD', '123456');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
By going to the IP of the Raspberry (with the port in your configuration – Home I took the 8080), Here's what you get :
Voilà. A you now follow the instructions to create your own website. So it is far from a professional server performance but we need to acknowledge that it works rather badly.


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Added trailer and new stills for the upcoming Korean movie "The Scent"
"The Scent" (2012)
Directed by Kim Hyeong-jun
With Park Hee-soon, Park Si-yeon, Joo Sang-wook, Kim Jung-tae, Lee Han-wi, Lee Kwang-soo,...
Go to set up a decoy but come back a suspect?
Detective Kang, adultery special detective, faces the biggest risk of his life!
Adultery special detective Kang, Seon-woo (Park Hee-soon) is on suspension for adultery. A case is recieved three days before the reinstatement of Seon-woo who has a thing for adultery cases and is therefore running a detective agency as a side job. He doesn't have such a good feeling about this but he is somehow dragged into it.
The fatal scent that he can't deny somehow makes Seon-woo the likely suspect of a mysterious murder case and he struggles to free himself but he just makes things worse.
The suspect of this case is a dead man's wife, Soo-jin (Park Si-yeon). To make things worse, Seon-woo becomes the suspect while he goes to set up a decoy, will he be able to make things right again?
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Grand Canal Dock was traditionally the centre of Dublin's shipping industry, but during economic downturns it suffered and became characterised by dilapidated warehouses. A re-development programme has since transformed Grand Canal Dock and now it is associated with state-of-the-art developments; a theme this project aims to uphold.
The proposed uses include a multi-disciplinary architectural practice, a retail unit and a coffee shop. The standard approach for a mixed-use building has been to separate and define its different uses; however this building aims to create integration, free movement and a sense of community.
Therefore, the driving concepts - transparency and interaction - have heavily influenced the design, creating an attractive, cutting edge building that promotes movement and social contact through the use of engaging focal areas and exciting circulation routes.
Mc Loughney believed this was essential to the success of the project, as it gave life to a building that had for so long been an empty, 'dead' warehouse.
This is an original project in its conception, due to the fact that very few old buildings in Ireland have been re-designed in this way. The traditional approach would be to subtly recreate and replace areas of the buildings that have fallen into disrepair, such as choosing building materials that mimic the existing in an attempt to show the building has been reinstated.
This project, however, intends to create a strong juxtaposition between the existing original and the new. In this way each highlights the other's qualities and creates an exciting environment in which cutting edge modern architecture meets 19th-century Irish industrial architecture.
This project also aims to be innovative by pushing the boundaries of sustainable energy production in Ireland. 'River water cooling technology' will be incorporated, utilising water from the adjacent canal basin to refrigerate and cool, while a natural ventilation system will distribute fresh air throughout the building and the same system will warm the distributed air during the winter.
An existing south-facing roof pitch will house numerous solar panels which will provide the building's warm air energy needs. A 'wet' rainwater collection system will also be utilised. Natural light is maximised during the day and solar charged lights will provide the evening and night lighting, making this building energy self-sufficient - a first in Irish commercial architecture.


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This is our very first post! We started this blog to celebrate all that is amazing about the mid-island (Vancouver Island) and the special place Ladysmith plays right in the center of it all. Hikes, meals, events, arts, history, recreation and culture from the ocean to the mountains and everywhere in between. A heritage place with a progressive pace.
Join us as our team of contributors celebrate all that is great about this special place. Contact us if you'd like to join the team and follow us on social @viewtosea
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Sunday is a good day for stories of hope and inspiration.
Personal stories of benefit from low-carb/controlled-carb nutrition:
Jenny Ruhl, diagnosed with diabetes in 1998
Personal stories on Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt's blog
Dr. Jay Wortman's personal story
If you would like to inspire others with your personal story, but don't want to do this on a blog, Tumblr, etc, a good option is Ancestral Weight Loss Registry (listed under LINKS).
A comment by Dr. Richard Feinman on another site, quoted in full:
RIchard Feinman · Professor of Cell Biology (Biochemistry) at State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
"People need to do what works for them." How do you find out what works best for you. Diabetes is a disease of carbohydrate restriction. The first thing to try is to keep carbohydrates as low as possible. If that doesn't work, you might want to try something else but it is always good to start with the science. As Dr. Eric Westman put it: At the end of our clinic day, we go home thinking, "The clinical improvements are so large and obvious, why don't other doctors understand?" Carbohydrate restriction is easily grasped by patients: because carbohydrates in the diet raise the blood glucose, and as diabetes is defined by high blood glucose, it makes sense to lower the carbohydrate in the diet. By reducing the carbohydrate in the diet, we have been able to taper patients off as much as 150 units of insulin per day in 8 days, with marked improvement in glycemic control-even normalization of glycemic parameters. Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/193759/diabetes-a-growing-threat-with-no-single-dietary-answer/#Hk7Sl0wpw3xtP5Eh.99.
(I believe he meant to say "Diabetes is a disease of carbohydrate intolerance").


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Acquisition creates Sybase, SAP data management product overlap
SAP could have some difficult choices to make regarding the future of its data integration and analytics products following its Sybase acquisition.
With SAP in the process of acquiring Sybase, current Sybase and SAP data management customers are probably asking themselves, What now?
Unfortunately, there are no clear answers -- at least not yet. But industry analysts say the deal, when finalized, will create a number of areas of product overlap between the newly merged vendors, much as SAP's acquisition of Business Objects did in 2008.
That means the German software maker is again in the position of having to work out a clear product roadmap, deciding which technologies to standardize on and which ones to dump.
Sybase, SAP data integration software overlap
While SAP will gain full-fledged database management system and data warehouse offerings via the acquisition -- Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) and Sybase IQ -- it will also inherit a number of technologies it already offers itself. Among them is data integration software.
While not generally known for its integration technology, Sybase, which is based in Dublin, Calif., has a data integration suite that works closely with the vendors' analytic and transactional databases. It also offers extract, transform and load (ETL) technology and the data federation or enterprise information integration capabilities it acquired from Solande AG in 2006 and Avaki in 2005.
SAP, meanwhile, has ETL technology associated with both its Business Warehouse and Business Objects portfolios, as well as data federation technology acquired from Business Objects.
"A big issue now going forward is whether and/or when a combined SAP-Sybase will converge their ETL and EEI to a single offering," said Jim Kobielus, an analyst with Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research.
SAP analytics software will outlive Sybase Analytic Appliance, partnerships
There will also be some overlap when it comes to analytic appliances and implications for some Sybase partnerships. The Sybase Analytic Appliance is an in-memory, columnar-oriented software-hardware bundle based on the vendor's IQ product, IBM's Power Systems platform, and MicroStrategy's reporting and dashboarding tools.
SAP recently announced, however, that it plans to deliver an in-memory, columnar-oriented analytic appliance of its own called Business Analytic Engine (BAE), expected to hit the market later this year.
SAP is unlikely to continue Sybase's partnership with MicroStrategy, considering its own robust business intelligence (BI) portfolio with NetWeaver and Business Objects. And considering all the work it has put into BAE, SAP is expected to favor it over Sybase's appliance, according to Kobielus.
"You gotta best believe going forward with SAP-Business Objects-Sybase that BAE will be the appliance of choice," he said.
Ray Wang, an analyst with Altimeter Group in San Mateo, Calif., said Sybase and SAP analytics "customers will want a roadmap on 90-day, 180-day, and 1-year integration milestones."
Following its acquisition of Business Objects, SAP eventually settled on a BI product roadmap that heavily favored its newly acquired products. Not all customers were pleased, particularly those that had invested heavily in SAP's pre-Business Objects BI offerings like the BEx reporting tool, which SAP decided to phase out.
As with Business Objects, however, it will probably be some time before SAP reveals its true intentions regarding Sybase. But the acquisition could actually give comfort to Sybase customers.
"They [SAP] are going to run it as a separate company … so it doesn't disrupt current Sybase clients," said Donald Feinberg, an analyst with Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner. "And it should add longevity to the Sybase products overall."
Among the Sybase products likely to be continued are, not surprisingly, Sybase ASE and Sybase IQ.
Despite its occasional protests to the contrary, SAP lacks a legitimate database management system. "That was one clear gap," Forrester's Kobielus said.
As a result, the vendor has had to rely on partners/rivals Oracle, IBM and others to supply supporting database technology to its enterprise applications customers.
With Sybase ASE in the SAP fold, the vendor can wind down those partnerships and collect all that database revenue for itself, Feinberg said. ASE, he added, "gives [SAP] strong DBMS credibility."
SAP could also potentially boost its own data warehouse offering, the SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW), with capabilities inherited from Sybase IQ. SAP BW has come under criticism in the past for its lack of scalability and difficulty integrating data from non-SAP applications.
"The possibility of SAP offering IQ as part of SAP BW is appealing," said Michael Prendergast, a BI consultant and president of Chile-based DataMart S.A., via a LinkedIn Sybase IQ message board. He said it has the potential to improve BW's scalability and query performance and to reduce customers' total cost of ownership by reducing hardware and storage requirements.
And some good news for potential new SAP customers could come in the way of pricing, Kobielus said. Sybase currently offers its analytic appliance for around $27,000 per usable terabyte, he said, significantly lower than SAP's expected analytic appliance pricing.
Kobielus expects SAP to continue the Sybase pricing structure in order to break into the midmarket and to stay competitive with Oracle's Exadata and Netezza's TwinFin.
SAP will also inherit Sybase's complex event processing (CEP) technology, which has enabled Sybase to gain a strong presence in the financial services industry. Its financial services customers include CitiBank, Lincoln Financial Group, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to Sybase's website.
"They're both great companies." Kobielus said of SAP and Sybase. "I'm really expecting great things from these two companies together."


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The eight-member Committee, which includes four members from Assam and four from outside the state, was set up by the Ministry in December 2014 to review all aspects of NHPC's Subansiri Lower Hydro Electric Project.
Construction work of the project has been stalled for over three and half years due to protests.
According to sources in the power ministry, there has been a divided opinion between the groups from Assam and outside.
"While members from Assam are of the view that the entire structure should be reviewed with focus on more safety measures, the group from outside the state looks satisfied with the existing steps," a source told PTI on the condition of anonymity.
Power Ministry officials have confirmed that the group from Assam has submitted an interim report in May this year.
When contacted, a member of the Committee, B P Duarah from Assam said: "We are preparing the final report now. We hope to submit it to the Ministry by the end of this month."
Asked specifically if the final report is being prepared independently by the four members from Assam, Duarah replied in the affirmative.
In December last year, the Union Power Ministry decided to form an eight-member Committee after a two-day consultation with experts and agitating groups to end the stalemate in completing the project.
The Committee was supposed to submit its report to the ministry within next three months, but failed to do so due to differences among the members.
All the members were selected in consultation with the agitating groups like Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), All Assam Students' Union (AASU) and Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chhatra Parishad (AJYCP).
Construction work of the ambitious project at Gerukamukh along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border on Subansiri river has been stalled since December 2011 following protests by locals and many groups fearing safety and downstream impact.
The Subansiri project is the biggest hydro-electric project undertaken in India so far and is a run-of-river scheme on Subansiri.
In October last year, Minister of State for Home, Kiren Rijiju, said NHPC lost Rs 7,000 crore due to delay in completion of Subansiri dam.


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Omax Expands Waterjet-Training Program
Omax Corp., Kent, WA, recently increased the capacity of its training center in Kent to provide Omax and Maxiem JetMachining Center owners with enhanced training and productivity resources.
The 22,000-sq.-ft. training center features a new technology-training classroom that supplements an existing equipment-training lab. The classroom provides additional space for training, taking customers step-by-step through the process of making parts. In the equipment-training lab, customers receive hands-on experience in how to operate and maintain waterjet machines.
To complement its onsite training, Omax offers several eLearning opportunities that include certified instructors hosting live and on-demand webinars, software and maintenance training videos, and tutorials available through the company's online support site and Omax and Maxiem machine control units.
The company also offers software, operation and maintenance training at customer locations. This includes fee-based customized training where a training manager works one-on-one with a customer to determine the best training focus for meeting a specific production requirement.
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Thank you Immacula!!! Working with you has been an uplifting and life changing experience. A change and experience I needed and at times did not know what exactly I needed to do to initiate and find the positive direction for personal awareness, strength and inner calm. My dietary changes and nutritional education was essential as the starting point, and then adding your guidance, awareness and prayers to assist me in opening up to my inner strength. I have personal activities and goals so I can continue to work toward a positive and healthy attitude and spirit. Thank you again!!! I greatly appreciate your work and the sharing, caring, help and push I needed at this juncture in my life. Blessings to you!- Allie
| Nov 2012
When I began this journey, I weighed 203 lbs. I am now at 185. My initial goal was to weigh 175, but as I got down to 178 lbs I realized that 175 is too small for me. I went into this initially for fibroid treatment, but got the benefit of weight loss. I have come to listen and understand my body throughout this time. I saw significant improvements in my skin (to start, there was no more blotchiness or dryness, instead it looked hydrated and moist), not to mention the increase in energy and mental vitality. Whenever I ate something my body didn't want, I noticed how I began to feel physically and mentally. That was my queue of what I should and should not be putting into my body. I have really changed the way I eat and my thoughts about eating. I have come to incorporate healthier foods into my diet, including more fruits, vegetables and grains. I do have my days when I go into an eating mode where I crave sweets (mainly chocolate) and I do indulge. What I have learned is not to beat myself up, nor deny myself. They key is to find a happy medium where I do not harm my body, but instead pamper and nourish it. I've continued to work out to maintain my weight and I am at a new fitness goal, to tone up and look more defined. People have definitely noticed my weight loss and have asked what is my secret. The good thing is, it really is as simple as telling them: "I've changed my eating habits and I work out more". I began at a size 14, went down to a 10 and I am now at a size 12. My fibroid have also been treated, even though I still have traces of one left. I have allowed myself to remain at 185lbs and not go down, as I think this is the ideal weight for my frame. But I have definitely come to realize that the fluctuations in my weight are completely within my control. I view this change as a lifestyle change and not just a short term goal, and I have definitely been encouraged to continue on this path which nourishes my body. Immacula was very instrumental in recommending substitutes for the things I love, which has helped me to stay on course. Also as a bonus allergies and stuffy nose are a thing of the past. I would definitely recommend her services to anyone.- Akia V.
Manhattan NY | Sep 2012
Hey there Immacula...just wanted to stop by and show you that all your advice and information has finally paid off. Yep - I did it - FINALLY. Can't say it was easy. It was a lot of hard work and determination but I stuck with it and even with a knee injury. I strained my meniscus and once I was able to put weight down on my right side...I hit the ground running and have not stopped since. I was only trying to get down to a size 14 but somehow I went passed that without even knowing and I am now a size 10. Well, I just wanted to say thanks again for all your help. Hope all is well with you. Take care. Hope to talk with you soon.- Tess D.
Charlotte NC | Sep 2012
Immacula came into my and took it by storm! I can't believe that I have achieved so much in such a little amount of time. Then I have to look back and remember that she told me that I could do it. I had gained 40lbs post baby, was suffering from a growing fibroid and little energy. As soon as I spoke to Immacula she got right on the case. She was careful to listen to every detail and document all that I had to tell her. I began the journey thinking "who am I kidding, I can't do this." Now when I look back it happened so quickly that now I am wondering is there an off button! Her practical and easy recipes along with a thoroughly laid out plan is error proof. I have to admit I had some struggles but in this situation the good far outweighs the uncomfortable. Immacula has been there for the good, bad, highs, lows, late night conversations of encouragement and answering questions. I now have a renewed since of self. I have so much energy, drive and determination that was once looming in the background of my mind. This has been a total me transformation. My compliments have gone from, you are glowing, to you look 10 years younger. My favorite quote to my husband is "I don't know why everyone doesn't do this, it really works! As I continue my transformation I am happy that my light is shining to others who hopefully with the coaching of Immacula can have a similar transformation. -Philesha Evans- Philesha Evans
| Jun 2011
This whole experience has been an eye opener, lifestyle changing experience for me. I thank God for putting Immacula (my mentor) in my path. Since February, because of the change in my eating habits, I have lost approximately 38 lbs. have gotten myself off of 2 medicines (metformin for diabetes & a diuretic for blood pressure) and is now naturally under control. If it has not been for this Mindset/Lifestyle Change it would not be possible. At one point my doctor wanted to put me on cholesterol medication, I went as far as filling the prescription, but never took it and brought my own numbers down through proper eating and exercise. I feel that through this Lifestyle Change, it will save my life!!!- Yvonne Powell
Hempstead NY | Oct 2010
Hello my name is Jennifer and I started with Immacula in mid September and lost a total of 25 pounds in 8 weeks. It was easy to follow and found it very successful. This Lifestyle has made me healthier than I have ever been in my life. I feel and look wonderful and so happy that I got the opportunity to have Immacula in my life. She has inspired me to keep fit and keep myself in shape. I was supposed to go to the gym 3x a week and actually never went to the gym. I would up losing the weight strictly from eating properly and sticking to her program! I must say it definitely works and would recommend her to anyone who wants to lose weight and keep it off! It's now January and I'm down another 15 pounds and able to enjoy the foods I love to eat! Thank you Jennifer Fried- Jennifer Fried
Rockville Center | Jan 2010
I find that when I start doubting my capabilities or get in negative mode about my idea -- all I have to do is talk to you AND: Your positive thought process brings me back from uncertainty....you share quotes like the meaning of FEAR or some other anecdote and I feel clarity and again start to feel that "YES I CAN" accomplish whatever I'd like to set out to do!! Your advice on cutting it down to smaller pieces and visualizing what I want brings hopeful thoughts and I take some sort of action now, no matter how small.... Something about my personality or upbringing (not sure which) makes it easy for me to see things as improbable to impossible a lot of times...Like it's too much for little ol' me to take on...BUT then you say it's out in the UNIVERSE for me and all I have to do is reach out for it and it does seem attainable... SO, don't stop talking to me, OKAY??? You and I are back in touch for a REASON!!!- Gladys Ayala-Borjos
Queens NY | Oct 2009
I find that when I start doubting my capabilities or get in negative mode about my idea -- all I have to do is talk to you AND: Your positive thought process brings me back from uncertainty....you share quotes like the meaning of FEAR or some other anecdote and I feel clarity and again start to feel that "YES I CAN" accomplish whatever I'd like to set out to do!! Your advice on cutting it down to smaller pieces and visualizing what I want brings hopeful thoughts and I take some sort of action now, no matter how small.... Something about my personality or upbringing (not sure which) makes it easy for me to see things as improbable to impossible a lot of times...Like it's too much for little ol' me to take on...BUT then you say it's out in the UNIVERSE for me and all I have to do is reach out for it and it does seem attainable... SO, don't stop talking to me, OKAY??? You and I are back in touch for a REASON!!!- Anonymous
Queens NY | Oct 2009
What can I say about my experience with Immacula? I have learned so much spiritually and physically about my health and myself. Since about 5th grade I had been husky. As I got older weight was such a traumatic things for me. I tried going to the gym, taking weight-loss supplements, salad diets, lemonade diets, grapefruit diets, and the not-eat-anything-all-day-and-overeat-at-dinnertime diet. I was losing the weight but I was not keeping it off and when I gained back sometimes it would be more than I lost. I was expressing my concern with my weight to my dentist, Dr. Nikki Bell and she said she knew the perfect person to help me. Dr. Bell took my information and a few weeks later Immacula called. From the first phone call I became excited about what Immacula and I could do together. I was ready for a new me inside and out. The first week I lost 13 pounds!! YES THIRTEEN!! At the end of two weeks I had lost 19 pounds!! Before the end of my first week people started noticing I was losing weight. I hadn't even paid much attention yet. The things Immacula had me to change in my diet were very doable. I ate real food however I was learning what food was better to eat, how food affected my body, as well as how to prepare the foods. Some of the combinations seemed weird at first. Once I prepared them I was so amazed to find out how tasty the combinations were. I was getting all my nutrients and vitamins straight from natural foods. Immacula provided with tons of information and the support. It is hard not to succeed with her positive enthusiasm around you all the time. My goal was to lose 75 pounds in a year and 15-20 pounds by my birthday, which was in September. I started with Immacula the week before July 4th weekend. Even with the array of food presented to me that weekend I was still able to follow my plan. I wont say that the process was easy but Immacula was my shadow when I needed her. By week 3 I started going to the gym in addition to following the plan. At the end of my 6 weeks I had lost 30 pounds!! I was so amazed to go shopping to find out that I could fit a dress size 18-20 when only 6 weeks earlier I was in a size 24. Immacula gives so much information to guide you along your path. She never told me anything that she did not back up with resources for me to view myself. No matter what time of the day or night I called she was able to assist me. Even when I left a voicemail she called me back right away. She was an amazing support system. She provided me with a great deal of encouragement. I believe that learning is the most important part of weight loss. The information I was given will help me in the future to keep the pounds off. I will definitely work with her again in the future and would recommend anyone who is ready for a change in his or her life to try Immacula's plan. Shakema Appleton, Age 25 Long Island, NY- Shakema Appleton
Long Island NY | Oct 2009
I must have a cup of coffee every morning in order to function at optimal capacity. That's what I thought until I tried Immacula's detox program. I lost 21 pounds in 5 weeks on the detox program. It is not another diet fad, but a change of lifestyle. You have to make the decision to change your eating habits. I did not miss the coffee, neither the eggs, bacon and toast. These where replaced with raw foods. I did not realize that I can enjoy healthy, delicious meals; using raw fruits and vegetables while reaping remarkable benefits. The energy soup that consists of raw vegetables gave me the energy that I needed to perform all tasks. The additional fiber in my diet keeps things moving through the colon. It gives you the nutrients that the body needs while eliminating what the body does not need. It works! I have never felt better.- Dr Sherry Hamilton
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Well it all happened in my 6th grade year. I was just starting middle school and There was this 8th grader on my bus who was kind of annoying he was the most popular guy in the 8th grade though. I was already crushing on this older guy. but this 8th grader followed me to my locker, stared at me, pulled out my hairtye and alot of other crazy stuff. I realized i liked him the last week of school and i was so embaresed for not knowing. Of course he didnt like me back but i enjoyed it anyway. That was my second big crush
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L-R: Birthday Cake, Wild Safari, Pink Cocoa, Central Park, Big Kiss and Happily Ever After.
From the moment Tanya Burr announced she would be launching a line of lipsticks for Tanya Burr Cosmetics, I knew I would have to get a hold of them. And so on the day they were released on Superdrug online I swiftly added all six shades to my cart and awaited their arrival. As I mentioned before there are six wonderful shades ranging from everyday nudes to the more classic reds. These have quickly become my go-to lipstick choice for all the right reasons and not to mention are super Instagram worthy!
I'm obsessed with the choice of packaging Tanya has designed for this line, which gives off major Old Hollywood vibes. The gold square tube feels expensive and luxe but still comes in with an affordable price tag. I must say usually when it comes to drugstore lipstick releases I'll pick out a few colours that I like, but it's very rarely I'll love the entire range and purchase every single one. Although a selection of six shades may seem small, it certainly doesn't lack on the colour variety and beautiful pigmentation. These are super easy to wear, blendable and leave a lovely sheen to the lips. I love a creamy formulation over a matte anyday and all six shades feel super comfortable and wearable for long periods of time – I even ate a greasy burger and my lips still looked fabulous after. The range features: a pinky nude, pinky brown, burgundy plum, pinky coral, hot pink and orangey red.
Birthday Cake is a gorgeous pinky nude with slight blue undertones making it totally a Kim K.W shade and is perfect for school or work environments due to is subtly. Wild Safari is a beautiful orangey red with blue undertones which is my staple colour when wanting to make a statement. I always feel super confident in red as it makes your teeth appear whiter and brighter. Pink Cocoa has become my everyday favourite that I leave in my handbag, this pinky brown is super on trend right now and possibly my most loved from the collection. Central Park is a vibrant hot pink, something I always gravitate towards when it's a girls night out and perfect if your wardrobe is 90% monochrome like mine. Big Kiss is a lovely burgundy plum is the ultimate autumnal shade, but can be worn all year 'round. I recently wore this colour with a pale pink floral playsuit and it was gorgeous. Happily Ever After is possibly my new shade for summer, this pinky coral is perfect for when you want something with a pop of colour and throws me back to my European summer holiday.
I'm excited to see what Tanya Burr Cosmetics has in store for future lipsticks launches and 2017 releases.


text: 04.03.13 Mackie launches updates for DL series mixers AUTHOR: Inavate AUDIO Mackie has launched an update to the Master Fader application for the DL 1608 and DL 806 digital live sound mixers. Among the features of Master Fader v1.4 for iPad are a selection of channel plug-ins and an improved snapshot operation. The compressor and gate provide a fast attack, non-linear attack/release and program dependent release. The vintage EQ captures the unique interactions between the shelving bands and the gain and frequency-dependent Q instruments. Users of DL series mixers who have snapped an iPad photo of the band or have chosen an icon to use as the channel ID can now sync these images between all wireless devices connected to the mixer. Also, shows will now load in the background, keeping all wireless devices online when a show is changed. AUDIO


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Over on Film School Rejects they have an article on the Captain America frozen in the ice as part of the alternate opening for the Incredible Hulk DVD. I found this to be the better of the article s on the subject. Please check it out here.
And for your amusement…. HULK SMASH!!!!
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Worried about being vegetarian or vegan while traveling in Japan? Worry no more!
Yasaitei, Shizuoka
Service: Excellent and very friendly
Facilities: Very clean and beautiful washroom
Prices: Reasonable
Strong points: Vegan and vegetarian Cuisine possible any time, Izakaya gastronomy, local products, oden. Good list of sake, shochu and wines.
Time and again I have said that vegans and vegetarians would probably have their happiest times in Japan, at least for gastronomes, because this country, and especially Shizuoka with its mild weather and abundance of vegetables in all seasons, can provide all ingredients all year round whose traceability is easy to prove.
The above o-tooshi (お通し) is not vegetarian, but you aforementioned priorities will ensure it is.
There are many places in Shizuoka City and Prefecture offering alternatives to their omnivorous dishes for vegans and vegetarians who still want to enjoy their outing with friends with different priorities. One such place, and arguably the best at it, is Yasaitei in Tokiwa Cho, Aoi Ku, Shizuoka City. Incidentally the owner/chef and staff are all ladies, but customers are certainly of both genders.
And here is one recommendation:
Vegetable sashimi plate. The above is the basic one, but you certainly may order for a bigger variety.
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Ice plant and celery
One thing all these vegetables have in common is that they are super fresh, crunchy, juicy and so tasty.
Tomatoes and daikon
Japanese cucumber
Onion and shiso/perilla leaf
Simple but exquisite dressing made with higher-class sesame oil, rock salt and miso paste
For friends who like seafood: cod roe steamed and marinated in rice vinegar
Another "o-tooshi (お通し) snack served with the first drink
Lotus root/renkon/蓮根 in "kinpira" fashion. Such a satisfying crunch!
Grilled fresh shiitake (椎茸)
The shiitake were simply grilled and seasoned with soy sauce before being served over shiso/perilla leaves.
Freshly grated daikon and ginger were provided for further seasoning and enjoyment.
Surely one of the best ways to enjoy fresh shiitake
Another o-tooshi
Mushrooms and fried tofu o-hitashi (お浸し) Japanese-style light appetizer
Maitake, tomato and spinach stir-fried in sesame oil and served with fresh coriander.
Maitake (舞茸) in English stands for mushrooms called Hen-of-the-Woods, Ram's Head or Sheep's Head.
Juicy and so tasty mushrooms
Note the coriander for beautiful balance in presentation and taste!
Another o-tooshi
Mushrooms and mekabu/芽蕪/small turnips! If you are vegetarian or vegan just tell them not to top it with katsuo bushi
Steamed eringe (or eringi) (エリンゲ) known in English as king trumpet mushroom, French horn mushroom or king oyster mushroom.
The eringe were steamed together with fresh cucumber and served with freshly grated Shizuoka-grown wasabi.
|Yasaitei (やさい亭)
|Shizuoka City, Aoi Ku, Tokiwa-Cho, 1-6-2 Green Heights Wamon 1-C
Shizuoka City, Aoi Ku, Tokiwa-Cho, 1-6-2 Green Heights Wamon 1-C
|Opening Hours
|17:00~24:00 (closed on Sundays)
|Price Range
|Set Courses: 3,000~5,000 yenA la Carte also available
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KREAMER, PA—Kreamer Feed and Nature's Best Organic Feeds welcome Staci Loop to the team this month as Livestock Nutritionist and Organic Product Manager in their Organic Sales Department.
"With increased regulations and the need for greater food safety in the feed industry, Staci will focus on quality control at both the organic and conventional feed mills and will assist with targeting HACCP certification in the organic mill, over the next year," says Bob Buehler, General Manager at Kreamer Feed. "We also increased distribution of Nature's Best Organic bag feed nationwide, so Staci will be responding to the need for more new organic feed bag products in different regions of the United States."
Loop, originally from Pennsylvania, has earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in animal and nutritional sciences from West Virginia University. While there, she completed many graduate projects researching poultry and feed. Loop was both a teaching and graduate research assistant, giving her great exposure to the poultry feed and agricultural industries.
In her new role, Loop will be responsible for achieving annual organic certification for the organic feed mill and all organic feeds, evaluating new ingredients for the feeds, developing new organic feed products, reviewing and recommending direction on all organic matters, and assisting the quality control team with the quality assurance program and implementing their policies. Loop plans to attend various meetings throughout the year to stay up-to-date on industry standards and procedures.
Kreamer Feed, established in 1947, is a leader in the manufacturing and distribution of livestock feeds. With the development of Nature's Best Organic Feeds, Kreamer Feed is now a distributor of certified organic livestock feed. Family owned and operated, the company is looking to expand their sales across the United States and worldwide. Visit www.kreamerfeed.com and www.organicfeeds.com to learn more.


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I'm not talking about decorating the house, I'm talking about decorating cakes and cookies, or cupcakes!
Two major things you will need:
1. Extra Time
2. Extra patience
Extra time because it takes longer to complete anything with little hands helping you, because they are slower. Actually the slow thing doesn't bother me, because I'm so slow by nature. If I were an animal I would've been a turtle, but a purple one of course, LOL!! Extra patience because, well, kids' are messy! No more explanation needed on that one :)
Normally whenever the kids' do anything that involves decorating with icing, I always let them use the little Pampered Chef items.
These are small enough to fit perfectly in their little sweet hands! Plus it saves me a lot of clean up because if you've ever let a kid use an icing bag you know what happens, it all comes out the back instead of the front! In a pinch I have used a bread tie to close the back end of the pastry bag, but it's still awkward in their hands and these little Pampered Chef things are cute! It only comes in a package of 3, so when baby Justin gets old enough to help I guess one of the big kids' will have to use the bag, but we won't think sad things like that about kids' growing up today!
So the next time you have some frosting, even store bought would work, let your little ones help you create something beautiful! It may not look even edible, but if your own child made it, you know it will be the most amazing thing in the world! Plus the added bonus will be you'll not only be spending time with your kids', you'll get to see that amazing smile light up that little face!! It's a win, win, situation for both of you :)
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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The Statistica Workbook (*.stw)
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technology. Technically speaking, workbooks are ActiveX
containers used to manage all Statistica documents ( tables, graphs),
as well as all other ActiveX compatible documents such as Microsoft Excel
worksheets or Microsoft Word documents. Each workbook contains two panels:
an Explorer-style navigation tree on the left and a document viewer on
the right. The navigation tree (workbook tree) can be hierarchically split
into various nodes allowing you to organize your files in logical groupings
( all analysis outputs, all macros created for a project). Tabs at the
bottom of the document viewer (workbook viewer) are used to easily navigate
the children of the currently selected node.
Workbooks help to organize sets of output
files ( spreadsheets, graphs, reports, macros, non-Statistica files, etc.)
that have been created or used ( reviewed) during the analysis of a data
file. Refer to the Workbook
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Michaele Dunlap, Psy.D.
Contact Information
Accepting new clients: Yes
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Family Therapy
- I offer family therapy to adult family members in all configurations (adult children and parents, adult siblings, related couples and their offspring, and to family systems which include adolescent members.)
- I offer parenting support and sometimes include children in family sessions but do not have a child-focused practice.
Family-Business Consultation
- I consult to families on relationship, structural and development issues of closely held businesses. (i.e. businesses owned by siblings, spouses, two or more generations of family members).
- I work from a dynamic systems perspective and lifetime experience of family entrepreneurship.
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The future of therapists on the Internet.
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Predicting the Future
It is, as they say, hard to predict, especially the future. But let's try.
Michaele P. Dunlap, Psy.D. 1/14/03
The trends In June1993 there were 123 academic and government sites on the Internet, the Internet was a bright new idea. The electronic transmission of information on line was a fuzzy concept to nearly everyone. People said, "I'll never understand it. It has nothing to do with me." Now, a decade later, there are millions of web sites, most people understand how to use the language of Internet domains, and the pattern of people's daily use of the Internet includes e-mail, on-line news, fourth graders homework, play and chit-chat, the habit of buying movie tickets on line, getting a map to a new dentist, or the quick click into a favorite shopping site to purchase and send a gift, a book, a new cartridge for the printer.
Another trend Internet listings for mental health professionals are being promoted by professional organizations, for-profit companies and the publishers of mental health magazines, insurance companies and local professional groups post lists of members names and addresses on line. One organization, the American Mental Health Alliance - USA (AMHA-USA) has created and is developing a unique professional resource, available to all licensed professionals who value integrity, client privacy and professional collaboration. The development of Internet presence for AMHA-USA began in 1998 with the work of Dr. Michael Conner, an AMHA Oregon member who created the site http://www.OregonCounseling.org for Mentor Research Institute. That site lists Oregon AMHA members, each on their own page, and links their pages to articles they have written. Dr. Conner's research with creating interlocking sets of domain names and sites helped develop the design protocols for the more elaborate site created by Mike Davis and Warren Dexter for AMHA-USA which was launched in April, 2000 at http://www.AmericanMentalHealth.com
A unique resource On http://www.AmericanMentalHealth.com, AMHA-USA member professionals each have web listings that allow their skills, professional focus and location to be searched by more than two hundred terms pertaining to types of problems, theories, types of interventions, location, professional training and specialized skills. AMHA-USA members, uniquely have access to their own professional information data bases, the capability to administer, change, improve, revise and update their listings at will from their own home or office computers.
Does the process of managing a professional data page on www.AmericanMentalHealth.com require a bit of persistence to learn? Yes. Is it worthwhile? Yes. And, in the near future it will become an essential of professional practice development and maintenance to be "findable" on the Internet.
In some communities more than 70% of the households and 80% of the businesses use the Internet to find information and make purchasing choices every week. Mental health professionals who do not present their practices on the Internet will miss the opportunity to serve large numbers of clients, businesses and organizations. Well, you say, I can get a free listing, or a free web site. And, yes, you can. But ... how will you advertise it? The Internet is crowded to bursting with individual and small group web sites. Those sites however have little more drawing power for your practice in New York or Oregon than a billboard in Colorado . That is ... the process of promoting and pulling web searchers to web sites is now a vitally important a part of visibility on the Internet. By creating a national site, with every page and every article and every discrete page posting and enhanced page posting individually searchable on the web by its own search terms, by developing sub-sites for chapter activities and by advertising the sites and several different and attractive domain names nationally on Internet yellow pages and with Internet search engine placement marketing, AMHA-USA is creating dozens, soon hundreds, then thousands of layers of "searchablity" to pull client searches to members' practices.
And, then there are enhanced pages! AMHA chapter members and AMHA-USA national members have enhanced pages that take the capabilities for control over how much and what sorts of professional information one presents on line to deeper and more useful levels. With an enhanced page, and the time it takes to master the relatively simple steps of enhanced page management, the AMHA-USA member professional can add her own articles, her new groups and workshops, the marketing of her pamphlet or book, a demonstration of his skill as a public speaker, a sample of his new education tape on parenting skill, a copy of the electronic map to her office, a link to the best new article on the internet about improving a marriage .... to his/her very own personal page, all embedded within the network of interlocked sites and listings advertised nationally by AMHA-USA. And, the AMHA member can purchase and point a unique personal domain name to the enhanced page, allowing personalized local marketing in addition to the national, regional and chapter marketing efforts. For samples of what some members are beginning to do with their enhanced pages go to www.AmericanMentalHealth.com click on the Therapist Locator Features can be pre-set to turn themselves on and off at certain dates. Does it take a while to learn how to manage an enhanced web page on www.AmericanMentalHealth.com ? Yes. Is it worth it? Yes.
But, what about the future? Oh, yes, here's my prediction. Not many years from now, you'll find a great quotation, or you'll plan a new group, or you'll read or write a good book, or make a new relaxation tape, or write a thoughtful paper, or change your office furniture, and, as casually as today you might call a colleague and share the information, you will post the quotation, information about the group, an e-mail form to register for it, the link to buy your book, the link to buy the other author's book, a sample of the audio tape and a payment link to purchase copies, or the new interior picture of your office on your professional web page, which will be advertised on your business card, your office wall, at your professional listing on your professional association's page, in the local Internet yellow pages, and on the Intranet of seventeen local businesses. And, then, of course, you'll want your own web site within www.AmericanMentalHealth.com so you have the flexibility to create a practice presence as multi-layered as http://or.americanmentalhealth.com.
Michaele P. Dunlap, Psy.D.
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Alcohol and Addiction Materials
Posted below are several articles and handouts focused on alcohol, addictions and recovery topics.
Biological Aspects of Beverage Alcohol
An Overview
Ethyl alcohol or ethanol, known commonly as alcohol, is the same whether the beverage is wine, beer, or hard liquor. Beverage alcohol is a drug that depresses the central nervous system, like barbiturates, sedatives, and anesthetics. Alcohol is not a stimulant. There is no question that the person who drinks alcohol seems stimulated. Speech becomes free and animated, social inhibitions may be forgotten, and the drinker can begin to act and feel more emotional. But these effects are misleading; the "stimulation" occurs only because alcohol affects those portions of the brain that control judgment. "Being stimulated" by alcohol actually amounts to a depression of self-control. A principal effect of alcohol is to slow down brain activity, and depending on what, how much, and how fast a person drinks, the result is slurred speech, hazy thinking, slowed reaction time, dulled hearing, impaired vision, weakened muscles and fogged memory. Certainly not a stimulating experience!
Alcohol is also classified as a food because it contains calories. The average drink has about the same calorie count as a large potato but, unlike a potato or any other food, alcohol has no nutritional value. The calories are empty.
Basics of alcohol metabolism:
Alcohol is not digested like other foods. Instead of being converted and transported to cells and tissues, it avoids the normal digestive process and goes directly to the blood stream. About 20 percent of the alcohol is absorbed directly into the blood through the stomach walls and 80 percent is absorbed into the bloodstream through the small intestine.
Alcohol dilutes itself in the water volume of the body in order to travel through the system. Those vital organs, like the brain, that contain a lot of water and need an ample blood supply are particularly vulnerable to the effects of alcohol. Alcohol's dilution in the body does cut its effect somewhat. There one important biological difference between men and women comes into play: Muscle tissue contains more water than fat tissue, so men (who have more muscle and less fat on the average than women) can have about 10 percent more water in their bodies. If a lean man and a lean woman of equal weight consume the same amount of liquor, the woman is more adversely affected for this and other reasons.
The initial impact of alcohol:
The brain, liver, heart, pancreas, lungs, kidneys, and every other organ and tissue system are infiltrated by alcohol within minutes after it passes into the blood stream. The strength of the drink will have a significant effect on absorption rates, with higher concentrations of alcohol resulting in more rapid absorption. Pure alcohol is generally absorbed faster than diluted alcohols, which are, in turn, absorbed faster than wine or beer.
Alcohol taken in concentrated amounts can irritate the stomach lining to the extent that it produces a sticky mucous which delays absorption. The pylorus valve which connects the stomach and small intestine may go into spasm in the presence of concentrated alcohol, trapping the alcohol in the stomach instead of passing it on to the small intestine where it would be more rapidly absorbed into the blood stream. The drinker who downs several straight shots in an effort to get a quick high may actually experience a delayed effect. Finally, the temperature of the beverage affects its absorption, with warm alcohol being absorbed more rapidly than cold alcohol.
Measurement of effect by blood alcohol level (BAL):
The drinker's blood alcohol level rises as a factor of the relationship among the amount of alcohol consumed, body size and proportion of body fat, the amount of food in the stomach, and what is mixed with the alcohol. The BAL rises more rapidly in those who drink on an empty stomach. Water and fruit juices slow the absorption process, while carbon dioxide speeds it up. The carbon dioxide in champagne and carbonated mixers such as Cola, and soda water rushes through the stomach and intestinal walls into the blood stream, carrying alcohol with it and creating a rapid rise in BAL. A 0.08 BAL, for example, indicates approximately 8 parts alcohol to 10,000 parts other blood components. When a person drinks more alcohol than his or her body can eliminate, alcohol accumulates in the blood stream and the BAL rises.
Elimination of alcohol from a healthy adult body occurs at an average rate of approximately 2 to 3/4 ounce per hour, the equivalent of 1 ounce of 100-proof whiskey, one large beer, or about 3 to 4 ounces of wine. When blood alcohol concentrations reach very high levels, the brain's control over the respiratory system may be paralyzed. A .30 BAL is the minimum level at which death can occur; at .40 the drinker may lapse into a coma. At .50 BAL, respiratory functions and heartbeat slow drastically, and at .60 most drinkers are dead.
Body Systems and Effects:
The Liver: Located in the upper-right side of the abdomen, the liver is the body's largest glandular organ. Its complex functions are associated with dozens of processes of body chemistry and metabolism. It produces the bile that helps digest fatty foods; it manufactures heparin, an anticoagulant, it stores and releases sugar. The liver also produces antibodies that help ward off disease, and it cleanses the body of poisons, including alcohol. With small amounts of alcohol, this cleansing can happen effectively. When the amount of alcohol is high, imbalances are created which can lead to hypoglycemia (low blood� sugar), hyperuricemia (as in arthritis or gout), fatty liver (which may lead to hepatitis or cirrhosis), and hyperlipemia (build-up of fats sent to the bloodstream; which leads to heart problems).
The Central Nervous System: The central nervous system (CNS) includes the brain, the spinal cord, and the nerves originating from it. Sensory impulses are transmitted to the CNS and motor impulses pass from it. When alcohol acts on the CNS, intoxication occurs, affecting emotional and sensory function, judgement, memory and learning ability. Smell and taste are dulled. The ability to withstand pain increases as the BAL rises.
Different parts of the brain seem to be affected by alcohol at different rates, creating alternate periods of restlessness and stupor. Long‑term effects of alcohol on the central nervous system include tolerance, dependency, and irreversible damage. Changes in tolerance for alcohol, and the alcoholic drinker's dependency on alcohol, demonstrate that changes occur in the brain.
With each drinking episode, central nervous system functions deteriorate in a predictable sequence, beginning with intellectual functioning, followed by disturbances in sensory and motor control. Last affected are the automatic biological functions, such as breathing and heart action.
The brain is the organ that is most affected by alcohol, and proves that it is being damaged through the drinker's behavior changes and emotional distress. Three noticeable effects of alcohol injury to the brain: memory loss, confusion, and augmentation. (Augmentation is a physiological response to alcohol which results in hyper-alertness to normal situations, perceiving light as brighter or sounds as louder than usual, or the drinker=s becoming extremely sad or angry for no apparent reason.) The drinker's rapid mood swings and emotional and behavioral instability can be brought under control by stopping drinking.
Blackouts, or loss of memory for a period during drinking, are a physical effect of alcohol on the brain. They occur as alcohol cuts off the supply of oxygen to the brain. Lack of oxygen supply to the brain can kill tens of thousands of brain cells every time a person becomes intoxicated.
Another effect of alcohol on the brain is the "learned behavior syndrome"; when a behavior is learned under the influence of alcohol, the drinker sometimes must re-learn that behavior after stopping drinking.
The Blood: One effect of drinking alcohol is "blood-sludging" where the red blood cells clump together causing the small blood vessels to plug up, starve the tissues of oxygen, and cause cell death. This cell death is most serious, and often unrecognized, in the brain. With this increased pressure, capillaries break, create red eyes in the morning, or the red, blotchy skin seen on the heavy drinker's face. Blood vessels can also break in the stomach and esophagus leading to hemorrhage, even death.
Other effects of alcohol on the blood include: anemia; sedation of the bone marrow (which reduces the red and white blood count, and weakens the bone structure); lowered resistance to infection; and a decrease in the ability to fight off infections.
The Gastrointestinal Tract: The stomach, the small and large intestines, and the pancreas are each affected by alcohol. Alcohol increases acid in the stomach. That can result in gastritis or stomach or intestinal ulcers. The pancreas produces insulin which is necessary to regulate the amount of sugar in the blood. Drinking causes a steep rise in the blood sugar; the pancreas responds by producing insulin which causes a fast drop in blood sugar and the symptom of low blood sugar or hypoglycemia. 70-90% of alcoholics suffer to some degree from the disorder of hypoglycemia, chronic low blood sugar, as a long term effect of their drinking. Symptoms of hypoglycemia can include dizziness, headaches, lack of ability to concentrate, depression, anxiety, light-headedness, tremors, cold sweats, heart palpitations, loss of coordination, and upset stomach. In time, the drinker's overworked pancreas may stop producing insulin and diabetes can result. Conversely, a person with a family history of diabetes may be more vulnerable to problems with alcohol.
The Muscles: Alcohol reduces blood flow to the muscles, including the heart, causing muscle weakness and deterioration. One outcome is cardiomyopathy (sluggish heart) which is common in alcoholics. Another outcome, arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat), or "holiday heart," is often treated in emergency wards after several days of party drinking. Muscle aches are a common symptom of excessive-drinking "hangovers."
The Endocrine System: This system controls the body's hormones and includes the pineal, pituitary, thyroid, and adrenal glands, and the ovaries or testes. Alcohol sedates these glands, resulting in under-production of hormones; effects include increased susceptibility to allergies. Alcohol can effect sexual functioning in various ways. In low doses, it lowers inhibitions and may make a person feel sexier; but in higher doses, it can decrease sexual functioning: in men, by decreasing the frequency of erections, decreasing the maintenance of erections, decreasing penile size during erection, and increasing the amount of time between erections, in women by interfering with normal processes of sexual stimulation, and blocking orgasmic response. With chronic and prolonged use of alcohol in men, there is a shrinkage of sex glands and an increase of the "female hormone" estrogen. This produces secondary sexual characteristics, such as enlarged breasts and a decrease in body hair. Prolonged use of alcohol can cause infertility in both men and women.
tolerance: As people drink, their tolerance for alcohol may increase. They might seem to be able to "handle" alcohol better and need more to achieve the same effect as before. The liver does not become more tolerant, and is damaged over the course of time, leading to poor liver function and a noticeable decrease in tolerance, or "reverse-tolerance". A heavy drinker's reverse-tolerance is a sign of late‑stage alcoholism.
withdrawal: The effects of alcohol on the body account for the sick, uncomfortable, shaky feelings following a period of drinking. Withdrawal symptoms vary in intensity according to the amount and prolonged frequency of drinking.
Symptoms of alcohol withdrawal include:
hangovers -- fairly common result of overindulging-- headache, fatigue, thirst, and nervousness. There may be nausea and abdominal cramping. Diagnosed alcoholics report fewer hangovers than drinkers who are non-alcoholic, this may be because they have learned to ignore the symptoms.
sleep disturbance -- waking up earlier than usual after expecting to "sleep it off," being unable to fall asleep, disturbed dreaming.
irritability, anxiety, and restlessness -- all caused by the irritant effects of alcohol.
tremors, or "morning shakes"-- Tremors will clear after several days of abstinence, if there is no permanent damage to the nervous system
physical weakness, rapid heart rate,
mental sluggishness
difficulty thinking clearly or flexibly
all are lingering evidence of alcohol's impact on muscles, heart and brain.
For the drinker with only a mild degree of physical dependence, withdrawal effects may not extend beyond the symptoms listed above.
Some drinkers experience second stage withdrawal, marked by:
convulsions -- seizures usually occur between 12 and 48 hours of the last drink. There may be a loss of consciousness and body control.
Third stage withdrawal symptoms involve:
alcoholic hallucinosis and delirium tremens -- auditory, visual and tactile hallucinations occur. This period may last for three to four days, during which the de-toxifying person is in a severe state of agitation, is often completely disoriented and sleeps little, if at all. The delusions are almost always terrifying and may produce violent behavior. There is a 10%‑20% mortality rate associated with this stage of withdrawal. Detoxification of the acutely ill alcoholic requires medical supervision.
Female drinkers reach higher blood alcohol levels (BAL's) faster because of less water and more fat in the body and because of differences in digestive enzymes. Women develop alcohol-related disorders such as brain damage, cirrhosis and cancers at lower levels of drinking than men. It is also known that the menstrual cycle affects alcohol metabolism in women. Women have been shown to develop their highest BAL's immediately before menstruating, and their lowest on the first day of menstruation. This can be related to hormone level shifts. There is evidence which shows that premenstrual syndrome with its emotional and physical discomfort and de-stabilized blood-sugar levels can trigger excessive drinking by some women.
FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME (FAS) and FETAL ALCOHOL EFFECT (FAE)
Women who drink during pregnancy risk the development of both mental and physical defects in their children. Effects on the child can include: growth deficiencies; poorly formed bones and organs, heart abnormalities, cleft palate, retarded intellect, delayed motor development, poor coordination, behavior problems, and learning disabilities. Smoking cigarettes, combined with alcohol use, will increase the chance of birth defects. Use of alcohol increases the chance of miscarriage. It is best that a woman avoid alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine, and other drugs entirely during pregnancy. Antabuse is not a suitable treatment for the pregnant or potentially pregnant alcoholic woman; it interferes with maternal liver function and may cause harm to the developing fetus.
Since harm to the infant may result even before a woman realizes that she is pregnant, women who might become pregnant need to be particularly cautious about what they consume.
Secondary Diabetes: Diabetes can result from prolonged, excessive use of alcohol. Because it is caused by drinking and not from a genetic disorder, it is called "secondary" diabetes. The symptoms are identical to genetic or "primary" diabetes. Abstinence from alcohol is a vital part of treatment for this disorder.
Vitamins and Proteins: Those who use alcohol excessively deprive their bodies of essential nutrients. The drinker and the recovering alcoholic must pay special attention to diet. A diet high in protein not only provides many of the nutrients vital to recovery, but also keeps the blood sugar from too rapid change. It is better for those who drank excessively to get protein from eggs, milk, or vegetables, than from meats or cheeses. Because of an already fatty liver, excessive drinkers cannot process the extra fat. When they eat meat, fruit should be eaten; it aids in breaking down fats. Vitamin supplements are helpful for people with drinking problems: these include, vitamins A, B, C and E. Protein supplementation may be important to reducing alcohol craving and maintaining emotional balance for alcoholics wanting to recover from their past heavy drinking. Similarly, a diet high in complex carbohydrates stabilizes blood glucose and reduces the low blood sugar state that can lead to craving alcohol. Understanding one's own special nutritional needs is an important aspect of recovery from excessive alcohol use.
Drugs such as marijuana and cocaine which are used, like alcohol, for "recreational" purposes have different, but similarly harmful, physical effects.
Research on marijuana use has shown several severe emotional and physical effects:
Frequent use can lead to the "amotivational syndrome", in which the person becomes apathetic, loses the ability to set realistic goals, lacks drive and ambition.
An active ingredient of marijuana (THC) settles in the fatty tissues of the body, especially in the reproductive organs. Male hormone levels drop and there is an increased level of impotence. Drop in hormone levels for women will affect the menstrual cycle and may result in a higher incidence of miscarriages.
Marijuana has from 7 to 10 times as much tar as one cigarette, increasing the chances of lung damage and emphysema. The chemistry of marijuana is extremely complex, dried marijuana contains over 420 chemical compounds. Delta 9 THC is generally cited as the psychoactive ingredient of marijuana, but research suggests that other compounds acting independently or interacting with Delta 9 THC also contribute to the intoxicating potency of the drug. While stored in body fats, THC and its metabolites are slowly released back into the bloodstream. Complete elimination of a single dose can take 30 days.
Given the slow clearance of marijuana's chemicals from the body, researchers predict that repeated use of marijuana at intervals of less than 8 to 10 days results in accumulation of THC and other psychoactive substances in the tissues of body and brain.
If marijuana is used with alcohol, the effect is greater than if the two effect patterns were added together.
Driving after using either alcohol or marijuana is unsafe, after using both, driving is more than twice as dangerous. Judgment, reaction time, and coordination are worse than with either drug taken alone.
Cocaine, "Crack" and amphetamines are fast-acting stimulants. People who use alcohol and stimulant drugs together will drink more to feel the effects of alcohol because of the stimulant effects. When stimulant effects wear off, the alcohol effects "catch up" quickly, and that can be extremely dangerous, both in terms of physical effects and distortions of perception and judgment.
Stimulants are also quickly-addicting drugs which cause their users to need more and more to get the same "high". Chronic stimulant use leads to dysphoria--a depressed, low-energy state; flattened emotions, a lack of interest in sex, and physical immobility.
The physical and psychological consequences of heavy stimulant use include: hallucinations and delusions, a mental state that appears "really crazy." Many stimulant users experience formication, the sensation that their skin is crawling with bugs. Impaired judgment and feelings of persecution are common. Users may overstimulate their heart muscles and cause sudden death from a single heavy dose.
Drugs prescribed for medical conditions are frequently harmful if combined with alcohol. Addiction to alcohol is addiction to all sedatives. Drugs which are prescribed to combat anxiety include various sedatives, "tranquilizers" and barbiturates; most frequently prescribed is Valium. Tranquilizers are addictive, and, if taken with alcohol will multiply the effects of both to sedate the user. This interactive effect can lead to a coma or death. Sometimes antidepressants, or amphetamines, are prescribed to treat depression or for weight control. These drugs speed up the nervous system and are addicting. Because they are stimulants, the effects of drinking while using them is like the effect of cocaine with alcohol -- they "cancel each other out" until the stimulant wears off, then intoxication occurs quickly.
Medication of any kind should not be mixed with alcohol. None should be taken by the recovering person, unless the physician who prescribes is fully aware of the alcohol use history.
Over-the-counter or "ordinary" medicine such as cold tablets or cough medicine are frequently used without caution. Drugstore medicines can have dangerous effects when mixed with each other, with alcohol, or when taken by the recovering alcoholic. Read the label. Ask the druggist.
Michaele P. Dunlap, Psy.D.
Early legends described the origins of wine as a god-given gift or affliction. The power of the gods to give joy and inflict pain seemed synonymous with the power of wine to create a cycle of ecstasy, sorrow and silent sleep. Since alcohol's power over the mind and body came magically from the fermentation of fruits and grains, it was a mysterious force to pre-historic peoples.
In Mesopotamia, the Sumerians worshipped Gestin, a goddess, protector of the vine.
The Egyptian god, Osiris, was worshipped as god of wine and lord of the dead.
The Chinese Emperor Yu discovered rice wine, and subsequently prohibited its use.
The Persian King Dshemshid was convinced wine was poison. A suicidal woman at court took wine to die, but instead was cured of her chronic headaches; wine became "Royal Medicine".
In Greece, Dionysus was worshipped as god of wine; he was honored each year with a four-day feast -- by the preparation and distribution of wine, intoxication and revelry, sobering up and atonement, -- then celebration of Dionysus' return. This pattern of celebration continues in the Judeo-Christian traditions of Yom Kippur (atonement), Rosh Hashanah (the New Year celebration), and Easter (resurrection).
Roman god Bacchus (bacca is the Latin word for grape) was both a saint and a satyr. Bacchanalian feasts, orgies of intoxication, were celebrated at the grape harvest. As Judeo-Christian theology became dominant, the ancient festival became identified with the sins of intoxication.
Exceptional groups included the Moslems, who abstained in obedience to the Koran; the Brahmin in India, and the followers of Buddha. In each of these, intoxication was abhorred as a sin against Spirit and Self.
From pre-history through the Sixteenth Century alcoholic beverages were derived from fermentation. They were wines and beers containing, at most, 14% alcohol. Their use was common both in ceremony and as replacements for other beverages which might be unsafe to drink, such as water from public wells.
Alcohol began to be used as a pain killer and anesthetic during and after surgery. Distillation processes were developed in Europe and beverages containing 50%, or more, alcohol were drunk.
During the period 1710 - 1750, England experienced the "gin epidemic." Low cereal prices and an unfavorable balance of trade prompted a surge in the production of cheap gin. By the 1740's, when the cumulative effects of this overindulgence were acutely felt in declining birth rates and enormous incidence of malformed and retarded children, there was a social protest. Parliament was prevailed upon, in 1751, to increase taxes on distilled spirits and to limit the numbers of places it could be sold.
The Governor of Massachusetts in 1629, was advised by English superior: "... if any shall exceed in that inordinate kind of drinking as to become drunk, wee hope you will take care his punishment be made exemplary for all others."
In Plymouth Colony, 1633, John Holmes was censured for drunkenness: his penalty - to "sitt in the stocks, and was amerced forty shillings." First time offenders were put in the stocks. Repeat offenders were sentenced to hard labor or corporal punishment.
Cider, beer, and wine were the drinks of choice. The Puritans believed alcohol was God's gift to man, and a test of his soul. "The wine is from God, but the drunkard is from the Devil". (Puritan aphorism)
Tithingmen, tax-collectors who oversaw ten-families each, monitored excessive drunkenness and reported it to the minister, who reported it to the Governor's representative. Ministers could punish first time offenders, but repeat offenders were sent to the governor's representative for punishment.
The rum trade with Barbados was opened, and domestic rum distilling became common by 1750. Rum was the drink of choice. As America became an urban society, public drunkenness became more commonplace and less controlled by local moral-prohibitions.
During the decade before the American Revolution, the average annual alcohol intake per person was 3.7 gallons of alcohol, mostly high-alcohol content rum.
The language to describe drunks was recorded by Benjamin Franklin in his Drinkers Dictionary.
Description of drunkard:
He's drunk as a Wheelbarrow, As drunk as a Beggar, Got Corns in his Head, Loaded his Cart, Cock Ey'd, God'd, Frozen, Been at an Indian Feast, As Dizzy as a Goose, Got the Glanders, Juicy, Merry, Mooney's, mellow, Oil'e, Got the Night Mare, Like a Rat in Trouble, In the Sudds, As stiff as a Ring-bolt, Soak'd, He carried too much sail, Topsy Turvey, Tipsey, He's wet."
By 1790, the estimated alcohol consumption of each adult was six gallons of absolute alcohol per year (2.5 oz. alcohol/adult/day) - twice the estimated level of alcohol consumption in America in 1985.
The American Temperance Movement began with a pamphlet by Benjamin Rush, first Surgeon-General of the U.S., which labeled intemperance as a disease and listed the symptoms of tolerance and alcohol withdrawal that form the basis of syndrome of alcohol dependence.
The first temperance movement opposed hard liquor, but condoned beer and wine. People found that: "houses could be built, barns could be raised, grain could be harvested, christenings could be enjoyed and the dead could be mourned without the constant accompaniment of distilled spirits."
The temperance movement waned in the 1820's. A rebirth followed Lyman Beecher's message proposing: "the banishment of ardent spirits from the list of lawful articles of commerce, by correct and efficient public sentiment, such as has turned slavery out of half our land; the dissemination of information on intemperance; the formation of an organization to carry on this work; the support of churches and of physicians; renunciation of spirits as a medicinal drug."
Temperance workers sought to control the sale and use of alcohol but tended to ignore the problem of drunkenness and consider it hopeless.
Serving alcohol to workers on the job was abolished during the 1870's but that did not end the problems of drinking on the job.
In Philadelphia and Boston, the category of "insanity caused by intemperance" accounted for over 50% of hospital psychiatric admissions. Drunkenness was prevalent among leaders of the community.
As the medical profession joined the temperance movement, the disease concept of drunkenness was further defined. Samuel Woodward, a physician, characterized alcoholism by tolerance, psychological dependence ("a tormenting thirst, and insatiable craving"), and physical withdrawal symptoms ("a sense of vacuity, faintness, and depression, which calls imperiously for a repetition of the stimulant upon which it depends.")
Immoderate drinking became a crime and drunkenness became a disease. Woodward and others called for prohibition of all intoxicating beverages, arguing that the legal system supports and encourages excessive alcohol consumption.
The temperance movement waned during the Civil War as its proponents turned their energies to abolition of slavery.
The post-Civil-War Era brought new problems with alcohol abuse. and opiate addiction. Federal taxes were imposed on alcohol. Organized opposition to Temperance began. The Prohibition Party was founded.
What Americans drank changed with the immigration of Germans and other Middle European people. Between 1850 and 1970, beer consumption increased from 1.6 to 3.8 gallons per person per year. However, increasing numbers of lower-alcohol-content beers were brewed.
OPIUM became a major substance of abuse after the Civil War.
There were no restrictions on importation or use of opium until the 1920's. Most opiate addicts were women between the ages of twenty-five and forty-five including domestics, teachers, prostitutes, nurses, and society ladies.
It was easy to become addicted to opium and cocaine: until 1903, cocaine was an active ingredient in Coca-Cola, was an additive to teas, tonics, wines, cordials, cheroots, cigarettes and inhalants.
COCAINE was recommended for gastric indigestion, asthma, as an aphrodisiac, a local anesthetic, a stimulant and to combat the effects of alcohol and morphine. Cocaine was advocated in the treatment of opium addiction and vice-versa. Opiates were a "therapy for alcoholism" and heroin was a "cure for morphinism." Most "female complaints" were treated with opiates. Opiates and cocaine were a socially acceptable substitute for alcohol; several "pillars" of the anti-alcohol movement were addicted.
As the Western United States opened up after the Civil War, the saloon became a primary meeting place. Newspaper accounts suggest that one or both parties were drinking heavily in at least half the fourteen murder incidents in Leadville, Colorado, between March and October, 1880.
Elsewhere, 60% of the misdemeanor arrests were for public intoxication. Frontier physicians noted alcohol-related deaths compounded by pneumonia and exposure. As farmers with families moved west, the temperance movement came with them.
The American Indians' quick addiction to alcohol led to a shame of America's past. With no history of exposure to alcohol, Indians easily became dependent, sickened and died. In spite of attempts to legislate against the sale of liquor to these naive people, many took advantage of their addiction to steal land, food, livestock, and furs.
The industrial revolution brought workers into factories. Drinking became a way to be accepted by peers at work. "Drink fines" were collected on becoming an apprentice, at the time of marriage, on the birth of a child, one "treated the gang." Hard drinking was an important way to achieve status at work, since frequent drinking was part of loyalty to the shop.
The temperance movement returned. Middle and upper class Protestants saw total abstinence as a symbol of respectability.
Temperance was identified with the Women's Suffrage Movement. Women would meet at the church, march to the saloon, protest by prayer and song, and demand that the saloon keeper give up his business and that drinkers stop drinking. This protest became the background for women to organize against sex-inequality in the work place and the voting booth.
Some saloon keepers protested against the protestors. In Portland, Oregon, women were hosed with cold water by one saloon proprietor. Then the women were arrested.
In Portland, OR, about 1910, Simon Benson gave the city a gift of twenty, ornate bronze drinking-fountains; his intent was to end workingmen's consumption of beer-by-the-bucket to quench their thirst. The bubbling fountains did cut tavern business.
The tactic designed by the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was to dry up the country piecemeal through local option laws and statewide prohibition.
Georgia and Oklahoma adopted prohibition in 1907. In 1913, the Anti-Saloon League declared itself in favor of national prohibition by amendment to the federal constitution. It was opposed by the U.S. Brewers Association, and the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers.
On January 16, 1919, the 18th amendment became law.
The sale, manufacture, transportation, importation, and exportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes in the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof are forever prohibited...
The Volstead Act was passed to enforce the Amendment. 170,000 saloons were destroyed. The Volstead Act had loopholes which were quickly filled as illegal smuggling, home brewers and commercial distillers established themselves.
Repeal of the 18th Amendment was accomplished by the work of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment; supported by several wealthy investors who were convinced that repeal would reduce their tax burden and hasten economic recovery from the Great Depression.
The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment and delegated authority to the states for regulation. Thirty states decided to allow legal availability of alcohol while eighteen states continued prohibition. In 1933, 38% of the population still lived in areas where alcohol was illegal.
Alcoholics Anonymous began in the 1930's.
The role of this alcoholics-helping-alcoholics organization has been enormously powerful in beginning to overcome old stereotypes. Alcohol misuse and abuse profoundly affect the lives of many who do not have the full biological syndrome of alcoholism. Directly and indirectly, alcohol abuse leads to tens of thousands of deaths each year. By providing a safe place to reveal alcohol concerns and share the problems of the disease, AA continues to help, and to reduce the social stigma of alcoholism and alcohol misuse.
In 1966, the last state went wet. Presently, thirty-four states regulate alcohol sales by license systems; the state grants the privilege of conducting business. Sixteen states have control systems where ownership and operation of wholesale and retail alcohol sales operations are directly managed by the state.
The role of alcohol abuse in highway accidents and fatalities, as a contributing factor to crimes, to violent family disputes, to illness, brain damage and death is recognized. In the interest of public safety, states and the federal government continue pass laws that lower tolerance for alcohol use by those who operate vehicles or provide public services. Alcohol and substance-abuse education and treatment have become part of the "punishment" for many crimes. The US has the strictest youth drinking laws in the Western world, including the highest minimum drinking age in the entire world.
Heavy alcohol use among people in the US 17 years of age or younger dropped by two-thirds (65.9 %) between 1985 and 1997.
Americans continue to struggle with the misconception that drunkenness and alcoholism are the same thing. Many non-alcoholics on occasion become intoxicated or drunk. However, if they are not addicted to alcohol, they are not alcoholic. Of course, intoxication is never completely safe or risk-free and should be avoided. It is better either to abstain or to drink in moderation.
As a governmental alcohol agency has explained, "Alcohol no more causes alcoholism than sugar causes diabetes."
In 1973, fetal alcohol syndrome was first documented by extensive and careful research.
Fetal alcohol effects, which include dozens of pre-natal injuries, damage thousands of infants each year. The danger to the unborn is still not well enough understood by women. In the US no public warnings were issued until 1977. Women were then warned against consuming more than six drinks a day. At the same time, moves to display compulsory public health warnings about the dangers of alcohol to the unborn child were rejected. In 1980 a national workshop was held and the following year the American Surgeon General issued a warning to pregnant women against consuming alcohol, even in food. In spite of protests, this warning was widely publicized and increased research funding for nationally coordinated projects on the topic provided. Since 1989, every container of alcoholic beverage sold in the US has had to carry a label which gives a warning that women should not drink alcohol during pregnancy because of the risks of birth defects. Extensive medical research fails to find scientific evidence that light drinking by an expectant mother can cause fetal alcohol syndrome. Of course, the safest choice is to abstain during pregnancy.
social history of alcohol Use & Abuse � 2006 Michaele P. Dunlap, Psy.D
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