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Definition of an Alcoholic

Definition of an Alcoholic .

Cloud Migration the next Y2K for Indian IT Companies

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It has been a rough patch for Indian IT companies as they struggle to transform themselves in a recessionary world where the old methods of providing bodies for service has changed to service delivery with compensation based on successful completion of projects. The Indian IT industry grew on one great phenomenon of fixing the challenging Y2k problem way back in the years 1999 to 2000. This allowed Indian technology professionals to support and deliver skills to keep the business running into a expected catastrophe in the year 2000 (Y2K). I was in the USA in the months of December 1999 and January 2000 on a holiday and remember the New Year of 2000 being brought in with bated breath. It was a new decade where programmers had forgotten that the century would end when they created digital solutions. Luckily the new year rolled out with no major glitches because of the century transition. Y2K was the catalyst for the growth of the Indian Industry supported by savvy marketing and cost ...

Alcoholic Anonymous

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This post is dedicated to my relative who recently passed away and devoted most of his adult life to Alcoholic Anonymous. He was an alcoholic himself who with the help and support of his wife was able to overcome the disease and lived sober to cure others of this dreaded disease. Nobody wants to accept that one  is an alcoholic, relatives and friends push alcoholism under the carpet and ignore to recognize it as a disease.   [caption id="attachment_327" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Alcoholism is a tunnel with darkness @ the end.[/caption] Who is an alcoholic, the Medical Dictionary  -( http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/alcoholism) defines alcoholism as : Alcoholism or alcohol dependence is defined by the American Medical Association (AMA) as "a primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations." A complex definition, but in simple terms anyone who crave...