How would you react if you found out that your email had been accessed without your permission? How would you feel if all your personal and private information had been leaked and was available for anyone who wanted it? Doesn’t sound very comforting does it? Well, there is a way to avoid all that and remain reasonably assured that your information is secure. You can download software like CyberScrub Privacy Suite
So the next time you hear of someone’s account being broken into, or see someone trying to find a sticky note with their password on it, just remember, with a password created using the above techniques you wont really have to worry as much about either of those problems.
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September 6th, 2007
The Lethal Concentration
Drug abuse scientists use the term “lethal dose” (LD) to describe the dose (or “concentration” from the alcohol perspective) that leads to death in half of the population (LD: 50). Most substance abuse experts agree that blood alcohol concentrations in the 0.40% to 0.50% range satisfy the LD: 50 requirement.
The “blood alcohol concentration” is the percentage of alcohol in the blood after the alcohol has been absorbed by the stomach and entered the blood supply.
The Definition of Alcohol Overdose
Based on the discussion above, we can construct a working definition of the term “alcohol overdose.” An alcohol overdose is an unsafe and sometimes deadly consequence of drinking excessive amounts of alcohol that results in blood alcohol concentrations from 0.40% to .50% or higher. It must be mentioned, additionally, that “binge drinking” (drinking five or more alcoholic drinks in one sitting) can also lead to an alcohol overdose.
How Alcohol Affects Your Body
The effects of alcohol on your body are directly related to the amount of alcohol in your blood (i.e., your blood alcohol level). The following are the key factors that affect your blood alcohol level:
- How much food is in your stomach at the time you drink
- How strong the alcoholic drink is
- How quickly your body metabolizes the alcohol
- How quickly you consume the alcoholic drink
How Does This Apply To Me?
Alcohol abuse researchers define a “standard drink” as 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine, or 1.5 ounces of 72-proof distilled spirits, all of which contain around .54 ounces of alcohol. In this context, it is also important to state that the average person metabolizes alcohol at the rate of about one drink per hour.
Now that we know what constitutes a “standard drink” and approximately how long it takes a “normal” person to metabolize an alcoholic beverage, we can place the term “lethal dose” into a more comprehensible viewpoint:
- A 100-pound man or woman would have to drink 9 or 10 “standard drinks” in less than an hour to reach the LD: 50
- A 200-pound man or woman would have to drink roughly 5 or 6 “standard drinks” per hour for 4 hours to reach the LD: 50.
Alcohol Overdose Information: Conclusion
While patterns of excessive drinking such as these are atypical in most drinking conditions, taking part in “drinking games” (such as “Beer Hunter,” “Death Ring,” or “Snap” that are played at many parties) and club “initiations” (such as fraternity or sorority initiations) recurrently involve drinking that can, and does, reach lethal doses. Evidently, excessive drinking can lead not only to poor judgment but also to deleterious health problems that can result in death.
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July 25th, 2007
Because there are any number of generic Boat Covers for your boat on the market that will fit just fine, it may seem unnecessary to purchase custom boat covers for your watercraft. However, for the perfect fit, as well as for stylish options for your nautical vehicle, custom boat covers can give both added relaxation regarding the state of the boat as well as pleasure at being able to tout the beauty of your craft even when others can’t fully see it.
Custom boat covers are made to the specifications of your boat – length, width, and height that you need it to cover – so that they fit snug up to your boat with no concerns about wind blowing the cover away or allowing excess dirt and other particles in the air blow up under the cover. You’ll also rest assured that, with the custom fit, there is no chance of leakage when rain, sleet, hail, and snow fall, leaving your boat victim to these and other such elements.
Custom boat covers can also be designed with whatever colors and pictures you desire, especially if you choose a sturdy canvas cover. Remember that canvas is the media chosen by many artists for their oil paintings, so the material is excellent if you wish to provide any kind of decor, such as a logo or name. You can even have custom artwork applied to entire custom boat covers.
For more on your ultimate guide on Boat Covers just follow the links in this post to Online Boating Info. There you will find useful articles, news, links and resources for all your Boating needs.
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July 9th, 2007
Visit www.audivoip.com for free fees and features comaprison and analysis of VOIP Telephone Providers.
VOIP is new and unknown to the average consumer, and thus fear inducing. People are scared to give up their traditional landline because frankly VOIP sounds too good to be true. How can VOIP cut your phone bill so drastically and be comparable in quality to your traditinal landline.
In case you’ve never heard the term VOIP, it stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol, and is a revolutionary new way to communicate. By using your existing high speed internet connection(cable or dsl), you are able to replace your traditional phone line with a digital line existing anywhere you wish to take it. If you currently have phone service through your cable company you may have already experience some of what VOIP has to offer, even at a reduced price from traditional PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Networks), but there is so much more than what your cable provider is willing to offer.
The cost at which your cable company is charging you is only fractionally lower than traditional phone service, because they change your houses phone wiring to support VOIP phone service. The VOIP service that you get from your Cable company operates differently than what you would get from ViaTalk or ZingoTel, and because of that they are able to offer the service at a much lower cost.
There are many advantages to VOIP service. In many instances you may be able to take the ATA (analog telephone adapter: which converts your analog phone into a digital one ready for using with VOIP) or VOIP Phone (which works only with VOIP) to anywhere in the world where you have high speed internet access and call out or recieve cals; as if you were right at home. Run a business? You can get a 1800 number at a fraction of the cost of traditional phone service. Features that either don’t exist or may cost extra on traditional PSTN lines: voicemail (enhanced to send to your email address), Call Forwarding, 3 Way Calling, Call Waiting, Call Hunting, Simultaneous Ringing, and even Wake up Call Service can be had for free with your VOIP Telephone provider. You can even use your current telephones and rewire your house to use your VOIP service.
VOIP is positioned to be an inexpensive replacement to celluar phones in the future in cities that are completed blanketed with wireless hotspots. Wifi phones are VOIP phones that can be taken to any location that has a wireless hotspot. Want to be in on the ground level when video phone service ramps up, or simply need to videoconference over the internet with an office in China? Several VOIP Provider currently offer video conferencing solutions for business, and in time videophone may be the reason the traditional landline dies of extinction.
But there are disadvantages, currently, to your traditional phone service. 911 service operates differently in the world of VOIP. Enhanced 911, much like the 911 service of a celluar phone, operates based on an address that you provide to Voip Telephone Service. If you decide to take your Telephone service with you on vacation or to a different location, you must therefore update the address that your VOIP provider has for 911 service, lest you end up calling the 911 service in your hometown.
Your traditional telephone line provides the power to your phones, so that if your power goes out you may still have telephone service (provided you use corded phones and your telephone line doesn’t get knocked out at the same time). With VOIP service if your power fails, you are without phone service.
As with traditional service there are hidden fees that may not be found out until you are ready to sign up for the provider. So as with any service I suggest due diligence. I recommend visiting www.audivoip.com,as it is currently the only website that shows the actual hidden fees of VOIP Providers, along with comparison, and analysis of the feature set and total cost for most major VOIP Providers. Vonage is not your only choice for VOIP, and you should check out others before you decide.
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June 10th, 2007