Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities Rise During Prom and Graduation Season
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released data from its Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) showing that alcohol-related fatalities increase between the middle of April and the middle of June. What's significant about these time periods? It happens to be when teenagers tend to do a lot of partying, namely prom and graduation.
"Alcohol is one of the most difficult drugs to combat, especially with youth," comments Gary Smith, who is Executive Director of Narconon Arrowhead, "Being a legal drug that is easily obtained, clear and effective prevention and education measures must be taken."Narconon Arrowhead is one of the nation's largest and most successful drug rehabilitation and education programs and it uses the drug-free methodology developed by American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard.
Located near the center of the country, Narconon Arrowhead provides drug education presentations to tens of thousands of young people in several states each year.
The Fatality Analysis Reporting System data showed that in the year 2000, 58% of traffic fatalities were alcohol-related during the prom and graduation period. This compares with 41% for the rest of the year. In addition, 36% of all alcohol-related traffic fatalities are young people between the ages of 15 and 20, below the legal age to consume alcoholic beverages.This data shows that more work needs to be done on the education and prevention front. This being said, April is national Alcohol Awareness month and the message must be delivered, alcohol is a drug and it costs Americans too much time, money, lives and grief for us not to make a stand. Advertisements from alcoholic beverage companies specifically market to our nation's youth, depicting a fun atmosphere, good-looking people and sometimes a picture of total irresponsibility, making it appealing for rebellious or thrill-seeking teenagers.
"Nobody starts using drugs or alcohol with the intent of becoming addicted or loosing their lives," exclaims Smith, "Many do continue down that road though and some are fortunate enough to get the help they need."
To find help for a loved one suffering from a drug or alcohol addiction, visit www.alcohol-addiction.org or www.stopaddiction.com or call 1-800-468-6933..
Availl: Data Storage Exists Simultaneously in N Locations. Eliminates 95% of Traffic, Real-time Multi-directional Mirroring.
Andover Mass (ContentDesk) September 30 2003.
Availl, a leading vendor of distributed data mirroring and storage software announced Availl 2.6 today.
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With Availl's transparent technology the latest version of every file (such as CAD, legal, etc) is always up to date at any number of remote sites.
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Because Availl only transfers byte level differences of changed files, 95% of bandwidth is eliminated.
Furthermore, performance is not affected by high-latency situations.Availl 2.6 began shipping in April of 2003.
The company already has close to 50 customers in North America and internationally and is rapidly gaining new customers.
"We did not want to jump the gun with this announcement", said Craig Randall...
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Availl: Data Storage Exists Simultaneously in N Locations. Eliminates 95% of Traffic, Real-time Multi-directional Mirroring.
Andover Mass (ContentDesk) September 30 2003.
Availl, a leading vendor of distributed data mirroring and storage software announced Availl 2.6 today.
2.6 is a breakthrough technology for ongoing real-time, multi-site storage mirroring and distribution.
With Availl's transparent technology the latest version of every file (such as CAD, legal, etc) is always up to date at any number of remote sites.
The files are always fully useable at each site, and changes at any site mirror multi-directionally to all other sites.
Because Availl only transfers byte level differences of changed files, 95% of bandwidth is eliminated.
Furthermore, performance is not affected by high-latency situations.Availl 2.6 began shipping in April of 2003.
The company already has close to 50 customers in North America and internationally and is rapidly gaining new customers.
"We did not want to jump the gun with this announcement", said Craig Randall...
Data recovery > Availl: Data Storage Exists Simultaneously in N Locations. Eliminates 95% of Traffic, Real-time Multi-directional Mirroring.
Driver's Education Games
Most students might find it very boring to attend driver education classes either in school or online. Most websites just list the points that the student is supposed to remember by heart without providing proper examples so as to enable the student to retain all that was studied.
Even though some websites provide pictures and data together to make the content more interesting, it might still be a problem to concentrate for 6 hours before taking the exam. A few websites have ventured toward providing a unique way of learning. These website provides the courses in form of a game and learning activity.
They have quizzes that contain multiple-choice questions, true-false questions, pop-up questions, multiple correct questions, fill-in the blanks, initial answer questions, short answer questions, and essay type answer questions.
The quiz results can be tracked to check how the student fared in the exam. They also have interactive pictures to make learning a...
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How Multiple Server Hosting impacts your website's uptime
This article describes the technology behind multiple server hosting and how you may utilize it to maximize your site's security and uptimeHosting of web sites has essentially become a commodity. There is very little distinguishing one hosting company from the next. Core plans and features are the same and price is no longer a true determining feature. In fact, choosing a host based on the cheapest price can be more expensive in the long term with respect to reliability issues and possible loss of sales as a result of website downtime.Selecting a host from the thousands of providers and resellers can be a very daunting task, which may result in a hit and miss approach. But although hosting may have become a commodity, one distinguishing feature that you must always look out for is reliability.At the heart of any hosting company's reliability is redundancy.
This ensures that if a problem exists at one point, there will be an alternative which ensures continuity as seemlessly and...
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