The Patriot Nurse

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government".

Thomas JeffersonAmerican Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States.

Using smartphones for social networking while driving is more dangerous than drink driving or being high on cannabis behind the wheel according to research published today by the IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists).

Despite this, eight per cent of drivers admit to using smartphones for email and social networking while driving – equivalent to 3.5 million licence holders.

Twenty-four per cent of 17-24 year old drivers – a group already at higher risk of being in a crash – admit to using smartphones for email and social networking while driving.

For their research, the IAM and TRL (Transport Research Laboratory) used DigiCar – TRL’s car driving simulator – to examine the effects of young drivers using smartphones to access facebook.

In every test of driving performance, young people who were using facebook while driving were badly affected.4

When sending and receiving facebook messages:

• reaction times slowed by around 38% and participants often missed key events;
• participants were unable to maintain a central lane position resulting in an increased number of unintentional lane departures; and
• were unable to respond as quickly to the car in front gradually changing speed.
When comparing these new results to previous studies the level of impairment on driving is greater than the effects of drinking, cannabis and texting.
• Using a smartphone for social networking slows reaction times by 37.6 per cent;
• texting slows reaction times by 37.4 per cent;
• hands-free mobile phone conversation slows reaction times by 26.5 per cent;
• cannabis slows reaction times by 21 per cent;
• alcohol (above UK driving limit but below 100mg per 100ml of blood) slows reaction time by between six and 15 per cent; and
• alcohol at the legal limit slows reaction times by 12.5 per cent.

The IAM is calling for government action to highlight the dangers of using smartphones behind the wheel.

Phone manufacturers and social network providers also have a key role to play in spreading the message. Attitudes to seatbelts and drink driving have changed dramatically over the last thirty years, and, with the right information, halting smartphone use could become a similar success story.

IAM chief executive Simon Best said: “This research shows how incredibly dangerous using smartphones while driving is, yet unbelievably it is a relatively common practice. If you’re taking your hand off the wheel to use the phone, reading the phone display and thinking about your messages, then you’re simply not concentrating on driving.

It’s antisocial networking and it’s more dangerous than drink driving and it must become just as socially unacceptable.Young people have grown up with smartphones and using them is part of everyday life. But more work needs to be done by the government and social network providers to show young people that they are risking their lives and the lives of others if they use their smartphones while driving.”

TRL senior researcher Nick Reed said: "Our research clearly demonstrates that driver behaviour was significantly and dramatically impaired when a smartphone was being used for social networking. Drivers spent more time looking at their phone than the road ahead when trying to send messages, rendering the driver blind to emerging hazards and the developing traffic situation.

“Even when hazards were detected, the driver's ability to respond was slowed. The combination of observed impairments to driving will cause a substantial increase in the risk of a collision that may affect not only the driver but also their passengers and other road users. Smartphones are incredibly useful and convenient tools when used appropriately and responsibly. Their use for social networking when driving is neither."

Neil Gaiman Quotes

"The nearest thing I had was a list I made when I was about 15 of everything I wanted to do. I wanted to write an adult novel, a children's book, a comic, a movie, record an audio book, write an episode of Dr. Who and so on. I didn't have a career -- I just did the next thing on the list."

"When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you're doing. This is great. People who know what they're doing know the rules and they know what is possible and what is impossible. You do not and you should not. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them and you can. If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do and because nobody has done it before they haven't made up rules to stop anyone from doing that particular thing again."

"If you have an idea of what you want to make, what you were put here to do then just go and do that."

In this video you'll see boxing trainer Eric Kelly, a former four time national champion boxer and alternate on the U.S. Olympic team talking about some of the people that train at his gym, Church Street Boxing Gym.

The gym is located in Manhattan and attracts a mix of white collar, blue collar and no collar members according to the gym owner, Justin Blair.

However, Kelly has a different opinion about the gyms primary client base. He lets everyone know what he thinks too.

Eric Kelly's funny quotes

• "Look at those upper cuts. Hey, do your upper cut again. Terrible. Like the worst thing in the world."
• "I'm still doing something I love - boxing - even though I'm training a bunch of nerds. Wall street guys. No coordination. They're just not athletic people."
• "Double jab, right hook, upper cut, right hand. Do it. Go home."
• "A lot of these cats, you know, I just wish they'd forget the address to the gym. You know everything is not for everybody. You don't see me going to ************* Wall Street picking up a briefcase trying to type, do you? Cause that's not what the **** I do. I beat the **** out of people, you know what I mean?"
• "You dumb ****. Somebody has to show you how to put on your socks? You look like all of the nerds just had a convention on your body. Like all of the nerds of the world just said, you know what, I know where to go -- and they chose your punk ***."
• "************* beat you up as a kid and they still do today and you're a grown *** man. I'll bet somebody gave you a wedgy on the way here. I'll be when you fart, thread come out."
• To a bald man: "Baldylocks! What's going on Baldylocks?"
• "Where'd you get those young *** shorts from? Those look like 1972 NBA Eastern Conference Final shorts."
• "Hey, it's a job. You know what I mean? Especially in America, having a job is a blessing and doing something you love is a blessing. Even if the people are miscreants. But you know, that's how it goes. I've got a few people that I love. And the staff is great. I couldn't ask for a better staff. I couldn't ask for a better job. They make this worthwhile. It's just that some -- majority -- most -- practically all of these ************* suck."

Church Street Boxing Gym is located at 25 Park Place, New York, NY 10007 at Church Street.

In this video you'll see 5,000+ Ron Paul supporters standing in line to see Ron Paul at California State University Fullerton on 3 May 2012.

Clearly, he has an army of supporters.

Mass Media Conspiracy

Yet, I didn't see a single news van.

NBC, ABC, CBS... Nada.

Where is the major media coverage of this event?

Why has the Ron Paul campaign been written off by main stream media?

Has Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich filled a college football stadium recently?

Ron Paul does this everywhere he goes.

They other candidates don't have this much support.

Something fishy is going on...

Since the major media outlets are controlled by large corporations and those same corporations policies are divergent from Paul's, it makes sense that they would ignore him.

They have to protect this quarters bottom line for the shareholders even if it means making the country go bankrupt.

Election Fraud?

In an age where digital voting ballots are the norm and rich politicians buy their way into office, my guess is that election fraud is also taking place, at some level.

Seriously, how hard would it be for his opponents to bribe a programmer or two to write a few lines of code that makes their guy win and Paul lose?

It has happened before.

Isn't it possible that it could be happening now?