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Cell Phones & Driving

from the Boston Globe --
Hands-free legislation leads people to believe that it’s safe (or at least safer) to drive while talking on a cell phone with the aid of a hands-free device, Well, it’s not.

A study found no difference between drivers talking on hand-held phones and those talking on hands-free devices—as soon as people started talking, they became more likely to rear end another vehicle than if they were legally drunk. Researchers found that simply talking on a phone cuts the brain activity devoted to driving over 40 percent. Even the wireless industry seems to be having second thoughts: Traditionally opposed to hand held bans, in January the industry shifted its official line to “neutral.”

So why aren’t we seeing outright bans on cell phones in the car? Twenty-nine states have enacted some form of limitation on phone use while driving, but none have gone so far as to wholly prohibit it.

The best explanation for this is a rather disturbing one: Many drivers, state legislators among them, have simply come to depend on using cell phones during drive time to take care of business, check in with spouses or catch up with friends. This may make long commutes more professionally and socially productive. But it also makes the roads more dangerous for everybody. A step in the right direction, this past Monday, city employees in Boston are banned from text-messaging while operating city-owned vehicles, Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced.

Pam Fisher, New Jersey’s director of traffic safety, says that we’re at “the beginning of a ‘social norming’ process.” Fisher thinks that attitudes toward talking on the phone while driving can and will shift—much in the same way drunk driving became socially unacceptable. In the meantime, pass on the suggestion: Hang up and drive

Vaccines Are Not Good For You!

from NaturalNews.com --
More and more states in the United States are forcing vaccinations through the school system or workplaces. Attorney Alan Phillips, author of Dispelling Vaccination Myths, specializes in vaccination induced disease syndrome (VIDS) or post vaccination syndrome (PVS) cases nationwide. He got interested in the subject when he noticed the warning on a vaccination that was about to be administered to his infant child. The warning clearly stated that the odds of death from the vaccination were considerably higher than death from the diseases it was supposed to immunize. He challenged the perplexed doctor, refused the vaccination, and after more investigation dedicated his legal practice to claiming monetary damages for VIDS victims.

Among the very young whose immune systems are not fully developed, there have been many almost immediate, terrible consequences of vaccination. Understand that though you may have had vaccinations and walked away on your own two feet, there are residual, latent dangers that can cause auto immune problems later in life. There are several thousand Gulf War I veterans who can attest to that!

Immunization is what is needed and this occurs when you are stricken with a disease and survive, or if you're exposed to pathogens and your immune system beats them. Even without the hazardous materials usually present in vaccines, bypassing the normal path of the immune system by injection into the bloodstream with pathogens from unusual sources causes more long term chronic stress on the immune system. This chronic immune system stress manifests in illness or disease later in life.

Many of the antidotes to VIDS or PVS are homeopathic. They usually require a personal approach to determine the exact homeopathic agents, their strengths, and protocol. So details are important. Homeopathy is effective and safe. It was around before the allopathic AMA started shoving it out of public view in America. During the 1918 so called Spanish Flu pandemic, most of those who survived used homeopathy or nothing at all. Many of those who were vaccinated died!

Forget Tylenol, Let the Honey Bee Sting You!

from BBC News --
A New Zealand company is seeking EU approval to market honeybee venom to help people with arthritis ease their pain. A report says two teaspoons a day of its honey with added venom milked from honeybees has anti-inflammatory power to soothe joints. The venom concept is not new -- some clinics even offer up bee stings.

The UK's Food Standards Agency said it would be considering the application from Nelson Honey & Marketing in the coming months. It contains a blend of honey derived from the native New Zealand Manuka tree and dried venom harvested from the Apis mellifera honeybee using electrical milking machines that send impulses to stimulate worker bees to sting through a latex film onto a glass collector plate. Researcher warn that people with allergies to honey or bee venom should seek medical advice prior to use, and that it should not be given to infants under 12 months of age. Honey has long been hailed for its healing properties, but the England's Arthritis Research Campaign said it was skeptical about the beneficial properties of honeybee venom in the treatment of arthritis.

Win Beer Contest, Go To Space!

From MSNBC --
The company behind the dark Irish beer Guinness will give loyal drinkers a taste of space along with their stout, but only if they win a contest.

Guinness has reserved a seat aboard a suborbital Virgin Galactic spaceliner as one of three experience prizes in an online contest honoring the 250th birthday of the beer's brewery this year.

Founded by British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic is a commercial space tourism company that plans to launch passengers on $200,000 trips to suborbital space using a fleet of SpaceShipTwo spacecraft. The space-liners are designed to be launched from the air by a massive WhiteKnightTwo mothership and send two pilots and six passengers on a weightless joyride. Virgin Galactic currently plans to launch and land space tourist flights from a terminal at Spaceport America in New Mexico — which began construction earlier this month — as well as from a spaceport in Kiruna, Sweden. The first WhiteKnightTwo carrier ship "Eve" has been flying a series of test flights this year.

Guinness officials said their space trip contest runs through Sept. 24 and promised a thrilling ride for the winner. The launch will catapult passengers beyond Earth's atmosphere at nearly 2,500 mph — three times the speed of sound , Guinness officials said. Once in space, passengers will have a view of the blackness of space and unbroken vistas of the Earth for 1,000 miles in every direction before re-entering the atmosphere and gliding back to its home port, they added.

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