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Sandra Bullock: 'Hey, look at this black baby I'm converting to Judaism!'
For those of you just waking up, Sandra Bullock has come out of seclusion and announced exclusively to People she's filed for divorce from Jesse James. Not only that, she's adopted 3 1/2 month old Louis Bardo Bullock from New Orleans who she plans to make Jewish because she hates Nazis not so much. I'm not even joking:
The magazine asked the question, "Were you aware of any interest [Jesse] may have had in white supremacy or Nazism?"
Bullock responded, "The photo shocked me and made me sad. This is not the man I married. This was stupid, this was ignorant. Racism, anti-Semitism, sexism, homophobia, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life."
Bullock added, "And the man I married felt the same."
As for her newly adopted African-American baby, Bullock told the magazine she arranged for the child to have a bris — the Jewish circumcision ceremony.
And Sandra Bullock made a Nazi sex tape. I didn't believe it at first, but after all the ham-fisted baby shenanigans, I'm now 90% positive she's on video telling Jesse James to "Holocaust" her ass because it controls the media and sucks the blood out of infants. There's really no other way to interpret this.

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BIG employers in Wellington need to be supported by new businesses, according to Taunton Deane MP Jeremy Browne.
Mr Browne was discussing the prospects for economic development in and around the town when he was the guest speaker at Wellington Business Association's last meeting.
He said: "Wellington has some strong opportunities for future economic growth. Junction 26 is one of the most under-utilised junctions on the M5 and there is great scope for business development around Chelston.
"Relyon, Swallowfield and Wellington School are all major employers in the town and it is important that they are supported. The extra housing development should also provide new customers for small businesses including the town centre shops.
"But what Wellington really still needs at this stage is a bigger vision for the future of the town. A train station would make a real difference to Wellington."
As previously reported, the MP is unhappy at a "missed opportunity" for a Northern Relief Road which he believes should have been built as part of the Longforth Farm development.
He added: "Building a dead-end road to nowhere is no substitute for having a proper new road. I will continue to campaign for the funding to enable a Northern Relief Road for Wellington to be constructed."


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What Researchers Learned About Gun Violence Before Congress Killed Funding
We spoke with the scientist who led the government's research on guns.
President Obama has directed the Centers for Disease Control to research gun violence as part of his legislative package on gun control. The CDC hasn't pursued this kind of research since 1996 when the National Rifle Association lobbied Congress to cut funding for it, arguing that the studies were politicized and being used to promote gun control. We've interviewed Dr. Mark Rosenberg, who led the agency's gun violence research in the nineties when he was the director of the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
We talked to Rosenberg about the work the agency was doing before funding was cut and how it's relevant to today's gun control debate. Here's an edited transcript.
There's been coverage recently about how Congress cut funding for gun violence research, but not much about what the agency was actually researching and what it was finding. You were in charge of that. Tell us a little bit about what the CDC was doing back then.
There were basically four questions that we were trying to answer. The first question is what is the problem? Who were the victims? Who was killed? Who were injured? Where did they happen? Under what circumstances? When? What times of the year? What times of the day? What was the relationship to other events? How did they happen? What were the weapons that were used? What was the relationship between the people involved? What was the motive or the setting in which they happened?
The second question is what are the causes? What are the things that increase one's risk of being shot? What are the things that decrease one's risk of being shot?
The third question we were trying to answer is what works to prevent these? What kinds of policies, what kinds of interventions, what kinds of police practices or medical practices or education and school practices actually might prevent some of these shootings? We're not just looking at mass shootings, but also looking at the bulk of the homicides that occur every year and the suicides, which account for a majority of all gun deaths.
Then the last question is how do you do it? Once you have a program or policy that has been proven to work in one place, how do you spread it? How do you actually put it in place?
So what were you were able to find before funding got cut off?
One of the critical studies that we supported was looking at the question of whether having a firearm in your home protects you or puts you at increased risk. This was a very important question because people who want to sell more guns say that having a gun in your home is the way to protect your family.
What the research showed was not only did having a firearm in your home not protect you, but it hugely increased the risk that someone in your family would die from a firearm homicide. It increased the risk almost 300 percent, almost three times as high.
It also showed that the risk that someone in your home would commit suicide went up. It went up five-fold if you had a gun in the home. These are huge, huge risks, and to just put that in perspective, we look at a risk that someone might get a heart attack or that they might get a certain type of cancer, and if that risk might be 20 percent greater, that may be enough to ban a certain drug or a certain product.
But in this case, we're talking about a risk not 20 percent, not 100 percent, not 200 percent, but almost 300 percent or 500 percent. These are huge, huge risks.
I understand there was also an effort to collect data on gun violence through something called the Firearm Injury Surveillance System. What did that involve?
We were collecting information to answer the question of who, what, where, when, and how did shootings occur?
We were finding that most homicides occur between people who know each other, people who are acquaintances or might be doing business together or might be living together. They're not stranger-on-stranger shootings. They're not mostly home intrusions.
We also found that there were a lot of firearm suicides, and in fact most firearm deaths are suicides. There were a lot of young people who were impulsive who were using guns to commit suicide.
So if you were able to continue this work, what kind of data do you think would be available today?
I think we'd know much more information about what sorts of weapons are used in what sorts of firearm deaths and injuries.
Let's say you look at robbery associated homicides, and you find that in those homicides certain weapons are used in almost all of them and that these weapons come from a limited number of sources and that those weapons are not used by people to defend their home or to hunt or to target shoot. Then you can say, "Here's a type of weapon that seems to be only used in criminal enterprises and doesn't seem to have any legitimate uses, and maybe we ought to find a way to restrict the sales or access to that type of weapon."
I think it's also important to look at what the impact of these data might be.
If you look at how many deaths have occurred between 1996, when there was this disruption to surveillance and research, and now, so that's 16 years, and if you assume that there are about 30,000 gun deaths every year, you're talking about 480,000 gun deaths over that period of time.
If even a fraction of those deaths could have been prevented, you're talking about a significant impact in terms of saving lives.
Lawmakers are now trying to figure out what the most effective policies might be to curb gun violence, and how to implement them. What were you beginning to find on that?
The largest question in this category is what kind of larger policies work? Does it work, for example, if you have an assault weapon ban? Does that reduce the number of firearm injuries and deaths? In truth, we don't know the answer to that. That requires evaluation.
Does gun licensing and registration work to reduce firearm injuries and death? We don't have the answer.
The policies that make it easier to carry concealed weapons, do those reduce or do those increase firearm injuries and deaths? We don't have the answer. Do gun bans like they have in the city of Chicago, work? We don't have the answer yet to those.
These require large-scale studies of large numbers of people, over a long period of time to see if they work or don't.
I don't think those studies were fully funded or completed.
How do you think the gun control debate might be different today, if you had been allowed to continue that research?
I would like to think that we would have had answers to what works and what doesn't work. I would hope that we know whether the kind of bans and restrictions that they have in Chicago really make a difference or don't. I would hope that we would have had information about whether an assault weapon ban saves lives or doesn't. Unfortunately, when you don't have those data that really show you, scientifically, whether or not something works, then you end up with people making statements like the following, "Obviously, the assault weapon ban didn't work, because Columbine happened."
That's kind of like saying, "Vaccines don't work because someone got the flu."
The Obama administration is asking Congress for $10 million to pursue gun-related research. If you had that budget and you had your old job, what would you use the money to look at?
I think we'd want to look at what the impact of different policies would be, both restricting and enabling policies.
The other thing that I would make sure we looked at is not just how do we prevent firearm injuries, but how do we also protect the rights of legitimate gun owners? I think it would be very important to look, for example, at legislation that restricts access by certain people to firearms. Let's say these might be people who have committed felonies or people who have been adjudicated mentally ill.
People often think that there are maybe three things we should consider passing right now, something like an assault weapons ban, a ban on large capacity magazines, and background checks on all gun purchasers.
The truth is that there's not going to be a simple, magic pill or even three pills that cure the whole problem. If you look at suicides and the whole range of homicides and firearm injuries, the answers are going to come, bit by bit, over time, incrementally.
It's not one, two or even three things that are really going to solve the problem. They may salve our conscience, but they won't solve the problem. The research is really, really important. We really need to find out what works, so that we can save more lives.
It's been presented to people that research is going to hurt legitimate gun owners. That's the threat and how the NRA leadership has often presented it to the NRA membership. "Any sort of research is only going to result in your losing all your guns."
That's a tactic of fear. It's not at all the case. There are things we can do that will both reduce firearm injuries and protect the legitimate rights of gun owners and protect the children and their families.
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The perfect solution to achieve gun control: JOBS
I think Dr. Rosenberg wants that $10 million.
Wow, that's not biased at all. I wonder if people ever considered people might buy a gun to protect themselves, hence why households with guns are more likely to involve shootings: because they live in an area where that is likely.
Nah, I'm sure having a gun somehow makes it more likely for you to become a bullet magnet.
I see 3 silly posts already. jobs are not gun control. Dr Rosenberg has a different job now. And very few people get shot with bullets that are not from guns. Not too surprising, since I expect a lot of the "cold, dead hand" crowd to be putting their opinions down here.
Silly Post #4… And another of the "Cold, Dead Hand Crowd"...
The question in the article asks…"Do gun bans like they have in the city of Chicago, work? We don't have the answer yet to those. These require large-scale studies of large numbers of people, over a long period of time to see if they work or don't." Really?
I offer this… Since 2001, US Troops killed in Afghanistan total about 2000… Deaths, from gun fire, in "Gun-Free Zone" Chicago… More than 5000. (Dept. of Defense and FBI statistics)
Save the $10 Million… Simply Look at existing Liberal influences on our society.
Bless Dr. Rosenberg. the U.S. has a gun culture unlike any Western European country. Guns in a home with children are very dangerous and do not protect us. Children who are injured by guns are traumatized and do not have the help they need when they leave the hospital where they are treated.
AND the NRA buys votes. Why are members of Congress for sale?
You should know that all members of Congress are for sale, not just the ones you don't like.
Well what do you know, the good unbiased doctor is a registered Democrat who donated $$$ to Barney Frank in 2006.
The good doctor gave after Frank co-sponsored HR 1312 which called specifically for confiscation of weapons, even antiques (See Section 5, Repeal of Certain Exemptions)
Oh, I don't really have anything to add…I just want to get all the crazed comments that show up whenever the topic is "gun control"...for entertainment.
Byard Pidgeon thats too funny because it so true.
This conversation is getting so old its even losing the entertainment value.
Thank you for publishing this informative article.
DR Commish ~ The logic of your analogue fails in the examples you've chosen. Our military is the finest and most powerful in the world and its manned and unmanned air support provides defensive and offensive capabilities not available to the gunmen walking Chicago's streets. You also fail to include deaths incurred by both sides involved in the Afghani war. Had you, your example would have been more like 200,000 dead, including 2,200 military and conservatively 198,000 civilian deaths, compared to Chicago's 5,000.
Look to remedying the vast disparities present in our society between our rich and our poor and closing loopholes in our laws that allow a man like this to easily obtain weaponry of his choosing:
"Any sort of research is only going to result in your losing all your guns."
Don't need no stinking facts that might impact our revenue. 30,000 deaths a year is acceptable… especially those suicides…those people are crazy anyway.
Fear…always a best seller…
Dr. Rosenberg proves the point very well for the NRA. His comments about action to take based on the satistics proves this out. If he is going to do research, just crunch the numbers. Since there will be millions of our tax dollars thrown at research, I would like to see objective research and not slanted skewed numbers.
As for firearms in the home, the best thing is educate children about firearms and not just the pavlovian response that all guns are evil as taught in some of our education systems. After this indoctrination, students are then encouraged to join our military…go figure…
Growing up, I don't remember a gun ever being unloaded and locked up. Dad told me that if I even looked at the gun case without permission, he would take a belt to me. He had already made a believer out of me, so I didn't start using them until I was 14 or 15, without permission. My entire family was raised this way in the rural South. It's a way of life. I've had guns pulled on me, I was almost shot once by my cousin in a hunting accident, but it was never the guns fault. No one cares about guns until some white kids get killed, but no one wants to do anything to control the massive killings of inner city black youth that happen every year. End the war on drugs, increase cops on the streets, increase penalties for crimes committed with a weapon and educate people on how to use handle guns. They aren't scary, they are tools. I can promise you, as some one who grew up in an area with at least 3 guns per household (my estimate) the concentration of guns don't increase the number of deaths, at least no in areas where people are taught to respect guns and, more importantly, respect each other.
If we don't do something about greenhouse gasses then gun violence will be the least of our worries. More like a blessing compared to slow starvation or wondering which neighbor stole your kid for the soup pot. No, I don't mean goats.
Effective social policy requires good data - attempting to work with a paucity of data often leads to making the situation worse. However, the problem here (I suspect) is that all groups with political clout who are concerned about legal ownership of firearms in the US believe that all other groups are cooking the data whenever possible.
Some of the preliminary conclusions Dr. Rosenberg mentions make sense, of course - people who have a firearm close at hand are probably more likely to succeed at suicide attempts but it's almost certainly not the weapon that made the person suicidal. It's also likely that a person who lives in an area where firearms are rare or absent is less likely to be shot by accident, but is that really any different than saying that someone who lives in an area with few cars is less likely to be run over?
As a scientist, I wish we had more data on all this and I would support any properly planned effort to acquire it, I just suspect it won't happen.
To all arguing in favor of guns and 'the right to keep and bear arms', guess why no other civilized western country has anywhere near as many gun related deaths per capita?
(Hint: It is unrelated to violent video games)
The fact that for Emeuricaaa 'guns' seem to include military automatic machine guns is beyond any rational and common sense.
The argument that people with guns are more likely to be killed by guns because they probably live in bad neighbourhood, is flawed. Since any concentration of good and law abiding citizens who happen to own a gun means they make the neighbourhood turn bad.
Guns facilitate suicide as the simple act of pulling a trigger is much 'easier' than cutting ones wrists and waiting to bleed to death. A suicide attempt is sometimes a cry for attention or help. A shotgun to the head doesn't leave much chance of survival.
The comparison with few cars and less likely to be run over is also flawed. A car is a means of transportation of goods and persons. A firearm has one function : to fire bullets. A car has a vital economic role outside of large cities. Guns owned by civilians, not so much…
What I learned as a Chicago Citizen for 24 years, is that CRIMINALS DONT CARE ABOUT YOUR PATHETIC LAW EDITOR,GET THAT THROUGH THAT THICK YUPPY SKULL OF YOURS
chuckd, what weapons do you own?
Vincent, there are some breakdown on the numbers on firearm violence, but very basic. So, in a while there will be some new numbers. Ten million dollars worth. I would also like to see some real figures. I would hope to hear more from you on this issue.
Windsor, by the way, what gases are greenhouse gases?
Therestof the world, you do not understand the value of owning a firearm other than you think it fires bullets. So let me ask you this. Should law enforcement have guns?
chuckd, hey keep your firearm and defend yourself. You would rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6. My prayers are with you.
I am fortunate to live in a rural area by choice. I do not even lock my doors unless I leave for a few days. Then I ask my neighbor to watch my home for me. Everyone on this road owns firearms. Everyone knows it. We don't get into each other's business. If one of us needs help, all we have to do is go to the nearest neighbor, and help is there. The bad guys don't venture out here very often.
We have the "Castle Doctorine" in this state that says our home is our castle, and we can defend it by any means including deadly force.
Our local law enforcement people are good people. They understand they are public servants. We have a healthy respect for each other.
ProPublica: Thanks for interviewing Rosenberg. If the NRA hadn't pressured congress to de-fund the CDC research, we'd have a lot more data to work with. But what was accomplished was to point out what we all know and what Rosenberg stated: More guns in homes equal more deaths by guns - as much as 500% higher than homes without guns.
NRA supporters want us to to answer their "defense" (ive) question: How many deaths have been avoided through the use of guns to ward off attackers? Too bad the CDC hasn't done the research to answer that - though it would require proving a negative, in that if no deaths result, there wouldn't be a record of the incident unless it was reported. And the ability to make false reports to pad figures would be compelling to those who want to claim a statistical advantage. (I doubt the pro gun regulations folks would feel compelled to go around shooting people for the purpose of padding the already horrific death by gun statistics).
We would know a lot more if we didn't allow bullies to prevent us from finding out more about ourselves. But fear of the results is a strong motivator. Just as absolutist religious zealots want to debunk science in order to promote their theological agendas, the NRA really doesn't want us to know the statistical realities of gun violence in our country.
Excellent article. I heard a special on NPR about this research team; since the gun debate has begun, yet again. Why can't America do anything about this vile problem?
John Henry Bicycle Lucas:
First, the right to bear firearms is directed towards civilians and it's the gun ownership of civilians that is studied here. Asking wether police can carry firearms is thus a void question and is it is only affirming lack of understanding of your own (national) laws.
Second, the argument that you need to own firearms to protect your 'castle' from criminals bearing firearms is a viscious spiral and missing the point that the criminals got a hold of those firearms under the exact same laws.
Your creative use of the English language, which I assume is your native language, painfully enforces the stereotypical view of the complete lack of intelligence used in most pro-gun arguments.
Why can't America do anything about this vile problem? Because of the NRA and their hold on our politicians. Lobbyist need to be banned from getting anywhere near politcians and our politicians need to be banned from taking their bribes.
Isn't it interesting how often the word 'Congress' appears when there is research tied to organizations that execute strong lobbying (legalized bribery).
Case in point: the recent Time Magazine article on health care costs, and the fact that the lobbied Congress won't allow negotiated prices for pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
Organized crime.
Vincent K, JHBL, Tom Payne, RIGHT ON!!!
ChuckD, your angry comments don't help the pro-gun cause.
Windsor…check out "Suspicious 0bservers" 2 min news on youtube. He has some good theories on whats going on with our planet.
I've come to the conclusion that USA has a gun culture unlike any other country because we have a CULTURE unlike any other country. We have much more Freedom, the majority of us are responsible with it. There will always be a few bad apples.
Demographics are very telling where most of this "gun violence" is taking place. The majority of this country are not effected by it. Only the rare mass shootings affect the majority - emotionally. Then time goes on, and they realize there actually is no danger of getting shot when going to school, the movies, and the mall.
"ROSENBERG: The first thing is that the rates of homicide fatalities, you asked about demographics. The rate of homicide fatalities from guns is eight to nine times as high for black males as it is for white males. So that part of our population really bears the brunt.
Mass killings - such as occurred in Aurora or outside of Milwaukee - are a very, very small proportion of all the gun deaths, but the rates are really not comparable in black and white populations. The second scientific fact here is that most gun deaths are suicides."
The new research will only show more of this. Nothing gun owners or the NRA needs to really worry about as far as casting guns in a negative light, I look forward to the results. It will clarify a lot of things.
I do find it interesting that Rosenberg is ready to throw out those high percentages based on research that got funding cut off…did it get completed, or is that just the numbers they got before they stopped receiving money…...I'd like a link to this study.
Carolyn is ready to accept those numbers without question though! Then admits its a one sided argument because they can't find a good way to measure how often a gun is used for protection (sometimes just the sight of one serves as protection). Interesting.
"ROSENBERG: Well, but you're also trying to measure how many times people use their guns. If you assume that we want to measure the use of a gun by the number of people who get injured or shot, then it's a tiny, tiny percentage. The gun owners probably number in the hundreds of millions in this country, but in terms of injuries that are reported, fatal and not fatal, we're talking about less than 100,000.
However, many people also feel that they use their gun by showing it to ward off a threat against them or their household or someone in their home. And we can't measure those. So part of it is we don't have a great measure of how often guns are used for protection."
Carolyn is also saying that the NRA magically knows more about gun violence and what the results of a study would be…but how could they accurately have any idea? They might have thought it would cast a negative light on guns, but they really don't know anymore than you or me. I think they were more worried about slanted results the same way Carolyn thinks pro-gun supporters would attempt to slant them. She has more in common with the NRA than she thought!
I stopped reading at the claim that a 20% relative risk would mean a ban for something.
The standard is 100%.
Clearly the writer knows very little, so why bother.
John Smith: Your statement that the USA has more "freedom" than any other country is incorrect. Inhabitants of countries such as Somalia, which have no governments to speak of, have far more freedom than we do here. They do whatever they please whenever they choose. The laws of the street, though, determines who lives or dies in these stateless countries.
Excluding the suicides you dismiss as being unimportant, we still by far have the highest rate of gun deaths than all other high income countries combined. These statistics deal only with homicide by gun rates. Instead of feeling their "freedoms" infringed on, citizens of these countries are generally horrified and constantly question us why we don't do something about the gun carnage here.
Mass killings are horrific, but you are correct: They are a very small percentage of our entire rate of gun violence. Twenty children were killed during one "incident" in Newtown. It took another five weeks until another twenty children (ages ranging from 1 to 12) were killed by guns here. I'm guessing we can rule out suicide as being causal; and without any CDC statistics to back me up, I suspect irrational family members with a lack of impulse control would be at fault for the bulk of them. An additional 18 children's gun deaths have occurred since these, giving us a total of 38 as of yesterday. (2/25/13)
You casually dismisses the NRA role in preventing further CDC research, citing worries about the possibility of slanted results. Pretty hard to alter the results of research based on hard data - which is why I DO rely on the CDC data which shows that people living in homes with guns are 300% more likely to die from firearm homicide, and are more than 500% more likely to commit suicide by gun. Facts are facts. No wonder the NRA wanted to pull the plug on funding.
You seem to hold firm to the inflexible position that any kind of gun regulations which include universal background checks, restricts the purchase and transfer of weapons to licensed dealers, holds gun owners more fully responsible for how those weapons are used, is an infringement of your "freedoms". This means you and everyone else (including the "bad" guys) should have the rights to do whatever you want, whenever you want, however you want, and with whatever weapons/ammunition you choose.
Those of us out here with a bit of common sense, who are actually concerned not only for our own welfare, but the welfare of our fellow Americans, disagree.
You can tell by the anger that a lot of those wanting unlimited weapons really are the kind who need to have access to them. I say this as a long time registered gun owner who passed a background check to have it legally.
Criminals do not get weapons by magic. They come from NRA types who do not secure them properly.
Those who argue against gun control by pointing out its failure to stop gun violence in Chicago are blind to the fact that the guns that kill Chicago's citizens come from bordering states and communities with much more lax gun sales regulations and practices.
Effective regulation of sales has to be uniform across multiple jurisdictions in order to work.
Using Chicago as an example that regulations don't work is like saying birth control doesn't work because you know a woman who got pregnant; never mind the fact that she was not using birth control at all.
It is clear that the NRA finds that ignorance is bliss when it comes to putting out the real facts and numbers of how gun ownership actually affects all Americans. Why, when facts could only harm gun sales and encouraging gun sales is what the NRA is really about.
Based on the questions being asked in the research as stated by Dr. Rosenberg, there is already a serious bias against guns baked right in (called "selection bias").
There's no mention of these other important questions:
How many times has a gun been successfully used to prevent a crime?
How many lives have guns saved from criminals?
How many lives have guns saved from government-sponsored killing?
But because these are hard to measure AND because they are not in line with the gun-controllers' political beliefs, they aren't being asked. And so, NO research that the CDC could produce would truly be objective, truthful, and based on real-world inputs and outcomes.
Thus, the NRA is absolutely right to resist such research.
Dennis Chang, you do ask some "important" questions. Allow me to answer them for you:
**How many times has a gun been successfully used to prevent a crime?**
Fewer times than the number of accidental shooting deaths. Fewer times than the number of gun suicides. Fewer times than the number of gun deaths resulting from impassioned or deliberate firearm use.
**How many lives have guns saved from criminals?**
Fewer lives than those lost to accidental shootings. Fewer lives than those lost to gun suicides. Fewer lives than those lost to impassioned or deliberate firearm use.
**How many lives have guns saved from government-sponsored killing?**
In America? Zero.
In Syria? Well, guns might save the rebels from Assad's troops if the rebels kill the troops first, but then, if the rebels weren't rebelling, there wouldn't be a war. So, given that there were no government pogroms prior to the rebellion, hence no killings, I call it a wash.
It's not that these things are really that hard to measure. It's actually that the incidents of "good" gun ownership and use, in which guns "save the day," are absolutely miniscule when compared to the incidents when guns are used maliciously, foolishly, hastily, or irresponsibly to inflict bodily harm and cause death.
I've seen the a gun in home is x time more likely to whatever presented a number of different ways over the years. There are around 100,000 gun injuries/deaths/suicides, etc each year. About 1/3 of Americans households contains at least 1 firearm (GSS data). There are about 114,000,000 households in the US (2010 Census Data) so 1/3 of 114 million is about 34.2 million.
If we assume that every single person injured or killed with a firearm had a gun in their home (that is a HUGE assumption) you still wind up with a .003% chance that a gun in your home will either kill someone in your home, injure them or cause them to commit suicide.
BTW, in 1996, when - I believe - the CDC funding was discontinued, the US had about 15,000 murders commited with a firearm. In 2011 it was about 8,500 (not including suicide).
So, if the CDC is going to study anything, maybe it should be "why are guns so safe?" Why do so few people get killed? Why have gun sales incensed while gun deaths have decreased?
Of course, the CDC should not be allowed to study anything to do with guns. The CDC needs to study potential pandemics and help prepare for the next SARS or Bird Flu outbreak that might actually do serious damage, instead of studying a minor, DECLINING issues like violent crime that is better left to police departments or - at most - the Justice Department.
The most specious comments are always pro gun, which leads me to say no wonder we keep killing each other at an astonishing rate. "It was never the gun's fault" may be the stupidest winner.
RestofTheWorld, I was in law enforcement for four years. I do understand why firearms are needed in the field. I also understand how our Constitution has been totally disreguarded by the Federal Government. My position is that if we allow any more of our rights to be taken away, we are a lost nation of people with no vision. Without vision, the people perish. The firearm is the ONLY right we have assured to us by the Bill Of Rights that we can actually hold in our hand and touch and feel. It is a tangable right.
RestofTheWorld, there is no reason to insult anyone. I am of the belief that education and intelligence are two very different concepts.
We as a nation, need to turn around this runaway concept of the government can do anything to us, and we just accept it like good little sheeple.
Why do you think the UN wants to control the internet? Along with our government? Free exchange of ideas is dangerous to the status quo. Our nation was born of such exchange of ideas.
Some of you do not quite understand, this issue of owning firearms is not just one issue, it is a group of issues. None of us law abiding gun owners want people that do not need to own a firearm to own one. Here is where the situation gets very grey. Who gets to own a firearm? Instant background checks already in place tell the seller of the firearm if the person standing in front of them with intentions of buying a firearm is eligeable to purchase any firearm. There are some gaps in the data, or so we are told in the news. This is not our doing, by owning a firearm, we followed the laws in place to purchase. The problem therein lies with law enforcement not communicating across jurisdictions.
Enforce the laws on the books already, there are plenty. Violent criminals do not care how many laws they encroach on when commiting a crime. Neither do oppresive governments.
MW, you seem to have all the answers to the data needed, just go present it to the government and collect your ten million dollars.
I, for one, as a gunowner would like to really see an objective study done.
Since the paymaster is going to control the study, I find it hard to believe that a truly objective study will be done.
For those of you that trust the government, go ahead. I for one, don't. I can give you many reasons that I don't.
carolyn "laws of the street" doesn't sound like freedom. My point wasn't complicated. The US has a very unique culture, our freedom is one reason, the diversity is another, etc….of course citizens of other countries don't understand.
Well, trusting one source is hardly common sense. Neither is quoting non conclusive results from underfunded studies as fact.
If you trust the CDC so much, do you get all the vaccines they recommend without question?
The children dying is beyond very sad, unsuitable parents are the only ones to blame though…They didn't deserve the blessing of a child in the first place and there are far too many examples of this, even ones that don't end in a child's death. More responsibility needs to be put on PARENTS, i've said this before…
You can assume whatever you want about me it doesn't matter, but it is quite telling of the way you think.
Your argument about Chicago doesn't hold up, we can't regulate the countries that border us, so it would be the same problem just at the borders where we can't even prevent illegal drugs from infiltrating.
Any resulting data from the studies will drive gun sales, even more so if it is negative. The NRA has congress on lock, nothing would change, and they will have another massive pay day similar to whats happening now.
MW how bout some citations to back those "answers" up?
Sara Devon, blaming an inanimate object is specious.
Was the study controlled for the level of danger households were in? The subject of the interview said that members of the firearm owning family were more likely to be shot. He did not say if was the household's firearm that was responsible. If someone lives in a dangerous neighborhood, they are more likely to own a firearm. So the numbers for the firearm owners will be skewed higher.
Marc Rosenberg claims he was "trying to answer four questions," when what he was really trying to do was to orchestrate "scientific" support for a predetermined agenda—the very definition of bad science.
In a 1993 interview with Rolling Stone, Rosenberg admitted (proudly) to pursuing "a long term campaign, similar to tobacco use and auto safety, to convince Americans that guns are, first and foremost, a public health menace." Way to put the conclusion before the research, Dr. Rosenberg.
This sort of phony, agenda-driven "science" is why Congress shut down the federal factoid factories' "investigations" into gun violence when they did. The federal health establishment focused solely on the COSTS of gun ownership, completely overlooking any fair study of the BENEFITS of gun ownership in terms of self-defense and prevention of violent and property crimes.
Rosenberg is just seething because he can no longer guzzle pubic money to commit political advocacy… and that's the way it should be.
I don't get why there shouldn't be any studies done. After all, if they find that there are safer ways to have guns, why not do those things?
Have lots and lots of studies, peer reviewed and criticized. Don't just stop all studies altogether. That's not going to help anyone.
certain statistics are obvious. the correlation between gun laws and chicago area deaths shows the ineffectiveness of their gun control legislation. then look at the incidence of black deaths vs. white deaths and once again the stats are obvious. ergo, keeping guns out of the hands of criminals (not saying blacks are all criminals) is the answer. so, figure out a way to do that.
if someone is crazy enough to shoot themselves, they are crazy enough to find another method to kill themselves. just because guns make it easier, ergo, they are most often used, is not an indication that suicides would go down if guns were not available.
home gun deaths i cannot comment on except to say that it seems to me carelessness may be the biggest problem.
disarming americans is not the answer, and no one has figured out a way to disarm the criminals. please work on that!
To John Henry Bicycle Lucas: You claim not to trust the government and how government does nothing positive for its citizens. However, you said that you are former law enforcement, so you were actually an agent of the government yourself. You trusted the government enough to give you a career, so why shouldn't we trust it in other ways? Sounds like you are ignorant of the many positive things government can do for its citizens. Actions speak much louder than words, officer.
I'm not "pro gun" but let's be real here. "Gun science" on either side is interesting but not conclusive. See Academy of Science 2004 review. What's missing from Pro Publica's reporting is the number of peer-reviewed criminology/sociology reports also mentioned in the 2004 Review.
In terms of science, it is worth noting that the criminologists posted defenses of their work. The public health studies did not. The Academy more or less dismissed the public health studies as starting from a point of assumption that guns were like germs and the failure to consider the positive aspects of gun ownership poisoned any real meaning.
Strange as it may seem, doctors are not really scientists.
Interesting story.
BTW, Carolyn, if you by chance read this, please check out the following site and contact me. http://www.gunfaq.org
The focus of the study already creates bias in the test results. For example, if the CDC had done a study to determine whether having more kitchen knives in a house increases the likelihood of stabbings, it may come to the same conclusion. Should we ban all kitchen knives then? Picking any tool and focusing on whether those tools can be used irresponsibly ALWAYS yields a positive correlation. From cars to computers to ball-point pens every tool can be shown to cause increases in rates of injury compared to an absence of those tools. That's just common sense.
The criminal element of this country will find guns one way or the other. no law will prevent that.
People that want to commit suicide will. A gun is just very efficient in accomplishing that goal. There are knives in 100% of homes. no research to back this up but, the convoluted logic would dictate we ban knives and we would stop all suicides committed with a knife… really? If someone want to kill themselves they will figure out how to do it with or without a gun.
The recently thwarted legislation that nearly passed in the night in New York could have started a revolution. Thankfully it did not pass but it is a sign that the government, well intended as they would like to appear, wants 'to protect the citizens', will not accomplish protecting them when and if the only ones with guns are the police and criminals. There are not enough police to protect the millions of us that there are.
There is nothing but sadness in my heart for all the victims of random shootings, mass shootings, accidental deaths ....the list goes on and on….but one thing will always be true, if someone wants to inflict harm on another or on others, they will devise a way.
The root of violence is in greed, envy, hatred, jealousy or or or… guns do not kill people kill. if not a gun they will use a club or a knife or….
put good back in the schools, put God back in society, be good to one another, have parents who care about teaching right and wrong
good and bad, then we will start to see less violence. Shame on the parents/elders in this country that do not speak up or do something when they see young people up to no good. if they get away with it as a child they will continue to do it - what ever it is, until they are stopped. live by the sword, die by the sword.
Just remember everything you ever needed to know to get along in this world was taught to you by your kindergarten teacher. think back to then - remember what you learned and put it into practice! Sing the National Anthem at games…say the Pledge of Allegiance and remember what the words mean.
This is the greatest country on earth because of our freedoms. Let us stay free and send the evil away…evil did not build this country . people helping people built this blessed place. - be nice to your neighbor and they will be nice to you. but rest assured. if you bring force against me or my family I will bring force against you…..in the nicest way i can…but i will not lay down my arms if you threaten me.
God Bless America
Chris, I should have written Federal Government. Sorry, my mistake.
I do not trust the Fedral Government for many reasons. I won't go into all of them now.
There is corruption in all governments, I know this very well from working within them. You would be surprised at what is hidden from the public eye of accountability. Law enforcement has not been my career for many years now.
Glenn C, very well said!
"The criminal element of this country will find guns one way or the other. no law will prevent that."
Robyn Anderson, a friend of Klebold and Harris, bought three of the guns used at Columbine from The Tanner Gun Show in December of 1998 from unlicensed sellers. She refused to buy them from anyone else who might do a background check and leave her name on the paperwork.
James Holmes was under psychiatric care, and told his doctor that he fantasized about killing lots of people. Had a mental health reporting system been in place, Holmes could have been reported as a concern and as such denied during the background check when he later legally purchased two firearms for use in the Aurora theater shooting.
So. We have two major events that might have been stopped or ameliorated had we had adequate universal background checks.
And if no Columbine or Aurora, then perhaps no major media coverage and as such no Sandy Hook?
Gun safety and public awareness? Then perhaps the Lanza's weapons might have been properly stored and secured, and again no Sandy Hook.
You're right. Perhaps none of those would have helped. But I happen to believe that it's better than not doing anything at all.
And if nothing else, perhaps the checks and anti-trafficking measures can help dry up the supply of guns bought elsewhere and brought into our cities.
Lots of people used to be killed by drunk drivers. But we enacted stricter blood alcohol limits, raised the drinking age, ramped up law enforcement and penalties, charged bartenders that served drunks and launched a huge public awareness campaign to stigmatize the dangerous behavior in question… and all of those things have reduced drunk driving deaths by over 2/3's in just two decades.
In short, we did something about the problem. And not just one thing, but lots of things.
And you know what? People still seem to manage to drink and have a good time. Responsibly.
Why are guns any different? If you're a responsible, law-abiding gun-owner, then undergoing a five-minute background check on the rare occasion the average person might have to buy or sell a weapon is little more than an inconvenience.
Why isn't five minutes worth a kid's life?
""We need to revolutionize the way we look at guns, like what we did with cigarettes. Now it [sic] is dirty, deadly, and banned."
Why wasn't Rosenberg's statement from 1994 above repeated in this interview? Surely it is relevant considering the kind of "research" he is advocating and the clear and obvious position he has already taken prior to any sort of "research" he wants done? Here is some research of mine:
Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, gun prohibitionists argued that with changing CCW laws and the so called "AWB" expiring, that crime would explode. Sarah Brady and people with the same same views as the author all argued that it was just basic fact - more guns meant more crime and murder and crime would explode.
However, as state after state has made it easy to carry concealed weapons since the late 90s, and as the AWB expired and millions upon millions of new guns and gunowners were created, the crime and murder rate has literally fallen in half in the last twenty years.
Currently the FBI shows that in 2011 a whopping 323 people were linked to homicides with any form of rifle - yet the effort is on banning rifles. Stabbings kill five times as many people, and twice as many people are beaten to death with fists. At least 18 times as many people are killed with pistols, yet there is no cry to ban pistols from the same people who claim they are doing this just to save lives. Even better, Joe Biden has urged people to use shotguns - yet they are involved in more homicides every year than rifles.
Why were all of the gun banners so completely and terribly wrong with their predictions? Why should we trust a word they say now that they were horribly wrong? Why have they not explained how they could be so incorrect on such a basic premise that more guns meant more crime and murder?
Just out of curiosity, how many of the people advocating banning guns here are also supporters of the Obama admin? I would wager the percentage is very closely linked - which is certainly yet another in a long line of hypocritical behavior moments from gun prohibitionists. If they are so concerned about violence against innocent people and children in particular, where has the outrage and discussion been about the Obama drone program?
Or what about that Obama blew away a 16 year old US citizen? Or that his lawyers have stated in federal court that they have the authority to indefinitely detain and/or assassinate any US citizen they deem to be "aiding terrorists" thanks to the NDAA that Obama made sure was rammed through.
Stanford did a study recently that concluded the Obama admin drone program kills 49 civilians or every one terrorist. Gibbs has admitted that he was told by the Obama admin not to even discuss or admit the drone program existed, and an ambassador recently also stated that the conditions for a target was basically anyone who was an adult male.
The same types crowing for banning guns now and demanding action have been reduced to completely ignoring the violence the obama admin has brought all over the world with drones against innocent people, or becoming blatant cheerleaders for it. It is very hard for me to take seriously the claims of people who are supposedly so against violence while also supporting someone blowing away muslim civilians and what is estimated to be at least 179 children via drone strikes.
I don't even have to get into the Operation Gunwalker scandal in Mexico either that led to thousands of civilian deaths and at least one american LEO that Obama hid behind executive privilege to prevent certain people from testifying and documents from being released. The ATF also just had a similar hilarious op in Wisconsin that involved real machine guns being given to drug dealers and gangs. I guess the message from the Obama admin is that it trusts Mexican drug cartels, inner city drug gangs, and actual al queda terrorists in syria and libya with rifles more than he does american citizens.
It seems to me that if there is going to be any research why not look at the implications of Obama's drone war on civilians, including americans. Or research on the drug war, where elderly and sick people have feds sent by obama with real assault rifles after them for the horrible crime of smoking pot.
The problem is the same people supporting gun bans also are glorified cheerleaders for Obama's assaults on basic civil liberties with the NDAA, assassinating US citizens or detaining them without charge or trial, patriot act, drug war, prosecuting whistleblowers at record levels, prosecuting reporters with a WWI era law at levels higher than all other admins combined, etc. There is a term for that - fascism.
Just letting all of you gun banners know where you are on the political side of the issues these days.
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Heavy rains are disrupting Queensland's coal industry, but the impact on supply is expected to be less severe than in 2011.
Emergency officials said the floods were severe, although not as widespread as the monsoon-like rains that saturated Queensland and NSW two years ago. Thousands of people were being evacuated in the two eastern states and four people were reported killed.
Between 200 and 400 millimeters of rain fell over Queensland state's Bowen Basin, home to giant open pit mines owned by BHP Billiton, Mitsubishi, Anglo American, Peabody Energy and others.
"Central Queensland has experienced significant rainfall over the past few days and production at some of our operations has been impacted by flooding and temporary road and transportation access issues," an Anglo American statement said.
"Weather conditions in Queensland are now improving, which is allowing us to resume work in some areas, however, we continue to monitor the situation to ensure the safety of our employees," it said.
BHP said it was still assessing the impact to its operations across the Bowen Basin.
"All sites are operating and we are working to return to normal operations," it said.
A tropical low moving south along Queensland's coast was causing the flooding. At this stage, there was little likelihood the system would strengthen, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
Australia is the world's largest metallurgical coal exporter, accounting for roughly two-thirds of global trade. It also supplies thermal coals used in power generation.
Spot coking coal prices today were pegged at over $US167 per tonne, above the most recent quarterly settlement of $US160.
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Chinese majority-owned Yancoal has closed two of its Queensland coal mines after heavy rainfall in the wake of ex-cyclone Oswald.
At the Middlemount open cut mine, jointly owned with Peabody Energy, a levee bank has been breached and water has flowed into the pit.
Yancoal told the ASX this morning production was likely to be impacted for at least three weeks. Yancoal's Yarrabee mine was closed on the weekend but normal operations are expected to resume this week.
Yancoal shares were down 0.5 cents at 92.5 cents in early trade today.
At the same time, insurers are bracing for rising losses with floodwaters threatening Brisbane, after torrential rain so far left a trail of destruction down the Queensland coast. Insurance major Suncorp this morning said it had so far received around 4500 claims from storms and flooding across Queensland and NSW.
Insurance claims from the latest floods have already topped $43 million, as river levels continue to rise in in many parts.
Anglo-American advised it had shuttered some mines and Aurizon formerly QR National, said parts of its Central Queensland Coal Network were also closed.
A spokeswoman for Anglo's metallurgical coal division said Central Queensland had experienced ''significant rainfall over the past few days and production at some of our operations has been impacted by flooding and temporary road and transportation access issues''. But improving weather conditions had allowed Anglo to resume work in some areas.
Major Bowen Basin producers BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto gave no updates yesterday, saying any impact on production would be reported on in quarterly updates.
''We are obviously monitoring the weather impacts vigilantly and ensuring the safety of our people as a first priority,'' a BHP spokesman said. Xstrata told Bloomberg its Queensland Coal operations were not materially affected.
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Aurizon's bulk freight operations along the Queensland coast and coal operations on the West Moreton corridor were also affected by the closure of Queensland Rail corridors. Aurizon was working with customers "to minimise the impacts of heavy rain which has now moved south,'' a spokeswoman said.
On Saturday Port of Gladstone and Hay Point, the world's biggest export harbor for metallurgical coal, suspended ship loading due to the weather. Gladstone's suspension was lifted on Sunday morning.
Analysts expect any supply disruptions could help put a floor under coal prices, which soared in the wake of Queensland's 2011 floods. Hard coking coal peaked above $US330 a tonne that year but halved through 2012 according to IHS McCloskey's Bruce Jacques, who said there had been a small recovery in the last month before the storms..
The spot price was approaching $US170 ($A163) a tonne, he said, and it was likely the rains would ''edge that up a bit further''.
The storms in come as coal supplies from the Cerrejon mine in Colombia are threatened by strike action, and NSW's coal industry faces rail stoppages.
The storm system is tracking south to New South Wales. Newcastle Port told Bloomberg five coal ships and one other vessel had to move their anchorages further out to sea as a precaution, but the port was operating normally.
Four BHP Mitsubishi Alliance mines in the Fitzroy River basin in Central Queensland were last week allowed to carry out controlled releases of water in a pilot program announced by the state government last November.
Queensland Greens member and environmental medicine specialist Andrew Jeremijenko said on Monday the practice would only make the central Queensland floods crisis worse.
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JAMES Vaughan came back to haunt his old boss Dougie Freedman and snatch a point for Huddersfield on his return from injury.
The striker came off the bench to make his rescue act, after Mark Davies and Chris Eagles had seemingly steered Wanderers towards a deserved victory.
Injury-plagued Vaughan played under Freedman at Crystal Palace and the Whites boss had spoken about his threat earlier in the week when his return after a five-week lay-off looked likely.
His warning proved entirely correct as the former Everton prodigy struck an equaliser with three minutes to go and nearly grabbed a winner in stoppage time.
Wanderers should have been ahead after only three minutes when Keith Andrews turned a shot towards goal, bringing a fine save out of Alex Smithies.
The Huddersfield keeper then blocked Chris Eagles' effort at his near post, and within a few moments the wind had been completely taken out of the Whites' sails. Ollie Norwood's corner was turned into his own net – seemingly by Zat Knight – to hand the Terriers an undeserved lead.
One very nearly became two. Adam Bogdan blocked Adam Clayton's shot and when Simon Church kept the ball alive, Lee Novak crashed a shot against the bar.
At the other end, Andrews fired one just over the bar for Wanderers and then had a header cleared off the line by Jack Hunt, but the threat of an equaliser before the break dried up with the home side finishing much the stronger.
The impressive Hunt saw one effort blocked by Knight and another clawed from under his own bar by Bogdan.
Booed at the break by the 2,000 travelling fans, Wanderers did improve after the restart.
Eagles created a good chance for Chung-Yong Lee, which the Korean wasted by opting to cross rather than shoot for goal, and then missed one himself when taking an extra touch on Kevin Davies's through ball to allow Hunt to make a sliding challenge.
Ricketts then cut in from the right to curl a shot at goal, only to again find Smithies in the way.
It was no less than Wanderers deserved to draw level 20 minutes before the end as Eagles played the ball out to Chung-Yong and he slipped in Mark Davies to scamper into the penalty box and place a fine right-footed effort into the bottom corner.
It was the midfielder's fifth goal of the season and it visibly shook Huddersfield, who started to retreat into their shells.
They paid the price six minutes later when Sam Ricketts raided down the right, and then beat Dixon for pace, before being dragged down.
Eagles stepped up from the spot – his last penalty having been the one missed against Millwall Owen Coyle's final game – and he saw his effort from 12 yards pushed on to the post by Smithies.
It didn't deter Eagles nor Wanderers. And though they rode their luck a little when Knight's unnecessarily panicky clearance missed his own post by inches, the Whites deserved to seize the lead with 10 minutes to go.
It was a brilliant strike too, with Mark Davies back-heeling Spearing's through ball into Eagles path before the winger went from zero to hero by smashing the ball into the net.
Just as we began to entertain thoughts of victory, subs Alan Lee and James Vaughan combined, the latter with a fine angled strike inside the bottom corner to level the scores again.
Vaughan nearly grabbed a sensational winner five minutes into added on time, forcing Bogdan into a fingertip save.
That would have been harsh – but Wanderers' tendency to drop points from winning positions continues to cause problems.


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After a disastrous start last spring, the Padres went 49-37 over the season's final 86 games. And Chase Headley was far from the only Padre to improve down the stretch.
The offseason plan was to bolster the starting pitching with an acquisition or two while expecting bigger and better things from such young position players as Yasmani Grandal, Yonder Alonso, Logan Forsythe, Jedd Gyorko, Cameron Maybin and Everth Cabrera plus pitchers like Andrew Cashner.
With the start of spring training two weeks away, the Padres – for a variety of reasons – can't be as optimistic as they were last October.
For one thing, try as he has, General Manager John Byrnes has not been able to add quality depth to the club's iffy starting pitching scenario. The club did re-sign Jason Marquis for the back end of the rotation and acquired an interesting ceiling-higher-than-results candidate in Tyson Ross through a trade with Oakland.
And although the Padres will likely sign a couple free agents with medical questions later this week, the club has no more Opening Day starting rotation candidates today than it had at the end of the season. Marquis' return is neutralized by the loss of Cashner for the first month of the season following a hunting accident.
Cashner is not the only key player who will be missing at the start of the season. Grandal will miss the first 50 games of 2013 while serving a suspension for violating Major League Baseball's policy prohibiting performance enhancing drugs. The 2012 season was a disaster for Nick Hundley, the Padres' varsity catcher at the moment.
And while the Padres were suffering more losses – even if temporary – than gains this winter, their three main rivals in the National League West were busy on the acquisition front.
Not that they needed to improve, the World Champion Giants not only kept their 2012 cast intact, they brought back Andres Torres to platoon in left with Gregor Blanco.
The Dodgers continued the spending spree they started last August with the acquisition of Adrian Gonzalez by committing more than $200 million to starting pitchers Zack Greinke (the free agent will make $147 for six years) and Korean import Ryu Hyun-Jin. The Dodgers also added infielder Skip Schumaker and relief pitchers Brandon League and J.P. Howell and are looking to see Carl Crawford return.
Meanwhile, to the East, former Padres General Manager Kevin Towers was busy recasting the Arizona Diamondbacks. Towers did give up right fielder Justin Upton, third baseman Chris Johnson and starting pitcher Trevor Bauer. But he added the versatile Martin Prado, closer Heath Bell, third baseman Eric Chavez, shortstop Didi Gregorius, outfielder Cody Ross and starting pitchers Brandon McCarthy and Randall Delgado.
"There are still chances to make additions," said Byrnes, who has talked about the possibility of making a trade during spring training."
In addition to having a too quiet off-season, the Padres haven't been given any favors by the schedule makers. The Padres want to repeat the fast start that propelled them to 90 wins in 2010.
But they will open the 2013 season with seven straight games at the New York Mets and Colorado before playing nine of the next 12 against the Dodgers and Giants.
Gregerson signs
Right-handed reliever Luke Gregerson and the Padres agreed to terms Monday to avoid arbitration.
Gregerson, 28, will make $3.2 million in 2013. He was 2-0 with nine saves and a career-best 2.39 earned run average in 77 appearances last season. He had a 1.10 ERA after the All-Star break and had a 1.49 ERA in 43 appearances at Petco Park. He has a 2.92 ERA in 290 career relief appearances with the Padres.
The signing of Gregerson leaves Headley and left-handed starting pitcher Clayton Richard as the lone Padres facing an arbitration hearing.
Padres notes
--Tim Stauffer will likely rejoin the Padres later this week on a minor league contract that includes an invitation to spring training. If healthy, Stauffer would fit perfectly into the Padres rotation. But he made only one start before having elbow surgery last season. And like Cashner and Cory Luebke, Stauffer will not be ready for the first month of the season. Luebke's return from Tommy John surgery is set for July.
--Former Padres shortstop Garry Templeton has been named the manager of the Newark Bears of the Independent Can-Am League. Since retiring as a player in 1991, Templeton has managed for 13 seasons in the Angels organization and the independent leagues. He led the Chico Outlaws to the independent Golden Baseball League title in 2010.
--The Padres have named Rhonda Sedillo the club's Chief Financial Officer. Fred Gerson, who has held the CFO post with the Padres since 2003, becomes a consultant for the club. Sedillo is a San Diego native and graduate of San Diego State.


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THE 83RD ANNUAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SAM FOX SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND VISUAL ARTS presented a fashion extravaganza featuring models wearing outfits created by the school's senior and junior fashion design majors? This year marked the retirement of Jeigh Singleton, who has directed the Fashion Design program since 1987. For the 20th year, hair was done by Dominic Bertani and his staff from Dominic Michael Salon. The event was chaired by alumna Susan Block and co-hosted by Block and Craft Alliance's Saskya Emmink-Byron. Pictured: Dominic Bertani escorts Jessica Cohen and Julie Devinsky wearing skirts designed by Jamie Presson-Wells.
THE NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION SERVING EASTERN MISSOURI AND METRO EAST held its annual Kidney Walk? More than 900 walkers and 100 volunteers helped raise $124,000 and awareness of chronic kidney disease, which affects 26 million Americans. Pictured: The walk's top fundraising team, Team Midwest Nephrology, which raised more than $11,000.
ROGER (THE LADUE MARKETPLACE FRENCH POODLE) and his 'parents' Barbara and Dolph Bridgewater made a special appearance at a wine tasting event with Ladue Mayor Anthony Bommarito of A. Bommarito Wines held at Provence Boutique? Pictured: Barbara Bridgewater and Kristin Evans, owner of Provence Boutique, with Roger.
MORE THAN 300 GUESTS GATHERED AT THE ST. LOUIS ARTISTS' GUILD for the opening party of its Collectors Choice XI exhibition? Proceeds support the Guild and its programs. Pictured (from top left to bottom right): Volunteers Linda Boyer, Kim Kordonowy, Betty Springfield, Joanne Stremsterfer, Nora Schomogy, Carlene Fullerton, Donna Mills and Marianne Pepper.
THE JACK & J.T. SNOW FUND at Washington University hosted 'The Thirst Wine Launch' at Mike Shannon's restaurant? The event was to benefit the organization's efforts to raise funds and awareness of Wolfram syndrome, a terminal form of diabetes. The organization was founded by former MLB player J.T. Snow and his sister Stephanie Gebel, whose daughter Raquel was diagnosed with the disease. Pictured: J.T. Snow, St. Louis Rams head coach Jeff Fisher, owner of Thirst Wine Katie Shaffer, and Stephanie Gebel
CLAYTON GARDEN CLUB PRESENTED A CITATION OF COMMENDATION CERTIFICATE to Alberici Construction for its use of native plants and ongoing effort to restore a native prairie at its Overland headquarters? Pictured: JoAnn Vorih, Kathy Fulstone, Kay Alvis, Gretchen Martinson, John Alberici, Jackie Ruthsatz, Nancy Middleton, Jane Hardin, Renee Bennett and Barbara Ackerman
THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY MARCH OF DIMES SIGNATURE CHEF EVENT COMMITTEE met at Westwood Country Club to plan the 2012 event? The event honored 20 March of Dimes heroes. Pictured: Back row, from left: Stacie Weinstein, Cindy Murdoch, Laura Eppolito, JoLynn Winer, Cindie Lund, Heather Zajarias, Jennifer Sonneland, Michelle Reisner, Geetha Sant, Missy Tillman (St. Louis division director), J.J. Krane and Sonie Orsay. Front Row, left to right: Jill Starr, Karen Raskas, Suzanne Dalton, Mary Elizabeth Grimes (state director), Paige Noel (2012 co-chair), Pam Toder (2012 co-chair) and Leslie Schaye


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Nashville, TN (September 22, 2011) – One of Billboard's most-anticipated Country albums of the fall, A SKAGGS FAMILY CHRISTMAS VOLUME TWO, will be available in stores nationwide next Tuesday, September 27. The new, 10-song CD features both studio and live recordings, and includes performances of traditional seasonal favorites and new compositions that are sure to become holiday treasures.
To celebrate the album's release, Ricky and The Whites will appear at an in-store signing event at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on September 27 (11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.) and later that day, they'll sign autographs from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. in the Skaggs Family Records' Booth (#416) at the IBMA 2011 World of Bluegrass being held at the Nashville Convention Center. Skaggs, a 14-time Grammy® winner, will also entertain fans on Wednesday, September 28 when he and Kentucky Thunder join the Bill Monroe Tribute Show being held at Vanderbilt University's Ingram Hall at 7 p.m.


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OFFICIALS at the Wiltshire FA have again refused to clarify the status of secretary Mike Benson, amid new reports over the future of the 78-year-old at the county governing body.
The Gazette & Herald reported last month that Benson had been on leave from his position with the association for several weeks, although the body declined to comment on why he was absent from his post.
Benson insisted he was on "self-imposed suspended leave" citing the pressures of the job and adding: "I spoke to my chairman (Richard Gardiner) and he advised me to take some time off so that is what I did.
"It is a pressurised job and it takes it out of you. I am hoping to be back soon."
However, the Gazette & Herald understands that Benson has not yet returned to work and may be the subject of an inquiry conducted by the national FA.
Officials at Wembley were unable to confirm if that was the case before the paper went to press yesterday afternoon, having previously insisted that the situation was a "county matter".
Amid confusion at local league level over who is running day-to-day operations at the Wiltshire FA, the Gazette & Herald this week again attempted to contact county officials to clarify the situation.
The option to speak to the secretary had been removed from the county FA switchboard at its Swindon headquarters, while all enquiries were directed to county FA chairman Gardiner, who failed to respond to repeated phone calls and messages.
The Gazette & Herald has also spoken to representatives of leagues and teams throughout the county who admitted they were in the dark and had similarly been unable to obtain any answers from the county body.


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Cole Swindell's "Ain't Worth the Whiskey" is the second single from the Georgia native's self-titled debut album to be certified Platinum by the RIAA. The song, which is about overcoming heartbreak and gives a nod to our troops, was Read More
Ashley Monroe's second Warner Bros. / Warner Music Nashville album, The Blade, which shot to No. 1 on the iTunes Country Chart upon release, is available now on vinyl.
Monroe's highly praised effort was featured on NPR's "First Listen" and Read More
Brett Eldredge doesn't sleep very much these days, but the 29 year-old insomniac is enjoying the dream of his new album Illinois debuting at #1 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart. It's the first time he's had an album achieve that feat. Fueled by the lead single "Lose My Mind," Read More
Warner Bros. Records/Warner Music Nashville artist Chris Janson docks his smash summer single "Buy Me A Boat" at No. 1 on the Mediabase Country chart Read More
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Academy of Country Music New Artist of the Year Cole Swindell announced his second annual Down Home Tour this morning, following last year's sold-out run, and it's going to be a Monster (tour dates listed below, with more to be announced soon).
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GRAMMY® Award-winning Country Music Hall of Fame member and one of the best-selling music artists of all time, Kenny Rogers, will release his first new Christmas album in seventeen years on September 25th via Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville. Titled Once Again It's Christmas, the Read More
Things just keep getting better for breakout country star Chris Janson. The Warner Bros. Records/Warner Music Nashville recording artist is joining the Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2015 next month, one of music's most anticipated tours of the fall season.
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Tinman was looking off into the horizon and saw a horrific storm coming his way. Where he is standing it is all sunshine, but clearly the storm of the century is making its way to his house. Even so, he stayed outside to watch it as there were hundreds of lightning bolts shooting every which way inside the storm. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck him. Tinman's wife, Tinmanette, saw this through the window and rushed outside to see if he was alright. She brought him back into the house to keep him safe. She called the police and told them that there was lightning coming from over the town. The officer said that it was coming from the storm.
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TOPEKA – The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism has received two awards for KANSAS! Magazine, adding to the colorful magazine's growing collection of industry honors.
On October 1, the International Regional Magazine Association, Inc. (IRMA) gave the Fall 2011 edition of KANSAS! its Award of Merit in the Food Feature category and awarded a Bronze in the category of Most Improved Magazine. The awards were based on overall writing and design. KANSAS! competed against 38 other regional publications.
The Award of Merit for Food Feature was in response to an article written by Overland Park writer Kimberly Winter Stern with photography by Jason Dailey. "Chefs a la Carte" profiled four Kansas culinary stars and their delectable fares: Michael Beard (715, Lawrence), Greg Fox (Row House Restaurant and Catering, Topeka), Richard Sanell (Café on the Route, Baxter Springs) and Beth Tully (Cocoa Dolce Artisan Chocolates, Wichita).
The Bronze for Most Improved Magazine was awarded to recognize general improvements in the 2011 editions of KANSAS! Magazine compared to the 2010 editions.
"We are honored to receive these awards for KANSAS! Magazine," said Becky Blake, Director of Tourism. "Kansans and subscribers from across the globe have enjoyed it for more than sixty years. We work hard to bring our readers outstanding photography and enticing stories that showcase our wonderful state."
According to IRMA, a regional magazine is a general-interest, authoritative voice that aims to define, interpret, and explore a specific, recognizable region for those living there or yearning to.
KANSAS! Magazine is published quarterly in February, May, August and November as the Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter issues. First published in 1945, KANSAS! has about 43,000 subscribers from around the world. The magazine is also available in bookstores, grocery stores and museum gift shops across Kansas. Subscribe to KANSAS! Magazine online at KansasMag.com or call 800-678-6424.


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ENtrants can bring their own drink and nibbles will be provided, with vinyl DJ sets starting at 7pm.
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Survival Code – 'Mental' DefenceOctober 21st, 2008
A wonderful story was written by Hans Christian Anderson called "The Shadow". The star of the story is the theme for this article. The shadow began to have its own life, its own desires and eventually to over the life of the man who had the shadow.
The shadow took his money, his wife, his pleasures and turned them into ruins. It was a fatal story until the man realized he could take back his life.
Carl Yung had an equivalent 'Shadow' he referred to as the Alter (negative) Ego. In our work in Neuro-Training we spend some time dealing with this very powerful mental defence and call it the 'Negative Self'.
It's a very interesting event in human neurology to realize that you can't find a solution to something you think you should have a solution for. Babies are the centre of the universe until they reach somewhere around 30 years old. Seriously, children are ego centric until about 7 years old where they start to accept there are other opinions they need to pay attention to.
During those early years or even in utero, there comes a time when the child experiences a state where they believe they should be in control but can't be at the same time. This creates in them a great fear and possible pain or even fear of pain.
It becomes the motivation to do something drastic to find a solution to this situation. Their solution is drastic but common to all humans. They create Another Self to take the pain and or fear and leave them free from the dreaded shame of not being able to find an answer.
The result is a perception of another self that is an exact reproduction of them. It has to be to take on the pain and fear so completely as to leave none of it for the person. The new self takes on the pain and fear and stress and whatever else it has to, to alleviate the trauma.
(No matter how small it may be).
The person feels better and therefore has found a solution to the trauma. Ah success, but at what cost?
While we are small the 'Other Self' is also small. But as we get more skilled at being stressed and fearful, it becomes stronger to deal with the extra pain. It gets bigger, more aggressive and at some point will start exercising its ability to make you do what it wants.
You see, this other self has a reason for living, to take your pain and stress and fear. It must have these things to justify its existence so if you don't give it enough of these things it will motivate you to do something that will create more of these. Its energy is stress its diet is the Fear and Pain cocktail.
Just think of someone in your life where everything seems to be going along just fine, then, !BANG! everything falls apart. Isn't that strange? Ever wondered how the subconscious of a person would do that when things are great?
Well the other self, now stronger and more powerful, is rightfully called the Negative Self because of all the negativity it can and will produce to have something to live on.
Your negative self knows what you know, it shares the same subconscious and it has access to your worst nightmares. It can manipulate you through fear, it can create wonderful things in your life so it can take them away later. It does this to keep a minimum store of negative energy to live on.
In our Advanced Neuro-Training workshops we teach a process that destroys the Negative Self and allows all that stored energy to be freed for the use of the person.
Your negative self does NOT want you to know it is there.
Even if it s very strong, it will ever openly show itself unless it thinks you will not be alerted to its presence.
Want to know why?
It knows you made it, and it also knows you are the only one who can destroy it. And destroy it you must. Just visualizing its destruction is not enough, there must be a neurological change to ultimately remove its affect.
It starts out as a figment of your imagination. We find references for it in our chromosomes, we then connect it to our fear spiral (see the article on Fear Spiral) and eventually feed it with the accumulated stress we produce over time.
Sounds all a bit way out doesn't it? Yet I have witnessed with my own eyes, little old ladies throwing fully grown adult men around the room as if they were made of cotton. Of course, it wasn't the little old lady but her Negative Self that was doing all the work. This was during a workshop aimed at destroying the Negative Egos of the attendees.
A negative self is a master of defense and will use anything to defend itself, even from being discovered by you.
We take our students through a three stage process to destroy the Negative Self safely and effectively. The last stage of this process is to visualize the Negative Self and destroy it so it can never come back. But even at this stage of the process it still knows what you know and will try to deceive you into believing something it can use to escape destruction.
Some examples; A women was looking for her negative self in her visualization. She came through the whole process believing she had no negative self to destroy. When I asked what she did see, she replied "only a little baby in a crib. That couldn't be my negative self".
I took her back into the visualization and told her to take the mask off the baby. She was horrified by what she saw and realized it was the negative self and she was then able to destroy it completely.
Another example was a women had 'destroyed' her negative and afterwards had developed and 'Fairy' that sat on her left shoulder telling her things to do or not do. Ideas that never worked out and sometimes things that were straight dangerous. I told her to go back into the visualization and destroy the 'Fairy'. She did and reported afterward more energy and clearer thinking. (The fairy hasn't been seen since)
I have many, many stories about what happened when people were attempting to destroy their negative selves.
The fact is that your Negative Self is a crucial factor to your success in life. It has to go and it has to be done properly. Once you are free of your major negative self, there could be smaller ones develop later, especially of you leave your Survival Code active. This is the fastest way to create a new Negative Self.
After the destruction people report a range of changes from more energy, better thinking, motivated again and a million other adjectives to describe what happened. What really happened is you went back to being normal.
It's unfortunate but true that while someone has an active Negative Self, they are not real people. Most people you do business with are probably not real people. Some you can identify easily as having dominant negative selves and others are more subtle. Until you and your associates have taken steps to destroy their Negative Self, there will always be the potential for something or someone to go terribly wrong.
The good news is that when it's gone, you can celebrate the freedom that comes from being yourself. Productivity increases, changes occur that would never have happened otherwise and finally but not least, you get to find out who you really are again.
Look for Blueprint One workshop from Neuro-Training. Its here we train your brain to be able to destroy the negative self completely.
Andrew Verity


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