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Tuesday Afternoon's Journalpretty damn meta.
wonderful day !! ---
Study: CeaseFire Model Can Stop Epidemic of Gun Violence, Replicated in Baltimore
New research released today reinforces the concept that gun violence can be reduced and prevented by taking a public health approach to the problem. Findings from a study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health show that shootings and killings in even America’s most violent communities can be reduced using the CeaseFire model—a model that employs disease control and behavior change strategies to reduce violence. CeaseFire employs ex-offenders who have unique credibility with community members and effectiveness in getting people to rethink the impulse to resolve disputes using guns.
Safe Streets Baltimore was launched by the Baltimore City Health Department in 2007 as a CeaseFire replication site, and research released today represents the first rigorous study of a replication of the CeaseFire model. In Baltimore, researchers found the Safe Streets program cut homicides by more than half in the Cherry Hill neighborhood. An earlier Department of Justice evaluation found 41 to 73 percent drops in shootings and killings in CeaseFire zones in Chicago.
NewPublicHealth spoke with CeaseFire founder, Gary Slutkin, about the CeaseFire model earlier this year. “If you release yourself from preconceived ideas about good and bad people and just look at what is actually happening, empirically you see that [violence] spreads like any other infectious disease,” said Slutkin. In another interview, Tio Hardiman, director for CeaseFire Illinois, commented on the CeaseFire approach, “You have to be able to detect conflicts before they arrive and before they escalate.”
more at link:
http://www.rwjf.org/en/blogs/new-public-health/2012/01/study-ceasefire-model-can-stop-epidemic-of-gun-violence-replicated-in-baltimore.html
A Book To Break The Gun Control Stalemate
By Rachel Martin and NPR Staff: Originally published on Mon November 19, 2012 9:25 am
Americans own an estimated 300 million guns. It's a level of gun ownership that no other country in the world comes close to matching. It's also a source of controversy in the U.S., where groups on both sides of the issue seem to have dug deep into the debate.
Now, a new book tries to break the stalemate. In Living With Guns: A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment, Craig Whitney explores areas where the two opposing sides might find common ground, and even compromise. Whitney, a former New York Times editor, joins NPR's Rachel Martin to discuss the complexities of the debate and possible solutions.
Interview Highlights
On the reaction to mass gun violence in the U.S.
"I actually decided to try and write this book when I was living abroad, and I would see things like the 2011 Tucson shooting. People are horrified, and there are expressions of dismay. And then nothing happens, and we have another one. And what you need is to keep the conversation going. What should we do to make these things less likely? Is there anything we can do? If there is, we ought to talk about it."
On his goal in writing the book
"What I wanted to do was suggest that especially liberals, who are generally in favor of gun control, should say, 'Now, look, we agree that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right, and it's protected by the Second Amendment. Now let's talk about ways to make it safer to have all these guns.' That must be as much in the interest of gun owners as it is in the interest of people who fear gun violence."
more at link:
http://www.wwno.org/post/book-break-gun-control-stalemate
Not Deacon BLUE. I said DEACON WHITE !!
‘Deacon’ finally gets into the Hall of Fame
James “Deacon” White, a Caton native who was one of professional baseball’s star players back in the 19th century and is considered a pioneer of the game, was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame this week.
White, who died in 1939, will be enshrined during the Hall’s annual induction weekend ceremonies in July in Cooperstown.
White was one of three baseball legends selected from among 10 finalists by the Hall’s Pre-Integration Era Committee, a group that includes former players, executives, media and historians. They are responsible for picking inductees from the era that spans from 1871 to 1946.
The committee met and voted this week at baseball’s winter meetings in Nashville, Tenn.
Along with White, the committee also elected Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert and umpire Hank O’Day. Ruppert bought the Yankees in 1915, purchased Babe Ruth from the Red Sox and built Yankee Stadium, and his teams won seven World Series.
Many baseball observers have said White’s induction was overdue, as many other stars of his era had already been inducted.
more at link:
http://www.the-leader.com/news/x719501876/-Deacon-finally-gets-in-the-Hall-of-Fame
this is what the decline of a civlization looks like. be prepared but, don't go looking for trouble
from an interview with Leslie Caron regarding civilization and deprivation --
"During the war, people had become very bitter and very suspicious of each other; men beating up women and beating up children, and that was quite a normal sight," she recalls. "And this is the sort of thing that despair and fear and poverty brings to people. It breaks down civilization, breaks down the manners of people and their ways of behavior."
more at link:
http://www.nwpr.org/post/leslie-caron-dancing-wwii-paris-hollywood
spoken like a member of the good ole boy network and hence the reason that all these threads exist.
meh?
meh.
The lounge has its own rules. What are your rules? That is the question.
Are you a man unto yourself?
Are you man enough to stand up and say Shut up to a Rude Misogynist Asshole?
or, do you just keeping sliding him enough rope until he hangs himself and then drink to the memory of the Asshole?
HH went way over the line with his posts. - period ! End Of Sentence. --
NOT just the one he made to Kimi.
He made disgusting remarks on a daily basis and the good ole boy network egged it on and set it up for him to knock it out of the park.
Laugh laugh slap yer buddy on the back. yeehaw!
I watched it time and again in The Lounge.
*now* it's getting ridiculous ?
you guys.crack.me.up
this reminds me of who wins: Superman or Batman
FUCK THE NRA.
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