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Hickenlooper Hints at Potentially Terrible Idea on Gun Safety Legislation

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper held an end-of-year press briefing at the State Capitol yesterday. He told reporters that he was aiming for a modest, quiet legislative agenda (more on that in a moment), but more importantly, he hinted at a potential strategy around gun safety legisation that would be absolutely disastrous for both he and his fellow Democrats. From the Associated Press:

Hickenlooper said he doesn’t want to see any gun-control laws repealed, including new expanded background checks and a 15-round ammunition magazine limit. But he told reporters he’d consider tweaks to some of the new gun laws, without specifying what changes he’d agree to. [Pols emphasis]

“If there’s a way to improve them some way, if you have some way that they work better or do a better job at what was their intention, then I think we should sit down and have that discussion,” Hickenlooper said.

Stop digging, Governor.

This may just be one of those classic "off-the-cuff" statements by Gov. Hickenlooper that make his staffers cringe but don't otherwise end up having any basis in truth behind them. But if Hickenlooper is so much as entertaining the idea of "tweaking" gun laws approved last spring, it would likely end up being the Governor's most bone-headed decision in his political career. You can argue whether or not you think the gun legislation passed by Democrats was a good idea, but there is absolutely no reason for Hickenlooper to support changing any of the new laws after only a few months.

"Tweaking" any of the legislation would immediately be spun as a victory by Republicans and groups like Dudley Brown's Rocky Mountain Gun Owners. Hickenlooper can use whatever word he wants to describe such a change, but to everyone watching it would appear as nothing less than a capitulation on an issue that Democrats fought long and hard to achieve. And to what end? Would right-wing voters who opposed the gun safety legislation decide to support Hickenlooper all of a sudden? Of course not!

Such a decision would just make Hickenlooper look weak — and "leadership" is really his biggest message problem — while helping Brown and friends raise money and attract more supporters. But perhaps most importantly, it would ignore the fact that Coloradans are actually supportive of gun safety measures; Democrats just lost the messaging battle this year. If you don't remember that Quinnipiac Poll from last August, here's a snippet from our post at the time:

The poll results also show that voters say they generally oppose Colorado's new "stricter gun control laws," though from the breakout of opinions on various gun safety measures, voters may not entirely understand them:

Colorado voters support 82 – 16 percent requiring background checks for all gun buyers. Support is strong among all groups.

Voters are divided 49 – 48 percent on a ban on the sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds.

The takeaway here is that voters don't like the phrase "stricter gun control laws," but actually seem to support gun safety measures when asked separately.

What Hickenlooper and his fellow Democrats really need to do is find a better way to talk about gun safety legislation — but any sort of "tweak" should be off the table in 2014. Hickenlooper said repeatedly during yesterday's press briefing that he anticipated a "quiet" legislative session, meaning that his office has no plans to do anything significant that will interest the average voter heading into next November. If that projection indeed holds true, then anything like "tweaking" gun legislation will receive more attention than usual given a lack of other interesting stories for reporters to cover. It's a perfect storm of a bad idea.

We've seen already that Hick is likely to base his re-election efforts around the theme of an improving economy, and if he doesn't plan on doing anything of note in the upcoming legislative session, then he's better off sticking with that message 100%. Showing strong leadership is Hick's most pressing problem, and you don't lead by going backwards.

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Swimming safety tips for both beginner and advanced swimmers to increases their level

As a newbie swimmer you can face with a lot of challenges during the learning process. The best advice for you are getting accustomed with water in the pool, learning the actions of the stroke, learning how to breathe and very possibly overcoming the fear of water, pool and anything. That is common! There is the good list of swimming safety tips for novice swimmers. You can learn the basics of common freestyle to newbie swimmers, and a little determination, good knowledge, and right methods, so you can swim better. People can check out the grip authority program to gain the good health when learning swim.

At the beginning of this list about swimming safety tips you learn to swim, you can have a lot of headache troubles which can make you afraid. In fact, you should know that the fear can be the huge hurdle to overcome. The huge of drowning will be indeed frightening. However, when swimmers stop seeing water as the scariest thing, they can start to relax in the water. All beginners should spend the time on playing in water, and then get accustomed to the way of body moves in the water. Maybe in the first year, you need to learn how to play with the pool toys, the water wings, and many other flotation devices, to get acclimated to how to move in the water around the pool. Learners can find out that this is the longest part of the swimming learning process especially when they have many deep-seated problems regarding water. We also provide some products about sports betting for giving you more choice for entertainment, such as: z code system program, or sports cash system.

Swim learners should know how to keep their goggles over their eyes during an hour without removing. A common swimming safety tips often includes warm-up your body, main set, and then pull or kick and finish with a task of warm-down. After each single set, learners tend to put the goggles on the forehead and then reset their own goggles on the next set. The long distance race never allows the luxury. So you should keep your own goggles on.

Learners will be able to squint their eyes to allow a little water to seep in their eyes. This amount of water will be able to slosh around their goggle lenses to keep all of them fog-free.

To increase beginner’s ability to sight in the open long distance water race or the triathlon, practice sighting in pool. On fourth lap, you should throw in many sightings while you are swimming across this pool. Then, look up 2 to 3 times and keep your streamlined position by never dropping the legs and hips. You should attempt to find out in 1 smooth motion in the arm cycle. If learners want a feedback on technique, they should ask the lane mates or coach to check their sighting technique and provide them some good constructive criticisms. It is very important to improve continually the swimming safety tips.

As learners’ hands go to water, all their fingertips should start to point straight down immediately. They should focus on pulling the straight back as they roll their shoulder, and take a deep breath. Learner’s hands must not cross over their center line at every point in stroke. We also give you more tips for playing other kinds of sports such as: tips for hockey beginners, tips for playing tennis.

If beginners have the cross-over kick, they should purchase a good pair of the fins and target on kicking efficiently by not crossing 1 foot over other. The fins can also support swimmers increasing their ankle flexibility.

When learners are practicing with the swimmer’s snorkel, they should concentrate on their arm stroke and their body rotation easily. Some competitive swimmers will use this type of special equipment all of the time. So you should do that.

The next advice to become an advanced swimmer is breathing control. It is an amazing aspect for people to swim, because the both muscles and lungs will get a workout. The best way for all people to face their fear of the water is being submerged completely in it. People should stand in the shallow of a pool, and put the face in water alleviated their anxiety. This is the best way of holding the breath under the water. When learners overcome their initial panic, they can start to immerse their entire body under the water. They should dip the whole body in a special 3-foot section of this water pool will be less frightening.

I suggest that learners should practice their breath control while they are submerging themselves. Learners should make sure that they have good position, if they are in the stretch of the water where they are be able to stand easily and quickly, so they can’t be panic. The advice is to become total comfortable with the thinking of being under the water during longer of time. All learners should plan a special game of this, by the way of having a good friend toss the brightly colored toy in water for all learners to retrieve. All swimmers can be surprised about how serene this feels to be under water. And this method can make the actual part of swimming feel less terrifying.

If you do not know how swimmers kept the heads above the water in the deep end of pool during the long time, so you should be tread the water. You should start to inch your method towards the special 4-foot section of water pool and you should be at the chest deep. Because you will be no longer scared of being under the water, you will be able to relax all your body. This will be important key in the treading step of swimming safety tips, because your movement will be optimal.

You should start in the upright position and start to alternating movement of your arms. Next you should do the same with your legs slowly. By this way, you can keep yourself afloat. Some swim experts state that the easiest and best way to tread the water is rotating your legs as you are riding your bicycle. This way definitely works well. However, you can find various ways to tread the water. As long as learner is exerting little energy as possible as he/she can, so it can mot make him/her feel tired. Finding out and making tread is especially important in the emergency situation.

Advanced swimmers can swim during 6 minutes for about 400m. A lot swimming companies focus on training the intermediate swimmers. But you should focus on swimming smooth. In this full list of swimming safety tips, you can learn the whole spectrum of all swimmers. The keys in these swimming safety tips can help you swim faster.

When you learn about pace awareness with all the top swimmers, all of them tend to roll the eyeballs. Many of them think they had good judgment of pace in water pool. However, in fact, their pacing is a definite weak point, and it is very difficult to improve.

This is especially common to swim too fast during the first 200m. Because your own heart rate and your perceived exertion will be delayed responses to the intensity of your effort, both of them must take some minutes to reach your real intensity.

When swimmers set the pace too fast, faster than their “threshold pace” over the distance, it is too late and they have dug themselves a really difficult hole for them to get out of.

Suffering early in the swim race will help to crush swimmers psychologically if they start to feel themselves slipping backwards.

For the test 400-1500m of the trial time, they should take the average pace about 100m and then compare it to the first 100m. If it is than two to three seconds faster, so you should improve their pace awareness right now.

When learners have developed the special pacing technique they start to learn how rare they are. In a lot of races the whole field will start too fast and fade via the swim. You can make use of this fact, you should swim at right pace from your start and come via strong in middle and then end when someone is dying. You can finish faster and if this is a triathlon you can also be fresher for a bike.

Other angle on the pacing which can offer potential for the improvement in swimmers stroke with any technique is the development of the stroke rate. All of you know the stroke rate is the best measure of how many bad strokes you can take per minute.

In this list of swimming safety tips, I provide you a controlled swim leg plan and you can swim faster.

I find counting the stroke to be valuable, and it identifies asymmetrical stroke technique.

You should check your own stroke rate via a longer steady paced swim to check if it can be consistent and never dropping. Also, you can use the video footage of the stroke to support identifying if you get the dead spots or the hitches in this technique. Increasing the stroke rate difficulty in the controlled manner is a good way to support to remove those pauses. You should look for more ways of using the stroke rate control to eliminate dead spots in the technique.

Dead-spots come as the bad result when you are trying to over-catch up at the front of the stroke to do it as long as you can. In this situation, the elbow and wrist often drop immediately causing you to push the water away from your body, like applying brakes. Over reaching can cause the dropping the wrists.

Equally, if some swimmers start a long race at too fast stroke rate, their excessive fatigue in latter stages can cause they form to become sloppy and their elbows can end up dropping. This situation can increase their drag and hurt their catch technique.

To fix these problems, all advance swimmers can use the Wetronome equipment to control their stroke rate to suit their individual stroke. This can be another excellent way to correct your race pacing perfect.

Congratulations! If some of people are reading this article that means they cannot drown. There are many different ways for you to swim, obviously. Your arms can come out of water to do the full strokes from this side to other side. The breaststroke is a good method to get acclimated to the swim process, in that the head will remain out of water. All of you can find best way to move around in the water, swim under water easily, and less frightening. Swimming can be good for your health, and you can check out some sports that are support your health, such as: tips for playing soccer, and tips of surfing.

There are 11 swimming safety tips for all of you to improve your swimming skills. If you think this blog contains useful information, you can share with other people. If you are interested in the topic about swimming safety tips, please leave your comment below. I appreciate your contribution.

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New Ad Takes on Oil & Gas Industry Over Fracking Safety

The Colorado-based Center for Western Priorities has released a new ad taking on the oil and gas industry for its glaring inattentiveness to safety standards. The message is strong because it sticks firmly to the stunning frequency of spills in Colorado:

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Medication documentation and safety

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Misinformation Reigns As Gun Safety Laws Take Effect

(Bumped up for the holiday weekend by popular demand – Pols)

7NEWS reports:

Ammunition magazine limits and universal background check requirements are set to take effect in Colorado on Monday, even as county sheriffs fight to overturn the new laws in court.

But after months of tense debate among state officials, the signature pieces of Colorado Democrats' gun control legislation are moving from abstract to tangible.

Some gun stores already are stocking smaller magazines to comply with the 15-round limit. [Pols emphasis] And in the coming months, the public will see how the expansion of background checks to private and online sales will work.

Ever since the passage of landmark gun safety legislation this year in the Colorado General Assembly, we have tried in this space to sort out fact from fiction as gun right supporters made wild claims about what these bills would actually do–and local media generally repeated those claims without question. Today, as these laws finally take effect, the public continues to be grossly misinformed by local press on their true effects. Much of this appears to be the result of one man, Dave Kopel of the right-wing Independence Institute, who simultaneously acts as the media's "expert" on gun policy while he leads the lawsuit against these new laws.

This weekend, a story in the Denver Post by Ryan Parker, who we have already called out for uncritically reprinting gun lobby falsehoods, took the misinformation to a new level: 

At the Firing Line gun shop in Aurora, assorted guns are marked with red tags reading: "Not for sale after June 30." [Pols emphasis]

"We can sell the gun, but we won't be able to sell the magazine with it, so what's the point?" store manager Richard Taylor said…

A preliminary injunction hearing for parts of the law banning high-capacity ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds — including the "readily converted" language, which could apply to removable base plates — is set for July 10.

"Parts of the (magazine ban) law are so vaguely written, sheriffs are unsure which magazines are legal and which are illegal," Kopel said.

For starters, this latest story from Ryan Parker totally ignores the technical guidance memo from Attorney General John Suthers on the magazine limit law, which very clearly interprets the bill's language, and puts to rest the nonsense about "removable baseplates" and which magazines would be "designed to be readily converted" into a high capacity magazine. And as we've said over and over, in every state where magazine capacity has been limited–Colorado is not the first state to enact this–compliant magazines are available. The claim from Kopel's boss Jon Caldara that "guns in Colorado will never be able to get a magazine again," which Kopel has never been asked to justify, is simply not supported by the facts. Yet here we have the state's newspaper of record subsidizing it!

We reported in early June that Gov. John Hickenlooper has requested a temporary injunction binding enforcement of the magazine limit to the terms of the AG's memo, which is all that proponents want. Again, nobody wants the draconian, speculative interpretations of this law suggested by opponents to be the standard. But Parker omits this as well, and only reports that Kopel is seeking an injunction to halt enforcement of the law entirely.

Saturday's Denver Post ran Parker's story on the front page, with a photo of a row of AR-15 type rifles labeled "not for sale after June 30th." But the truth is that compliant magazines are available for every one of those guns, and AR-15s are still legal for sale today. In short, the Post's front page Saturday amounted to a wholesale deception of its readers. The omissions and factual errors are so pervasive that they truly appear to be intentional. The only purpose we can identify for this story is no incite anger among gun owners and supporters of gun rights, while omitting all of the details that would mitigate that anger. To say this is not journalism is an understatement.

We can't tell you why the Denver Post's newsroom has chosen to so egregiously misreport the gun safety debate this year, but it is increasingly undeniable that they have an agenda other than objective journalism. The Post's editorial board has been a moderate voice in the debate over gun safety legislation this year, and has fact-checked some false claims from the gun lobby that the newsroom has missed. Meanwhile, as we've discussed, the Post's newsroom, led by avowed conservative political news editor Chuck Plunkett, has drilled on factual errors and gaffes by Democrats in multi-day feature stories–yet allowed opponents to claim basically any crazy thing they want without any kind of equivalent fact-checking. Each of these incidents generated its own isolated criticism.

With this latest round of front-page misinformation, it's time to suggest that it isn't "isolated."

Full story: Misinformation Reigns As Gun Safety Laws Take Effect

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