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"The kayak is far and away the best one-man boat in existence." Fridtjof Nansen, polar explorer, Norwegian diplomat and Nobel prize-winner. He was talking about the classic Greenland kayak. The sit-on-top kayak is very popular too, because a total beginner can climb on and go paddling.
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The specific responsibility given the Local Government Commission was to approve, sell, and deliver all North Carolina bonds and notes. It was designated as the agency whose approval was required for certain types of financial agreements involving local governments, while at the same time it was to help counties, cities, and other local taxing units set up and maintain their financial and accounting systems. The commission was even called on to provide educational programs on finance and cash management for local officials. Adding extra clout in fulfilling these assignments was the commission's high-level membership. It consisted of nine members: four state officials serving ex officio, including the state treasurer, state auditor, secretary of state, and secretary of revenue; three members appointed by the governor, one of whom was required to be, or to have been, the mayor or member of the governing body of a city and the other a member of a county board of commissioners); and two members selected by the lieutenant governor and the Speaker of the North Carolina House. With these important officials and the state treasurer, who served as chairman, the authority of the commission was established from the outset.
As an early result of the legislative decision to provide the new agency with the supervisory powers needed to correct the costly mistakes of the 1920s, the Local Government Commission soon became, and remains, a bulwark of North Carolina government. One important consequence is that the state and many of its counties and cities consistently maintain credit ratings well above the average for other states.
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North Carolina Local Government Commission official website: http://www.nctreasurer.com/slg/Pages/Local-Government-Commission.aspx (accessed October 25, 2012).
Alden, Edward. "Policy Initiative Spotlight: North Carolina's Local Government Commission." Renewing America (blog). Council on Foreign Relations. June 15, 2012. http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2012/06/15/policy-initiative-spotlight-north-carolinas-local-government-commission/ (accessed October 25, 2012).
Fehr, Stephen C. "North Carolina Agency Is Local Government Lifeline", Stateline [Pew Center on the States]. June 6, 2012. http://www.pewstates.org/projects/stateline/headlines/north-carolina-agency-is-local-government-lifeline-85899396242 (accessed October 25, 2012).
Coe, Charles K. "Preventing Local Government Fiscal Crises: The North Carolina Approach." Public Budgeting & Finance 27. Issue 3. Fall 2007. pages 39–49.
Fesler, James W. "North Carolina's local government commission." National Municipal Review 30, Issue 6, June 1941. pages 327–334.
Ratchford, B. U. "The work of the North Carolina local government commission." National Municipal Review 25. Issue 6. June 1936. pp. 323–368.
McMahon, John Alexander. The North Carolina local government commission. Chapel Hill: North Carolina Association of County Commissioners. 1960.
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We would hope the Federal Aviation Administration would have something better to do than investigate Colorado College students for getting a plane full of passengers on their feet to do the Harlem Shake on a flight to San Diego.
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To be clear, the seat belt sign was off and a video recording of the dance episode shows nothing more than passengers on the Frontier flight on their feet and shaking and wiggling for a few seconds. It's funny, actually.
According to 7News, the dance was led by members of Colorado College's ultimate frisbee team. The TV news outfit confirmed the FAA was investigating.
A Frontier Airlines representative said this about the incident: "All safety measures were followed and the seat belt sign was off," said spokeswoman Kate O'Malley. In addition, one of the students behind the dance-moment asked the flight crew ahead of time if it was all right.
Matt Zelin, sophomore who filmed the dance and who is a member of CC's frisbee team, said this, according to The Catalyst, a Colorado College school newspaper: "I don't see there being any reason why this should cause any trouble. We asked the staff and they said it was safe."
"They are still looking into it, it's still open," Tony Molinero, a spokesman for the FAA said this week, according to The Catalyst. "…I don't know where the [investigators] were told about it, but when they saw the video they just decided to look into it because it is better to be safe than sorry."
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Kickstarter has proven to be one of the more popular crowdfunding platforms for independent filmmakers these days. Whether it's a heavily publicized big budget venture or a lower budget film from an up-and-coming filmmaker, crowdfunding is one way to rally financial support, as well as interest in a developing project. As movie fans, some of us may have kicked in some money toward interesting projects at Kickstarter, but what is it like to fund a film that way from the filmmaker's perspective? We spoke with with Robert Hillyer Barnett about that very subject. Barnett is currently in the process of making a film called Tears of God. It's described as an atmospheric feature-length fable about possession, death and mourning in a rural community. Its Kickstarter campaign is up and running, with a little more than a week to go.
Barnett said they decided to fund Tears of God through Kickstarter both out of necessity and a desire to build an audience of people who might be interested in the film. From a backer's perspective, there's certainly something to be said for getting to contribute to someone else's art and Kickstarter allows us to do that, especially if it leads to the film being completed. Barnett spoke about that a bit when talking about the benefit of contributing to a Kickstarter campaign. "I think it is much more rewarding to the audience as well to know that they've helped bring a unique film into the world that otherwise wouldn't exist." Barnett said. "Or at least exist with the kind of production value we are striving for."
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The difference between those kinds of projects and ours, is that they have an audience and a community ready to rally and support them. For our film, which we are asking a significantly lower amount for, we are seeking out a very specific audience that either barely exists or is difficult to target. We are making a film which draws from niche inspiration from European horror films of the 70's/80's that I think lovers of the genre — or film in general — would really really enjoy. We also have a dream cast in place, with Kate Lyn Sheil, who is known for her unique volatility on screen, in a role I think fans of Kate have been waiting for, as well as Samuel T. Herring, the singer in the band Future Islands, whose passionate and theatrical on-stage presence is building anticipation with how he translated that to screen.
One of the things involved in the process of setting the goal is obviously trying to determine how much money to try to raise. Kickstarter is an all-or-nothing situation. Meaning, if a campaign is successful and it raises — at minimum — the set goal amount of money, the contributors are charged and the project creator gets the money. But if the project fails to reach its goal, contributors aren't charged and the project creator doesn't get any of the money. So it's necessary to set a goal that is reachable but that is also enough to allow the filmmaker to do what they need to do to get the film finished. Barnett talked to us a little bit about how they set their goal for this film and what they're planning to do with the money if the campaign is successful:
You can't ask for too much, and with the cost of the rewards and shipping you can't ask for too little. We basically drew up a budget for the film, and we decided how much money of our own we could put into the film, and what we would minimally need to shoot the film, we would do a Kickstarter for. All of the money on the Kickstarter is going directly into principal photography, to just get the film shot. Any spillover will go into post-production, which includes sound design, color correction, score, etc.
As of right now, they've shot about 15 minutes of Tears of God. All of what they filmed involves Samuel T. Herring's character and it was shot in an abandoned heatless movie theater — during a blizzard — in Mars Hill, North Carolina. "His band Future Islands is about to go on a massive tour with the release of their new album and this was our only window to get him shot out," Barnett told us. "His scenes are wild and shocking. I'm excited to see peoples' reaction to them."
Barnett told us the rest of the movie is going to be shot during the first couple of weeks of February, and that's what they're hoping to raise money for. "We are planning on an early secret screening in late summer before it enters the festival circuit," Barnett said. That screening is actually one of numerous pledge incentives offered for those who contribute the film. Among the others are t-shirts, Blu-rays, a limited edition poster, a Skype call, a private screening and more. As is usually the case with Kickstarter, pledge incentives vary based on how much a backer contributes. A backer who contributes $10,000 to Tears of God will earn themselves a producer credit, among other perks.
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Hyperloop One has been rebranded as 'Virgin Hyperloop One' following an unspecified investment by the company.Virgin Group founder Richard Branson said that the investment was a good fit for the company …"Ever since our creation, Virgin has been known for disruption and investing in innovative companies. From our airlines to our trains to our spaceline, we have long been passionate about innovation in transport too, especially the development of technology that could transform people's lives. This is just the latest example. Importantly, Virgin Hyperloop One will be all-electric and the team is working on ensuing it is a responsible and sustainable form of transport too." ...
Germany's Munich Re was tasked with carrying out a risk report of HTT's project and found it was feasible."Although as yet unproven in real-world testing, the Hyperloop technology is likely to be viable, and represents a realizable integrated system," Munich Re said in a report released on Tuesday. ...
the Hyperloop technology is likely to be viable
Quote the Hyperloop technology is likely to be viableSounds like a group of normally very cautious people haven't found a fatal flaw.
Maryland has given transportation pioneer Elon Musk permission to dig tunnels for the high-speed, underground transit system known as a hyperloop that Musk wants to build between New York and Washington.Hogan administration officials said Thursday the state has issued a conditional utility permit to let Musk's tunneling firm, The Boring Co., dig a 10.3-mile tunnel beneath the state-owned portion of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, between the Baltimore city line and Maryland 175 in Hanover.It would be the first portion of the underground system that Musk says could eventually ferry passengers from Washington to New York, with stops in Baltimore and Philadelphia, in just 29 minutes. Maryland's approval is the first step of many needed to complete the multibillion-dollar project.Gov. Larry Hogan toured a site in Hanover that aides said could become an entry point for the hyperloop. The state does not plan to contribute to the cost of the project, aides said. ...
They say that they achieved a test speed record "of nearly 387 kilometers per hour" (240 miles per hour, 107 meters per second) at their 'Devloop' test track in Nevada....The test was performed in a complete hyperloop system with a working pod and the tube depressurized down to "the equivalent air pressure experienced at 200,000 feet above sea level."Earlier this year, the company announced that it plans to have working hyperloop systems deployed by 2021.
Figure 12 shows how the power and energy consumption change with tube pressure. As expected, high tube pressures require lower power for a given leakage rate while requiring a higher power output from the onboard compressor for a given compressor ratio. Thus total annual energy cost increases for very low pressures, due to the vacuum system managing the air leakage, and increases for very high pressures, due to increased power demand from the compressor. The second plot in fig. 12 shows that this relationship produces a pressure at which energy cost is minimal. In this case, the energy consumption is minimal at about 200 Pa for a leakage of 3 kg s. Energy consumption increases fairly rapidly as pressure is increased beyond this minimum value. It is important to note that this exact value is dependent on the leakage rate, compressor pressure ratio, and whether or not regenerative braking is used to recover battery energy (no regenerative braking is assumed in this analysis). However, this relationship is crucial because it means that there exists a pressure that optimizes energy cost and that energy cost can increase rapidly if deviations from this optimum point exist. A higher fidelity model can be used to determine exactly what value of pressure optimizes energy consumption for a given configuration. A more detailed examination of the effects that leakage has on optimum pressure will be conducted next.
Figure 13 shows the pressure at minimum energy consumption and cost vs. the leakage rate of the tube. The tube pressure that optimizes cost increases as the leakage rate increases. This trend is reasonable because the increasing leakage rate increases the power required for the vacuum pumps to maintain the tube pressure, which is offset by increasing the pressure that the vacuum is required to maintain. This relationship is critical because it reveals a coupling between tunnel leakage and energy consumption that system designers must consider. As fig. 13 reveals, changes in the leakage rate can have a significant effect on energy consumption and energy cost. In fact, the cost penalty becomes even more substantial when operating at a suboptimal pressure. If the designer wants to optimize the system by minimizing the energy consumption, then more accurate modeling or empirical studies will be necessary to determine operating pressure. Furthermore, the assumption made that the leakage rate is constant is likely not indicative of a real system. Leakage, and therefore the optimal tunnel pressure, is also presumably a function of passenger pod frequency. System designers would need to account for variable tube pressure when sizing the battery, compressor motor, and tube diameter in order to give the operator flexibility to change the tube pressure with pod frequency. This would allow the Hyperloop system to adapt to changing operating conditions to more closely track optimal design configurations in real time. Further research with higher fidelity modeling is necessary to further characterize the benefits of variable tunnel pressure.
A full model system study was performed to analyze the net energy usage of maintaining the tube operating pressure as a function of the leakage rate of air into the tube. The results show that the energy usage from this system is of the same order of magnitude as the energy required to propel the passenger pod. Furthermore, the two systems have opposite sensitivities with respect to tube pressure. As the tube pressure is lowered, the energy needed to propel the pod drops, but the energy required to maintain the vacuum goes up. The results show that there is an optimal tube operating pressure that is heavily dependent on the leakage rate. The higher the leakage rate is, the higher the optimal tube operating pressure becomes. This work also extends previous research that shows traveling at speeds above Mach 0.8 is likely not practical. The tube size invariably becomes too large, given the coupling between tube size and pod travel speed. We refine that analysis to include the effects of boundary layer growth along the passenger pod. The data shows that boundary layer growth amplifies the coupling between tube size and travel speed and hence is an important consideration in Hyperloop design. As a result, further research on the modeling and implementation of active flow control is recommended due to its potential to significantly reduce required tube size.Finally, net energy usage is found to be relatively insensitive to pod length. Therefore, the system would scale favorably to much higher passenger capacities than originally proposed. This also gives the operator freedom to vary capacity by lengthening or shortening pods, meaning travel capacity can be optimized to meet market demand without prohibitive costs to the operator.Although the models presented in this paper are not of high fidelity, the trends and trade studies identified provide valuable insight into the engineering behind the Hyperloop concept and how these physical relationships can inform future design efforts. The open source, modular nature of this system model will allow future researchers to modify, adapt, and improve the model to include more specific subsystems and higher fidelity modeling as needed. The modeling platform is intended to serve as a publicly accessible baseline that is easy to expand and delve deeper into this unique multidisciplinary system.
Figure 10 indicates how the tube area and energy consumption change over a range of Mach numbers. As is indicated in previous research, tube area begins to increase rapidly around Mach 0.8. 1 Beyond this Mach number, small increases in Mach number result in a large increase in tube area, which will have a large impact on capital cost and energy consumption during pump down. Conversely, fig. 10 indicates that tube area, and therfore material cost, grows slowly with Mach number for Mach numbers below 0.8. Based on these results, it is estimated that any system level optimization of cost with respect to Mach number will likely result in a Mach number near 0.8. For this reason, a Mach number of 0.8 will be used in subsequent analyses to obtain reasonable evaluations of design trades and system behavior.
Taking the pods into tunnels eliminates the thermal expansion problems and makes sealing a lot easier.People will not get out of a plane and into a maglev for long trips.
At 0.02 atm, water boils at room temperature. Water leaks (quite common in tunnels) would have to get snuffed out.
QuoteAt 0.02 atm, water boils at room temperature. Water leaks (quite common in tunnels) would have to get snuffed out.So leaked water would vaporize. What would that mean in terms of system operation? The small amount of air remaining in the tunnel would be humid? Would that be an operational problem?This would be a fully lined tunnel. Sealed to allow a partial vacuum. Likely to have big water leak problems? If there is a leak of any sort it seems that it would be quickly sealed.
Quote from: Bob Wallace on January 26, 2018, 05:20:44 PMQuoteAt 0.02 atm, water boils at room temperature. Water leaks (quite common in tunnels) would have to get snuffed out.So leaked water would vaporize. What would that mean in terms of system operation? The small amount of air remaining in the tunnel would be humid? Would that be an operational problem?This would be a fully lined tunnel. Sealed to allow a partial vacuum. Likely to have big water leak problems? If there is a leak of any sort it seems that it would be quickly sealed. What it means is that the huge layer of air-impermeable rock doesn't protect from having to pump out a lot of gas, you'd still need to make it have an impermeable skin (tunnels tend to be wet).
Airliners are pressurized.
Quote from: Bob Wallace on January 27, 2018, 02:57:07 AMAirliners are pressurized.The pod, operating in a vacuum will also require pressurization.Terry
The Boring tunnels are fully lined with grouted concrete sections. The tunnel is essentially a concrete tube buried underground. There's no bare earth exposed.
The approach that I believe would overcome the Kantrowitz limit is to mount an electric compressor fan on the nose of the pod that actively transfers high pressure air from the front to the rear of the vessel. This is like having a pump in the head of the syringe actively relieving pressure.It would also simultaneously solve another problem, which is how to create a low friction suspension system when traveling at over 700 mph. Wheels don't work very well at that sort of speed, but a cushion of air does. Air bearings, which use the same basic principle as an air hockey table, have been demonstrated to work at speeds of Mach 1.1 with very low friction. In this case, however, it is the pod that is producing the air cushion, rather than the tube, as it is important to make the tube as low cost and simple as possible.
Concrete is NOT airtight.
Here is a good overview of the issues that have so far been COMPLETELY ignored by the Hyperloop guys
Either way, they should at least TEST the heck out of a system like that. Like, build a pod with that compressor in front, create a vacuum tube of 100 Pa, long enough to test the pod behavior under 0.8 MACH speeds, and at a realtime scale (not the smaller versions they are testing with now).They are going to need a MUCH longer test tube than the 3/4 mile tube they use now.
The tube size will need to be around twice as large as originally proposed by the Tesla/SpaceX team. The tube diameter is closely tied to the maximum speed the pod travels at.
QuoteConcrete is NOT airtight.And if the concrete sections are coated with an air tight substance?
Rob, there's a large number of engineers working on the various 'loop projects. It's probably best to assume that not all are incompetent. Some of them are Boeing engineers (the airplane company), some are SpaceX, and others are full time employees of high level engineering and manufacturing firms.
...If you want to use the air taken in to lift up the entire pod, that compressor need to increase the pressure from 100 Pa to about sea-level pressure (100,000 Pa), so it can actually provide some 'pressure' to the bottom of the pod. You are going to need a hell of a compressor for that.And they want to power that compressor from a battery ?And about that compressor, if it is to 'suck in' 100 Pa air, it needs to run at insane RPMs. At that pressure it needs to run at least 10 times faster than a jet engine. And if a blade would come off, it will easily penetrate the 3 cm of steel of the tube, causing a catastrophic breakdown of the system....
Hyperloop Passenger CapsuleThe maximum width is 4.43 ft (1.35 m) and maximum height is 6.11 ft (1.10 m). With rounded corners, this is equivalent to a 15 ft2 (1.4 m2) frontal area, not including any propulsion or suspension components.The aerodynamic power requirements at 700 mph (1,130 kph) is around only 134 hp (100 kW) with a drag force of only 72 lbf (320 N), or about the same force as the weight of one oversized checked bag at the airport.
The air processing occurs as follows (Figure 10 and Figure 11) (note mass counting is tracked in Section 4.1.4):Hyperloop Passenger Capsule1. Tube air is compressed with a compression ratio of 20:1 via an axial compressor.2. Up to 60% of this air is bypassed:a. The air travels via a narrow tube near bottom of the capsule tothe tail.b. A nozzle at the tail expands the flow generating thrust to mitigatesome of the small amounts of aerodynamic and bearing drag.3. Up to 0.44 lb/s (0.2 kg/s) of air is cooled and compressed an additional5.2:1 for the passenger version with additional cooling afterward.a. This air is stored in onboard composite overwrap pressure vessels.b. The stored air is eventually consumed by the air bearings tomaintain distance between the capsule and tube walls.4. An onboard water tank is used for cooling of the air.a. Water is pumped at 0.30 lb/s (0.14 kg/s) through two intercoolers (639 lb or 290 kg total mass of coolant).b. The steam is stored onboard until reaching the station.c. Water and steam tanks are changed automatically at each stop.5. The compressor is powered by a 436 hp (325 kW) onboard electricmotor:a. The motor has an estimated mass of 372 lb (169 kg), whichincludes power electronics. ...
I must say, the boring company idea of digging smaller tunnels faster makes some sense, but the hyperloop with its vacuum and zipping pods on air cushions is totally batshit crazy from a technical perspective, with all respect to Elon. I haven't considered some of the details before. (Thank you all). I am certain that if this does get built somewhere, its details will be far different.
we don't hear too much from these engineers, do we ?
For high-speed rail, the curves have to be 10km long, and that's only at 200mph to 250mph. Hyperloop's going to be hurtling along at 700mph so the track will almost have to be dead straight
do we want to ride it?
...Gareth Dennis, a railway engineer:For high-speed rail, the curves have to be 10km long, and that's only at 200mph to 250mph. Hyperloop's going to be hurtling along at 700mph so the track will almost have to be dead straight.Dr Colin Brown from the Institution of Engineering: The engineering challeges are absolutely enormous. Thermal expansion is one of the real world classic problems. And a further if, do we want to ride it?...
4.4. RouteThe Hyperloop will be capable of traveling between Los Angeles and San Francisco in approximately 35 minutes. This requirement tends to size other portions of the system. Given the performance specification of the Hyperloop, a route has been devised to satisfy this design requirement. The Hyperloop route should be based on several considerations, including:1. Maintaining the tube as closely as possible to existing rights of way (e.g., following the I-5).2. Limiting the maximum capsule speed to 760 mph (1,220 kph) for aerodynamic considerations.3. Limiting accelerations on the passengers to 0.5g.4. Optimizing locations of the linear motor tube sections driving the capsules.5. Local geographical constraints, including location of urban areas,mountain ranges, reservoirs, national parks, roads, railroads, airports, etc. The route must respect existing structures.For aerodynamic efficiency, the velocity of a capsule in the Hyperloop is typically:• 300 mph (480 kph) where local geography necessitates a tube bend radii < 1.0 mile (1.6 km)• 760 mph (1,220 kph) where local geography allows a tube bend > 3.0 miles (4.8 km) or where local geography permits a straight tube.These bend radii have been calculated so that the passenger does not experience inertial accelerations that exceed 0.5g. This is deemed the maximum inertial acceleration that can be comfortably sustained by humans for short periods. To further reduce the inertial acceleration experienced by passengers, the capsule and/or tube will incorporate a mechanism that will allow a degree of 'banking'.
Specially designed slip joints at each stations will be able take any tube length variance due to thermal expansion. This is an ideal location for the thermal expansion joints as the speed is much lower nearby the stations. It thus allows the tube to be smooth and welded along the high speed gliding middle section.
We have access to the same Internet here in Europe and you are ignoring a lot of comments. As a small example from this thread here's my reply #312 including an image from that old hyperloop white paper:https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,856.msg139689.html#msg139689And here's your reply #330 to Bob:https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,856.msg139853.html#msg139853Do you think I've read that paper? Do you think Bob has? I know I have and I think Bob has. Elon offers many quotes:QuoteI don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems. It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.Elon Musk
I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems. It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.Elon Musk
And why do you keep repeating that, Sig?Quote from: Sleepy on January 25, 2018, 09:05:43 AMWe have access to the same Internet here in Europe and you are ignoring a lot of comments. As a small example from this thread here's my reply #312 including an image from that old hyperloop white paper:https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,856.msg139689.html#msg139689And here's your reply #330 to Bob:https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,856.msg139853.html#msg139853Do you think I've read that paper? Do you think Bob has? I know I have and I think Bob has. Elon offers many quotes:QuoteI don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems. It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.Elon Musk
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Yankees express interest in three retired All-Stars
In desperate need of power, the New York Yankees are trying to lure Chipper Jones, Derrek Lee and Scott Rolen out of retirement.
"He'd be perfect," Yankees general manager Cashman said of Jones in Tampa. "I'd take Larry in a heartbeat. I think everybody would."
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Jones, 40, who played 19 seasons with the Atlanta Braves, said he isn't interested in returning and tweeted: "Enough with the rumors! While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!"
Then there wasRolen. "If the numbers were right playing wise and money wise, he could be interested in certain things," said Cashman.
Rolen, 37, retired after the 2012 season after 17 major league seasons.
And not to be left out, Cashman alsosaid he contacted Lee."I made a call. I liked him as a player."
The chances of Lee returning is the most realistic of the three options.
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained," Cashman said.
Cashman is attempting to fill the void left by injuries to third basemen Alex Rodriguez and first baseman Mark Teixeira.
A-Rod isn't expected to return until at least August following hip surgery.Teixeira strained a tendon in his right wrist and is expected to miss 8-10 weeks. He injured his wrist swinging a weighted bat before Team USA's first exhibition game. Doctors say surgery is not needed. The Yankees are also without center fielder Curtis Granderson, who suffered a broken arm.
The Yankees led the majors with 245 home runs in 2012, something that will be difficult to duplicate with the injuries and free agent departures.
Lee, 37, hasn't played in the majors since 2011. However, he could be an upgrade to their current options and come relatively cheap.
Lee is a 15-year veteran who won the National League batting title in 2005 hitting .335 and slugged 331 career home runs.In 2011, he combined to hit 19 home runs and batted .267 with the Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates.
Yankee fans my best know his a member of the 2003 Florida Marlins team who defeated the Bronx Bombers in the World Series.
Juan Rivera is the top in-house candidate to replace Teixeira at first base. He played the position on Sunday.
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England XI vs Czech Republic: Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool Stars Feature
England manager Gareth Southgate would be hoping to maintain the perfect start to their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign when they face a tricky away fixture against the Czech Republic.
The reverse fixture at the Wembley Stadium ended in a 5-0 win for Gareth Southgate and his England players.
Manchester United and Chelsea stars are expected to make the England starting lineup for the Czech Republic game on Friday night.
Harry Maguire is the senior man in the Three Lions of England defence.
He moved to Manchester United this summer from fellow Premier League side Leicester City.
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Manchester United paid around 80 million pounds for his transfer thus making him the most expensive defender in the history of world football ahead of the previous recipient Virgil Van Dijk who joined Liverpool from Southampton for 75 million pounds at the start of last year.
Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount has had a very good start to his debut Premier League season and that has earned him a spot in the England team.
According to the Daily Express, he will take his place in the England XI ahead of another in-form player, James Maddison of Leicester City.
Predicted England XI (4-3-3): Jordan Pickford; Trent Alexandre-Arnold, Michael Keane, Harry Maguire, Ben Chilwell; Jordan Henderson, Declan Rice, Mason Mount; Jadon Sancho, Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling.
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Europa League winners Chelsea are reportedly keen to sign Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha during the January transfer market which opens again in the next few weeks.
According to The Independent, Chelsea want to sign the in-form Zaha if their transfer ban is overturned at the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS).
Chelsea are in the midst of a two-window transfer ban imposed on them by world football's governing body FIFA due to their culpability in the signing of underage players.
The Blues had earlier made an appeal to FIFA over the transfer ban and it was thrown out thereby prompting them to take the matter to CAS.
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They will serve the second part of the punishment in the January transfer window if the ban is not overturned.
Wilfried Zaha was a transfer target for both Everton and Arsenal in the summer but the two clubs were unable to produce the £80m transfer fee ended to sign him.
Recent reports claimed that Crystal Palace have slammed a £70m asking price on him ahead of January transfer window.
Zaha has scored two goals in the last three games for Crystal Palace.
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Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham has been nominated for the Premier League Goal of the Month for November.
The Nigerian-born England international has made the list of eight nominees for the Goal of the Month Award for last month.
He made the list for his strike during the 2-1 away win over bottom club Watford.
Others on the list of nominees for the Goal of the Month for November include Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City), Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United), Harry Wilson (Bournemouth), Ruben Neves (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Joao Moutinho (Wolverhampton Wanderers) and Fabinho (Liverpool).
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He returned from a small injury layoff in the midweek game against Aston Villa.
Chelsea beat Aston Villa 2-1 at home with a goal and an assist for Tammy Abraham.
He would be hoping to continue his form for Chelsea when they travel to Merseyside to take on Everton.
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Chelsea were given a two-window transfer ban by FIFA earlier this year for their involvement with underage players and that prompted them to take the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) after their appeal to FIFA was turned down.
The Blues have already served a transfer window ban during this summer's transfer window.
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The latest development means that the Blues have the opportunity to sign Zaha from fellow Premier League side Crystal Palace.
According to the Independent, Chelsea will have to pay as much as £70m for Zaha if they want to sign the Ivorian international player who has scored two goals in the last three league games for Crystal Palace.
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West London giants Chelsea have been backed to pick up the three points on offer for the league game at the home of Everton this weekend.
Tennis star Andy Murray made his prediction on several Premier League Matchday 16 games including the Everton vs Chelsea clash at Goodison Park on Saturday afternoon.
According to the former Wimbledon Open champion, Chelsea will secure the maximum points via a 2-1 win over Everton who are without a permanent manager following the dismissal of Marco Silva earlier this week.
Marco Silva was appointed the Everton manager last summer and he led them to eighth place on the Premier League table last summer.
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He had not reached the heights of last season in the new Premier League campaign and the final straw was the Merseyside Derby which Everton lost 5-2 on Wednesday night.
Marco Silva was sacked on Thursday and he has since been replaced by club legend Duncan Ferguson who will be in temporary charge of the team starting with the Everton game.
For Chelsea, a win over Everton will consolidate their spot in the top four on the Premier League.
The Blues beat Aston Villa in their last league game to end a two-game losing run and could make it two wins in a row at Everton this weekend.
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Cheslea would be hoping to pile up the misery on Everton when the two teams meet at the weekend in a Premier League clash.
Everton will be without manager Marco Silva for the first time in almost two years when they welcome Chelsea to Goodison Park for the lunchtime kickoff on Saturday after the Portuguese tactician was sacked on Thursday evening.
Marco Silva has left Everton in trouble with the Toffees in the bottom three on the Premier League table after the thumping defeat at the hands of Merseyside rivals Liverpool earlier this week.
Everton were beaten 5-2 at Liverpool and that left them in 18th position on the log after 14 points from the first 15 league games of the season.
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Chelsea would be targeting a second successive league win after ending a run of three matches without a victory in midweek via the slim 2-1 over league newcomers Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge.
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Summer signing Eden Hazard has suffered a fractured ankle and would miss the blockbuster El Clasico meeting with Barcelona in the Spanish La Liga.
He suffered the injury from during the recent Champions League game at home to French Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint Germain (PSG).
Eden Hazard was subbed off during the PSG game following the injury he sustained via the tackle from Belgian international teammate Thomas Meunier.
Eden Hazard has not enjoyed an extended run in the Real Madrid team mainly because of injury problems.
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The Belgian international signed for Chelsea from French Ligue 1 outfit Lille for a fee of around £32m.
He won the Premier League title under former Chelsea managers Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte.
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Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy maintained his lead at the top of the top scorer chart in the Premier League after he scored another goal in the latest round of games.
Jamie Vardy scored one of the goals as Leicester City beat bottom club Watford 2-0 at home to record their seventh straight win in the Premier League.
The retired England international took his tally to 14 Premier League goals this season after he scored the opening goal of the game against the Hornets.
Vardy scored from the penalty spot after the foul on Northern Irish center-back Jonny Evans.
England international James Maddison scored the second Leicester City goal in the dying moments of the game to wrap up the three points on offer.
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(The Council Chronicle Online, posted April 21, 2009)
The following list emerged from the "inkshedding" process used to generate ideas and facilitate discussion in the advocacy strand of sessions organized on behalf of the Michigan Writing Projects and the Literacy Consortium by Cathy Fleischer, Laura Roop, and Ellen Brinkley. The lists were compiled by Ellen Brinkley. Reprinted with permission from The Michigan English Teacher, Volume 45, Number 4.
1. Stay focused on being an advocate for the children in our classrooms. "Work hard to ensure that each child becomes a literate, independent adult thinker."
2. Be proactive, not waiting to act until there's a problem.
3. Be sure when talking to parents to know how to defend what and how students are asked to learn. Be able to articulate it for parents. "I've found that my own inability to articulate my rationale to others is sometimes the result of my own incomplete understand¬ing."
4. Learn to articulate the "why" first to students but also to parents and the community. Provide the evidence.
5. Encourage teachers' book talks, professional discussions, and collaborative projects. "The best communication is from an educated, eager teacher."
6. Be a part of the community, talking about issues at community events, helping schools develop parent libraries, etc.
7. Send a letter to parents explaining how the class is organized and why and spelling out the teacher's own philosophy of teaching and learning. Highlight for parents the rigor of the curriculum and the real-world application.
8. Produce an informational newsletter.
9. Give presentations at PTA/PTOs.
10. Lead parents through a mini-lesson demonstration at parents' night.
11. Discuss schedule, syllabus, and philosophy of teaching at the beginning of the year.
12. Invite parents into the classroom. Provide a visitor's handout inviting visitors tonotice particular classroom experiences—e.g., elementary students reading in pairs—with a note about what such experiences accomplish.
13. Plan evening literacy events for families, sharing family stories. This is especiallyhelpful when there are "new" classroom strategies that parents can participate in.
14. Host evening writing workshops for parents, teachers, and students working together. Invite community leaders to participate as well. Distribute research articles.
15. Find ways to involve parents in the content of the class— e.g., assigning students totake notes while a family member tells a family story as a prelude to a class focus on storytelling and culturally diverse stories in a literature text.
16. Start three-way journals to establish dialogue between student, parent, and teacher. Invite parents to write their questions and comments about the student's work.
17. Establish student-led parent conferences.
18. Invite parents to language arts staff inservices.
19. Invite the media to sharing activities.
20. Publish students' writings by distributing them to nursing homes, etc.
21. Plan evening discussions of curricular issues.
"Even if only a few attend, a small group of parents can be powerful. Also, the fact that the opportunity has been given -- even if not taken advantage of -- is helpful in calming parent and community concerns."
22. Construct a defense for authentic learning experiences.
23. Display student accomplishments, especially writing, not just in classrooms, but in the library, cafeteria, etc.
24. Display student writing in local banks, libraries, and art fairs. Glue student writing to grocery bags, etc.
25. Give public readings of student writing, possibly in a coffee house atmosphere.
26. In the fall make welcome-to-our-community phone calls designed to begin an ongoing conversation with new residents about school issues.
"The bonds and bridges built have influenced our classroom community in numerous positive ways."
27. Don't always hold community meeting in school buildings. Look for ways to meet in homes, businesses, churches, city hall, etc., to taking involve a variety of people. Be sure parents co-plan and co-facilitate the meetings.
28. Send letters to the editor of the local paper, focusing on issues addressed recently in news articles.
29. Provide materials that explain why we address editing problems/usage within the context of students' own writing (Connie Weaver's Fact Sheets).
30. Work out arrangements with the local newspaper to highlight what's happening in classrooms. Some districts produce a weekly learning page of student writing—real publishing! Sometimes weekly papers in small towns are especially receptive to such a plan or to publish teacher-written articles (e.g., "Spotlight on Excellence" articles) about school and class issues.
31. Keep the school board informed. Invite them into the classroom. Send them student work.
32. Talk to colleagues. Take a common stand as a group with support from administrators. Compile resources, e.g., proof that whole language is effective. Find books, videos, etc., that can be shared with parents and administrators.
33. Provide inservice for teachers and parents.
34. We need to educate ourselves first.
"We are our own worst enemy when it comes to change and progress in education."
35. Publish a literary magazine.
36. Invite students to read a favorite polished piece of writing at school and school board events.
37. Invite parents and community members to "take" the MEAP writing assessments [Michigan Educational Assessment Program] to draw attention of the local newspapers and broader community.
38. Share student portfolios with parents and recognize the importance of their perspective.
"If we immediately gloss over or reject their concerns, we will discourage their involvement."
40. Ask students to write about their classroom experiences. Publish them widely.
2. Personal reluctance and fear of risk-taking on the part of teachers.
"Those who have a vision of what needs to be are those who are willing to take a huge risk."
3. Community pressures. 4. An us-versus-them atmosphere. A "struggle for authority/superiority with per¬ceived enemies." The perception that school decisions are made by people who care more about their own status than about kids. Sometimes children even take on the attitudes of their parents, leading to resistance to learning.
5. Limits on teachers' energy, given existing day-by-day demands. There is dismay overadded responsibilities.
6. Need for staff development and administrator's support.
7. Parents tend to expect their children's school experiences to mirror their own.
8. Parental reluctance to participate in school-related activities (except athletics).
9. Some teachers aren't particulary comfortable having parents in the classroom.
10. Teachers don't seem to have much "say" these days about what happens in education. Lack of respect from general public and from politicians.
11. Lack of support from colleagues, principal, district.
12. Media that goes against best practice.
13. Parental opposition to new practices.
14. Lack of informed state legislators.
15. Lack of informed citizens when it's time to elect local and state school board members.
16. Limited funding. No funds for dissemination of information.
17. Change takes time and energy.
18. Sometimes teachers ignore reactionary groups, which only increases the group's frustration and anger and leads them to seek further support.
19. Difficult to talk issues in the face of political agendas.
20. Lack of clear, articulated goals.
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Informing parents and communities about teaching strategies, rationales for the strategies, and, particularly, the results in terms of student learning is so important. When we claim that tests are limited in their ability to demonstrate student learning, it's also very important to, as one person says, "display accomplishments." How do we know that these strategies are influencing learning? When we have parents and community members who can identify the positive outcomes, we are building advocates for powerful teaching and learning.
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The Unnecessary Outcry
There is no such throne.
in response to 'Beadbi, "Bride" Sits on Throne with Back to Guru Ji in Glen Cove Gurdwara, NY'
'Disgusting and utterly shameful act of Bridal photo shoot inside Sikh Gurdwara in US'
by Mani Amar
In a world riddled with atrocities that many of us cannot fathom, there seems to be a huge worldwide outcry on a situation that does not deem such attention;
The majority of the outcry is from the Sikh community at large. The atrocity proclaimed in the above noted blog posts is that a young woman, during a joyous occasion, unbeknownst to her, did something deemed disrespectful to the Sikh faith.
Firstly I write to Sonal Parmar; congratulations to you and your husband on your marriage, I apologize that many members of the Sikh faith and/or members of the Sikh community and diaspora around the world have taken what was nothing more than a mistake as an act of terrorism against Sikhism.
Some of the core tenets of Sikhism are equality, acceptance, love, and forgiveness. These tenets have been all but forgotten by the authors of these posts and the hate-mongering commenters. Instead of approaching the bride and photographer with kindness, they attack them with ridicule and presumptions of ignorance and stupidity. Sikhism, built off the foundations of honour, to stand against tyranny and injustice, was not present in the souls of these authors and so-called patrons of the faith.


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In 1990, 78 percent of Americans supported tougher restrictions on gun sales, according to a Gallup poll. A decade later, that number fell to 44 percent.
Part of the reason has to do with how the debate has been framed: one between those who want to ban all guns and those who want to protect the right to own them.
The reality is far more complex. Private gun ownership is a fact of life in the U.S. The country tops the charts worldwide in terms of civilian gun ownership. A 2007 study from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime [PDF] reported there were 270 million private firearms in the U.S.
The question is how to keep them away from people who perpetrate crimes like the recent shootings in Aurora, Colo., and in Oak Creek, Wis. That's the tricky part — partially because getting a gun in the U.S. can be fairly easy.
Purchasing Guns
At the Blue Ridge Arsenal in Virginia, sales rep Mark Warner says the process can take only about 25 minutes. You pick any gun, fill out a form and wait for approval.
"If you're a law-abiding citizen and you don't have a criminal record and the computer likes you in Richmond, you're done in 15-25 minutes," he says.
And that's if you buy it in a shop.
Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, says 40 percent of legally sold guns are sold without a background check. That 40 percent includes the guns sold at gun shows or through classified ads, where legal loopholes don't require background checks.
"Every day in our nation, 32 Americans are killed by guns," Gross says.
He argues that a few simple changes — tighter background checks, a ban on certain types of weapons — could all make the difference.
It's been done before. In the early 1990s, the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act, or the "Brady Bill," introduced background checks. Then-President Clinton signed it into law in 1993. From 1994 to 2004, the sale of assault weapons was banned.
How To Tackle Crime Rates
But is there a link between gun restrictions and fewer murders?
Paul Barrett, author of a book on the history of the famous Glock handgun, says the answer is no.
"Criminologists have studied it, and the consensus is that those laws simply did not have a statistically meaningful effect on crime rates," he tells Guy Raz, weekends on All Things Considered.
Barrett says making slight changes to existing laws won't bring down the homicide rate. The equation of "more guns equal more crime" just doesn't add up, he says.
"There's a relationship between the presence of guns and the lethality of crime, but there is not a cause-and-effect, simple formula that will solve crime problems by simply regulating, in slightly different ways, how easily you can acquire a gun," he says.
Gun-control advocates point to the shootings in Colorado and Milwaukee as justification for stricter laws. But Barrett argues that's not the nation's biggest gun issue.
"We fixate, understandably, on the aberrational mass-shooting events, but they're actually not our main social problem," he says. "Our main social problem is the overall gun homicide rate."
The Political Calculus
Still, neither the overall homicide rate nor the recent atrocities have spurred real political action. Barrett says President Obama is probably just taking history into account and deciding that "it is not worth the political punishment to tinker with gun laws."
The first lesson would be the presidential election in 2000. Then-candidate Al Gore was targeted by the National Rifle Association in key sates because he had been vice president when Clinton signed the assault-weapons ban.
The result? Gore lost in states he should have won: his home state of Tennessee, Clinton's home state of Arkansas and West Virginia. Barrett says Gore's losses were due "in large part" because of the gun-rights activism.
Another example of political backlash is the 1994 turnover in the House. The Republican sweep in that election followed the enactment of the assault-weapons ban. Barrett says Clinton himself attributed the election at least in large part to the gun laws.
Barrett breaks down the political calculation for like this: "a huge downside risk, a marginal upside potential to please people who are going to vote for you anyway."
"There is just not a lot of popular demand for stricter gun control," he says. "The public opinion polls tell you that, and I think Barack Obama and his advisers can read those polls."
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz.
Mitt Romney and his new running mate, Paul Ryan, are in North Carolina today, the second day of a bus tour through swing states. We'll go to the campaign trail in a few moments, and later, a check in on the final events at the Olympics, but first to our cover story today.
RAZ: And it begins at this shooting range and gun shop, the Blue Ridge Arsenal, in Virginia, about 40 miles south of Washington, D.C., And there, you will find hundreds of guns, guns mounted on the walls, guns inside display cases, with prices ranging from a few hundred dollars to thousands. Mark Warner, one of the sales reps there, shows us around.
MARK WARNER: Well, over here, we have our assault weapons, AF-15s, Adcor, Smith and Wesson, Sig Sauer.
RAZ: We came here because in recent weeks, some groups opposed to gun restrictions, like the NRA, have pushed a narrative that gun rights in America are under assault. Take this video, for example, circulated by the NRA this year.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: The message to America is stick to your guns and keep your guns. Don't let your government take them away from you.
RAZ: Now, this message resonates with Nathan Hall, who we also met at the Blue Ridge Arsenal. Do you feel like gun rights are under assault in America right now for people like you?
NATHAN HALL: I would have to definitely say absolutely. I don't know. If you bring it down, there's the U.N. treaty thing that they're trying to sign into law, you know, where they want to categorize and catalogue every - possibly every weapon in the U.S. And, you know, they're trying to strip those rights slowly.
RAZ: Now, that U.N. treaty Nathan Hall is referring to has been making the rounds on conservative websites and in ads on cable TV. Georgia Congressman Paul Broun recently posted a video about it.
REPRESENTATIVE PAUL BROUN: Ultimately, the U.N.'s small arms treaty is designed to register, ban and confiscate firearms owned by private citizens like you.
RAZ: The independent group PolitiFact recently looked into that claim, and they determined it was entirely false, that there is no U.N. treaty that would have any impact on gun rights in the U.S. Yet many of these myths persist. Our cover story today: guns: separating fact from fiction.
RAZ: In 1990, 80 percent of Americans supported tough restrictions on gun sales. And today, that number is down to 47 percent. Part of the reason has to do with how the debate has been framed - one between those who want to ban all guns and those who want to protect that right. The reality, of course, is far more complex.
There are already 300 million guns in private hands in the U.S., and so private gun ownership is a fact of American life, something unlikely to ever change. The question is how to keep those guns away from people who perpetrate crimes like the recent shootings in Aurora and in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. That's the tricky part, because getting a gun in the U.S. is pretty easy.
And at the Blue Ridge Arsenal, for example, sales rep Mark Warner says you can pick any gun, fill out a form...
WARNER: And if it's approved, you're done in about 25 minutes.
RAZ: So basically, if all goes well, you can be in and out in about 25 minutes.
WARNER: If you're a law-abiding citizen, and you don't have a criminal record, and the computer likes you in Richmond, you're done in 15, 25 minutes.
RAZ: Fifteen to 25 minutes. And that's if you buy it in a shop.
DAN GROSS: Forty percent of the guns sold legally in this country are sold through channels where no background check is done whatsoever.
RAZ: That's Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. The number he cites is the number of guns sold at gun shows or through classified ads where legal loopholes don't require background checks.
GROSS: Every day in our nation, 32 Americans are killed by guns.
RAZ: And Dan Gross argues that a few simple changes - things like tighter background checks, a ban on certain types of weapons, assault rifles - that could make all the difference. Now, it's been done before. In the early '90s, the Brady Bill introduced background checks. From 1994 to 2004, the sale of assault weapons was banned. But is there a link between gun restrictions and fewer murders? According to Paul Barrett, author of a book on the history of the famous Glock handgun, the answer is no.
PAUL BARRETT: Criminologists have studied it, and the consensus is that those laws simply did not have a statistically meaningful effect on crime rates. That's a problem for people who want to add to those laws and, at this point, push tougher gun control laws, because they simply can't, with a straight face, cite statistics that say we enacted the assault weapons ban and crime went down because of the assault weapons ban. You can't make the connection.
RAZ: So, is there any link between gun control and lower murder rates?
BARRETT: I think that there are connections between the rate of prevalence of guns in a society and the homicide rate. Guns are far less prevalent, for example, in the United Kingdom. And the United Kingdom has a far, far lower gun homicide rate. In the United Kingdom, the gun homicide rate is below 0.1 per 100,000. In the United States, it's three per 100,000. So 30 or 40 times as high.
And I think there is a pretty safe assumption that is shared by a very wide variety of criminologists that the fact that guns are so much more prevalent and widely available in the United States contributes to our much higher gun homicide rate. And so when you ask would gun control bring down the homicide rate, I don't think so if what you mean is fiddling very, very slightly at the margins with our current laws. If you are asking me whether you could erase all the guns in the United States, would that take down the gun homicide rate, absolutely.
RAZ: How do we explain higher gun murder rates in places where it is difficult to obtain them, like Washington, D.C., or New York or California, where it's more difficult to obtain than, say, Virginia?
BARRETT: Well, that points to the more complex reality that it's not as simple as more guns equals more crime. You can see that in the laboratory of New York where we've had phenomenal and very heartwarming crime reduction, but no change in the regulation of firearm ownership. So there's a relationship between the presence of guns and the lethality of crime, but there is not a cause-and-effect, simple formula that will solve crime problems by simply regulating, in slightly different ways, how easily you can acquire a gun.
RAZ: After the massacre in Aurora and most recently in Milwaukee, opponents of gun control have pointed to massacres in other countries - Norway, Tasmania, even in Germany - where there are very strict gun control laws. Do they have a point?
BARRETT: Well, I think they do and they don't. I mean, we certainly have, by any arithmetic tabulation, you know, a higher rate of these mass shootings. Statistically, they are not significant events. Statistically, every day that one of these horrific shootings takes place on that same day, people are shot and killed with guns under routine circumstances in routine crime. We fixate, understandably, on these aberrational mass shooting events, but they're actually not our main social problem. Our main social problem is the overall gun homicide rate.
RAZ: Why does it seem so tricky for politicians to take on this issue, to try and tighten laws, to just ask basic questions about semiautomatic assault rifles to say, you know, why should those be so easily available? Why is it so tricky to take that on?
BARRETT: I think the simplest reason that our present president, Barack Obama, who is a center-left Democrat, who has made statements that have been recorded, much to his chagrin, that indicate a certain disdain on his part for people who own guns, his famous remark in the 2008 campaign when he talked about gun owners and religious people who bitterly cling to their guns and their religion, a remark that he very much regretted after that.
Why as this president at this particular moment said absolutely nothing and done absolutely nothing to try to increase gun control even in the wake of various horrific mass shootings - Tucson, Milwaukee and so forth - I think the short answer is that he has looked at recent political history, and he has drawn the lesson that it is not worth the political punishment to tinker with gun laws. And the particular experiences he's looking at, I think, are two.
One is the election in 2000, when Al Gore was attacked by the NRA in several key states because he was merely the vice president to Bill Clinton who signed the assault weapons ban. Al Gore lost his home state of Tennessee in 2000, he lost Bill Clinton's home state of Arkansas, and he lost the state of West Virginia, all states that I think there would be a broad consensus that he otherwise should have won in large part because of the gun rights activism. And that was a very dismaying experience to Democrats.
And then there was an earlier incident years earlier in 1994 immediately after the enactment of the Brady Bill and the assault weapons ban when the House of Representatives changed control for the first time in about half a century. Bill Clinton is on the record saying that he thinks Democrats lost control of the House and Newt Gingrich and his allies, at least in significant part, because of gun issues. So those are the lessons that Democrats, for better or for worse, have drawn.
RAZ: So there is - you're saying there's almost no political upside to backing more gun restrictions - as a huge downside.
BARRETT: A huge downside risk, a marginal upside potential to please people who are going to vote for you anyway. There is just not a lot of popular demand for stricter gun control. The public opinion polls tell you that. And I think Barack Obama and his advisers can read those polls.
RAZ: Paul Barrett. He's an assisting managing editor at Bloomberg Businessweek and author of "Glock: The Rise of America's Gun." We contacted the NRA to join our conversation. They declined. The U.S., by the way, has by far the highest gun murder rate in the developed world. In 2008, there were nearly 10,000 gun homicides in this country.
That same year in Britain, a country with some of the most restrictive gun laws in the world, just 39 gun murders. If you applied that rate to the U.S., we'd have about 195 gun homicides a year. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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CoolRunning Western Sydney 5km challenge
From CoolRunning Australia
This is a monthly 5km handicap challenge - see the discussion thread on CoolRunning for details on the time and place of the next run. We have a Facebook Group too.
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Basic Details
- When - Second Saturday of each month - read the CoolRunning Thread to confirm. Next run: Saturday August 10, 2013.
- Where - Nurragingy Reserve, Knox Rd, Doonside. Meet near "Wren" picnic area: see map here. The park opens around 7am.
- What - 5km run around Nurragingy (you decide your own handicap). Or you can choose to do the short 2 km loop or the longer 3 km loop. Or just come to eat and cook breakfast.
- Time - Meet by 7:10am: aim is for everyone to finish @ 8:00am - Go off your own watch to figure when to start!
- Contact - BeesKnees - just turn up or keep an eye on the CoolRunning Thread to confirm.
- Terrain - Shared Pathway - very rare to have others out, but sometimes encounter dog walkers and the occasional car.
- Course It consists of a large loop with 2 out-and-backs and a short loops with 1 out-and-back. The map is in this post on the CR Thread
More details
- All welcome - You can run or walk 5k or cheer on those that are...prams & Jnr CRs most welcome!
- Breakfast after for those interested at location, consisting of tea, coffee, pancakes...