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I'm Morgan Springer thanks for joining us over the past few years a number of high profile retailers have waded into the gun control debate this fall Wal-Mart said it would stop selling ammunition for military style rifles the company has also stop selling all handguns Dick's Sporting Goods stop selling military style rifles and high capacity magazines in 2018 in a recent interview with Marketplace the company's c.e.o. Ed stack said the mass shooting in Parkland Florida was the final push toward that decision enough is enough if you know the system is broken and at that point we said we need to stand up and say something we've got an expertise here we know what's going on we have to try to we have to try to solve this problem stack says the move cost his company about a quarter of a $1000000000.00 in sales but they have no regrets one of the oldest u.s. Gun makers called manufacturing based in Connecticut made a similar move in September the company announced it would stop producing a ar 15 for the civilian market but in a statement they didn't mention gun control instead they explained the decision by saying quote We believe there is adequate supply for modern sporting rifles for the foreseeable future John Dankosky spoke with Robert Spitzer he's a professor of political science at Suny Cortland in New York Spitzer is the author of 5 books on gun policy and he joined us by Skype to talk about Colts decision and the gun manufacturing industry Well 1st of all let's talk about that statement that Colt released they say they're responding to an oversaturated market for a ar 15 do you see it that way I think they're observation is correct I think it is a market that has been well saturated there are many many companies that produce a r. Style assault type weapons colt I think tends to be viewed as it more high end product that is personal higher it's become very competitive and this is also occurred at a time where gun sales generally have been flat declining a little bit that has especially been. True in the last couple of years while Donald Trump has been president ironically one of the reasons that we see gun sales rise or fall is often because of political cycles not just consumer demand and when you have a friendly president in the White House when it comes to gun policy that is President Trump there's less political pressure to go out by guns to make a political statement so that's kind of the backdrop for the current circumstance where cult has decided to stop selling a r. Type weapons to the civilian market for the civilian market you say but they're still going to be making error 15 style weapons for the police and for military to fulfill those contracts correct yes that is right given this marketplace currently How has Colt's been doing over the course of the last decade or so well the gun industry generally I think has been not doing particularly well partly for a number of reasons while you do see spurts in gun sales at times there has been no dramatic increase sustained over a period of time of gun sales Firearms are a very durable commodity a day they can last for decades but the very minimal degree of care and frankly fewer Americans are interested in buying guns only guns having guns many of the gun sales that do occur are people who already have guns who are buying more to add to their collections we know that the average number of guns owned by the typical gun owner has increased dramatically in the last few decades so there just isn't a huge market out there and you certainly have plenty of companies vying for the existing market Colt has not run afoul of business problems like for example the Remington company which is another very old and storied company where running at Remington filed for I believe Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year because they have been suffering so called seems to be doing Ok I haven't seen you know final detail business in. Commission bought them but compared to some other gun manufacturers they seem to be holding their own I want to go back to that statement where they they talk about the adequate supply for modern sporting rifles and in parts that a little bit if possible were we're seeing an awful lot of gun makers that are catching blowback from the large number of mass shootings that have happened with a ar 15 style weapons there's been a large scale movement started by Parklane to high school students in that are trying to limit the sale of weapons like that is Colts decision at this point actually a decision about just not wanting to associate themselves with a r 15 follow rifles more than it is a market based decision there is an important political subtext to a ar 15 type weapon similar types of weapons which is indeed that they have increasingly been used by Michoud hers that a growing number of studies show that when you use that type of weapon in to Michoud it more people will be injured and more people will die than if you use other sorts of weapons and the number of mass shootings that include the use of assault weapons has been increasing especially in the last 10 years so there is a real stigma that has been attached to these weapons and even though Colt made no mention of this cloud that hangs over assault weapons the fact is they must be aware fully aware that that is part of what is involved in selling these weapons so one can't help but come to the conclusion that this political subtext is probably at least one reason why they decided to curtail sale to the civilian but market there is however something that's more tangible hanging over the gun industry there is a lawsuit filed by families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims against Remington that suit one after the company for how it marketed its Bushmaster air. 50 model which was used in that shooting I'm wondering if Colts and other gun manufacturers are reacting to a lawsuit like that thinking that the way that we've sold these weapons in the past may well come back to us in lawsuits from the public we have seen a more aggressive litigation approach being taken toward some gun manufacturers and even if these lawsuits do not prevail if they are allowed to go to trial it does provide the those bringing the suit to engage in discovery that is to obtain documents emails internal messages etc from these companies which could result in the revelation of information that could be at the least highly embarrassing to some of the gun companies and of course litigation can be a black eye even if you prevail in the end it's expensive it's time consuming and that by itself may be a bit of a further consideration about why a company might like cult might decide the manufacturing and selling assault weapons to a civilian market is too much trouble and why not just bypass that and focus on other Thanks that was John Dankosky talking with Robert Spitzer a political science professor at Suny Cortland in New York. 3 New England states Massachusetts Vermont and Connecticut generally banned the purchase of high capacity magazines for weapons after a Connecticut man was found in illegal possession of magazines earlier this year he was arrested and charged with a felony it happened when the f.b.i. Got a tip and police in the city of Norwalk Connecticut used the state's red flag law as part of their investigation the law allows them to cease fire arms from someone deemed a risk to themselves or others Connecticut Public Radio's Ryan Lindsey has the story of the New Hampshire woman who made the difficult decision to report a family member she thought posed a risk Melissa Potter told police she had a story to tell her nephew had called out of the blue to ask a favor when the phone call came in I was in the kitchen and whenever the phone rings you know you look at the caller id and I saw Brandon's name on it which surprised me because he has never called me before Brandon where actual told her he was building an a r 15 style rifle in needed her help because he was running into a little bit of a problem he wanted to buy magazines that could hold 30 rounds but in 2013 selling and purchasing magazines of more than 10 rounds became illegal in Connecticut where he lives Potter lives in New Hampshire he said so I was wondering if I could use your address to have these high capacity magazine sent to your house so Potter stayed on the phone trying to change her nephew's mind about buying magazines then the call cut off leaving her standing at her kitchen counter shaken I was thinking about you know the mass shootings that have that have taken place where you see it on the news it read stories that they have these high capacity magazines and when they intend to kill a lot of people they come in with a lot of ammunition ready to kill a few days later Melissa called the police in Norwalk Connecticut and their town in New Hampshire her wifely and Potter submitted an online tip to the f.b.i. They call to make sure had been received this was not one of those things to be taken lightly. And it just you know you don't want to have the test of a lot of people and this kind of a situation on your hands that be I followed up with Melissa a few days later the couple sat down for dinner Liane looked up and saw on t.v. There was a mug shot generally people who are and 2 were that far are getting ready to do something nobody who's going out and doing target practice or hunting. Where is the bullet proof vest using information the Potters told the f.b.i. Norwalk Police investigated they say the records revealed more than a decade of incidents and police allege he once told a classmate that he could make the Virginia Tech massacre look like nothing Police say the combination of whack Charles desire to buy high capacity magazines and his history of threats represented a quote clear and looming danger and they suspected he had access to guns so they follow what's known as a risk warrant this is an element of Connecticut's red flag law which allows police to confiscate someone's guns if they're judged to be a risk to themselves or others while searching wagtails car they say they found a legal high capacity magazines that led to his arrest Lieutenant Terry Blake with the Norwalk Police Department was there that day did not commit the crime. There's no telling if you would or would not have committed a crime only he knows that but ultimately you know that information that was green from this. Was alarming actual was charged with 4 counts of illegal purchase of a high capacity magazine His lawyer says he plans to plead not guilty and authorities have yet to charge him with anything related to violence police say the Potter's calls led to a successful investigation and Melissa says she's relieved that her nephew was arrested but it wasn't an easy thing to do there's also. A feeling of shame that's associated with it that how could this happen to a member of my own family that could have possibly even thought about killing innocent people it is a shameful thing and I have not shared this with very many of my friends Melissa says she shared her story with police because she didn't want to witness another mass shooting that she could have done something to stop for the New England use collaborative I'm right Lindsay wag Scholl is expected in court in early December and intends to plead not guilty Ryan Lindsay is part of a reporting collaborative called Guns in America which recently surveyed people about gun deaths and storing firearms their reporting collaborative partnered with a.p.m. Research lab and call to mind for the poll John Dankosky spoke with Lisa done a research editor for guns and America who let's talk about some of what you found what did Americans think was the leading cause of gun deaths so it turns out that Americans thought that most Americans murderers other than mass shootings were the leading cause of gun deaths and that was about 33 percent of the folks that we surveyed and this 2nd largest category was actually mass shootings so about 25 percent of Americans that we surveyed thought mass shootings were the leading source of gun deaths in the u.s. And only 25 percent guessed correctly that it's actually suicides that are the leading category of gun deaths in the u.s. And they account for about 60 percent of all gun deaths annually which averages to about $19000.00 so it turns out that only a quarter of the Americans that we surveyed actually knew what the leading cause of gun deaths is in the u.s. What do you think that there's that inaccurate perception amongst the American population Yeah I think it has to do with Certainly media coverage as you know there's. A lot of attention paid to mass shootings so I guess it's sort of not surprising that a lot of Americans think that maybe that's the the kind of largest source of gun deaths and you know murders themselves they also get as well media attention so I don't think it's totally surprising suicides tend not to get as much coverage for various reasons and so it's sort of the findings weren't entirely surprising to us for comparison sake you say about 19000 deaths by suicide a year in the u.s. What is the real number of deaths by mass shootings as as you've defined the term right so and I'm glad you said is used to find it because as you may know there's really no agreed upon definition for mass shootings various definitions exist you know quoting the f.b.i. In the gun violence archive but if you if you look at sort of a broad definition and that's what we went with in this case it's about in the area of $380.00 per year so it amounts to about less than 2 percent of all the gun deaths that happen in the u.s. So it's a tiny fraction So let's turn to the questions about storing firearms with a with a walk What were some of the survey results there on the questions reacting folks right so we asked people if they have a gun what do they do with it when they're not using it so we were interested to find out do you store your gun with a lock in place and what we found was that about 60 percent of gun owners that we surveyed said that they always store their gun and about 19 percent actually said they never stored the gun with a lock in place and then we also asked Would you support mandating that guns be stored with locks and what. Found was broad support for that kind of mandate 78 percent basically 8 in 10 of the Americans we surveyed supported that gun should be stored with a lock in place and only about 18 percent oppose that now this. Broad support across all demographic groups 7 in 10 Republicans supported a locked gun mandate. 66 percent of gun owners also supported mandated lock gun storage a little bit more support from women than men and a little bit more support in metropolitan areas then in more suburban or rural areas were you surprised at the broad support. I actually yeah I actually was surprised you know as part of this survey we also asked about red flag laws and so that generated the same level of support as for gun storage so it seemed like these 2 kinds of laws definitely got support across the board Republicans and Democrats and gun owners and non goanna owners ally you describe if you would how you asked the question about red flag laws because like other things having to do with guns and gun ownership there are different ways in which people could perceive that question right so what we asked is whether they supported allowing 2 different types of situations allowing other a family member or police to seek a court order to temporarily take away guns if they feel a gun owner may harm themselves or others so it was sort of a 2 choice question and what we found is that there was really strong support for the idea of a family member initiating a red flag law or what's known as an extreme risk protection order that was at the level of 77 percent of the Americans we surveyed. A slightly lower number around 70 percent supported red flag laws that would would be initiated by law enforcement I should ask you about some of the demographic splits in the surveys that you put out there you've already alluded to this and we've read for years that there are big differences in how people perceive gun issues depending on their age potentially their race the part of the country where they live Could you talk a bit more about about who you asked these questions of. Right so our survey definitely includes folks from all geographic areas it's definitely representative of the entire country and you're right we did find some differences but I would say that the differences are minor so our listeners here in New England can take these results and say yeah this pretty much represents us too yeah I think they can I mean I think we did find when it comes to red flag laws and safe storage laws we did find slightly higher support in the region that we termed the northeast so that would include your listeners in the New England region and so there is slightly higher support in those regions but again it's not statistically so much higher that your listeners would feel that somehow they're in some kind of minority Lisa done his research editor for guns in America Lisa thanks so much for being with us here on the program appreciate it sure Thanks for having me. Coming up Lyme disease was 1st identified in New England a half century ago a podcast digs into the history science and controversial treatment of the disease it's now. Support comes from Bristol health committed to exceeding national benchmarks for excellence and quality and safety Bristol health has received straight A's for patient safety from the Leapfrog Group since 2017 learn more at Bristol health dot com. Next time on that new USA. Somewhat I was 9 years old when he left Alsop. 20 years later he's forced to return to confront the family and country he left behind that's next time on the. List and Sunday morning at 6. Am the next on being Robert McFarlane on the hidden realities beneath our feet sometimes say to my children we walk on this. Crust of this raging space of life in all its vibrancy and fury and we know who nothing of it I'm Krista Tippett join us tonight and Sunday morning at 7. 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According to federal health officials It affects about $300000.00 people a year nationwide and although it's spread down the Eastern Seaboard and is found in the Midwest winds highest concentrations are in New England a podcast Patient 0 from New Hampshire Public Radio explores this enigmatic disease from its discovery to the controversy surrounding its treatment we're going to listen to part of the 1st episode of the series Here's producer and host Taylor. I'm standing here in Lima Connecticut at the top of Joshua Town Road where Polly Marie who was for our purposes the patient 0 of Lyme disease lived until just a few years ago private shy and surrounded by forest. For a time Polly was celebrated as a sort of canary in the coal mine a woman who fought the inertia of status quo medicine and sounded the alarm about Lyme disease as the years pass I can see that her story is being forgotten in a lot of online articles and retellings she simply described as a concerned mother. But to those who know her story it's fair to say that concerned would be an understatement Polly was tenacious she's a very serious person whom the minute she's out she is highly industrious kind of a perfectionist and I think that rubbed off on all of us into a hug and yet she couldn't relax. Joshua Town Road is where Polly and her ex-husband Gil raised 4 children they scattered now but I was able to speak with 3 of them Alex nickname Sandy high school soccer star and eldest of the 4 Cindy is a proper nickname for Alexander Todd the baby and today the most soft spoken of them or even Emily He had a bad temper as a kid Esther and finally Wendy I by the way was named Wendy after Peter Pan and the dog was nanny it was the early seventy's I'm kinetic it was a small town in New England paradise a mix of farms and barns and upper crust homes and back then Polly especially looked like a member of Connecticut nobility she wore like silver jewelry and that beautiful white hair and liked she was an artist trying to Yale was straightforward and deliberate as the subject she captured still life paintings portraits landscapes sometimes her kids were playing she would shout freeze and then she would sketch them where they stood. But outside the bounds of her meticulously guarded backyard the children were anything but still we happened to live like a mile from the Connecticut River cross and broke through a patch of cedar trees with rather wood skin that's not cools the one time I got a bag you know cut in my rear as we could actually play cowboys and Indians with with a real Coast service just a wonderful childhood of playing outdoors and you know there is only so much trouble you could get to play woods. And. Do your best for becoming aware of the fact that your fam. He had health issues that were sort of above and beyond what might seem normal. The normal part is what. At the time was beyond my comprehension. As early as 1964 Polly Marie was chronicling her family's health because she's such a you know organized tenacious personality she would write everything down so I just remember you know being on the phone chatting with friends and I would look down at the calendar and see you know these detailed notes of doctors' appointments and symptom rashes and colds itchy eyes sore throats diarrhea every symptom no matter how commonplace and every doctor's visit no matter how perfunctory wound up on Polly's calendar that's how I know that on May 20th of 1964 baby Todd was prescribed penicillin for an ear infection and how I know that a few days later he stopped eating and was hospitalized for dehydration and the whole family was hit with a gastro intestinal bug not too much later. But most of the time Polly was documenting her own health problems or she had joint eggs and muscle every seen easily in the background in the sensitivity of arthritis in her fingers trouble sleeping you know the word coping with you know used as frequently as a hand it seemed like my mom was so beset by so much. Polly was convinced that or various symptoms which came and went on an almost daily basis were part of some larger pattern that they were all connected somehow I mean she was a lay person but she had a good aptitude for science before art school she had spent a summer in Copenhagen working as an assistant for the World Health Organization's tuberculosis research office she wasn't a medical professional but she was medically minded driven to read research journals and medical literature but for doctors who are used to being the authority in the examination room that aptitude can come off as meddling reading the dynamic between my mom and Dr Irving and he was so personable and. Respectful but at the same time I remember that little girl feeling of like my mom is being a pain in the butt here like she's she's too serious she's she's asking too many questions. And so kind of being embarrassed by it. Over several years she sought a grab bag of experts who examined her for lupus they tested her for psoriasis and for rheumatoid arthritis thyroid problems and hypoglycemia some doctors were supportive some were dismissive. But nobody had any answers she literally had doctors saying Oh just go play tennis. You're just bored or you're depressed because you're just a housewife I mean and she didn't make this stuff up. One doctor told her her symptoms were psychosomatic and that she needed a psycho therapist so he saw. A psychotherapist told her she was depressed because she had a chronic illness that nobody could identify. You know there's that something that happens to the personality too when you're chronically ill and not getting the support from the medical community. You know it changes your whole demeanor and it was just very striking it really brought back memories of my mom kind of embattled. If things had ended here Polly Marie may have been forever labeled as an overly anxious neurotic worrier as the h. Word hypochondriac and despite her convictions she would later write that she had her doubts maybe she was crazy but then in the mid 1970 s. New symptoms appeared ones that could be easily dismissed as a figment of her imagination because she was not the one experiencing them you know the 1st thing I remember was it was the night my 8th grade graduation and as I said it was kind of like you know long white dresses and the boys were in suits and just very charming but it was a big deal graduation and. Time that day. Got an excruciating headache I mean. Like out of the blue we were in the sunshine having a you know sitting in the grass having class and I notice those polls I rash appear we went to the doctor who. Didn't really know what it was I think you described it as your theme a circle not him which just means rendering. A couple days later or maybe a week later I got severe muscle aches and fever and develop severe depression throbbing headache so. I develops a swollen knee. And I remember about that time Alex also had full and I all the sudden developed very bad water in the knee we were at a river swimming my dad and I and he turned around and he had a child bull's eye rash Arness upper back that following winter he also develop swollen news that the primary treatment was to drain the fluid out of the knee he went to a doctor and was told it was a spider bite for out of the 6 members of the Murray family had symptoms only Wendy and their other son David seemed to be fine one of us said yeah I worry that well he's David and I were you know escaping most of it and they were the ciggies you know and so I remember when that happened just feeling like. You know this kid just can't catch a break so how old were you at this point. I was about 11 or 12 taking up to 16 aspirin a day which I remember I actually got toxic from it and had running in my ears at one point and had to have. The dose decrease. Throughout all of it Polly Marie was doing what she had always done documenting doctors' visits scribbling symptoms in journals squeezing notes on her counters. Polly included a lot of this information in a book called The widening circle that she wrote years later I asked her daughter Wendy to read some of the entries Monday September 8th. At a check up at the moment is. Very stay September 28th. Sandys test results were negative and it was decided that they original test had been contaminated Saturday September 13th escape to Watch Hill for a day. And write out the rash. Catalogues are not a pleasant read they're almost obscene and that anonymous way that medical descriptions 'd can be 'd forced to think explicitly about the human body and to objectify human beings in the context of their frailty Wednesday September 24th. And frankly the sheer amount of it all is somewhat incredible as in not credible they sound like the words of an obsessive hypochondriac Friday September 26th in desperation I had a sample of the well letter. But then I got something that had eluded Polly for years a diagnosis Tuesday September 30th Todd saw a doctor as and then and concluded that Todd had juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and should be seen by rheumatologist. Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis or j r a. I'm not sure what extent they know what causes it but it's. An autoimmune disease where your your body attacks the lining of your joints and causes pain and swelling did the diagnosis mean anything to you at that point. Well. I think I didn't actually believe the doctor says. Polly was skeptical too but in between the doctor's visits and trips to the library Polly had been speaking to neighbors and friends and she was hearing stories about other kids with swollen joints fevers and rashes there was Frank Roche's daughter who live just one street away from Joshua town road the 1st it was swelling of the knees so I was a soccer balls and they truly are for over a wall for room with total juvenile rheumatoid arthritis who know what they're doing and then an old one just a few miles south there is a little girl in a wheelchair same diagnosis juvenile rheumatoid arthritis high school soccer player Jr a captain Richard writes daughter Christian niece how to Jr a his neighbor's child Jr a there were several kids exactly on the local school bus from the went to school and they all came down with mysterious illness and some swelling in. Jr a affects about one in 10000 children 2 cases in the town of Lyme would have been unusual and Polly was seeing 3 or 4 on the same street. On October 6th 1905 Polly wrote a letter to her family doctor and in a patrician manner that almost masks her frustration she asks Doesn't it seem likely that these problems are connected Polly had always asked a lot of questions and she came to appointments with ideas that doctors didn't always like but she generally took what they said seriously she took what was prescribed she went to whichever specialist they center to but week after writing the letter she had had enough something was happening and nobody was paying any attention. Here's Wendy again reading from Polly's book the widening circle. Wednesday October 15th. Other knee was swollen and I had to call the state health department I couldn't wait any longer. I knew that I was dealing with something that was on the one to him very real and turn from symptoms but on the other hand didn't exist in the medical literature and that I would therefore have to be collected and convincing to ever was on the other end of the phone at the Health Department. I told him that I had a feeling the call that I was about to make might turn out to be an important one in the long run and then I went into the study spread out my notes before me on the desk and dial the number. You. Know. That's an excerpt from the podcast Patient 0 from New Hampshire Public Radio the entire series is available wherever you get your podcasts and when you listen you'll find out what happened after Polly made that phone call plus the science behind line disease and controversy over its treatment. There's a bill up for consideration in Congress right now that could help health officials better understand tick borne illnesses the bipartisan bill was introduced by Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine and a Democratic senator from Minnesota when Collins introduced the bill earlier this year she said Lyme disease has become a major public health concern when a child faith became a public health crisis Fortunately a gold standard for denim for cation and tree then was developed within 10 years line disease by contrast was the death of 5 more than 40 years ago yet there still is no gold standard treatment and existing prevention education and diagnostic efforts have proven to be in the attic with the tick act it would improve research testing and treatment of Lyme disease and other tick borne illnesses and approve millions of dollars in funding to help do so the bill passed through committee earlier this month and it will be considered by the full Senate though a date has not yet been scheduled. Coming up the resurgence of a wild cat plus shrinking school populations mean a new kind of football for high schoolers I'm workin Springer it's next. Connecticut Public Radio presents an evening with David Sedaris December 8th at the Shubert Theatre featuring all new stories and observations. And tickets and information at Schubert about. Sheep and sausage stuffing how to make crisp berries perfect mashed potatoes along with my bro. And how to handle Thanksgiving don't spend too much throw a bunch of bottles out there with no alcohol drinks that's on the beach. Here in Connecticut Public Radio listen this afternoon at 3 support comes from City Market in New Haven and Highland Park market. November a crucial presidential election did you examine all the issues at the polls to do the research did you watch the debates every vote counts the fate of the nation is in the balance and you're not prepared. 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An elusive wild cat is making a comeback across New England as Connecticut Public Radio's Patrick Scahill reports Bob Cats are returning to the region following decades of conservation and forestry growth and now that the Wildcats are bouncing back biologists are trying to learn more about where Bobcats are and what they're doing I'm at a lab in northwest Connecticut standing next to a bobcat it's bright eyes and black tuft of yours are separated from me only by the metal grille of a large carrier. She's sleepy but waking up. Her sister was telling us to back away that morning Jason Hawley a wildlife biologist with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection got a phone call it was from a coyote trapper who'd accidentally caught this Bobcat lately Holly's been putting out the word to trappers if you catch a bobcat don't release it instead call his team so we sent 2 people over to Logan and they drugged tranquilized to put it in our carrier that we used to basically like a kennel they stay pretty calm and they're always with the Connecticut Bobcat project a study entering its 2nd year with the goal of tracking bomb cats all over the state these wild cats are about 2 to 3 times the size of your average house cat there allusive and quick and sightings go up holy says lots of people confuse them with mountain lions in addition to it's tough to do yours one of this Cats defining features is that short bob tail Holly's project seeks to learn more about the hidden lives of these cats examining diet fertility and contact in the wild and more and more in our backyard our dive chats and more areas using different habitat or different resources are they using it differently or using the different times of the day are they moving at different times to. Bobcat is starting to wake up from a transport slumber. So before a biologist can work on it it needs to be redrawn. Holly and his 2 assistants to administer a sedative through a long syringe hold. After about 15 minutes the cat is under. She don't. Only pulls the bobcat out of the carrier and places it on long metal table scientist remove a few bloated ticks and a small molar to get the cat's age head and neck are measured there's a d.n.a. Sample and the cat is here tagged and fitted with a g.p.s. Collar. You know most people think about cats is like you know meeting woods and living you know in the middle of nowhere but I mean we're finding they're very adaptable animals so far the project has collared more than 80 cats tracking bobcats through rural forests and even one in Connecticut's biggest city it's pretty amazing I mean you know really go right into homes downtown bridge for new some of the Parkland that they have in there regionally sightings are also on the rise from on wildlife officials say Bobcat populations are healthy and well distributed and numbers are also up in Maine increasing alongside the Bobcats bigger cousin the Canada links back in Connecticut Holly says Bob Cats which in the mid 20th century were subject to a bounty can now be seen at all towns he says location data they're getting from those g.p.s. Collars is helping to pinpoint dense sites letting field biologist examine Bobcat kittens in the wild creatures that otherwise would be nearly impossible to find. And although g.p.s. Data also provides something else insight into Bobcat personalities like another cat he tagged in southern Connecticut his whole range was just sort of this vertical strip along the Connecticut River and he would actually go out islands in the river like swimming I mean I was people you know cats don't want to swim so they're you know they're very interesting animals and they definitely have personalities as for the cat I met it was released the next day right back where that coyote trapper accidentally picked it up Holly says she'll probably have her 1st litter this spring so if all goes well with her collar it's possible biologists will see this cow to get the time with kittens for the New England news collaborative I'm Patrick Scahill in Hartford Patrick has some great photos of his Bobcat encounter go to next New England dot org This is next from the New England news collaborative I'm not going spring. One of the recurring themes of our coverage of New England over these last few years has been the aging of our population and the shrinking of many communities schools have closed or been consolidated and some places that just don't have enough students it's also changing the landscape of scholastic sports at least in Maine over the past decade participation in high school football has fallen by close to 20 percent in the state Steve Craig is a sports writer for the Portland Press Herald and he says on top of shrinking school enrollment football is taking a hit because kids are specializing in other sports year round Certainly you cannot discount the concern over concussions specifically and injuries in general and then you get the scares with the chronic I'll just call it see t. Because I can't pronounce that it's a long game but the brain injury that shown up in many dad in f.l. Players it's scary so that's been affecting football this year he says 10 schools have changed the game reducing the number of players on the field from 11 to 8 The biggest difference is with 3 fewer players and often still take away 2 linemen so they'll only be those 3 kids down kind of with their hands in the dirt instead of the normal 5 also one skilled position player is removed there could be a running back or wide receiver and then it will all depend on what players called defensively also 3 fewer guys so it's been very simple terms it's usually one less linemen one less linebacker one last defensive back but again it's based on how the coaches choose to play it Gregg says they've also shrunk the field it's still $100.00 yards long but it's going to year by 40 feet we talked to Craig at the start of the football season by now those main schools have 2 months of 8 person football under their belt being Public Radio's Robbie Feinberg has been following one of the schools. Under the Friday Night Lights of the for. Ball field near Ellsworth a school junior Taylor Clark and sophomore Jocelyn Jordan have turned out with what seemed like a big question as the student was out to see if they crowd the air kind of games or the biggest. Crowd a ruckus in cheers as the team took about 15 players dashes onto the field clad in maroon Ellsworth's high school football program is only about a decade old Jordan says it's become a big draw for the old everybody everything people have kids were kind of watching that on the field this year things look a little different instead of 11 on each side there are just 8 Elsworth is one of 10 schools in the state that have moved to a new 8 man Football League because of declining school enrollment and waning participation in the sport in some of our activities we have seen a dramatic decrease and football would be one of those where we see the numbers decline over the years Mike Burnham executive director of the interscholastic division of the main principles Association also States growing concerns over injuries in the long term risks of concussions some smaller schools as Burnham have only been able to recruit a few dozen students to their football programs some of been forced to keep players on the field nearly the whole game or to look at playing under classman who may not be ready potentially putting them at risk of injury and we saw some schools that were facing a crisis on whether or not they were going to be able to sponsor 11 man football so that kind of led us to where we're at with the 8 man football Elsworth high school athletic administrator Josh Frost says with just 15 players turning out for football this year joining the new league was the best option at least for the next few years it would have been a man football or play j.v. Football or. Not have any football and it would just seem a lot easier to make the decision to play a man and bring the sidelines and then shrink the feel a little bit and play that. Was worth parent Jessica Brown says a number of community members have worked for more than a decade to build up a program here it raised money launched a youth program and eventually a school team the school even added a homecoming game and dance hall. To the Bronx is the transition to a player from balls of preserving the 40 acres edition and it was it was really it was really heartbreaking to think we've worked this hard and watch this program develop and what it's done for these kids and it really I feel like kind of you know my son like it there was something so bonding about everything that's friends are still his football player friend there's just something you can't believe so far students and coaches say the transition has been relatively smooth the biggest difficulty many say has been the long drives to schools and top some in Yarmouth junior player know what Hughes says initially he didn't like the idea of having to play a new kind of football on a skinnier field but he says he now thinks it's more demanding in a good way now that I'm in the 8 man I honestly like it better than a lot of it is faster more aggressive It takes more more of you it when you complete something it's more of a personal respect and it's it's just in my opinion way more fun more fags faster it's it's better and I did just this year 2 other programs in Maine have been forced to cancel their varsity seasons due to a lack of players Jessica McGreevy is the athletic director for one of them Dick's fields Deraa go high school she says the school in town are considering future options including 8 man football or a co-op team. Different game. We have others with out there playing it. When you were a kid and in doing so we were really going to have to look at you know what we want to do with the community and where we want to go. Was. Like sitting along the 40 yard line parent Jessica Brown says for her and other members of the old 4th this year's new main focal team is a source of pride watching the 1st game here this year they're looking around I start to feel hopeful again like I mean our kids don't know anything else like this is their Friday night and I would hate for that tradition to be going on. For the New England who is collaborative I'm Robbie Feinberg. A person football hasn't really caught on and other New England states that least not yet Vermont used to have a league and there have been calls to revive it one columnist in the state's capital wrote an article last year titled 8 man is not a dirty word but the game is going strong and other Us states like the brassica Kansas and California. 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News and Washington I'm Windsor Johnston at least 2 people are dead and several others are injured after a gunman opened fire at a high school in Southern California the shooting as hot as high school in Santa Clarita happened shortly after classes got under way this morning Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Bill and away the update of the situation just a short time ago there were a total of 6 victims who were promptly treat and transported to local hospitals for treatment among those who were transporters turned out to be the suspect who is currently in the hospital in grave condition A's a male Asian 16 years of age in a student of the school authorities say they have video showing the suspect is shooting 5 other students and then himself local officials say the f.b.i. Has joined the investigation commercial satellite images show dozens of military aircraft gathering at an airport in North Korea as N.P.R.'s Geoff Brumfiel reports it might be meant as a signal to the u.s. And its allies the images were taken by the company planet and shared exclusively with n.p.r. By analysts at the website $38.00 north they show a variety of planes had an airport on the nation's East Coast Jenny town is with 38 north there is a long line of military aircraft of planes just lined up in a straight row all the way across the tarmac she believes it could be preparations for a demonstration for North Korean leader Kim Jong un Pyongyang has been showing off more military hardware as it grows increasingly frustrated with the u.s. It has warned of quote a new way if a diplomatic solution can't be found by the end of the year Geoff Brumfiel n.p.r. News Washington Teachers in Little Rock Arkansas all are on strike Kelly Connelly with member station. There protesting the state's control of the local school system and a panel's decision to strip the.
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