I've been fortunate to have visited Hever Castle on a number of occasions and to have stayed there several times and I can hand-on-heart say that there is something truly magical about it.
I don't know what it is – and I don't believe that I'm Anne Boleyn reincarnated or anything – but Hever just gets to me. It casts a spell on me every single time I go and it definitely has a piece of my heart.
I'm quite literally counting the days until I get to go there again (215 days at time of writing!) on the Anne Boleyn Experience 2019, when I spend 4 nights at Hever with people who are just as obsessed with Tudor history as I am – yay!
I've tried to explain just how magical Hever is in the video below.
If you would like to join me on this magical tour, you can find out more and book your place at https://www.britishhistorytours.com/history-tours/anne-boleyn-2019. I hope to see you soon!
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I agree Hever does weave its spell on the visitor as apart from the fairytale look of the castle and beautiful gardens, to the Tudor enthusiast it is connected forever with the sad story of Henry V111's doomed second queen, to her many legions of fans far and wide to visit her childhood home where she must have spent many happy days and sad ones to it is the place where one can feel a part of her, it is where she arrived having been banished from court after her indescretions with the young Harry Percy became known,her dreams of love and romance ruined and it is where as Claire mentions, she escaped from the King when his cloying affection became to much for her, it is where as a young girl she must have ridden with her siblings in the peaceful countryside and stitched quietly at her needlework in the charming rooms hung with heavy drapes and on cold winter nights, near the huge tackling fires they would light, maybe she would have helped decorate the halls with greenery when christmas drew near and she would have wandered in the long gallery on rainy days and maybe practised the latest court dances with her mother and sister, I believe she was truly happy there before her ambition was tempted which led her on the road to her own destruction, her bedroom to can be seen with its huge tester but is it her bed or a later edition, it's easy to picture her looking out through the narrow windows after hearing the bugle announcing the arrival of the King did it overlook the drive so she could see the King and his party clattering up the cobbles, her flustered father and mother hovering around the colourfully bedecked monarch, as is often shown in films? What we do know of Anne is that Hever was witness to many a turbulent stage of her life, the very frustration she would have felt when Wolsley could not secure the divorce, the anxiety that her dreams were being thwarted time and again, maybe Mary had resided there after the King had finished with her and she had seen her tears, ( if she had truly loved him at all) maybe she had wept with her over the death of her young husband, and commiserated with her over her hardship at having to raise her children alone, it had seen times of great joy and happiness and utmost despair after the dreadful events of May 1536, now Hever now stands serene and beautiful in the Kent countryside and the visitor can enjoy many a happy hour there, Annes ancestor Sir Geoffrey Boleyn had had it covered into a Manor House from the original early castle that it once was, it was turned into a charming family home and several generations of the Boleyn family had lived there, Lord Astor had had the Tudor village built in keeping with its history and there are beautiful paintings hanging on the panelled walls, both Anne and her sister or it is believed to be Mary Boleyn hang side by side, both women in the full flush of womanhood, were they rivals for the affection of Henry V111 we do not know, did Mary feel pangs of jealousy when his eyes fell on her young sister? what was said between Henry and Anne in private in the walls of Hever and the surrounding countryside as they walked and hunted together, that also is something only Hever Castle knows and she will not give up her secrets, on a gothic note the Most Haunted team on the television conducted a vigil there over a day and a night and believed they caught the spirit of a horse who is said to canter along the gallery, Anne they did not come into contact with who no doubt thought it an impertinence that these people should dare to trouble her from her rest, but walking through the rooms one can imagine we can catch a glimpse of her gown disappearing round a corner or hear a footstep on the floor, or hear laughter coming from another room, out of all the palaces she lived in I'm sure Anne Boleyn's ghost chooses to visit Hever Castle more as it was where she was truly happy, before the trauma of her later years.
It is truly a magical place. It is so full of atmosphere. I begged my parents to take me there when I was a youngster only to find it closed. I luckily was taken the following year. Thank goodness my parents had the same interest in history, especially Anne and the Tudors.
I'm glad you were able to go back and also revisit it as an adult. I just love it there, I can't get enough of it.
I have never been to Hever Castle but maybe one day. It does look like a beautiful and magical place. I have of course seen it on the documentaries and beautiful videos and think it looks lovely. There are also some tangible remains of Anne there, her Book of Hours for example. I can imagine George and Anne and Mary playing hide and seek in the gardens, so many family memories must have run through that house, the visitors who must have come there, including the King, Henry Viii and people who lived there afterwards, like Anne of Cleves.
Anne and George and Mary must have run up and down that beautiful covered long gallery which their father built and which everyone used as a place of exercise and entertainment on days too wet or cold to go into the grounds in the snow. I don't know if Tudor children had toys but they did play games as did adults and I can imagine a game piece or two scattered around. I can imagine the ladies and gentlemen taking a stroll along the gallery and maybe Henry wandering down there with Anne on his arm, or maybe she was being coy and Henry tried to take her hand and she moved away, pointing out some features of the house or carrying a book and reading from it.
I can imagine the children in the nursery, the parents by an open fire, putting the Tudor Court to rights. I can imagine Mary preparing for her soon to be wedding, the sisters in their room sharing secrets and fears. I can imagine Anne reading the letters from Henry to a listening brother or sister and I can hear her laughing or crying as her heart is torn this way and that. I can imagine the newly sophisticated Anne returning from France with new ideas and so much to tell, reunited with Mary as they catch up, now a married woman with a child and so much fashionable talk to exchange. I can imagine as the King is holding his entertainment at Court and Thomas, long in his services, maybe drops a hint that his two beautiful daughters would do well there.
There must have been so many important conversations. In these rooms and halls, how many times did Thomas and Elizabeth discus the problems of the succession, the Kings Great Matter, the family interest in reforms, the career of their son, how many times did Anne and George talk about religion and their dreams and Anne's relationship with the King? How many conversations about bringing the translation of German and French works on reforming England and helping Tyndale bring his words to the English Court took place at Hever, away from the spies at Court? How many times did Anne wish she could retreat here as she became the centre of Henry's world and time drew on without any end to his marriage?
Did Anne wish she could return home as her marriage seemed further and further away? When she ran home in 1529 after the collapse of the Blackfriars Court did she wonder why she had not wed another long ago? We are told that Anne cried because she had lost her early youth and wasted so many years by not marrying, having the great joy of children and Henry had to beg her father to ask her to come back to the Capital. At this time her sister was at hime, a young widow and her two children were given into Anne's protection to provide for them, and, it would be nice to see them as spending time together as a family should.
I love that there is the Book of Hours, written in by Anne and that there is a portrait which is close to an original image of Anne, although not actually contemporary. I love the fact that there is also a bed which was the marriage bed of Henry Tudor and Elizabeth of York, originally found up North in Chester. Genuine early Tudor beds are hard to find so this was a very rare and beautiful discovery that tells us so much about their craftsmanship and their intimate ideas. I would love to go one day, maybe I may join next year.
I remember when Lucy Worsley visited Hever and she was holding the book of hours in her hands and she said she found it so thrilling to hold something which Anne had held, in the fly leaf Anne had written 'I Anne Boleyn' and Lucy commented maybe she had written that as she was so sure of her destiny, she sensed something great was going to happen to her, you can hire Hever Castle for functions, there have been weddings there and possibly other family celebrations but its possibly very expensive.
I remember that, it is such a personal and beautiful intimate thing, these Book of Hours were made for the person to order by crafted people and monks and by hand of course, they were made based on their favourite saints and they may have been given by another family member and they were passed down as well via the generations but they were always tied to one particular person. Anne has indicated to us that this is very personal to her, with I, Anne Boleyn and also as a sense of Destiny, although remember we can read that with hindsight, Anne probably was just claiming the Book as her own.
The Book of Hours of Richard iii is interesting because he annotated it throughout and we know his annotation of his birthday on the page of the Ascension was placed there after he became King, because of the use of his kingship in the signature. It is also available online. There is also a beautiful one belonging to Claude of France, who Anne served online. I love these Books of Hours, they are so wonderfully illuminated. Can you imagine how many hours and days it took to make such a Book? They are true treasures.
One of my favourite places I have seen in documentaries in Hever is a little chapel off what is believed to have been Anne's bedroom, which is very quaint and not too far removed from the sort of chapel she would have had, small alter and piet deiu and kneeler and place for a tabernacle were the Host would have been kept and here Mass said. There are of course the usual problems, as the Chapel dates from the time of Edward Redgrave, a Catholic gentleman who lived there after it was pinched from Anne of Cleves by Edward Vi. However, it is very much the type of small Chapel an important person may have off their room for Mass at the time of Henry Viii, although Anne would have heard it in the Parish Church or if the family had their own Chapel. It is just such a lovely quaint little place, I really want to see it.
Yes, it would be a beautiful place to have a wedding and if I find a rich old man who would like to be my sugar daddy and second husband and support me and Steve, Hever will be on my list for a location. There was a wedding on when we went to Hardwick Hall, which meant we saw the House back to front. We also came top to bottom and it was easier for me, but it was weird as the bride was in the middle of the Great Hall having pictures taken with people moving around her. The photographer held everyone up and we respected that but he took so long setting up for one shot that the bride kindly waived us passed her. It all looked beautiful, but it must have cost a small fortune.
I'd love to hire Hever castle for my milestone 60th birthday bash think il start saving!


Tales of the Newhall Court.
Early dockets shed light on evolving ideas about crime and punishment in the Santa Clarita Valley.
Editor's note: May 1 is the 50th anniversary of the day former Municipal Court Judge Adrian Adams opened his attorney practice in Newhall. His appointment to the bench by Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1970 marked the first time the Santa Clarita Valley had two judges. By the time he retired in 1991 a third seat had been added.
Clarence Darrow once said, "History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history." My research would seem to indicate that not much has changed. The court has adjusted to the changes in laws and people's expectations, as well as to economic conditions. But Darrow probably is correct, as some of this history will show.
One should remember that the court mirrors the mores of society at any given time. For example, the Supreme Court, during World War II, ruled it constitutional to compel the saluting of the American flag. After the war it changed its decision.
As of now, Newhall Municipal Court is only history. With the recent unification of the courts, it has become part of the Los Angeles County Superior Courts.
We do not have any formal, written history of the court. What we do have are the dockets of the court proceedings going back to the 1850s. We don't even know the names of all of the various judges who presided over the court, except as we find their names in the dockets.
Originally known as the Soledad Judicial District, the name was changed to the Newhall Judicial District in 1952 as a result of action by the state Legislature. It appears there was another Soledad Judicial District in Northern California. The local judicial district was one of the largest in the state, bounded by Ventura County on the west, Kern County on the north, the city of Los Angeles on the south and the Lancaster Judicial District on the east. Actually, the line was almost to the outskirts of Palmdale, beyond Red Rover Mine Road in Acton.
Until the 1960s when the Justice Court became a Municipal Court, a layman presided over the local court except for a period when Arthur Miller was the judge. In the same legislation that changed the court to the Newhall Municipal Court, the Legislature did away with the title, "Justice of the Peace," and directed those presiding to be called "judge."
Let us peruse some of those dockets. As the writer has been retired from the court since 1991 he cannot even say where they are today. Hopefully they remain available to others who may want to roam through the past.
Newhall and Saugus were primarily train stops. Yes, they had stores and stables, but they were actually towns built to serve the railroad. Therefore the most common crimes in those early days were related to the railroad.
The dockets indicate that the most common crime was "evading the payment of railroad fares." It was what we might call hitchhiking on the railroad, but without consent. The penalty for riding the rails was $5 or five days in jail. Also common was vagrancy, which cost the culprit $10 or 10 days.
The writer has no information as to serving time in those days. Later, when all jail sentences were served in downtown Los Angeles, it was a way of getting the bad guy out of town. However, in those horse-and-buggy days, it was quite a trip to Los Angeles, so presumably the time was served locally.
There was nothing chicken-hearted about justice. In 1907 Esignorino Hernandez got 90 days for disturbing the peace. The docket doesn't spell whose peace it was or how it was disturbed.
A 1903 docket posted the county wage scale. Justice John F. Powell got a raise to $1,500. Not bad, however, because county supervisors earned only $1,800.
Fines were substantially higher in those days, particularly if one considers inflation. The maximum penalty in 1900 was the same as it was during the time of the Newhall Court, with few exceptions. Of course, the alternative of one day in jail for each $1 in fines was not much of an alternative.
Other typical cases found among the dockets in 1923: Picking yuccas cost $5; peddling without a county license cost $6. Fire is and was a serious wrong, and in 1933 Hannah Ahlstrom got a $50 fine for burning without a permit.
One doubts that most readers ever traveled the original Ridge Route. Sections of it still exist along Interstate 5. To drive on it took courage; to speed on it took stupidity. Walther Hill drove his truck at 35 mph, 10 miles over the 1933 speed limit. It cost him $10, but not his life.
Being arrested as plain drunk in the days before Prohibition cost $25, about the same as today, or 25 days. The Legislature later mandated that time credit was to be $30 per day, so fines obviously were increased so that one could get the wrongdoer to County Jail and therefore out of Newhall. Were he a local resident, other efforts could be made.
For a number of reasons we find few driving-under-the-influence cases in the early dockets — certainly none of driving a buggy under the influence, as that did not appear to be against the law. Of course, Prohibition came along after World War I. The first DUI case appears to have been in 1932 when Justice Jones gave a defendant 90 days and revoked his driver's license. As Prohibition ended about that time, one can't know if it was moonshine or legitimate booze that did him in.
Speaking of driving buggies under the influence not being an offense, it is a violation to ride a bicycle under the influence, and one of my clients learned it the hard way. He was arrested right in front of the courthouse. I happened to be his wife's attorney in a divorce involving excessive drinking. A phone call to the constable did wonders for his cooperation thereafter.
Some famous names appear in our dockets. Attorney Earl Rogers got a murder complaint thrown out by Justice Powell in 1908. No other details are known or available in the records we have.
After Prohibition became the law, the county passed a number of ordinances covering the use, production, sale and even possession of liquor. Those who are law-and-order enthusiasts would rejoice at how seriously the court enforced those ordinances. James Shannon was fined $300 and given 180 days in jail for possessing a still.
The very next day, Sam Gish was in court, charged with being in a disorderly house. Sam got a 60-day sentence, suspended on the usual condition that he not do it again — that is, get caught. No mention is made of the lady or ladies involved. Perhaps that's because women had just gotten the right to vote and hadn't had a crack at straightening out such obvious sexism.
For an example of cruel and unusual punishment, take the matter of disturbing the peace that was heard by Justice Arthur B. Perkins in 1926. He gave John Hooper the Hobson's choice of 30 days in jail or parole to his wife for one year. Sounds like a good case for an appeal.
Some of you may remember Art Perkins, the longtime historian. Art was the nicest and most gentle person you'd want to know. In 1928 he didn't waste time in sentencing lawbreakers who were broke. Luis Klein appeared for selling liquor. "Three hundred dollars," said the justice. Luis responded that business had been bad and he was broke. The justice promptly amended his sentence so he could sit it out at $1 a day.
One case of Justice Perkins' in 1926 also involved alcohol. He ordered the constable to take the "liquor confiscated to Olive View Sanitarium, destroying what they do not use." The method of destruction is not specified, but one can speculate about the time it took the constable to return, and about his method of destruction. He probably took the Ojai turnoff by mistake.
Learn more about the Santa Clarita Valley's horse-and-buggy days on the Internet at scvhistory.com, or stop by the Saugus Train Station Museum in Old Town Newhall, Saturdays and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
©2003 Adrian Adams | Originally published in The Signal | Used by permission.


The European Central Bank has already pushed back its first post-crisis interest rate hike. But with weak external demand taking a toll on export powerhouse Germany, it is coming under pressure to do more to support the bloc - albeit with a depleted policy toolbox.
Highlighting the loss of economic momentum, Draghi said the ECB would price a new series of two-year loans to banks in such a way as to ensure that credit would keep flowing to the economy.
It would also consider measures to mitigate the impact on banks of its negative deposit rate - taken by observers as a reference to a tiered system exempting lenders from paying a charge on some of their idle cash.
But Draghi, who steps down in October, said it was too early to act and deferred any decisions to June.
"We started a process where we will analyse all measures," Draghi told a news conference after the bank kept policy unchanged, as widely expected. "We need further information that will come to us between now and June."
The International Monetary Fund said overnight that the global economy was slowing more than expected and a sharp downturn could require world leaders to coordinate stimulus.
But one problem is that, after pushing borrowing costs to record lows and taking 2.6 trillion euro ($2.93 trillion) worth of bonds out of the market to revive inflation, the ECB's options are limited.
Introducing tiered rates might make it easier to keep its benchmark deposit rate at its current level of -0.4 percent or even cut it farther.
"If global and euro area growth weakens or the Fed begins to signal cuts, the ECB may need to follow suit and ease policy (partly to ward off EUR appreciation) and, therefore, would need to provide relief for banks through tiering," Barclays economist Antonio Garcia Pascual wrote in a note to clients.
Draghi would not be drawn on that issue and said euro zone's banks' meagre profits were mainly the results of high costs.
But he insisted the ECB had plenty of options, and appeared to validate market expectations for more action, rising since Reuters reported last month that staff at the central bank was looking into tiering.
"We have shown we have plenty of instruments," Draghi said. "The market reaction demonstrated that markets have fully understood our reaction function."
In a further dent to global sentiment, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to impose tariffs on $11 billion worth of European Union products, opening a new chapter in his global trade war.
"It certainly undermines general confidence," Draghi said in response, adding that trade policy rhetoric did not always translate directly into sanctions.
For now the ECB stuck by its guidance, updated only last month, that interest rates would stay at current level at least until the end of the year, but Draghi stressed policymakers were ready to spring into action again if needed.
"(Wednesday's) was a meeting the main goal of which was to reassert the readiness to act if the contingencies would warrant so," Draghi said.
A survey of lending in the euro zone published on Tuesday tempered the need for urgent stimulus as banks said they expected business credit to grow and lending standards to ease this quarter.
And Draghi partly offset his caution over external demand with more hopeful comments about the domestic economy.
"The estimated probabilities of a (euro zone) recession remain low," he said, adding that a weakening of inflation would "probably bottom" in September.


What does successful ageing mean to older Australian war veterans?
Health, resilience, and vitality are most often associated with young people, but recent research demonstrates that older adults can experience all of these things too. Such research has been instrumental in supporting a shift away from the perception of older age at a time of decline and withdrawal, and toward a positive and optimistic view of ageing. This is called successful ageing, otherwise known as healthy ageing or ageing well. Academics, clinicians, and policy-makers recognise that successful ageing is important, but to date we have no clear definition of what may constitute successful ageing. While researcher-defined successful ageing models are helpful, they suffer from a major limitation – a lack of accounting for lay perspectives of successful ageing. We need to understand successful ageing through the eyes of older people in order to help them optimise their health trajectories into older age. Recent inroads have been made into developing this understanding, with qualitative research beginning to uncover older peoples' views on ageing well. It is also apparent that these views tend to vary based on factors such as culture and life course events.
Within Australia's ageing population an important group is war veterans. Men and women who were involved in the Vietnam War and other pre-1972 conflicts currently make up 2-3% of Australians aged over 60 years. Along with the usual challenges of ageing, veterans are approaching older age with additional physical, mental, and social health conditions associated with their military experience. Therefore, it is essential that we understand their views on ageing well.
In a study that is currently underway, veterans were invited to share their views on ageing well. A picture is emerging of what successful ageing looks like to older Australian veterans, and while there is a degree of overlap with civilian views, the veteran perspective embodies a number of unique contributors to ageing well. Veterans speak of the importance of mateship and comradeship, of giving due regard to their physical health as they were trained to do in the military, of taking responsibility for their own health, of working hard and earning their way in life, of helping the community including fellow veterans, younger veterans, and civilians, and of reaching out for help with mental health issues when necessary.
To help veterans optimise their health trajectories into older age, we first need to ask them what is important as they move into older age? The current study addresses this gap in our knowledge.


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Area Guide: In and around Napsbury Park
Napsbury Park
Many have heard of Napsbury, but few have discovered the beauty and tranquility of the Hertfordshire landscape it possesses - until now.
Napsbury Park, now listed by English Heritage as a Grade II Historic Park and Garden, was constructed in 1898 and has since played a fundamental role in notable Hertfordshire events. During the war effort it was known as County of Middlesex War Hospital, nursing wounded soldiers back to health, before returning to its original purpose as Middlesex County Asylum, caring for thousands of patients at a time.
Renovation between 1898 and today has given Napsbury Park an edge that is seldom found in other historic properties, with stories of its past shown in the varied style of the place. Now a private residence with over 500 dwellings, Napsbury Park remains an impressive building that casts its iconic shadow across surrounding land.
The Park has evidence of habitation dating back to prehistoric and Roman times and is also mentioned in the Domesday Book. During the 14th century there was a house on the site called Tylehouse where clay was dug for making tiles and bricks. The house then fell into the hands of Nicholas Bacon, father of Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount of St Albans.
Napsbury is a short distance from St Albans and all the amenities it has to offer; a regular bus service is available for trips into the thriving city and easy journeys to St Albans City station. A train ride will have you in London in just 20 minutes, as will the train service from Radlett station. A handy network of major roads, M25, A1 and M1, all offer accessibility by car for any road-trippers wanting to stay in the area.
The Clock Tower, Napsbury Park
Home to some of Hertfordshire's most glorious parkland, Napsbury is the perfect day out for keen walkers and cyclists. Napsbury Park, on the southern edge of St Albans, consists of several varied and undulating pathways, tracks and bridleways.
Land that is enjoyed by all residents and visitors, the Park has offered summer spots for picnicking, relaxing and exercising, as well as two playgrounds for children to enjoy, playing fields, tennis courts, football and basketball courts and a pavilion. With so many leisure facilities at their fingertips it's no wonder the Napsbury residents are an active bunch, with societies and clubs playing an important role in village life, the likes of which include a golf society and running club.
Napsbury has a keen, conservationist community working to maintain the species of flora and fauna on the local landscape, as well as the many species of tree - moved to Napsbury during the war, for fear of their impending destruction. The ecological pursuits of the locals have been strengthened over recent years by the enthusiastic impact of the Napsbury Park Residents Association.
With easy access to a handful of popular nearby towns, there is no shortage of things to do in and around Napsbury. Though the village itself doesn't possess a high street, restaurant or pub, there is an endless catalogue of options in St Albans, Radlett and London Colney, all within a few miles of Napsbury's borders.
State schools close to Napsbury Park include Bowmansgreen Primary School (rated 'good' by Ofsted), London Colney Primary & Nursery School ('requires improvement') and Samuel Ryder Academy, an 'all-through' school accommodating pupils aged four to 19 on the same site. It was rated 'good' at its last inspection. Nearby fee-paying alternatives include Edge Grove, Manor Lodge, St Albans School and St Albans High School for Girls. A regular bus service and a short distance to surrounding towns makes travelling to and from school a doddle.
A small hamlet that lies on the outskirts of St Albans, Napsbury offers all the ease of country living with the handy nearby amenities of a thriving town. A true Hertfordshire gem with community spirit and a sprawl of beautiful rural land.
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E2: A Uniquely American Compromise
22min | Oct. 11th, 2018
Where does our Second Amendment come from? English law, like so many of our...
E3: Guns & Honor
What is honor? When is it OK to use violence? And how do these ideas influe...
E4: Gun Culture 2.0
28min | Nov. 8th, 2018
Why do people own guns and how do they use them? What do guns mean to the p...
E5: "Boys will be boys."
20min | Nov. 22nd, 2018
Why are guns a symbol, for many, of masculinity? Are boys and men more viol...
E6: He's got a gun
22min | Dec. 6th, 2019
There's an important link between intimate partner violence (i.e. domesti...
E7: She's Got a Gun
23min | Dec. 20th, 2018
Many Americans hold dear the right to a gun for self-defense, and the passa...
E8: Good Guys with Guns & Bad Guys with Guns
What does it mean to be a "good guy with a gun" versus a "bad guy wit...
E9: Why Blacks Need(ed) Guns
The black tradition of gun ownership is as long as our nation's history. ...
E10: This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
24min | Feb. 7th, 2019
The Civil Rights Movement is famous for its nonviolent tactics, but was it ...
E11: Carrying A Gun While Black
21min | Feb. 2nd, 2020
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E12: More Guns = More or Less Crime?
31min | Mar. 7th, 2019
Since the late 1990s, two economists have dueled over whether more guns lea...
24min | Mar. 21st, 2019
The majority of Americans with guns own them for self-defense. But how comm...
E14: The Instrumentality of Guns
25min | Apr. 4th, 2020
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E15: The Big Australian Buyback
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E16: Violence Is Contagious
25min | May. 2nd, 2019
Gun violence isn't random. Both guns and violence spread like infectious ...
SE17: How do criminals get their guns?
23min | May. 16th, 2019
How are guns transmitted from person-to-person? How do they make their way ...
E18: Gangs
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E19: A Tale of Two Cities
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E20: The Science of Soft Policing
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E21: Law & Order?
Cops are supposed to enforce laws, reduce crime, and make communities safer...
E22: Law Enforcement in the Digital Age
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E23: Lives in Blue
33min | Aug. 8th, 2019
With almost 400 million guns in the U.S., law enforcement officers have goo...
E24: Why do people die by suicide?
22min | Aug. 22nd, 2019
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E25: The Psychology of Mass Shooters
39min | Sep. 5th, 2019
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E26: See Something, Say Something: Red Flag Laws Part I
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E27: The Devil's in the Details: Red Flag Laws Part II
23min | Oct. 3rd, 2019
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E28: Trusted Messengers
Gun owners, their kids, and their families and friends are dying from gun-r...
E29: Lock It Up
30min | Oct. 31st, 2019
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E30: What the Swiss can teach us
24min | Nov. 14th, 2019
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E31: The Gun Violence Prevention Movement
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E32: Badass Moms & Youth
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E33: #Vets4GunReform
29min | Jan. 9th, 2020
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E36: Where do we go from here?
32min | Feb. 13th, 2020
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With just ten days remaining until Thanksgiving, the tsunami of Black Friday ads has begun to descend. Best Buy, Target, Walmart and GameStop have already shared their deals, and on Monday, Microsoft threw its hat into the ring as well.
While there are dozens of sales to explore on MicrosoftStore.com, the company shared some highlights with us via email, so we'll focus on those. If you want to check out the rest though, be sure to visit Microsoft's online store.
Nov. 24 – 28: Save up to $430 off select Surface devices and bundles, including Surface Book i5 and Surface Pro 4. This includes at least $400 off of the Surface Book i5, the ultimate laptop with a detachable screen.
Best Buy will have the HP X360 for $229 or Lenovo Ideapad for $400 and is also offering $150 off the Lenovo Yoga 910 from Nov. 25-28 or a $200 instant rebate on the Samsung Galaxy TabPro S until Nov. 19.
Office Depot has HP laptops NT Ci3 for $269 and NT Ci5 for $329.
Pick up the ASUS Transformer Mini T102 for $299 from Amazon.com.
Looking for deals under $100, Dell is offering an Inspiron 11 3000 for $99.
Costco members can save $300 on a Dell XPS 13 from Nov. 25-28 or $100 off the Acer Spin 5 Nov. 24-28.
Find more Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals from Microsoft at MicrosoftStore.com.


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Andres Fernandez at the University of Wyoming has kindly given us permission to show some of the graphics that he created using RockWorks17. Andres' work is centered on optimizing production and revenue using the Enigma field as a case study.
Figure 1. Raster geo-locations of wellbores. Also showing placements of water injectors and oil producers, open (white) and closed (black) rasters, respectively.
Figure 2. Showing one of the highest water producing wells, cumulative water production throughout life of well. Explains injected water formation flow to North and South of field.
Figure 3. Average daily production during an 8-year period beginning 1 year prior to central-field ASP flooding.
Figure 4. Average daily production during a 5-year period beginning 1 year prior to water flood. Water flood EOR still running since 1992.
Figure 5.Average daily production of oil. Showing, also, how water injection boosted production, especially for well API4320677.
Figure 6. Average daily production of oil. Showing, also, how water injection boosted production, especially for well API4320677.
Figure 7. Used the production panel option through Google Earth/Rockworks17 due to its visual appeal. In this case showing Average Daily Water Production.


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UPDATE: Both suspects caught in Laurel robbery
Laurel convenience store robbed Jan. 8
UPDATE: On Monday, Jan. 13, officers from the Seaford Police Department spotted Hicks driving on Stein Highway. They stopped the car and he was taken into custody without incident.
Hicks was charged with first-degree robbery, possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony, aggravated menacing, wearing a disguise while committing a felony and second-degree conspiracy. He was held at Sussex Correctional Institution after his failure to post $132,000 cash-only bond.
On Wednesday, Jan. 8, the Laurel Police Department was dispatched to the First Stop Convenience Store, at 114 West Street, for an armed robbery. An unknown white male had entered the market, carrying what appeared to be a knife, and demanded money on the cash register. Once he received the money he went to an SUV waiting across the street and fled. Police identified 24-year-old Dustin Hicks, of Dover, as the driver of the SUV.
On Friday, Jan. 10, the Dagsboro Police Department attempted to stop the suspect vehicle used in the robbery. The driver led them on a pursuit until crashing, at which point he fled on foot. The driver and sole occupant, 17-year-old William Figgatt, of Dover, was later apprehended.
According to police, Figgatt was the person who committed the robbery, while Hicks drove the get-away vehicle. Figgatt was wearing the same clothes used during the robbery when he was captured.
Figgatt was charged with first-degree robbery, possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony, aggravated menacing, wearing a disguise while committing a felony and second-degree conspiracy. He was held at Stevenson Correctional Facility after failing to post $43,000 secured bond.
Hicks is still at large. Any person having more information related to this incident or the whereabouts of Hicks is urged to contact Detective Bryan of the Laurel Police Department at 302-875-2244, or Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333.


God is love, and our vocation, our greatest duty in life, is to love. The theological virtue of love is the greatest of all the virtues. It is the very essence of God. Love is the absolute greatest thing there is. The quality that makes saints unimaginably beautiful is their love.
We can so easily confuse love, charity, with a feeling, like our other feelings. But love doesn't just come upon us like our other emotions; we don't simply "feel love" like we "feel sad." Love comes from us, in a beautifully active way by our own free choice, making it far more powerful and transformative in our lives than emotions that come and go. Our hearts long for—and were made for—love: to love and to be loved. God is love, which is why our hearts long for God, whether or not we sometimes realize He is who were longing for most.
Commit to praying more than you do. Prayer is a gift of charity that we can give God and ourselves! He longs to grow in loving relationship with us, and prayer is the way we work on our relationship together with Him. Think about praying for at least ten minutes in the morning and ten minutes in the evening. Also try and stop in to see Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament exposed in Adoration at your local parish at least once a week.
Jesus tells us in the Bible to love our enemies. Love of enemies is one of the most difficult, but transformative things we can do in our lives. Think of someone who you hold a grudge against. Pray for God to help you to forgive that person. Whatever has happened, ask God for you to truly love them, by having mercy on them through forgiveness.
Loving those in our own homes can be very challenging at times, but it is one of the greatest ways to practice charity and grow in holiness. Who in your family can you show love to in a creative way today, this week, or this month? Think of an act of charity you can do for them, and do it.


It's been a while since I did anything substantial to the Cinquecento, mainly because life got in the way. However I have been making a concious effort to try and get things going again, having purchased a welder and all the paraphernalia to go with it I have no excuse to not crack on with it!
I felt the only way to properly repair the rust and holes in the rear of the car was to remove the rear panel, giving more access allowing for a neater job hopefully making the repairs invisible. Also at some point during this cars life it was repaired under warranty by Fiat for rust in the rear off side corner, they however didn't do the best job so I will be sorting this out as well.
To get the back panel out you first need to locate the many spot welds holding the panel in, these mostly run around the back edge of the panel, one on either side of the boot line (which I missed…), four on both vertical edge in the boot and two on either of the "legs" connecting the panel to the boot floor. First off though you need to remove the wiring for the rear lights and the cable for the boot latch, these can all be pulled back though the inside quarter panel holes.
The best way to find the location of the spot weld is to run a bit of sand paper over the areas where you believe the welds to be, or where there is underseal around the bottom of the rear panel I used a screw driver to scrape it away leaving the tell tale dimple of a spot weld. I would recommend buying a proper spot weld removal drill bit, these help to stop you drilling through both panels making it easier to refit the panel later on.
On the inside of the car, there are four five welds at either end of the panel. I thought there was four but when I come to remove the panel I found a fifth weld on the horizontal lip right on the edge of the boot, if you look closely you can see it in the light.
There are two more welds at either side of the rear panel connecting it to the boot floor, there isn't enough access to drill these out, so a sharp chisel was used instead. This is the section with the rear panel removed.
If all of the welds are free the panel can be pulled out fairly easily, the flanges where we drilled out the spot welds earlier needed bending out the way slightly, but they will go back fine and the offside flange needs repairing as half has rusted away.
This is the side which was professionally repaired by Fiat, you can see the bottom corner is completely rotton again and would end up like the other side eventually, a big chunk of the flange further down on this side is completely gone and needs replacing (can be seen in photo four above).
So I'm left with a completely backless Cinquecento, with more than enough access to fix the rusty holes in the boot and replace the damaged quarter panel section.
If anybody wants higher resolution versions of any of the photos featured in these posts, or would like a photo from another angle just send me a message and I will get one.


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Star-studded music video for George Harrison's 'My Sweet Lord' explores the song's meaning
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George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" has been a beloved pop hymn for 50 years.
If someone were to ask which member of the Beatles was first to chart a No. 1 hit on the charts after the band's break-up, would you guess George Harrison? He was, with his song "My Sweet Lord" from his 1970 album "All Things Must Pass." It would be his biggest hit as a solo artist.
The song is a pop hymn of sorts, with two mantras from different religious traditions—"Hallelujah" from Christianity and "Hare Krishna" from Hinduism—alternating throughout. According to songfacts.com, Harrison wanted to convey that the two phrases were essentially the same, both calling out to God.
As Harrison explained in the documentary "The Material World": "First, it's simple. The thing about a mantra, you see... mantras are, well, they call it a mystical sound vibration encased in a syllable. It has this power within it. It's just hypnotic."
The song is simple, sweet and spiritual, hitting on some of the most fundamental elements of being human, which may explain its popularity. And now, a star-studded music video for the song is prompting reflection about the song's meaning.
Directed by Lance Bangs and executive produced by Dhani Harrison and David Zonshine, the video stars Fred Armisen and Vanessa Bayer as agents who have been asked by their superior, played by Mark Hamill, to "search for that which can't be seen." Patton Oswalt, Taika Waititi, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Rosanna Arquette, Jon Hamm and others—including Ringo Starr—make cameo appearances in the video.
Harrison's wife, Olivia, and son, Dhani, also appear in the video, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
People are loving the video, both for the reminder of what a good song it is and for the interpretation of how we can find what we're seeking—God or truth or enlightenment—in the simple things that are right in front of us.
"The search never ends," wrote one commenter. "Sometimes we look but we never see. Sometimes we see but we don't understand. We hear, but do we listen? Life is up for grabs."
"I think the spirit in which the video is made is George's philosphy," wrote another. "People with high tech looking for answers. But they're constantly in the dark. The answer is not in a book. Turn on the light. Stop wandering around the world. The answers are in front of you but you're not paying attention. You just need to tune in the message."
"George has been gone 20 years, this song is 50 years old, and yet here we are watching a new music video for it featuring a ton of people famous actors and musicians," wrote one person. "It just goes to show you the power of George's music and the depth to which it is a part of us."
Thousands of comments have poured in from people who are moved by "My Sweet Lord" and the message of the video five decades after the song was released, showing the true timelessness of Harrison's mark on the world.
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This super-sweet version of the Beatles' 'Octopus's Garden' will brighten anyone's day
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Reina del Cid plays 'Octopus's Garden' by the Beatles.
Back in March, Rachelle Cordova, who performs under the name Reina del Cid, performed a cover of "Octopus's Garden" by the Beatles and it's truly delightful. In the video, Cordova plays with lead guitarist Toni Lindgren and Travis Worth who sat in on bass.
The video has clearly brought a lot of joy to others; it's received more than 788,000 views on YouTube.
The song is so much fun because of Lindgren's note-perfect replication of George Harrison's iconic lead guitar and the trio's perfect harmonies. The band also manages to capture the Beatles' signature joie de vivre.
"Octopus's Garden" is one of the most popular Beatles tunes and was written by drummer Ringo Starr. Starr came up with the idea after hearing Peter Sellers' boat captain tell him about how octopuses travel along the sea bed picking up stones and shiny objects with which to build gardens.
There's a sweet moment in Peter Jackson's epic "Get Back" documentary where you can see Ringo bring the song to the band during the "Let it Be" sessions. While John Lennon and Paul McCartney seem disinterested in the tune, George Harrison steps up and helps the drummer complete his sweet little ditty.
The song would go on to feature on the Beatles' final album, "Abbey Road," and would become one of Starr's most popular compositions.
A beautiful piece of footage capturing George encouraging Ringo whilst writing \u2018Octopus\u2019s Garden\u2019pic.twitter.com/qlGWrt4fHB
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John Lennon's confrontation with a reporter over peace protests is something you never see
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John Lennon and Gloria Emerson.
John Lennon of the Beatles was a uniquely gifted musician, writer, actor, visual artist and performer whose talents made him one of the most beloved people on the planet. However, his unique approach to activism in the '60s and '70s was mocked in its time but today seems just as visionary as his other talents.
Lennon's first big political statement was the 1968 hit "Revolution," which challenged those who want to "change the world" through institutions to "free your mind instead." In 1969, he created one of the most enduring anti-war anthems, with "Give Peace a Chance."
The easy-to-sing chorus was designed to be chanted by large groups of people and was a major refrain in the massive Vietnam Moratorium march in Washington in the fall of 1969.
As a member of the most popular pop group of all time, Lennon knew the power of the media and how to craft messages that caught the world's attention.
After Lennon wed artist Yoko Ono on March 20, 1969, the couple knew it would be a major media event. So they decided to take the attention and use it as an advertisement for peace by staging a two-week-long bed-in at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam and the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal.
The couple invited the international press into their hotel beds, and many thought there would be something salacious happening, only to find Lennon and Ono making the case for peace.
Seven months later, the couple was challenged for their anti-war activities by celebrated war correspondent Gloria Emerson, who had just returned from the frontlines in Vietnam. Emerson, a serious journalist who saw the bloodshed firsthand, thought that Yoko and Lennon's activism was silly self-promotion.
The exchange between the three is engaging because they all want peace but have zero agreement on how it can be accomplished.
John Lennon interviewed by Gloria Emerson
"You've made yourself ridiculous!" Emerson insists.
"I don't care," Lennon replied, "if it saves lives."
"My dear boy," she said, "you're living in a nether-nether land. . . . You don't think you've saved a single life!" Emerson says.
"You tell me what they were singing at the Moratorium," Lennon shot back.
"Which one?" Emerson asks.
"The recent big one," Lennon explained. "They were singing 'Give Peace a Chance' … and it was written specifically for them."
"So they sang one of your songs," she said with some irritation. "Is that all you can say?"
"They were singing a happy-go-lucky song, which happens to be one I wrote. I'm glad they sang it. And when I get there, I'll sing it with them," Lennon responds.
Throughout the back and forth Lennon calls Emerson a "snob" and she responds by calling him a "fake." Lennon tries to explain that he's doing an "advertisement campaign for peace." To which she cleverly responds, "Are you advertising John Lennon or peace?"
The argument is a wonderful example of a bygone era when celebrities were challenged by reporters. In 1969, Lennon was one of the most well-known and beloved people on planet Earth and Emerson has no problem challenging him. Can you imagine a reporter confronting someone of that status on the topic of activism in 2021?
The exchange is also refreshing because Lennon has no qualms about protecting his public image. He doesn't care if he's seen as a clown as long as he makes his point to as many people as possible. It's a lot different than the type of celebrity "slacktivism" we see today where all they do is send out a tweet or reply to a hashtag.
There's no real way to quantify whether Lennon's songs and activism helped change the tide of the war, but there's no argument over whether he was successful at presenting his message of peace to the world.
In the interview, Emerson accuses Lennon of being a half-hearted activist who lacks commitment but, in the coming years, the former Beatle and Ono would continue to engage in anti-war activism.
The couple's political activism would cool off by the mid-'70s after being threatened by the Nixon administration with deportation.
John Lennon was murdered in New York City on December 8, 1980, 41 years ago to the day this article was written.
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Inside the Beatles' messy breakup, 50 years ago
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This article originally appeared on 4.10.20 via The Conversation
Fifty years ago, when Paul McCartney announced he had left the Beatles, the news dashed the hopes of millions of fans, while fueling false reunion rumors that persisted well into the new decade.
In a press release on April 10, 1970 for his first solo album, "McCartney," he leaked his intention to leave. In doing so, he shocked his three bandmates.
The Beatles had symbolized the great communal spirit of the era. How could they possibly come apart?
Few at the time were aware of the underlying fissures. The power struggles in the group had been mounting at least since their manager, Brian Epstein, died in August of 1967.
'Paul Quits the Beatles'
Was McCartney's "announcement" official? His album appeared on April 17, and its press packet included a mock interview. In it, McCartney is asked, "Are you planning a new album or single with the Beatles?"
His response? "No."
via The Daily Mirror
But he didn't say whether the separation might prove permanent. The Daily Mirror nonetheless framed its headline conclusively: "Paul Quits the Beatles."
The others worried this could hurt sales and sent Ringo as a peacemaker to McCartney's London home to talk him down from releasing his solo album ahead of the band's "Let It Be" album and film, which were slated to come out in May. Without any press present, McCartney shouted Ringo off his front stoop.
Lennon had kept quiet
Lennon, who had been active outside the band for months, felt particularly betrayed.
The previous September, soon after the band released "Abbey Road," he had asked his bandmates for a "divorce." But the others convinced him not to go public to prevent disrupting some delicate contract negotiations.
Still, Lennon's departure seemed imminent: He had played the Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Festival with his Plastic Ono Band in September 1969, and on Feb. 11, 1970, he performed a new solo track, "Instant Karma," on the popular British TV show "Top of the Pops." Yoko Ono sat behind him, knitting while blindfolded by a sanitary napkin.
In fact, Lennon behaved more and more like a solo artist, until McCartney countered with his own eponymous album. He wanted Apple to release this solo debut alongside the group's new album, "Let It Be," to dramatize the split.
By beating Lennon to the announcement, McCartney controlled the story and its timing, and undercut the other three's interest in keeping it under wraps as new product hit stores.
Ray Connolly, a reporter at the Daily Mail, knew Lennon well enough to ring him up for comment. When I interviewed Connolly in 2008, he told me about their conversation.
Lennon was dumbfounded and enraged by the news. He had let Connolly in on his secret about leaving the band at his Montreal Bed-In in December 1969, but asked him to keep it quiet. Now he lambasted Connolly for not leaking it sooner.
"Why didn't you write it when I told you in Canada at Christmas!" he exclaimed to Connolly, who reminded him that the conversation had been off the record. "You're the f–king journalist, Connolly, not me," snorted Lennon.
"We were all hurt [McCartney] didn't tell us what he was going to do," Lennon later told Rolling Stone. "Jesus Christ! He gets all the credit for it! I was a fool not to do what Paul did, which was use it to sell a record…"
It all falls apart
This public fracas had been bubbling under the band's cheery surface for years. Timing and sales concealed deeper arguments about creative control and the return to live touring.
In January 1969, the group had started a roots project tentatively titled "Get Back." It was supposed to be a back-to-the-basics recording without the artifice of studio trickery. But the whole venture was shelved as a new recording, "Abbey Road," took shape.
When "Get Back" was eventually revived, Lennon – behind McCartney's back – brought in American producer Phil Spector, best known for girl group hits like "Be My Baby," to salvage the project. But this album was supposed to be band only – not embroidered with added strings and voices – and McCartney fumed when Spector added a female choir to his song "The Long and Winding Road."
"Get Back" – which was renamed "Let it Be" – nonetheless moved forward. Spector mixed the album, and a cut of the feature film was readied for summer.
McCartney's announcement and release of his solo album effectively short-circuited the plan. By announcing the breakup, he launched his solo career in advance of "Let It Be," and nobody knew how it might disrupt the official Beatles' project.
Throughout the remainder of 1970, fans watched in disbelief as the "Let It Be" movie portrayed the hallowed Beatles circling musical doldrums, bickering about arrangements and killing time running through oldies. The film finished with an ironic triumph – the famous live set on the roof of their Apple headquarters during which the band played "Get Back," "Don't Let Me Down" and a joyous "One After 909."
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The album, released on May 8, performed well and spawned two hit singles – the title track and "The Long and Winding Road" – but the group never recorded together again.
Their fans hoped against hope that four solo Beatles might someday find their way back to the thrills that had enchanted audiences for seven years. These rumors seemed most promising when McCartney joined Lennon for a Los Angeles recording session in 1974 with Stevie Wonder. But while they all played on one another's solo efforts, the four never played a session together again.
At the beginning of 1970, autumn's "Come Together"/"Something" single from "Abbey Road" still floated in the Billboard top 20; the "Let It Be" album and film helped extend fervor beyond what the papers reported. For a long time, the myth of the band endured on radio playlists and across several greatest hits compilations, but when John Lennon sang "The dream is over…" at the end of his own 1970 solo debut, "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band," few grasped the lyrics' implacable truth.
Fans and critics chased every sliver of hope for the "next" Beatles, but few came close to recreating the band's magic. There were prospects – first bands like Three Dog Night, the Flaming Groovies, Big Star and the Raspberries; later, Cheap Trick, the Romantics and the Knack – but these groups only aimed at the same heights the Beatles had conquered, and none sported the range, songwriting ability or ineffable chemistry of the Liverpool quartet.
We've been living in the world without Beatles ever since.
Tim Riley is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director for Journalism, Emerson College
This article was originally published by The Conversation. You can read it here.
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When you decide it is time to lose weight and get healthier, one of the most important things you need to do is change what you eat. Having more meals at home, where you are in control of the ingredients and preparation, is certainly an important element. So, needless to say, when you are doing your grocery shopping, you should be focused on choosing nutritious, low-calorie foods and skipping much of the junk. The only problem is, many of us are impulse buyers so that doesn't always work. However, new research suggests that the simple trick of bringing a grocery list to the store may be the key to sticking with a healthier diet.
The study, which took place at the Rand Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, found that making a list of all of the foods you want to purchase and using that list at the supermarket so that you minimize impulse buying can help you eat more nutritiously and maintain a healthier body weight.1 The subjects in the study were more than 1,300 adults residing in two economically disadvantaged communities in the Pittsburgh area. The majority were African-American and either overweight or obese.
The participants were interviewed about their job status, income, and grocery shopping habits. This information was relevant because both poverty and a scarcity of supermarkets close to home are known to be two important contributing factors to obesity. And in this particular group of volunteers, approximately 80 percent said their household income was less than $20,000 per year and only one-third were employed. In addition, the neighborhoods in which they live are considered "food deserts," terminology used to describe areas with scarce options for nutritious food.
Nearly 33 percent of the subjects reported always shopping with a grocery list, and 17 percent said they used a grocery list often. Another 26 percent were occasional grocery list users, and the remaining 24 percent admitted to never using a list when food shopping. Those who always shopped with a list were typically older, women, and less likely to be working, as well as making a conscious effort to restrict their caloric intake. The scientists controlled for each of these factors and determined that the participants who always used a grocery list had a notably higher quality diet than their peers who used lists less frequently.
All of the volunteers were also weighed and their height was measured in order to obtain an accurate body mass index (BMI) calculation. By considering those criteria, the researchers found that use of a shopping list correlated to a BMI approximately one point lower on average than the BMI of those who did not shop with a list.
The study did not prove that grocery lists cause improvements in people's health, but it did show an association between the use of lists and better health. To be sure, a one-point shift in BMI only translates to an approximate loss of five pounds in the average individual at 5'5"--not a huge weight differential. However, if we choose to approach it from a glass-half-full perspective, every little bit helps. That one point might be enough to keep your weight in check at a BMI of 24, still considered in the normal weight range, versus moving up to 25, which is classified as overweight.
Getting healthier almost always comes down to the choices we make, big and small. Using a shopping list might not work for everyone, especially if you are an impulse shopper drawn to the junk food power aisles in most supermarkets. But this study shows that a shopping list might be one helpful tool to keep you on track and mostly sticking with the nutritious items you have written down. If it can get you safely past the big displays of potato chips, boxes of donuts, and sugary sodas on your way to the checkout, focusing on a grocery list will benefit you greatly over time.


John McCain: A Good Man and Good Public Servant?
As soon as John McCain was diagnosed with brain cancer, a bipartisan chorus of praise for the career politician emerged.
Whether McCain is the good man and good "public servant" that he is now being made out to be are empirical questions. The evidence with respect to both is overwhelmingly in the negative.
Since a disastrous public servant is and must be a person with bad character, i.e. not a good person, we needn't even look at McCain's private life in order to see that he is neither a good man nor a good public servant.
Let's take his foreign policy "achievements" alone.
No one, including McCain himself, denies that he is a war "hawk." Indeed, as can be gotten readily enough by sites like Geopolitics Alert, one would be hard pressed to find an American military conflict or potential conflict on behalf of which McCain did not advocate vigorously. Whether it was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya or Iran; Nigeria, Sudan, or Mali; Bosnia, Kosovo, or Ukraine; Russia, North Korea, and possibly even China—McCain's has been the loudest and among the most influential of voices calling for military action.
It is not an exaggeration to say that had McCain's foreign policy not prevailed, literally hundreds of thousands and possibly more human beings around the globe would have been spared the incalculable suffering that they in fact were made to endure. A substantial number of these people would not have lost their lives.
In Iraq alone, at least 200,000 or so Iraqis, the majority of whom were noncombatant civilians, were killed. Some estimates place the number of Iraqis killed at one million. Doctors and teachers were either murdered by insurgents and criminals or forced to flee. The majority of children (70%) suffer from trauma, some being suicidal, and as many as 800,000 children under 18 have been orphaned. Ancient Christian communities and those of other religious minorities have been decimated and their inhabitants displaced.
Of course, it wasn't just Iraqis whose lives were ended or damaged. Thousands of American soldiers who would have otherwise been alive today were killed. Thousands of American families that endured the agony of losing loved ones would have been spared this fate.
So too were journalists, contractors, and relief workers killed in Iraq.
Thousands of young Americans lost their lives in McCain's wars, and well over 100,000 Americans who served in Iraq returned home maimed and severely traumatized.
Anyone who maintains that McCain is a good man is in the unenviable position of having to explain how a man who has been as instrumental as McCain has been in facilitating this much death, pain, and misery can possibly be good.
And anyone who maintains that McCain is a good public servant is in the no less difficult position of pointing out to those millions of us who remain unconvinced the invaluable services that he allegedly provided.
A closer look at this argument readily reveals it for the weak species of reasoning that it is.
For the better part of the last 2,000 years of Christian (Western) morality, it was understood that the goodness of an act is not determined by a person's subjective intention. Even if he desired to produce a wonderful or utopian state of affairs, the means by which he pursues that end may still be immoral.
To paraphrase St. Paul's memorable remark, we must never do evil—even if good may come from it.
To put it another way, the ends never justify the means.
Yet if the only factor that is of moral relevance in judging a person's conduct is his intention to produce a desirable outcome, then the ends do indeed justify the means. In fact, the ends always justify the means.
Outside of the context of war, most of us have no difficulty understanding this in our everyday lives. When we say of some kind of act that "it is just wrong," or of another that there is no reason for performing it other than that "it is just the right thing to do," we speak as if we suppose that acts are right or wrong regardless of people's intentions and regardless of their outcomes.
For example, suppose that a dangerous convicted criminal escapes from prison. Even if this convict is threatening innocents on a crowded city street, few will deny that it would be wrong for police to shoot at him while he is in close proximity to numerous bystanders. If the police shoot and strike, say, innocent children, it will not cut it for them to respond by claiming that they never intended to shoot these innocents.
The reason for this verdict is simple: The act of shooting guns in crowded space is intrinsically reckless whether anyone is shot or not. The act intends or is oriented toward harming others.
Officers who engaged in this action would justly invite a negative moral judgement against themselves. Yet for officers who failed to learn from this one act and who continually shot and killed innocents because they were aiming for the guilty we would reserve nothing but contempt. In reality, it's not likely that police officers who made this mistake once would remain police officers. It is inconceivable that police officers could continually make this same kind of mistake while remaining a police officer. They would become the convicts.
Yet this is exactly the sort of mistake that McCain has made throughout his career in calling for one failed war after the other. The only difference between McCain and our hypothetical police officers is that McCain is responsible for far more death.
Morally good ends can never justify immoral deeds. This most people and all good Christians have always known. However, even on the assumption that the ends do justify the means, the argument in McCain's defense still fails. It fails on its own terms.
There isn't a single war for which McCain has advocated that has come remotely close to making the lives of the oppressed any better. Just the opposite, in fact, is the case. Iraq is the classic textbook illustration of how McCain-style American interventionism plucks the oppressed from the proverbial frying pan and hurls them into a raging fire.
Iraq is the quintessential example of this phenomenon. Tragically, it is not the only example.
And how, we must ask, have the years of war in Iraq and in any number of other foreign lands that McCain demanded protected any Americans? Americans, specifically those soldiers who lost their lives, limbs, and peace of mind, have been harmed by it.
The families and loved ones of these soldiers have as well been harmed by McCain's wars.
No one is any safer because of them.
McCain is neither a good man nor a good public servant.
The burden is on anyone who thinks otherwise to show me the error of my ways—or my moral compass.
All of this being said, I wish no pain and suffering upon McCain. As a Christian, I'm called to love. In praying for others, including my enemies, I love them. God is infinitely merciful and infinitely just. I pray that God's will for McCain be done and that he may spend the remainder of his days performing acts of a far different kind than those that he performed for most of his adult life: acts of contrition.


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Roborace – Meet the future of motorsport, exclusive Q&A with Bryn Balcombe, Roborace's Chief Strategy Officer
This year I had the chance to attend the Autosport show in Birmingham, I feel very lucky for that and I would like to thank the organizers for their amazing hospitality. It was a unique experience, I was able to see closely several racing cars and also, I watched a great show hosted by David Croft.
The first day that I went to the show, I was astonished from the variety of cars that were at the show. While I was passing and was taking photos of almost all the cars, I noticed something different, something unique, I saw the Robocar. It was placed on the side of the Autosport's interview stage, a strange car with no cockpit and a weird design.
Before you read Bryan's Balcombe exclusive interview, it will be useful to know some of the car's characteristics.
Robocar. Image by Chief Design Officer Daniel Simon / Roborace Ltd.
The Robocar, designed by the German Daniel Simon, who has previously created vehicles for Tron Legacy and Oblivion, is a fully electric and autonomous car, weights around 1000 kg and has four 300kW motors, one per wheel.
The top speed of the Robocar is about 320kph or 200mph and it also has a 62kWh battery with 550kW power.
Around the car, there are several types of sensors, to allow the car to move safely and fast on the tight Formula E circuits. It has 5 lidars, 18 ultrasonic sensors, 2 optical speed sensors, 6 AI cameras, two radars and GNSS positioning.
Robocar, is currently powered by NVIDIA Drie PX2 which can run up to 24 trillion A.I. operations per second, but it will be upgraded to Pegasus platform and will run 320 trillion operations per second. The current Drive PX2, is connected to Robocar's sensors and gives the opportunity for 360-degree situational awareness around the car, to give the exact position of the car on the track.
Bryn Balcombe, Roborace's Chief Strategy Officer, answered my questions regarding the Robocar and the Roborace series. Enjoy!
When and who came with the idea of a fully autonomous and electric car?
"Denis Sverdlov, Roborace's founder and Alejandro Agag, came up with the idea whilst discussing the future of the automotive industry becoming electric but also connected and autonomous on the way back from the Beijing race in Season 1 of Formula E. Motorsport has always been used to advance road relevant technology. Roborace applies this philosophy to Vehicle Intelligence Technologies, many of which are banned in traditional championships as driver aids."
What are your expectations from the Robocar, what do you want to achieve with Roborace series?
"Roborace will increase the pace of innovation and development of road relevant hardware and software for Intelligent Vehicles. Ultimately technology will save lives on the road and move society close to Vision Zero. As in all motorsport, Robocar will continue to evolve as technology improves. Within two years of development there have been three significant steps in NVIDIA compute power on the car. So the pace of innovation is much faster than traditional powertrain. We will start to see Software and Cognitive Power becoming as important to performance and safety as Mechanical and Horsepower."
How many teams will take part in the Roborace championship, how many cars will each team have?
"We are looking at completely new formats of motorsport that are much more relevant to testing driver skills in perception, reasoning and decision making. Basically the smartest driver should win which is why we refer to it as a Championship of Intelligence. This year we are opening up the hardware platform for 3rd parties to start to develop AI Driver Software. Before they can race Robocar they'll need to test their software in a simulator and in DevBot, our development vehicle. The development process and AI Driver is much the same as a human. We often refer to Max Verstappen taking 17 yrs before making it to F1 (13 of which he spent driving). The process for AI Drivers should be faster but there are similar logical steps that progress from small scale to full scale cars and from virtual to real cars. For any competition you need at least two competitors. So we'll have competition formats that include anything from 2 cars upwards."
How easy will it be presenting to the public a driverless series? Considering that all these years we are used to seeing drivers to battle wheel to wheel and fans are connected emotionally to the drivers and their achievements.
"There is always a driver. In fact, Roborace is focused on being a pure driver's competition because it intends to use standardised vehicle hardware. The only performance differentiator is the driver skill. In some formats this will be AI Driver software only. In other formats we can allow a human to collaborate with the AI Systems and take executive control over decision making. In these formats you'll see human collaboration with AI versus pure AI Drivers. We may see the same natural progression we've witnessed in chess, where Human/AI Centaurs can outperform AI only systems and AI systems can outperform humans only."
What are the biggest challenges that Roborace team is facing, and how are they planning to overcome them?
"The pace at which the industry is moving is incredible so we will have constantly evolving competition formats that ensure the AI Drivers remain constantly challenged. In Roborace all evolutions are focused on driver performance whether that's better eyes, ears, brain size or intelligence. The competition complexity will increase in line with those technical developments."
What excites you about the Robocar? Is it the future of the commercial cars?
"In the future all vehicles with become intelligent. They will all become aware of their environment. They will all become aware of the surrounding situations. However, there is a fork in the road at that point in how you chose to use that intelligence. Toyota describes the options as Chauffeur and Guardian Angel. The first is an autonomous future where humans no longer need to drive. The second is an assisted/augmented future where humans still drive but their skills and capabilities are enhanced by the AI systems within the car. We know of several high performance OEMs that are considering AI technology as a future Race Trainer. So an AI Lewis Hamilton might be able to act as your real-time driver coach when you take your Project One on a track day. He could even drive you around first as you are learning the track and to set a reference lap time for you to target."
Nicki Shields had the chance to drive the DevBot at Hong Kong ePrix, from the video it is seen that the Robocar cannot match the human's times, will it ever be able to do it? What are the difficulties that do not allow it to move faster?
"In Hong Kong we ran using our development vehicle called DevBot rather than Robocar. DevBot is a modified LMP3 race car that allows a human to drive but can also be switched into an autonomous mode. That allows us to run human versus machine competitions. The AI Driver in DevBot was around 10% slower than Nicki. We actually ran a brand new version of our internal development AI Driver which was designed to run using LiDAR sensors only. For safety we imposed VMAX limit and a minimum distance to the barriers lining the street circuit of around 1.5m. Sensor fusion of LiDAR with cameras and Radar will improve perception which ultimately improves confidence so speeds increase and safety margins can be reduced."
Consider a hypothetical scenario, during a race, two Roboracs are close to each other, how will each react? Will the leading car be able to defend its position, whilst the one from behind will be moving faster for a potential overtake?
"Wheel to wheel racing is a key target for Roborace. Nose to tail processions broken by straight line overtakes are not exciting for the public. AI Drivers will have adhere to similar sporting regulations as human drivers; such as leaving one car width of space for a competitor or staying within track limits. They will also have similar goals as human drivers and will develop similar offensive and defensive tactics to maintain an advantage."
"The interesting thing is that if there is an incident all the data and decision making processes will be available for immediate review to determine fault. No more waiting for the end of the race for stewards in interview drivers before confirming the result. Sporting penalties can be applied immediately and proportionately."
Describe Roborace series in a few words or more than a few!
"Roborace is an extreme motorsport and entertainment platform for the future of road relevant technology."
How many people are working together every day to keep improving the Robocar? Would you like to say a few words about them?
"We've built an incredible team full of international talent to bring the project to life. Building a fully autonomous car is probably the most complex interdisciplinary task you could imagine. Collaboration is key."
When will the Robarace championship be ready to launch?
"As soon as enough, drivers qualify to use Robocar. "
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On Sunday the best female tennis player in the world, Serena Williams, took both the singles and the doubles championship titles at Wimbledon. The athlete beat Germany's Angelique Kerber in the ladies final before competing in the in the doubles final with her sister Venus. They defeated Timea Babos of Hungary and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan.
Having earned her 22nd grand slam win as an individual player, Williams has equalled Steffi Graf's record for the most slam wins achieved by a woman.
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One for the Kids - Jeremy Fisher's First Children's Album
Jeremy Fisher's approach to writing melodies & lyrics for children
Episode 252 - One for the Kids - Jeremy Fisher's First Children's Album
Mike recently met up with acclaimed singer-songwriter Jeremy Fisher, who is back with a very different record. A new father, Jeremy's latest album is Highway to Spell, which as you may have guessed from the title, is a children's record.
His last release, The Lemon Squeeze, featured the biggest hit single of his career, the collaboration "Uh Oh" with Serena Ryder. Here, he talks about following that commercial success with something totally different and how his management reacted. Jeremy also talks about how promoting a children's record feels like a whole new world within the music industry, why he tried and failed to write children's music before his daughter was born, his nervousness about performing for kids, and how becoming a father has changed his creative mindset.