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Articles on Bill Cosby
Harvey Weinstein leaves for the day during his trial on charges of rape and sexual assault, in New York, Jan. 28, 2020. AP Photo/Craig Ruttle
Harvey Weinstein's 'false memory' defense is not backed by science
Anne P. DePrince, University of Denver and Joan M. Cook, Yale University
As women began to come forward with experiences of rape and abuse, backlash came forward too. The notion of 'false memory' developed to explain away assault. Here's why that notion itself is untrue.
The racial nature of the campaign lies behind the poor uptake in Africa. shutterstock
#MeToo isn't big in Africa. But women have launched their own versions
Amanda Gouws, Stellenbosch University
The visibility of #MeToo makes it easy to overlook the very powerful campaigns against sexual violence in Africa.
Most men are not sexual predators and enjoy the closeness of the people they love. Pink Panda/Shutterstock.com
Most men do not perpetrate sexual violence against women
Joan M. Cook, Yale University
In the wake of the #MeToo movement and women finally feeling free to discuss having been sexually assaulted, it may seem like all men are predators. A trauma psychologist says this is far from true.
Anti-opioid protest at the Harvard Art Museums, which the Sackler family has supported with charitable gifts. Jon Shaffer
It's harder than you might expect for charities to give back tainted money
Terri Lynn Helge, Texas A&M University
After scandals or sea changes make the association with certain names too awkward, universities, museums and other nonprofits usually distance themselves. But not always.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman at a news conference in New York in 2016. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File
Why the betrayal of Bill Cosby, Eric Schneiderman and other influential men is deeper than you think
Hilary Jerome Scarsella, Vanderbilt University
It's not shallow to be upset by the latest scandals. Learning about the bad behavior of people we admire can harm our very sense of self.
Attorney Gloria Allred, surrounded by Cosby accusers and their supporters after the guilty verdict. EPA-EFE/Tracie Van Auken
Bill Cosby exposed by the media – but it was women who brought him down
Lindsey Blumell, City, University of London
The women who overcame heavy opposition to fight for justice in the Cosby rape case.
Hollywood women who have spoken out against sexual harassment.
The way we tell the story of Hollywood sexual assault and harassment matters
Sarah L. Cook, Georgia State University
This story typically has two acts. First come the women's reports of harassment – followed by the inevitable dismissal and undermining of them. Could this time be different?
Megyn Kelly during a Republican presidential primary debate in Iowa, January 2016. AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File
How common are sexual harassment and rape in the United States?
Megyn Kelly's account of Fox News Chief Roger Ailes' sexually predatory behavior has put harassment back in headlines. Can public debate on this issue make a difference?
How to respond to an allegation of sexual assault
Nicole Westmarland, Durham University
The world is full of bad responses to sexual assault allegations. Here's how to do it right.
Cosby's power cannot be overestimated. US Navy
Bill Cosby's downfall was a display of social media power
John Jewell, Cardiff University
In the awful narrative around the allegations of sexual assault and rape made against iconic American entertainer Bill Cosby, a major theme has been the perceived failure of the media to challenge him…
Sarah L. Cook
Professor of Psychology & Associate Dean, Georgia State University
Joan M. Cook
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University
John Jewell
Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
Nicole Westmarland
Professor of Criminology, Durham University
Amanda Gouws
Professor of Political Science and SARChi Chair in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
Lindsey Blumell
Lecturer in Journalism, City, University of London
Terri Lynn Helge
Professor of Law, Texas A&M University
Hilary Jerome Scarsella
PhD Candidate, Vanderbilt University
Anne P. DePrince
Professor of Psychology, University of Denver

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The Enduring Relevance of Whittaker Chambers' Witness
By David Gayvert
First published nearly 70 years ago, Whittaker Chambers' Witness provides relevant, instructive, and inspiring encouragement for those currently engaged in the fight against today's ascendant Left. Although there is a wealth of useful insights within its covers, two stand out as central.
First, Leftist ideologies are always and everywhere about acquiring power to wage an assault upon liberal (in the classical sense) values and institutions. Second, individual redemption after falling under the sway of these or any other malign influence is indeed possible by dint of reason, faith in a transcendent power, and the courage to follow those lights.
Witness is most well known as the firsthand account of Chambers' exposure of and subsequent testimony against members of the communist Ware Group, which led to the 1949-50 espionage trials of Alger Hiss, then a high-ranking State Department official. Hiss was ultimately found guilty of perjury and sentenced to prison.
But Witness is more than just that story. It is a poignant autobiography of a young man born at the turn of the twentieth century, coming of age in the wake of the devastation of World War I. He became obsessed, as did many contemporaries, with what they saw as "the crisis of history" in the 20th century. It was despair generated by this fixation that drove Chambers to become a communist at the age of 24. He first served in the open American Communist Party as a (mostly) unpaid writer and editor for various communist publications. Later (1932-38), he was recruited into and served as an underground operative in the Soviet espionage network in New York and the federal government in Washington, D.C.
Gradually learning of the ruthlessness of Stalin's consolidation of power during the mid-1930s, and particularly the Great Purge of 1936, Chambers became increasingly disillusioned with communism, and eventually came to see it as the earthly manifestation of "absolute evil." After much soul-searching and careful preparation, he decided to break with the party and did so in 1938. In fear for their lives, he and his family went into hiding. They lived covertly for nearly a year, until the 1939 signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact convinced Chambers that he must combat materially the malevolence that led to such an alliance against the Allied Powers. He decided he must inform upon the Soviet apparatus within which he had once worked.
He did so via an arranged meeting with Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berlewhere he described the depth of communist penetration into key U.S. institutions, including the departments of State and the Treasury. Berle in turn quickly informed President Roosevelt on what Chambers had disclosed to him. FDR however, dismissed Berle's information and concerns. Thus, for essentially a decade — throughout World War II — communist infiltration of American government institutions continued apace through the naivete, indifference, or political calculation of senior political elites.
Serious investigation of Chambers' allegations by congressional committees and eventually the Department of Justice did not take place until almost ten years after Chambers initially came forward.
Witness is an intelligent and compelling, if sometimes overwrought history of the early years of the Cold War and the decades running up to it, replete with names, places, and specific events. More important are the central themes running through it, the first of which is the implacable war waged by the totalitarian Left upon the values, traditions, civil institutions and the people who hold them imperfect but dear.
The book makes clear that whether one is talking about the Jacobins of the 18th century, the various revolutionaries and anarchists of the 19th, the communists, Nazis and other assorted fascists of the 20th century, right down to our contemporary Antifa and Black Lives Matter insurrectionists, their goal is never to amend, correct, improve through persuasive argument, or positive law. Their enduring determination is only to rage against and destroy by any means necessary, the root and branch of existing "power structures."
To the leftist mind (or better, emotions) these structures constitute the only obstructions to their goal of bringing about the truly just, egalitarian societies that history demands. Never mind that history shows that every such time those ends have been achieved, the net result is destruction of the freedom, agency, and dignity of the human persons involved through vastly increased death, destruction, and material and spiritual misery.
This does not mean that elite promoters of these ends are blind to the consequences. It means only that 1) they believe that societies must go through a necessary period of "cleansing" before they can rebuild a new and better social order; and 2) that elites (like them) will always be the ones doing the cleansing and never be among the cleansed. History, once again, proves both theses false (just ask Leon Trotsky).
As conservative philosopher Roger Scrutonhas put it, it is axiomatic that leftist intellectuals and those whom they infect with their doctrines of resentment see leftist purposes, motives, and methods as innately and self-evidently morally superior; it falls to those who may disagree to demonstrate otherwise — which of course is impossible, as those making such arguments are by definition morally corrupt by virtue of their divergence from leftist orthodoxy. That such ideology has no foundation in reality is either irrelevant, or perhaps a desired feature; reality, after all, has a nasty habit of eventually rendering all utopian fantasies just that.
Thus rather than substantively address objections to their designs, the leftist response is invariably condemnation, ridicule, slander, libel and increasingly in our time, physical violence against any who may point out the basic unworkability of leftist ideology and the damage its pursuit inflicts on actual human beings and societies. Such people are to be "cancelled."
This was the fate of Whittaker Chambers when he had the courage to openly speak out against the evil in his time; such is the fate of any who do the same in ours. Chambers lost his job — senior editor at the once-great Time magazine — his reputation and friends, at least in the literary circles he until then inhabited — and suffered severe health problems due to the prolonged strain associated with his exposure of communist subversion. In an era lacking our social media, the sheer volume of vituperation heaped upon Chambers was not perhaps as great as that directed today against opponents of the Left, but it certainly was no less severe or damaging. The only response today is Chambers' then: don't give in and keep punching back. Among others, our current president has learned this lesson well.
It is telling that when as a young man, Chambers rejected the Christian faith of his upbringing, the void created was filled with communist ideology. Once he broke with that false religion, Chambers avers that only his recovery of the faith of his youth (Quakerism) made him whole again and provided the ultimate strength that brought him through his proximate crises and indeed sustained him throughout the rest of his life.
Therein lies the second great lesson of Witness. Chambers willingly entered and for years abetted a deeply evil cause. Throughout that time however, he consciously and sincerely sought truth. Through this consistent application of conscience, he came to recognize the lies and wicked agenda he was helping to advance. That conscience ultimately led him back to its higher source and if not to where he started in life, then to where he surely belonged.
Interestingly, Chambers relates how when he decided to defect from his Soviet taskmasters, he remarked to a friend that he feared he was leaving "the winning side." Until his premature death of a heart attack in 1961, Chambers apparently continued to hold to that unhappy resignation. Nonetheless, he never expressed regret over his rejection of communism, nor what he had done and suffered in his fight against it. Although America in fact defeated the Soviet Union, that achievement has done little in itself to extinguish the perpetual allure of the destructive ideology which animated it.
For those who continue to see America as founded as the last best hope for humanity, the battle proceeds apace. But it must proceed with a clear vision of the challenges ahead (and behind) and the faith and strength required to ultimately vanquish them. Witness is a valuable aid in that pursuit.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/10/the_enduring_relevance_of_whittaker_chambers_emwitnessem.html
Trump issues sweeping order stripping job protections from tens of thousands of federal employees
By LISA REIN AND ERIC YODER | The Washington Post | Published: October 22, 2020null
President Donald Trump has fired his biggest broadside yet this week against a federal bureaucracy he has moved to remake with an executive order that would remove job security from an estimated tens of thousands of civil servants.
The directive, issued late Wednesday, strips long-held civil service protections from employees whose work involves policymaking, allowing them to be dismissed with little cause or recourse, much like the political appointees who come and go with each administration.
Federal scientists, attorneys, regulators, public health experts and many others in senior roles would lose rights to due process and in some cases, union representation, at agencies across the government. The White House declined to say how many jobs would be swept into a class of employees with fewer civil service rights, but civil service experts and union leaders estimated anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands in a workforce of 2.1 million.
It would be a profound reimagining of the career workforce, but one that may end up as a statement of purpose rather than anything else. The order fast-tracks a process that gives agencies until Jan. 19 to review potentially affected jobs. That's a day before the next presidential inauguration. An administration under Democratic nominee Joe Biden would be unlikely to allow the changes to proceed.
Still, the order, coming less than two weeks before the election, represents a stunning effort to reshape large parts of the nonpartisan government, which is supposed to serve as a cadre of subject-matter experts for every administration.
"President Trump is delivering on his promise to make Washington accountable again to the citizens it's meant to serve," Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said in a statement. "This much-needed reform will increase accountability in essential policy-making positions within the government."
Critics said the latest effort, while not affecting a majority of the government, would upend the foundation of the career workforce by imposing political loyalty tests.
"I am calling this a declaration of war on the civil service," said Richard Loeb, senior policy counsel for the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest union representing federal workers.
Political appointees ultimately call the shots on policy direction, but career employees advise them on how to follow the law and implement their priorities.
Tensions are common. But in the Trump era, they have reached a fever pitch in many offices, as career employees chafe at an agenda that has upended Washington. Political appointees have come to view many civil servants with suspicion. The new directive tries to even the score, returning the upper hand to the administration, two senior administration officials said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
And over almost four years, the Trump administration has moved to weaken employee unions and hold them accountable for misconduct and weak performance.
The administration has been open with its frustration at the obstacles to firing poor performers. "Agencies need the flexibility to expeditiously remove poorly performing employees from these positions without facing extensive delays or litigation," the order says.
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The White House's earlier efforts to limit the power of federal employee unions and impose faster discipline survived multiple court challenges as it created a climate of anxiety across much of the government.
Agencies have reined in some job protections for all employees, imposing shorter timetables for correcting poor performance and appeals. They've dispensed with established union practices such as allowing labor officials to use agency computers for work on employees' behalf, for example. And a long-held practice called official time, in which unions work on behalf of employees facing discipline or other action, has been all but killed.
Even if Trump loses the election, Loeb said the administration could move in fewer than 90 days to impose the order, which he worries might be designed to let Trump political appointee stay on into a Biden administration.
"This could be used to put a whole bunch of Trump loyalists in place," Loeb said, making it messy for a Biden team to fire them.
Loeb estimated that the change could strip due process rights and protections from more than 100,000 employees.
Rep. Don Beyer, a Democrat, whose Northern Virginia district includes about 85,000 federal workers, said the order, if enacted, would usher in loyalty tests and further politicize agencies that have become deeply partisan workplaces under Trump.
"It's an attempt to redefine the civil service as a political arm of the presidency rather than public servants who work for the American people," Beyer said, calling the result "open cronyism that does not benefit the country, but the president."
The order would shift the affected employees from what is known as the "competitive service" — which covers the bulk of the executive branch — into the "excepted service," which in general applies to political appointees below the level requiring Senate confirmation.
The group would no longer be hired under competitive procedures and would lose their right to be represented by a union.
While unions said they heard rumblings of the order, neither they nor government personnel experts say they were consulted on the details.
"The order is highly troubling," said Max Stier, president and chief executive of the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service. "It appears to be an effort to remove the career merit protections around a core part of the civil service."
Stier said that while the change would not turn the employees into political appointees, "The effect and the apparent intent is that they are moving them into that box. The discretion for both hiring and firing is so great that the merit principles are undermined and they resemble a political appointee much more than a career civil servant."
"This is a bad idea and it was done in a bad way," he said. "What happens next is something that the election will be relevant for."
While it does not define which occupations will be swept into the new job classification, the order gives broad roles, including those that develop or advocate policy, negotiate with employee unions, write regulations and do legal work. The work would include "substantial discretion to determine the manner in which the agency exercises functions committed to the agency by law."
"Career employees in confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, and policy-advocating positions wield significant influence over Government operations and effectiveness," Trump wrote.
Among career employees, the "excepted service" mainly applies to positions in which it is not practical to use competitive processes in hiring, such as attorneys. Employees of some entire agencies, such as in the intelligence community, also are in the excepted service.
Hiring managers are not required to post these kinds of vacancies on the government's central job board, USAJobs.gov. The jobs do not require the complex rating systems of applicants that are mandated for most federal roles. And there is no formal preference for veterans.
Unless they are veterans, employees in this group do not have rights to appeal disciplinary actions by a supervisor for two years, rather than the standard one year.
The order would not affect the roughly 6,000 senior executives in the government. But experts on the civil service said the most likely targets would be employees at the highest level of the General Schedule below that, GS-13, 14 and 15.
The new set of employees would lose the rights to due process and appeals of personnel actions against them they now enjoy — with one exception. Whistleblowers and those claiming discrimination or harassment would have more rights, according to John Berry, an attorney who represents federal workers.
The Trump administration has moved aggressively on other issues involving federal workers. It has recommended in its annual budget proposals numerous cuts to federal retirement benefits while advocating that employees pay more toward those benefits. While Congress has not accepted those proposals, the administration moved on its own authority in several controversial ways.
Trump's new order closely follows issuance of rules telling agencies to provide only the minimal accommodations required by law to assist underperforming employees before disciplining them and to make the maximum use of their discretion in choosing discipline either for poor performance or misconduct.
https://www.stripes.com/trump-issues-sweeping-order-stripping-job-protections-from-tens-of-thousands-of-federal-employees-1.649559
Joe Biden's daughter alleges "inappropriate showers" in her diary. Hunter Biden sex/drug tape released.
EXCLUSIVE SOURCE: Biden Daughter's Diary Details 'Not Appropriate' Showers With Joe As Child
"Was I molested. I think so."
by PATRICK HOWLEYOctober 24, 2020
National File has obtained what a whistleblower has identified as a copy of the complete diary of Ashley Blazer Biden, the 39-year-old daughter of Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, dating from during the 2020 presidential campaign. National File also knows the reported precise location of the physical diary, and has been told by a whistleblower that there exists an audio recording of Ashley Biden admitting this is her diary.
In the diary, which our source says belongs to the former vice president's daughter, the author writes of her struggle with drug abuse. Ashley Biden's struggle with drugs was widely publicized in 2009.According to our source, the diary also details Ashley Biden's unhealthy relationship with sex, and the "probably not appropriate" showers she shared as a young girl with her father, Joe Biden.Joe Biden dances the hora with Ashley at her wedding in 2012After declaring she was "here for sexual trauma" in the previous entry, on page 23 of the diary, dated January 30, 2019, the author explores the topic of sexual abuse and how it may have led to her overactive sex drive. "I've had one of my hardest days – my sex drive is out of f**king control. Like literally, I am in heat," wrote the author."I know it's not the healthiest way to deal with things but @ least it's better than drugs," she wrote, adding that she thought she needed "sex to feel good." The author then explored why she felt this need to have sex, saying she believes she was molested as a child."Was I molested. I think so – I can't remember specifics but I do remember trauma," wrote the author, before listing a series of potential incidents, one of which may have included Ashley Biden's cousin Caroline Biden, as the author says she remembers "being somewhat sexualized" alongside a person named "Caroline."The author then wrote that she remembers "showers with my dad" that were "probably not appropriate." On page 83, in an entry dated July 22, 2019, the author wrote that she received a phone call from her father, Joe Biden according to our source, who cried on the phone while expressing his worry for her in the days leading up to July 30-31 Democratic Primary Debate."My dad cried on the phone saying he has the debate in a week and 'Now has to worry about [the author],'" she wrote. "And he cried. Maybe he knows what he is doing and it's worked but my feelings of guilt often are overwhelming." In at least two entries, the author explicitly identifies herself as Ashley Blazer Biden. National File obtained this document from a whistleblower who was concerned the media organization that employs him would not publish this potential critical story in the final 10 days before the 2020 presidential election. National File's whistleblower also has a recording of Ashley Biden admitting the diary is hers, and employed a handwriting expert who verified the pages were all written by Ashley. National File has in its posession a recording of this whistleblower detailing the work his media outlet did in preparation of releasing these documents. In the recording, the whistleblower explains that the media organization he works for chose not to release the documents after receiving pressure from a competing media organization.This diary surfaces after Hunter Biden, the son of the Democrat presidential candidate, Joe Biden, has been exposed as having "underage obsessions" and corrupt business dealings as evidenced by emails and images provided by the New York Post and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.National File, as the media organization that published reports about the Pelosi family's Ukraine dealings and the potentially illegal affairs of Democrat Senate candidate Cal Cunningham, believes the public has a right to read these entries that were obtained for National File by Patrick Howley, the reporter who broke the Veterans Affairs scandal, and the Ralph Northam racist yearbook photo.Last year Ashley Biden was profiled by The List, which claimed that her "transformation is turning heads." She was credited as working as a "social worker, activist, and entrepreneur."
Hunter Bidens sex/drug tape.
BREAKING: China's GTV Releases Videos of Hunter Biden Sex Tapes while Smoking Crack


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END OF COP15: First Nations of Québec-Labrador expects governments to uphold their commitments to protect biodiversity and respect our Indigenous and Treaty Rights to our respective territories, including Aboriginal Title
WENDAKE, QC, Dec. 19, 2022 – The Assembly of First Nations of Québec-Labrador (AFNQL) and the First Nations of Québec-Labrador (FNQLSDI) took part in the fifteenth edition of the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (COP15), which took place from December 7 to 19, 2022, in Montreal.
The AFNQL and the FNQLSDI wish to mark the end of this major event by recalling the important participation of First Nations. They presented their projects, initiatives and issues relating to the protection and conservation of biodiversity. COP15 was an opportunity to demonstrate that First Nations have played an important role since time immemorial in the protection and conservation of biodiversity for the next seven generations.
At COP15, the federal and provincial governments announced investments aimed at addressing the decline in biodiversity and protecting 30% of the territory by 2030. Note the commitment of the Government of Quebec to adopt a $650 million "nature plan" to implement conservation measures for natural habitats, to support Indigenous-led nature conservation initiatives and to protect threatened biodiversity. The federal government, for its part, announced funding, notably to support the Indigenous Guardians program and to support the realization of four major Indigenous-led conservation projects.
Although these commitments are interesting, the AFNQL and the FNQLSDI believe that the sharing of financial resources is not adequate to meet the needs of First Nations. For instance, of the $650 million announced by the Government of Quebec, only $23 million – which is less than 4% of the envelope– is allocated to support Indigenous communities in the conservation and enhancement of protected areas in their territories. First Nations in Quebec must benefit more from these investments to implement their own projects and initiatives. They are not simple stakeholders in the management of the territory and its resources. First Nations hold essential knowledge for biodiversity protection and conservation, and hold ancestral and treaty rights in their respective territories.
In addition to an equitable sharing of financial resources, the AFNQL and the FNQLSDI expect concrete actions to flow from the commitments made by governments at COP15. It is time to act for the protection and restoration of caribou and the creation of protected areas: two issues among many others that have been held up for too long by the Government of Quebec.
Finally, the AFNQL and the FNQLSDI reiterate that there is an urgent need to act together in the face of the biodiversity and climate crisis.
About the AFNQL
The Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador is the regional political organization that brings together 43 First Nations Chiefs in Quebec and Labrador. www.apnql.com/en
About the FNQLSDI
The First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Sustainable Development Institute (FNQLSDI) was created in 2000 by the Chiefs of the AFNQL. Its mission is to offer First Nations a dynamic service hub, supporting their actions towards maintaining healthy territories and resources, developing sustainable communities, and promoting the recognition of their rights. www.fnqlsdi.ca
For further information: Marie-Celine Einish, [email protected], 418-254-4620


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Before going to Edinburgh, I thought about doing a ghost tour. I hadn't really made up my mind whether to do one or not. I don't believe in ghosts, but after seeing Edinburgh, I just knew if ghosts were a real thing, this is where they would all hang out. It's not that Edinburgh looks creepy, it really doesn't. The city has a historical look and at sunset, there is a dusting of magic. It looks very Hogwarts-like.
Walking up the Royal Mile, I saw many flyers advertising ghost tours. Some were free, some were expensive, a few were on buses. Mark and I wanted to do a free one first. If that was okay, we would do a reasonably paid tour right after. Around noon, we started looking for a tour. We found one that started at 4 o'clock followed by a paid one that started right after that one ended. This was great because both of them started before sunset, giving us enough sunlight for photos. Unfortunately we lost track of time and got to the meeting point half an hour too late.
We tried to find another set of tours that worked out as nicely as the ones we missed. As we were walking around we were handed a flyer for a new ghost themed tour. Since this was its first day, they were doing a special free promotion. It sounded great, but didn't start until 6 o'clock that evening and the meeting point was down by the train station.
We could have still done the paid tour we had planned on, but we would risk missing the bus. We decided to skip the paid tour, placing all our hopes for a good evening on the bus. After that we could always just walk around looking for another free walking tour even though it would be too dark for our cameras.
We walked back to the Royal Mile to where many of the walking tours start. We found a decent looking paid tour that wasn't too expensive. We asked when the next tour was and was told that it would start in 10 minutes. We met the tour guide, a friendly guy in a ghoulish suit. He talked with us and other tourists. I liked the guy and hoped for a good tour.
The guide was nice, but the tour was boring. We walked around in the rain as the sunset. The rain added to the eerie look of the city, but it did nothing for the tour. Never were the names of Burke or Hare mentioned. These were Edinburgh's most famous serial killers. Their story told in Greyfriars Cemetery in the misty rain would have been entertaining.
For contrast, there was another tour in Spanish across the cemetery at the same time we were there. Their guide was really getting into her story. I could see a few of the Spanish speaking tourists holding onto one another. Most did not look scared, but they were intently listening to every word the guide said. They were clearly enjoying the show. Even some of the people on my tour were paying more attention to the Spanish tour than our own.
The creepiest part of the whole tour, was the walk back to the meeting spot. At this point, the tour was over, so we were just quietly following the tour guide. We had wandered through Edinburgh's streets going this way and that, so most of us had no idea where we were. There was some obstruction on the sidewalk and everyone was just standing around waiting for the way to clear. As I waited I looked up at the building next to me.
It was the church of Scientology!
This time in Edinburgh, we did the Ghost Bus Tour; not the free one (I have no idea what ever happened to them). This tour was not scary or creepy. But, it was funny and entertaining. It was worth every penny!


Commissioned by the Guardian a while ago, but then spiked on the basis that it was too "sciencey" [sic]. I wonder what else they expected from a scientist? At any rate, here is my guide to the quirkier side of vegetables (from fresh and juicy to saggy and sorry) for a more discriminating readership. Enjoy!
The vegetables in your kitchen are alive and breathing. Plucked from your garden or bought from a shop, they continue to take in oxygen to burn their sugary food reserves and produce the energy that supports living processes.
But they are slowly dying. Vegetables with high respiration rates, like asparagus, broccoli, mushrooms, peas and sweet corn, use up their reserves, and hence their nutrition and flavour values, more quickly than slower-respiring ones like garlic and onions. But all are doomed, because they cannot replenish those reserves.
Those without leaves or other green parts can no longer harvest light energy, which plants use through the process of photosynthesis to turn atmospheric carbon dioxide into sugars. Even green vegetables, like lettuce, beans and broccoli, can't continue to produce enough sugar in the low light of the kitchen or the darkness of the refrigerator.
The green material is chlorophyll, contained in organelles called chloroplasts. Vitamin C, manufactured by the plant, is essential for their survival, but slowly degrades after a vegetable or fruit is harvested. The rate of degradation of this and other vitamins varies widely with conditions, the main culprits being oxygen, high temperatures, and rogue enzymes released from imprisonment if the vegetable is cut or otherwise damaged. Water-soluble vitamins like vitamin C may also be lost during cooking, but here again the losses can vary widely – from 5% for fresh broccoli up to 80% for spinach.
The other major problem that harvested vegetables face is loss of water. Hydroponic vegetables, with their roots intact, have the best chance (especially when placed near a window), since they can take in water to maintain their plump freshness (Hint: Keep the water shallow so that atmospheric oxygen can get through it to the roots).
Molecular pumps drive the water to high pressure, providing the "crispness" that we experience when we bite into the plant. As the plant loses its sources of energy, these pumps fail, and the plant becomes limp – a process that is speeded up by the loss of water through evaporation. Evaporation is fastest in a dry atmosphere, and interior of a refrigerator is very dry indeed. But it is also cold, and the low temperature slows down the processes of degradation that happen as the plant loses energy and the ability to maintain itself. We need to establish a balance, which can be different for each vegetable.
Be gentle. Don't leave fresh produce in a hot car for hours, where respiration and moisture loss will both be speeded up. Keep it cool, and store it under cool, well-ventilated conditions.
Store correctly. Leafy vegetables are especially prone to moisture loss, so put them in a plastic bag before placing in the fridge.
Mushrooms are a tricky case. If stored in a plastic bag, condensation will encourage surface bacteria to multiply, producing a slimy exudate. This is why they are often sold in paper bags, but then there is the opposite problem – paper bags do not keep the moisture in, so the mushrooms dry out and become leathery. The answer is to buy only the freshest mushrooms, put them in a paper bag inside a plastic bag, and put this in the fridge as soon as possible – only to take it out as soon as you can to eat the mushrooms while they are still fresh.
In general, keep fruit and vegetables well separated (in separate refrigerators if you have that luxury!). Apples and ripe pears, for example, give off substantial quantities of the ripening gas ethylene, which makes vegetables grow old more quickly. To avoid broccoli going yellow, keep fruits like these away. Keep your fruit bowl away from your flowering house plants as well – even tiny amounts of ethylene can cause the flowers to drop off!
If you like beautiful brown chips, keep the potatoes that you are going to use in the refrigerator for a few days beforehand. Some of the starch will be transformed into sugar, and it is the reaction of the sugar with the proteins above 150C that produces the brown colour.
Don't get too pernickety over vitamin loss during storage or cooking. The losses vary widely, but there is usually plenty of vitamin left, and if you have a well-balanced diet you won't be missing out.
And if, despite your most assiduous efforts, some of your vegetables have become saggy and sorry?
If they are just a bit past it, you can always use them to make vegetable soup.
If they are moldy or otherwise seem infected, throw them into the compost – it's not worth the risk. One U.S. firm has found a novel way of commercial use for such compost, by using it as a breeding ground for fly larvae, which are then fed to chickens.
The outer skins of brown onions are great for adding flavour and colour to gravy.


Most apparel retailers were quick to see the growing relevance of cross-channel transactions. Regulars at their high street stores, they noticed, first browsed through the online racks. When customers did shop online, they sometimes asked to return outfits at a nearby store. And retailers started to rejig their systems to support this cross-channel shopping. But the challenges, they discovered, ran deeper.
When customers, having shopped online, returned items of clothing at high street stores, demand planners often had no visibility into this event – especially not in real-time or even near-real-time.
So, their systems, taking into consideration only online purchases (not the returns in-store) forecasted an inaccurate high demand for the particular line of clothing. As a result, store managers often received a larger inventory than they really needed or were able to consume.
Sometimes, the situation played out in the reverse. Customers having reserved products online, showed up at high street stores to pick their shopping. But store managers, with little or no visibility into items that are reserved online, often lacked the inventory to deliver – especially for fast-moving popular lines of apparel.
Making matters worse, the distribution centers often maintained two separate inventories – one for online and the other for offline sales – without the flexibility to systemically interchange stocks between inventories, if needed. Obviously, revenues took a hit.
Online and offline promotions, and pricing – each had a life of its own. Customers once in-store, on discovering that the same product was priced lower online, requested that a price adjustment be made at the store.
Most store managers felt compelled to comply. They treated this as a return and new in-store sale. But, in reality, margins were being eroded with in-store inventory being sold at online prices.
When retailers treat their online and offline channels as separate entities, but bring these together superficially to quickly solve the problems posed by evolving customer demands, it – at best – offers brief symptomatic relief. The core of their supply chain is still ill-prepared to adapt to the new realities of omnichannel retailing, and leverage the opportunities it has to offer. Finding a way for retailers to have a holistic view of transactions across all channels is the real problem that must be solved.
Anytime-anywhere visibility into 'available-to-sell' stock: Build a model that takes into account the entire inventory - both online and offline. With orders that have been placed, orders that are ready for shipment, cancelled orders, orders reserved at the store, and returns called out, the 'available-to-sell' inventory is published for every store manager's perusal, and order planning. Order routing, thus, becomes more intelligent.
Single source of insights for sales planning: Merge the online and in-store data sets to create one unified data lake that provides a rich source of insights for sales projection - without the additional effort of an operations team working to unify and prepare data for sales planning, week after week.
Improvements to demand forecasting: Several customers buy products online, especially during promotions, but return some of it thereafter. Often, retailers rely on the number of products shipped to arrive at the demand metric. The proposed model helps retailers understand demand more holistically. It offers better visibility into orders placed, orders cancelled and orders shipped – thus leading to better demand forecasting.
Inventory optimization led to significant savings of millions of dollars for one retailer that deployed this solution.
Time-to-insights for sales projection is slashed from 2-3 days to minutes; This, in the case of one retailer, was the equivalent of 600X latency reductions. The data lake also gives insights into the number of price adjustments made in-store.
The data lake allows promotions across online and in-store entities to be executed in sync, leading to better margin management for retailers.


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Q: The identity element and the inverse A group is a ordered pair $(G,*)$ which satisfies the following,

*

*$G$ is a set

*$*$ is a binary operation on $G$

*$*$ is associative

*$\exists e\in\mathbb{G} (\forall a\in\mathbb{G} a*e=e*a=a)$

*$\forall a\in\mathbb{G}\exists b\in\mathbb{G}(a*b=b*a=e)$
Note : $e$ is called THE identity element of this group $(G,*)$.
Note : $b$ is called THE inverse of a and denoted by $a^{-1}$.
Prove "THE", in other words, show identity is unique and inverse is unique.
I need a little bit help maybe and idea on how to start such problem.
Thank you

A: Let $e$ and $f$ be two  elements where $ea = ae =a$ and $fa = af = a$ for all $a \in G$.
Then what is $ef$ equal to?  It must be equal to something in $G$ as that is that is the definition of binary operation.  And because $ea =ae =a$ for all $a\in G$ it's true for $f$ and $ef = fe = f$.  But $fa = af =a$ for all $a \in G$ so $ef = fe = e$.  Is it possible for $e$ and $f$ to be two different elements?
As for inverses:  For $a$ let $a'$ be such that $a'a = aa' = e$ and let $a^{-1}$ be such that $a^{-1}a = a a^{-1} = e$.
What is $a^{-1}aa'$ equal to?  Hint: use associativity.  $(a^{-1}a)a' = ??$ and $a^{-1}(aa') = ???$.

A: Here's a little help; in both cases consider two such elements (two identity elements, or two inverses of the same element). Use the given relations to show that they are the same.

A: Hint. Suppose $a$ and $b$ are both identities. What can you say about $ab$?
If $g$ seems to have two inverses can you find a similar kind of product that will let you conclude they are equal?

A: Let $e,e'$ be identity elements of $G$. Then $e=e'e$, since $e'$ is an identity element, and $e'e=e'$, since $e$ is an identity element.
Let $u,v$ be inverses of $a$. Then $u= u e = u(av) = (ua)v = ev =v$, where $e$ is the identity element.

A: Suppose there exist two identity elements $e_1$ and $e_2$
then:

*

*$e_1*e_2=e_2*e_1=e_2$ (since $e_1$ is an identity);

*$e_1*e_2=e_2*e_1=e_1$ (since $e_2$ is an identity);

*So $e_1=e_2$.
If $y_1$ is an inverse of $x$ and $y_2$ is another one then:
$$
y_1=y_1*e=y_1*(x*y_2)=(y_1* x) * y_2=e* y_2=y_2
$$

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Fleninge är en tätort i Helsingborgs kommun och kyrkby i Fleninge socken i Skåne. Sveriges äldsta motell, från 1954 och ritat av arkitekten Bendt Hjelm-Jensen, är beläget här.

Historia
Orten uppstod som senast när kyrkan uppfördes, vilket troligen skedde under 1100-talet, då dess äldsta delar är från denna tid. Ortnamnet innehåller förledet "flen", vilket sannolikt betecknar en trädlös slätt, och efterledet "-inge", som är en inbyggarbeteckning och härstammar från järnåldern och folkvandringstiden. År 1400 skrevs ortnamnet Flininge. Byn omgavs av stora områden sankmarker och är därför belägen på en öst-västlig höjdrygg som reser sig svagt över landskapet. Genom orten löpte den viktiga landsvägen från Helsingborg och norrut, vilken numera motsvaras av Västkustvägen. Denna korsades av en landsväg från kusten och inåt landet, nu Fleningevägen. Under 1600-talet inrättades gästgiverier och skjutsställen på jämna avstånd längs landets huvudleder och i Fleninge förlades ett gästgiveri som finns kvar än idag. Orten växte sig stor för sin tid och omfattade på 1700-talet 20–30 gårdar. På grund av de begränsade odlingsmöjligheterna i de sanka markerna var husdjurshållning och andra näringar lika viktig som sädesodling. Orten var även belägen invid den omfattade betesmarken Kulla fälad, där boskapen kunde ströva fritt.

Vid 1800-talets början genomfördes enskiftet, som i Fleninge påbörjades redan 1806. Detta innebar att flera av gårdarna flyttades ut från orten och att markerna fick nya ägare. För att förbättra odlingsmöjligheterna dikades flera av sankmarkerna ut, en process som fortgick fram till 1900-talet och resulterade i att nästan bara ett vattendrag finns kvar. Enskiftet fick som resultat att en stor del av ortens tidigare betydelse gick förlorad, något som sedan förstärktes på 1880-talet när Skåne–Hallands Järnväg mellan Helsingborgs och Halmstad istället drogs förbi grannorten Ödåkra. Dock gick fortfarande en av landets mest trafikerade vägar genom orten, något som år 1954 gav upphov till Fleninge motell, vilket var landets första motell. Inspirationen hade kommit från USA. På 1960-talet ersattes dock de gamla vägarna som huvudleder av motorvägarna E6/E20 och E4 längre österut. Trots detta finns både gästgivaregården och motellet kvar.

Fleninge kommun lät 1912 uppföra ett ålderdomshem och 1929 byggdes ett kommunalhus mittemot gästgiveriet.

Befolkningsutveckling

Samhället
Fleninge är beläget cirka 6 kilometer nordost om Helsingborg och några kilometer öster om Ödåkra. Orten omges helt av en svagt böljande fullåkersbygd. Samhället är samlat kring tre vägar: Västkustvägen och Fleningevägen, som korsas vid orten, samt Magnerupsvägen som sammanbinder de två förra. Bebyggelsen består till största delen av villor och äldre gathus, med inslag av gårdsbyggnader. Åldern är varierad och de äldsta profana husen härstammar från tidpunkten för enskiftet vid 1800-talets början. Resterande bebyggelse spänner fram till idag och ett nyare villaområde kan hittas längs Magnerupsvägen. Vid korsningen Västkustvägen/Fleningevägens södra del står Fleninge gästgivaregård från 1810 och på motsatt sida Västkustvägen finns det gamla kommunalhuset. Norr om korsningen, längs samma väg, ligger Fleninge motell och ännu längre norrut ses Fleninge kyrka, belägen strax norr om Magnerupsvägen. Ett annat landmärke i orten är Fleninge mölla, en väderkvarn belägen något öster om den centrala bebyggelsen.

Referenser

Noter

Källor
Helsingborgs lokalhistoriska förening (2006). Helsingborgs stadslexikon. Helsingborg: Helsingborgs lokalhistoriska förening.
Stadsbyggnadskontoret, Helsingborgs stad (2005). Ortsanalys för Fleninge. ()

Se även
Gyllene ratten, Sveriges näst äldsta motell

Orter i Helsingborgs kommun
Tätorter i Sverige
Tidigare småorter i Sverige

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Q: Removing CPT slug from URL results in 404 error for archive page I have created a CPT with rewrite rules as follows:
"rewrite" => array( "slug" => "/", "with_front" => false ),

In the functions.php, I have added the following code:
function sh_parse_request_tricksy( $query ) {

    // Only noop the main query
    if ( ! $query->is_main_query() )
        return;

    // Only noop our very specific rewrite rule match
    if ( 2 != count( $query->query )
        || ! isset( $query->query['page'] ) )
        return;

    // 'name' will be set if post permalinks are just post_name,
otherwise the page rule will match
    if ( ! empty( $query->query['name'] ) ) {
        $query->set( 'post_type', array( 'my_cpt1','my_cpt2' ) );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'sh_parse_request_tricksy' )

I got this working to remove the CPT slug for my CPT URLs. But the issue here is, all my archive pages gives me 404 error. Even the author archive page is not working.
Can anyone help me resolve this?
Thanks in advance.

A: It took some time to figure out the issue, but I got it done.
Passing "/" for rewrite slug is not recommended, since it causes more problem than it solves, as in this case, causing 404 error in other pages.
So removing it was the first step.
Next, I had to write the following code in my 'functions.php':

*

*To remove the slug from the published posts:
/**
 * Remove the slug from published post permalinks. Only affect our CPT though.
 */
function sh_remove_cpt_slug( $post_link, $post, $leavename ) {

    if ( in_array( $post->post_type, array( 'my_cpt1' ) )
        || in_array( $post->post_type, array( 'my_cpt2' )
        || 'publish' == $post->post_status )
        $post_link = str_replace( '/' . $post->post_type . '/', '/', $post_link );
        return $post_link;
}
add_filter( 'post_type_link', 'sh_remove_cpt_slug', 10, 3 );

This will still cause an error since it specifies that only 'post' and 'page' post types can have url without post-type slug.
Now to teach WP that out CPT will also have URL without slug, we need to get this in our functions.php:
function sh_parse_request( $query ) {

    // Only loop the main query
    if ( ! $query->is_main_query() ) {
        return;
    }

    // Only loop our very specific rewrite rule match
    if ( 2 != count( $query->query )
        || ! isset( $query->query['page'] ) )
        return;

    // 'name' will be set if post permalinks are just post_name, otherwise the page rule will match
    if ( ! empty( $query->query['name'] ) ) {
        $query->set( 'post_type', array( 'my_cpt1','my_cpt2' ) );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'sh_parse_request' );


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Health CareHealth News
US panel recommends Covid boosters for people 65 and older
An elderly patient receives the 3rd dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine in Paris./AFP
WASHINGTON — A panel of leading US medical experts advising the government voted in favor of authorizing boosters of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine for everyone aged 65 and up, as well as people at high risk of developing severe Covid.
The same committee however rejected an initial proposal, submitted by Pfizer and backed by President Joe Biden's administration, to fully approve boosters to everyone aged 16 and over.
The decisions came after a day-long meeting full of data presentations and at times charged debate that was convened by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Tens of millions of Americans will soon be eligible for a third shot.
"I think this should demonstrate to the public that the members of this committee are independent of the FDA, and that in fact we do bring our voices to the table," said Archana Chatterjee, dean of Chicago Medical School.
The panel — which included vaccinologists, infectious disease researchers, and epidemiologists — concluded that the benefit-risk balance differed for younger people, especially males at risk for myocarditis.
A clinical trial for the booster involved just over 300 people, which they felt was too small to be able to draw firm conclusions about safety.
The panel voted 16-2 against granting a third dose full approval.
They were then presented with a new motion, and voted 18-0 for granting emergency authorization for people aged over 65 and those at high risk. They agreed this should extend to health care workers and people at high risk of occupational exposure.
Now the issue turns to another committee, this time convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on September 22-23 to further define who is eligible and decide on rollout.
Pfizer will work with the FDA to address the committee's questions as "we continue to believe in the benefits of a booster dose for a broader population," Kathrin Jansen, head of vaccine research and development at the company, said in a statement.
Even prior to the meeting, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had struck a cautious note.
In its briefing document, the FDA stated: "Data indicate that currently US-licensed or authorized Covid-19 vaccines still afford protection against severe Covid-19 disease and death."
Two senior FDA officials meanwhile co-signed a Viewpoint in The Lancet this week opposing boosters for the general population, in what was seen as a rebuke of the White House for taking a decision before consulting its scientific agencies, effectively placing the cart before the horse.
At the meeting, Pfizer officials cited studies that demonstrated waning immunity against infection several months out from the first two doses.
"The demonstrated safety and effectiveness of a third dose support adding a booster dose to the vaccination schedule," said Donna Boyce, Pfizer's senior vice president of global regulatory affairs.
But a growing body of US research — including a dataset presented by Pfizer itself at Friday's meeting — has shown two doses continue to confer high protection against severe outcomes, albeit at slightly diminished levels for the elderly.
Pfizer also presented data showing boosters increased antibody levels against the Delta variant, but an FDA scientist countered that these lab studies could not translate directly to efficacy estimates.
Sharon Alroy Preis, an official with Israel's health ministry, presented data from her country which ran a booster campaign after experiencing a Delta wave, and has approved boosters for everyone aged 12 and up.
Jay Portnoy, a pediatrician with Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, said the Israeli experience should serve as a warning beacon and that the United States should follow its lead.
But most of the panel did not see the two countries as closely analogous. Because the US has a much lower overall vaccination rate, the unvaccinated are the primary drivers of spread, rather than breakthrough cases among the vaccinated.
Biden brands Trump's refusal to concede an 'embarrassment'
England begins rollout of next-generation COVID vaccines
Seeing end of COVID-19 in sight doesn't mean pandemic is over, says WHO chief
Estimated 1.2B workdays lost yearly due to depression, anxiety: UN agencies


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Zion College was a Bible institute in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was founded in 1949 by the Highland Park Baptist Church to train African American ministers and church workers.

In 1964, Zion College was renamed Chattanooga City College. In 1969, the college merged with the University of Chattanooga to form the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) as part of the UT System.

References

External links
 Zion College, Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture

Historically black universities and colleges in the United States
Defunct private universities and colleges in Tennessee


The best way to sell a foreign brand in Japan is to localize it, and this is both easier and harder when it comes to food. This is a field that offers a wealth of possibilities, but Japanese consumers are very particular about food.
Nestle Japan, however, has had immense success by adapting its standard Kit Kat chocolate snacks to the local market by drawing inspiration from regional and traditional flavors.
It really got started with matcha Kit Kat, which was a runaway success and also attracted plenty of attention from curious tourists. Since then the brand hasn't looked back. Here are some of our favorite recent Japanese Kit Kats, all available from Japan Trend Shop.
The Kit Kat Valentine's Assortment Sublime Ruby Chocolate Set contains the world's first natural ruby chocolate, made from carefully selected ruby cacao beans. The seven-piece set, which makes a perfect gift, has two pieces of the fragrantly fruity and delicately acidic ruby chocolate as well as six others from the Sublime series (Bitter, Milk, White, Matcha, and Raw).
The Kit Kat Bakeable Chocolate Ice Cream Flavor is for those who want a more hands-on approach, allowing you to heat the mini Kit Kat snacks in a toaster oven to create crispy golden-brown delights.
The Kit Kat Chocolatory Sakura Cherry Blossom Strawberry offers a real taste of spring, Japanese-style. The spring season in Japan means two main things: the college entry exams and the start of a new academic year, and the cherry blossom (sakura). This special set comes in a cylindrical package like a graduating diploma, containing five mini Kit Kats with a sakura and strawberry flavor. There's also a cherry blossom-shaped good luck charm, just the ones that Japanese students rely on at this time of year.
The Kit Kat Japanese Sake Flavor is a Kit Kat aimed squarely at adults, particularly those with a hankering for Japanese sake (nihonshu). Because that's what this white chocolate Kit Kat tastes like.
Similarly to the regular Japanese sake version, the Kit Kat Mini Japanese Amazake Flavor is another mini Kit Kat based on a classic Japanese beverage — this time amazake, the sweet fermented rice drink enjoyed at winter. This snack is made from genuine powdered sake and sake lees, flavored with cacao and cocoa butter.
Finally, for Tokyo geeks, this Tokyo Banana Kit Kat combines the fluffy flavors of the most famous food souvenir from Japan's capital with a crunchy mini Kit Kat. its a great example of how Kit Kat in Japan is frequently merged with regional souvenirs.
And after trying all of these snacks exclusive to Japan, you may never want to settle for a regular Kit Kat ever again!


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Sally Ride was born today, May 26, in 1951. She was an American physicist and astronaut. She was the first American woman in space and the third woman overall. She remains the youngest astronaut to travel to space at age 32, and the first known LGBT astronaut.
Ride was born in Los Angeles. The photo at right is her in Junior High. In addition to being interested in science, she was a nationally ranked tennis player. Ride attended Swarthmore College for three semesters, took physics courses at University of California, Los Angeles, and then entered Stanford University as a junior, graduating with a bachelor's degree in English and physics. At Stanford, she earned a master's degree in 1975 and a PhD in physics in 1978 while doing research on the interaction of X-rays with the interstellar medium. Astrophysics and free electron lasers were her specific areas of study.
Ride was one of 8,000 people who answered an advertisement in the Stanford student newspaper seeking applicants for the space program. She was chosen to join NASA in 1978. During her career, Ride served as the ground-based capsule communicator (CapCom) for the second and third space shuttle flights (STS-2 and STS-3) and helped develop the space shuttle's "Canadarm" robot arm.
Prior to her first space flight, she was subject to media attention due to her gender. During a press conference, she was asked questions such as, "Will the flight affect your reproductive organs?" and "Do you weep when things go wrong on the job?" Despite this and the historical significance of the mission, Ride insisted that she saw herself in only one way—as an astronaut. On June 18, 1983, she became the first American woman in space as a crew member on space shuttle Challenger for STS-7. She was preceded by two Soviet women, Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. The five-person crew of the STS-7 mission deployed two communications satellites and conducted pharmaceutical experiments. Ride was the first woman to use the robot arm in space and the first to use the arm to retrieve a satellite.
Her second space flight was in 1984, also on board Challenger. She spent a total of more than 343 hours in space. Ride had completed 8 months of training for her third flight (STS-61-M, a TDRS deployment mission) when the space shuttle Challenger disaster occurred. She was named to the Rogers Commission (the presidential commission investigating the accident) and headed its subcommittee on operations. She was the only person to serve on both of the panels investigating shuttle accidents (those for the Challenger accident and later the Columbia disaster). Following the Challenger investigation, Ride was assigned to NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., where she led NASA's first strategic planning effort, authored a report titled "NASA Leadership and America's Future in Space" and founded NASA's Office of Exploration. After Sally Ride's death in 2012, General Donald Kutyna revealed that she had discreetly provided him with key information about O-rings (namely, that they become stiff at low temperatures) that eventually led to identification of the cause of the explosion.
In 1987, Ride left her position in Washington, D.C., to work at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Arms Control. In 1989, she became a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego, and director of the California Space Institute. She was the president and CEO of Sally Ride Science, a company she co-founded in 2001 that creates entertaining science programs and publications for upper elementary and middle school students, with a particular focus on girls.
According to Roger Boisjoly, the engineer who warned of the technical problems that led to the Challenger disaster, after the entire workforce of Morton-Thiokol shunned him, Ride was the only public figure to show support for him when he went public with his pre-disaster warnings. Sally Ride hugged him publicly to show her support for his efforts.
Ride wrote or co-wrote seven books on space aimed at children, with the goal of encouraging children to study science.
After Ride's death, her obituary revealed that her partner of 27 years was Tam O'Shaughnessy (with Ride at right and their dog, Gypsy), a professor emerita of school psychology at San Diego State University and childhood friend, who met her when both were aspiring tennis players. O'Shaughnessy was also a science writer and, later, the co-founder of Sally Ride Science. O'Shaughnessy now serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board of Sally Ride Science. They wrote six acclaimed children's science books together. Their relationship was revealed by the company and confirmed by her sister, who said she chose to keep her personal life private, including her sickness and treatments.
Ride died on July 23, 2012, at the age of 61, in her home in La Jolla, California, 17 months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Ride received numerous awards throughout her lifetime and after. She received the National Space Society's von Braun Award, the Lindbergh Eagle, and the NCAA's Theodore Roosevelt Award. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Astronaut Hall of Fame and was awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal twice. Two elementary schools in the United States are named after her: Sally Ride Elementary School in The Woodlands, Texas, and Sally Ride Elementary School in Germantown, Maryland.
In 1994, Ride received the Samuel S. Beard Award for Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Under, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards. In 2007, she was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio.
In April 2013, the U.S. Navy announced that a research ship would be named in honor of Ride. This was done in 2014 with the christening of the oceanographic research vessel RV Sally Ride (AGOR-28).
Also on May 20, 2013, President Barack Obama announced that Ride would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. The medal was presented to her life partner Tam O'Shaughnessy (right) in a ceremony at the White House on November 20, 2013.
In 2014, Ride was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display that celebrates LGBT history and people.
The U.S. Postal Service issued a first-class postage stamp honoring Ride in 2018.


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Dark is the Night: Snippets from the First Half
Posted on February 13, 2017 February 13, 2017 by Mirriam
Revising a novel is like giving something a fresh coat of paint – you loved the original, but now it looks even better. It looks different, it looks fresh, and there's a wonderful feeling of old/newness to it. I wrote Dark is the Night several years ago, inspired by the lack of good Christian vampire fiction. Vampires are ripe for symbolic use, and I've always had a deep love of the gothic – graveyards, werewolves, forbidden asylums. You get the picture. Dark is the Night was my stab at a modern Southern gothic western.
A friend once described it as what would happen if 'Supernatural and the Vampire Diaries had a Christian baby,' which…well, sums it up better than I ever could. It was also my first real attempt at an adult novel, and I didn't quite make it – the characters were adults, but I, a teenager, had still written a novel that felt very YA. (Something about being a young adult at the time, or some nonsense.) Now, revising the novel after leaving it untouched for nearly two years, I find it's incredibly easy to 'update' into the adult genre. The novel is still the same, but better. Updated. Like a surprisingly good remake of a fun-but-dated 80's movie.
I was asked to post some snippets from the work in progress, as I've just reached roughly 52% completion on the manuscript. Disclaimer: There is plenty of serious content in this novel, but you'll have to take my word for it because humorous snippets are just so much fun.
"I found you," he said, opening the box and pulling out a bottle of aspirin, a handful of paper squares, and a small tube of antibacterial ointment. It took Skata a second to realize he was talking about him, and not the kit. "You were on the side of the road."
"Do you usually stop for roadkill?" Skata asked, wincing as Cassis pulled off one of the bandages and frowned at what he saw underneath.
"Only when I'm hungry," said Cassis lightly. He bit off one end of the paper from a square and tore it away, then put the fresh gauze patch over the gash. "I was full, but you looked pitiful."
Skata followed Angel up the stairs. "Big place."
The vampire grinned over his shoulder. "Thank you; it's been in the family for generations."
"Vampires don't do generations."
"I didn't say it was my family. Don't jump to conclusions, now."
Skata let out a sigh of relief when they stopped at a red light in the middle of the town square. Green, carefully tended trees shaded either side of the street, and the brick buildings lining the sidewalks were like something out of an updated Mayberry reproduction.
"My driving bother you?"
Skata leaned back and attempted to look more relaxed. "Just remember that your passenger isn't immortal."
"There you go, making me all nostalgic for humanity. Oh, oh – nope, there it goes."
He sped forward as the light turned green, and Skata clenched his teeth, hoping a deputy would show up and arrest the vampire for speeding.
"You don't miss being human at all, huh?" he asked, trying to keep his mind off the vampire's ridiculous driving.
"Pros of being a vampire," said Angel. "Super speed, super strength, the ability to compel people to do whatever I want, and – oh! Not dying. Pros of being a human? Eh…."
"Not wanting to eat other people?" Skata suggested sarcastically.
Angel held up a finger. "Cannibals, my friend."
"I like them better."
"I didn't know there was a cannibal problem in…wherever you're from."
"Montana."
"Ahhh," said Angel, as if that explained everything.
The woman turned to Skata and held out her hand. "I'm Zoe, the best bartender this side of the Bible belt. Are you a friend of Angel's?"
"No," said Skata.
"Glad to hear it," said Zoe seriously. In a loud whisper she added, "I'd stay away from him if I were you. He's no good."
"Slander," Angel protested lazily. "Lies."
Skata lifted the bottle to his lips and took a long swallow that left his throat burning and his mind clear. "Hey, do you know the Montgomery brothers?"
Angel lifted his shot glass and peered through it. "Sure do," he said, with false cheer.
"How well?"
"We have special moments where one of us shows up and the other one leaves."
When Skata came back from dropping Easton off at her house, Angel was stretched out on the couch reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
"This chick had some serious issues," announced Angel, turning a page.
Skata pushed the book forward toward Angel's face and scanned the back. "She killed herself."
Skata let go of the book and Angel gave him a sideways look. "What?"
"You invited her to the party."
"I did not," said Angel, looking mortified. "She killed herself. Even if I invited her, odds are she wouldn't be able to att—"
"Easton, you moron, not Sylvia Plath."
…he saw the kitchen and moved quietly through it, into what had probably been a parlor in the eighteen hundreds.
To his surprise, it still seemed to be a parlor, furnished with antique chairs and some kind of fancy mahogany table near the center of the room.
One of the chairs was occupied by a man who gave off the aura of a black-and-white movie star, his casual suit spotless, his hair impeccable. He held a cup and saucer in one hand.
He rose to his feet as Skata entered the room, setting the cup and saucer on the table. "Good evening," he said, as if he had been expecting a visitor. "I am Gideon Montgomery. You must be Skata." He held out his hand.
It took Skata a moment to realize that the vampire wanted a handshake.
Refusing the handshake would probably be a bad idea, so he stepped forward and clasped it briefly before letting it go.
Gideon smiled and gestured to the other side of the small table, where a second cup and saucer sat steaming. "I took the liberty of making you a cup of tea."
"So, Macon seems like an interesting guy."
Easton groaned. "You woke me up in the middle of the night to ask me about my boyfriend?"
"We could always talk about something else," said Angel, and the stuffed rabbit rubbed its chin with one stubby paw. "But I really like this Macon subject."
"For heaven's sake, why?"
"Because I don't like him," stated Angel abruptly.
"Is that supposed to affect me in some way?"
"Don't be childish."
He widened his startlingly blue eyes. "Me, childish? Perish the thought."
"You're holding a stuffed bunny," she pointed out.
He looked down. "It's your stuffed bunny."
He made his way to the kitchen where he found Angel expertly flipping pancakes in a non-stick skillet.
"Look at you," said Angel without turning around, "all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Pancake?"
"Is it poisoned?" asked Skata, sitting down on one of the barstools with a groan.
"For shame. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Poison is reserved for dinner."
"I was hoping you could explain why exactly there were slime and teeth in the drain?"
"Slime and teeth? What color is the slime? What consistency?"
"I don't know, it's slime. Clearish, kinda thick, kinda drippy."
"Okay, just don't say 'drippy' again. What about the teeth?"
"Looks like three back molars."
"What's the ratio of slime to teeth?"
"What — seriously? A palmful of slime. Three teeth. Is this really relevant?"
"Oh, boy."
"'Oh boy' isn't the answer I was hoping for," said Angel.
Angel stood up straight to prove his point and immediately wished he hadn't. He leaned over again, pressing his palms against his knees, and groaned. "Oh – yeah." He squeezed his eyes shut. "I'll kill him. He's dead. I'll bury him just so I can vandalize his tombstone."
"You killed an innocent woman—"
"Shhh." The shifter pressed a finger to his lips. "You don't want to embarrass yourself."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
The shifter gave him a narrow-eyed, strangely condescending smile. "Your denial is cute, but it'll get you exactly nowhere."
Skata felt his pulse pounding against the side of his neck, throbbing against the rope.
"Now…" The shifter pointed in the direction he'd come, to an entrance Skata couldn't turn far enough to see. "I have to leave. Be a good boy, Skata."
"Go to hell."
"Already been," said the shifter. "Got out on good behavior."
Colton looked over his shoulder. The roof was completely gone, a mound of junk piled in the center. "What was this place?"
"Beats me." Angel shrugged. "Haunted house?"
"Yeah, but what was it before it was a haunted house?"
"Pre-haunted."
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4 thoughts on "Dark is the Night: Snippets from the First Half"
sparksofember	 February 13, 201710:54 am	 Reply
Slime & teeth… *shudders*
But Angel sounds like quite a funny, sarcastic vampire. ;)
riley	 February 13, 20171:58 pm	 Reply
I missed this!
murtaghsgirl	 February 13, 20173:37 pm	 Reply
Oh my gosh!! I forgot about this story! I was a beta reader the first time around. Love it still! <3
Lisa Canfield	 February 16, 20175:05 pm	 Reply
I can't even remember all the comments I wanted to make. AAAAHHHHH I LOVE THESE BABIES. Has it been over two years??? Wow, it doesn't seem that long.


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Tom Kiely, właśc. Thomas Francis Kiely (ur. 25 sierpnia 1869 w Ballyneale w hrabstwie Tipperary, zm. 6 listopada 1951 w Carrick-on-Suir) – irlandzki lekkoatleta reprezentujący Wielką Brytanię, mistrz olimpijski w wieloboju.

Pochodził z Ballyneale w pobliżu miasta Carrick-on-Suir w hrabstwie Tipperary. Uprawiał z sukcesem wiele konkurencji lekkoatletycznych: początkowo trójskok i biegi płotkarskie, a później rzut młotem. Zdobył mistrzostwo Wielkiej Brytanii (AAA) w rzucie młotem w 1897–1899, 1901 i 1902, a w 1900 przegrał tylko z przyszłym mistrzem olimpijskim Johnem Flanaganem. Ta porażka sprawiła, że zrezygnował ze startu w igrzyskach olimpijskich w 1900 w Paryżu.

Wystartował za to w igrzyskach olimpijskich w 1904 w Saint Louis. Gdy działacze brytyjscy dowiedzieli się o jego zamiarze, zaoferowali mu pokrycie kosztów przejazdu w zamian za reprezentowanie Wielkiej Brytanii. Kiely jednak odmówił, podobnie jak działaczom amerykańskich klubów lekkoatletycznych, uważał się bowiem za Irlandczyka i oświadczył, że reprezentuje Irlandię. Ponieważ jednak w tym czasie Irlandia nie była niepodległa, w oficjalnej dokumentacji Międzynarodowego Komitetu Olimpijskiego Kiely figuruje jako zawodnik z Wielkiej Brytanii.

Na igrzyskach Kiely wystartował w konkurencji all-around, która była poprzednikiem dzisiejszego dziesięcioboju. Składała się z dziesięciu konkurencji rozgrywanych w ciągu jednego dnia (miejsca Kiely'ego w poszczególnych konkurencjach są podane w nawiasach): bieg na 100 jardów (6. miejsce), pchnięcie kulą (3. miejsce), skok wzwyż (5. miejsce), chód na 880 jardów (1. miejsce), rzut młotem (1. miejsce), skok o tyczce (5. miejsce), bieg na 120 jardów przez płotki (1. miejsce), rzut 56-funtowym ciężarem (1. miejsce), skok w dal (2. miejsce), bieg na milę (4. miejsce). W sumie Kiely zwyciężył z przewagą 120 punktów nad drugim Adamem Gunnem ze Stanów Zjednoczonych.

Zawody lekkoatletyczne na igrzyskach w Saint Louis były uważane również za mistrzostwa Stanów Zjednoczonych (AAU), więc Kiely uzyskał także ten tytuł. Ponownie zdobył go w 1906.

W późniejszych latach prowadził farmę w rodzinnym Ballyneale.

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To Surveil, With Love, titulado Vigilando con amor en Hispanoamérica y en España, es el vigésimo episodio de la vigesimoprimera temporada de la serie animada Los Simpson, emitido originalmente en Estados Unidos el 2 de mayo de 2010 y en Hispanoamérica el 12 de septiembre de 2010 por FOX.

Sinopsis
Todo comienza con Lisa y los demás interpretando la canción de Kesha Tik Tok.

Homer, Barney, Carl y Lenny están en la Taberna de Moe aburridos hasta que Duff Man llega y les da a todos accesorios de béisbol, cubretarros, camisetas que dicen YO, cojines para los asientos de sus autos y memorias USB flash. Homer le enseña todo a Bart, pero a él no le importa.

Mientras, en la escuela, Lisa compite en un programa de debates, siendo humillada por una chica fresa con cabello castaño llamada Megan.

Cuando el señor Burns se entera de que la central nuclear de Springfield se ha quedado sin espacio para almacenar los residuos de plutonio, ordena a Smithers esconder algunos de los materiales radiactivos en la bolsa de deporte de Homer. Más tarde ese día, Homer se olvida de la bolsa en una estación de tren y el caos se produce cuando la policía ve a la bolsa como una amenaza y la hacen explotar. A raíz del suceso, la policía de la ciudad suspende las libertades civiles.

Al oír la necesidad de la ciudad por una vigilancia estricta, un contratista inglés les muestra un video de como su ciudad "mejoró" gracias a las cámaras ocultas; en menos de unos días decenas de cámaras son instaladas en toda la ciudad dejando al jefe Wiggum a cargo de ellas.

Pero al darse cuenta el jefe Wiggum que no podría vigilar él solo a toda la ciudad, contrata a ciudadanos para que lo hagan. Flanders ve a Jimbo y una adolescente llamada Shauna besándose con lengua. El contratista señala que usen sus bocinas megasónicas, señalando a un micrófono. El contratista insulta a los enamorados y Shauna rompe con Jimbo. Después de ver el proceso de señalamiento ilegal, Marge ve que Maggie estaba viendo la cámara de un bar gay, creyendo ella que era Barrio Sésamo. Marge se lleva a Maggie, dejando solo a Flanders. En la noche, Lisa se tiñe el pelo de rubio a castaño. Al día siguiente, en el bar de Moe, Homer y sus amigos hacen apuestas del clima. Pero son delatados por Flanders. Homer se va y su "apuesta de fuerte granizada" le afecta a él mismo.

Flanders hace un buen trabajo, señalando a la gente cuando hacían algo ilegal. Sin embargo, a los habitantes de Springfield les molesta ser vigilados, y Bart, experimentando con su trasero, descubre un punto ciego de las cámaras en su patio trasero. Entonces, todos deciden ir allí para realizar cosas ilegales. Pero Marge accidentalmente delata a los conciudadanos y Flanders le pide a su hijo Rod que vea por el espejo para verlos a todos. Y Flanders ve que Dolph, Jimbo y Kearney están haciendo que Todd trague ratas.

En esos instantes, Lisa participaba en otro debate, siendo humillada en frente de todos por no ser ella misma y por sus malísimas y falsas predicciones de sus discriminaciones racistas sobre las mujeres de cabello rubio. Pronto, Flanders descubre a todos haciendo cosas ilegales, pero Homer le hace darse cuenta de que, al vigilarlos, estaba tratando de ser Dios, lo que es el peor pecado. Por ello, los dos deciden destruir todas las cámaras.

No obstante, el contratista inglés que instaló las cámaras se resigna a ver como sus monitores son apagados, mientras que le dice a la Reina que ya no va a poder ver un reality show de una ciudad, dando el término de este mismo también y al final aparece su guardia con un gato diciendo que su pelaje huele mal

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Enlaces externos
 "To Surveil with Love" en TheSimpsons.com (en inglés)
 "To Surveil with Love" en The Simpsons Archive (en inglés)
 "To Surveil with Love" en TV.com (en inglés)

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