65-2898. Immunity from liability in civil actions for reporting, communicating and investigating certain information concerning alleged malpractice incidents and other information; conditions. (a) No person reporting to the state board of healing arts in good faith any information such person may have relating to alleged incidents of malpractice, or the qualifications, fitness or character of, or disciplinary action taken against, a person licensed, registered or certified by the board shall be subject to a civil action for damages as a result of reporting such information, and such person reporting shall be immune from any civil liability that might otherwise be incurred in an action resulting from reporting such information. In any civil action resulting from reporting such information in which a court determines that a person reporting under this section reported in good faith, the court shall allow the person reporting a reasonable amount for attorney fees and expenses incurred in defending the civil action.
(b) Any state, regional or local association composed of persons licensed to practice a profession regulated by the board and the individual members of any committee thereof that in good faith investigates or communicates information pertaining to the alleged incidents of malpractice, or the qualifications, fitness or character of, or disciplinary action taken against, any licensee, registrant or certificate holder to the state board of healing arts or to any committee or agent thereof, shall be immune from liability in any civil action that is based upon such investigation or transmittal of information if the investigation and communication was made in good faith and did not represent as true any matter not reasonably believed to be true.
History: L. 1976, ch. 261, § 1; L. 1979, ch. 201, § 1; L. 1983, ch. 213, § 9; L. 2014, ch. 131, § 37; L. 2017, ch. 33, § 3; July 1.


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The relationship between lifetime health trajectories and socioeconomic attainment in middle age
Dohoon Lee, Margot Jackson
A large literature demonstrates the direct and indirect influence of health on socioeconomic attainment, and reveals the ways in which health and socioeconomic background simultaneously and dynamically affect opportunities for attainment and mobility. Despite an increasing understanding of the effects of health on social processes, research to date remains limited in its conceptualization and measurement of the temporal dimensions of health, especially in the presence of socioeconomic circumstances that covary with health over time. Guided by life course theory, we use data from the British National Child Development Study, an ongoing panel study of a cohort born in 1958, to examine the association between lifetime health trajectories and socioeconomic attainment in middle age. We apply finite mixture modeling to identify distinct trajectories of health that simultaneously account for timing, duration and stability. Moreover, we employ propensity score weighting models to account for the presence of time-varying socioeconomic factors in estimating the impact of health trajectories. We find that, when poor health is limited to the childhood years, the disadvantage in socioeconomic attainment relative to being continuously healthy is either insignificant or largely explained by time-varying socioeconomic confounders. The socioeconomic impact of continuously deteriorating health over the life course is more persistent, however. Our results suggest that accounting for the timing, duration and stability of poor health throughout both childhood and adulthood is important for understanding how health works to produce social stratification. In addition, the findings highlight the importance of distinguishing between confounding and mediating effects of time-varying socioeconomic circumstances.
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Patriotic and traditional
Anchors aweigh (United States Navy Band)
Composer: Charles Zimmerman
Performing Ensemble: United States Navy Band
Lyricist: Alfred Miles
Publisher: Department of Defense
Date Issued: 1993
Notes Taken from CD titled "From the Sea: Music of the U.S. Navy."
"Anchors Aweigh," the official song of the Navy, was first sung publicly in Philadelphia's Franklin Field at the December 1, 1906 Army-Navy football game. The rousing song helped the Midshipmen shut out the Cadets with a 10 to 0 victory. Lieutenant Charles A. Zimmermann, a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory and director of the Naval Academy Band, composed the song's music, and Midshipman Alfred H. Miles supplied its words.
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To a remarkable degree Charles Zimmermann's career paralleled that of the bandleader John Philip Sousa. Zimmermann's father was a member of the Navy Academy Band during the Civil War just as Sousa's father was of the Marine Band. Each of the sons, both at age 26, assumed leadership of those respective bands and both committed their lives to music and the promotion of music education.
At the Naval Academy, Zimmermann was approached by Midshipman First Class Alfred Hart Miles with a request from his classmates. The maestro had a tradition of composing a song for each graduating class and Miles and the class of '07 wanted a lively football marching song that would "live forever."
Navy lore has it that Zimmermann and Miles worked out the song together, sitting at the organ in the Naval Academy Chapel.
In the days just prior to the Army-Navy football game, Zimmermann composed the music while Miles developed the words and the title. Miles got his title, "Anchors Aweigh," from an expression meaning the ship's hoisted anchor has just cleared the sea's bottom and, by implication, the voyage is underway.
His verses read:
Stand Navy down the field, sails set to the sky.
We'll never change our course, so Army you steer shy-y-y-y.
Roll up the score, Navy, Anchors Aweigh.
Sail Navy down the field and sink the Army, sink the Army Grey.
Get underway, Navy, Decks cleared for the fray,
We'll hoist true Navy Blue So Army down your Grey-y-y-y.
Full speed ahead, Navy; Army heave to,
Furl Black the Grey and Gold and hoist the Navy, hoist the Navy Blue
A third stanza for "Anchors Aweigh" was written by Midshipman Royal Lovell. And in the 1920s the lyrics were revised by George D. Lottman. It is Lottman's final verse that is particularly well known.
Anchors Aweigh, my boys, Anchors Aweigh.
Farewell to college joys, we sail at break of day-ay-ay-ay.
Through our last night on shore, drink to the foam,
Until we meet once more:
Here's wishing you a happy voyage home.
Charles Zimmermann died just before the U.S. entered WWI but his counterpart, John Philip Sousa, enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve and was paid one dollar per month to organize the young musicians recruited into the service. He molded the Great Lakes Navy Band into an accomplished musical organization and became the first Navy musician to hold the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Midshipman Miles continued with his Navy career and reached the rank of Captain.
John Philip Sousa c. 1900
Revised Lyrics
by George D. Lottman
Verse 2 is the most widely sung.
Stand, Navy, out to sea, Fight our battle cry;
We'll never change our course, So vicious foe steer shy-y-y-y.
Roll out the TNT, Anchors Aweigh. Sail on to victory
And sink their bones to Davy Jones, hooray!
Until we meet once more. Here's wishing you a happy voyage home
Credit for some: Library of Congress, Music Division.
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Columbia Gem Of The Ocean
Fort Valley Music Festivals
Gasoline Gus And His Jitney Bus
From the halls of Montezuma
Hungarian Rag
In my heart, on my mind
My beautiful Alsace-Lorraine
My Old Kentucky Home
Onward, Christian soldiers
Spanish rhapsody
The Bells Of St. Mary's
The Chimes Of Liberty
The Church in the wildwood
The Invincible Eagle
The Rifle Regiment
The Trumpet Shall Sound Messiah
Till the boys come home
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Twenty Third Psalm
Warsaw Polka
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again
Yankee Doodle Boy
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Anol Chatterjee is one of the most prominent Indian Classical young vocalist from India. He is a prime disciple of Guru Ajoy Chakrabarty. Anol, the 1st recipient of Shrutinandan Puraskar, an artiste of All India Radio and I.C.C.R, a national scholar, an ex scholar of ITC Sangeet Research Academy, performs all over the globe quite frequently.
Anol Chatterjee a noted lyricist and music composer himself is also equally able to perform Light Classical Music, Bengali semi classical songs and Devotional songs as well.
Anol is a senior instructor at Shrutinandan, an International Music Academy. His debut album was inaugurated by the Tabla Maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain. Pandit Ravishankar the legendary Sitar exponent expressed his faith about Anol's bright musical future.


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Enforcement of arbitration awards in the United States in substantial matters is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1, et seq. (FAA). A closely related statute found at 9 U.S.C. §§ 201-208 contains specific provisions for international awards rendered under the New York Convention, but the FAA also governs those proceedings unless there is a conflict. Enacted in 1925 during an era when strong judicial hostility to arbitration was the norm, the FAA has long been in need of updating and revision. But various efforts to do so (other than an effort to eliminate its applicability to most consumer cases) have not really gotten off the ground. While it is generally short and to the point, there are nevertheless quirks and oddities in the FAA that are rather hard to justify. One of these, the disconnect between courts that can confirm an arbitral award and courts that can vacate an arbitral award, recently reared its head in a pending case.
Having prevailed in the arbitration, the winning party, expecting potential difficulties in collection, promptly filed a petition to confirm the award under § 9 of the FAA in a Federal District Court where there was subject matter jurisdiction (diversity of citizenship), personal jurisdiction, and proper venue. Not coincidentally, that District was also where many of the losing party's assets are located, plus it has a well-deserved reputation for deciding matters quickly. However, it is not where the arbitration took place. The losing party accordingly waited until just before a response was due to this petition, then simultaneously filed a petition to vacate the award in the Federal District where the arbitration took place, and asked the court where the petition to confirm was filed to stay its proceedings pending resolution of the petition to vacate filed elsewhere.
Per §§ 10 and 11 of the FAA, the power to vacate or correct an award lies only in a court where the arbitration took place. By contrast, § 9 of the FAA allows the parties to specify which courts can confirm an award, and all standard form arbitration clauses give this power to any court having proper jurisdiction. Thus the quirk. There is no particular rationale behind this difference in treatment, and it has no particular defenders. It just is. Most courts in the situation of the court where the petition to confirm was filed have indeed stayed their proceedings until the petition to vacate is determined. In this instance, the court went one better, transferring the petition to confirm outright, per 28 U.S.C. §1404, to the same District where the petition to vacate is pending. U.S. courts generally are strongly disinclined to permit a later-filed action take precedence over an earlier-filed one, giving significant deference to the forum selection of the party first to the courthouse. But the odd language of the FAA drives exactly the opposite result in this situation. The result here, as is often the case, was a lot of procedural maneuvering at significant cost to both parties that was entirely attributable to the statute's inconsistent wording. And ultimate resolution of the status of the award and its collection if confirmed has been significantly delayed, not least because the proceedings are now in a District that moves considerably more slowly than where the petition to confirm was initially filed.


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MFS Releases Closed-End Fund Income Distribution Sources for Certain Funds
September 21, 2020 04:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MFS Investment Management® (MFS®) released today the distribution income sources for six of its closed-end funds for September 2020: MFS® Charter Income Trust (NYSE: MCR), MFS® Government Markets Income Trust (NYSE: MGF), MFS® Intermediate High Income Fund (NYSE: CIF), MFS® Intermediate Income Trust (NYSE: MIN), MFS® Multimarket Income Trust (NYSE: MMT) and MFS® Special Value Trust (NYSE: MFV). This information also can be obtained by visiting MFS.com by clicking on Products & Strategies > Closed End Funds > Dividend Source Information.
MFS Charter Income Trust
Distribution period: September 2020
Distribution amount per share: $ 0.05911
The following table sets forth the estimated amounts of the current distribution and the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year to date from the following sources: net investment income, net realized short-term capital gains, net realized long-term capital gains and return of capital or other capital source. The fund's fiscal year begins each December 1st. All amounts are expressed per common share.
Total cumulative
distributions for the
fiscal year to date
% Breakdown of
the total
fiscal year to
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Net Realized ST Cap Gains
Net Realized LT Cap Gains
Return of Capital or Other Capital Source
Total (per common share)
Average annual total return (in relation to NAV) for the five years ended 8-31-2020
Annualized current distribution rate expressed as a percentage of month end NAV as of 8-31-2020
Cumulative total return (in relation to NAV) for the fiscal year through 8-31-2020
Cumulative fiscal year distributions as a percentage of NAV as of 8-31-2020
MFS Government Markets Income Trust
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MFS Intermediate High Income Fund
MFS Intermediate Income Trust
The following table sets forth the estimated amounts of the current distribution and the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year to date from the following sources: net investment income, net realized short-term capital gains, net realized long-term capital gains and return of capital or other capital source. The fund's fiscal year begins each November 1st. All amounts are expressed per common share.
MFS Multimarket Income Trust
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Annualized current distribution rate expressed as a percentage of month end NAV as 8-31-2020
The above funds have adopted a managed distribution plan. Under a managed distribution plan, to the extent that sufficient investment income is not available on a monthly basis, the fund will distribute long-term capital gains and/or return of capital in order to maintain its managed distribution level. Investors should not draw any conclusions about the fund's investment performance from the amount of the fund's distributions or from the terms of the fund's managed distribution plan.
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Home Breaking News 20 million cases of coronavirus reported worldwide
20 million cases of coronavirus reported worldwide
The number of cases has grown exponentially since the first were reported in China in December. The world recorded one million cases more than three months later on April 2. The total reached 10 million cases less than three months after that, on June 28, and it only took six weeks to double.
The seven-day average of new daily cases has been over a quarter of a million for the past two weeks.
The increase in cases remains largely due to the Latin America and Caribbean region, as well as Asia, where cases are on the rise again, according to JHU figures. Mortality rates remain highest in the former.
Brazil has recorded more than three million cases and 100,000 deaths, just behind the United States, which is by far the most affected country with more than five million cases and 160,000 deaths.
India has the third-highest number of cases with more than two million, reaching the milestone just three weeks after hitting one million. The country is struggling to cope with the rapidly growing epidemic, with critically ill patients being turned away from hospitals that lack beds, staff and equipment.
However, India's death rate remains relatively low, according to JHU data. India has about three deaths per 100,000, or just over 44,000 in total, compared with nearly 67 deaths per 100,000 or more than 46,000 in the UK, which has the highest death rate of 20 most affected countries.
The UK is among several European countries seeing new clusters of infection amid fears of a second wave. Stay-at-home orders have been put in place in parts of northern England where outbreaks have been identified. The UK registered 1,113 new cases on Sunday, bringing its total to more than 310,000.
Spain saw a rapid increase in the number of cases last week, with 4,507 new cases registered on Friday. Daily figures have reached levels not seen since before the state of emergency ended on June 21, with the country reporting more than 314,000 cases and 28,000 deaths in total.
Leading French scientists warned last week that its situation is "fragile" and could "change course at any time towards a less controlled scenario like in Spain for example". Paris introduced compulsory mask wearing in outdoor spaces, with national daily cases reaching 3,897 on Friday – the highest since May. Belgium also saw a new peak – its average weekly number of new infections rose 62% in the last week of July compared to the previous week, according to the country's health authorities.
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Jeremy Butler Gould
Jeremy Butler Gould Passes Away
By Hotel Business on May 10, 2019 Industry
WAKE FOREST, NC—Jeremy Butler Gould, SVP and partner at Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP), passed away on May 2 at an industry event. He was 48.
A hospitality veteran for more than 18 years, he sold furniture, fixtures and equipment (FF&E) to hotels his entire career. At VIP, Gould led a team that designed and furnished hotels around the country, ensuring the properties looked great for guests and performed well for owners. A driven individual, Gould attributed his business acumen to working hard and providing a level of service unmatched in the hospitality industry.
Prior to working at VIP, Gould served as national account director at Hospitality Furnishings & Design Inc. and held the role of national accounts manager at Innvision Hospitality. At Hatchett Hospitality, he served as VP of national accounts.
Gould was born on January 2, 1971 in Raleigh, NC, the first of two sons of Lindsey Marshall Gould and Jewelle Jackson Boone. He graduated from Needham Broughton High School in 1989 and earned an undergraduate degree at East Carolina University (ECU) in 1994.
Beloved by friends, family and colleagues, he was affectionately referred to as "J. Gould." He was active at his church, St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, and an active member of his community as a coach of youth football and tee-ball, and as a proactive member of local groups such as the Knights of Columbus, Ancient Order of Hibernians, Pi Lambda Phi, and the East Carolina University Pirate Club.
Gould's family shared: "Our lives are typically measured in years, but this grieving family prefers to measure Jeremy's life in moments."
He is survived by his wife, Nicole Rollins Gould, six children, his parents and stepparents and siblings.
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, May 12, from 2—6 p.m. at Bright Funeral Home & Cremation center, 405 S. Main St., Wake Forest, NC (919-556-5811). A funeral Mass will be held on Monday, May 13, at 11 a.m. at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, 520 W. Holding Ave., Wake Forest, NC.
More details on the arrangements can be found here: https://www.brightfunerals.com/tributes/Jeremy-Gould
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Catherine of Siena Catholic School, 520 W. Holding Ave., Wake Forest, NC 27587.
Vertically Integrated Projects, has set up a trust fund to help the family.
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What is your morning routine?
A: So my morning routine, although during the pandemic it has changed dramatically, but my sort of pre-pandemic routine that I'm trying to get back to is that I usually get up 5 or 5:30am and go to my desk and review emails, the different sources of news that I get and then finalize my preparations for the day. It might be reviewing a speech I'm going to give or questions that I'm going to ask during a congressional hearing that day. It might also include replying to emails or texts. Then I'll try to get a short workout in – at least three days a week. Maybe a run or walk and then some upper body strengthening and core conditioning type of exercises that I can do at home. After that, I'll have a cup of coffee – rarely do I eat breakfast – then I'm out the door heading to my office on Capitol Hill. Probably the biggest change is that since the pandemic is obviously I'm not getting out the house.
How would you describe what you do?
A: As a member of congress and the legislative branch the most obvious work we do is pass legislation but it's not what we do a whole lot of…I would say that what I do, I'm a communicator. I am a connector who connects my constituents to resources with my staff where we problem solve. Whether it's trying to design legislation or appropriation on Capitol Hill to meet the needs of my constituents or anyone who has come to us and asked for assistance; or whether it's responding to a constituent request for assistance either for VA benefits or an expedited passport…I'm a problem solver.
What is the last book or article you read and what was your biggest takeaway?
A: One of the last books I read is a book called "Winners Take All" by Anand Giridharadas. It's a book about how the (sort of) social elites of our country have assumed the responsibility of "changing the world," but in many ways they contribute to the inequities and inequalities that exist in this world. The book sort of advocates that the best way to changing the world is to create equality, opportunity, and equity through public institutions, as well as, through democratic institutions like the State Legislatures and the Congress. Also, through public agencies, elected officials and the court, because it's only when you have institutions that are really 'of the people' and that's what government really is…can you get institutions and leaders to affect the kind of changes you want to address with respect to inequities and inequalities and creating opportunities for more people. So on the one hand, you know, we should appreciate and encourage let's say philanthropy. Philanthropy doesn't always necessarily go to eliminating the underlying cause for the philanthropy. We have many philanthropic institutions that give to those who have basic food insecurity or homelessness or alcohol and drug addictions, but are we really assisting those people? And it's important that we do – we should always assist our neighbors in need, but we've got to look beyond that and go to the fundamental conditions or the fundamental factors that create those conditions and that's something that a robust public sector should do.
Identify one trend in your industry you predict will change how business is done?
A: My industry is government and we created government to protect the public welfare. To provide domestic tranquility and to promote the general good and we're often in government asking businesses to do things they otherwise wouldn't do. For example, the automobile industry wasn't going to do seatbelts until the Federal Government told them that "you will." Many of the occupational safety standards, child labor laws were necessary because the industry wouldn't do that. My industry is about ensuring that behavior doesn't do harm to the public and it promotes well-being and the general good. In response to all of that, what you're seeing is a consolidation in so many industries. Whether it's In hospitality, financial services, aviation or even in law firms, you're seeing a consolidation. And I think a lot of that is happening as response to the role of government. And I don't say that in a bad way…that government is over regulating but in this very complex world in which we live where government does have to regulate, where it does have to set the boundaries, I think a lot of private industry participants believe the only way that we can sort of go toe-to-toe with the government is if they get larger and bigger. I think as a result the trend has been these mergers, acquisitions and consolidations.
What's your favorite productivity habit?
A: For me it's maintaining a checklist and a calendar. Maintaining a good checklist where I've grouped things by 'A, B and C' priorities, and ensuring that I'm not reading the same email or text more than once. So when you read it and you act on it. When I was first starting out of college – and this was back in the day when you had literally had an inbox and outbox on your desk – I was taught to not pick up a piece of paper in your inbox more than once. When you pick it up, you act on it and you put it in your outbox. So, it's a checklist, a calendar and it's trying not to be repetitive or let's say duplicative in sort of managing my communications and correspondence.
In business what is something that most people learn only after it's too late?
A: I think without a doubt it's that you have to be willing to take the advice of people who've already experienced what you're either experiencing or about to experience. I'm a big believer in learning by doing and learning through experience and trial and error. Sometimes people confuse that with not taking advice or not seeking out advice and I think it's a mistake. I often say to people who work for me and often I say to my kids, give me 15 minutes of your time so I can share with you 15 years of my experience. Do with it what you want. Value it how you want, but I think that all too often – and it's happened to me in my life, you believe that "Hey I can do this on my own, I've got to learn how to do it" and you equate that with I'm not going to necessarily ask people for advice and counsel. I think that you can do things on your own. You can be successful with your talents, your ability and your skills and over time your experience but that doesn't mean that you should not tap into the experience of others to shape and guide how you approach things.
About Anthony G. Brown:
Congressman Anthony Brown represents Maryland's 4th Congressional District. He serves as the Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and is a member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Committee on Natural Resources and the bipartisan Committee on Ethics. Congressman Brown is also currently a co-Chair of the New Democrat Coalition's National Security Task Force.
A retired Colonel in the United States Army Reserve, Congressman Brown's military record spanned more than a quarter century as an aviator and JAG officer, during which time he graduated first in his flight class and received both Airborne and Air Assault qualifications. Congressman Brown was awarded the Legion of Merit for his distinguished military service. In 2004, he was deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom, earned a Bronze Star, and became one of the nation's highest-ranking elected officials at that time to serve a tour of duty in Iraq.
In 1998, Congressman Brown was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates to represent Prince George's County. He went on to serve eight years as Lt. Governor where he focused on higher education, economic development, healthcare, domestic violence and foster care.
Congressman Brown graduated Harvard Law School in 1992, and then went on to clerk for the Honorable Eugene Sullivan, Chief Judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He was an associate attorney in the litigation and securities practice groups in the Washington, DC office of Wilmer Hale, and later practiced zoning and land use law with the Maryland firm of Gibbs and Haller. Congressman Brown graduated Harvard College with honors and a degree in Political Science. He and his wife Karmen reside in Prince George's County.
Congressional Website: https://anthonybrown.house.gov
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My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena's anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I've decided to share those sections of my memoir that deal with creativity, writing, and publishing here on my blog.
This excerpt, from page 302, describes a time when my daughter Elena's anorexia nervosa was once again taking control and she had moved back home with her father and me. I was worried sick and miserable about her. My two cats were taking advantage of the situation to escape into the backyard as often as they could. We lived on a very quiet street with no through traffic, but I felt they weren't safe outside.
My writing started to reflect my worries about Elena's health and the cats' safety. It's no accident that today's excerpt contains a dead cat.
After a couple of hours, Elena would get up, blinking sleepily, wrap the fuzzy blanket around her middle, and shamble off to smoke a prenap cigarette on the patio.
"Mom!" she would call about half the time. "Simon and Tor got out again!"
Would the cats be okay? It was just one more thing to worry about, but I couldn't fight on every front at once. Joe, Martin, Elena, Simon and Tor, Valerie and Clint and the grandbaby . . . I was starting to have to pick my priorities, and Martin and the cats were losing.
Oh, well. At least the cats loved it outside. And Martin—
Martin was having to grow up.
Last year had been the most successful writing year I'd had. I had brought in almost as much money as Joe did. But this year had been completely miserable. Martin's first adventure had come out, but the publishing house had shoved it down a hole. They had done no marketing at all. Almost no one knew that his first book even existed.
I didn't feel it as a blow to me personally. I had never felt like a real author. But the thought of Martin and his dog Chip out there on their own, having the adventure of a lifetime . . . They should have had reader friends to go with them on that journey.
First, I had failed to help Elena. Now I'd failed Martin, too, and my sadness over these failures soaked into his world. They didn't change who Martin was, but they changed what happened to him.
One afternoon, I sat at the kitchen table and sipped my coffee. My laptop was open, and I was rereading a marked-up Word file, working on some last-minute revisions. But I wasn't seeing words. I was seeing what Martin was seeing.
He was face-to-face with heartbreak and loss.
Martin couldn't make up his mind about the skeleton slumped over the table. One second, it seemed small and pitiful. The next, it seemed uncanny and horribly inhuman, and he wanted to smash it with the nearest heavy object he could find.
Rudy had told him that the people who hadn't gotten picked for the domed suburbs had lined up to be given euthanasia shots.
"I guess I'd want to die at home too," Martin murmured to Chip. "You know, have a little peace and quiet."
Because skeletons were only people, after all—people who had faced the ultimate rejection and experienced the ultimate failure.
Martin plucked up the courage to come closer. Dry brown skin encased the bony hand in a glove of its own making. It lay in that flattish nest of fur that was piled up in the basket. A pet basket to match the little paw print bowls in the kitchen. A cat bed. The pale fur belonged to a cat.
A vision wove itself together in Martin's mind of the house before the dust, when the neat row of potted plants in the kitchen had been green and flourishing. The world was ending, and people were forming long lines to get their shot. But this man with the paw print bowls couldn't do that. What would happen to his cat? He couldn't just put her outside and not come back. He loved her too much. So he gave his cat poison and stroked her until she lay still, and then he took poison himself. And the soft fur of his cat was the last thing he felt as he drifted away into death.
Martin's throat ached. He knelt down and buried his face in his dog's shaggy fur. "I wouldn't leave you, either, Chip," he said. "Not ever."
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Crisis of the Week: NBC News Faces Questions After Lauer Firing
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This Nov. 8, 2017 photo released by NBC shows Matt Lauer on the set of the 'Today' show in New York. Photo: Nathan Congleton/NBC/Associated Press
This is a weekly commentary by external experts.
NBC News is in crisis after it fired longtime "Today" show anchor Matt Lauer after he was accused of sexual misconduct. The move came hours before the magazine Variety published a story detailing some of Mr. Lauer's alleged actions with female staffers. The day after the firing, two more women came forward to accuse Mr. Lauer, who apologized and said: "Some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed."
NBC News President Andy Lack issued a statement on Nov. 29, saying the "detailed complaint" against Mr. Lauer was a "clear violation of our company's standards." He said the priority is to create a workplace environment where everyone feels safe, adding "any actions that run counter to our core values are met with consequences, no matter who the offender." At the time of the firing, the network said it didn't know of any complaints against Mr. Lauer during his time at NBC, only to later say no complaints had been made to "current management." Mr. Lack sent a memo to staff on Dec. 1, saying the company is reviewing Mr. Lauer's prior behavior and that it needs to "build a culture of greater transparency, openness and respect."
The experts break down how well NBC News handled this crisis from a communications standpoint.
Judy Phair, APR, Fellow PRSA, president at Phair Advantage Communications: "NBC News seemed to hit the marks for good crisis communication with Andy Lack's initial memorandum to staff that announced the firing of Matt Lauer and pledging its commitment to creating a safe workplace environment for all. Mr. Lauer's female co-hosts read the memo at the opening of 'The Today Show,' thus controlling delivery of the news to the general public and highlighting NBC News' support for women in the workplace. The statement was timely, clear and decisive–a good opening act.
"Act two has been considerably harder for NBC News. Despite meeting some tenets of good crisis communication, it neglected a few others. It failed to review and to make sure it could justify potential implications of every word in a statement, as well as to pivot quickly beyond the first response and introduce a long-term crisis plan that focuses on underlying causes. Immediately, NBC News was challenged on its assertion the colleague's sexual harassment complaint about Mr. Lauer was the first it had received in his 20-year-plus NBC career. Mr. Lack responded by revising his statement to say 'current NBC News management' had received no complaints. Other media have questioned how much NBC News knew…noting a senior vice president was recently dismissed for similar inappropriate conduct.
"NBC News could have gained greater confidence by avoiding misleading language and acknowledging past sexual harassment problems at the start. Now, it's time to move from a defensive to proactive mode, outlining how it will achieve its 'highest priority' of creating a safe workplace."
Dale Weiss, senior vice president, CommCore Consulting Group: "A credibility gap was created when the NBC statement…is announced just hours before the release of the Variety article claiming Mr. Lauer's long-term pattern of inappropriate behavior. A subsequent employee memo released by NBC News President Andy Lack two days later discussed in detail many steps the company is taking to create a safer work environment.
"With many published reports indicating Mr. Lauer's actions were an open secret, perhaps NBC could have sent most of the memo (without mentioning Mr. Lauer) when the first reports of Harvey Weinstein hit the news. This would have given NBC more credibility in creating awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace. Lawyers may disagree because of legal exposure, but in situations like this the court of public opinion should prevail.
"It's also all about timing. While all news operations want to be first in reporting a big story, the visual of shock and tears from 'Today Show' anchor Savannah Guthrie reading Mr. Lack's statement could easily have been misinterpreted. What were the optics from viewers seeing this with the volume turned low? NBC could have announced the news via its social media accounts well in advance of the morning programs. This may have offered Lauer's on-air colleagues time to digest the situation and report it more objectively."
Davia Temin, chief executive, Temin and Co.: "NBC's handling of the Matt Lauer affair is a fascinating example of the almost-triumph of alt-fact and spin. In the end, though, it turned out to be a serious breach of public trust. At first blush, when Andy Lack announced the firing, from his comments it appeared NBC was really doing the right thing: getting ahead of the issue, showing moral courage to jettison a money-maker the minute they had evidence he sexually harassed one or more women. The statement was noble and perfectly done.
"The only slightly disingenuous note was struck when he proclaimed this was 'the first complaint about his behavior in the over 20 years he's been at NBC News...' as there have been persistent rumors about Mr. Lauer's conduct. It seemed improbable this was the first time allegations had been made known to NBC management, despite their spokesperson's later assertion this was true, at least to current management.
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Jefferson Mays stars in a virtual one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."
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Mays co-wrote and will play all the roles in the filmed adaptation of the Charles Dickens holiday classic
Jefferson Mays, the versatile UC San Diego-trained actor who earned a Tony nomination for his unique ability to play multiple characters at once, will take on all of Victorian England in a filmed version of his one-man stage version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."
The production, which will begin streaming globally on this Saturday, is being presented as a fundraiser for La Jolla Playhouse and several other partner theaters that have been impacted by the pandemic.
Mays earned a Tony Award in 2004 for playing 40 characters in the solo play "I Am My Own Wife," which got its start as a Page to Stage workshop at La Jolla Playhouse in 2001. He also earned a Tony nomination in 2014 for playing nine members of the same family in the musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," which had a pre-Broadway tryout at the Old Globe in 2013. He will play about 50 characters in "A Christmas Carol."
Mays, who earned his master's degree in acting from UCSD in 1991, wrote the adaptation for the Dickens play with his wife, actress Susan Lyons, and director and co-conceiver Michael Arden. The film version is based on the 2018 stage production at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, which earned a rave review in the Los Angeles Times.
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Q: The cv.glmnet() prediction is the opposite of using "class" and "response" I'm trying to plot roc curve from lasso logistic regression result. so I used predict() using type="response" to get a probability. however, the result was opposite of when I put type = "class"
first of all, this is my dataset. my predictor has 2 levels
selected_data$danger <- factor(selected_data$danger, levels = c(1,0))
lasso_data<-selected_data

str(lasso_data$danger)
# Factor w/ 2 levels "1","0": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...

# partition
input_train <- createDataPartition(y=lasso_data$danger, p=0.8, list=FALSE)
train_dataset <- lasso_data[input_train,]
test_dataset <- lasso_data[-input_train,]

dim(train_dataset)
# [1] 768  62
dim(test_dataset)
# [1] 192  62

I did run both cases(type = class, response) to compare.
lasso_model <- cv.glmnet( x=data.matrix(train_dataset[,-length(train_dataset)]), y = train_dataset[,length(train_dataset)],
family = "binomial" , type.measure = "auc",alpha=1, nfolds=5)

lasso_pred <- predict(lasso_model, newx=data.matrix(test_dataset[,-length(test_dataset)]),
                      s=lasso_model$lambda.min, type= "class", levels=c(1,0))

lasso_pred_resp <- predict(lasso_model, s="lambda.1se", newx=data.matrix(test_dataset[,-length(test_dataset)]), type="response", levels=c(1,0))

threshold <- 0.5 # or whatever threshold you use
pred <- ifelse(lasso_pred_resp>threshold, 1, 0)

table(lasso_pred, pred)
#           pred
# lasso_pred  0  1
#          0 11 95
#          1 76 10

I have no idea why this is happening...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A: For logistic regression in R, the probability or "response" always refers to the probability of being the 2nd level, in your case it is "0".
So you predictions should be:
pred <- ifelse(lasso_pred_resp>threshold, 0, 1)

To avoid confusions, you can also do:
lvl <- levels(lasso_data$danger)
pred <- ifelse(lasso_pred_resp>threshold,lvl[2],lvl[1])

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Q: Fibration over contractible space is homotopic to a fiber Let $\pi: E \to B$ be a fibration of $E$ over $B$, let $F = \pi^{-1}(b)$ for some $b \in B$ be a representative fiber, and suppose that $B$ is contractible. Is it always the case (or are there some nice conditions guaranteeing) that $E$ is homotopic to $F$?
(For those curious, the context is John Milnor's work on the Milnor fibration: given an analytic function $f: \mathbf{C}^m \to \mathbf{C}$ with a singular point $f(0) = 0$ at the origin, the intersection of $f^{-1}(0)$ with a sufficiently small sphere $S_\epsilon^{2m-1}$ about the origin is transverse. Call this intersection $K$; the map $\pi(z) = f(z)/|f(z)|$ gives a locally trivial fibration of $S_\epsilon^{2m-1}-K$ over $S^1$. Milnor seems to rely implicitly on a result similar to the above.)

A: Yes, it is always the case. If you just need a weak homotopy equivalence, look at the long exact sequence in homotopy:
$$\require{cancel}
\dots \to \cancel{\pi_{n+1}(B)} \to \pi_n(F) \to \pi_n(E) \to \cancel{\pi_n(B)} \to \dots$$
to see that the inclusion $F \to E$ induces an isomorphism on all homotopy groups.
More generally, if you want a full-on homotopy equivalence, you can use the well-known fact that if $f_0, f_1 : B' \to B$ are homotopic and $E \to B$ is a fibration, then the two fibrations $f_0^* E \to B'$ and $f_1^* E \to B'$ are fibre homotopic. (The proof of this is a bit more technical.)
In the present case, let $f_0 = \operatorname{id}_B : B \to B$ and $f_1 : B \to B$ to be a constant map. Since $B$ is contractible, $f_0 \sim f_1$. Of course $f_0^*E = E$, while $f_1^*E \to B$ is the trivial fibration $B \times F \to B$. Since these two fibrations are fibre homotopy equivalent, their total spaces must be homotopy equivalent, i.e. $E \simeq F \times B$.
In fact we even see that there is a stronger result, that there is a commuting diagram where the vertical arrows are homotopy equivalences:
$$\require{AMScd}
\begin{CD}
F @>>> E @>>> B \\
@V{\sim}VV @V{\sim}VV @V{=}VV \\
F @>>> B \times F @>>> B
\end{CD}$$


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