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Biased AI Can Be Bad For Your Health – Here's How To Promote Algorithmic Fairness
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Artificial intelligence (AI) holds great promise for improving human health by helping doctors make accurate diagnoses and treatment decisions. It can also lead to discrimination that can harm minorities, women and economically disadvantaged people.
The question is, when health care algorithms discriminate, what recourse do people have?
A prominent example of this kind of discrimination is an algorithm used to refer chronically ill patients to programs that care for high-risk patients. A study in 2019 found that the algorithm favored whites over sicker African Americans in selecting patients for these beneficial services. This is because it used past medical expenditures as a proxy for medical needs.
Poverty and difficulty accessing health care often prevent African Americans from spending as much money on health care as others. The algorithm misinterpreted their low spending as indicating they were healthy and deprived them of critically needed support.
As a professor of law and bioethics, I have analyzed this problem and identified ways to address it.
How algorithms discriminate
What explains algorithmic bias? Historical discrimination is sometimes embedded in training data, and algorithms learn to perpetuate existing discrimination.
For example, doctors often diagnose angina and heart attacks based on symptoms that men experience more commonly than women. Women are consequently underdiagnosed for heart disease. An algorithm designed to help doctors detect cardiac conditions that is trained on historical diagnostic data could learn to focus on men's symptoms and not on women's, which would exacerbate the problem of underdiagnosing women.
Also, AI discrimination can be rooted in erroneous assumptions, as in the case of the high-risk care program algorithm.
In another instance, electronic health records software company Epic built an AI-based tool to help medical offices identify patients who are likely to miss appointments. It enabled clinicians to double-book potential no-show visits to avoid losing income. Because a primary variable for assessing the probability of a no-show was previous missed appointments, the AI disproportionately identified economically disadvantaged people.
These are people who often have problems with transportation, child care and taking time off from work. When they did arrive at appointments, physicians had less time to spend with them because of the double-booking.
AI systems can be a big help in health care, like this Brazilian system that detects lung injuries that indicate COVID-19 infection. The key is ensuring that such systems don't discriminate based on race or gender.
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Some algorithms explicitly adjust for race. Their developers reviewed clinical data and concluded that generally, African Americans have different health risks and outcomes from others, so they built adjustments into the algorithms with the aim of making the algorithms more accurate.
But the data these adjustments are based on is often outdated, suspect or biased. These algorithms can cause doctors to misdiagnose Black patients and divert resources away from them.
For example, the American Heart Association heart failure risk score, which ranges from 0 to 100, adds 3 points for non-Blacks. It thus identifies non-Black patients as more likely to die of heart disease. Similarly, a kidney stone algorithm adds 3 of 13 points to non-Blacks, thereby assessing them as more likely to have kidney stones. But in both cases the assumptions were wrong. Though these are simple algorithms that are not necessarily incorporated into AI systems, AI developers sometimes make similar assumptions when they develop their algorithms.
Algorithms that adjust for race may be based on inaccurate generalizations and could mislead physicians. Skin color alone does not explain different health risks or outcomes. Instead, differences are often attributable to genetics or socioeconomic factors, which is what algorithms should adjust for.
Furthermore, almost 7% of the population is of mixed ancestry. If algorithms suggest different treatments for African Americans and non-Blacks, how should doctors treat multiracial patients?
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Promoting algorithmic fairness
There are several avenues for addressing algorithmic bias: litigation, regulation, legislation and best practices.
Disparate impact litigation: Algorithmic bias does not constitute intentional discrimination. AI developers and doctors using AI likely do not mean to hurt patients. Instead, AI can lead them to unintentionally discriminate by having a disparate impact on minorities or women. In the fields of employment and housing, people who feel that they have suffered discrimination can sue for disparate impact discrimination. But the courts have determined that private parties cannot sue for disparate impact in health care cases. In the AI era, this approach makes little sense. Plaintiffs should be allowed to sue for medical practices resulting in unintentional discrimination.
FDA regulation: The Food and Drug Administration is working out how to regulate health-care-related AI. It is currently regulating some forms of AI and not others. To the extent that the FDA oversees AI, it should ensure that problems of bias and discrimination are detected and addressed before AI systems receive approval.
Algorithmic Accountability Act: In 2019, Senators Cory Booker and Ron Wyden and Rep. Yvette D. Clarke introduced the Algorithmic Accountability Act. In part, it would have required companies to study the algorithms they use, identify bias and correct problems they discover. The bill did not become law, but it paved the path for future legislation that could be more successful.
Make fairer AIs: Medical AI developers and users can prioritize algorithmic fairness. It should be a key element in designing, validating and implementing medical AI systems, and health care providers should keep it in mind when choosing and using these systems.
AI is becoming more prevalent in health care. AI discrimination is a serious problem that can hurt many patients, and it's the responsibility of those in the technology and health care fields to recognize and address it.
Sharona Hoffman, Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Michael Wray was first elected as a director in 2008. Mr. Wray served as the President of Riverside Brick & Supply Company, Inc., a distributor of masonry materials in central Virginia, from 1998 to July 2022, and was formerly its Vice President and General Manager from 1996 to 1998. From 1992 to 1995, Mr. Wray was employed by Ruff Hewn, Inc., an apparel designer and manufacturer, where he held positions including Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Mr. Wray also served in various audit and management positions with Price Waterhouse from 1982 to 1992. The Board benefits from his experience in public accounting, which includes experience with the transportation industry. In addition, he has extensive knowledge of accounting and a valuable understanding of financial statement oversight and disclosure considerations gained from his experience as a chief financial officer. Mr. Wray also brings company leadership and business management expertise to his service on our Board due to his ongoing responsibilities as President of Riverside Brick & Supply Company, Inc.
Sherry A. Aaholm
Sherry A. Aaholm was first elected as a director in 2018. Since April 2021, Ms. Aaholm has served as Vice President and Chief Digital Officer of Cummins, Inc. (NYSE: CMI), a global power leader and a corporation of complementary business segments that design, manufacture, distribute and service a broad portfolio of power solutions, where she previously served as Vice President - Chief Information Officer from June 2013 to March 2021. From August 1999 to December 2012, Ms. Aaholm served as Executive Vice President, Information Technology of FedEx Services. The Board benefits from Ms. Aaholm's graduate degree in sustainability as well as her over 33 years of overseeing mission-critical information systems, extensive experience in technology and information security, and development of digital/Internet of Things (IoT) and prognostics solutions for manufacturing and physical products, including in the transportation and logistics industries.
Bradley R. Gabosch
Bradley R. Gabosch was first elected as a director in 2016. Mr. Gabosch previously served as Managing Director for the public accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP from August 2014 to May 2016. Mr. Gabosch also served in various positions at Grant Thornton LLP, including as Carolinas Managing Partner, from October 2009 until his retirement as partner in July 2013. He has over 43 years of experience in the public accounting profession, of which 29 years were spent as an audit partner. Mr. Gabosch brings to the Board extensive knowledge of accounting and management and a strong understanding of financial statement oversight and disclosure matters.
Patrick D. Hanley
Patrick D. Hanley was first elected as a director in 2016. Mr. Hanley has an extensive history in the trucking industry having most recently served as Senior Vice President - Finance and Accounting of UPS Freight (formerly Overnite Corporation and now known as TForce Freight, a subsidiary of TFI International) from August 2005 to October 2007. Mr. Hanley also served on the board of directors of Overnite Corporation and as Director, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of its subsidiary Overnite Transportation from June 1996 to August 2005. Prior to such roles, Mr. Hanley served in various senior financial positions at Union Pacific Resources Group and Union Pacific Corporation. Mr. Hanley has served on the Board of Directors of NewMarket Corporation (NYSE: NEU), which develops, manufactures, blends and delivers chemical additives that enhance the performance of petroleum products, since 2004. Mr. Hanley served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gallium Technologies, LLC from January 2011 to January 2016, having previously served as its President and Chief Executive Officer from July 2009 to January 2011. He also served on the Board of Directors for Xenith Bankshares, Inc. from January 2010 to July 2016. Mr. Hanley brings to the Board significant knowledge in the management and oversight of public companies and significant leadership experience in accounting and finance within the trucking industry.
Compensation Committee
Leo H. Suggs
Leo H. Suggs was first elected as a director in 2009 and has served as our Lead Independent Director since December 2018. Mr. Suggs has a long and distinguished career in the trucking industry that began in 1958, holding a wide range of positions that included Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Overnite Transportation from 1996 to 2005 and President and Chief Executive Officer of UPS Freight from 2005 to 2006. As President and Chief Executive Officer of Overnite Transportation, and as a member of its Board of Directors from November 2003 to May 2005, Mr. Suggs gained extensive knowledge about managing a union-free motor carrier in the LTL industry. He understands the opportunities and challenges associated with the LTL industry, and has first-hand knowledge of merger and acquisition considerations and strategies. We believe that Mr. Suggs is invaluable to our Board as an adviser on logistics services and LTL operations.
Wendy T. Stallings
Wendy T. Stallings was first elected as a director in 2020. Ms. Stallings is a real estate investor and the sole owner of TPI Event Solutions, Inc., a full-service event management company specializing in catering, hospitality, corporate events, merchandise and contract fulfillment, where she has served as President since December 2000. She was also the co-owner of Excel Learning Centers, a children's early learning program with campuses located throughout North Carolina, where she served as Vice President from March 2006 until the sale of the business in August 2021. The Board benefits from Ms. Stallings' law degree as well as her comprehensive expertise in entrepreneurship, strategic planning, customer relations and business management.
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John D. Kasarda, Ph.D.
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Thomas A. Stith, III was first elected as a director in 2021. From January 2021 to July 2022, Mr. Stith served as President of the North Carolina Community College System, where, as chief administrative officer of the system, he provided policy oversight and guidelines for the 58 community and technical colleges in the system. From September 2019 to December 2020, Mr. Stith served as District Director of the U.S. Small Business Administration ("SBA"), with responsibility, as the SBA's senior representative in North Carolina, for developing and implementing the District Office Strategic Plan while directing and managing all SBA programs within North Carolina. From January 2017 to September 2019, Mr. Stith was the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of The Michael Thomas Group, a firm focused on consulting and advising clients seeking business development opportunities in the public and private sectors. From January 2013 to December 2016, Mr. Stith served as Chief of Staff to North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, in which role he advised and made recommendations to the Governor on public policy, budget, and state government operations matters. The Board benefits from Mr. Stith's extensive experience in public policy and administration, diversity and inclusion and legislative affairs.
Governance and Nomination Committee Charter

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.—When it comes to domestic violence, Protestant pastors want to be helpful but often don't know where to start.
Those are among the findings of a new report on churches and domestic abuse from Nashville-based LifeWay Research, based on a phone survey of 1,000 Protestant senior pastors.
Most pastors (89 percent) also agree their church regularly communicates that domestic violence is not OK—with more than half (56 percent) who strongly agree.
Yet almost half of pastors (47 percent) say they don't know if anyone in their church has been a victim of domestic violence in the last three years.
A third (37 percent) say a church member has been a victim of domestic violence. Fifteen percent say no one has experienced domestic violence.
Church size plays a role in whether pastors know of a domestic violence victim. Pastors at bigger churches, those with more than 250 attenders, are most likely (65 percent) to know of a victim of domestic violence in their church.
Pastors at smaller churches, those with fewer than 50 attenders, are least likely to know of a victim (20 percent). Pastors in the West (45 percent) and Midwest (42 percent) are more likely to know of a victim than those in the South (33 percent).
McConnell suspects there are more victims of domestic violence in churches than pastors realize. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost a quarter of American women (24.3 percent) and 1 in 7 men (13.8 percent) have "experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner." Given those numbers, there are likely victims of violence even in a small church, McConnell said.
Most churches with 250 or more people have a plan (73 percent). So do many Methodist (63 percent) and Pentecostal (66 percent) churches.
Fewer Baptist (52 percent), Presbyterian/Reformed (45 percent), Holiness (45 percent), Lutheran (44 percent) or Church of Christ (41 percent) churches have one.
Baptists (66 percent) and churches with more than 250 attenders (68 percent) are more likely to offer victims a safe place to stay.
Lutherans (55 percent) and Methodists (54 percent), as well as churches with fewer than 50 attenders (55 percent), are less likely.
Bigger churches are most likely to be able to connect a victim with someone who has experienced abuse (65 percent).
Pentecostals (61 percent) are more likely than Presbyterian/Reformed (43 percent), Methodist (42 percent) and Lutheran (35 percent) pastors to be able to connect a victim with someone else who has been through a similar experience.
If a church member files for divorce and cites domestic violence as a cause, pastors often respond with skepticism.
Fifty-nine percent believe divorce may be the best option. Few say couples should not divorce (3 percent) in cases of domestic violence.
About half (56 percent) say they'd believe domestic violence was really present. Sixty percent say they'd investigate the claims of domestic violence. Only 1 percent of pastors would doubt such violence took place.
The study showed 43 percent of pastors are unwilling to say whether or not they believe abuse took place.
Julie Owens, a North Carolina-based consultant who has designed domestic violence prevention programs for churches and the Department of Justice, said churches want to be safe havens for victims.
But there's no way for a victim to know a church is a safe place if the pastor never discusses the issues.
She also fears churches often do more harm than good in cases of domestic abuse. Launching an investigation into claims of abuse, for example, can put a victim at risk, she said.
If a pastor talks to an alleged abuser, the abuser will often deny the claims and then retaliate against the victim of domestic violence.
Ensuring a victim's safety has to come first, she said. That often means connecting victims to outside resources like counselors, shelters and law enforcement.
Pastors and churches, she said, aren't always equipped to deal with the complicated needs of domestic violence victims.
For more information visit LifeWayResearch.com or read the complete survey PDF.


At their annual assembly in July 2017, at Chengdu, Sichuan, the China ICCA Working Group developed a "Community Conserved Areas Peer Review Criteria" as a reference point as it works to identify authentic communities in the region. This is a crucial step toward the inclusion of any ICCA in the ICCA Registry of the UNDP-WCMC. In December of the same year, community representatives from the Guangxi CCA Consortium discussed the Criteria item by item, using their own experiences as a reference. Soon afterward, on March 28th and 29th, 2018, the first peer-to-peer validation procedure meeting for ICCA Registry in China was held, and the Liguang (Nuomadi in Lisu language) village of the Lisu minority people, Yunnan, was accepted as a member of the Registry.
Liguang (Nuomadi) CCA is a natural village of Lisu minority people, comprising twelve traditional community-habitats. Its territory covers a total area of 7715.8 hectares. The village decided by consensus to conserve the holistic living environment, rather than any specific rare species. Most admirably, the community decided to pool the forest areas that had previously been assigned to each household in the last "tenure reform" done by the Forestry Bureau. Under the new conservation protocol, these areas will once again be "community commons".
The community residents fully discussed the definition of ICCA and gave it their own interpretation as well as ideas for implementation.
They used a community- consensus model for resolution through the FPIC process.
They developed a self-assessment/self-evaluation plan that would serve as a long-term self-strengthening program.
They carried out the witness and confirmation processes for authenticating an ICCA in good standing.
In a peer-to-peer validation meeting, the Liguang hosts presented their experiences and achievements in operating a community bank, as well as an ecological agriculture cooperative. Representatives of ten CCAs from Yunnan, Guizhou, Tibetan areas, and Inner Mongolia, led ICCA exchanges and learning network activities.. Finally, the participants shared best practices and updates on the current status of each CCA, and discussed the similarities and challenges of different governance models, economic practices, social organization, and cultural matrices of the different community- conserved areas in the region.
We now have the tools needed for creating audio/video documentation of the rich bio-cultural diversity of the indigenous languages that are part of the heritage of this region of China. However, going forward, the development of writing systems for these minority peoples will be crucial, in order to record traditional knowledge and belief systems, and to preserve them for the future generations that will adapt and learn from them in years to come.


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Amazon takes top stake in UK food delivery firm Deliveroo
LONDON (AP) — Amazon is investing in British meal delivery company Deliveroo, expanding its reach into food retailing.
Deliveroo said Friday that it raised $575 million from investors led by Amazon. It said Amazon will become Deliveroo's largest investor, though it did not disclose how much Amazon put in or how large a stake it acquired.
Will Shu, founder and CEO of Deliveroo, said: "Amazon has been an inspiration to me personally and to the company, and we look forward to working with such a customer-obsessed organization."
Deliveroo was founded in 2013 and has become one of the main so-called gig economy companies in Britain, with its brand visible on delivery scooters around the country. Besides Britain, it also operates in several countries in Europe and Asia, including Germany, France, Italy and Australia.


27.Jan 2015 – In one of the greatest futsal finals ever in Lebanon, Bank of Beirut were able to defend their crown and remain Lebanese futsal champions, after defeating Al Mayadeen 3-2 in the final series.
The 5th and final game of the series, ended 5-3 in favor of BoB, who were able to take advantage of Mayadeen's defensive liabilities to kill the game.
The first half of the game ended 3-1, but in the 2nd half Al Mayadeen, led by their Colombian star Angellot were able to get back to the game, but conceded a goal in the final second while trying to get the equalizer with a power player.
Nevertheless, both teams gave the fans a final to remember, and the title could've went either way, but it was BoB who won at the end.
On the other hand, Kassem Koussan won the best futsal player of the year, while his teammate in Mayadeen, Angellot, was named MVP of the final.


Last name on Direct Mail?
ForumsArrowReal Estate Investor Marketing Help & AdviceArrowLast name on Direct Mail?
I'm sending out a few hundred yellow letters to multiple neighborhoods about 15 minutes from where I live. This is our first direct mail campaign and we're hoping to get one rental out of it. My question is, should I include my last name in the return address? We have a P.O. box so my personal address won't be on it, but my fear is that someone could look up where I live if I include my last name. Am I being overly cautious, or is this a legitimate concern? What do most people include in their letters/envelopes?
I'd have to ask....have you segmented your market area so that those "few hundred" are being directed to the best prospects. If you are just blanketing the area you are hitting too many address's that are not prospects. Some questions you need to know are: with each address you send to......what are their length of residence, ages, children, occupation, are they themselves also investors, do they maybe have a low credit score or high, networth, income, etc. You can then narrow down the statistical probability of them doing business with you.
You can blanket an area....but you are just throwing mud against the wall...to see what sticks.
I don't include mine and I get a typical call back rate.
I would suggest changing the PO Box to a street address. Use the post offices physical address and use your box as a suite number. Looks better.
@Mark Wolffer I am driving for dollars and then checking on when they purchased their home. All the homes on my list are distressed looking and have plenty of equity, assuming they didn't pull any out. I also made sure they were homes I'd want to hold as rentals.
shoot me over a couple of your prime address's...I"ll look them up on my database and respond, if you'd like.
I'd include your name. I do on all of my pieces. I've sent out more mail than most guys over the years. I've never had someone knock on my door.
@David Hodge I include my name for my mailers. However, I was at the OREIA meeting this weekend and one of the speakers said having a females name on the return address has yielded better results. I am going to try to put my fiance's name on the return address and in the letter state you may get Christian or Brooke. I thought it was an interesting tip.
Thank you all for the responses! @Christian Bors s I agree that seems like it would help. I actually mention in the letter that my wife and I are looking for buy a house... I'm hoping it shows that we are a real couple and not just some faceless business.


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Biografia
Dal 1999 alla fine del 2000, ha interpretato il personaggio della madre single "Silvana Canale" nella soap opera di Canale 5, Vivere.

Tra gli altri lavori figurano i film Caccia alle mosche (1993) e Mai + come prima (2005), e le fiction televisive Mozart è un assassino (1999), Il maresciallo Rocca 3 (2001), Una vita in regalo (2003), Raccontami e Un posto al sole d'estate.

Nel 2008 è tra i protagonisti della serie televisiva di Rai 2, Terapia d'urgenza nel ruolo della caposala "Giulia Graziosi".

Filmografia

Cinema
 Rosso di sera, regia di Beppe Cino (1989)
 Caccia alle mosche, regia di Angelo Longoni (1993)
 Incontri di primavera, regia di Anna Brasi (2002)
 Per sempre, regia di Alessandro Di Robilant (2003)
 Mai + come prima, regia di Giacomo Campiotti (2005)
 Controra - House of Shadows, regia di Rossella De Venuto (2013)

Televisione
 Il vizio di vivere, regia di Dino Risi – film TV (1988)
 Squadra mobile scomparsi – serie TV, episodio: Promesse (1999)
 Vivere – soap opera (1999-2000)
 Il maresciallo Rocca 3 – serie TV (2001)
 Mozart è un assassino, regia di Sergio Martino (2002)
 Carabinieri, regia di Raffaele Mertes - Serie TV
 La squadra 4, registi vari (2003) - Serie TV
 Una vita in regalo, regia di Tiziana Aristarco (2003) - Miniserie TV
 Raccontami, regia di Tiziana Aristarco e Riccardo Donna (2006) - Serie TV
 Don Matteo 5, regia di Carmine Elia (2006) - Serie TV
 Un posto al sole (2006) - Soap opera
 Un posto al sole d'estate (2006) - Soap opera
 Terapia d'urgenza, regia di Carmine Elia e Lucio Gaudino e Gianpaolo Tescari (2008-2009) - Serie TV
 Distretto di polizia 10, regia di Alberto Ferrari (2009) - Serie TV
 Provaci ancora prof 4, regia di Tiziana Aristarco (2012) - Serie TV
 Nero Wolfe, regia di Riccardo Donna (2012) - Serie TV
 Rosso San Valentino, regia di Fabrizio Costa (2012) - Serie TV
 Un matrimonio, regia di Pupi Avati (2012) - Serie TV
 Purché finisca bene - Una coppia modello, regia di Fabrizio Costa (Rai 1, 2014)
 Un passo dal cielo 3 (2015) - Serie TV
 La porta rossa, regia di Carmine Elia (2017-2019) - Serie TV
Doc - Nelle tue mani, regia di Jan Maria Michelini e Ciro Visco - serie TV (2022)

Cortometraggi
 La beffa, regia di Riccardo Acerbi
 Teneramente, regia di Pier Luigi Verga
 Novembre, regia di Roberto Scarpetti (2007)

Teatro
 Parole d'amore dal '200 al 2000, di Cesare Bocci e Daniela Scarlatti
 Giorni scontati, di Antonella Fattori e Daniela Scarlatti
 Tornerò prima di mezzanotte di Peter Colley, diretto da Gianluca Ramazzotti
 Dal 2000 si dedica a recital di poesie sperimentando le commistioni tra parola e musica, con strumenti sempre diversi come il sax, il quartetto d'archi, il pianoforte o la fisarmonica e chitarra.
 È stata voce recitante ne La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia - Musica di M. Biscarini

Riconoscimenti
2 Telegatti per Vivere (2000) e (2001)

Note

Collegamenti esterni

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2-legged members are getting together to discuss club activities and events. Come help us plan with your ideas and suggestions, or just come and enjoy the people-socialization as we have dinner, dessert, or whatever together at 6:30 p.m. followed by a General Club Meeting scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m. Lots of fun and relaxation. Hope to see you there.


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Want to Study Thousands of CBD Products? The FDA is Hiring
By Alexander Beadle
Alexander Beadle
Alexander is a regular contributor to Analytical Cannabis, where he covers developments in cannabis science and policy. He holds a Master's in Materials Chemistry from the University of St. Andrews.
Complete the form below and we will email you a PDF version of "Want to Study Thousands of CBD Products? The FDA is Hiring"
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is looking to hire a contractor to study thousands of CBD product samples to help the administration develop regulations for products containing the compound.
In the newly listed contract opportunity, the FDA says that it is seeking a contractor who can "provide support to the FDA by collecting samples and assessing the quantities of CBD and related cannabinoids, as well as potential associated contaminants such as toxic elements, pesticides, industrial chemicals, processing solvents, and microbial contaminants" present in a range of CBD-infused foods and cosmetics products.
Driving future policy change
As an attachment to the listing explains, there has already been a similar smaller sampling study carried out by the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition that looked at around 200 samples of CBD products currently available on the market. The contract opportunity currently being offered would be a longer-term study with a much larger sample base of between 1000-3000 samples from across the US.
The results of this longer-term analysis of the CBD marketplace "will not only be reported to Congress," the listing reads, but will also "guide the development of future policy."
"The types of samples to be collected for these studies will include food and cosmetic products from across the United States, mainly including CBD-containing packaged and processed foods such as beverages, water, candy, baked goods, oils and tinctures that can be added to human or animal foods, including pills, capsules, gel caps, gummies and other forms. The analytical methodology for this contract will be defined by the FDA and will include methods based on widely available and recognized methodology."
The contractor will be expected to analyze each sample to determine their CBD, CBDA, THC, THCA, and other cannabinoid content, using liquid and gas chromatography techniques. They will also be required to detect any contamination or harmful elements in the sample, such as heavy metals, pesticides, residual solvents, and microbiological risks such as salmonella contamination.
Applications for this contracting role with the FDA are due by August 31, 10:00 am EDT.
The state of the American CBD marketplace
This search for a contractor comes one month after the FDA wrote a letter to Congress outlining the concerning frequency with which commercially available CBD products are being mislabeled and sold to consumers.
FDA testing of 102 labeled CBD products found that only 46 products were within 20 percent of the CBD levels advertised on the label. Shockingly, 18 products contained less than 80 percent of the expected CBD content, while a further 38 products had more than 120 percent of the advertised amount of CBD. Approximately half of the total 147 products studied in this FDA testing round were also found to contain amounts of THC or THCA above the limit of quantification.
The FDA has continued to issue warning letters to businesses selling mislabeled or misleading cannabis products in recent months. CBD product recalls have been made following the discovery of mislabeled products and product formulations that were marketed without FDA approval, and some businesses have been subject to enforcement actions after making unsubstantiated claims about the ability of CBD products to cure or prevent coronavirus.
While the agency says it has seen only limited data on CBD safety which "point to real risks that need to be considered before taking CBD", the FDA also recognizes that there is significant interest in CBD and other cannabis-derived products and so has committed to building a new regulatory pathway for these products that will better protect public health.
Progress on this front is ongoing, with the FDA presenting draft enforcement guidance for the CBD industry to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) earlier this summer. Although, the contents of this document, titled "Cannabidiol Enforcement Policy; Draft Guidance for Industry," have yet to be made public and the document is currently still pending regulatory review.
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WASD/Arrows, Mouse, Spacebar. P to pause.
Not the Robots - You are a robot in an office building. You have to eat furniture and not get caught. A mysterious story unfolds.
The Company of Myself - Story about a hermit and his time-bending ability.
Fixation - The prequel to The Company of Myself. Fixation is a puzzle platformer about people and their habits.
Fisher-Diver - A deep sea adventure about career paths and the thrill of the hunt.
You Find Yourself in a Room - The drunken uncle of text-based adventures: Abusive, abrasive, and maybe a little funny.
This is a Work of Fiction - 20 puzzles and an enormous conspiracy theory.
Viricide - Clear out the viruses that are infecting a chronically depressed AI.
Spewer - Spewer is a puzzle platformer that uses liquid physics though regurgitation as its core mechanic.


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Q: Finding a mapping that is not continuous but open
Find example of a mapping that is open but not continuous and a mapping that is closed but not continuous.

I striving with these questions.
I thought of using for the first case a map between $(\mathbb{Z},\tau)$ where $\tau$ is the co-finite topology to $(\mathbb{R},\tau')$ with the standard topology. I think the mapping would not be continuous and since any open set in $\mathbb{R}$ is infinite  and uncountable and the inverse image would need to be countable.
However I am not seeing how to prove this with more rigorous mathematical terminology and I do not see how this mapping might be open.
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Can someone help me solve this question?
Thanks in advance!

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Books I've Kept All These Years
Posted by Miriam under Books | Tags: book companions, Charles Dickens, Dan Greenburg, E.M.Forster, Gabriel Costa, H.G. Wells, Joan Livingston, Leon Uris, nostalgia, Pamela Melnikoff, William Golding |
This post was inspired by this one by fellow writer, Joan Livingston. I've even used the same title. I hope she doesn't mind.
I've moved around in my life, possibly not as much as Joan, but I did move countries. In fact I just celebrated that anniversary – forth-three years, which is at the same time hard to believe and feels obvious. As I was fairly young at the time of the move, I hadn't acquired enough stuff to warrant sending a container. I just took what I could in my suitcase.
What books did I bring with me? I don't think I brought all of these in one go, but I brought some back with me on each visit. So, these are all books I had in the UK, which arrived in Israel, either on that first day or soon afterwards, and have remained with me ever since. There might be more; this is what a cursory search produced:
The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language, selected and arranged by Francis Turner Palgrave
I inherited this book, published in 1952, from my big brother. There are poems by Tennyson, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Byron, Milton, Keats, Scott, Wordsworth, Browning, and more.
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
I haven't read much science fiction, and this is probably my first read of the genre.
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
I haven't read any of his books for a long time, but he used to be a favourite of mine.
The History of Mr. Polly by H.G. Wells
I had to read this for 'O' level English Lit. Even so, I enjoyed it.
Exodus by Leon Uris
This was probably one of the first things that influenced my decision to move to Israel.
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Funnily enough, I recently saw the film and the story came flooding back to me.
How to be a Jewish Mother by Dan Greenburg
I loved this book when I was quite little. I still remember at least one joke:
Give your son Marvin two sports shirts as a present. The first time he wears one of them, look at him sadly and say in your Basic Tone of Voice: "The other one you didn't like?"
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Another 'O' level book I enjoyed.
The Star and the Sword by Pamela Melnikoff
The book I would never lend! First of all, it was the first book I read in which I identified with the main characters. Even though it's set in medieval times, the two Jewish children felt closer than any from books by Enid Blyton or any other story I'd read up to then. Also, this book contains a note to me from Gabriel Costa, a lovely man who lived in our street. He was in his nineties when he gave me the book in 1965, and still wrote book reviews for newspapers.
The Oxford Companion to Music by Percy A. Scholes
This hefty volume helped me get through 'O' and 'A' level music. Who would buy a book like that, these days, when all the information is available online?
How about you? What books have always accompanied you?
And while you're thinking about that…
Remember my books, available from Amazon: Social Anxiety Revealed and Cultivating a Fuji.
2014 A to Z Challenge: F
Posted by Miriam under Books | Tags: E.M.Forster, Ian Fleming |
Wikipedia says,
Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1879 – 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect … ". His 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to India (1924) brought him his greatest success.
Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908 – 1964) was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer, best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst and the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through a number of jobs before he started writing.
While working for Britain's Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War, Fleming was involved in planning Operation Goldeneye and in the planning and oversight of two intelligence units, 30 Assault Unit and T-Force. His wartime service and his career as a journalist provided much of the background, detail and depth of the James Bond novels.
Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952. It was a success, with three print runs being commissioned to cope with the demand. Eleven Bond novels and two short-story collections followed between 1953 and 1966. The novels revolved around James Bond, an officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond was also known by his code number, 007, and was a commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. The Bond stories rank among the best-selling series of fictional books of all time, having sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Fleming also wrote the children's story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang and two works of non-fiction. In 2008, The Times ranked Fleming fourteenth on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
He was married to Ann Charteris, who was divorced from the second Viscount Rothermere as a result of her affair with Fleming. Fleming and Charteris had a son, Caspar. Fleming was a heavy smoker and drinker who suffered from heart disease; he died in 1964, aged 56, from a heart attack. Two of his James Bond books were published posthumously, and others have since produced Bond novels. Fleming's creation has appeared in film twenty-five times, portrayed by seven actors.
Both authors travelled widely and this informed their writing.
Fleming studied in Austria, Munich and Geneva, spent some time in Moscow and also travelled as part of his war service.
Forster travelled extensively in Europe, Egypt and, of course, India.
Travel is a great aid for authors, whether they write non-fictional accounts or novels set in the places they visit. There is a lot to be said for the opportunity to see a place as an outsider.
Here are a few of the other bloggers who are taking part in the A-Z Challenge:
Sue's Trifles is posting about musical instruments.
Alison Runham's theme is adjectives.
Elizabeth Hein of Scribbling in the Storage Room is peeking into the research behind her book, How to Climb the Eiffel Tower, due for release shortly.
David Robinson's posts seem to be about books, writing and other things.
Silvia Villalobos is posting about Romania.
Damyanti of Daily Write has written some amazing stories.
Suzanne of The Tales of Missus P. is posting about 80s and 90s television shows.
Jerusalem girl is posting about 25 years of living in Israel.
Karen Jones Gowen is giving us some insights into her new life in Guatemala.


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Red headed sluts are also known to creep up on you and hit you all at once; perhaps it's the Jäger, who knows? All I know is that I have a definite soft spot for red-headed sluts of all varieties.
Bartenders serve up red-headed sluts as either a mixed drink or more commonly, a shooter. All you need are three ingredients, all of which are common to a home bartending kit. Here's the basic red headed sluts recipe:
Red-Headed Slut
1 oz Jägermeister
1 oz peach schnapps
3 oz cranberry juice
Pour all ingredients into a shaker glass filled with ice. Shake and strain into a regular glass or a shooter glass. Drink up and repeat!
Blond Headed Slut
1 oz Grand Marnier
1 oz pineapple juice
Shake all ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker and strain into shot glasses. Shoot and enjoy!
The Lindsay Lohan
2⁄3 oz Jägermeister
2⁄3 oz peach schnapps
2⁄3 oz cranberry juice
6 oz Coca Cola
Pour Coca Cola into a tall bar glass. Shake Jägermeister, peach schnapps, and cranberry juice in a cocktail shaker. Pour this mixture from shaker into a shot glass. Drop the shot into the Coca Cola and drink up!
Dirty Red Headed Slut
1 oz Chambord raspberry liqueur
1 oz Southern Comfort
1 oz Crown Royal Canadian whiskey
Combine Canadian whiskey, SoCo, and raspberry liqueur in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Serve and enjoy!
Time For A Personal Anecdote
One of my favorite memories involving red-headed sluts (the kind that come in a glass) would be the night that I met most of my own personal FNDC. A friend showed me where a small party of people she also knew was about to commence. It was one of those nights where everyone was on the same wavelength and the vibe was right. Our in-house bartender that evening was ironically a redhead, and was serving up red-headed sluts as fast as we could drink them. Some lifelong friends were made, and our own personal FNDC may well have been born that evening. Our small group took many photos that evening, the best of which sadly, are now lost. Use caution when enjoying red-headed sluts, for even strangers may end up revealing a thing or two about themselves if the mood is right.
Famous Redheaded Sluts of History
Venus Kallipygos (translated as "Venus of the beautiful buttocks"). The Roman goddess of love, Venus, was often portrayed as having red hair. Because Venus was the goddess of sexuality, artists during the Renaissance often portrayed her as nude or semi-nude. The Venus Kallipygos is a famous statue from the 1st century BC, thought to be a reproduction of an even earlier Greek bronze statue from the 3rd century BC. The statue depicts the goddess exposing her ass and looking backwards in a coyish manner, and is thought to have been part of a temple at the ancient Sicilian city of Syracuse.
Cleopatra VII. This Queen and last Pharoah of Egypt used henna to dye her hair. Cleopatra married her brother at age 18, took Julius Caesar as a lover after that, and after Ceasar was killed, married another brother of hers! I guess that's just how they rolled in those days. Political considerations were part of these carnal alliances; Rome took over control of Egypt after Alexander the Great died. When Marc Antony took over rule of Rome after Caesar's death, he left his wife back home in Italy so he could knock boots with Cleopatra. Marc Antony and Cleopatra were also later married and had children. Cleopatra and Antony formed a Society of Inimitable Livers dedicated to utter debauchery or just the god Dionysus, depending on who you ask. When Antony died and Cleopatra committed suicide at age 39, the Roman Empire died alongside them. Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse sounds like a phrase that Cleo could have coined for herself.
Mary Magdalene. Arguably the most famous prostitute in history, Mary Magdalene went on to reform her ways and run with Jesus and the twelve apostles. According to biblical accounts, she was the first person to see Christ after the resurrection.
Jane Digby aka Lady Ellenborough. This English aristocrat of the 1800s rarely seemed to be out of the scandalous spotlight. She tallied four husbands and a score of high profile lovers. A veritable Who's Who of men of that era had a ride on Jane Digby's merry-go-round. Her last husband was an Arab Sheikh twenty years her younger. Sounds like this lady was a cougar ahead of her time.
Pamela Des Barres. This most famous of rock 'n' roll groupies was the leader of the "Plaster Casters", famous for collecting plaster molds of rock stars' …uh, appendages. She is also a famous columnist and best-selling author of the book, I'm With the Band.
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Hope you enjoyed reading my former post about Day 1 and on what we did in New York during Blogtour! At day 2 we were up early already and after a good breakfast on our way to the AD Home Design show. Starting at ten with the annual Mary's and Mimosas event where we met and mingled with the NYC design Media. This networking event, was originally started in 2011 by Veronika of Modenus who had this idea of bringing interior design bloggers she knew together with the Media and designers. Today it is a must-attend event for the New York Design scene.
Later on after lots of coffee's and a first look on what ADHD show was about we got to have a look at DIFFA Dining by Design tabletop ideas. Barry Dixon of Arteriors gave us a little tour and we had look at all the table settings. If you are into table settings you would have loved this and I had to think of some of you other bloggers seeing this! Here is a small impression of things that caught my eye!
We spend the rest of the afternoon exploring the show and I will show you some more of my favorites in another post later!
Loved The Miele USA Booth and not only because they were one of the sponsors of Blogtour! Even the fruit and food in the huge fridges was styled and the hanging garden was pretty amazing!
After a long day we were still chatting, writing and enjoying ourselves.... As Tim said we are a fun bunch to have around! We headed home in some taxi's that were waiting for us ... Thank you Modenus for not having to queue up in that long line of tired people ... we ended the evening close to the Hotel in a Hamburger dining with, for me, a delicious Vega Burger.


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A: Выполните systemctl start dhcpcd от root

A: я знаю что у вас.
это детская проблема.
Когда выполняли команду pacstrap при установке забыли установить dhcpcd.
Вам нужно будет заново инициировать установку и на шаге где нужно установить программы можно сделать как у меня.
И тогда после установки можно уже будет делать что вам и посоветовал Gravit
А именно
sudo systemctl enable dhcpcd@enp3s0
sudo systemctl start dhcpcd@enp3s0

A: Нужно снова загрузится с установочного диска, сразу примонтировать корень с уже установленной программой /mnt. Потом Arch-root и systemctl enable dhcpcd@enp3s0.
Отмонтировать и загрузиться с установленной системы.


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The newly announced FSR Limited Classic Series '50s Stratocaster in the much-loved and classic Fiesta Red is on its way to Absolute Music and we are very excited!
As with all Fender FSR guitars, these are very limited in numbers and will not stick around for very long, so make sure you get to the top of the waiting list! It is a beautiful example of the desirable Strats of the time, complete with gold hardware, American vintage '56 pickups, maple neck and a Pro Series tweed hardcase. A real strat players strat!
For guitarists who must have the instrument's original-era tone, look and feel, the FSR Classic Series '50s Stratocaster epitomizes the guitar in the decade of its debut, with unmistakable early Strat® style and sparkling sound. With its authentic vintage-style features and finishes, everything about it takes you back to the time of diners, "Ike for President," cars with fins, a wild new kind of music called rock 'n' roll and an upstart little Southern California company called Fender.
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European equity markets are a mixed bad today but the common theme has been relatively low volatility, and a narrow trading range.
. The bullish move in natural resource stocks has helped the FTSE 100 stay in positive territory, but if it wasn't for the oil & gas industry and the mining sector it is likely the London index would be in the red.
Pendragon share gapped higher today even though the company revealed a decline in earnings. A fall in revenue from new vehicle sale contributed to the 20% decline in profits. The company offset this by a solid performance in the used car department and the aftersales division. The company is aware of its shortcomings, and it's going to dispose of its US business and focus on I.T. and 'provide an online and technology platform'. The share price is up 17% today, but has been in decline for two years, but a move above the 200-day moving average at 29.5p could negate the bearish trend.
TUI AG shares reached an all-time high today, which is impressive seeing as the broader market has been in retreat for the past couple of weeks. The travel company revealed that revenue rose by 8.1%, and the loss more than halved when compared with last year, but that included a one-off charge in relation to Air Berlin's Niki business going bankrupt. TUI stated they are 'well positioned' and the business is 'progressing in line' with expectations. Should the bullish sentiment surrounding the stock continue, it might target 1700p.
Stocks are in the red in the US as traders have their doubts about the recovery. The Dow Jones, S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 are lower on the day, but not by much. Dealers don't know which way to turn as uncertainty persists, and a lack of direction is adding to the fear that we could see another sell-off. The volatility index (VIX) has edged higher today, and that is the gauge that everyone on Wall Street is looking at. It is a bit concerning the weakness in the US dollar in the past two sessions couldn't entice buying today, it seems that dealers are more content to be in bonds or gold.
Jerome Powell and Loretta Mester of the Federal Reserve issued statements today. Mr Powell, the Fed Chief said he will 'remain alert to any financial stability risks' and the US central bank is 'gradually normalising rates'. Whereas Ms Mester has seen 'some welcomed pickup in inflation'. The updates point to further tightening of monetary policy, which suggest the central bankers are happy with the state of the US economy.
GBP/USD is higher today as the firmer than expected consumer price index (CPI) figures from the UK propelled the pound higher. Inflation in the UK remained at 3%, which topped analysts' expectations of 2.9%. The core inflation figure jumped to 2.7%, up from 2.5% Yesterday we heard from Gertjan Vlieghe and Ian McCafferty of the Bank of England (BoE) who were a touch on the hawkish side, and today's data adds to the argument the BoE could hike rates in May. Even though the pound has come under pressure in recent weeks, it remains in the upward trend it has been in since March.
EUR/USD has been pushed higher on the back of the weakness in the US dollar. There were major economic announcements from the eurozone or the US today, but the weakness in the greenback for the second day in a row is helping the euro. Since early November the single currency has been in an upward, and the dip in the dollar is assisting the move.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti spent his life giving spiritual talks. As he got older, he became more candid. In one famous moment, he asked the audience point-blank if they wanted to know his secret.
He whispered, "You see, I don't mind what happens."
I've spent the last five years as an investor trying to do the same. I've made a concerted attempt to care less about what happens in the investment world. I still pay attention, of course. It's my job. But I'm far more selective about what I read. It has helped more than I could have possibly imagined.
Caring gives a false impression that what you're thinking about is important. If I pay attention to quarterly earnings, shouldn't I be a better investor? If I check what the market did this morning, am I not more informed?
Common sense tells you yes. But it's wrong. More often than not, not caring is the way to go.
My journey started with a realization that the more media investors paid attention to, the worse they did. The more they analyzed, the more decisions they had to make. The more decisions they made, the more chances they had at being wrong, letting their emotions take over, and doing something regrettable. Find someone who has mastered personal finance, and you'll find someone with a pathological ability to not give a damn.
There are so few exceptions to this rule it's astounding. Where is the evidence that paying attention to every last piece of market news makes you a better investor? I've looked. I can't find it.
So I stopped caring about a few things.
1. Finding the perfect portfolioInvestors crunch numbers to find the perfect number of international stocks they should own at a certain age, the precise amount they should allocate to bonds, and exactly when they should cut back on stocks when historical models show they're overvalued.
Here's the truth: None of these models are perfect, so back-of-the-envelope, "good enough" estimations will usually do just fine.
Harry Markowitz won the Nobel Prize for creating modern portfolio theory, a formula that precisely calculates the optimal asset allocation to maximize return at a given level of risk.
With his own money, he found this too complicated.
"I visualized my grief if the stock market went way up and I wasn't in it -- or if it went way down and I was completely in it," Markowitz once said. "So I split my contributions 50/50 between stocks and bonds."
2. Quarterly earningsThe median company in the S&P 500 was founded in 1949. So it's 66 years old. Therefore quarterly earnings tell you what happened in the last 90 days, or 0.3%, of its life. The odds that groundbreaking developments will occur in such a short period of time are slim, and they approach zero as time goes on. It's the equivalent of judging how your day is going by analyzing the last four minutes.
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos says he runs his life on a "regret minimization" framework. His goal is to look back at age 80 and regret as few things as possible.
What are the odds that I'll be 80 years old and say, "Man, I wish I paid more attention to Microsoft's Q2 2011 revenue"? Pretty low. So I choose not to care.
3. Wondering why the market fellThe Dow fell 0.4% on Wednesday. Why?
Lots of reasons were given. One article blamed fluctuating interest rates. Another cited "Greece worries." Others pointed to the Fed, weak GDP growth, and falling energy prices.
"Random, unidentified marginal sellers were a little bit more motivated than random, unidentified marginal buyers" wasn't mentioned. But it's the best explanation for why stocks fell. The same goes for almost every day.
4. Getting other investors to agree with meLet's say your weather app says it'll be 78 and sunny tomorrow, and mine says it will be 74 and overcast.
Would we argue about this? Go on TV and duke it out? Call each other names?
Of course not. We'd say, "Eh, let's just see what happens. Probably doesn't matter either way."
Investors don't think this way. The fights people get into about whose forecast is right are off the charts.
Unlike weather, money is an emotional subject. And unlike tomorrow's temperature, our investment decisions are in our control. So many investors get offended when others disagree with them. But once you realize that A) your views are just as biased as everyone else's and B) there's a good chance you're both wrong, you stop seeing any reason to argue. Debate, sure. But life's too short to argue.
Investing is so much more fun when you come to terms with these things. Set up a portfolio that suits you -- one that lets you sleep at night and gives you a reasonable chance of meeting your financial goals. Give it room for error. Have a backup plan. It's the best you can do.
After that, you see, I don't mind what happens.
The article The Priceless Art of Not Caring originally appeared on Fool.com.


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In Praise of Unequal Outcomes
Physicist Niels Bohr said, "It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future." Yogi Berra had nothing on the Nobel Prize winner. In certain ways, however, the future is actually quite easy to predict. Take, for example, the self-fulfilling prophecy. This is defined as a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true—by the very terms of the prophecy itself.
Self-fulfilling prophecies cut two ways, which serves to demonstrate the remarkable power of one's mindset, whether its outlook is fundamentally optimistic or pessimistic. A self-fulfilling prophecy is powerful precisely because it is its own cause—bringing about its own realization via the positive feedback loop between a belief—even if that belief is false—and the resulting behavior. In the end, the belief, the behavior, and the ultimate realization are all part of the same cloth. We can see this clearly enough in hindsight, but the causal nature of the prophecy blurs the factor of time, which, rather than being linear, is circular.
Many people have come to believe that human beings are too trapped by one element or another of embodiment (think identity politics) to ever transcend their situations and arrive at a truth beyond the borders of their own lives and circumstances—in other words, their true selves. They conclude that their outlook is so shaped—and opportunity circumscribed—by their culture, race, gender, and social and economic position that the kind of objectivity that can lead to empowerment becomes nothing more than an elusive dream. We see this thinking play out in entire communities that share a common set of expectations. Again, this cuts both ways. Like the snake that eats its own tail, the self-fulfilling prophecy also feeds on itself.
But self-fulfilling prophecies that perpetuate negative or destructive cycles—poverty, single-parent homes, poor education, lack of opportunity, homelessness, drug addictions, crime—are never cast in stone. They, too, are ultimately mental constructs, and as such, they are utterly at the mercy of one's will. A community, if it has the desire and will to do so, can graft a completely different narrative into its prophecy and thereby realize a very different future. Indeed, identity is nothing but a nested set of narratives—narratives of who you are, what you believe, what you can or cannot do. In the end, whatever it is that you think you can, or think you can't—you're right!
Now let me prove this.
Schools are ostensibly one of the "goods" that government does for (or is it to?) us. But what about charter schools that operate outside the public school system? Not only do most of them consistently outperform public schools, they also expose the antibiotic action of the education establishment.
The National Education Association (the largest labor union and professional interest group in the United States), which actually has nothing to do with education, is doing everything in its power—and it has a lot of power—to shut down charter schools. There's a lot of information in this. In one example of their propaganda, an NEA task force, focused on the "problem" of charter schools, claims that their explosive growth has led to the rise of "separate and unequal systems … that are not subject to the same basic safeguards and standards that apply to public schools." To that, I can only say, "Thank God!" Let's see what kind of inequality they're talking about.
In Chicago, to highlight just one city, the graduation rate for African-American boys is less than 50 percent (and that's after fudging the numbers to make them look better). Of these, only half are accepted to some form of college. In other words, the prospects of higher education—let alone those of receiving a basic education—for these kids are not good. Yet right in the middle of one of the toughest neighborhoods sits Chicago's Urban Prep Academies. It's all male and all black, and every member of its graduating classes has been admitted into a four-year college, ten years running.
So the NEA is right—the charter schools do, indeed, produce an unequal outcome. How, then, do they propose that we equalize things? Presumably by drastically reducing graduation and college acceptance rates of charter school students! What is the alternative? If you're thinking that any such alternative involves raising the standards of the public schools in order to produce these kinds of outcomes, you're quite mistaken.
Likewise, the leadership of the NAACP actually—and formally—called for a moratorium on the expansion of charter schools, as well as strengthening oversight in governance and practice over the existing ones. Incredible, isn't it? The reason for this is clear: the runaway success of charter schools fundamentally threatens and erodes the powerbase of the corrupt education establishment.
Even the unprecedented against-all-odds success of inner city youth in whom these amazing schools instill qualities of grit and persistence and possibility can't be allowed to stand in the way of such a power agenda. Instead of finding ways to scale up and expand this kind of success, they'd rather just shut it down. Indeed, charter schools produce stunning results for disadvantaged students, and they, in fact, dominate the top high school rankings nationally. This is no secret. And yet NEA President Lily Eskelsen García claims that independent charter schools "jeopardize" student success, "undermine" public education, and "harm" communities—summing them up as "a failed and damaging experiment." As such, she calls for an end to their proliferation in order to "preserve funding for public schools, and to organize charter school teachers." In other words, as long as they're able to continue collecting union dues from their three-million-plus members and maintain their positions of power, to hell with the students and the state of their communities.
This predatory mindset works hand-in-glove with the self-fulfilling narratives that perpetuate the cycles of poverty and underperformance realized in so many struggling communities—communities that these organizations claim to "serve."
In charter schools we see very different outcomes and possibilities demonstrated by the success of alternative education systems that are equipping and inspiring young minds—and unleashing massive human potential in the process. That they are thwarted by backward-looking but power-hungry bureaucrats, union bosses, and other special interests should rally the collective resolve to overthrow them, and throw support to innovative solutions that are producing outstanding results.
Urban Prep Academies was created in direct response to the urgent need to reverse abysmal graduation and college completion rates among boys in urban public schools. Their leadership explains, "While most of Urban Prep students come to the schools from economically disadvantaged households and are behind in many subject areas, Urban Prep remains committed to preparing all of its students for college and life."
What's more, it is tuition-free, with admission based on a random lottery process with no evaluation of test scores, grades or special needs. No cherry-picking of students employed here to achieve their outstanding results. Seniors from the Class of 2019 have been accepted to 162 colleges and universities and have amassed over $10 million in scholarships and grants.
How do they do it? They do it by breaking the cycle of the self-fulfilling prophecy, saying "no thank you" to the government-established and union-controlled education establishment; they do it by inculcating the skills of critical thinking and instilling a mindset of possibility in their students. And they reinforce this big idea every morning as the students recite the Urban Prep creed:
We believe.
We are the young men of Urban Prep.
We are college bound.
We are exceptional—not because we say it, but because we work hard at it.
We will not falter in the face of any obstacle placed before us.
We are dedicated, committed and focused.
We never succumb to mediocrity, uncertainty or fear.
We never fail because we never give up.
We make no excuses.
We choose to live honestly, nonviolently and honorably.
We respect ourselves and, in doing so, respect all people.
We have a future for which we are accountable.
We have a responsibility to our families, community and world.
We are our brothers' keepers.
We believe in ourselves.
We believe in each other.
We believe in Urban Prep.
This ought to take your breath away. This is what fostering change in the human heart looks like. Imagine scaling this kind of respect and reverence for the sanctity of young minds—wherever they may be—across the global landscape.
Would not this kind of restructuring for human potential lead us to a complete reimagining of the future? Would it not provide the maximum opportunity for students to participate fully in their futures?
Moreover, the critical thinking that inherently attends this approach will be essential to enabling our students—our future leaders—to find the true signal in the noise of this increasingly fragmented and disintegrated, multiple-choice world. These are the skills we must be teaching our kids—and not solely in an academic environment. These skills must also be tied to the development of our students' values, life choices, and goals, as they are inheriting a very different kind of world that will be attended by very different psychological demands.
Alvin Toffler brought a remarkable perspective to this idea as he considered ancillary dimensions to one of the symptoms of "future shock," the problem of "overchoice." When this condition deepens, as it certainly will, the person who lacks a clear grasp of his own mission and values in life will become progressively crippled. "Yet the more crucial the question of values becomes," he wrote, "the less willing our present schools are to grapple with it. It is no wonder that millions of young people trace erratic pathways into the future, ricocheting this way and that like unguided missiles. Worse yet, students are seldom encouraged to analyze their own values and those of their teachers and peers. Millions pass through the education system without once having been forced to search out the contradictions in their own value systems, to probe their own life goals deeply."
On the other hand, the leadership of the NEA can console themselves with equal outcomes.
This essay is adapted from the book, After Shock, edited by John Schroeter.
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"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth."
― William Faulkner
"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
― Desmond Tutu
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
― Voltaire
"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
― Martin Luther King Jr.
"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
― Benjamin Franklin
"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."
― Kurt Cobain
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
― Harry S. Truman
"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly."
"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
― Galileo Galilei
"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
― Robert A. Heinlein
"Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear."
― St. Catherine of Siena
"My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself. We need more dissent and less dogma."
― Camille Paglia
"Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive."
― John F. Kennedy
"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."
― Jacob Bronowski
"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That's the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism."
― Edward R. Murrow
"Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought."
― Tim Fargo
"Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation."
― Eugene V. Debs
"Now I think that a true liberal will always prioritize individuals over the group, will always prioritize heresy over orthodoxy, will always prioritize the dissenting voice over the status quo."
― Maajid Nawaz
"Evangelicals now stand among those who are on easiest terms with the world, for they have lost their capacity for dissent."
― David F. Wells
"Ecologist Paul Ehrlich stressed that people who hold opposing opinions need to engage in open discussion with well-reasoned dissent. Positions should be questioned and criticized, not the people who hold them. Personal attacks preclude open discussion because, once someone is put on the defensive, fruitful exchanges are impossible, at least for the moment."
― Marc Bekoff
"It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today."
― Mother Angelica
"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent?"
― Christina Engela
"They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives."
― Glenn Greenwald
"Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work."
― Adrienne Rich
"We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language."
― Arne Tiselius
"Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves."
"Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable."
― Stefan Molyneux
"Critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you're thinking in order to make your thinking better."
― Richard Paul
"It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. Obviously those two modes of thought are in some tension. But if you are able to exercise only one of these modes, whichever one it is, you're in deep trouble.
― Carl Sagan
"Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart."
― Edward Abbey
"If we are not prepared to think for ourselves, and to make the effort to learn how to do this well, we will always be in danger of becoming slaves to the ideas and values of others due to our own ignorance."
― William Hughes, Jonathan Lavery, Katheryn Doran
"If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past;
Security in human systems we're told will always always last;
Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast;
Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast."
― Sting
"Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong."
― Oscar Wilde
"Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy."
― George Weigel
"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision."
― Saint John Paul the Great
"People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up."
― George R.R. Martin
"Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth."
― Father Robert Barron
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Eleven-year-old Frank Neuhauser of Louisville was the first spelling bee champion crowned on the word gladiolusto; he won $500 in prize money. What started as a promotional event for the Louisville Courier-Journal and few other newspapers in 1925 is now a world-wide phenomenon that was launched into competitive popularity by ESPN in 1994. The champion now receives $40,000 cash from Scripps, the Scripps National Spelling Bee engraved trophy, a $2,500 U.S. savings bond from Merriam-Webster, $400 of reference works including a 1768 Encyclopædia Britannica Replica Set Deluxe Edition, a three-year membership to Britannica Online Premium, as well as a trip to New York to appear on Live with Kelly. The Bee has come a long way, and I was concerned about this since we have our Spelling Bee this week and just wrapped up our Geography Bee last week.
Learning is not a competitive sport. It should be a collaborative activity that one challenges oneself and is supported by others. I worried that the high-stakes Bee might create an unhealthy atmosphere of competitiveness among our students. I feared that it would overshadow the beauty of learning, the sophisticated syntax that makes up the English language. However, last Wednesday, I watched the Geography Bee, and I realized my fears were unfounded.
During the Bee's final rounds, I saw a group of Akiba students sitting together, answering difficult geography questions and showing support for each other. There was no sense that any child was there to "win" against another. Although each child was on his or her own, there was a sense of support, care, and cooperation. There was a sense of team. There was a sense of Akiba.
Congratulations to Aaron Faier who won first place and to Ezra Erlebacher who won second place at the school Geography Bee. Aaron moves on to compete at the state level, and I look forward to another display of beautiful learning at the Spelling Bee.


"For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me."
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I was flabergasted but not exhausted for I have slept through 20 winters. Due to my lavish lifestyle I was able to surpass all expectations of being a firefighter.
Yeah. My sis-in-law runs a company with 24 part-time emlopyees, most of them local mothers with growing children who work from home and fit the work in around their daily schedule looking after the kids.All the work is done via the internet (managing the PLoS journals, as it happens) and my sis-in-law communicates with her staff via IM almost exclusively.Without the flexibility of the working conditions, it would have been fair more difficult to find a workforce and build the business.


Califlower is called as gobi in Hindi. Traditionally, gobi manchurian is done by deep frying the cauliflower florets. But I have tried out the healthy version of it that is without deep frying .
Cut the cauliflower into bite size pieces. Add 1/2 cup of water and microwave for about 4 minutes on high.
For batter preparation, in a bowl take all purpose flour, gram flour, black pepper powder , red chilli powder and salt. Mix and add little water to prepare thick batter.
Dip cauliflower florets into this batter. coat each one properly. Now grease microwave plate with little oil and arrange these florets on the plate keeping distance between each. Microwave for about 7-8 minutes . Remove and keep outside.
Now for sauce, heat 1 tsp of oil and add grated ginger , garlic. fry a little and add bell pepper pieces. Fry for a minute.
Add soya sauce, tomato ketchup and water. Boil it for around 2 minutes. Add corn flour to thicken the sauce.
After the sauce thickens, add the prepared cauliflower florets into this. Coat well . Switch off the gas and serve your hot no oil version of Gobi Manchurian with chapati, Naan or Parathas.


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What you gonna do when you miss my love?
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Soifer () ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Alberto Soifer (1907–1977), argentinischer Tango- und Filmkomponist, Pianist und Bandleader
 Alexander Soifer (* 1948), russisch-amerikanischer Mathematiker
 Isadore Soifer (1910–1991), amerikanischer Komponist, bekannt unter Alex North


Good day, book people. I'm pleased to announce that today's special guest is a return guest and none other than the award-winning journalist and author of the Leah Nash mystery series including the recently released Dangerous Flaws, Susan Hunter. Ms. Hunter will be discussing with us the importance of reaching out to authors with your feedback. Thank you, Ms. Hunter, for taking the time to return to the Book Diva's Reads today and sharing your thoughts with us, it is greatly appreciated.
For me, and I think for many authors, one of the most fun things about writing is reader engagement. That can come in the form of a review, a response to a blog post, or a comment on social media. Occasionally a reader will run through the discussion questions I put at the end of a book for use by book clubs and send me the answers to each one from his or her perspective. I love to learn those detailed reactions to a story. Actually, all of the outreach from readers is nice—OK, the occasional negative reviews that come with the territory aren't "nice" exactly, though they are often food for thought.
But my favorite connection with readers comes from the emails I receive. It's a very kind gesture for a reader to take time out of a busy day to write a note that says something you did, gave them pleasure.
Sometimes the notes I receive are gently instructive as in this one, "I think Coop and Leah should get together—but do what you feel you need to." Sometimes they're more direct, "I like the series, but you should kill Courtnee, I can't stand her." And occasionally, they read as though my mother had written them, "Loved everything about Dangerous Habits, the writing style, the characters & the ending that I did not expect. We read all the big names, Kellerman, Patterson, Iles, Gerritsen etc., but you rate up there with the best." Full disclosure, I keep that one in my "save" file and sometimes pull it out when I've read a one-star review that was a little brutal.
I feel especially fortunate to have forged a long-distance kinship with a few readers who share with me not only their reactions to my books, but also their favorites written by authors. Sometimes they recommend a good film version of a favorite book. I love it when they share their "a-ha!" moments, when what I've written strikes a chord of recognition for them—either because they share a character's take on a situation, or because they see in one of the characters a resemblance to a friend or relative or work colleague. One reader in particular has been very helpful with her thoughts on character development and an email conversation with her actually gave me the idea for a clue to use in my most recent book Dangerous Flaws.
Perhaps I enjoy the email give and take so much because as a charter member of Introverts International, I'm not by nature a joiner of clubs or striker-up of conversations with strangers. I enjoy social interaction, but outside of public speaking where I don the mantle of a situational extrovert, I prefer one-to-one or small group get-togethers with friends and family. Email exchanges with readers have that nice personal connection I like—plus the added benefit of allowing me to expand my circle of acquaintances without leaving the comforts of my couch.
So, if you read a book that touches you in some way—makes you laugh, or cry, or think "yes, that's exactly how I feel,"—go ahead and let the author know. Writing can be a lonely profession. Hearing from readers reminds both writer and reader that we're all in this together.
True crime writer Leah Nash is stunned when police investigating the murder of a beautiful young college professor focus on her ex-husband Nick. Leah has no illusions about her ex, but despite his flaws, she just can't see him as a killer. Reluctantly, she agrees to help Nick's attorney prove that he isn't.
But Nick's lies make it hard to find the truth, and when a damning piece of evidence surfaces, Leah plunges into doubt. Is she defending an innocent man or helping a murderer escape? She pushes on to find out, uncovering hidden motives and getting hit by twists she never saw coming. Leah's own flaws impede her search for the truth. When she finds it, will it be too late to prevent a devastating confrontation?
Love this post! I enjoy getting to know the author behind the book and love that she is accessible to her readers.
Thanks for having me back and for featuring Dangerous Flaws, the latest book in the Leah Nash series on your site. I really appreciate it!


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Nimboa kasyi is een insect uit de familie van de dwerggaasvliegen (Coniopterygidae), die tot de orde netvleugeligen (Neuroptera) behoort.

De wetenschappelijke naam Nimboa kasyi is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd door Rausch & H. Aspöck in 1978.

Dwerggaasvliegen