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Donald Trump has found new friends in France, ones that also don't like the French president. In 24 hours, the American president mentioned the "gilets jaunes" (yellow jacket) demonstrations twice on his favorite communication tool, Twitter, where he has more than 56 million followers.
In a tweet posted on December 4, the American president used the protest movement to tease his best frenemy President Emmanuel Macron and promote his own political agenda.
I am glad that my friend @EmmanuelMacron and the protestors in Paris have agreed with the conclusion I reached two years ago. The Paris Agreement is fatally flawed because it raises the price of energy for responsible countries while whitewashing some of the worst polluters….
….in the world. I want clean air and clean water and have been making great strides in improving America's environment. But American taxpayers – and American workers – shouldn't pay to clean up others countries' pollution.
The Elysée Palace did not wish to comment on this message, which comes at a time when relations between the two leaders are cooling down after disputes over trade, climate and multilateralism.
Trump also retweeted a message with almost entirely false content written by Charlie Kirk, a 25-year-old, far-right conservative figure in the United States. The tweet, sent to his 842,000 followers and retweeted to Trump's 56 million followers, has been retweeted over 28,000 times and liked nearly 82,000 times since it was tweeted and retweeted on December 3.
There are riots in socialist France because of radical leftist fuel taxes
Media barely mentioning this
America is booming, Europe is burning
They want to cover up the middle class rebellion against cultural Marxism
"We want Trump" being chanted through the streets of Paris
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) December 4, 2018
Several American media outlets immediately questioned the veracity of the content of this tweet. "Nothing in the tweet is even remotely accurate," explains Vox. "The protesters are mostly working-class folks who are angry at what they see as an out-of-touch elitist president whose policies favor the wealthy and corporations at the expense of working-class French people. That is quite literally the opposite of a 'middle class rebellion against cultural Marxism.'"
Nor does Kirk provide evidence that pro-Trump songs have been launched in Paris — a piece of fake news also propagated by conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh. It's possible (rather, likely) that his claims are based on a video recorded in London, as Newsweek states. A Charlie Kirk spokesperson did not respond to our request for comment.
France 24's White House correspondent Philip Crowther called out Kirk on Twitter for his false tweet.
Lies being re-tweeted by the President: Europe is obviously not burning, and "we want Trump" is not being chanted through the streets of Paris. Also, the fuel taxes are not radical leftist and France is not socialist. Any other lies? pic.twitter.com/fOZSvAPMYW
— Philip Crowther (@PhilipinDC) December 4, 2018
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Maggie Benson December 11, 2021
The Italian parties Ludovico Einaudi Held from February 2022, coinciding with the release of his new album of unreleased tracks Underwater.
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There's a micro-genre of books that I've come to love: rock-star autobiographies.
Many of the musicians I followed when I was younger have probably finished up the most interesting and/or lucrative portions of their music careers, and have turned to the written word as a different outlet.
Having told stories through their songs over the years, they have the chance, through the autobiography/memoir, to express themselves in a different medium. Of course, as with the music, some are better at it than others. For those not so gifted with the ability to write extended prose, there are undoubtedly ghost writers (credited or uncredited) to help them along.
So here's a list of some of the books I've read over the last few years, followed by another list of the ones I want to read:
Clapton: The Autobiography, by Eric Clapton. I just recently finished this one, and I loved it. Ok, maybe the title wasn't too imaginative, but that's OK. Like all good autobiographers, he dispenses with his childhood in as few pages as possible (although his childhood was definitely interesting—his mother was young and unmarried when he was born, and he was raised by his grandparents, led to believe that his mother was his sister), and gets to the music pretty quickly. In Clapton's case, the music was the blues. He began obsessively studying the great American blues musicians, and when he finally got a guitar of his own, he worked painstakingly to learn everything about their technique that he could, eventually developing his own style. His development as a musician with the Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos and finally as a solo artist is described in fascinating detail.
A couple of years ago I read Wonderful Tonight by Pattie Boyd. She had the distinction of having been married to George Harrison and then Clapton, and some of rock and roll's greatest songs were written about her: Something, by Harrison; and Layla, by Clapton (as well as Wonderful Tonight, which, eh, I don't count as among the greatest songs). In reading Clapton's book, you realize that she inspired a lot more than those two songs in his catalog; she was an obsession of his for years, and I'd say that just about every song on the Derek and the Dominos album that he wrote seems to be about her, plus some later on.
Along with the music, the other main story told in Clapton's book is of his addiction, first to heroin and then to alcohol. He managed to escape, however, and by the time he wrote the book in 2008, he was 20 years sober and had established a recovery center in Antigua called the Crossroads Center.
My only complaint with the book is near the end—the last 30-40 pages are a recitation of people he'd known over the years that ended up dying, mixed in with Clapton finding ways to spend his considerable sums of cash, such as buying a 150-foot yacht to cruise around the Mediterranean. Talk about conspicuous consumption. All in all, though, it was a good read.
Life, by Keith Richards. This was one fun read. You can learn a lot from reading this book, from how to tune a guitar to how to survive a knife-fight, to how to inject heroin. Oh, and if I remember correctly, there are a few recipes along the way.
Of all of the books on this list, I would probably have to say that this one was my favorite. He lays out his story and the history of the Rolling Stones very well, but mostly it's just a very entertaining read about, well, life. And speaking of which, it's a miracle that Richards has been blessed with so much of it—life, that is—considering everything his body has been through over the years, but that's part of what makes the book so enjoyable.
With all of the books on this list of course, if you don't like the author's music, you probably won't be interested in the book. But with this one, even if you've never been a Rolling Stones fan, you'll find something to like.
Simple Dreams, by Linda Ronstadt. She was my first love, musically. This book is a recitation of Ronstadt's evolution in music, from country to rock to pop to Spanish-language ballads. I was a big fan for a long time, so I enjoyed reading her version of her life, particularly the years when she was just starting to make it in Los Angeles, and singing with a lot of people who went on to stardom out of that scene, like the Eagles, James Taylor, J.D. Souther, etc. She basically got the Eagles together.
My one complaint about the book is that, as she goes through her years in the business, she essentially skips over what is my favorite part of her career, the years in which she put out the albums Prisoner in Disguise and Hasten Down The Wind. I think a lot of people would agree that those are her two best records, and I would have loved to read about what went into putting them together, but they are barely mentioned in the book.
The Truth Is …: My Life in Love and Music, by Melissa Etheridge. One of the reasons I read a book like this is to try to understand what artists are thinking about when they write songs. Often, I'm disappointed in that quest; they'll write about a couple of songs, but for the most part they deliberately leave the song origins and meanings opaque. The listener has to figure out what a given song means, or develop his or her own interpretation of it. Etheridge, however, goes into great detail about a number of songs, what inspired them and how they were written. She's a very emotional songwriter—and performer—and she really lets the reader in on where the songs came from.
This Wheel's On Fire, by Levon Helm. Helm was the beloved drummer for The Band, and one of its original members. The book, which he wrote in 1993, details his musical upbringing and the history of The Band, serving as a backup to Ronnie Hawkins and later Bob Dylan, before breaking out on its own.
The story of The Band is also the story of the relationship between Helm and guitarist Robbie Robertson. By the mid-1970s, the relationship was fraying, and the group decided to split up, putting on one last concert, which was filmed for the movie The Last Waltz, arguably the best concert movie ever. That final concert is a big part of the book—and Helm answers one of rock and roll's biggest questions: how the heck did Neil Diamond get to be a part of that movie?
Who I Am: A Memoir, by Pete Townshend. This was my most-anticipated book on this list. I was a huge Who fan back in the day, and in particular a Pete Townshend fan. In addition to creating some of the greatest rock songs ever recorded, he's also written a lot of prose about rock and The Who's place in rock history. So I figured his autobiography would be fascinating.
And it was, for a while. It was great to get some inside information about the roots of The Who and the creation of albums like Tommy, Who's Next and Quadrophenia. Unfortunately, Who's Next—in my opinion the No. 1 rock album of all time—got short shrift in the book; at least I felt that way. And for me, the book devolved into way too much description of the various recording setups he used. Great info if you're into sound engineering, but I just like the songs, not the specs of the mixing board. Also, Townshend, who has always been one for confessionals, spends a lot of ink on the various affairs he had while he was on the road touring with the band or even back at home, and his regrets for the resulting pain it caused for those around him. I get it; he's a rock star. And there's a certain lifestyle that goes with that. But honestly, I don't want to read about that stuff. So while I enjoyed reading the book, ultimately it wasn't one of my favorites.
Future Books
There are few more books in this genre that I want to read. First, the ones I know about:
• George Harrison, I Me Mine—This one has gotten mixed reviews, but I want to read what he has to say about Pattie Boyd and Eric Clapton (see above)
• Robbie Robertson, Testimony—And this one will be good to get his side of the breakup of The Band, and see how it compares with Levon Helm's.
• Broken Music, by Sting—Although this seems to be about his life up until The Police; still, it should be interesting. There's also One Train Later, by Andy Summers, guitarist for The Police; that might be more what I'm looking for.
• Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink, by Elvis Costello. I'll put a big MAYBE on this one. Elvis tends to be very coy in his writings and interviews, and my desire to read this book sort of depends on whether it's written for his entertainment or for the reader's. Also, it's 672 pages, so … maybe sometime when I'm confined to a hospital bed…
And here are a few artists who, as far as I know, haven't yet written memoirs, but I'll look forward to them if they ever do: Dave Matthews, David Gray, Amos Lee, Mark Knopfler, Mick Jones (The Clash, not Foreigner), Natalie Merchant, Sarah McLachlan and Bono.
So, am I missing anybody? Are there other rock-star autobiographies that you've read and liked (or disliked)? Who else should I add to my list? Let me know in the comments below, and, as always, thanks for reading.
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Geoff Hoover
You left out how Levon's book is scathingly angry and bitter. Man does he hate the Last Waltz and Scorcese! But it is a great read. Your right about the Townshend book – he may be God but he's also a total fucking mess. But at least he knows it. KEEFS is the best. It just oozes his personality and his love of Mick is endless but he sure has had it with Brenda. The Daltrey and Springsteen books are both really good. When I read Woody's autobiography I really noticed that all the English rockers grew up exactly the same, playing in craters left over from the War and subsisting on post war rations, which is probably why so many are so short. I couldnt finish either the Wyman or Costello books. Wyman just got tedious and Elvis was just too Elvis. I really hope Michael Philip Jagger writes one.
Oh. A must read is Clarence Clemons book!!! It's beyond explaining. It's just great.


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What The Russian Indictments Say About The Power Of Social Media
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I write about the broad intersection of data and society.
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With last week's indictment of 13 Russian nationals for attempting to interfere with the US election, a spotlight has been cast once again on the Internet Research Agency (IRA) and its use of social media to conduct influence operations. For those who believe that the intent of the Russian activity was in part to sway the election, rather than merely to sow chaos, the FBI allegations paint a frightening picture of the modern power of social media that leaves us with one of two possible outcomes: either social media has become so powerful in shaping our society that, in the words of one Russian journalist, "only 90 people with $2 million" can alter the election of the head of state of the most powerful nation on earth and we are blissfully unaware of it until after the fact and must trust the platforms themselves to tell us what happened or a dedicated nation-state-level operation with a staff a hundred and a budget of millions of dollars had no impact on a hotly contested event with a razor-tight margin. What does this tell us about social media today?
The 2008 and 2012 presidential elections offered the conclusion that the most data-driven candidate wins and established data as the lifeblood of modern campaigning. In the leadup to the 2016 election, the power of social media and social-based psychological and demographic targeting came to the forefront as the latest incarnation of data-driven campaigning. Yet, for all the claims that a savvy digital campaign won the election, there is also the simple fact that Ted Cruz used many of the same techniques and indeed one of the same key firms as Trump, suggesting that the approach many have credited with deciding the election was not, by itself, the winning factor.
Could social media have swayed the election outcome? We simply lack the data to answer that question today. Regardless, it is certainly clear that social media was a key focus of the currently understood Russian efforts, with Facebook front and center to those activities.
Yet, for all their centrality to the known Russian operations, the sad fact is that our understanding of what happened, the totality of what the public, media and even to an extent, the government, is aware of is mediated nearly entirely by the social media platforms themselves.
Indeed, one of the elements that makes the Russian investigation so remarkable is that it relies in large part on the voluntary cooperation of the social media platforms to document key connections and attribution. The degree to which they were able to detect the accounts and influence that they previously entirely missed in the leadup to the election now determines our postmortem accountability and understanding of what took place, as well as guiding our future potential responses.
Are the currently documented social media accounts the only ones that were operated by the Russians? The extent of Russian activities raises the question of whether at least some of the "rogue" Twitter accounts that popped up in the aftermath of President Trump's election and so captivated the public, scientific community and media may have been created, operated or promoted by Russian interests. Unsurprisingly, Twitter did not respond to a request for comment on whether it had ever investigated whether there were any Russian links to the accounts, reinforcing the simple fact that nearly the entirety of our understanding of just what took place is controlled by the social media platforms themselves, which have an obvious incentive to minimize their involvement.
To be fair, the Russian activity documented to date poses unique challenges to detection. Unlike the formerly popular narrative of a childish operation of Russian IP addresses buying election ads in Russian rubles, the Russian activity was designed to avoid many of the basic kinds of detection algorithms that might be imagined. VPNs were used to acquire US IP addresses, operations were conducted during hours that mirrored a US user, real humans operated the accounts using language and narratives that largely matched the respective Americans they were impersonating, US bank accounts were used to purchase ads and to top it all off, stolen genuine American identities were used to provide a final layer of authenticity. Simplistic filtering for foreign IP addresses or bank accounts or automated bot detection would do little to curb such activity. Moreover, even if Facebook were to perform basic identity verification, the use of stolen identities would mean the accounts would likely raise few flags.
However, even the more simplistic and obvious bot networks appear difficult for the social platforms to weed out. Last month the New York Times documented an extensive network of more than a million automated accounts used to artificially inflate the perceived social influence of users, including at least one Twitter board member. When asked why Twitter itself, with all of its internal tools and raw data access, was unable to identify these bots when a newspaper was able to document the entire operation using purely public information, the company declined to comment other than to confirm that the activity documented by the Times was against its terms of use and would be immediately shut down.
In a world in which social media platforms are blind to bots running rampant and foreign actors enjoying free reign to influence an election and/or sow chaos in foreign countries, while terrorists actively recruit and hate speech is plentiful, there are two troubling possibilities: either the platforms are simply outmatched and lack the tools, expertise and experience to identify malicious use or they are simply looking the other way due to the additional traffic and activity those activities generate. Given the platforms' ability to rapidly respond to the FBI investigation and identify activity when explicitly asked to or when identified by media outlets, it certainly suggests that platforms have the ability to do vastly more than they currently do. In the case of Germany's hate speech laws, after years of arguing it simply could do no more to combat misuse of its platform in the country, Facebook reacted swiftly to the threat of new legal sanctions, rapidly hiring an army of new staff and launching new tools to comply, demonstrating that when properly motivated, social media platforms can do much more than they do today.
In an era in which simplistic one-page "information literacy" guides are promoted as a quick fix for "fake news" that portray falsehoods as cartoonishly obvious and mainstream media positions itself as an ultimate fact checker and arbitrator to verify and vet information, the difficulty in spotting false information is driven home in just how much Russian material was republished by media outlets. According to an NBC report, at least 3,000 news outlets published more than 11,000 news articles embedding the Russian tweets and media personalities from major American outlets including CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, Fox, Slate, Buzzfeed retweeted and engaged with them. Even Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey retweeted at least two Russian posts, though the company did not respond to a request for comment.
Putting this all together, if one believes that a small team of a hundred or so employees on the other side of the globe with a budget of a few million could sway an election in a way that millions of volunteers and hundreds of millions of television advertisements could not, then the opaque black box of the social media platforms has reached a frightening position of power to influence the election of the head of state of the most powerful nation on earth, without any accountability or visibility into its activities. If Zuckerberg were to run for president, does his platform now have the ability to simply throw a few levers and hand him the election without society ever knowing? On the other hand, what if all these influence operations had no impact on the presidential election, as the FBI indictment concludes? This would suggest that the entire industry of social media marketing and the tens of billions of dollars spent annually to influence audiences may not be money well spent. Either way, it is clear that social influence operations are here to stay and time is running out to find a solution.
Kalev Leetaru
Based in Washington, DC, I founded my first internet startup the year after the Mosaic web browser debuted, while still in eighth grade, and have spent the last 20 year


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Q: First goroutine example, weird results This example taken from tour.golang.org/#63

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func say(s string) {
    for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
        time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
        fmt.Println(s)
    }
}

func main() {
    go say("world")
    say("hello")
}

The output
hello
world
hello
world
hello
world
hello
world
hello

Why world is printed only 4 times instead of 5 ?

Edit: The answer can be quoted from golang specification:

Program execution begins by initializing the main package and then
  invoking the function main. When the function main returns, the
  program exits. It does not wait for other (non-main) goroutines to
  complete.

A: When your main function ends your program ends, i.e. all goroutines are terminated.
Your main terminates before go say("world") is done.  If you sleep some time at the end of main you should see the last world.

A: Here is how you solve that synchronization problem properly - with sync.WaitGroup
Playground link
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "sync"
    "time"
)

func say(s string, wg *sync.WaitGroup) {
    defer wg.Done()
    for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
        time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
        fmt.Println(s)
    }
}

func main() {
    wg := new(sync.WaitGroup)
    wg.Add(2)
    go say("world", wg)
    go say("hello", wg)
    wg.Wait()
    fmt.Println("All done")
}

A: Because the calling gorouting terminates before the second one you spawned does. This causes the second to shut down. To illustrate, modify your code slightly:
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func say(s string) {
    for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
        time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
        fmt.Print(i)
        fmt.Println(":"+s)
    }
}

func main() {
    go say("world")
    say("hello")
}

Try putting in a "wait" or a sleep to the end of the main function.


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The animal world in photographs as seen by Terry Costales. A daily posting from 2007 to the present.
The 2019 collection of animal and other portraits by photographer Terry Costales.
The 2018 collection of animal and other portraits by photographer Terry Costales.
The 2017 collection of animal portraits by photographer Terry Costales.
Only one photo posted in 2013 from San Francisco.
The daily animal world as seen by Terry Costales shots from all over Nicaragua.
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The sacoglossan Elysia sp. 24 is not yet identified or still undescribed, I call it Elysia sp. 24 to distinguish it from other species of Elysia, until I know its name.
Elysia sp. 24 is characterized by its brownish background colour, with white mottling and minute white spots. There is a white patch on the head. There are large blue spots on the sides of the parapodia and the body. The tips of the rhinophores are blueish, the tip of the 'tail' ist also blueish.
This species is very similar to Elysia sp. 31 in Gosliner et al. (2015) at page 90, exept of the rhinophores which do not resemble bull horns, and exept of the brownish background colour.


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Major deCODE-led Study Underscores Role of the Brain in Obesity
New genetic variants linked to obesity are being integrated into the deCODEme™ personal genome analysis service
Reykjavik, ICELAND, December 14, 2008 – In one of the largest studies of its kind, a multinational team led by scientists from deCODE genetics (Nasdaq:DCGN) today report the discovery of common variations at seven new sites in the human genome found to influence obesity. The study analyzed more than 300,000 single-letter variations (SNPs) across the genomes of more than 30,000 people from Iceland, the Netherlands, and the United States, and confirmed the findings in data from more than 40,000 individuals from Denmark and the US-based GIANT Consortium. deCODE is incorporating the novel SNPs on chromosomes 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 12 and 19 reported today in its deCODEme™ personal genome analysis service, and subscribers will receive an update to their personal profiles. The paper, entitled "Genome-wide association yields new sequence variants at seven loci that associate with measures of obesity," is published today in the online edition of Nature Genetics at www.nature.com/ng, and will appear in an upcoming print edition of the journal.
"This study essentially doubles in one fell swoop the number of known and replicated genetic factors contributing to obesity as a public health problem. And what we are seeing in obesity are a large number of common genetic risk factors with a relatively modest impact on disease. One of the most notable aspects of these discoveries is that most of these new risk factors are near genes that regulate processes in the brain. This suggests that as we work to develop better means of combating obesity, including using these discoveries as the first step in developing new drugs, we need to focus on the regulation of appetite at least as much as on the metabolic factors of how the body uses and stores energy," said Kari Stefansson, CEO of deCODE and senior author on the paper.
"Today's findings also underscore our ability to employ our population-based resources and statistical knowhow in Iceland as a cornerstone of large-scale multinational collaborations to identify and replicate the inherited causes of the most complex phenotypes. These new variants may point to valuable new drug targets, and we are already integrating them into deCODEme.™ We look forward to expanding upon our productive collaboration with colleagues in the US and Europe to continue to increase our understanding of the biology that underlies obesity," Dr. Stefansson added.
About obesity and this study
Obesity results from the consumption of more calories than the body uses, and it represents a growing public health problem worldwide, particularly in industrialized countries. Obesity is a major risk factor for diseases such as type 2 diabetes, a range of cardiovascular conditions, and even some forms of cancer. One third of the population of the United States is now classified as obese, and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that around the world as many as 400 million people are obese.
Obesity is a quintessentially complex condition. Behavioral factors such as diet, eating habits and lack of exercise play a major role, but these interact with genetic factors that influence the regulation of appetite as well as how the body uses energy and stores it as fat. The aim of the study published today was to identify more of these genetic factors as a means of better understanding the biological processes that contribute to obesity. This information can be used to inform efforts to develop better means of combatting it. The discovery phase of the study published today correlated more than 300,000 SNPs with data on weight and body mass index (BMI). BMI is a measure used to relate weight to height, calculated as an individual's weight in kilograms divided by their height in meters squared, and individuals with a BMI greater than 30 are defined as obese. The 43 SNPs identified in this first scan were then analyzed in 5,500 Danes and genotypic data from the 33,000 participants in the GIANT Consortium's research. This analysis yielded SNPs linked to overweight and obesity at seven regions of the genome not previously known to be involved in obesity; identified new SNPs at previously known obesity-linked sites in the genome; and confirmed and refined the impact on obesity of previously published SNPs at four other sites in the genome.
deCODE and the authors would like to thank the participants in this study, and to acknowledge the fruitful collaboration with the GIANT Consortium, which included data from this study in its own meta-analysis also published today. The research performed at deCODE was partly funded through the European Community's ENGAGE project, grant agreement HEALTH-F4-2007-201413. Support for the US research was provided by the US National Institutes of Health, and for the Danish research by the Lundbeck Foundation Centre of Applied Medical Genomics and the Danish Health Research Council.
deCODE is a bio-pharmaceutical company developing drugs and DNA-based tests to improve the treatment, diagnosis and prevention of common diseases. Its lead therapeutic programs, which leverage the company's expertise in chemistry and structural biology, include DG041, an antiplatelet compound being developed for the prevention of arterial thrombosis; DG051 and DG031, compounds targeting the leukotriene pathway for the prevention of heart attack; and DG071 and a platform for other PDE4 modulators with therapeutic applications in Alzheimer's disease and other conditions. deCODE is a global leader in human genetics, and has identified key variations in the genome (SNPs) conferring increased risk of major public health challenges from cardiovascular disease to cancer. Based upon these discoveries deCODE has brought to market a growing range of DNA-based tests for gauging risk and empowering prevention of common diseases. Through its CLIA-registered laboratory, deCODE is offers deCODE T2™ for type 2 diabetes; deCODE AF™ for atrial fibrillation and stroke; deCODE MI™ for heart attack; deCODE ProCa™ for prostate cancer; deCODE Glaucoma™ for a major type of glaucoma; and deCODE BreastCancer™, for the common forms of breast cancer. deCODE is delivering on the promise of the new genetics.SM Visit us on the web at www.decode.com; on our diagnostics site at www.decodediagnostics.com; for our pioneering personal genome analysis service, integrating the genetic variants included in these tests and those linked to another twenty common diseases, at www.decodeme.com; and on our blog at www.decodeyou.com.
Any statements contained in this presentation that relate to future plans, events or performance are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, and the timing of events, to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, those relating to our ability to obtain financing and to form collaborative relationships, the effect of a potential delisting of our common stock from The Nasdaq Global Market, uncertainty regarding potential future deterioration in the market for auction rate securities which could negatively affect our cash position and result in additional permanent impairment charges, our ability to develop and market diagnostic products, the level of third party reimbursement for our products, risks related to preclinical and clinical development of pharmaceutical products, including the identification of compounds and the completion of clinical trials, the effect of government regulation and the regulatory approval processes, market acceptance, our ability to obtain and protect intellectual property rights for our products, dependence on collaborative relationships, the effect of competitive products, industry trends and other risks identified in deCODE's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, the risk factors identified in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any updates to those risk factors filed from time to time in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or Current Reports on Form 8-K. deCODE undertakes no obligation to update or alter these forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.


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Rozgrywki Priemjer-Ligi w sezonie 2018/19 były 27. w historii rosyjskiej najwyższej klasy rozgrywkowej. Rozpoczęły się 29 lipca 2018, a zakończyły 26 maja 2019. W lidze uczestniczyło szesnaście drużyn, w tym 3 które awansowały z Pierwszej Dywizji – ,  i . Tytuł mistrzowski zdobył , a królem strzelców został Fiodor Czałow z .

Drużyny

Tabela

|}Zasady ustalania kolejności: 1. Punkty, 2. Mecze bezpośrednie, 3. Wygrane mecze.
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Wyniki

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W nawiasach podano wyniki po 1. połowie

Zobacz też
 Pierwyj diwizion (2018/2019) – rozgrywki na drugim poziomie ligowym
 Wtoroj diwizion (2018/2019) – rozgrywki na trzecim poziomie ligowym

Linki zewnętrzne
 Oficjalna strona Priemjer-Ligi

Pierwszy poziom rozgrywek piłkarskich w Rosji
2018 w piłce nożnej
2018 w Rosji
2019 w piłce nożnej
2019 w Rosji

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Scotland, the Union and Brexit: What now for Scotland?
The Scottish Fabian Society hosted a thought provoking event in Edinburgh on the challenges facing Scotland.
The conference considered a number of questions related to this theme. For example:
What does Brexit mean for the future of the United Kingdom and how can Scottish Labour position itself in a new round of constitutional debates brought up by this issue?
How might the ongoing debates around Scotland's position in the UK fit into a broader Labour vision of devolved power or federalism?
How might such a vision account for resurgent notions of English, Welsh or regional identities?
What should Scotland be looking for in any deal for a future outside the EU?
What does the referendum voting pattern say about voters' concerns beyond the EU?
What lessons must Labour learn in order to address these concerns and stem the rise of nationalism and right-wing politics?
I was pleased to give some closing remarks which you can listen to here:


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In addition to music production, Michel has hosted the TV show RadArt for 3 seasons, Vendredi tout est permis on Radio-Canada and the drive home radio show on Unique FM. He sat as vice-president on the board of the APCM for 4 out of 8 years, on the ANIM board for 2 years and has been président of the Festival de la St-Jean in Ottawa since 2014.


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Family Health Centers at NYU Langone
We have locations and programs throughout New York City.
Family Health Centers
Adult Medicine Program
Behavioral Health Program
Community-Based Programs
Pediatric Health Program
Rehabilitation Program
The Family Health Centers at NYU Langone is a community-based program that provides high-quality primary and preventive outpatient care to adults and children regardless of their ability to pay or health insurance status.
The Pandemic Thrusts Telepsychiatry to the Fore
Thanksgiving Meal Kits Distributed at The Table Food Pantry
Family Health Centers at NYU Langone Hosts Literacy Event
The Family Health Centers at NYU Langone was founded in 1967, and has grown to become one of the largest Federally Qualified Health Center networks in the nation. We are home to the largest dental residency program in the country, the largest school health program in New York, and with more than 100,000 patients, our network handles 600,000 doctor's visits each year.
Learn more by reading our 50th Anniversary Report to the Community and watching our video.
VIDEO: The Family Health Centers at NYU Langone offers healthcare and community-based services to adults and children throughout Brooklyn.
Our network of Brooklyn-based community health centers includes 8 primary care and specialty sites, more than 40 school-based health and dental clinics, and a wide array of social support services for adults, children, and families.
We provide access to the following services:
primary and specialty care for adults
obstetrics and women's health services
Our school-based health programs provide children access during the school day to medical, dental, and vision care, as well as behavioral health services.
Our community-based programs provide job training for adults, youth development opportunities, early childhood programs, and programs for older adults. The Family Health Centers at NYU Langone also operate community medicine clinics that provide access to primary healthcare services to people who are dealing with homelessness and transitional living issues.
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Learn about healthcare-related jobs, including jobs for dentists, nurses, and physicians.
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Family Health Centers at NYU Langone is a Health Center Program grantee under 42 U.S.C. 254b, and a deemed Public Health Service employee under 42 U.S.C. 233(g)-(n) and a member of the National Health Service Corps. This health center receives Health and Human Services (HHS) funding and has Federal Public Health Service (PHS) deemed status with respect to certain health or health-related claims, including medical malpractice claims, for itself and its covered individuals.
Family Health Centers at NYU Langone provides a welcoming environment to all regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or ability to pay.
We provide financial assistance for people who cannot pay for their medical care through a sliding scale fee discount program. We accept most major insurance plans, including Medicaid and Medicare.
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We are a leader in stroke and trauma care and the hospital of choice in Brooklyn.
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We provide medical care to people who are homeless or living in transitional housing.
Dental Medicine—NYU Langone Family Health Centers
We provide dental care to adults and children through our community-based and school-based programs.
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If you are a physician who would like to refer a patient, please call 718-630-7942.
What Parents Should Know About COVID-19 Testing for Kids
Family Health Centers Expands Quality & Safety Initiatives
Sunset Terrace Family Health Center Expands Its Services
Architect of Dental Training Program Honored
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Milwaukee sent guard Matthew Dellavedova, center John Henson, a future first-round draft pick and a 2021 second-round draft pick to Cleveland.
Washington previously dealt a 2019 second-round pick in the draft-day trade for Oubre, and its 2021 second for Trey Burke.
The Cavaliers have acquired guard Matthew Dellavedova and forward/center John Henson from the Milwaukee Bucks as part of a three-team trade, Cavaliers General Manager Koby Altman announced on Friday, December 7.
The 28-year-old was dealt by the Bucks in exchange for fellow point guard George Hill who is talented but oft-injured. According to Zach Lowe, the first-rounder would convey if 15-30 in 2021, 11-30 in 2022, 11-24 in 2023, 9-30 in 2024 or become second-round picks. The Cavs have been very aggressive in looking to move out veterans for future picks, now having acquired four future selections in the past 10 days, including a trade that sent Kyle Korver to Utah. He averaged 3.7 points in 12 games this season. Milwaukee also got forward Jason Smith from Washington. "Brings us veteran leadership, a guy that's won before, a guy that's going to push Collin (Sexton), control the game for the second unit and he'll make shots".
Dellavedova could play in the Cavaliers' Saturday night home game against the Washington Wizards, and will quickly renew acquaintances with his former teammates on the Bucks. "We lost George, which was my vet, so I'll have to talk to Dellavedova and he'll be able to lead me how George led me".
They also could potentially save roughly $16 million in salary, assuming they waive Hill after this season.
Despite missing a chunk of the season, Hill is a player that will be useful for the Bucks on the court, where his career three-point shooting mark of over 38 percent will see him fit in well with both the Bucks reserves and starters. Henson, 27, is averaging 5.6 points and 5.1 rebounds per game.
Dekker was in his first season with the Cavs, who got him in an August trade with the Los Angeles Clippers. Dekker, out since suffering an ankle injury on November 5, was expected to be available Saturday when the Cavaliers hosted the Wizards.
Henson (6-11, 219), who is in his eighth National Basketball Association season, has spent his entire career with Milwaukee, appearing in 405 games (152 starts) and averaging 7.8 points on.539 shooting, 5.4 rebounds and 1.48 blocks in 20.1 minutes per game.
Plus, Boi-1da, Kanye West , and Pharrell Williams were listed in the Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical category. He didn't run away with the crown, though, as Drake was right behind him with seven nominations of his own.
Samsung has published a poster on Weibo announcing that the Galaxy A8s smartphone will launch on December 10 . Apart from these two, there are also reports of a mid-range Galaxy S10 and a high-end variant with 12GB RAM .
But there were no protests or catcalls at the Jodhpur airport on Monday afternoon when the couple flew to New Delhi . Priyanka , on what she wanted for her wedding: "Every girl dreams of being a princess on her wedding day".
Qatar produces only some 600,000 barrels of crude oil a day, making it OPEC's 11th biggest producer. The decision was "technical and strategic" and had "nothing to do with the blockade", he said.
Ariana's new video dropped hours after the singer scored a third week at the top of the United Kingdom charts with Thank U, Next . And it was... it was really big", perhaps in reference to a certain type of " big energy " that Davidson reportedly has.
Australia suffered nine defeats in 13 games this year, the worst record in the professional era. I don't think you can just point to Kurtley Beale as being potentially out of form.
President Trump is claiming, without evidence, that "it is a way they get certain people out of their country and dump in U.S". A migrant woman was hurt during her attempt to climb a U.S. -Mexico border fence with her two small children.


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Poses or exercises are performed on the equipment during vibration of the platform. Muscles are activated more quickly and efficiently under the influence of vibration. This explains the alternative name of 'Accelerated Training'. In addition, vibration training stimulates blood and lymph circulatory systems, increasing the speed of the blood flow through the body.
The upward movement of the platform effects weight training using the trainer's own body mass, important for maintenance of bone density. Weight training for bone density maintenance is hugely important for women to prevent bone loss and fractures in their later years.
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After completing each Endermologie®, Focus Ultrasound or Narl®  Ultrasound session, clients are encouraged to use the Vibration Training equipment. This allows the released lipids to be rapidly burnt off, aids in tissue fluid circulation and drainage and assists in bone health.
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A Look at the Annual Fund
Annual Fund The Rotary Foundation
The power of Rotary lies in our global network of community leaders and technical experts, and our exceptionally strong ethic of Service Above Self.
The Annual Fund makes it possible for Rotary clubs to transform lives around the globe. It is one of several funds managed by The Rotary Foundation.
Broadly speaking, the Annual Fund supports Rotary humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs around the world.
Rotarians focus our service efforts in six areas to maximize our local and global impact: promoting peace, fighting disease, providing clean water, saving mothers and children, supporting education, and growing local communities. These are called "Areas of Focus", or "Rotary Causes".
Every Rotarian is encouraged to make a personal donation to the Annual Fund every year, and to participate in one of the Foundation programs. Our Club is active in many of the Rotary programs, including Global grants, District Community Grants, Alumni programs, Peace Fellowships, Rotary scholarships, the Rotary Youth Exchange program, and the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA), among others.
All donations made by Rotarians are completely voluntary. Our Club asks each Rotarian to donate $120 each year to the Annual Fund. Most members donate more than that, while a few members donate less, each according to their circumstances. (Our Club averaged $391 per person over the past Rotary year).
Our policy, like many clubs, is to make it possible for Rotarians to see why donating to The Rotary Foundation's programs is important, and to make it easy to do so; we do not "twist arms" nor do we force donations. While the donation amounts each member makes are never publicized, Rotarians are recognized for their donations, most notably through the Paul Harris Fellow recognition.
The Rotary Foundation itself has an enviable record of managing our funds, one that every Rotarian should be proud of - and one that is very closely tracked. 90.6 percent of the money we donate to the Foundation is used for the programs and services supported by the Foundation, while only 9.3 percent is used for administrative and fundraising expenses, an enviable record indeed.
Charity Navigator rates The Rotary Foundation 4 out of 4 stars, and has done so for the past twelve years. In fact, the Foundation is ranked number two in the United States. Find out more, here: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4553
The Annual Fund is the primary source of funds that support The Rotary Foundation's programs and areas of focus. Lets take a closer look at the Annual Fund itself.
Contributions to the Annual Fund are invested for three years to generate earnings to meet the Foundation's operating expenses.
To achieve the Fund's objective, the portfolio is invested conservatively with an emphasis on liquidity and income over capital appreciation.
The Annual Fund portfolio is 100 percent invested in fixed income assets, and earned 2.8 percent in fiscal 2019.
Over the past five years, the Annual Fund generated an average rate of return of 3.2 percent and grew from $421 million to $433 million. The rate of return is the total realized and unrealized capital gains, and interest and dividend income.
At the end of every Rotary year, contributions directed to the Annual Fund-SHARE from all Rotary clubs in a district are divided between the World Fund and the District Designated Fund, or DDF.
The World Fund provides the Foundation's portion of funding for approved grants. Through the World Fund, the Foundation Trustees can allocate funds where the needs are the greatest.
The Foundation invests the other half of the donated funds for three years, and uses a portion of the interest generated, not the principal, to fund Foundation operations. At the end of the three year period, the Foundation disburses the funds to Rotary Districts around the world.
Within a set of guidelines, each Rotary District decides how to use the District Designated Funds (DDF) allocated to it. The District can use these funds, which are a reflection of what was donated from that District three years earlier, to pay for Foundation, club, and district projects chosen by Rotary clubs in that District. Districts may use up to half of their DDF to fund district community grants. The remaining DDF may be used for global grants or donated to PolioPlus, the Rotary Peace Centers, or another district.
District 5020, the District to which our club belongs, allocates nearly half of the DDF to district community grant projects such as the Chimacum High School pavilion we built this past year. We access those funds by developing a local project and spending the money in its completion, up to $3,500 of which is reimbursed to us by a matching grant from the District using those DDF funds. The District also allocates funds to support sustainable global projects clubs develop, such as the seven-club project we are developing designed to help people in urban Togo, a country in Africa, build composting toilets as a way to reduce disease. The District also annually donates DDF to Rotary Peace Centers and the Polio Plus program.
The Annual Fund is the primary source of the funds Rotarians around the globe use to address some of the world's most pressing challenges. Our financial help makes all this happen, and more. Donate to the Annual Fund here: https://my.rotary.org/en/donate


One of the most fascinating sports stories is one that's going to get a minimum of play in New York, and most American cities where hockey turned its lights out for summer a long time ago. The Winnipeg-Las Vegas Western Conference showdown in the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs is a remarkable thing to ponder.
For one thing, there is the presence of the Jets, the erstwhile Atlanta Thrashers, who are on the doorstep of playing for Canada's first Cup in a quarter century. That's almost hard to believe, that it's been since the '93 Montreal Canadiens for our neighbors to the north to skate around a rink on the season's last game with the Cup in their possession.
I detailed in this space a few weeks ago why I was rooting for the Maple Leafs to end their 51-year drought and, well, that quest died an ugly death in the first round, the Leafs falling to the Bruins, extending that city's hockey hunger strike at least another year.
Still, the fact that Canada as a whole has been shut out for 25 years is in its own way that much more amazing. Consider: Starting with the first time the Cup went to the NHL champion, the 1927 Ottawa Senators, Canadian teams won 40 Cups in 63 years, including teams that no longer exist (the original Senators and Montreal Maroons), the two alternating dynasties in Toronto and Montreal, the Edmonton Oilers who won five in a seven-year stretch from 1984-90 and the 1988 Calgary Flames.
Followed by one in the next 28. And counting.
But even more amazing is the instant rise of the Vegas Golden Knights, who a year ago didn't exist and now have become, if they don't win another game, the greatest expansion team ever, in any sport, and by a distance that would put Secretariat's win in the '73 Belmont Stakes to shame.
Look, the ways of modern sports makes it almost impossible that expansion teams will ever again rival the 1962 Mets, who went 40-120 (and, if you talk to people who watched that team, it seems almost a miracle they won that many) or the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who went 0-14 in their first season and actually went 0-26 for their first 26 games before beating the Saints and Cardinals in the last two games of their second season.
And hockey was always a place where expansion teams got beaten up and slapped around, too. It may have only taken the Islanders eight years to win a Cup, but that first season of 1972-73, the Isles scratched out just 30 points in a 12-60-6 slog. And those Isles were the Red Army Team compared to the Washington Capitals, who opened for business two years later by going 8-67-5, good for all of 21 points.
Modern perks like free agency and a scaling back of formerly onerous expansion drafts have meant that expansion teams haven't been historically awful — the Rockies made the baseball playoffs in their third year, the Diamondbacks in their second, the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars each made the NFL conference championship games in 1996, their second years of operation.
Nothing has ever compared to the Golden Knights' 51-24-7 first-year record, to their 109 regular season points (fifth most in the league), to their first-place finish in the Pacific Division, to their 8-1-0 start in their first nine games.
The Maple Leafs — I swear, we aren't picking on them — have been in business since 1917 and have never won as many as 50 games and this year cracked the 100-point barrier for just the fourth-time ever (105). Even if you consider that the NHL didn't play as many as 70 games in a year until 1950 … that's still amazing.
But not as amazing as the Golden Knights, assembled by George McPhee and coached by Gerard Gallant and led by Wild Bill Karlsson. An expansion team doing all of this? What kind of crazy looking glass have we passed through, anyway?
The depressing thing, if you are a Knicks fan, is that even if they do everything right over the next few years, they aren't only in the same conference but the same division as the Celtics and the 76ers, who are going to be awfully good for an awfully long time. It feels like 1980 all over again.
It's easy to dismiss the mania that surrounds Tiger Woods, except when he torches a course the way he did Saturday morning at TPC Sawgrass, it is impossible not to pay attention. Still.
The last few episodes of "The Americans" have actually approached the very best of "Breaking Bad" in terms of tension, drama and storytelling, and that's about the highest praise you can possibly offer a television show.
The NHL playoff system is a disgrace that needs to be fixed, now. You can't keep having the best teams in a conference face each other before the conference finals. When that happens, something is broken. Badly.
Timothy Foster: How long will it be before the Mickey (Mouse) Callaway Mets attempt a suicide squeeze without a runner on third base?
Vac: At the start of the week, if someone asked you, "What could be worse than losing two out of three to the Reds?" you would've had a hard time coming up with the answer, right?
Doug Miller: Mike, the article on the Mets batting out of order was brutal. Mickey Calloway made a bonehead move, but he owned it. Why rub salt in the wound. Praise the accountability, which has rarely been a Mets staple.
Vac: Call me crazy, but I admire the profound loyalty that allows a true believer to take such body blows in stride.
@gregschneider: I'll take my chances with David Fizdale over Dwane Casey. All day, every day. Took Casey years to figure out the NBA.
@MikeVacc: I'd agree with that. But that would also mean that Casey HAS figured it out by now, no?
Jack Beglane: The "Fat Lady" has to sing twice before the Yankees are done.
Vac: It does seem they sometimes require a degree of difficulty before declaring their workdays done.


High winds that were sweeping across Ireland and Britain caused the Stena Superfast VIII ferry to break away from its moorings yesterday and drift from its berth in Belfast Port.
Tugs from the port were dispatched to help the ferry maneuver back on to the berth, Stena spokesman said.
Once back at berth, passengers disembarked at the Stena Line terminal.
The ferry, which had 18 passengers on board and 55 crew, had its departure delayed due to stormy weather.
The bad weather conditions have resulted in cancellation of several other ferry sailings as well, including some from Larne and Dublin, the Irish News reports.
Stena Superfast VIII operates on the Belfast-Cairnryan route.
Posted on October 22, 2014 with tags Belfast, Berth, Breaks Loose, europe, Ferry, Stena, Superfast VIII.


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Princess Kate Suits Up in Boston
Prince William and Princess Kate Arrive in Boston for The Earthshot Prize
The royals will spend three days in the city for the annual Earthshot Prize Awards.
By Chelsey Sanchez Published: Nov 30, 2022
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At last, the Prince and Princess of Wales have returned to the United States.
Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales, arrived in Boston today ahead of the second annual Earthshot Prize Awards, which will recognize five innovators for their work in environmentalism. The royals will be in the city for three days.
For their first public appearance at the Boston Logan International Airport, William and Kate coordinated in navy suits. Kate's monochrome look involved a structured blazer layered over a turtleneck, tapered trousers, a leather belt, and suede pumps. She accessorized with sapphire-and-diamond drop earrings. Meanwhile, William wore his suit with a white button-down and a vibrant blue tie with polka dots.
Shortly after their arrival this afternoon, William released a statement honoring his late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, who died at 96 years old this past September.
"Catherine and I are delighted to be back in the United States and are extremely grateful to Governor Baker and The First Lady of Massachusetts for their warm welcome into Boston," he said. "On this, our first overseas visit since the death of my grandmother, I would like to thank the people of Massachusetts and particularly of Boston for their many tributes paid to the late Queen. She remembered her 1976 bicentennial visit with great fondness. My grandmother was one of life's optimists. And so am I. That is why last year we launched the Earthshot Prize with the ambition to create a truly global platform to inspire hope and urgent optimism as we look to save the future of our planet."
He also expressed his enthusiasm for touring Boston in the coming days, adding, "To the people of Boston, thank you. I'm so grateful to you for allowing us to host the second year of the Earthshot prize in your great city. Catherine and I can't wait to meet many of you in the days ahead."
Chelsey Sanchez
Digital Associate Editor
As an associate editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com, Chelsey keeps a finger on the pulse on all things celeb news. She also writes on social movements, connecting with activists leading the fight on workers' rights, climate justice, and more. Offline, she's probably spending too much time on TikTok, rewatching Emma (the 2020 version, of course), or buying yet another corset.
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Childish Precognition
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Jack is a friend of mine. He is 24 years old and is originally from Twin Falls, Idaho. He moved to Logan in 2016 to attend Utah State University and studies Electrical Engineering. His family is "incredibly large," his mother being the second youngest of eight and his father, the youngest of seven. He has over 90 cousins in total of which he is the second youngest. He has an older sister and a younger brother.
I interviewed Jack over the phone briefly over Thanksgiving Break. He had called me with a second story but didn't want to take too much time away from me and my family. His parents were pregnant for the first time in six years after they were told they couldn't get pregnant and found out this would be the last kid they could ever have. Pregnancy took a heavy toll on Jack's mother and her previous pregnancy was high risk, so they took this very seriously. She miscarried once before this pregnancy, after which she needed surgery. The surgery ultimately allowed them to conceive without the doctors knowing it. When she got pregnant the doctor who was doing the testing, called her colleagues in confusion of the results and her colleague, who had diagnosed Jack's mother with being unable to conceive, said "that's impossible! But tell her congratulations!"
Hillary: "Whenever you're ready, go ahead"
Jack: "So, I was around 5 or 6 years old, so I don't remember a lot of it personally but was later told the things that I didn't remember. Anyway, this was after my parents had been told a few years before this that they couldn't get pregnant again and then (however old I was in years) and they were pregnant. Well at the time everyone, my older sister, my mom, and my dad all wanted a girl, (being the only son I can only imagined the trouble I must have caused to get that response) and so as just a kid, I went along with what everyone else said. As a family and in our personal prayers we would all pray both in family and personal prayer that the baby was a girl. One of the things I do remember very clearly is my sister living in my room for a while so that my parents could remodel her room to get ready for the new baby "girl" so that they would share the room and I remember asking my mom why my room wasn't remodeled and she told me that if we were going to have a boy we would remodel my room."
Now I don't remember it clearly, but my parents later told me that one day I walked down the stairs and I boldly declared that I was NOT going to have a baby sister but a baby brother and that the baby was going to be a boy. My parents, humoring me because I was a child asked why I believe that, of which I responded, 'Jesus told me!'"
Hillary: "No way!" [both laugh]
Jack: "Yes, that's what I said!" [both laugh]
"They of course laughed and chopped it up to me being a young boy and continued to remodel my sister's room. But from that time forth while the rest of my family continued to pray for a baby girl, my prayers changed to pray for the baby boy. Again, both in family or personal prayer. Even when my parents would help me pray (as again I'm around five or six) whenever they prompted me to pray for a girl, I would change it to praying for a boy."
"Now it may have been because my parents were so sure that it was going to be a girl, they took a very long time to check the baby's sex. But when they eventually did, rather close to the day of delivery, they found out that indeed it was a boy, proving that I was right. Now the birth happened so soon after they found out (he was premature) that they didn't have time to remodel my room, but I got a brother and not a sister."
Jack told this story and laughed the whole way through. You could hear the cheeky smile on his face through the phone. Afterwards he joked that he must be "psychic or something" but his powers "dwindled after childhood." This is one of his favorite childhood memories and he was enthusiastic to share it.
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Dr. Lynne S. McNeill
G7: Marriage and Family
Place, Hillary, "Childish Precognition" (2018). USU Student Folklore Fieldwork. Paper 380.


You see, I've been trying my hand at photography (at a very amateur level, mind you) while starting out on this blogging journey and I've found that it's not always so easy.
Last summer when I first took this picture I really loved it, really, really, loved it.
And then I saw it..
That speck (or two) of chicken poo, sticking out there like a sore thumb, ruining my beautiful picture of summer bounty.
And so on and so forth. You see, unfortunately good photos really do matter when it comes to the blogging world. If your pictures are crappy, well people aren't going to read your blog. It's just a fact of life. However, I was so caught up trying to make things "social media perfect" that I was refusing to let the reality of homestead life, be shown on my page.
This is the problem with social media in our society today. We are so careful to only put our absolute best pictures up, only our perfect selfies taken at the most flattering angle, only our Pinterest worthy successes and never our failures.
We are creating an image for ourselves that, frankly, is chicken poo.
A false image that in turn, makes others feel bad about themselves.
It's a wicked cycle. And while I do need to strive to have pretty pictures for my blog, and it's fine to post a successes that we are celebrating or the things we love about our lives, we need to remember to put the REAL us out there, drop some truth bombs, funny pictures and failures.
Let's stop this epidemic of comparison that is plaguing our culture and put truth back in the picture.
We all have some chicken poo in our lives, don't photo shop the truth from your pictures.


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Where is it written that Adam was created on Rosh Hashanah?
from the Talmud that states this and that also mentions from where the Sages received this insight.
The Talmudic source about the world's creation in the month of Tishrei is Tractate Rosh Hashanah 10b-11a and on 27a, as well.
See also Sanhedrin 38b for a detailed breakdown hour by hour - as listed in our article What was the schedule of Adam and Eve's first day of existence?
The specific dates (and the abovementioned breakdown) of Adam and Eve being created on the 1st of Tishrei - i.e. Rosh Hashanah - can be found in Medrash VaYikrah Rabah beginning Parshah 29 (on Emor). This is also referenced in Tosafot on tractate Rosh Hashanah 8a entitled LiTkufot.
This is considered part of the Oral Tradition, though, as in many cases of the Oral Tradition, the Talmud supplies Scriptural support as well.
The Jewish Supreme Court. The court would convene in a designated chamber in the Holy Temple, and was comprised of 71 of the greatest scholars of the time. Continued after the destruction of the Temples, but was dissolved in the 5th century when due to Roman persecution the seat of Torah scholarship relocated from Israel to Babylon.
The first man, created by G-d on the sixth day of creation. He was banished from the Garden of Eden after eating from the forbidden fruit of the forbidden knowledge. Died in 2830 BCE.


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Q: Code for generating oauth_Signature when you have consumer key, secret, token and tokenkey I have to test a GET request in jmeter where I have to pass oauth signature as a parameter. I have consumer key, consumer secret, token and token secret. I want to generate it automatically.

A: I am assuming that you have 2 request-
1.Post request. where you are sending consumer key, consumer secret, token and token secret as parameter.

*Get request. where you have to pass oauth signature as a parameter.

If this is the case, use Regular expression extractor to fetch value from response 1 and pass it to request 2.
If possible share request with parameter to get better idea.


Clean & disinfect your Cilantro and other fruits and vegetables.
When we buy cilantro from grocery stores it comes with a lot of pesticides unless you buy 100% organic. If you are not using organic cilantro you must clean it thoroughly. Many pesticides are being used on cilantro and other greens. Pesticides can remain in the body and build up in the liver. Instead of getting good benefits from cilantro we may get bad effects from the pesticides. So we need to give a good cleaning. Follow the steps that I am showing here to clean cilantro.
Get some water in a big bowl or a basin.
Dip the cilantro or coriander leaves in the water.
Wash them thoroughly and take them out of the water and you will see the water becomes dirty.Discard the water.
Repeat the process until you get clean water.
It may take 2 or 3 times. But do it until you get clean water.
Then get some more fresh water in the big bowl.
Pour about 2 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide.
Dip the cilantro in the hydrogen peroxide water and let it soak for 10 minutes.
Hydrogen peroxide will kill a lot of germs and microorganisms.
You can use vinegar also along with hydrogen peroxide.
After 10 minutes take the cilantro out of the water and put it in a colander to drain out excess water.
Now you have clean and fresh cilantro ready to be used.


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A new study, "Advancing the Use of Medicines: Applying Levers for Change," highlights the opportunity to save half a trillion dollars in global healthcare spending a year by supporting the appropriate use of medicines – making sure patients receive and use the right medicine at the right time. Just as important as the potential economic impact is the impact that the responsible use of medicines can have at a personal level through improved health outcomes.
This study was conducted over the past year jointly between the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics and the World Health Organization (WHO) to identify areas where national health ministers and other leaders can most affect change. Aligning the goals and practices of all health system stakeholders including policymakers, payers, providers, pharmacists and patients would ensure the proper coordination so that patients are prescribed and take the right medicine at the right time.
Because of the potential for both human and economic savings, this report argues that Ministers of Health and other national health system leaders should make appropriate medication use a priority. According to the report, primary drivers of inefficiencies in the health care system include: nonadherence, untimely medicine use, antibiotic misuse and overuse, medication errors, suboptimal generic use and mismanaged polypharmacy.
Supporting targeted disease management programs for patients with chronic diseases.
Both the IMS Institute and the WHO are aware of the limitations that exist in implementing these changes on a global level based on a Health Minister's level of influence, cooperation among stakeholders, education level of providers and patients, availability of tools for informed decision making and appropriate incentives to drive optimal clinical and dispensing practices. However, they also believe that regardless of the state of the country and its health care system, progress can be made even if it is incremental and occurs slowly.
Through our work at both the national and international levels, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease understands the value of collaboration among the health care community and also in sharing best practices. Maximizing the value appropriate medication use offers in the fight against chronic disease is critically important both nationally and globally.