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TMZ: ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Star Jesse Williams’ Divorce Has Officially Come To an End – AmoMama

Actor Jesse Williams is finally a single man again after finalizing a grueling 3-year divorce and custody battle with his ex-wife, Aryn Drake-Lee.

Divorces can be very messyand things tend to worsen when children are involved. Many fans are left scratching their head and wondering where all the love went when they see some of their celebs go at each other during divorce proceedings.

Unfortunately, this ugly trend has played out between talented actor Jesse Williams and his now ex-wife, Aryn Drake-Lee. Even though it initially seemed like their divorce would be amicable, it quickly deteriorated into a messy legal brawl.

Thankfully, the drama is all over nowand both parties can now focus on moving forward with their lives. As per TMZ, the estranged couple hasfinalized their 3-year divorce battleand became officially single on August 7, 2020.

According to court documents, the couple will share joint physical and legal custody of their two children, son Maceo, and daughter, Sadie. However, Williams and Drake-Lee would have to reach an agreement about posting pictures of the kids on social media.

As for theirdivorce's financial repercussions, Drake-Lee was awarded their former family homes in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, and Oakland. She also gets to keep two SUV vehicles.

Meanwhile, Williams was allowed to hold on to his leased 2018 Porsche Cayenne SUV. More importantly, the 39-year-old actor will keep the $936,810 he made from his appearance in "Grey's Anatomy" since their split in 2017.

As is commonly done in most divorce cases, the couple will split up all other accounts and royalties earned during their marriage. Aside from that, Williams will continue to pay child support.

Williams was alsoorderedto pay$50,629 per month in child support for the two kids up until October 2019, then $40,000 per month after that. He also owes his ex-wife a spousal support settlement of over $100,000, and then he is free.

In April 2017, Williams filed for divorce from his ex-wife after being together for 5 years. Asource latertoldETthat the divorce was a relief for Williams.

The source claimed Williams did everything he could to make the marriage work, but he eventually had to do what he thought was best for his kids by protecting them from a toxic relationship.

After splitting from his ex-wife in 2017, Williamsdatedactress Minka Kelly briefly before ending the romance in 2018. He is currently dating actress Taylour Paigeand they seem to be madly in love.

Williams and Paige constantly dote on each other on their social media accountsand they have been spotted making red carpet appearances together a few times.

Meanwhile, Williams has portrayed the character, Dr. Jackson Averyin the hitABCmedical drama, "Grey's Anatomy" since 2009. He also appeared on the spin-off, "Seattle Grace: Message of Hope."

With their history and the two children they share,Williams and Drake-Lee will have to put their differences aside to build a healthy co-parenting relationship.

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UHS announces scholarships in anatomy – The News International

LAHORE:The University of Health Sciences (UHS) on Thursday announced the launching of a gold medal in the name of Andreas Vesalius, the father of modern anatomy.

This gold medal will be awarded each year to the medical student who scores the most in the subject of anatomy. The student will also receive a cash prize of Rs 100,000. Also, three deserving medical students will be awarded scholarships each year in the name of the father of modern anatomy. The announcement was made by UHS Vice Chancellor, Professor Javed Akram, at a seminar which was held here on Thursday to mark World Anatomy Day. The event was organised by the Anatomical Society of Pakistan.

The chief guest of the event, Chairperson Punjab Healthcare Commission Professor Attiya Mubarak Khalid, emphasised on linking the teaching of the subject of anatomy with the clinical training of medical students. UHS VC Professor Javed Akram said that anatomy was the main subject of medical sciences. The teaching of this subject needed to be adapted to modern requirements. He said that every student entering medical college wanted to become a surgeon or a physician. "No student wants to be an anatomist. They need to know that the subject of anatomy is the basis of surgery and medicine", he added. Professor Javed Akram said that there would be no further delay in professional examinations as the Coronavirus had already wasted quite a lot of time of the students.

He clarified that all examinations would be conducted following government SOPs. He informed the participants that the human trial of Coronavirus vaccine from China had started in Pakistan with UHS as an important partner in this trial.

President, Anatomical Society of Pakistan, Professor Nosheen Omar said that due to Covid-19, medical students were given online education and this should be kept in mind while assessing them as well. The event was attended online by 64 groups of anatomists from various medical colleges across the country. Principal, Air Force Medical College Karachi, Professor Masood Ahmed Sheikh, Brigadier Dr Khadija Qamar of Army Medical College Rawalpindi, Professor Saeed Shafi of Shifa Medical College, Dr Zille Huma of Khyber Medical University and Dr Uruj Zehra of UHS addressed the seminar.

courseS: Postgraduate Medical Institute and Amir Uddin Medical College Principal Prof Dr Sardar Muhammad Al-freed Zafar said launching diploma courses in the central sterile services is very important to provide infection-free environment in all hospitals and for speedy recovery of patients.

Employees working in this field need to be able to maintain world-class medical equipment, medical kits, sheets and operation theatres, and sterilise in accordance with established principles, he said while addressing a function held at Lahore General Hospital on the occasion of CSSD International Week.

Hand washing: Global Handwashing Day was observed at University of Engineering and Technology University (UET) with a demonstration of hand washing by the students.

According to a press release, the day was marked by the UETs Media Society. Dr Tanveer Qasim, Adviser, UET Media Society, said 1,400 years ago Islam highlighted the importance of hand washing and cleanliness. He said the biggest message of the Covid-19 era was hand hygiene and protection from germs.

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Anatomy Of A Smear: Questions Surrounding The New York Posts Hunter Biden Story – HuffPost

With only 20 days before the presidential election, the New York Post published what it called a smoking-gun email in a front-page feature accusing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden of high-level political corruption. Within hours of its publication, the viral story was dominating the news cycle, with aggressive promotion from President Donald Trumps campaign.

Trumpworld seems to believe it has found an October bombshell that will damage Bidens dominant standing in the polls. But critical elements of the story are dubious, contradictory or outright false.

As the Post tells it, Bidens son, Hunter, left his damaged laptop which, the story claims, contained footage of him having sex while smoking crack at a Delaware repair shop last spring, but he never came back for it. The unnamed shop owner, unaware that the laptop was Hunter Bidens, noticed a Beau Biden Foundation sticker on it, so he made a copy of the hard drive and gave it to Robert Costello an attorney forTrumps lawyer, Rudy Giuliani who later gave it to the Post. The hard drive contained a 2015 email from a top executive at Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm, thanking Hunter for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and [spend] some time together.

The Post concludes that this is evidence of Joe Bidens misconduct because Hunter Biden introduced his father to the Burisma executive less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company. (Bidens campaign says the alleged meeting with the Burisma executive never occurred.)

Its a highly suspicious narrative thats riddled with inconsistencies and other red flags. The storys premise and very first sentence contain a glaring, long-debunked falsehood: Viktor Shokin, the Ukrainian prosecutor in question, was not investigating Burisma, as The Washington Post reported more than a year ago in response to Trumps similar false claims at the time. In fact, Biden and other Western officials had pushed for Shokins ouster precisely because of his failure to probe the firm. The Obama-Biden administration was actually considering launching a U.S. investigation into Burismas alleged money laundering.

Its one of several inconsistencies in the storys version of events. Here are some of the biggest questions surrounding it.

How did the laptop end up at the repair shop?

John Paul MacIsaac, identified as the owner of the laptop repair shop after the Posts story published, told reporters on Wednesday that Hunter Biden had actually dropped off three laptops at his shop last April. MacIsaac initially suggested that because he is legally blind, he didnt recognize the younger Biden when he came into the shop and only later determined that the laptop was his after noticing the sticker, as the Post reported.

But MacIsaac later changed his story, claiming that Hunter Biden had actually introduced himself by name at the time.

Throughout the interview, MacIssac seemed nervous and claimed without elaborating that his life was in danger. He described Trumps impeachment as a sham, vaguely implied the FBI is involved in a coverup surrounding the alleged scandal, and repeatedly declined to answer whether he is or was working with Giuliani.

On Thursday, Giuliani, who was not present at the laptop repair shop at the time of the supposed dropoff, told SiriusXM that Hunter Biden was definitely the person who handed off the computer and that he was in an inebriated, heavily inebriated state at the time.

How did the emails get to the FBI?

MacIsaac claims that he made several unsuccessful attempts to get in touch with Hunter Biden and that his stores contract allows him to take possession of devices if they are not retrieved after 90 days. After the 90-day period had passed, MacIsaac said he grew curious about the contents of the computer. According to the Post, MacIsaac then made a copy of the hard drive and handed the hardware over to the FBI.

But in conversations with reporters, MacIsaac dodged the question of how he came to be in touch with federal agents. At first, he told reporters that the FBI approached him, although it is unclear how the bureau would have known about the existence and location of the laptops. He later told reporters that he reached out to people he trusted who connected him with contacts inside the FBI. And then they showed up, MacIsaac claimed.

How did Giuliani get involved?

MacIsaac told reporters that he became frustrated that the material on the laptop hadnt become public, so he gave a copy of the hard drive to Costello, Giulianis attorney. He refused to say whether he reached out to the attorney or if the attorney sought him out. He also would not say whether he has been in direct contact with Giuliani himself.

Giuliani is a notoriously unreliable source of information. As Trumps personal lawyer, he has long acted as a political operative targeting Biden for the Trump campaign, including traveling with far-right media outlet One America News to Ukraine as part of an effort to spread conspiracy theories about Biden. Over the course of the election campaign, Giuliani has repeatedly made wild claims without any evidence to back them up and has spun bizarre theories in an attempt to create the perception that Biden engaged in corruption.

Giuliani is now promising a slow release of allegedly damning information on the Bidens. On his personal website, he posted what he claims is a 2019 text message from Hunter Biden to his sister, Naomi, that was not included in the Posts story. There is no context for the alleged screenshot, no verification as to whether it is real, and no explanation as to why the Post didnt cover it.

How did the story end up in the New York Post?

The provenance of the Post story and the papers acquisition of the alleged copy of Bidens hard drive is vague and raises numerous questions. The report states that far-right media influencer and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told the Post about the existence of the hard drive in late September before Giuliani gave the outlet a copy on Sunday.

Both Giuliani and Bannon have pushed conspiracy theories and have close ties to Trump. The lead reporter on the Post story, Emma-Jo Morris, was formerly a producer for Fox News host and Trump ally Sean Hannity, as well as a former staffer at the Conservative Political Action Conference. The Hunter Biden stories were her first bylines for The Post, although she has worked there since April, according to her LinkedIn profile. On her Instagram account, Morris has posted numerous photos of herself posing with Trump associates including Bannon and Roger Stone.

Pro-Trump media has already begun to heavily promote and expand upon the story, with Fox News host Tucker Carlson announcing that he would release more of Bidens emails during his Thursday night prime-time show.

Are the emails authentic?

There is no indication that the Post conducted a forensic analysis to confirm the authenticity of the emails and photographs. The Post says it received the material on Sunday, just three days before publishing its report.

The metadata in the PDF files published by the Post, which supposedly contain Bidens emails, show that the files were created in September and October of 2019 months after MacIsaac said the laptops were dropped off and a full year before the Post story dropped.

Hunter Bidens lawyer George Mesires said in a statement, We have no idea where this came from, and certainly cannot credit anything that Rudy Giuliani provided to the NY Post.

Disinformation experts warned that the timing of emails release, the way they became public, and the lack of forensic evidence are all signs that the material could be the result of forgery, a hack, or a combination of the two. The Russian GRU unit responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee in 2016 hacked Burisma, The New York Times reported earlier this year, prompting fears that material from the hack would be leaked near the election in an effort to hurt Bidens campaign.

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The anatomy of an endpoint attack – CTOvision

Cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated as tools and services on the dark web and even the surface web-enable low-skill threat actors to create highly evasive threats. Unfortunately, most of todays modern malware evades traditional signature-based anti-malware services, arriving at endpoints with ease. As a result, organizations lacking a layered security approach often find themselves in a precarious situation.

Read Corey Nachreiner of WatchGuard Technologies dissect how an endpoint attack works on Helpnet Security.

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Human evolution picking up pace, resulting in additional artery in arm and no wisdom teeth – OregonLive

Humans are continuing to evolve -- in fact, theyre doing so at a faster rate than they have in at least 250 years.

Thats the conclusion of scientists in Australia who found that more and more people now have the median artery in their arms, and more people are now being born without wisdom teeth, among other findings.

The research was published last month in the Journal of Anatomy.

The once-rare median artery, long considered chiefly an embryonic structure, supplements the radial and ulnar arteries, increasing overall blood flow to the forearm and hand. Flinders University anatomy professor Teghan Lucas and University of Adelaide medical-sciences professors Maciej Henneberg and Jaliya Kumaratilake say their work shows that the median artery will be found in most humans by the end of the century.

In the video below, Lucas summarizes the research.

Since the 18th century, anatomists have been studying the prevalence of this artery in adults, and our study shows its clearly increasing, Lucas said in a statement via Flinders University in Adelaide. The prevalence was around 10% in people born in the mid-1880s compared to 30% in those born in the late 20th century, so thats a significant increase in a fairly short period of time, when it comes to evolution.

The Journal of Anatomy study states that people born 80 years from now will all carry a median artery if the trend continues. When the median artery prevalence reaches 50% or more, it should not be considered as a variant, but as a normal human structure.

A sketch shows the median artery. (Maciej Henneberg/YouTube)

The study also concludes that human faces are becoming shorter and jaws smaller, resulting in more people being born without wisdom teeth.

The research found other changes starting to occur in humans, including additional bones and bone connections in the legs and feet.

Lucas says such microevolution indicates that humans are evolving at a faster rate than at any point in the past 250 years.

-- Douglas Perry

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Anatomy of a play: Justin Herbert working the Yankee concept against the Saints – Touchdown Wire

Offenses and defenses are not static. If one side of the football comes up with a scheme, a route concept or a blitz that is working, the other side is going to come up with an adjustment to stop it, or execute against it.

One of the popular route designs in the NFL today is often termed the Yankee concept. At its core, this is a play that uses maximum protection for the quarterback and pairs a deep post route with an intermediate crossing route. The design is simple: Read the safety in the middle of the field and throw off of his decision. If he stays deep to cover the post, throw the crossing route in front of him. However, if he drives down on the crossing route, throw the post over his head.

Defenses have made adjustments. One of the ways teams can still defend this out of single-high coverage schemes is by executing a cut or a nail call. In this adjustment, the free safety is free to drive downhill on the crossing route in front of him. The cornerback that starts out the play over the crossing route then replaces the safety in the middle of the field.

But the timing is critical.

On this example from Monday Night Football, the Los Angeles Chargers run the yankee concept. They use motion presnap to let rookie quarterback Justin Herbert know the coverage in the secondary. Even though the New Orleans Saints try to make that exchange downfield, Herbert still is able to hit the post route. Make sure the volume is up for this video breakdown:

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"Anatomy of a Death Flare" –Violent Blast of Light from a Star Devoured by a Supermassive Black Hole – The Daily Galaxy –Great Discoveries…

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Science

The idea of a black hole sucking in a nearby star sounds like science fiction. But this is exactly what happens in a tidal disruption event, says Matt Nicholl, a lecturer and Royal Astronomical Society research fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK, about at a new flash of light captured by the ESOs Very Large Telescope and ESOs New Technology Telescope that occurred last year close to a supermassive black hole.

When a star is devoured by these spacetime monsters they create a tidal disruption event, hot, bright flares generated in the centers of galaxies as an unlucky star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole and gets shredded in whats known as spaghettification as its sucked in by the black hole in this case creating the closest such flare ever recorded at just over 215 million light-years from Earth.

Black Holes Infinitesimal Dot

Supermassive black holes teach us, wrote Princetons great quantum physicist, John Archibald Wheeler in his autobiography, Geons, Black Holes & Quantum Foam, that space can be crumpled like a piece of paper into an infinitesimal dot, that time can be extinguished like a blown-out flame, and that the laws of physics that we regard as sacred, as immutable, are anything but.

Death Throes A Bright Flare of Energy Released

When an unlucky star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy, the extreme gravitational pull of the black hole shreds the star into thin streams of material burst of light, which is often obscured by a curtain of dust and debris, explains Thomas Wevers, an ESO Fellow in Santiago, Chile, who was at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK, when he conducted the work. As some of the thin strands of stellar material fall into the black hole during this spaghettification process, a bright flare of energy is released, which astronomers can detect.

We found that, when a black hole devours a star, it can launch a powerful blast of material outwards that obstructs our view, explains Samantha Oates, also at the University of Birmingham. This happens because the energy released as the black hole eats up stellar material propels the stars debris outwards.

Tidal Disruption Observed Over 6 Months

The discovery was possible because of the tidal disruption event the team studied over a 6-month period, AT2019qiz, located in a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Eridanus. As the flare grew in luminosity and then faded away just a short time after the star was ripped apart. Several sky surveys discovered emission from the new tidal disruption event very quickly after the star was ripped apart, says Wevers. We immediately pointed a suite of ground-based and space telescopes in that direction to see how the light was produced.

Unique Peek Behind the Curtain

Because we caught it early, we could actually see the curtain of dust and debris being drawn up as the black hole launched a powerful outflow of material with velocities up to 10,000 km/s, says Kate Alexander, NASA Einstein Fellow at Northwestern University in the US. This unique peek behind the curtain provided the first opportunity to pinpoint the origin of the obscuring material and follow in real time how it engulfs the black hole.

Ultraviolet, Optical, X-ray and Radio Light

The prompt and extensive observations in ultraviolet, optical, X-ray and radio light using facilities that included X-shooter and EFOSC2, powerful instruments on ESOs VLT and ESOs New Technology Telescope (NTT), which are situated in Chile. revealed, for the first time, a direct connection between the material flowing out from the star and the bright flare emitted as it is devoured by the black hole.

The observations showed that the star had roughly the same mass as our own Sun, and that it lost about half of that to the monster black hole, which is over a million times more massive, says Nicholl, lead author of the new study who is also a visiting researcher at the University of Edinburgh.

The team reports that AT2019qiz could even act as a Rosetta stone for interpreting future observations of tidal disruption events. ESOs Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), planned to start operating this decade, will enable researchers to detect increasingly fainter and faster evolving tidal disruption events, to solve further mysteries of black hole physics.

Source: An outflow powers the optical rise of the nearby, fast-evolving tidal disruption event AT2019qiz to appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (doi: 10.1093/mnras/staa2824).

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Anatomy of a Breast Cancer Survivor: ‘I Preserved My Eggs Before Chemotherapy’ – Essence

Let me get this straight. Youre telling me I have a cancerous tumor in my right breast and my chances of having children naturally are slim to none? Got it.

A breast cancer diagnosis is overwhelming. How will my body react? What will happen? What does this mean for my life? And, for women, like me, in their childbearing years, learning about potential fertility challenges elevated the experience to the next, incomprehensible level.

How many times can I type chile? Because, chile.

Its an extremely difficult process, and everything happened at rapid speed. Diagnosed on a Friday, I found myself in my hometown of Houston less than 2 weeks later greeted by a steady stream of back-to-back doctors appointments. I just wanted to scream. It was emotionally draining.

During my initial consultation with Dr. Jamie Terry, the captain of the medical ship and breast surgeon, she discussed how my life would drastically change, then presented a plan of action. She was adamant about honoring my desire to become a mother and referred me to a fertility specialist.

Within days, I met Dr. S. Kemi Nurudeen of the Houston Fertility Institute, whose work includes consulting patients with medical conditions including breast cancer. She recommended I proceed with egg preservation as soon as possible before I commenced an aggressive chemotherapy regimen.

I was too numb and in shock to think that far ahead to the future, while trying to carefully process the present. I put motherhood on the back burner while I focused on my media career, and breast cancer forced me to readjust my priorities. I was so angry at myself for not preserving my eggs sooner and giving them a fair chance. I sunk into sadness for a few days, but honestly couldnt linger there too long because I had to power through the egg retrieval process and start a medicinal journey that would remove the toxins from my right breast.

Our job is to get you started as soon as possible, said Nurudeen of her professional approach. We offer the best, personalized counsel about potential outcomes and want our patients to know the process can happen quickly.

It would indeed be the fastest rollercoaster ride ever.

My mom Ivy, a retired school administrator, quickly transitioned into an at-home nurse. She carefully mixed and prepped vials of medicine like a mad scientist, and injected me with hormones that would stimulate egg follicles.Within a weeks time (my body responded to the medicine super fast), I was rolled into an operating room for egg retrieval.

I have a much deeper appreciation for and understanding about the process of bringing a healthy life into this world. Every womans body is different. Every womans journey to motherhood is unique.

My paternal cousin, Shamekka Lewis, 45, who also carries the BRCA 1 gene mutation, was diagnosed with stage 2 triple-negative breast cancer at the age of 29. She was pregnant with her third daughter. Pregnant!

I felt a lump, but never thought it was cancer. I went for an appointment with my ob/gyn, and she ordered a series of tests, Shamekka recalls. I declared life and victory right then, and put my trust in Him.

The soon-to-be mother of three was able to safely undergo four rounds of chemo treatment, deliver her baby girl, then proceed with four more rounds.

I feel like I was robbed of having more children, she said. I still struggle with that today. Despite me having three, I wanted more. My husband and I desired to have a boy, but I knew for my own health, I had to draw the line somewhere.

Weeks later, she underwent a double mastectomy; six weeks after that, a hysterectomy. All of this by the age of 30.

Sis, I encourage you to take your fertility seriously because you never know what curveballs life will throw you.

Your clock is ticking

If youre single or wed, you dont want to miss your window of opportunity to preserve your fertility. Research your options. Think about it like this freezing your eggs buys you time to plan with your spouse or partner, focus on your career, travel the world without worrying about a specific timeline to naturally procreate. The sooner you do it, the better, because, yes, your biological clock does tick. And, a breast cancer diagnosis makes the clock tick faster.

Know your number

After scheduling your mammogram (yass!), schedule an appointment at a fertility clinic to determine your Anti-Mllerian hormone (AMH) level. The AMH level is a good reflection of your ovarian reserve and egg count. Its a predictor of how many eggs you can produce and retrieve.

A high AMH level is good; a low AMH level indicates a diminished ovarian reserve (DOR). I have the latter. Fifteen rounds of chemo sucker-punched my ovaries and their function is nonexistent. Theyre no good, so theyre going buh-bye. Im scheduled for a bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy removal of both ovaries and fallopian tubes as a preventative procedure to reduce my risk of ovarian cancer. Drs. Terry and Nurudeen were on point. Im so glad I preserved my eggs!

Get your coins together

Whew, Chile. It isnt cheap. While some health insurance providers cover doctors visits and labs, the actual IVF (in-vitro fertilization) process requires a significant financial investment.

The process includes two parts: 1) egg retrieval and freezing and 2) egg thawing, fertilization and implantation. In total, one round of this process can cost, on average, an estimated $20,000. These costs dont include the medication nor genetic embryo testing.

I know the cost of the process can be intimidating. Patients should realize there are a lot of support resources. Well help guide you, Nurudeen affirmed.

Women make it their mission to fundraise for other women. There are grants available nationwide. Fertility clinics offer in-house financing, and there are programs exclusively for women undergoing chemotherapy. I was especially grateful for the Livestrong fertility program that provided a discounted rate for fertility services. Youll also want to talk to your health insurance company about any possible coverage or reimbursement. Because of my breast cancer diagnosis, I submitted an appeal to the insurance company for reimbursement and it was approved. A blessing!

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After youve done your homework, do the research, make a plan and take action. Youve got this and youre not alone. It takes a village to raise a child, and it takes a village to support a childs mother.

I leaned on my faith during this phase of my journey. If youre a believer, you know that your chances of getting pregnant and carrying a baby to full-term are ultimately in Gods hands. Lets meditate on Gods promise for us in Jeremiah 29:11 in which He says, For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope for a future.

As women, our bodies, our temples are incredible. They work wonders. Im truly amazed at the miraculous things they do and how they can surTHRIVE anything.

Lyndsay Levingston Christian is a multimedia talent, host and adjunct professor based in Houston, Texas. Follow her journey via @lynzchristiantv and join the movement @Sur_Thriver

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Researchers map the anatomy of the mysteriously-shaped beetle – ZME Science

Roughly one year ago, researchers in Myanmar found a new species of beetle encased in amber. At the time, they were unable to describe the insects full morphology, so they christened it Mysteriomorphidae (mysteriously shaped). Now, researchers in Europe have reconstructed the insects from four new samples.

These findings allowed the team to better place the species in the tree of life, finding it is closely related to a living family of beetles.

The current findings were made possible by a collaboration between members from the University of Bonn, Germany, and Palacky University, in the Czech Republic. They used computer tomography (CT) to study the body structure (morphology) of the beetles from four specimens found encased in amber since the species was first described.

Some of these specimens were very well preserved, allowing the team to carry out a digital reconstruction of their bodies from CT scans. This technique has seen ample use in paleontology as it allows researchers to study tiny features of fossils, even internal ones, without damaging the specimen.

This isnt the first attempt to describe the outer morphology of Mysteriomorphidae. However, previous research still left some open questions, which the current results answer. In particular, they were able to take a better look at the insects thorax, abdomen, and mouthparts, which are tell-tale elements of individual beetle families.

We used the morphology to better define the placement of the beetles and discovered that they were very closely related to Elateridae, a current family, explains Dr. Robin Kundrata from Palacky University, co-lead of the study and an expert on this family of beetles.

Earlier models had pointed to beetles enjoying a low extinction rate throughout their evolutionary history, even through periods such as the Cretaceous period when extinctions were the name of the game (this time saw the dinosaurs wiped out). But species such as Mysteriomorphidae and similar groups of beetles are known only from Cretaceous ambers, suggesting that they didnt survive past this period of time.

The team believes this comes down to the rapid development and expansion of flowering plants during the Cretaceous period. These essentially reshaped most ecosystems of the time, placing extra pressure on the species adapted to the previous status quo. This expansion made it possible for pollinators to evolve, which outcompeted many of the previous species of insects.

Our results support the hypothesis that beetles, but perhaps some other groups of insects, suffered a decrease in their diversity during the time of plant revolution, says Dr. David Peris, one of the two main authors of the study.

The paper Unlocking the mystery of the mid-Cretaceous Mysteriomorphidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) and modalities in transiting from gymnosperms to angiosperms has been published in the journal Scientific Reports.

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Beyond the Box Score: Anatomy of an Upset – Rock M Nation

Missouri came into the game as 14.5-point underdogs and left as 4-point victors. At no point in the week leading up to the game did any of us here at Rock M, myself included, think that Missouri would pull off the upset but I did lay out a blueprint on how it could be done. I want to dive deeper into the actual keys that won the day but, first, I want to go over the keys that I laid out.

In keeping with the format, lets take a quick look at the advanced box score first:

Im going to dive into this a lot as we go through this piece but, until then, here it is in full form. Its...just...beautiful.

Lets revisit my keys for the game:

Missouri hadnt been the most explosive offense while playing Alabama and Tennessee; in that vein I thought it would be a huge sign of improvement - and an indicator of Mizzous ability to hang with LSU - if the passing game was able to generate at least 4 explosive plays.

The offense did, indeed, produced four explosive plays through the air and added two explosive runs for good measure:

I cant remember the last time Mizzou fans had seen so many big plays from the good guys. More of that, please.

Winner: Missouri

Larry Rountree III has been both efficient (against Bama) and explosive (against Tennessee) this year but I postured that the success of the running game would be mostly on the Tiger offensive line. I thought that, If the offensive line is able to create four-yard opportunities 40% of the time, then the Tigers were getting enough opportunities to hold possession and keep LSUs offense on the sideline.

Um...Missouris offensive line created 4-yards for Tiger backs...*cough*...on 63.3% of rushes.

For reference: the last time Missouris opportunity rate was over even 50% was against Ole Miss last year when the line opened up 4-yard holes 55% of the time. And that was against a piss-poor Rebel defense.

LSUs defense might be actually bad but hitting a 63% opportunity rate is absurd, regardless of opponent quality. Bobby Lawrence/Zeke Powell, Xavier Delgado, Michael Maietti, Case Cook, and Larry Borom had themselves a mother forking day.

Winner: Missouri

I was hoping for 5 scoring opportunities with 4.8 points per opportunity which would have lead to 24 points.

The Tigers created 8 scoring opportunities and averaged 5.6 points per visit. Hell yes.

Winner: Missouri

Two goals for this category: I needed to see LSU give up 2 sacks and have a blitz downs success rate under 20%. What happened?

LSU gave up 2 sacks and went 1 for 8 on blitz downs, which comes out to 12.5% success rate. Boom.

Winner: Missouri

I humbly suggested Missouri keeps LSUs third down percentage under 48% and generate 15 passing downs with less than 30% success rate to even have a chance of winning.

LSU went 0-10 on third down. Lmao.

And in case you were wondering, LSUs success rate in passing down was 6 for 19, 31.5%. Thats pretty dang close so Im counting it!

Winner: Missouri

In addition to the keys above, here are some other isolated things that keyed the upset win on Saturday:

Success Rate per quarter looks at the percentage of successful plays an offense has in a given quarter. It gives you a good idea of the flow of the game and how well each side was moving the ball.

These were the four best quarters the Missouri offense but together all season. By far. The best quarterly success rate they were able to scrap together before this game was 56% in the 4th quarter against Alabama...that was mostly helmed by Connor Bazelak.

LSUs second quarter was a disaster in regards to moving the ball but gained an easy 10 points thanks to untimely Missouri turnovers. And while quarters 3 and 4 saw them recover a little bit, most of their yards were empty and unable to keep up with the chains. The only issue is that LSU had godly starting field position which let them hang around.

I mentioned 3rd downs specifically in my preview but...seriously: if a team never converts a 3rd-down it is really hard for that team to win a game. The average LSU down and distance was 3rd-and-9, an incredible average considering they also averaged 7.6 yards on first down. What gives? Well...about half of their first down plays were incomplete passes or stuffed runs, the other half were 8/10/17/28-yard passing plays. So while the average finished relatively high the majority of their 1st-down plays went nowhere.

For Missouri, heres an incredible stat: Missouri averaged 9.4 yards per 1st-down play and only had zero or negative yardage on two first down plays. So, unlike LSU, it was a legit 9.4-yard average. That meant that the Good Guy Tigers were converting early and getting multi-play drives going to at least move the ball and keep the LSU offense on the sideline.

Myles Brennan attempted 48 passes with two sacks which meant LSU had 50 pass plays. Brennan had a 60.4% completion rate but a 45.8% success rate. That means that, while his receivers caught the ball 60% of the time, they were only getting enough yards to keep up with down and distance 45% of the time. That equates to a lot of meaningless yardage and wasted plays.

Connor Bazelak attempted 34 passes with one sack which meant Missouri had 35 pass plays. Bazelak had a 85.3% completion rate and 62.8% success rate. Yes, thats incredibly difficult to do. And yes, LSUs secondary is stinky bad BUT, as BK pointed out last week, if Missouri receivers didnt drop so many dang balls in the Tennessee game Bazelak would have had an 81% completion rate against the Volunteers so, clearly, the kid can do that against excellent defenses as well.

Also, Bazelak had more passes go for 20+ yards (6) than incompletions (5). Lol.

With most of its starters out and the depth perilously thin, Missouris defensive line completely negated any hope of an LSU running game. And, yes, LSU is now more of an spread-ish air-raid team than the Les-Miles-smashy-smash offenses of yore, but when they needed to get yards on the ground the LSU offensive line was crumpled backwards and their running backs had no where to go. Oh, and the blocked field goal was generated by Missouris d-line AND that whole goal line stand that saved the game. Tip of the cap to the outgunned, outmanned Missouri defensive front.

This is less of a concern and more of an observation of a trend: Larry Rountree III only runs on 1st down.

So far this season Rountree has run the ball 50 times. 27 of those runs have come on 1st-down. Again, Im not saying its a bad thing, per se, but if I can figure that out after watching these games four times a piece so I guarantee a hungry GA grinding for a position coach spot will figure this out on Hour-23 of watching Missouri film.

Missouri fumbled the ball five times and lost three of them. Missouri also defensed 9 passes and got zero interceptions.

Turnovers are luck based - regardless of what some coaches might tell you - and Missouri continues to be one of the worst turnover-lucky teams in the world. In three games there have been nine fumbles and the Tigers have recovered three of them (teams usually recover 50% of fumbles); likewise, they have defensed 15 passes and picked off none of them; teams typically pick off about 20% of passes that are defensed meaning they should have three interceptions by now. Hmm.

LSU had more possessions, ran more plays, had more scoring opportunities, had a +16 yard advantage in starting field position, were +3 in turnover margin...and lost. They lost because they couldnt convert a 3rd-down, couldnt run the ball, and had terrible success rates, Oh, and their secondary did not know what they were doing at any given point.

It takes a lot of skill and luck to upset a team that is a 14.5-point favorite, and this exact opportunity - ranked defending national champion that is actually kind of bad but no one knows it yet - will rarely present itself again. But Missouri made the most of its opportunities, played out of its skulls, and ended the day with a statement win. Football can be fun!

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Beyond the Box Score: Anatomy of an Upset - Rock M Nation