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It’s been recorded and performed by hundreds of artists around the world. It’s been written about for decades. Take Me Home, Country Roads was John Denver’s first big hit and became both his signature song and West Virginia s state song.
Like many great songs, there are great stories behind the song as well. Some true, some not so true and some you may have never heard.
Was the song originally inspired by and written for Johnny Cash?
Was the song originally titled Take Me Home, Clopper Road, inspired by a Maryland road of the same name?
Japan may consider declaring a state of emergency to counter rising Covid-19 cases
From CNN s Junko Ogura in Tokyo
Shoppers stand outside stores at the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, December 30. Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Japan s government may consider declaring a state of emergency if Covid-19 continues to spread further, a minister in charge of the country s coronavirus response said on Twitter Wednesday. We have to curb the spread of coronavirus at any cost, Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said in a tweet.
Tokyo recorded 944 new Covid-19 cases for Wednesday the highest daily increase in infections since the pandemic began. The total number of people to have been infected in Tokyo now stands at 58,840, according to the Japanese Health Ministry.
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Washington: When front-line workers at Stanford Health Care were passed over for the first wave of coronavirus vaccines, officials at the Palo Alto, California hospital blamed the very complex algorithm it had built to decide employees place in line.
But unlike the sophisticated machine-learning algorithms that underpin the modern internet, Stanford s system was actually just a basic formula, simple enough for an Excel spreadsheet. And a breakdown of the algorithm, sent to medical residents and first published by
MIT Technology Review, shows that its real error came from the humans who had designed it: Namely, prioritising employees based on age rather than their exposure to the virus at work.