Some have been saying that this announcement was just a rehash of what had been announced earlier in September.

I really wonder if China released this announcement to try to pull attention away from the Evergrande fiasco that is bad and looks to be getting much worse?

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...A study published in 2020 that reviewed records for 57,000 people in Massachusetts found that one-third of Black patients would have had their disease classified as more severe if they had been assessed using the same version of the formula as white patients. The traditional kidney calculation was an example of a class of medical algorithms and calculators that have recently come under fire for conditioning patient care based on race, which is a social category not biological one....

The document seems to put a lot of emphasis upon the [failed] lawsuits alleging voter fraud and other voting problems.

I wonder if those lawsuits were expected to fail, but existed as part of a strategy that would see then cited anyway by this expected (next step in the strategy) document?

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@#3 ... Still have Teresa, Victor and Wanda before they go Greek. ...

They don't use the Greek alphabet anymore.

There was too much confusion among the general public specifically, from what I have read, with Eta and Zeta. So if the named storms go past Wanda, they will go to the backup pool of names.

With the ubiquity of mobile phones, do area-specific area codes even mean anything anymore?

I've had to use an area code here, even for local dialing, for numerous years.

Why not just make the telephone number 10 digits, and call it the phone number, dropping the "area-code" appellation?

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..."I was shocked and had no idea that was a natural' act," the man who took the video told The New York Post. "I was in the gorilla exhibit with my 4-year-old daughter and niece. My wife had to stay out of the exhibit with my sleeping son, so I wanted to capture a lot of video. Then this magic happened."...

@#18 ... I'm sort of a bit surprised he hasn't floated the possibility of a name change. ...

I think it may be too early for him to change the name. He has not (yet) purged the Republican Party of all the non-believers. There are still some who do not express unfettered fealty to fmr Pres Trump.

Didn't fmr Pres Trump at one time float the possibility of having his own party?

So far, most models have Sam curving out into the Atlantic, but there are a few outlier models that show it peeking at the northeast coast.

For now, I'm watching how the models trend over the next few days.

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...Trump's endorsement blitz is a frank attempt to keep remaking the party in his image, with Republicans eagerly courting his favor. But like everything else about the former president, it's a rule-rewriting approach, said Casey Dominguez, a political science professor at the University of San Diego.

"We haven't seen presidents in recent years try to drive a wedge within their own party, which is what happens in a primary election," Dominguez said. "He's playing factional politics in the party."

It's easy to see why they might want Trump's backing. He maintains overwhelming support among Republican voters. Ballotpedia, which tracks Trump endorsements, says candidates he endorsed have won 37 of 43 competitive primaries since 2017. ...

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...Ladapo believes in herd immunity through natural infection. He warns of unknown risks from COVID vaccinations. He's argued against vaccine mandates. He questions the effectiveness of masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

He's touted hydroxychloroquine to prevent and treat COVID.

He's been associated with a right-wing group of physicians whose members include a physician who believes infertility and miscarriages are the result of having sex with demons and witches during dreams....

Where in the world does Gov DeSantis find these people?

@#2 ... Why keep giving this attention whore the attention he craves? ...

You really should ask that of the Republican Party, the party that fmr Pres Trump still leads and controls.