The robot adds flexibility, visibility, and post-surgical comfort to what is otherwise considered a major procedure.
Sen. Mitt Romney wants to reduce the number of smartphones in classrooms. Romney, R-Utah, and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., introduced the Smart Kids Not Smartphones Act on Thursday, that says any school that prohibits the use of smartphones during learning hours would receive some kind of recognition like a banner or website badge. read more
The Paris Olympic Games men's triathlon has been postponed a day due to the River Seine's substandard water quality.
Russia, China and Iran are all recruiting Americans to spread propaganda advancing their interests ahead of the US presidential election, American intelligence officials said Monday. read more
OpEd: It is too early to write up the legacy of President Biden. He has six more months in office, and in these volatile times, much could happen. But it seems worth looking back at what we now know will be a one-term presidency and asking: What will define it in history? read more
Harris, Rallying Thousands in Georgia, Challenges Trump to Say It to My Face'
www.nytimes.com
... Vice President Kamala Harris challenged former President Donald J. Trump to commit to a presidential debate on Tuesday night during a raucous rally in Atlanta that featured some 10,000 attendees, celebrity appearances and another rare feature of Democrats' rallies lately: fun.
In a roughly 21-minute speech, Ms. Harris, now just nine days into her position atop the Democratic ticket, contrasted her policy goals with Republicans' agenda. But the high point of her remarks came toward the end, when she mentioned the former president's reluctance to commit to a matchup he had initially agreed to on Sept. 10, when President Biden was still his opponent.
"Well Donald, I do hope you'll reconsider to meet me on the debate stage," she said, as the cheers grew louder. She appeared to savor the delivery of the next line, drawing it out for maximum effect: "Because as the saying goes, If you've got something to say, say it to my face.'"
The crowd exploded. ...
fwiw...
Senior status
en.wikipedia.org
... Senior status is a form of semi-retirement for United States federal judges. To qualify, a judge in the federal court system must be at least 65 years old, and have served at least 10 years, and the sum of the judge's age and years of service as a federal judge must be at least 80 years.[1]
As long as senior judges carry at least a 25 percent caseload or meet other criteria for activity, they remain entitled to maintain a staffed office and chambers, including a secretary and their normal complement of law clerks, and they continue to receive annual cost-of-living increases.[1] The president may appoint new full-time judges to fill the vacancies in full-time judgeships caused by senior status.[1]
Some U.S. states have similar systems for senior judges. State courts with a similar system include Iowa (for judges on the Iowa Court of Appeals), Pennsylvania, and Virginia (for justices of the Virginia Supreme Court).[2][3][4]
Statutory requirements ...
That's the current definition.
This song just came up on a playlist here...
A beautiful tune...
Stevie Wonder - Ngiculela-Es Una Historia -- I Am Singing (1976)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt...
...
Ngiculela ikusasa
Ngiyacula ngo thando
Ngicula ngelinyi langa
Uthando luyobusa
Jikelele kulomhlaba wethu
Es una historia de maana
Es una historia de amor
Es una historia que amor reinar
Por nuestro mundo
Es una historia de mi corazn
There's songs to make you smile
There's songs to make you sad
But with a happy song to sing
It never seems as bad
To me came this melody
So I've tried to put in words how I feel
Tomorrow will be for you and me
...
@#11 ... The latest poll currently has Harris up +11 in Michigan. ...
Interesting.
2024 Michigan: Trump vs. Harris
www.realclearpolling.com
...
RCP Average 7/10 - 7/28 Harris+2.0
...
btw, the MoE on that +11 poll is 4%.
@#13 ... Harris Gaining Ground on Trump in 6 of 7 Swing States ...
The original Reuters article...
www.reuters.com
Taking a step back...
VP Harris has not even started to campaign in earnest. I mean, there won't be a VP candidate until, maybe, later this week?
But this poll shows she is already making gains? Though still in the quagmire of the MoE.
fwiw, from the Reuters link above...
... The margin of error in the July 1-5 poll was 3 percentage points in Georgia and Pennsylvania; 4 percentage points in Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, and 5 percentage points in Nevada. ...
A mole hunt, a secret website and Peter Thiel's big risk: How J.D. Vance won his primary (May 2022)
www.politico.com
...[emphasis mine]
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel had already donated a record-breaking amount of money to support J.D. Vance in the Ohio Republican Senate primary -- but last week, the Silicon Valley tycoon decided he wanted to give even more.
"Peter would like to make another contribution to the PAC, this time for $1.5 million," a top Thiel lieutenant wrote to strategists running a pro-Vance super PAC in an April 26 email, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO. "We are planning to send the wire today, but before doing so I just wanted to confirm you have everything you need from us."
With that previously unreported donation, Thiel had given $15 million in total to bolster Vance -- the largest amount ever given to boost a single Senate candidate. ...
@#9 ... all the Tech Bro dollars led by Thiel. ...
Thiel Was Good For $10 Million, But J.D. Vance's Other Billionaire Backers Were Good For Nothing (May 2022)
www.forbes.com
... Along with Donald Trump's endorsement, Peter Thiel's $10 million contribution is widely credited with boosting Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance to victory Tuesday in the Ohio GOP primary for Senate.
Thiel's donation isn't just extraordinary for its amount of zeroes, however.
Like Thiel, billionaires Marc Andreessen and Eric Schmidt reportedly invested in Vance's venture-capital fund, Narya, in 2020. Jeff Bezos, Howard Schultz, Meg Whitman and at least 11 other billionaires backed an investment fund Vance managed for Steve Case's Revolution LLC, as did members of the Koch, Pritzker and Walton families, the Columbus Dispatch reported in 2017.
Yet none of that support appears to have carried over to cutting a check for Vance's Senate campaign, according to Forbes' search of Federal Election Commission records.
Other early champions of Vance's also don't appear to have repeated their generosity either. Imagine Entertainment thought highly enough of Vance's memoir to buy its rights, yet director Ron Howard didn't contribute to Vance's run for office. Netflix paid a reported $45 million for the distribution rights to the film, but FEC records show no contributions from CEO Reed Hastings.
In fact, no employee of Imagine Entertainment, Netflix or Vance's publisher, HarperCollins, appears to have donated to Vance's campaign. Likewise for his agent. "Tina Bennett, my wonderful agent, believed in the project even before I did," Vance wrote in the acknowledgements to Hillbilly Elegy. "She encouraged me when I needed it, pushed me when I needed it, and guided me through a publication process that initially scared the hell out of me." If Bennett also believes in Vance's campaign, it was just talk. She didn't walk the walk. ...
@#3 ... Not sure you've presented evidence of treatment plant issues. ...
Apologies, I was remiss. I posted the comment based upon my background knowledge of similar situations.
Here is something more specific.
Here's what to know about Seine River water quality during the Paris Olympics
abcnews.go.com
... Here are key things to know:
Paris, like many old cities around the world, has a combined sewer system, which means that the city's wastewater and stormwater flow through the same pipes. With heavy or prolonged periods of rain, the pipes can get overwhelmed and untreated wastewater flows into the river instead of to a treatment plant.
That could mean bacteria, viruses or parasites get in the water, said Dr. Nicole Iovine, an infectious disease specialist at University of Florida Health in Gainesville. And it's not just from human waste.
"It's also the wildlife -- rodents, for example. When it rains a lot, all of that from those animals can end up in the Seine," she said. ...
@#2 ... Hasn't Sen Vance, now GOP VP candidate Vance, said that people with children should pay less in taxes?
So, why do Republicans in Congress seem to be against the child-tax credit? ...
I can't wait to see how the GOP folk try to rationalize this.