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Green Comet Begins Closest Approach To Earth As A Snow Moon Shines Near Mars: The Night Sky This Week – Forbes

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Ron Paul hospitalized after he appears to suffer stroke – New York Post

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Ron Paul, a former Texas congressman, presidential candidate and the father of Sen. Rand Paul, suffered an apparent stroke-like illness in the middle of a livestream Friday afternoon.

Paul, 85, who was livestreaming his weekday Liberty Report broadcast on YouTube, has been hospitalized for precautionary reasons, Fox News reported.

Message from Ron Paul: I am doing fine. Thank you for your concern, he tweeted just before 3 p.m. alongside a photo of him in a hospital bed, smiling and giving a thumbs up.

A clip of the disturbing medical episode was first tweeted out by the outlet Intelwave.

The live episode may have been a blessing in disguise, the outlet added in a subsequent tweet.

Echoing the sentiment of one of my associates, Im glad it happened live where someone noticed immediately and could get him medical help rather than it happening and him only being found hours later, the tweet said.

Paul ran for president three times, first as a Libertarian in 1988. He then threw his hat in the ring as a Republican in the 2008 and 2012 presidential primaries.

Paul was in the middle of talking about free market economists when he begins to slur his words, according to saved clips of the livestream.

We have to get rid of that and its a burd a burd, he struggles to say before his speech becomes unintelligible.

The YouTube stream was quickly taken down afterward.

Reps for Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ron Paul were not immediately available for comment.

The Pittsburgh-born, former pol and physician is a longtime Libertarian and advocate for a free market and small government.

He retired from his five-decade congressional career in 2013 long enough to become the first member of Congress ever to serve at the same time as their child, when Rand Paul was elected to the Senate from Kentucky in 2010.

But he has remained a political firebrand, whether he was insisting that the 9/11 attacks were motivated by U.S. involvement in the Middle East or arguing against COVID-19 quarantines as a restriction of civil liberties.

As recently as April, in a broadcast of his Liberty Report, he called on President Trump to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, calling the top White House infectious disease expert a fraud for predicting inaccurately, it turned out that initial predictions of as many as 240,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths were too high, and that fatalities might top out at only 60,000.

U.S. deaths hit 200,000 this week.

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Ron Paul Issues an Urgent Warning to Retirement Savers

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If you are nearing your retirement age, all of the hard-earned money you have put away for your future could now be in danger.

Why? Because the worst financial disaster in history is unfolding before our eyes. Call it the everything bubble. Call it the death of the dollar. Call it whatever you want. Most Americans are struggling to make ends meet because of whats happening.

And the elites know things are only going to get worse. For example, the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres recently said, We are looking into the eye of a Category 5 hurricane. Our world is plagued by a perfect storm on a number of fronts.

Meanwhile, the government thinks the solution is more taxes and more money printing. And dont forget, the far-left Democrat in the White House has targeted retirees multiple times with increased taxes.

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The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Zelenskyy Regime to …

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The Zelenskyy regime is desperate. It is reportedlylosing more than 300 soldiers a dayin eastern Ukraine. The latest effort by the doomed regime to throw men and foreign war materiel at a slow and overpowering Russian advance in Donbas will completely fall apart.

The regime is now busy abducting potential bullet stoppers in the Zakarpattia Oblast (Ruthenia), situated in the Carpathian Mountains of southwestern Ukraine, between Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania.

Due to heavy losses, which exceed all previous ones, radical methods are used to replenish the numbers [of troops]. According to local sources, the Ukrainian authorities plan to call up 10,000 people from Transcarpathia by spring, Hungarian journalists toldEuroWeekly.

The Zelenskyy regime has apparently taken a page from the British Royal Navy during the Age of Sail. The British employed press gangs to crew ships during war and peacetime. Refusal to be impressed resulted in a one-way trip to the gallows.

Almost every settlement in Transcarpathia has been for several days now undergoing forced conscription into the army. In the area of the city of Berehove, in Nagysholes, on Sunday the market was surrounded. 70 people were taken away from there, the post continues.

The forced conscription of ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia has a political aspect. Viktor Orbn, the PM of Hungary, is a critic of the war in Ukraine.

There is a sort of purposeful policy, which besides narrowing the rights of all minorities, tries to portray the Hungarian minority as the enemy in Ukrainian public opinion,Laszlo Brenzovics, the only ethnic Hungarian in the Ukrainian parliament, told the Associated Press in 2018.

The ultranationalists of Ukraine believe all ethnic minoritiesRomanians, Belorussians, Crimean Tatars, Bulgarians, Hungarians, Poles, Jews, and Armeniansare untermenschen that must be ethnically cleansed.

The current situation is clearly among the worst ones,Trnok Balzswrote in 2021, prior to Russias SMO.

The USG, the UK, and the Europeans are not worried about nazi-ultranats persecuting and ethnically cleansing minorities. The USG is obsessively concerned with making sure its crumbling empire and its devalued fiat dollar remains king in a unipolar world. Everything else, including the welfare of the American people, comes in a distant second.

If resisting Russia requires the crime of kidnapping Hungarians by nazi-ultranats in Transcarpathia and shipping them to die in a Russian military boiler (a cauldron, or encirclement), that is the price the USG believes innocents must pay for its futile and criminal effort to remain top dog perched on a mountain of rotting corpses.

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The National

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Our Summer 2022 tour continues this Saturday, August 6th at Edmonton Folk Festival in Edmonton, Alberta. Weve had an amazing time on this tour so far and we cant wait to see you at our upcoming dates.

For tickets and information, please visit americanmary.com.

Aug 6: Edmonton, ALB Gallagher Park / Edmonton Folk Festival SOLD OUTAug 7: Calgary, ALB Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium + SOLD OUTAug 8: Missoula, MT KettleHouse Amphitheater +Aug 9: Ogden. UT Ogden Amphitheater + SOLD OUTAug 10: Dillon, CO Dillon Amphitheater +Aug 12: Bellevue, NE Falconwood Park / Outlandia Music FestivalAug 14: Seattle, WA Seattle Center / Day In Day Out FestivalAug 26: London, UK All Points EastAug 27: Manchester, UK Depot Mayfield *Aug 28: Edinburgh, UK Connect FestivalSept 10: Chattanooga, TN Moon River Music FestivalSept 12: Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre ^Sept 13: Kansas City, MO Grinders KC ~Sept 14: Minneapolis, MN Surly Brewing Festival Field ~Sept 16: Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theater ~ SOLD OUTSept 17: Maryland Heights, MO Saint Louis Music Park ~Sept 18: Indianapolis, IN TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park ~Sept 19: Pittsburgh, PA Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts ~Sept 22: Boston, MA Roadrunner ~ SOLD OUTSept 23: Port Chester, NY The Capitol Theatre ~ SOLD OUTSept 24: Harrisburg, PA Harrisburg University ~Sept 25: Bridgeport, CT Seaside Park / Sound on Sound Festival

^ w/ Lucy Dacus+ w/ Bartees Strange* w/ Dry Cleaning~ w/Indigo Sparke

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Robot | Definition, History, Uses, Types, & Facts | Britannica

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Summary

robot, any automatically operated machine that replaces human effort, though it may not resemble human beings in appearance or perform functions in a humanlike manner. By extension, robotics is the engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction, and operation of robots.

The concept of artificial humans predates recorded history (see automaton), but the modern term robot derives from the Czech word robota (forced labour or serf), used in Karel apeks play R.U.R. (1920). The plays robots were manufactured humans, heartlessly exploited by factory owners until they revolted and ultimately destroyed humanity. Whether they were biological, like the monster in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein (1818), or mechanical was not specified, but the mechanical alternative inspired generations of inventors to build electrical humanoids.

The word robotics first appeared in Isaac Asimovs science-fiction story Runaround (1942). Along with Asimovs later robot stories, it set a new standard of plausibility about the likely difficulty of developing intelligent robots and the technical and social problems that might result. Runaround also contained Asimovs famous Three Laws of Robotics:

2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

This article traces the development of robots and robotics. For further information on industrial applications, see the article automation.

Though not humanoid in form, machines with flexible behaviour and a few humanlike physical attributes have been developed for industry. The first stationary industrial robot was the programmable Unimate, an electronically controlled hydraulic heavy-lifting arm that could repeat arbitrary sequences of motions. It was invented in 1954 by the American engineer George Devol and was developed by Unimation Inc., a company founded in 1956 by American engineer Joseph Engelberger. In 1959 a prototype of the Unimate was introduced in a General Motors Corporation die-casting factory in Trenton, New Jersey. In 1961 Condec Corp. (after purchasing Unimation the preceding year) delivered the worlds first production-line robot to the GM factory; it had the unsavoury task (for humans) of removing and stacking hot metal parts from a die-casting machine. Unimate arms continue to be developed and sold by licensees around the world, with the automobile industry remaining the largest buyer.

See how use of a robotic pipeline for bacterial genetics makes the work of scientists less complicated and more time-efficient at University College Cork

More advanced computer-controlled electric arms guided by sensors were developed in the late 1960s and 1970s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at Stanford University, where they were used with cameras in robotic hand-eye research. Stanfords Victor Scheinman, working with Unimation for GM, designed the first such arm used in industry. Called PUMA (Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly), they have been used since 1978 to assemble automobile subcomponents such as dash panels and lights. PUMA was widely imitated, and its descendants, large and small, are still used for light assembly in electronics and other industries. Since the 1990s small electric arms have become important in molecular biology laboratories, precisely handling test-tube arrays and pipetting intricate sequences of reagents.

Mobile industrial robots also first appeared in 1954. In that year a driverless electric cart, made by Barrett Electronics Corporation, began pulling loads around a South Carolina grocery warehouse. Such machines, dubbed AGVs (Automatic Guided Vehicles), commonly navigate by following signal-emitting wires entrenched in concrete floors. In the 1980s AGVs acquired microprocessor controllers that allowed more complex behaviours than those afforded by simple electronic controls. In the 1990s a new navigation method became popular for use in warehouses: AGVs equipped with a scanning laser triangulate their position by measuring reflections from fixed retro-reflectors (at least three of which must be visible from any location).

Although industrial robots first appeared in the United States, the business did not thrive there. Unimation was acquired by Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1983 and shut down a few years later. Cincinnati Milacron, Inc., the other major American hydraulic-arm manufacturer, sold its robotics division in 1990 to the Swedish firm of Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. Adept Technology, Inc., spun off from Stanford and Unimation to make electric arms, is the only remaining American firm. Foreign licensees of Unimation, notably in Japan and Sweden, continue to operate, and in the 1980s other companies in Japan and Europe began to vigorously enter the field. The prospect of an aging population and consequent worker shortage induced Japanese manufacturers to experiment with advanced automation even before it gave a clear return, opening a market for robot makers. By the late 1980s Japanled by the robotics divisions of Fanuc Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Ltd., Mitsubishi Group, and Honda Motor Company, Ltd.was the world leader in the manufacture and use of industrial robots. High labour costs in Europe similarly encouraged the adoption of robot substitutes, with industrial robot installations in the European Union exceeding Japanese installations for the first time in 2001.

Lack of reliable functionality has limited the market for industrial and service robots (built to work in office and home environments). Toy robots, on the other hand, can entertain without performing tasks very reliably, and mechanical varieties have existed for thousands of years. (See automaton.) In the 1980s microprocessor-controlled toys appeared that could speak or move in response to sounds or light. More advanced ones in the 1990s recognized voices and words. In 1999 the Sony Corporation introduced a doglike robot named AIBO, with two dozen motors to activate its legs, head, and tail, two microphones, and a colour camera all coordinated by a powerful microprocessor. More lifelike than anything before, AIBOs chased coloured balls and learned to recognize their owners and to explore and adapt. Although the first AIBOs cost $2,500, the initial run of 5,000 sold out immediately over the Internet.

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