PLATT _ MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
20 Genius 100-Year-Old Life Hacks That Still Work Today
http://start.att.net/news/read/category/lifestyle/article/good_housekeeping-20_genius_100yearold_life_hacks_that_still_work_to-rhearst

• A Canada goose got its final revenge on Feb. 1 when, after being shot out of the sky by a hunter in Easton, Maryland, it struck Robert Meilhammer, 51, of Crapo, Maryland, seriously injuring the waterfowler. NPR reported that Meilhammer was hunting with a group when one of the large geese flying overhead was killed and fell about 90 feet, landing on Meilhammer's head and knocking him out. It also dislodged two of Meilhammer's teeth. Adult Canada geese weigh about 12 to 14 pounds and can have a wingspan of 6 feet. At press time, Meilhammer was in stable condition after being airlifted to a hospital. [NPR, 2/4/2018] 

EDUCATION
Personalization Is the Key to Transforming Education 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/education-technology-personalized-learning-better-results/

Can Training Eliminate Biases? Starbucks Will Test the Thesis
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/business/starbucks-racial-bias-training.html?emc=edit_nn_20180419&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180419&te=1

BUSINESS
How Europe's 'breakthrough' privacy law takes on Facebook and Google 
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/19/gdpr-facebook-google-amazon-data-privacy-regulation?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=271994&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

MELITOLOGY
Honeybees Are Struggling to Get Enough Good Bacteria 
https://www.ecowatch.com/honeybees-good-bacteria-2561242307.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=3a42669ac5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-3a42669ac5-85328381

CHIROPTEROLOGY
First Bat Removed From U.S. Endangered Species List Helps Produce Tequila 
https://www.ecowatch.com/bat-endangered-species-tequila-2561223170.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=3a42669ac5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-3a42669ac5-85328381

TECHNOLOGY
The Cat-And-Mouse Game Between Apple And IPhone Hackers Will Never End
http://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/bgr-the_catandmouse_game_between_apple_and_iphone_hack-rpenskemc

Robot Conquers One of the Hardest Human Tasks: Assembling IKEA Furniture
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/science/robots-ikea-furniture.html?emc=edit_nn_20180419&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180419&te=1

FOREIGN POLICY
Heitkamp becomes first Dem to back Pompeo for secretary of State
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/383990-heitkamp-to-support-pompeo-for-secretary-of-state?rnd=1524165023?userid=288549

NATIONAL SECURITY
Warning being ignored? Evidence heavy reliance on hardware and software from China leaves American government open to espionage and cybertheft 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0418/federal_government_china_warning.php3

DEFENSE - VETERANS
City Employee Tells Store to Remove Military Flags, Blasts Veteran
https://townhall.com/notebook/tomknighton/2018/04/18/city-employee-tells-store-to-remove-military-flags-blasts-veteran-n2472230?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Justice IG sends criminal referral of Andrew McCabe to federal prosecutors
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/19/andrew-mccabe-criminal-referral-sent-us-attorney/

Australian bank charges dead client service fee for a decade
https://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2018/04/19/australian-bank-charges-dead-client-service-fee-for-a-decade-n2472429

COMEY
One Percent Chance Comey Not A Self-Dramatizing Fruitcake (A Coulter classic ...)
http://www.freedomsback.com/one-percent-chance-comey-not-a-self-dramatizing-fruitcake

MEDIA
The Media Create a Schrödinger’s Presidency
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/president-trump-media-coverage-predictions-of-downfall/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-04-19&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

ACTIVISTS
Parkland Activist David Hogg And His Sister Just Signed A Book Deal 
https://bearingarms.com/micah-r/2018/04/18/parkland-activist-david-hogg-and-his-sister-just-signed-a-book-deal/?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

Pro-Farrakhan Women’s March leader roasts Starbucks for seeking ADL’s help with bias
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/19/pro-farrakhan-womens-march-leader-blasts-starbucks/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

POLITICS
House, Senate GOP compete for cash
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/383863-house-senate-gop-compete-for-cash?userid=288549

Why the Center Cannot Hold
https://townhall.com/columnists/laurahollis/2018/04/19/why-the-center-cannot-hold-n2472347?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

-- "Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946