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Remembering Stanislav Petrov

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/remembering-stanislav-petrov/

GENERAL INTEREST
Life on the Dirtiest Block in San Francisco
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/san-francisco-dirtiest-street-london-breed.html

Make sure you have insurance for these 5 Halloween hazards 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/make-sure-you-have-insurance-for-these-5-halloween-hazards-2018-10-10

11 Scoops or 12? Coffee Wars Come to the Office (If the link does not work, try copy, paste and go the article title in your browser.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cold-brew-is-for-closers-nespresso-for-the-it-guys-the-office-brims-with-coffee-clashes-1539097216?emailToken=5deba2e54f19a9f2a21df7414a47fbae6+zPtvZovtH3KnkPUoSKQKBZe1WxTI+PkBr8YOiVzaSUqiGA2l2FONL5jmgQZdd1vlFRc2GaZlkz6xZ8aDBOJX/mj3EHbHgQ8C/up+IgBf9PvNgaITUYnTkPj9XDhDF3kh27lsnUpQ3/AF68alud4JZqj2AZ3gzmT79x0kIfKpU%3D&reflink=article_email_share

My wood floors haven't been properly cleaned in 15 years. How can I bring them back to life?
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/cleaning_wood_floors.php3

• At the Puy de Fou historical theme park in Vendee, France, cleaning up litter is always a problem. But less so now that six "particularly intelligent" crows are being trained to pick up litter, according to Sky News. Nicolas de Villiers, president of the park, said that each time a crow drops a cigarette butt or piece of trash into a bin, it will be rewarded with a small nugget of food. The birds were set to begin their duties on Aug. 17. [Sky News, 8/11/2018] 

The News in Zingers
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/hamilton.php3

HEALTH
Statins show little promise for conditions other than heart disease
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181009102526.htm

Are restaurants liable when customers have life-threatening allergic reactions? It depends on the state 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/after-another-pret-a-manger-customer-dies-from-an-allergic-reaction-whos-at-fault-2018-10-09

HEALTH CARE
Don’t Let Transgender Activists Politicize Child Health Care
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/dont-let-transgender-activists-politicize-child-health-care/

The Argument Chuck Schumer Doesn't Have the Courage to Make
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2018/10/10/the-argument-chuck-schumer-doesnt-have-the-courage-to-make-n2527000?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

EDUCATION
A second Ann Arbor instructor withheld a recommendation letter from student headed to Israel 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/ann_arbor_israel.php3

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
Susan Rice’s Republican son allegedly physically assaulted at pro-Kavanaugh event
https://www.foxnews.com/us/susan-rices-republican-son-allegedly-physically-assaulted-at-pro-kavanaugh-rally?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20foxnews%2Fnational%20%28Internal%20-%20US%20Latest%20-%20Text%29&utm_content=Yahoo%20Search%20Results



FINANCIAL
Thousands of Southerners Planted Trees for Retirement. It Didn’t Work. (If the link does not work, try copy, paste and go the article title in your browser.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/thousands-of-southerners-planted-trees-for-retirement-it-didnt-work-1539095250?emailToken=bc7dc2be1e15329fc18269aa13cbc4f6bSeEr25G34KLIJysoyEVKvTpjCJxEsBXfrZUoodG3fKql8T2HvNqTSdm+7+oMdoJL8IjGtWKPh6ystUKTRZXuXV6HxB5FJQlDaTyk6gDr3fKARkI867LYUNgWuCmLDHx&reflink=article_email_share

ENVIRONMENT
Our Wild Texas – October 2018
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/TXPWD/bulletins/2106a03

10 Worst Plastic Polluting Companies Found by Global Cleanups 
https://www.ecowatch.com/worst-plastic-polluting-companies-2611144880.html

ENERGY
Oil refiners threaten to sue Trump over ethanol 
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/oil-refiners-threaten-to-sue-trump-over-ethanol?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_10/10/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

SCIENCE
The Future: Science and Self Destruction
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelguillen/2018/10/10/the-future-science-and-self-destruction-n2526953?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

TECHNOLOGY
Gecko was behind non-stop prank calls to animal hospital
https://nypost.com/2018/10/09/gecko-was-behind-non-stop-prank-calls-to-animal-hospital/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

CYBER SECURITY
Apple or Android? Here is the most secure phone you can get
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-or-android-here-is-the-most-secure-phone-you-can-get-2018-10-10

NATIONAL SECURITY
New evidence of hacked Super Micro hardware found in major US telecom 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/china_hecked_major_US_telecom.php3

U.S. Spycraft and Stealthy Diplomacy Expose Russian Subversion in a Key Balkans Vote
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/us/politics/russia-macedonia-greece.html?emc=edit_nn_20181010&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820181010&te=1

JUDICIARY
Are restaurants liable when customers have life-threatening allergic reactions? It depends on the state
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/after-another-pret-a-manger-customer-dies-from-an-allergic-reaction-whos-at-fault-2018-10-09

At Kavanaugh's Supreme Court debut, protesters outside, business as usual inside
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/rbarnes101018.php3

POLITICS
Supreme Court Allows North Dakota to Implement Voter ID Law [by a vote of 6-2 (with Brett Kavanaugh not participating)] (If the link does not work, try copy, paste and go the article title in your browser.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-allows-north-dakota-to-implement-voter-id-law-1539128771?emailToken=3de45a9f83f9f69f2435cee4fd466b6a0YcWsKoaBwxL9KUWdF1gVhHLgB/rlIeXI2d7yI+xGKeXki7kEKuswKWq2ARlukQXaukNclDz5+YEf85wAoFAIsaZEBXwf7YLAjBhu0n/GgxDwpUwSaRXo1uN9a/cHzCY&reflink=article_email_share

If You Think Our Politics Can’t Get Uglier Than the Kavanaugh Fight, Think Again
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/if-you-think-our-politics-cant-get-uglier-than-the-kavanaugh-fight-think-again/

GOP colleagues defend Murkowski after Trump broadside
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/09/murkowski-kavanaugh-republicans-886195?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_10/10/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

The ‘blue wave’ may be coming after all
https://nypost.com/2018/10/09/the-blue-wave-may-be-coming-after-all/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Dems eye ambitious agenda if House flips
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/410679-dems-eye-ambitious-agenda-if-house-flips?userid=288549

Why the Left Won’t Take Up Originalism
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/why-the-left-wont-take-up-originalism/

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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
           - C. S. Lewis