PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Investigators say mystery ‘third entity’ may hold key to MH370
https://nypost.com/2018/10/24/investigators-say-mystery-third-entity-may-hold-key-to-mh370/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

People Keep Scattering Ashes at Disney Theme Parks — and Custodians Are Over It 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/people-people_keep_scattering_ashes_at_disney_theme_parks-rtime/category/news

Keillor: One more beautiful wasted day  
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/keillor102518.php3

PHYSICAL HEALTH
Cancer Study Isn't Great News for Tall People 
http://www.newser.com/story/266385/cancer-study-isnt-great-news-for-tall-people.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=att&utm_campaign=rss_health_syn

• Former English soccer star Gary Mabbutt, 57, traveled to South Africa in July to visit his daughter, who works at Kruger National Park, but it wasn't the exotic big game that left the most lasting impression on him.
While he was sleeping, he later told the BBC, " . . . a rat has come into the bedroom, climbed into the bed and has decided to chew on my foot," which Mabbutt couldn't feel because he suffers from Type 1 diabetes and has little feeling in his foot. The rat "made quite a big hole in my toe, going down to the bone, and ate underneath my foot."  Mabbutt was finally alerted to the rodent's presence when it bit his thumb and he saw his bloody foot. He flew back to the United Kingdom, where he underwent surgery and spent a week in the hospital.
"All the opponents that I've played against," he said, "and I finally get taken out by a rat." [BBC, 8/27/2018] 

MENTAL HEALTH
All the lonely men
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/lonely_men.php3

HEALTH CARE
'Sabotage:' Following GOP 'Remodel,' Average Baseline Obamacare Premiums Set to ... Drop
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/10/25/is-obamacare-stabilizing-thanks-to-gop-sabotage-n2531607?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
Curt Schilling not invited to throw World Series 1st pitch with greats from '04 Red Sox
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/curt-schilling-not-invited-throw-world-series-1st-pitch-greats-04-red-sox-230811661.html

Vogue Should Not Have Apologized for the Kendall Jenner Shoot
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/vogue-magazine-kendall-jenner-hair-controversy/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-10-25&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

Company Yanks Costume With Controversial 'Dead' Name 
http://www.newser.com/story/266380/vendor-yanks-i-am-cait-halloween-costume.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=att&utm_campaign=rss_us_syn

Seriously? French Lawmaker to Introduce Bill to Ban Mockery of...
https://townhall.com/notebook/tomknighton/2018/10/23/french-lawmaker-to-introduce-bill-to-ban-mockery-of-n2531140?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

SPORTS
• Lifelong New York Knicks fan Evan Perlmutter, 33, finally hit the wall with his team. Fed up that the Knicks had been promising a better future for a decade, he told Bleacher Report, Perlmutter posted a listing on eBay to sell his fandom.  In the description, he promised to root for the team of the auction winner's choosing and "burn no less than three articles of Knicks memorabilia."  Sure enough, he got a bite: James Riedel, 23, of Orange County, California, paid $3,500 for Perlmutter's fandom on Aug. 24, converting Perlmutter into a Los Angeles Lakers fan.  Perlmutter plans to attend a few Lakers games with Riedel and record his destruction of his Knicks gear for Riedel's YouTube channel. [Bleacher Report, 8/27/2018] 

LEPIDOPTEROLOGY
Highly Venomous Puss Caterpillars Return to Florida for Fall
https://weather.com/science/nature/video/highly-venomous-puss-caterpillars-return-to-florida-for-fall?pl=pl-the-latest

ORNITHOLOGY
Audubon: Newsletter | October 2018
http://audubon.stagecoachdigital.com/web-view/8908

TECHNOLOGY
Here's what happens when police pull over a driverless car 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/driverless_car_ticket.php3

LAW AND ORDER
Two Middle-School Girls Planned to Kill Kids, Drink Their Blood, Police Say
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/two-middle-school-girls-planned-134255864.html

Michael Avenatti and Julie Swetnik Referred for Criminal Prosecution Over Bogus Kavanaugh Claims
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/10/25/breaking-avanatti-n2531943?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

SOCIAL MEDIA
YouTube winning race to clamp down on misinformation
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/413241-youtube-outpaces-facebook-twitter-in-clamping-down-on-misinformation

KHASHOGGI
The Secret History Of The Saudi Consulate Affair: Turkey's Counter-Attack
https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2018/10/18/the-secret-history-of-the-saudi-consulate-affair-turkeys-counter-attack/#4ed189064581

IMMIGRATION
Invasion of the Country Snatchers
https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2018/10/25/invasion-of-the-country-snatchers-n2531507?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Migrant caravan shrinks as some accept bus rides home
https://nypost.com/2018/10/24/migrant-caravan-shrinks-as-some-accept-bus-rides-home/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

NKOR/SKOR
North, South Korea withdraw troops at border village
https://nypost.com/2018/10/25/north-south-korea-withdraw-troops-at-border-village/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

POLITICS
Trump fights uphill GOP battle on pre-existing conditions
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/413021-trump-fights-uphill-gop-battle-on-pre-existing-conditions?userid=288549

Midterm Optics Are Bad for Progressives
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/midterm-elections-progressive-politics-immigration-protests/

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