Friday, November 9, 2018

PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
pinball, jukeboxes, miniature golf, bingo, and monopoly
https://mailchi.mp/delanceyplace.com/3r995h3ks1-1145353?e=6046209a87

HEALTH
What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/magazine/placebo-effect-medicine.html?emc=edit_nn_20181107&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820181107&te=1

Feel better going gluten-free? This may actually be the issue
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1118/fructans.php3

HEALTH CARE
How do you know if you have a ‘Top Doctor’ or an incompetent, unethical one?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-do-you-know-if-you-have-a-top-doctor-or-an-incompetent-unethical-one-2018-12-06

FINANCIAL
Skin in the Game
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams110718.php3

What the midterm election outcome may mean for markets
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-the-midterm-election-outcome-may-mean-for-markets-2018-11-07

METEOROLOGY
Putting Speed Bumps in Hurricane Alley
https://www.ecowatch.com/putting-speed-bumps-in-hurricane-alley-2616963339.html

TECHNOLOGY
It's not your imagination: Phone battery life is getting worse --- what to do about it
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1118/phone_batteries.php3

Who should be spared if a driverless car has to make a fatal choice, in one chart
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/who-should-be-spared-if-a-driverless-car-has-to-make-a-fatal-choice-in-one-chart-2018-11-06

NATIONAL SECURITY
Hey, liberal hypocrites: Where was the outrage when ... ?
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1118/thiessen110718.php3

DEFENSE
These 3 Defense Programs Could Lose As Democrats Retake The House
https://www.investors.com/news/defense-losers-with-democratic-house/?refcode=MarketPrepPM-11072018-4-DA-2:11:2018:4Q:NewsLetter:Email:MarketPrepPM-11072018:na:na:na:na:07:14:4:DA:2

LAW AND ORDER
Murders in US very concentrated: 54% of US counties in 2014 had zero murders, 2% of counties have 51% of the murders
https://crimeresearch.org/2017/04/number-murders-county-54-us-counties-2014-zero-murders-69-1-murder/

SOCIAL MEDIA


POLITICS
America’s urban-rural divide deepens
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/415441-americas-urban-rural-divide-deepens?userid=288549

Political parties can no longer harness their bases
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah110718.php3

Nancy Pelosi starts working on her math problem in Speaker vote
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/415569-nancy-pelosis-math-problem-in-a-speaker-vote

Election fallout: What to watch for now
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/415436-election-fallout-what-to-watch-for-now?userid=288549

Stacey Abrams Is Refusing to Concede the Georgia Governor's Race. Here's What Could Happen Next
https://www.yahoo.com/news/stacey-abrams-refusing-concede-georgia-152509329.html

Divisive Dems may be own undoing with kinder, gentler Trump ( ... or ... maybe not.)
https://nypost.com/2018/11/07/divisive-dems-may-be-own-undoing-with-kinder-gentler-trump/

Voters choose dead pimp over Democratic opponent
https://nypost.com/2018/11/07/dead-brothel-owner-dennis-hof-wins-nevada-election/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app
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"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to
Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be."
           - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

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