PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Steven Covey’s Big Rocks First Strategy is Wrong
http://mymeadowreport.com/reneefishman/2017/big-rocks-first/

The "Big Rocks" of Life (Apparently, Ms. Fishman either did not read or, did not comprehend, Dr. Covey's last paragraph.)
http://appleseeds.org/Big-Rocks_Covey.htm

This Company Has a Genius Solution for Discarded Avocado Pits
https://www.ecowatch.com/avocado-pits-biodegradable-straws-cutlery-2628165725.html

People who struggle with eye contact can get away with it by looking at a person's EAR as scientists find it has the same impact on conversation (I can see what you are saying ... )
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6674975/Looking-someones-ear-instead-eyes-just-good.html

HEALTH CARE
Another Way to Universal Health Care 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/another-way-to-universal-health-care/

INSIGHT
How a tractor driver from Iowa can claw back the Senate's power 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will020719.php3

BUSINESS
Germany Restricts Facebook’s Data Gathering
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/technology/germany-facebook-data.html?emc=edit_ne_20190207&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190207&te=1

CLIMATE CHANGE
Greenland was WARM in the Viking Age (at least during the summer): Study on ancient bugs preserved in lake sediments suggest Norse settlers enjoyed 50-degree weather
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6675647/Greenland-WARM-Viking-Age-new-study-claims.html

British Chips Now One Inch Shorter Due to Climate Change
https://www.ecowatch.com/chips-potatoes-shorter-climate-change-2628149442.html

Doomsday prediction for surging tides was WRONG: Study claims ice-cliffs of Antarctica will be responsible for just a 6-inch boost in sea levels - SEVEN times less than previously thought (but it will still cause 'climate chaos')
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6677753/Doomsday-prediction-dramatic-sea-level-rise-WRONG.html

CYBER SECURITY
New Malware Targets Your Crypto, Hijacks Your Mac to Mine More
https://www.idropnews.com/news/fast-tech/new-malware-targets-your-crypto-hijacks-your-mac-to-mine-more/95521/

Popular iPhone apps are recording your screen! Expedia, Hollister and Air Canada are among the firms replaying your activity
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6677837/iPhone-apps-like-Air-Canada-Expedia-secretly-recording-activity-replaying-it.html

DEFENSE
'Bullets on the battlefield don't discriminate': Army is developing a much tougher fitness exam that makes no exceptions for women or older recruits after complaints far too many new soldiers weren't fit enough to be deployed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6675671/Army-aims-combat-ready-troops-new-fitness-test.html

BORDER SECURITY
Feds have turned this small border city into a ‘war zone’: officials
https://nypost.com/2019/02/07/feds-have-turned-this-small-border-city-into-a-war-zone-officials/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

MEDIA
Why Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon aren’t talking about blackface
https://nypost.com/2019/02/06/why-jimmy-kimmel-and-jimmy-fallon-arent-talking-about-blackface/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

VIRGINIA
State Sen. Tommy Norment, another Virginia politician, caught up in blackface scandal
https://nypost.com/2019/02/07/state-sen-tommy-norment-another-virginia-lawmaker-caught-up-in-blackface-scandal/

POLITICS
Seriously? This Dem Rep Just Told a Kid He Should Fear Members of Congress (CJPearson's last reply is PRICELESS !!!)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2019/02/07/this-dem-rep-just-told-a-kid-he-should-fear-members-of-congress-n2540904?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Republican senators reveal new rules for nominees 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=2249df8aaa4884cfcba853386ffd78c5_5c5c76b8_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190207&goTo=A04&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

Trump paints himself into another corner
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/06/trump-paints-himself-into-another-corner/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c15cb910d4d7

Twenty Things You Didn’t Know about Cory Booker 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/cory-booker-20-things-you-probably-didnt-know/

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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)