PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
The Shifting City:?? Shadows of New York
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/06/multimedia/shadows-new-york-photos-skyline.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190906&section=longRead?campaign_id=9&instance_id=12179&segment_id=16778&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408ion=longRead

HEALTH
Surgeon separates patient???s skull from rest of skeleton in radical procedure
https://www.foxnews.com/health/surgeon-separates-patients-skull-from-skeleton

SPORTS
Jemele Hill: Black Athletes Should Leave White Colleges
https://www.dailywire.com/news/51446/jemele-hill-black-athletes-should-leave-white-paul-bois?utm_medium=email&utm_content=090619-news&utm_campaign=position1

Tom Brady weighs in on Carli Lloyd potentially kicking field goals in NFL (Beware of unintended consequences.)
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/tom-brady-carli-lloyd-nfl-field-goal

HISTORY
Museums made America a vibrant center of intellectual activity-- 9/06/19
https://mailchi.mp/delanceyplace.com/colonization-to-africa-11-19-1147605?e=a218d00c99

FINANCIAL
Even Statist France Gave Up on Wealth Tax
https://www.wsj.com/articles/even-statist-france-gave-up-on-wealth-tax-11567703265?emailToken=54af691a38d6f0b6786b980454b442b0s0GvPZ6q1SksW1JgC0xfa059z5NjkDvaIg75b1NLnlT6nFJ6qUvy8oHDEY476aIFXCXIcv7SyP+nyyKjtd/1I7lOj/rEftZ0HejqmEAKBAE%3D&reflink=article_email_share

This food blogger mastered saving more and spending less on groceries ??? and learned her tricks working at Whole Foods
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-budget-savvy-food-blogger-learned-how-to-save-more-and-waste-less-heres-how-you-can-too-2019-09-06

BUSINESS
The Obamas Are in the Middle of a Trademark Dispute...and They're Not Taking the High Road
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2019/09/06/obama-trademark-n2552698?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

WEATHER
NOAA disavows National Weather Service tweet that contradicted Trump
https://thehill.com/news-by-subject/energy-environment/460315-noaa-releases-statement-saying-it-told-trump-hurricane

White House aide says he briefed Trump about Alabama and Hurricane Dorian
https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-aide-says-briefed-220001826.html

The wild horses of the Outer Banks won't evacuate. They have a special trick to survive hurricanes
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/cnn-the_wild_horses_of_the_outer_banks_wont_evacuate_t-cnn2

SPACE
India Loses Contact With Chandrayaan-2 Moon Lander During Its Descent
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/science/india-moon-landing-chandrayaan-2.html?&te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190906?campaign_id=57&instance_id=12213&segment_id=16814&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408

POWER & ENERGY
Electric generation transforms primary energy into secondary energy
https://www.bicmagazine.com/industry/powergen/electric-generation-transforms-primary-energy-into-secondary/

Another Payoff for Ethanol
https://www.wsj.com/articles/another-payoff-for-ethanol-11567724173?emailToken=203898b87d7c8db01d8bfa8ee645a468N4jh8foAugMM3TUzOHvx5CrwI6K1Iq93Lykw+ROTF+vHABqhhSE9aW1Sij76pWrzRuxdofga/+KpLwZOh8CReA%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

TECHNOLOGY


CYBER SECURITY
Chinese cyber hackers have built a backdoor in US-China trade war, says report
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/chinese-cyber-hackers-have-built-a-backdoor-in-us-china-trade-war-says-report

DEFENSE
Air Force jet accidentally fires rocket into the Arizona desert
https://www.foxnews.com/us/air-force-jet-rocket-arizona-desert

Navy enhances small boat attack defenses
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/navy-enhances-small-boat-attack-defenses

MILITARY
New Army IG report paints a bleak-as-hell picture of privatized military housing
https://taskandpurpose.com/army-inspector-general-housing

LAW AND ORDER
Cops searching for couple accused of vandalizing sacred Native American site
https://nypost.com/2019/09/05/cops-searching-for-couple-accused-of-vandalizing-sacred-native-american-site/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

A$AP Rocky's Swedish lawyer is 'shot in the head and chest' in Stockholm as police question female lawyer banned from contacting him
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7435529/A-AP-Rockys-Swedish-lawyer-shot-head-chest-leaves-apartment-Stockholm.html

LAW AND THE COURTS
End Nationwide Injunctions
https://www.wsj.com/articles/end-nationwide-injunctions-11567723072?emailToken=7cd79ccf59cf11cefc592d5e1e21cae1YSXTh4b4oTk2cAZHq+nL27TH3z56btFgJkSgBAijbxlZpVUmqregsOQxl9ZCoPKki4zVbDE+aYI59MT2DY8NKQ%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

IMMIGRATION
Trump Administration Considers a Drastic Cut in Refugees Allowed to Enter U.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/us/politics/trump-refugees-united-states.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190906?campaign_id=57&instance_id=12213&segment_id=16814&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408

POLITICS
Progressives Keep Calm in the Trump Era
https://www.wsj.com/articles/progressives-keep-calm-in-the-trump-era-11567723745?emailToken=a2e8044fd39b1f3f6a983ec2d91c8196OV05hBg0L4WyPO4NUG6TTATKG0G/3vjTGA7MoRzyFK7Y6G+aWVkG7MCfP9Fvfw49XENM4ywKRITKowSbmzfXea7FFlSnit+958ZQI0RV4EQ%3D&reflink=article_email_share

"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)