Day's Headlines: See the Hatred; Netanyahu Speaks of His Dream; The Assassination Backup Plan; Terror or Media Storm?; Golem; Shrine Denied; On Losing Oneself; Regulating Cows Methane Levels; Brexiting is So Hard to Do; AI Balloon; and Charging Heat

Friday, September 23, 2016

See the Hatred; Netanyahu Speaks of His Dream; The Assassination Backup Plan; Terror or Media Storm?; Golem; Shrine Denied; On Losing Oneself; Regulating Cows Methane Levels; Brexiting is So Hard to Do; AI Balloon; and Charging Heat

Israel

Accept Palestine or face ‘sea of hatred,’ Jordanian king warns Israel timesofisrael

Mentioning only the Christian and Muslim connection to Jerusalem holy sites, Abdullah accused Israel of attempting to alter the identity of the city.

Full text of Netanyahu’s speech at 2016 UN General Assembly timesofisrael v

What I’m about to say is going to shock you: Israel has a bright future at the UN.

Includes the full, 40 min video of Netanyhau's speach at the UN. If Obama was campaining in his speech (to a full house, no less), Net was reality checking (to the few pople who were there). Note that this video is a good reminder that Netanyhau is as lost as the rest as he "celebrates" his achievements with Climate Change and Homosexuality. But, overall, pretty good.

The man who could unseat Netanyahu? jpost

The usual response is a joke: Netanyahu. Yair Netanyahu is only 25, but in the Middle East, King Bibi passing on his mantle to the next generation would certainly not be unprecedented.

But what if the successor to Benjamin Netanyahu is not a Netanyahu but a Benjamin? That scenario of former IDF chief of staff Benjamin “Benny” Gantz becoming the main alternative candidate to Netanyahu in the next election becomes more plausible as time passes.

North Korea

South Korea reveals it has a plan to assassinate Kim Jong Un cnn v

Asked in parliament Wednesday if there was a special forces unit already assembled that could eliminate North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, Han Min-koo said: "Yes, we do have such a plan. "

Also see South Korea says time to reconsider North Korea's U.N. membership reuters

Terrorism

Hamas should be removed from terror lists, EU court recommends independent.co.uk w!

Judges of the General Court ruled that EU leaders relied too heavily on media reports rather than their own investigations when they imposed asset freezes and travel bans on Hamas members.

Golem

Berlin's Jewish Museum opens show on mystic golem creature hosted2.ap.org

The sculpture, created by California artist Joshua Abarbanel, is one of 250 objects on display at the new "Golem" show in the Jewish Museum Berlin, opening this week, which approaches the legend in diverse and unconventional ways.

First mentioned in ancient Jewish texts, a golem is an artificial being made from mud or other inanimate material that's brought to life through the power of Hebrew letters. It became popular and known outside Judaism in a famous story about the sixteenth-century Rabbi Judah Loew who is said to have created a golem out of clay in the hope it would help protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.

Paganism

Scots pagan loses battle to create shrine to forest god Herne scotsman

Mr Cleghorn, from Kirkburn, Scottish Borders, wanted to build an altar, “sacred well” and statue plinth on his eight-acre smallholding. The statue was to be of Herne the Hunter, a horned forest spirit and protector of the land.

Society

I Used to Be a Human Being nymag w!

For a decade and a half, I’d been a web obsessive, publishing blog posts multiple times a day, seven days a week, and ultimately corralling a team that curated the web every 20 minutes during peak hours. Each morning began with a full immersion in the stream of internet consciousness and news, jumping from site to site, tweet to tweet, breaking news story to hottest take, scanning countless images and videos, catching up with multiple memes. Throughout the day, I’d cough up an insight or an argument or a joke about what had just occurred or what was happening right now. And at times, as events took over, I’d spend weeks manically grabbing every tiny scrap of a developing story in order to fuse them into a narrative in real time. I was in an unending dialogue with readers who were caviling, praising, booing, correcting. My brain had never been so occupied so insistently by so many different subjects and in so public a way for so long.

Climate Change

California Governor Backs Rules on Cow, Landfill Emissions abcnews.go

Dairy farmers will be required to reduce methane emissions from manure to 40 percent below their 2013 levels by 2030, with the help of $50 million from the state's fee charged to polluters, known as cap-and-trade.

The law also allows the Air Resources Board arb.ca.gov to regulate cow flatulence if there's viable technology to reduce it.

Brexit

Brexit forever? Britain keeps the world waiting for EU divorce papers reuters

Britain has so far been clear about what will not happen: Prime Minister Theresa May has repeated that the formal divorce notification will not be sent before the end of the year and that Britain will not get a bad deal.

AI

Google’s Internet-Beaming Balloon Gets a New Pilot: AI wired

Google X lab launched a balloon into the stratosphere over Peru, and it stayed there for 98 days....it’s so impressive that the company managed to keep a balloon in Peruvian airspace for over three months. And it’s doubly impressive when you consider that the navigation system can only move these balloons up and down—not forward and back or side to side. They move like hot-air balloons—avoiding the weather or catching it at the right time, rather than pushing right through it—and that’s because a more complex navigation system would be too heavy and too expensive for the task at hand. Rather than navigate Peruvian air space with some sort of jet propulsion system, the Loon team turned to artificial intelligence.

Unusual Tech

Body Heat Can Now Charge Your Gadgets androidheadlines

It works by placing a thermally conductive material over a layer of polymer, which keeps heat from escaping, and forces it through the TEG. The material is only 2 mm thin, and flexible. This is not enough energy to power larger devices such as phones and tablets, and it won’t power a wearable device in itself, as the device will use power faster than a TEG is able to charge it. However, it could serve to slow down the power consumption process, extending the amount of battery life that a wearable device gets from a single charge, and the number of days it can be worn before the user has to recharge it.

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