KAMALA PAYS GOOGLE TO DELIVER FAKE NEWS TO VOTERS... Harris Campaign Caught Pushing Literal Fake News Headlines In Americans’ Google Searches Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has been caught editing various outlets’ headlines to appear in Americans’ Google searches as sponsored ads, according to an Axios report. Over the last ten days, the Harris campaign has edited the headlines and descriptions of almost a dozen outlets’ articles found through Google search advertisements to appear as search ads from the Harris campaign, according to Axios. Several of those outlets, including CNN, USA Today and NPR, told the outlet they were not aware that their articles were being manipulated for Harris campaign ads.

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Our “10 Best Classic Rock Songs About Teachers” article presents a showcase of songs that focus on the interaction between teachers and their students. We were very careful to ensure all the songs on this list specifically concern teachers, rather than school in general. While there are many songs written about school, like Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out” and The Beach Boys’ “Be True to Your School,” those songs tend to generalize broadly about education. For this list, we wanted to hone in more on teachers, selecting songs where if it was about education, it focused particularly on teaching—as you’ll see The post 10 Best Classic Rock Songs About Teachers appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

The US Women’s Gymnastics team has won 8 medals—which may be down to the excellence of the effervescent Simone Biles, although it have furrier explanations. All throughout the games, Beacon the golden retriever has been within petting distance of any one of the five members who may feel some pre-performance jitters. The topic of mental […] The post One Key to Success For U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Team Is a Support Dog to Calm Nerves appeared first on Good News Network.

The post Carpet Sharks & Their Shark Bites: Biting Cats by Dr. Lauren Demos DVM (Veterinarian) appeared first on Catster. Copying over entire articles infringes on copyright laws. You may not be aware of it, but all of these articles were assigned, contracted and paid for, so they aren't considered public domain. However, we appreciate that you like the article and would love it if you continued sharing just the first paragraph of an article, then linking out to the rest of the piece on Catster.com. Hi, I’m Dr. Lauren! Read my introduction to learn more about me and my two adventurous cats, Pancake and Tiller. Love biters. No, not that kind…cat love biters. We’ve all probably met them: the loveable cat that gets excited, then bites you. Or the one that comes up to you and gets a pat, and gives you a gentle bite. Tiller is one of the world’s great love biters. In fact, it’s far more likely you’ll get a love bite than a pur if you interact with her. Even Pancake is not immune- a few licks, and then a good bite. No wonder Pancake no longer shares the bed with Tiller-zilla. But beware the carpet shark… And Tiller is not alone. I’ve met a variety of different types of cats in my work: dog cats, people cats, cat cats, and biters. Clients often come in saying: my cat bites me. You might think that people are talking about a cat that is an aggressive or fear biter, but that is rarely the case. Most clients that talk about their biter cats, refer to those cats that intermittently exchange a friendly pat for an equally friendly bite. They don’t break the skin, they cause surprise more than pain, and they are sometimes adorable, when they do it slowly, gently, and just hang there. But just why do cats do this familiar, gentle, persistent biting? To be honest, no one really knows! If only cats could talk… But here are a few theories: Mother/kitten instinct and nursing: It’s possible that this instinct which involves oral stimulation by the kitten on the queen along with the release of bonding hormones, extends into biting, in adult life, and the adult cat’s human family. Biting is a way that many feline emotions are expressed – not just anger. Sexual desires, play, social boundaries and more are all developed via biting. Potentially cats are using the biting to communicate more than we realize? The vomeronasal organ: In cats, the roof of their mouth holds the vomeronasal organ, which is able to detect various pheromones. Pheromones are chemical signatures that can be “smelled” by this organ (humans have all but lost theirs). It’s possible that biting puts a cat into a better position to use their vomeronasal organ to “flesh out” (pardon the pun) the situation when interacting with familiar humans. Who will love bite at any opportunity! But, in the end, we simply don’t know. Tiller will remain the household “carpet shark” and her “shark bites” will remain a fun and endearing danger whenever we traverse up or downstairs. Such is the risk of owning cats. This article is a part of Dr. Lauren, Pancake, and Tiller's series. Read her previous article: An Owner’s Manual on Spaying or Neutering Your Cat: Why Not to Feel Guilt The post Carpet Sharks & Their Shark Bites: Biting Cats by Dr. Lauren Demos DVM (Veterinarian) appeared first on Catster. Copying over entire articles infringes on copyright laws. You may not be aware of it, but all of these articles were assigned, contracted and paid for, so they aren't considered public domain. However, we appreciate that you like the article and would love it if you continued sharing just the first paragraph of an article, then linking out to the rest of the piece on Catster.com.

Books Horror Five Scary Stories Set at Camp Why should camp-based horror flicks like “Friday the 13th” have all the fun? Here are five books and stories that will leave you shivering in your bunk. By Lorna Wallace | Published on August 14, 2024 Photo by Leon Contreras on Unsplash Comment 0 Share New Share Photo by Leon Contreras on Unsplash I never actually went to a summer camp when growing up, but I do know that telling spooky stories around a campfire (preferably while roasting marshmallows to make s’mores) is an integral part of the experience—at least, that’s what every camp-set film ever has led me to believe. While any old urban legend will do when it comes to freaking out fellow campers, telling a scary story set at a camp itself just seems so frightfully fitting… There are, of course, plenty of horror films that lean into this trope—the Friday the 13th franchise, Sleepaway Camp (1983), and Fear Street Part Two: 1978 (2021) are a few of the biggest examples—but this list is for fiction lovers! Here are five scary stories that make chilling use of the camp setting.  The Boy in the Woods (2020) by Scott Thomas It’s the last day of summer camp at Camp Cottonwood, but ten-year-old Eddie Reicher’s parents haven’t shown up to take him home. He has to spend one more night at the near-deserted camp under the watch of the teenage counselors, but at least all of the cruel campers who’ve spent the summer bullying him for his facial scarring—the result of a dog attack years earlier—have gone home. Better yet, Eddie’s crush, June, also has to stay an extra night. What could have been an evening of dreamily connecting with June soon turns into a nightmare when the counselors start exhibiting weird and dangerous behavior. Expect Friday the 13th vibes, but with a twist to the story. The Boy in the Woods may be novella-length, but it manages to squeeze a lot of compelling storytelling into its pages. The characters are vividly sketched and the plot is compulsively fast-paced. To top it all off, the ending is an absolute punch in the gut. Heads Will Roll (2024) by Josh Winning Josh Winning’s Heads Will Roll feels like a classic camp-set slasher film translated directly into book form. Although most camps cater to kids, the novel’s Camp Castaway serves an adult clientele. Located deep in the woods, the purpose of this camp is to entirely discontent from the world—meaning no phones and no internet—which sounds like the perfect escape for Willow, an actress who has recently been canceled. All of the campers are running away from something, but instead of experiencing a refreshing pause at Camp Castaway, they find themselves literally running for their lives when a killer shows up. I read Heads Will Roll incredibly quickly, driven by my desire to figure out the identity of the killer, as well as the mystery of the campers’ backstories, I found myself flipping the pages at record speed. Plus, the final act is pure blood-soaked carnage…I couldn’t tear my eyes away. But although blood is certainly spilled, the descriptions of the gore are never that extreme, so the overall tone of the book is less hair-raisingly frightening and more thrillingly fun. “How to Get Back to the Forest” (2014) by Sofia Samatar If you’re in the mood for a camp story that doesn’t follow the classic path through the woods or even really play with the typical genre conventions, check out Sofia Samatar’s short story “How to Get Back to the Forest.” The story starts with a girl called Cee telling her friends at camp that they need to make themselves throw up because she’s convinced a metal bug has been implanted in their chests and that puking is the only way to get it out (other than surgery). From there, the story gets progressively weirder (and a bit less vomit-based!), but as it’s so short I won’t say anything more about the plot. I will say that you’re likely to be left buzzing with questions and puzzling over the intriguing little nuggets of information about this strange and scary world that Samatar drops along the way… (Originally published in Lightspeed, and collected in Tender) Camp Damascus (2023) by Chuck Tingle Rather than being set entirely at a camp, the story of Camp Damascus unfolds in the looming shadow cast by a gay conversion camp. The main character is twenty-year-old Rose, a devout Christian whose church essentially rules her hometown of Neverton, Montana. The church is also known for running the titular gay conversion camp which proudly boasts a 100% success rate. Rose is at a lake with her friends when she sees a ghost-like woman staring at her, and later that evening she starts coughing up flies…like, a lot of flies. Her parents brush it off, but Rose obviously wants to figure out why a swarm of insects erupted from her and why a creepy woman who no one else can see is following her around. This sets her on a path that eventually leads to cracks forming in her faith. Rose reads younger than her twenty years, but there’s a good reason for that which is revealed later in the story, and her character arc is incredibly satisfying to witness. Camp Damascus goes hard when it comes to depicting the real-life horrors of conversion therapy while also offering up some inventively demonic supernatural scares. The Troop (2014) by Nick Cutter Told in the quasi-epistolary style of Stephen King’s Carrie (1974), Nick Cutter’s The Troop documents the horrifying events that occur when a Boy Scout troop takes a trip to a small Canadian island to gain some wilderness experience. Things go off the rails when a voraciously hungry man unexpectedly sails to the island and stumbles his way up to their cabin begging for food. But the man isn’t merely suffering from regular hunger pangs—there’s something far more sinister (and squirmy!) quite literally lurking beneath the surface. Cutter has a knack for writing gross scenes that are so graphically described that they leave me physically recoiling. There are even some scenes involving animals that are so brutal I had to skim a bit, but it was worth getting though those sections for the elements I loved—primarily the isolated camp setting, the parasite-based body horror, and the fracturing group dynamics in a high-pressure survival situation. There are plenty of other books and stories that would be right at home on this list, so let me know your favorites below, be they lightly spooky YA thrillers or nightmare-inducing adult novels![end-mark] The post Five Scary Stories Set at Camp appeared first on Reactor.

I’m going to be completely honest with you – I wasn’t the biggest fan of Captain N: The Game Master. Castlevania is one of my favorite NES games, and it did my boy dirty. As CONTINUE READING... The post Captain N and More Games That Need Cartoons appeared first on The Retro Network.

Secure Technology Value Solutions is a company with a boring name and a bland website that is staffed by jovial-looking former policemen and corrections officers. It doesn’t exactly scream “Chinese Communist Party threat,” and that’s precisely the point. Secure Technology Value Solutions is actually a front for Nuctech, a Chinese government- and military-owned company, and it’s selling sensitive security equipment to police and corrections departments all across the United States. Nuctech sells devices such as the body scanners that passengers must use during airport security checks, as well as larger devices, such as cargo scanners for commercial ports. It was an early adopter of a technique that’s become popular among Chinese companies that fall under national security scrutiny: Change the name of your American subsidiary to something that sounds benign and hope to fly under the radar. Nuctech’s U.S. subsidiary changed its name to Secure Technology Value Solutions in 2022, after Nuctech was hit by several forms of national security sanctions. Nuctech equipment was blocked from U.S. airports a decade ago by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and sanctioned by the U.S. Commerce Department in 2020 on national security grounds. Notably, the Commerce Department cited concern that Nuctech’s “lower-performing equipment means less stringent cargo screening, raising the risk of proliferation” of “nuclear and other radioactive materials.” Doing business with Nuctech is essentially doing business with the Chinese Communist Party itself. Nuctech was spun out of Tsinghua University, an elite institution that works closely with the Chinese military. It was co-founded and led for years by the son of Hu Jintao, Xi Jinping’s predecessor as general secretary of the CCP. According to Wirescreen, a business intelligence platform that provides data on Chinese companies, Nuctech is one-fourth government-owned, majority owned by a Chinese defense contractor, and is a supplier to China’s own security agencies. Nuctech is a subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corp., a state-owned company that runs China’s civilian and military nuclear programs, and which has been identified by the U.S. as a Chinese military-industrial complex company. NuctechDownload In April of this year, another China National Nuclear Corp. subsidiary was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for proliferating weapons of mass destruction technology. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security assessed in 2020 that, among other concerns, “Nuctech’s screening and detection systems likely have deficiencies in detection capabilities, which may create opportunities for exploitation by the Chinese government. … [If] backdoors or deficiencies are present, remote access could be enabled to gain access of Nuctech systems and other networked infrastructure.” The U.S. Department of Transportation has also repeatedly warned port operators about the threat of Nuctech equipment. The threat is a global one, with the Homeland Security Department flagging “the alarming rate at which the security company continues to gain control over various strategic security infrastructure” in Europe—as much as 90% of Europe’s sea-cargo screening equipment market and 50% of the market for airport baggage and cargo screening. In light of those concerns, the U.S. has pressed its allies to dump Nuctech. European countries awarded more than 160 contracts to Nuctech over the past decade in spite of warnings, but finally show some signs of moving on from a “see no evil” attitude toward Nuctech’s takeover of the security screening market. However, Europe’s action against Nuctech is part of an anti-dumping investigation, making it unclear whether and when Nuctech devices will be phased out of Europe’s critical infrastructure. Canada, likewise, had awarded several contracts to Nuctech, operating their devices “across Canada,” and in 2020 were poised to install Nuctech devices in Canadian embassies across the world until the U.S. intervened. Despite the federal and international scrutiny, Nuctech and its Secure Technology Value Solutions front company have found plenty of localities and state governments willing to buy its devices using taxpayer dollars. Often, the customers are corrections and police departments, and Secure Technology’s top leadership consists of former corrections and police officers, no doubt to leverage their professional networks and trusted relationships. Secure Technology’s website brags about a sale in Louisiana, and even features a video of its equipment appearing to be connected to the computer system of a jail. Arizona spent millions of dollars acquiring Nuctech equipment in 2023. Pennsylvania has maintained a contract with Nuctech since 2018, which was renewed in February. Virginia purchased Nuctech equipment in 2023. Nuctech devices also operate in Ohio. The list goes on. It’s a safe bet that Americans don’t want a Chinese military-linked company providing security for sensitive sites or plugged into states’ computer networks and surveillance systems. States should stop doing business with Nuctech and Secure Technology, and advance policies to block CCP-controlled companies from participating in taxpayer-funded procurement. Granting the CCP access to government infrastructure and troves of sensitive data—let alone paying it for the privilege—just doesn’t make sense. The post States Should Stop Buying Security Scanners From China’s Nuctech appeared first on The Daily Signal.