Welcome to Today's Edition of
Carolina Naturally
Carolina Naturally
Carolina Naturally is read in 210 countries around the world daily.
Panic Button ... !
You want the unvarnished truth?
Thursday, March 9, 2017
The Daily Drift
Panic Button ... !
You want the unvarnished truth?
Today in History
| 1617 | The Treaty of Stolbovo ends the occupation of Northern Russia by Swedish troops. | |
| 1734 | The Russians take Danzig (Gdansk) in Poland. | |
| 1788 | Connecticut becomes the 5th state. | |
| 1796 | Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais in Paris, France. | |
| 1812 | Swedish Pomerania is seized by Napoleon. | |
| 1820 | Congress passes the Land Act, paving the way for westward expansion. | |
| 1839 | The French Academy of Science announces the Daguerreotype photo process. | |
| 1841 | The rebel slaves who seized a Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in 1839 are freed by the Supreme Court despite Spanish demands for extradition. | |
| 1862 | The first and last battle between the ironclads U.S.S. Monitor and C.S.S. Virginia ends in a draw. | |
| 1864 | General Ulysses Grant is appointed commander-in-chief of the Union forces. | |
| 1911 | The funding for five new battleships is added to the British military defense budget. | |
| 1915 | The Germans take Grodno on the Eastern Front. | |
| 1916 | Mexican bandit Pancho Villa leads 1,500 horsemen on a raid of Columbus, N.M. killing 17 U.S. soldiers and citizens. | |
| 1932 | Eamon De Valera is elected president of the Irish Free State and pledges to abolish all loyalty to the British Crown. | |
| 1936 | The German press warns that all Jews who vote in the upcoming elections will be arrested. | |
| 1939 | Czech President Emil Hacha ousts pro-German Joseph Tiso as the Premier of Slovakia in order to preserve Czech unity. | |
| 1940 | Britain frees captured Italian coal ships on the eve of German Foreign Minister, Ribbentrop’s visit to Rome. | |
| 1956 | British authorities arrest and deport Archbishop Makarios from Cyprus. He is accused of supporting terrorists. | |
| 1957 | Egyptian leader Nasser bars U.N. plans to share the tolls for the use of the Suez Canal. | |
| 1959 | The Barbie doll is unveiled at a toy fair in New York City. | |
| 1964 | The first Ford Mustang rolls off the Ford assembly line. | |
| 1967 | Svetlana Alliluyeva, Josef Stalin‘s daughter defects to the United States. | |
| 1968 | General William Westmoreland asks for 206,000 more troops in Vietnam. | |
| 1975 | Iraq launches an offensive against the rebellious Kurds. | |
| 1986 | Navy divers find the crew compartment of the space shuttle Challenger along with the remains of the astronauts. |
How a News Story Becomes a Hoax
You may have seen viral "weird news" story over the weekend about a man in Japan who died when his six tons of pornography fell on him. It was exactly the kind of story that goes viral. The problem is that it did not happen, or more accurately, it did not happen that way, but was "sexed up" to grab headlines.
Yes, the man had a porn collection, and it factored into the story, but not in the way it was circulated. The story of how it got changed along the way is even more interesting than the viral hoax. Gizmodo looks at how the story became something it's not and the importance of digging deeper when something doesn't pass the smell test.So what really happened? Recently a Japanese man was found dead in his apartment. The man lived alone and had been dead for a month before he was discovered. The coroner ruled that he’d died of a heart attack. How do we know the real story? It was reported in Nikkan Spa in Japan on February 28, 2017. The Daily Mail story was published on March 3rd, 2017.
The Daily Mail story doesn’t link out to Nikkan Spa, or acknowledge at all where its information came from. The average reader would assume that all the information presented in the Daily Mail story was collected by the Daily Mail alone. It appears that nothing in the Daily Mail’s version contains original reporting, aside from the sensationalist errors that it introduced.
The Witty Epitaphs of Key West Cemetery
The Traffic Sounds of the Future
Electric
cars are eerily silent. Hybrid cars will give you a start when they go
from gas to electric or vice-versa, because we are used to the sounds go
a gas engine. We've read about how car manufacturers are adding artificial sound
to make electric cars sound real, but that will become even more
important in the future when there are self-driving cars on the streets.
As a pedestrian, it’s been pretty great being able to hear if a car’s coming. But with the rise of electric vehicles, pedestrian accidents have increased. These problems will only get exacerbated once self-driving cars go mainstream. The computers behind the wheel will need a way of alerting others to their surroundings — Google’s autonomous car team has already said their cars will “honk patiently,” but there’s no denying the fact that computers will have to make up for even more of the noises missing from traditional cars.Read about the need for those regulations and the technology that is being developed for car sounds in the age of self-driving vehicles at Inverse.
With a series of regulations set to come into force, car manufacturers are getting ready: the next generation of cars are going to need to make noise, and somebody has to come up with them.
Polluted Ghost Towns Caused by Environmental Disasters
While exact causes of the fire remain disputed, analysts agree that a 1962 fire tore through the town’s abandoned coal mines and has not yet stopped. Residents became aware of the fire decades later, and in 1984 Congress allocated more than $40 million to relocate Centralia residents — many of whom did not see the risk that the fires posed.So check out the full story of Centralia as well as four other cities destroyed by environmental disasters over on All That is Interesting.
Then-governor Bob Casey condemned all Centralia estates in 1992, but backlash from Centralia citizens kept Centralia’s zip code alive until 2002.
Brain-controlled Robots
While the robot itself is not all that impressive, the interface between the brain and the action is almost supernatural. That an EEG can actually sort these kinds of messages is amazing. Read about the experiment in the original MIT paper.
The Best Breakfast Spot in All 50 States
Yes,
of course, "best" is always a subjective word, and a list of the best
of anything is going to cause a little controversy. However, you cannot
argue that these breakfast diners aren't good.If you like meat with your breakfast, Gold Rush Cafe is the place to go. Their bacon cheeseburger skillet omelet and breakfast burger melts are rich and decadent, but the meatloaf omelet is truly an original. It comes with meatloaf bits, veggies, cheese, and barbecue sauce. If the thought of that much breakfast meat is giving you the sweats, try the bread pudding waffles with baked cinnamon apples on the side.Check out the list of the best breakfast restaurants in each state at mental_floss, let us know how well they picked the best from your state, and if you've got a road trip planned, you might want to make notes on breakfast for your traveling days ahead.
The Loneliest Five-Star Restaurant in the World
Concordia Station is a French-Italian research facility in Antarctica. It is roughly halfway between
the Antarctic coast and the South Pole, which makes it pretty isolated
from anything. However, the French and Italians care greatly about the
food served to the station's crew. Luca Ficara spent a year as the
station's chef.
Ficara was challenged with feeding 75 people during the summer (November to February) and then providing interesting meals for 13 during the long dark winter, using an inventory of supplies that must last eight months, with no assistants. And for the Sicilian Ficara, another challenge was that the wine is all French. Read about how he worked with what he had to create amazing meals at the bottom of the world.Each year, the Italian National Program for Antarctic Research (which maintains the base along with the French Polar Institute Paul Emile Victor) holds a lottery to determine who will be spending the next year as the resident chef at Concordia. This lottery system has won the station something of a reputation for its food, which received a nod in the Lonely Planet as a place "considered by many to enjoy Antarctica's best cuisine, with fine wines and seven-course lunches on Sundays."
While Ficara didn't really expect to end up in the Concordia Kitchen, he turned out to be the perfect fit for the job given his diverse culinary repertoire. The chefs chosen by the PNRA must demonstrate not only proficiency as cooks, but also a robust knowledge of international culinary practices so that they can cater to the tastes of the 13-person Concordia winter crew, who hail from England, Switzerland, France, and Italy.
In world first, Iceland to require firms to prove equal pay
by Jill Lawless
Iceland will be the first country in the world to make employers
prove they offer equal pay regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexuality
or nationality, the Nordic nation's government said Wednesday —
International Women's Day.
The
government said it will introduce legislation to parliament this month,
requiring all employers with more than 25 staff to obtain certification
to prove they give equal pay for work of equal value.
While
other countries, and the U.S. state of Minnesota, have equal-salary
certificate policies, Iceland is thought to be the first to make it
mandatory for both private and public firms.
The North Atlantic island nation, which has a population of about 330,000, wants to eradicate the gender pay gap by 2022.
Equality and Social Affairs Minister Thorsteinn Viglundsson said "the time is right to do something radical about this issue."
"Equal
rights are human rights," he said. "We need to make sure that men and
women enjoy equal opportunity in the workplace. It is our responsibility
to take every measure to achieve that."
Iceland
has been ranked the best country in the world for gender equality by
the World Economic Forum, but Icelandic women still earn, on average, 14
to 18 percent less than men.
In
October thousands of Icelandic women left work at 2:38 p.m. and
demonstrated outside parliament to protest the gender pay gap. Women's
rights groups calculate that after that time each day, women are working
for free.
The
new legislation is expected to be approved by Iceland's parliament
because it has support from both government and opposition lawmakers.
The government hopes to implement it by 2020.
Viglundsson
said some people had argued the law imposes unneeded bureaucracy on
firms, and is not necessary because the pay gap is closing.
"It
is a burden to put on companies to have to comply with a law like
this," he acknowledged. "But we put such burdens on companies all the
time when it comes to auditing your annual accounts or turning in your
tax report.
"You have to dare to take new steps, to be bold in the fight against injustice."
NC Democrats introduce bills to raise minimum wage to $15/hr, ensure equal pay for women
by Beairshelle Edmé
They want to raise the minimum from $7.25 per hour to $15 per hour and from $2.15 per hour to $5 for tipped wage employees.If passed, House Bill 238 and Senate Bill 174 would add paid sick and
family leave, as well as ensure women have equal pay for equal work.Sen. Ben Clark (D-Cumberland and Hoke), is also pushing to ban the box, an effort to remove application questions about a person’s criminal past.
These lawmakers say all the provisions in the bills will benefit North Carolina families and the state’s economy.
“We want the people in our state to both survive and thrive and this minimum wage is not even at the survival level,” said Sen. Angela Bryant (D-Halifax, Nash, Wilson, Vance and Warren).
Democrats are also proposing to add several tax credits, including earned income, childcare and dependent care.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
