CAROLINA NATURALLY: 01/01/2016

Sunday, January 31, 2016

The Daily Drift

Welcome to Today's Edition of Carolina Naturally.

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Birth of Venus ... !

Today is - Inspire Your Heart With Art Day

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Asia
Azerbaijan - China - Hong Kong - India - Indonesia - Kazakhstan - Korea - Mauritius
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Africa
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The Pacific
Australia - New Zealand - Philippines

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Today in History

1606		Guy Fawkes is hanged, drawn and quartered for his part in the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to blow up Parliament.
1620		Virginia colony leaders write to the Virginia Company in England, asking for more orphaned apprentices for employment.
1788		Bonnie Prince "Charlie" Charles Edward Stuart dies.
1835		A man with two pistols misfires at President Andrew Jackson at the White House.
1865		House of Representatives approves a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.
1911		The German Reichstag exempts royal families from tax obligations.
1915		Germans use poison gas on the Russians at Bolimov.
1915		German U-boats sink two British steamers in the English Channel.
1916		President Woodrow Wilson refuses the compromise on Lusitania reparations.
1917		Germany resumes unlimited sub warfare, warning that all neutral ships that are in the war zone will be attacked.
1935		The Soviet premier tells Japan to get out of Manchuria.
1943		The Battle of Stalingrad ends as small groups of German soldiers of the Sixth Army surrender to the victorious Red Army forces.
1944		U.S. troops under Vice Adm. Spruance land on Kwajalien atoll in the Marshall Islands.
1950		Paris protests the Soviet recognition of Ho Chi Minh‘s Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1966		U.S. planes resume bombing of North Vietnam after a 37-day pause.
1968		In Vietnam, the Tet Offensive begins as Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers attack strategic and civilian locations throughout South Vietnam.
1976		Ernesto Miranda, famous from the Supreme Court ruling on Miranda vs. Arizona is stabbed to death.
1981		Lech Walesa announces an accord in Poland, giving Saturdays off to laborers.

North Carolina's Voter ID Law Goes On Trial

North Carolina's Voter ID Law Goes On Trial

Superhero Cop Shows Us All What A Good Police Officer Looks Like

It’s not often that we see a story about a good police officer who goes above and beyond the call of duty, which is why this story is so awesome.

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800K Muslim Soldiers Served in WWI

800K Muslim Soldiers Served in WWI

Some 885,000 Muslim soldiers -- more than twice than previously thought -- supported Allied forces in World War I.

Back Brace Gets Steampunked

If you have to wear a post-surgical device, such as a cervical collar, the look at it not as a burden, but a chance to get creative! That's what Maddie did when she learned that she had to wear a back brace following surgery for a fractured T12 vertebrae. She and a friend used their theater design skills to make the brace into an elegant, steampunk-style accessory. You can see more photos at Epbot.

18 Pagan Masquerades from Europe

These aren't mutant ewoks. They're Kukeri--ceremonial protectors from Bulgaria who annually drive out evil spirits. On January 23, men don these elaborate, hairy costumes and set about the task of combating dark forces (note the red swords that look like light sabers) in order to protect the fertility of their towns.
The Kukeri are one of many wild men of Europe--old pagan shamanistic traditions that endure to this day. Photographer Charles Fréger, who previously showed us the painted elephants of India, explores this continent-wide tradition in his book Wilder Mann: The Image of the Savage. You can see photos of 18 of these wild men at Flashbak.

What Happens Inside Your Body When You Procrastinate

See What Happens Inside Your Body When You Procrastinate

Think your dilly-dallying is innocent? Here’s how it may kill you

The Healthiest Way to Sit in Your Car

Your car, like your office chair, is killing you. Here’s how to correct your posture and prevent pain and injury

Ayahuasca

Ayahuasca: The Shamanic Brew That Produces Out-Of-Body Experiences

Guess Which State Has the Most Dry Counties?

Guess Which State Has the Most Dry Counties? See Where Prohibition Never Ended in America (Map)

New York Wants to Turn off Niagara Falls

New York Wants to Turn off Niagara Falls

The New York State Office of Parks has proposed a plan to de-water the American side of the falls to replace a series of aging bridges.

Texas Grand Jury Indicts David Daleiden, Clears Planned Parenthood

TX Grand Jury Indicts David Daleiden, Clears Planned Parenthood

Texas Grand Jury Indicts David Daleiden, Clears Planned Parenthood

What a delicious outcome!

Judge grants Planned Parenthood class action status to challenge funding cut in Arkansas

The Flint Water Disaster Was No Accident

Paul Krugman: The Flint Water Disaster Was No Accident

7 Toxic Assaults on Communities of Color Besides Flint

7 Toxic Assaults on Communities of Color Besides Flint: The Dirty Racial Politics of Pollution

Quick Hits

‘Making A Murderer’ Prosecutor Ken Kratz Finds Sickening New Way To Profit From The Avery Case

This creep has no shame whatsoever.
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'Bloodshed' Predicted by Member of 'Christian Civil Liberties Union' Over New Mosque in Milwaukee

'Bloodshed' Predicted by Member of 'Christian Civil Liberties Union' Over New Mosque in Milwaukee

Wingnut Hears Tenant Speaking Arabic, What Happens Next Made Us Sick With Rage

Conservative Leader Hears Tenant Speaking Arabic, What Happens Next Made Us Sick With Rage (IMAGES)

Each moment you think: ‘It can’t get any worse’…and then it does.
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Congrats NRA: Man Who Shot Woman At Benghazi Movie Was ‘Afraid Of Mass Shootings’

This is what America’s gun culture has done to people.
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Four white Fox hacks argue America is racism free — and Danny DeVito is just too short to see it

Tennessee man screams racial slurs at post office supervisor and then beats her with a chair

Death of mentally ill inmate locked in hot shower until his skin fell off ruled accidental

Darren Rainey mugshot -- Miami- Dade Corrections

Death of mentally ill inmate locked in hot shower until his skin fell off ruled accidental

“Obviously his life was of no value because he was a black, poor, mentally disabled, a Muslim prisoner. The decision shows that black lives don’t matter.”

Metal 'Snow' May Power Earth's Magnetic Field

Metal 'Snow' May Power Earth's Magnetic Field

The power source for Earth's magnetic field may be magnesium that has been trapped in the core since our planet's violent birth.

America's Wild Horses Continue to Lose Habitat to Special Interest Groups

America's Wild Horses Continue to Lose Habitat to Special Interest Groups

Lost Sloth Tries To Cross The Road ...

Lost Sloth Tries To Cross The Road, Gets Stranded In The Most Adorable Way

Just How Smart is Koko the Gorilla?

Just How Smart is Koko the Gorilla?

Who learned American Sign Language, uses a mirror to groom herself, and has a fondness for kittens and people? Koko the gorilla! DNews gauges the smarts of this celebrity great ape.

Maru the Shiba Inu Prefers to Sleep With His Stuffed Polar Bear

Like many other animals, Maru, a Shiba Inu owned by Shinjiro Ono. has a favorite toy that comforts him to sleep. Maru's stuffed toy happens to be a round, roly poly polar bear, one whose body lines resemble his own. This pairing leads to adorable photos of Maru sleeping with his toy. The pictures have amassed a huge (2.3 million) following on Instagram.
Visit Maru's Instagram account to see more sweet photos of him with his little stuffed pal. For anyone who loves cute animal photos, it's a virtual jackpot.

Animal Pictures

Saturday, January 30, 2016

The Daily Drift

Welcome to Today's Edition of Carolina Naturally.

Hell, Yeah ..!

Carolina Naturally is read in 205 countries around the world daily.

Vache sacrée, un panier plein de croissants ... !

Today is - Croissant Day

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Argentina - Brazil - Canada - Chile - Colombia - Ecuador - Mexico - Nicaragua - Peru
Puerto Rico - United States
Europe
Austria - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bulgaria - England - Finland - France - Georgia - Germany
Italy - Jersey - Latvia - Netherlands - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Russia - Scotland Serbia - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Turkey - Ukraine - Wales
Asia
Azerbaijan - China - Hong Kong - India - Indonesia - Kazakhstan - Korea - Sri Lanka - Vietnam
Africa
Angola
The Pacific
New Zealand - Philippines

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Today in History

1649		Charles I of England is beheaded at Whitehall by the executioner Richard Brandon.
1844		Richard Theodore Greener becomes the first African American to graduate from Harvard University.
1862		The USS Monitor is launched at Greenpoint, Long Island.
1901		Women Prohibitionists smash 12 saloons in Kansas.
1912		The British House of Lords opposes the House of Commons by rejecting home rule for Ireland.
1931		The United States awards civil government to the Virgin Islands.
1933		Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor by President Paul Hindenburg.
1936		Governor Harold Hoffman orders a new inquiry into the Lindbergh kidnapping.
1943		Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus surrenders himself and his staff to Red Army troops in Stalingrad.
1945		The Allies launch a drive on the Siegfried line in Germany.
1949		In India, 100,000 people pray at the site of Gandhi’s assassination on the first anniversary of his death.
1953		President Dwight Eisenhower announces that he will pull the Seventh Fleet out of Formosa to permit the Nationalists to attack Communist China.
1964		The Ranger spacecraft, equipped with six TV cameras, is launched to the moon from Cape Canaveral.
1972		British troops shoot dead 14 Irish civilians in Derry, Ireland. The day is forever remembered in Ireland as ‘Bloody Sunday.’
1976		The U.S. Supreme Court bans spending limits in campaigns, equating funds with freedom of speech.
1980		The first-ever Chinese Olympic team arrives in New York for the Winter Games at Lake Placid.

This man found Atlantis ...

... In Sweden

Here's an interesting biography of Olof Rudbeck, a seventeenth-century physician in Sweden. He was undoubtedly a brilliant man and one of the discoverers of the existence of the lymphatic system. The book focuses on his forays into archaeology and ancient history. He became convinced that the area of Old Uppsala was the location of the fabled Atlantis.

Between 1679 and 1702, Rudbeck dedicated himself to contributions in historical-linguistics patriotism, writing a 3,000-page treatise in four volumes called Atlantica (Atland eller Manheim in Swedish) where he purported to prove that Sweden was Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and Swedish the original language of Adam from which Latin and Hebrew had evolved. His work was criticized by several Scandinavian authors, including the Danish professor Ludvig Holberg, and the Swedish author and physician Andreas Kempe, both of whom wrote satires based on Rudbeck's writings. His work was later used by Denis Diderot in the article "Etymologie" in Encyclopédie as a cautionary example of deceptive linking of etymology with mythical history.

It is an interesting book and would be an enjoyable read for those with a prior interest in archaeology, history, or Sweden.
Rudbeck has, however, left us one lasting legacy. Linnaeus applied the name Rudbeckia to a genus of sunflowers, in honor of his botany teacher at Uppsala (Olof's son).

Yes, This Is a Real Hood Ornament

The French carmaker Citroën was named after its founder, André-Gustave Citroën. But it's pretty close to citron, which is the French word for "lemon." This custom hood ornament up for auction by Bonhams was made in 1923. It shows a Citroen 5CV Torpedo erupting out of a lemon.

Which Came First: The Product or the Egg?

Many of the internet generation look back at the iconic L’eggs package -the egg- nostalgically as a toy discarded by their mothers. The introduction of L’eggs in 1971 was much more than that. It was revolutionary. My first experience with sheer stockings involved a grown-up lesson in garter belts, which brought their own kind of pain, plus it was extremely difficult to find stockings that fit properly. When the stretchy, form-fitting, mass consumer pantyhose were introduced, we cared less for the packaging than the product. Yet the packaging was brilliant, and we’ll never forget it. For that, we can thank graphic designer Roger Ferriter.

The anecdote describes a flustered Ferriter who, on the morning of his marketing and package design pitch to Hanes, decided his current scheme wasn’t quite creative enough. Ferriter, hoping to be inspired by the product by experiencing it in a new way, tested pantyhose’s compactness by scrunching them up in the palm of his hand. Upon considering the wad of hose in his clenched fist, Ferriter was struck by the idea that the package should resemble an egg, “nature’s perfect package, a symbol of newness and freshness,” which, pun-ily enough, happens to rhyme with “leg.” He added an apostrophe for a “touch of French flair” and this jeu de mots gave rise to one of the most iconic brand logos and package designs to grace grocery shelves in the twentieth century.

It wasn’t only the design, but the marketing behind it that also helped L’eggs become a sensation. Read about the genius that went into L’eggs at Cooper Hewitt.

Bakery's 'best buns in town' uniform withdrawn following controversy

Brumby's Bakery in Australia have withdrawn a controversial staff uniform due to an employee backlash. The bakery chain had sent out t-shirts with the slogan "we've got the best buns in town" plastered across the front for staff to wear while working.

It sparked outrage, with 16-year-old Jess saying she worked at one of bakeries and felt "uncomfortable" about the shirt. Her father Colin was furious about it. "Young girls aren't pieces of meat behind a counter," he said. "It's totally inappropriate." Brumby's head office have since released a statement, saying it had recalled the t-shirts, due to be worn from February 1, and apologized for any offense.

"After receiving feedback from the community that the inclusion of the campaign slogan on t-shirts intended to be worn by team members throughout the campaign has made some team members feel uncomfortable, Brumby's has made the decision to remove this item from the promotion to avoid unfortunate misinterpretation of our promise for high quality handcrafted Hot Cross Buns," the statement read.
"Brumby's apologizes to the community and any of its team members who felt uncomfortable with the promotional t-shirt. The campaign slogan will continue to be used through our Easter promotion, as Brumby's bakers do make the best Hot Cross Buns in town."
There's a news video here.

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Someone seriously needs to get a life here - the bakery sells buns - if you read something else into the slogan you're the one with the problem