CAROLINA NATURALLY: 10/01/2016

Monday, October 31, 2016

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Today in History

1517		Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the door of the cult at Wittenberg in Germany. Luther’s theories and writings inaugurate Protestantism, shattering the external structure of the medieval church and at the same time reviving the religious consciousness of Europe.
1803		Congress ratifies the purchase of the entire Louisiana area in North America, adding territory to the U.S. which will eventually become 13 more states.
1838		A mob of about 200 attacks a Mormon camp in Missouri, killing 20 men, women and children.
1864		Nevada becomes the 36th state.
1941		After 14 years of work, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial is completed.
1952		The United States explodes the first hydrogen bomb at Enewetok Atoll in the Pacific.
1968		The bombing of North Vietnam is halted by the United States.
1971		Saigon begins the release of 1,938 Hanoi POW’s.
1984		Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated in New Delhi by two Sikh members of her bodyguard.
1998		Iraq announces it will no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
1999		EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into Atlantic Ocean killing all 217 people on board.
2000		Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station.
2002		Former Enron Corp. CEO Andrew Fastow is convicted on 78 counts of conspiracy, money laundering, obstruction of justice and wire fraud; the Enron collapse cost investors millions and led to new oversight legislation.

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Naturists object to plans for new flats because 'residents could see them naked'

Naturists in Warlingham, Surrey, fear plans to build flats next to their property could result in residents being able to see into their club. An application was submitted on September 2 by Aventier Landbank Ltd to demolish the existing properties at 12 to 18 Southview Road and replace them with five buildings, comprised of a total of 24 flats. However, neighboring naturist group The White House Club is concerned the development would mean people could see their naked bodies from the windows of the flats.

The club, which was established in 1933 and has members aged from two to 80, hopes its privacy will be maintained. An application had already been put in to erect dwellings with 36 flats but this was rejected by Tandridge District Council. The club had previously negotiated that any buildings erected nearby would be put up under the condition they do not overlook the naturist club. Club chairman Val Humfress said: "The council has generally been good with us in the past [in regards to privacy].
"Recently they rejected an application to build a block of 36 flats. Aventier Landbank have since come back and wanted to make it 24 flats instead. We are particularly worried of the flats overlooking our tennis courts and the table tennis area but there are also a few other places on the grounds where people could look right through. There is a concern for everyone about privacy." Nick Mayhew-Smith, a 48-year-old naturist from South Wimbledon, who has attended the club for about 20 years, is as concerned about the greenery and wildlife that could be destroyed as about the privacy issues.

"That side of the valley is already quite a green corridor of lots of gardens and a low density property of development. I was in the club recently and I saw a deer roaming around on the edge of the grounds, in the corner, where these flats are going to be put and I think that kind of wildlife and landscape should be preserved and not just concreted over," he said. Mr Mayhew-Smith added that when the club was first created it was not surrounded by housing and they want it to stay that way. "No one in their right mind would choose to build a naturist club next to a high density set of housing blocks and I think that's a courtesy that ought to go both ways."

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Has Anyone Ever Actually Poisoned or Put Razors in Halloween Candy?

My mother never checked my Halloween candy when I was a kid, but that was years before the Halloween candy tampering panic. We picked up homemade treats at quite a few homes. I always checked my kids' trick-or-treat bounty -and confiscate all the Almond Joys. They handed over any dark chocolate automatically.

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Daven Hiskey of Today I Found Out explains why parents are so worried about candy tampering. Reports of poisoned Halloween candy turn out to be hoaxes, accidents, or in one horrific case, a parent murdering his own children. Just as in murder, rape, and theft, you're in more danger from family and friends than from strangers.

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Women are harmed when sexual assault is called ‘locker room talk’

Professor accuses Latina student of plagiarism because she used the word 'hence' in essay

Professor accuses Latina student of plagiarism because she used the word 'hence' in essay, student claims

The professor handed the paper back to sociology major Tiffany Martínez and said in front of an entire classroom full of students, “This is not your language.”

Police officer issued himself a ticket for running a red light

It’s Officer Tim Glover's job to review red light camera footage for Haines City Police Department in Florida. While doing so, he realized he was one of the people who’d run a red light. On his way to lunch on Sept. 8. he was making a left turn when the light changed to red, and the car he usually drives to enforce the law became the one he was in while breaking it.
Glover didn’t even know what he’d done until the footage came up on his computer about two weeks after the infraction. “Realized that the vehicle did look familiar, and I was hoping it wasn't mine, but I walked out and confirmed it was mine out here in the parking lot,” he said. Glover could've covered it up, but he turned himself in to his boss, who wrote him a ticket.
“I've always been taught that if you've done something wrong, to take responsibility for what you've done and accept your punishment,” Glover said. “In this part, it was paying the fine and getting my letter of reprimand.” Glover wants people to know most police officers are honest and do the right thing, and they're willing to pay the price if they make a mistake on a lunch break.

“It was a good sandwich, but it probably wasn't worth the 160-plus dollars I ended up paying for it,” he joked. After getting caught red-handed, Glover said he's going to make sure it doesn't happen again. Even though he did get a letter of reprimand, Acting Police Chief Jay Hopwood praised him for his honesty and integrity. “That’s what makes wearing the badge so important,” he said. “If you don’t have that, then your name is mud in law enforcement.”

Half-naked woman wearing clown make-up and stocking cap arrested for drunkenly chasing cars

A woman who was described by witnesses as nude or partially nude and wearing clown makeup was arrested for allegedly chasing cars in traffic. According to an arrest warrant, callers said they saw a woman in clown make-up and a stocking cap who was either partially or completely nude running up and down a road in Clarksville, Tennessee. They said she appeared to be chasing cars and jumping in front of other vehicles.
While officers were headed to the location, there were four calls to 911 from a woman who berated, threatened, and cursed the dispatchers. Police determined these calls came from the suspect’s phone. When police arrived at her home, they found her in a sports bra, pajama pants, and a stocking cap. Police said her face and body were covered in what could be described as clown make-up.
She was also holding and drinking a beer and smelled of alcohol. The woman, identified as 37-year-old Candice Kreidel, admitted to making the phone calls. The warrant says that at first she denied running in traffic, but later admitted that she had. Kreidel was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, public intoxication, and making non-emergency 911 calls. Her bond was set at $1,500.

Jail for man who attacked elderly lady and her little dog while naked

A distinctive looking man who was naked when he violently attacked a 75-year-old woman and her little dog while they were out for a walk in Irvine, California, has been jailed, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office reported on Friday.Craig Andrew Ledbetter, 52, was sentenced to 10 years in state prison after he pled guilty to one felony count of attempted murder, one felony count of elder and dependent adult abuse, one misdemeanor count of animal cruelty, one misdemeanor count of resisting and obstructing an officer and sentencing enhancements for great bodily injury.
According to police, on the afternoon of Sept. 29, 2015, Sara Hurtado was walking her small dog in Irvine when Ledbetter screamed at her and pushed her to the ground. Ledbetter got on top of Hurtado and punched her in the face and chest, and repeatedly kicked her in the head, prosecutors said. Ledbetter then attacked Hurtado’s dog, grabbing the dog’s leash and swinging the dog over his shoulder.
Witnesses called 911 and officers from the Irvine Police Department responded to the scene. Ledbetter resisted officers, but was subsequently arrested after officer used a Taser to take him into custody. Hurtado suffered several injuries including bleeding in the brain, a dislocated arm and eye injuries. The dog was not injured in the attack. Police said Ledbetter and Hurtado did not appear to have known each other. A motive for the assault was unknown.

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Today in History

1270		The Seventh Invasion ends by the Treaty of Barbary.
1485		Henry VII of England crowned.
1697		The Treaty of Ryswick ends the war between France and the Grand Alliance.
1838		Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Lorain County, Ohio becomes the first college in the U.S. to admit female students.
1899		Two battalions of British troops are cut off, surrounded and forced to surrender to General Petrus Joubert’s Boers at Nicholson’s Nek.
1905		The czar of Russia issues the October Manifesto, granting civil liberties and elections in an attempt to avert the burgeoning support for revolution.
1918		The Italians capture Vittorio Veneto and rout the Austro-Hungarian army.
1918		Turkey signs an armistice with the Allies, agreeing to end hostilities at noon, October 31.
1922		Mussolini sends his black shirts into Rome. The Fascist takeover is almost without bloodshed. The next day, Mussolini is made prime minister. He centralizes all power in himself as leader of the Fascist party and attempts to create an Italian empire, ultimately in alliance with Hitler‘s Germany.
1925		Scotsman John L. Baird performs first TV broadcast of moving objects.
1938		H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds is broadcast over the radio by Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre. Many panic believing it is an actual newscast about a Martian invasion.
1941		The U.S. destroyer Reuben James, on convoy duty off Iceland, is sunk by a German U-boat with the loss of 96 Americans.
1950		The First Marine Division is ordered to replace the entire South Korean I Corps at the Chosin Reservoir area.
1953		US Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves a top secret document to maintain and expand the country’s nuclear arsenal.
1961		The USSR detonates “Tsar Bomba,” a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb; it is still (2016) the largest explosive device of any kind over detonated.
1965		US Marines repel multiple-wave attacks by Viet Cong within a few miles of Da Nang where the Marines are based; a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old boy who had been selling the Americans drinks the previous day.
1973		The Bosphorus Bridge is completed at Istanbul, Turkey, connecting Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus Strait.
1974		The “Rumble in the Jungle,” a boxing match in Zaire that many regard as the greatest sporting event of the 20th century, takes place; challenger Muhammad Ali knocks out previously undefeated World Heavyweight Champion George Foreman.
1975		Prince Juan Carlos becomes acting head of state in Spain, replacing the ailing dictator Gen. Francisco Franco.
1985		The Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for its final successful mission.
1991		BET Holdings Inc., becomes the first African-American company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
2005		The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (Cult of Our Lady) that was destroyed during the firebombing of Dresden in WWII is rededicated.

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The Colonel's Nephew "Accidentally" Revealed KFC's Secret Recipe

KFC has been crowing about their secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices for decades, and the few people who claim they found the secret recipe later recanted when KFC threatened to press charges.
But those recipe releasers weren't related to the Colonel, so would KFC's reaction change if the person who posts the "secret recipe" is Colonel Sanders' nephew?
The Colonel's nephew Joe Ledington found out when he "accidentally" revealed what looks like the KFC secret recipe while sharing pics from an old family scrapbook with the Chicago Tribune.
The 11 spices in the secret recipe were hand-written on the back of the last will and testament of Joe's aunt, and in case you haven't seen the recipe here it is:

Apparently the mighty chicken lawyers got to Joe too, because he said "That is the original 11 herbs and spices that were supposed to be so secretive" but later recanted his statement.
The Tribune kitchen tested the recipe and this is what they found:

...tasters agreed the test kitchen fried chicken was even better than the Colonel's," wrote Joe Gray. And when the test kitchen added some MSG to that blend of 11 herbs and spices, they had an identical match on their hands. Which I guess means that the handwritten recipe on Ledington's aunt's will isn't "accurate" but it's pretty much there.

About Those Witches and Their Broomsticks

First off, while this video may be technically SFW, it is not for children. We know that witches were depicted as riding broomsticks as far back as the year 1451. Daven Hiskey from Today I Found Out goes a little further into the reason some women took such pleasure in riding a broom stick. Yes, it was the drugs.

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In days of yore, women who would never be afforded the honor of being called a scientist or a physician learned what plants could heal, kill, or get one high. Many of these plants were later associated with witchcraft because they could easily cause death. But in the hands of someone armed with the ancient knowledge passed down to them, they could be a mind-expanding trip. It's strange to think of this parallel world where highly respected men were sponsored by kings and nobles to experiment with turning ordinary substances into gold, while more secretive folk were performing real magic with herbs and flowers.

The Pseudoscientific History of Ghost Hunting Gadgets

Paranormal investigation has gone hi-tech in the 21st century. Ghost hunters are equipped with machinery that can register and record vibrations, electromagnetic disturbances, and sounds below the threshold of human perception. But they aren't the first generation to use machinery to detect or communicate with the dead. The rise in communications breakthroughs came about the same time as the rise in spiritualism, and it's no wonder that people thought new technologies like photography, electricity, and recorded sound could open a door between the visible world and the afterlife.

"All this new technology seemed very mysterious and magical to the general public," said Benjamin Radford, deputy editor of Skeptical Inquiry. "To many people it was plausible that someone could invent a telephone to the dead."

According to Radford, all these gadgets and all this talk about energy got mixed together and altered people's perception of ghosts. The SPR started using tools to try to quantify phenomena. Before the advent of psychical research, ghosts were Dickensian specters, shackled and moaning. By the 20th century, ghosts became energy, a blip on a machine.

Read about the rise of paranormal investigation gadgets, including a ghost hunting teddy bear, at Popular Mechanics.

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Woman claims man dressed like an Arab held a gun to her head and forced her to take a ‘kill pill’

A Florida woman says a man “dressed like an Arab” woke her up on Monday night, held a gun to her head at her boyfriend’s Marathon home and forced her to take a “kill pill.” But her boyfriend told Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies no one entered the house. In addition to saying that the “Arab” man forced her to take the pill, Kristin Rutan Skivers, 30, told deputies her boyfriend fought with him and chased him out of the house. She told deputies her boyfriend told her to drink milk to try to make herself throw up.
She then went to a neighbor’s house asking to be taken to Fishermen’s Community Hospital. That’s where Deputy Deobrash Johnson found and questioned her. Deputies asked her repeatedly if she was sure she was attacked and if she was taking medication that might cause her to have a vivid dream. She insisted the story was true, Deputy Becky Herrin said.
Back at the house, Sgt. Nick Whiteman and Deputy Annette Simo spoke to Skivers’ boyfriend, who said the two of them were sleeping when Skivers woke up and asked him to take her to the hospital. He told her no and went back to sleep. That’s when she went to the neighbor’s house. Skivers was booked into jail on a misdemeanor charge of filing a false police report.

Police search for whoever broke into doctor's office and performed a medical procedure

Police in Bath Township, Ohio, are investigating an unusual break-in at a local doctor's office. But whoever broke in didn't take anything. What they did do, according to police, was perform some sort of medical procedure. Bath Township police chief Mike McNeely said he's never seen a case quite this bizarre.

It leaves a lot of unanswered questions, including who is the suspect and the patient? "Really have no idea and that's what we're trying to get to the bottom of," McNeely said. Police took photographs of machines and other medical equipment that was apparently used during a medical procedure at University Hospitals Ghent Family Practice. Instruments were left in bowls. A surgical glove was tossed in the trash, along with medication wrappings. Even a purple gown was left on a table.

"It's very bizarre because I've never seen anybody break into a place to perform a medical procedure," said McNeely. Based on the machines and instruments used, Chief McNeely believes the procedure was performed on an ear. He says whoever broke in disabled an alarm on Oct. 10 or Oct. 11. None of the employees were at the practice during that time-frame, police were told. "You would certainly be concerned about the person the procedure was performed on," said McNeely.

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"Were there sterile instruments used? Was it performed properly?" Police say, at the least, the crime was breaking and entering, but more charges could be filed is suspects are identified. "I would assume that there's some some type of charge out there for performing a medical operation by an unlicensed person, but that's beyond what we're looking at right now, McNeely said. "We're just trying to determine who the suspect is."

Man arrested on suspicion of hoarding 300 tons of carrots

A Taiwanese man has been arrested on suspicion of hoarding 300 tonnes of carrots in what authorities believe was an attempt to manipulate prices. Investigators in the southern city of Kaohsiung, acting on a tip, found cartons of carrots grown in Taiwan at a cold storage warehouse on Wednesday. They have been investigating high fruit and vegetable prices since Typhoon Meranti battered the country last month. The alleged hoarder, whose surname was given as Chiang, was taken into custody and later released on NT$100,000 (£2,600, $3,150) bail, according to prosecutors.
“The typhoons passed quite some time ago, but prices of vegetables, fruit and other agricultural products have yet to fall,” they said in a statement. “We suspect it is due to manipulation, affecting the interests of the people.” Investigations into other potential market manipulation will continue. Chiang, a produce vendor, denied the accusations.
He said that he annually buys about 1,500 tonnes of carrots in February and March to be sold throughout the year. Chiang described the remaining 300 tonnes as a small amount that should not be considered hoarding. Last week, Taiwan’s agricultural council said it had ordered farmers’ groups to increase imports and release more supplies into the market to help stabilize prices.

Sibling dispute ended with sister covered in butter and crab juice

A brother and sister from Florida got into a dispute earlier this month that ended with the sister covered in butter and crab juice, and her brother behind bars. Arthur Toothill, 24, got into an argument with his sister at a Vero Beach-area home at 2:39pm on Oct. 17 over her allegedly owing him money.
Police said Toothill told them that during the argument he tossed a tray of food that landed on himself and his sister. Toothill’s sister disagreed, telling police that he “pushed her on a couch, threw food at her and hit her in the chest with a shirt.”
Police said the sister had butter on her upper body and a mark on her chest and neck from where Toothill hit her with the shirt. A witness told police that Toothill also threw a tray with crab juice on it at his sister’s face. He was arrested on a domestic battery charge.

Woman named Peck allegedly threatened man with her parrot

A Florida woman was arrested on Tuesday after she forced her way into an apartment, attacked the resident and threatened to have her macaw parrot “get him,” according to a police report.Mary Grace Peck, 50, from Boca Raton, is facing charges of burglary with assault or battery and battery. The dispute began in an apartment building. Peck allegedly got in an elevator with the 54-year-old man and began yelling obscenities at him.
Peck followed the man out of the elevator and into his apartment before he had a chance to close the door, the report said. After several requests, Peck left but then forced her way back into the apartment again after the victim began recording her on his cell phone. A Boca Raton police officer watched the video and saw Peck kick the man’s door and strike him on the hand.
“In addition, (Peck) was telling her (macaw) parrot to get him,” a Boca Raton officer wrote in the report. The man told police he hit the woman on the lip in order to get her to stop the attack. Peck told police she didn’t recall the incident when they went to her home. She is being held at the Palm Beach County Jail in lieu of $16,000 bail.

Man claims his squirrel sanctuary was shut down because he also runs a swingers club

Kendall Seifert’s chief passions in life are squirrels and swingers. For the last few years he has maintained this unusual combination of interests, protecting the former while promoting the latter, running a wildlife rescue center and a swingers club in Colorado – on the same premises. Or he did. Seifert, 53, is due up in court on felony charges in November after the state raided his business in Littleton, near Denver, and put a stop to the controversial side of his activities. That would be squirrel rescue. His animal sanctuary has been shut down. His swingers club, Scarlet Ranch, is still going. Seifert maintains that all his interests are entirely legal and above board. “I’m going to fight this,” he said of the criminal case against his animal sanctuary. He claims the state raided the center, Squirrel Creek Wildlife Rescue, because it doesn’t like the fact that he owns a swingers club alongside.
And he argues that the main effect the state’s actions have had is to send a trail of orphaned and injured animals to a dwindling number of other rescue centers that are already under strain and coping with a seasonal influx of baby squirrels. Other distressed and wandering wildlife that have had to find alternative places of solace include raccoons, foxes, song birds, coyotes, skunks and rabbits. But the Colorado parks and wildlife government agency filed 21 criminal charges and refused to renew Seifert’s animal rehabilitation license, accusing him of keeping rescued animals for too long and violating regulations by putting them on display. The charges also include an attempt to bribe a public officer and the illegal transportation of wildlife. In one part of the premises, a bar area at Scarlet Ranch backs directly on to animal cages.

Seifert said he doesn’t keep animals in the cages while the club is operating, however - and creatures of the night, whether raccoons or raunchy dancers, are kept at a safe distance from each other. “There was no cruelty to the animals. The only cruelty was officers coming in with guns and raiding Squirrel Creek,” said Seifert. He said he isn’t a swinger himself but believes that society should be more open to the idea of sex parties and sexual experimentation. He has owned Scarlet Ranch for 15 years and runs indoor and outdoor adult nudist gatherings, foam cannon parties, a restaurant, themed events, and open “play” areas and “play rooms” at the basement level where consenting club members are free to indulge their carnal desires. “I think it’s important to broaden some of the puritanical views in our country and be more open about sex and sexuality. But it’s not a free-for-all, it’s a private country club,” he said. “I used to be a lot more outspoken about all of that activism in the past, and it’s a great confidence-builder for the over-40s, but lately I’ve changed my interests more to rescuing wildlife,” he said.

Seifert said he wants to educate people about wildlife and is particularly against the trophy aspect of hunting, when people kill the largest bears and mountain lions they can find. “I want the next generation to learn about cohabitation with wildlife, not going out shooting everything,” he said. Colorado parks and wildlife spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said the agency could not comment on Seifert’s case, but it did take its job of regulating wildlife rehab seriously. “Our wild animals make their living by being wild and retaining their natural instincts on how to survive in the wild. So it’s very important that we don’t have people keeping animals too long and turning them into pets,” she said. Bob Nightwalker, an animal rehabilitation expert, said he was shocked when Squirrel Creek was shut down. He said he didn’t want to comment on the criminal charges facing Seifert, and had not seen his facilities, but that he had not been aware of any license violations. He and Squirrel Creek had often sent each other animals if they were full up, he said. He added that he didn't mind that Seifert’s rescue center premises doubled as a swingers club.

A Wine and Bug Tasting Event

What wine goes best with crickets? How about silkworms? Folks in California found out at two events called Scary Delicious, where many types of both wine and edible insects were served. The tasting were hosted by Aly Moore of Bugible, a website devoted to promoting edible insects, and Michael Consbruck of V Wine Room in West Hollywood. Check out the menu:

• Four Brix Baubles with Protein Bars and Whole Roasted Crickets
• Sforzando Sauvignon Blanc with grasshoppers and Queen Weaver Ants
• Trinitas Chardonnay with cheddar-smoked paprika roasted cricket popcorn and New Mexico red chili popcorn with lime zest and whole roasted crickets
• Pinot Noir with honey mustard crickets and BBQ mealworms
• Alma Sol Zinfandel with dark chocolate-covered crickets and silkworm pupae
• Sforzando Cabernet Franc with whole Thai june bugs

Read about the first event at Treehugger.

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