Everybody wants to rule the world, but it comes at a cost: your health.
An Ohio seventh-grader is accused of
threatening to shoot a Muslim classmate he called a terrorist and a
“towel head.”
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Black Sam’s Club CEO Calls For More Diversity, Enraged White People Go BALLISTIC
Wingnuts are FURIOUS that a “racist” black female CEO promoted
diversity in hiring — and they are willing to be total racists to prove
it!12-year-old girl charged after being stopped for speeding
"We are, I suppose, outraged really that people would let a child in the car." The girl has been charged and granted bail for false name and driving offenses, police said. "That vehicle was intercepted and the driver gave some details that didn't seem right to the police officer," Sergeant Summers said.
"When [the officer] intercepted the vehicle she gave details that indicated she was 16, he then took her to town and found out she was in fact 12. This is a terrible example of a flagrant disregard for safety not only of the driver, but all other road users."
The mystery of a bright green pond in Farmington has been solved
The mystery of a bright green pond in Farmington, Utah, has been solved.
The Environmental Protection Agency had closed off Farmington Pond aa there was a concern over toxic chemicals.
They're saying someone dumped a 5 gallon bucket of non-toxic dye.
There is no danger to humans or wildlife.
Now the Davis County Sheriff’s Department wants to find out who did it.
In a statement they said:
"The Davis County Environmental Health Department, Farmington Fire and
Farmington PD have responded to the Farmington Pond on reports that the
water appears to be green in color.
"The Environmental Health Department has run several tests on the water and determined it to be inert, non-toxic dye that was placed in the water. The event is being investigated as a criminal mischief type prank. The Farmington Pond is a non-drinking water source that runs down into Farmington Bay.
"The water's PH levels are normal and will not harm any wildlife.
Initial tests reveal this is the same type of dye that is used to check
water flow and is environmentally safe. The only issue is that it will
look green for a couple of days, but is not harmful to humans or the
environment."
"The Environmental Health Department has run several tests on the water and determined it to be inert, non-toxic dye that was placed in the water. The event is being investigated as a criminal mischief type prank. The Farmington Pond is a non-drinking water source that runs down into Farmington Bay.
Charging for Air
A restaurant in eastern China has been caught charging customers an "air cleaning fee" on top of their food bills.
Diners at the eatery in Zhangjiagang city, Jiangsu Province, were
charged one yuan (10p, $0.15) each to cover the cost of purifying the
air inside.
Cities in the region have been enveloped in thick smog in recent weeks, with visibility of less than 100m in the worst-hit areas. The restaurant's owners recently purchased an air filtration system to improve the dining experience, and covered the cost by passing it on to customers without prior warning.
But after complaints from angry patrons, the local government intervened to stop the practice, telling the owners that it constituted an illegal charge. A city official said that it wasn't the diners' choice to breathe filtered air, so it could not be sold as a commodity.
Cities in the region have been enveloped in thick smog in recent weeks, with visibility of less than 100m in the worst-hit areas. The restaurant's owners recently purchased an air filtration system to improve the dining experience, and covered the cost by passing it on to customers without prior warning.
But after complaints from angry patrons, the local government intervened to stop the practice, telling the owners that it constituted an illegal charge. A city official said that it wasn't the diners' choice to breathe filtered air, so it could not be sold as a commodity.
Neon & Lightning
Electricity can travel from ground-to-cloud, too -- and the effects can be damaging.
They might not combine with other elements, but noble gases are always on the move.
Spinning Arsenic
Traces of the toxic element are floating across the ocean and getting into the ice.
Melting ice triggered by global warming may make Earth whirl faster than before.
Some protostars shoot out water
This report from National Geographic dates back to 2011, but I just heard about it this week on a podcast of NSTAAF. I think it's worth sharing just for the jaw-dropping numbers.
Seven hundred and fifty light-years from Earth, a young, sunlike star has been found with jets that blast epic quantities of water into interstellar space, shooting out droplets that move faster than a speeding bullet.
The discovery suggests that protostars may be seeding the universe with water. These stellar embryos shoot jets of material from their north and south poles as their growth is fed by infalling dust that circles the bodies in vast disks.
"If we picture these jets as giant hoses and the water droplets as bullets, the amount shooting out equals a hundred million times the water flowing through the Amazon River every second," said Lars Kristensen, a postdoctoral astronomer at Leiden University in the Netherlands...
After tracing the paths of these atoms, the team concluded that water forms on the star, where temperatures are a few thousand degrees Celsius. But once the droplets enter the outward-spewing jets of gas, 180,000-degree-Fahrenheit (100,000-degree-Celsius) temperatures blast the water back into gaseous form.
Once the hot gases hit the much cooler surrounding material—at about 5,000 times the distance from the sun to Earth—they decelerate, creating a shock front where the gases cool down rapidly, condense, and reform as water, Kristensen said.
Helping others dampens the effects of everyday stress
Kindness, Charitable Behavior Influenced by Amygdala
Humans Evolved To Get Better Sleep In Less Time
Chitchat and small talk could serve an evolutionary need to bond with others
We think of chitchat and small talk as the things people say to pass the
time or kill an awkward silence. New research suggests, however, that
these idle conversations could be a social-bonding tool passed down from
primates. Princeton University researchers report in...
Spaniel-Size Triceratops Cousin Walked on Hind Legs
The find reveals that Late Jurassic horned dinosaurs were much more diverse than previously thought.
Algae Toxin Causing Alzheimer's-Like Condition in Sea Lions
Brain scans of stranded marine mammals reveals they were
suffering from an Alzheimer’s-like condition caused by toxic algal
blooms.
Friday, December 18, 2015
The Daily Drift
Hello Carolina Naturally readers to today's edition.
You may not have noticed, because we work hard not to miss our publication schedule, but the Holiday Season has already impacted our schedule.
All the parties and dinners have us booked solid for the season - with still more late invitations arriving daily. The intensity will only increase over the next two weeks.
On top of all the parties thrown by others we are in the midst of organizing our annual New Year's Eve Bash (granted it is an annual event so a lot of the major details are already in place and ongoing from years past ... it is the little details that are forever causing consternation - as always).
Wonder if this is the year we set the party record for most PhDs, MDs, DDs in the same room -
Hopefully we will be able to maintain our schedule throughout the holidays, but it looks like tomorrow's schedule is blown all ready ... we will see how the day plays out.
Our eighteenth Xmas Tree of the month ...!
Je Suis, Underdog ... !
You may not have noticed, because we work hard not to miss our publication schedule, but the Holiday Season has already impacted our schedule.
All the parties and dinners have us booked solid for the season - with still more late invitations arriving daily. The intensity will only increase over the next two weeks.
On top of all the parties thrown by others we are in the midst of organizing our annual New Year's Eve Bash (granted it is an annual event so a lot of the major details are already in place and ongoing from years past ... it is the little details that are forever causing consternation - as always).
Wonder if this is the year we set the party record for most PhDs, MDs, DDs in the same room -
Hopefully we will be able to maintain our schedule throughout the holidays, but it looks like tomorrow's schedule is blown all ready ... we will see how the day plays out.
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Today in History
| 1118 | Afonso the Battler, the King of Aragon captures Saragossa, Spain, causing a major blow to Muslim Spain. | |
| 1812 | Napoleon Bonaparte arrives in Paris after his disastrous campaign in Russia. | |
| 1862 | Nathan Bedford Forrest engages and defeats a Federal cavalry force near Lexington in his continued effort to disrupt supply lines. | |
| 1862 | Union General Ulysses S. Grant announces the organization of his army in the West. Sherman, Hurlbut, McPherson, and McClernand are to be corps commanders. | |
| 1865 | Slavery is abolished in the United States. The 13th Amendment is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution, ensuring that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude… shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." | |
| 1915 | In a single night, about 20,000 Australian and New Zealand troops withdraw from Gallipoli, Turkey, undetected by the Turks defending the peninsula. | |
| 1916 | The Battle of Verdun ends with the French and Germans each having suffered more than 330,000 killed and wounded in 10 months. It was the longest engagement of World War I. | |
| 1925 | Soviet leaders Lev Kamenev and Grigori Zinoviev break with Joseph Stalin. | |
| 1940 | Adolf Hitler issues his secret plans for the invasion of the Soviet Union–Operation Barbarossa. | |
| 1941 | Defended by 610 fighting men, the American-held island of Guam falls to more than 5,000 Japanese invaders in a three-hour battle. | |
| 1941 | Japan invades Hong Kong. | |
| 1942 | Adolf Hitler meets with Benito Mussolini and Pierre Laval. | |
| 1944 | Japanese forces are repelled from northern Burma by British troops. | |
| 1951 | North Koreans give the United Nations a list of 3,100 POWs. | |
| 1956 | Japan is admitted to the United Nations. | |
| 1960 | A rightist government is installed under Prince Boun Oum in Laos as the United States resumes arms shipments. | |
| 1965 | U.S. Marines attack VC units in the Que Son Valley during Operation Harvest Moon. | |
| 1970 | An atomic leak in Nevada forces hundreds of citizens to flee the test site. | |
| 1972 | President Richard M. Nixon declares that the bombing of North Vietnam will continue until an accord can be reached (Operation Linebacker II). | |
| 1989 | The European Economic Community and the Soviet Union sign an agreement on trade and economic communication. | |
| 2002 | California Gov. Gray Davis announces the state faces a record budget deficit; the looming $35 billion shortfall is almost double the amount reported a month earlier during the state’s gubernatorial campaign. | |
| 2005 | Civil war begins in Chad with an rebel assault on in Adre; the rebels are believed to be backed by Chad’s neighbor, The Sudan. | |
| 2008 | United Arab Emirates holds it first-ever elections. | |
| 2010 | In an opening act of Arab Spring, anti-government protests erupt in Tunisia. |
'We've Forgotten How to Laugh'
Interview by Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Christoph Scheuermann
Tuvalu Prime Minister on Global Warming A Cry for Help from 'the Edge of the Cliff'
The Pacific atoll of Tuvalu is one of the countries most threatened
by global warming. Already, people have begun leaving as sea levels
rise. Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga fears that the world still doesn't
care about the world's most threatened populations. More...
Distracted lady drove her car up utility pole
A woman traveling along a street in Youngstown, Ohio, ended up driving her car up a guide wire to a utility pole.
The driver, Amber Johnson, said she turned around for a second to give her 2-year-old child a snack and hit the wire. The car went up the guide wire, resting vertically.
“My first thought was him, so I jumped straight out,” she said. “I just opened the door, jumped straight out, ran to the back, made sure he was okay. He was a bit shaken up, but he was okay overall.”
Ms Johnson, 30, was able to exit the vehicle and get help. She and her
child were not injured.
It took two wreckers to get the car down. Ohio Edison was also called to
the scene to fix the damaged wires. Ms Johnson was not given a citation
by police.
“My first thought was him, so I jumped straight out,” she said. “I just opened the door, jumped straight out, ran to the back, made sure he was okay. He was a bit shaken up, but he was okay overall.”
Batshit Crazy NC Town Says No To Solar Panels That Will ‘Suck Up All The Sun’s Energy’
If your faith in humanity is on a downward turn due to the incredible
ignorance of the front-runners for the wingnut pretender nomination and
you fear for...
Town rejected solar farm plan amid fears that it would 'suck up all the energy from the sun'
A proposal for a solar farm has been rejected by the town council in
Woodland, North Carolina, following public concerns.
Members of the locality expressed their fear and distrust of solar
panels before a vote on whether the land in question should be rezoned
to allow Strata Solar Company to build a solar farm off US Highway 258.
One local man, Bobby Mann said that businesses would stop going to Woodland, the community would suffer as a result and the farms would suck up all the energy from the sun. “You’re killing your town,” he said. “All the young people are going to move out.” A retired science teacher, Jane Mann, expressed concerns that plants in the vicinity of the panels would not photosynthesize which would prevent the plants from growing.
She also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her that solar panels didn’t cause cancer. Woodland is a popular choice for solar farms because it has an electrical substation which the solar power generated by the panels can be hooked up to. Three other solar farms have been approved by the council. One of them has started installing solar panels.
A petition rejecting solar farms coming to the area was handed to the
council and it was requested that any future solar farm applications be
put to a referendum.
Company representatives from Strata then spoke and tried to put the
concerns of residents at ease.
They told them “there are no toxic materials on site” and “this is a
tried and true technology.”
The council gave the people what the wanted and voted 3-1 against
rezoning the land and later voted for a moratorium on future solar
farms.
Sikh Bronco Fans Denied Entry To Game, Harassed By Bomb Squad ‘Because Of Their Turbans’
No one should be subjected to this kind of treatment.
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Minnesota man charged with firebombing Muslim-owned restaurant — and police can’t find him
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