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In 2011, hockey players sported “silly” goggles — “for the sake of science.”
The Carolina Hurricanes were the only NHL team working with Nike to practice with the odd accessory. Some players wore the brand’s Vapor Strobe glasses, designed to improve their vision and response times before the start of the season.
“Ideally, this is a training tool, the same as an athlete running with weights on their ankles and taking them off and feeling faster,” Stephen Mitroff, an assistant professor in the departments of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, told The News & Observer. “It’s the same concept, except with vision and attention.”
The goal was to compare the performance of Canes players who wore the goggles and players who didn’t. Defenseman Jamie McBain said the glasses gave him a “wide-eyed” sensation, while goaltender Cam Ward was dizzy at first.
The town of Hamlet was reeling after a fire at a chicken-processing plant killed 25 workers.
“The bad is, most of the casualties were women, and a lot were single mothers,” Andrew McManus, a deacon at First Baptist Church, told The N&O. “The children have to find somewhere to go.”
The blaze started when a line powering a conveyor belt broke. The N.C. Department of Labor was investigating as some worker advocates said stronger inspection protocols may have prevented the tragedy at Imperial Food Products Inc.
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The chicken plant southwest of Raleigh “had not been visited by an inspector during its 11 years in operation. Workers at the plant have charged that fire doors and other exits were locked or blocked off,” The N&O reported.
Company officials said though building doors sometimes were locked, most were unlocked when the fire broke out.
In 1926, rules for county prison camps had “real teeth behind them.”
Inspector L. G. Whitley was instructing facilities to strictly enforce requirements that first emerged in 1917, including one that called for people in custody wear pajamas. Anyone suspected of violations could face a misdemeanor charge, resulting in fines or prison time.
“Nightshirts were not worn in many camps under the old regulations, but there were other matters to which the State Board of Health paid more attention without greatly better results,” The N&O reported.
“Most of the prisoners got a bath, but many of them did not have drinking water from a sanitary supply and there was much trouble over the proper location of camps and the disposal of garbage and sewerage.”
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