Yellowstone National Park rangers have suspended efforts to recover the body of an Oregon man who fell into a boiling hot spring on Tuesday, The Associated Press reports.
"They were able to recover a few personal effects," park spokeswoman Charissa Reid told AP on Wednesday. "There were no remains left to recover."
Colin Nathaniel Scott, 23, from Portland, Oregon, was with his sister, Sable Scott, when he left the boardwalk near Pork Chop Geyser, park officials said.
"We extend our sympathy to the Scott family," Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk said in a statement Wednesday. "This tragic event must remind all of us to follow the regulations and stay on boardwalks when visiting Yellowstone's geyser basins."
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People really have become stupid, thinking that national parks are all super-safe like Disney land where you can wander wherever you want and put the wildlife in your car and such.
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Unlike the costs associated with rescues from other extreme sports venues, 'Free Geyser' rescue efforts are significantly shorter and virtually cost free. Time will only tell if 'Free Geysering' actually catches on.
Mostly, I like the term "Generation Snowflake". :-)
British thinktank boss says mollycoddled kids are breaking down in tears when asked to deal with controversial ideas
Claire Fox, head of a thinktank called the Institute of Ideas, has penned a coruscating critique of "Generation Snowflake", the name given to a growing group of youngsters who "believe it's their right to be protected from anything they might find unpalatable".
She said British and American universities are dominated by cabals of young women who are dead set on banning anything they find remotely offensive.
"It makes me sad that these teens and 20-somethings have become so fearful that they believe a dissenting opinion can pose such a serious threat," Fox wrote in an article for Mail Online.
This hyper-sensitivity has prompted the University of East Anglia to outlaw sombreros in a Mexican restaurant and caused the National Union of Student to ban clapping as "as it might trigger trauma", asking youngsters to use "jazz hands" instead.
Books containing troublesome material are now slapped with "trigger warnings", whilst universities and student unions are declared "safe spaces" where young people should not have to encounter anything they disagree with.
Fox described astonishing scenes at an event set up to discuss whether the public outcry against footballer Ched Evans was "social justice or mob rule".
The academic said her mostly female audience broke down in tears after she "dared suggest (as eminent feminists have before me) that rape wasn't necessarily the worst thing a woman could experience".
Fox added: "I expected robust discussion -- not for them all to dissolve into outraged gasps of, 'You can't say that'
"Their reaction shocked me. I take no pleasure in making teenagers cry, but it also brought home the contrast to previous generations of young people, who would have relished the chance to argue back.
"It illustrated this generation's almost belligerent sense of entitlement. They assume their emotional suffering takes precedence. Express a view they disagree with and you must immediately recant and apologise."
Generation Snowflake has also created a social minefield for young boys and men, who risk being labelled "sex pests" for twanging a girl's bra at school, Fox continued.
She said women were opting to stay at home and socialise on the internet due to overblown fears about predatory men.
"There is a strand of self-absorption and fragility running through this generation; all too ready to cry 'victim' at the first hint of a situation they don't like," Fox concluded.
"We need a younger generation that's prepared to grow a backbone, go out into the world, take risks and make difficult decisions. Otherwise the future doesn't bode well for any of us."
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Went out on my monthly restaurant run the other day.
The salt shakers had warning labels.
"Warning: Sodium may cause high blood pressure.
Please use responsibly."
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The millennials I know don't fit this stereotype (thank God) but none of them are in college now. Hopefully my daughter has been inoculated with common sense.
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The best answer to such people is to tell them that their mental deficiencies are offensive and oppressive to those with the mental fortitude to handle new ideas.
[Iran Press TV] Suspected Ugandan rebels have kidnapped about 100 people during an attack in the troubled northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , the UN says.
Lieutenant-Colonel Martin Amouzou Codjo, front man for the UN Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO), told a press briefing on Wednesday that members of Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) kidnapped the civilians during an assault on two villages during the attack in Bas-Uele province on June 4.
He said rebels also went on a looting spree across the volatile region. "These attackers also kidnapped nearly a hundred people to carry the loot," Codjo told a presser in the capital, Kinshasa.
The front man also strongly denounced the regular atrocities committed by the ruthless LRA against civilians in the northeast of the African country.
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Taking slaves is an expected practice in tribal clashes.
Now isn't the best time, I guess. Better wait until the socialist government can claim its rightful spot on top of the world's economy.
Venezuela's Supreme Court on Wednesday banned media from publishing videos of lynchings, saying they create "anxiety and uncertainty" in a country ravaged by violent crime and an economic crisis.
The OPEC nation's society is in upheaval amid triple-digit inflation, a deep recession and brutal shortages of food and medicine. As Venezuelans have grown increasingly angry at frequent thefts, hold-ups and homicides, mob beatings and lynchings have increased in the country, which is already one of the world's most violent.
Gory videos of mob justice or photos of bloody corpses sometimes make the rounds on social media. President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government says the footage is part of a larger plan to sully his administration and stoke unrest in an attempt to unseat him.
In its statement, the top court, which Venezuela's opposition accuses of being subservient to Maduro, singled out two digital outlets, but said the ban applies to all media.
"The Supreme Court has ordered a ban on digital outlets 'La Patilla' and 'Caraota Digital' from publishing videos of lynchings, via their internet sites, as well as their social media accounts," the top judicial body said in a statement, while noting the broader ban.
"Media have the right to journalistically express a news event ... but these rights should not create anxiety and uncertainty in the population," the court said. We don't want people to know that things aren't going as well as they ought to. They couldn't figure it out if it weren't for these reports!
There is no official public data on lynchings in Venezuela. Leading non-governmental organizations say the phenomenon is on the rise, fueled by Venezuelans' sense of helplessness in the face of crime. Courts are slow, judges are sometimes on the take and criminals are frequently released right after arrest, according to non-profit groups.
Venezuela's opposition, which is trying to remove Maduro via a recall referendum, scoffed at the ban.
"Lynchings don't happen because of media, as the Supreme Court assumes, but rather because of impunity and the judicial system's inefficiency," tweeted Luis Izquiel, a lawyer and the opposition coalition's security coordinator.
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Alan, I'm sure that Maduro has a plane waiting for him at the airport, fueled, crewed, and with a flight plan to Cuba already on file.
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Why Cuba, why not Bolivia?
I can't help but wonder how much longer this goes on before Venezuela simply...dies. Already they're out of food, with dumpster-diving rampant. A month before starving masses bum-rush parliament?
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Poland has stopped allowing North Korean workers into the country as part of broader efforts to punish Pyongyang for its nuclear and missile programs, a South Korean government official said Tuesday.
Good. Now break relations and offer sanctuary to any North Korean who can get to Poland...
Cho June-hyuck, spokesman of Seoul's foreign ministry, confirmed a report by the Washington-based Voice of America that Poland has not received any North Korean workers since the communist country conducted its fourth nuclear test in January.
"The issue of overseas North Korean workers has increasingly caused concern within the international community from the perspective of human rights abuses and the flow of money into the North," Cho said during a regular press briefing. "The Polish government also decided early this year to halt the issuance of new visas to North Korean workers."
North Korea is believed to have more than 50,000 workers stationed in some 50 countries, including China and Russia, to earn money for its cash-strapped regime.
Several hundred North Koreans are currently estimated to be working in Poland. Under the new measure, they will not be allowed to renew their visas.
Offer them asylum...
Cho said other countries in Africa, the Middle East and Europe have also taken steps to reduce the number of North Korean laborers they receive by cracking down on illegal immigrants and not renewing work contracts.
"Our government takes note of such efforts by the international community to address the issue of overseas North Korean workers and plans to continue to seek possible steps in cooperation with the international community," he said.
The U.N. Security Council in March adopted tough sanctions against Pyongyang to punish the regime for its nuclear test and banned long-range rocket launch in February. The sanctions, along with those imposed separately by South Korea, the United States and other nations, are designed to starve Pyongyang of the resources it needs to develop its nuclear and missile programs.
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A big photo of North Korean leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un smoking a cigarette appeared in the official Rodong Sinmun daily just as the North launched an anti-smoking campaign.
He's just trying to control his weight...
Kim has been cigarette-less in pictures over the last 80 days, leading to speculation that he kicked the habit, but apparently that was premature.
The anti-smoking campaign on state TV and other media was full of the enthusiastic support, with one interviewee saying, "People who start smoking first thing in the morning seem unhealthy and ignorant, causing discomfort to others."
"Cigarettes may cause such discomfort to others that you'll be stood in front of an anti-aircraft gun."
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Probably aren't enough cigs for anyone else but His Rotundness.
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North Korea's long-term allies Vietnam and China have banned North Korean officials blacklisted by the UN. Flag carrier Vietnam Airlines asked travel agencies in mid-May to blacklist 16 North Korean officials subject to UN Security Council sanctions.
Vietnam has been implementing the sanctions more strictly since Washington lifted an embargo on sales of weapons to Hanoi, according to UPI. On April 23, Hanoi expelled Choe Song-il, the deputy chief of the branch of North Korea’s Tanchon Commercial Bank. The bank is suspected of laundering money earned from the North's sales of weapons overseas and financing the regime's nuclear and missile programs.
China also banned a North Korean diplomat in charge of arms deals who was attempting to enter through Beijing Capital International Airport on May 20. The man is believed to be Jang Yong-son, a North Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation representative in Iran, who flew in from Tehran.
Chinese officials tried to send him back to Iran, but he resisted so they sent him to Pyongyang.
That'll teach him!
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[DAWN] LAHORE: A woman set her daughter to fire for marrying the man of her choice here on Wednesday, police said. The 18-year-old girl was struck down in her prime.
The victim, a resident of Mast Iqbal Road, had eloped with a man she liked and who her family disapproved of, said Station House Officer (SHO) Sheikh Hammad Akhtar.
Two days before the incident, the family coaxed the dear departed to come back home on the pretext that they will send her off with their consent. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... when once she returned, her mother doused her with petrol and set her alight.
Police claim the victim's mother, while professing her crime, admitted to pouring petrol on her daughter and then torching her.
The police shifted the girl's body to a mortuary and placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... her mother.
Second Division Superintendent Police Ibadat Nisar said the dear departed girl's brother, who had arrived from Dubai, has been missing since the incident happened, and police is looking for him.
There has been no mention of the victim's husband since her death.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A big photo of North Korean leader 
