A barman in Canada's Yukon Territory is furious that the key ingredient to the famed "Sourtoe Cocktail" - a mummified human toe - has been stolen.
The severed toe, served in alcoholic drinks at the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, was stolen by a Quebec resident, according to "Toe Captain" Terry Lee.
"Toes are very hard to come by," Mr Lee said. "I'm really attached to it."
The toe is estimated to be worth CA$80,000 (US$60,000 / £48,000) and is part of local folklore.
For over four decades, tourists and residents have been able to order an alcoholic cocktail of their choice served with a desiccated human toe floating inside.
It's traditionally served with Yukon Gold whiskey, and must touch the drinkers' lips in order to earn a certificate from the bar.
A local saying goes: "You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but your lips must touch the toe."
More than 70,000 people have tasted it.
There are several back-up toes available but bar staff say this was their newest and freshest.
"This was our new toe, and it was a really good one. We just started using it this weekend," hotel manager Geri Coulbourne told CBC News.
It was donated by a man who had it amputated, and placed in salt to cure for six months.
It is "an institution in Dawson," Mr Lee said. "When someone frigs around with it, there goes our institution."
At least eight toes have gone missing since the tradition first began in 1973 when Yukon riverboat captain Dick Stevenson discovered a preserved toe in an abandoned cabin.
It has been swallowed twice since then but consuming it is discouraged and the pub fines culprits.
[Charlotte Observer] If the mugshot is any indication, an alleged burglar got more than he bargained for during an attempted break in at a Carolina Beach home.
Police say they found 28-year-old John Alexander Bracken lying in the front yard of the home, and he looked like he’d been run over by a truck.
Wilmington TV station WECT says the beating occurred when Bracken attempted to break into a home on Monroe Avenue in Carolina Beach, about 9 p.m. Saturday.
Police told the station Bracken kicked in the front door, expecting no one was home. But a resident was inside and reached the door just as Bracken walked in.
A fight ensued and Bracken ended up flat on his back in the yard. Bracken was taken to a hospital for treatment of his injuries, media outlets have reported.
The resident was uninjured, it was reported.
TV station WWAY reports Bracken was taken to the New Hanover County Jail and placed under a $7,500 bond. He was out of jail Monday.
[CBS Sports] Spanish matador Ivan Fandino died Saturday in France after getting caught in his cloak and being gored in the chest. Fandino was 36 years old, and is survived by a wife and daughter. He is the second matador to be killed in the past 12 months, with 29-year-old Victor Barrio suffering the same fate last July. Fandino was known for his brash style, famously fighting six bulls on his own in 2012.
[NYP] These inmates really earned their stripes -- for saving a deputy’s life.
Six Polk County jailbirds in Georgia sprang into action when they saw the officer collapse while supervising them on a field detail outside, 11alive.com reported.
"They could have taken the gun, got the work van and gone," Sheriff Johnny Moats told Time magazine.
"They could have done anything they wanted. They were out there by themselves with this one officer," he said. "If they would have left him there, it could have been hours before anyone came across him."
The men -- who were all jailed for minor criminal offenses -- were cutting grass at a cemetery when the deputy collapsed in 100 percent humidity.
"When he started breathing, it was just real heavy and real fast," said Greg Williams, who along with his fellow inmates opened the man’s shirt and removed his bulletproof vest to perform CPR.
Meanwhile, one of them called 911 with the officer’s phone.
The Sheriff’s Office applauded the inmates’ quick actions before EMS arrived.
[DAILYCALLER] A former professor at Essex County College was indefinitely suspended two days after her heated appearance on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
Lisa Durden was told that she had to cancel her classes and report to Essex County College’s human resources department two days after a June 6 appearance on the prime time Fox News show. School officials then indefinitely suspended her.
"They did this to humiliate me," Durden told The Star-Ledger. "Essex County College publicly lynched me in front of my students."
My dear former professor, it is evident that lynching and humiliation are two very different categories of experience. For one thing, after being humiliated you are still alive and able to talk utter nonsense.
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Credentialed, not educated.
Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.
[NEWS.XINHUANET] A family of beavers living in the canal in downtown Riga have reminded people of their presence in the Latvian capital by felling a tree last week, local television reported on Tuesday.
A spruce, apparently cut by the beavers, has been lying in the lawn by the city canal for more than a week. Although the local authority spends around 5,000 euros (5,550 U.S. dollars) a year on food for the tree-cutting rodents, it does not always prevent them from gnawing on trees, reports said.
The local authority has started feeding the beavers and put metal fencing around trees since a competition was held in 2010 to seek the best solution to the beaver problem in Riga, said Elija Pinke, a representative of the Housing and Environment Department of the Riga City Council.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the situation remains practically unchanged, Pinke said.
The city canal is home to a family of four beavers which fiercely guard their territory and chase away any potential neighbor.
In Pinke's words, the animals like the food they receive from the local authority and their pranks with the trees are just an expression of their inquisitive nature.
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The man has been named locally as Dan Bebb-Jones, from Merton Close, Kidderminster, son of Marcus Bebb-Jones, who was jailed in America after admitting killing his wife Sabrina.
A mincer, a man, Kidderminster.
His pop was a bit of a blister.
Dan's mother, Sabrina,
On whom he was keener,
Was absent (and Dad swore he missed her!).
[Iran Press TV] Venezuela has dared the US to "send in the Marines" after Washington tries to initiate a regional plan over the crisis in the country.
On Tuesday, US Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan attempted to garner support at an Organization of American States (OAS) meeting for a mission of mediators to be sent to Venezuela.
"The 'contact group' you're proposing is completely useless and unnecessary," said Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez at the meeting which was held in Mexico’s Cancun.
"The only way you could impose it would be to send in your Marines -- who would meet with a crushing response from Venezuela if they dared make such a misstep," she added.
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Well, all right. We will tell the Marines to cool it.
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Marines with MREs and Choco-Pies would be quite popular, I'll wager.
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Tell me again why the Dems are in favor of socialism.
Same reason Madero is in for it, POWER. They'd rather destroy an institution rather than give up power. That's why, if you haven't noticed, they're trying desperately to take Trump down even if it means the end of the last vestiges of the old (and gone) republic.
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"who would meet with a crushing response from Venezuela"
Obviously they've never witnessed what just a Rifle Company of Marines can do to an enemy. Ask an old Iraqi Republican Guard guy who survived an 'encounter'.
The 'crushing' would be a bit one-sided and not in the direction you think, Sra. Rodriguez.
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If Maduro could skip straight to the nationbuilding, without out all the icky BOOMS and POCKETA, POCKETA, POCKETAs, he'd go for war.
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I guess they are pining for the good old days, where J.D. Rockefeller would ask if he could borrow the Marine Corps for the weekend to solve his problem.
[NEWS.XINHUANET] Brazil's police department said they have evidence of President Michel Temer receiving bribes, the Federal Supreme Court (STF) said on Tuesday.
The STF disclosed a report by the police pointing to corruption by Temer and his former special adviser Rodrigo Rocha Loures.
"Given the silence of the nation's top leader and of his former special adviser, the evidence coming from the set of documents compiled by the judicial process ... indicates, strongly, the practice of passive corruption," the police report said.
The investigation of Temer is based on testimony from suspects in a meat-packing scandal, who have admitted their company, JBS, paid government officials, including Temer, to overlook their violations of health and safety standards.
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[Guardian] South Korea has proposed that North Korea host some of the skiing events at next year’s Winter Olympics, in a move it hopes will ease cross-border political tensions.
The South Korean sports minister, Do Jong-hwan, has also suggested forming an inter-Korean women’s ice hockey team to compete at the Games, which open in February in the South Korean town of Pyeongchang.
Do cited North Korea’s "top-class" Masikryong ski resort as a potential venue and said he would discuss co-hosting with Jang Woong, North Korea’s delegate to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), according to South Korean media.
His overture reflects a desire by South Korea’s new president, Moon Jae-in, for cautious engagement with Pyongyang, despite anger over the its recent missile launches and the death this week of the US university student Otto Warmbier after nearly 17 months in a North Korean prison.
Moon suggested earlier this month that the two countries lead a north-east Asian bid to host the 2030 World Cup.
North Korean involvement in the tournament would require huge investment in infrastructure, but Moon said: "If the neighbouring countries in north-east Asia, including North and South Korea, can host the World Cup together, it would help to create peace."
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Stranahan had a bumpy romance with Breitbart. He was hired by Breitbart, quit a couple of times, rehired, and fired. Currently, he is very critical of some at Breitbart. Currently, Stranahan is being funded by Russia.
The piece is interesting in that Crowdstrike, are the only people who examined the DNC servers. They said it was the Russians who manipulated our election. Comey said the DNC would not give the FBI their servers. Comey's FBI readily accepted Crowdstrike's results which were later discredited. Crowdstrike then backed off their report. Crowdstrike, the DNC, Comey, Hillary, the Atlantic Council, the Ukraine, and Soros would appear to be intricately intertwined in the last election to try to derail Trump--not the Russians.
It is interesting the list of donors to the Atlantic Council reads like a Who's Who of contributors.
[DAWN] India's government is advising pregnant women to avoid all meat, eggs and lusty thoughts. Doctors say the advice is preposterous, and even dangerous, considering India's already-poor record with maternal health.
Women are often the last to eat or receive health care in traditionally patriarchal Indian households. Malnutrition and anaemia or iron deficiency, are key factors behind India's having one of the world's highest rates of maternal mortality, with 174 of every 100,000 pregnancies resulting in the mother's death in 2015.
That's better than five years earlier, when the maternal mortality rate was 205 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, but still far worse than China's 27 per 100,000 or the United States' 14 per 100,000, according to UNICEF.
"The government is doling out unscientific and irrational advice, instead of ensuring that poor pregnant women get to eat a nutritious, high-protein diet," said Gynaecologist Arun Gadre, who is based in the western Indian city of Pune but works in rural areas.
The government booklet, titled "Mother and Child Care," smacks of religious dogma and ignores widely accepted medical evidence that pregnant women benefit from eating protein-rich meats and can safely engage in sex, doctors said.
It says pregnant women should also shun "impure thoughts" and look at pictures of beautiful babies to benefit the fetus.
"Pregnant women should detach themselves from desire, anger, attachment, hatred and lust," reads the booklet, released last week by the Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy, a part of the government's ministry that promotes traditional and alternative medicine.
The traditional medicine minister defended the booklet as containing "wisdom accumulated over many centuries," and said it did not advise specifically against sex, only against all thoughts of desire or lust.
"The booklet puts together relevant facts culled out from clinical practice in the fields of yoga and naturopathy," Minister Shripad Naik said.
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What, no lusty thoughts? Most pregnant women are not thinking lusty thoughts from what I'm told.
[DAWN] MITHI: The Sindh High Court has ordered police to produce Ravita Meghwar -- a Hindu girl who, according to her family, was kidnapped, forcibly converted and married off to a Moslem man -- before the court on June 22.
The Mirpurkhas DIG and Tharpakr SSP have been directed by an SHC bench headed by Justice Salahuddin Panhwar to ensure the girl’s presence at the next date of hearing. The court issued the directive on an application filed by Ravita’s father, Satram Das Meghwar, through Advocate Bhagwandas, against her conversion and marriage.
Mr Meghwar told the court that his daughter, who was 16 years old, had been illegally married off to Syed Nawaz Ali Shah after having been kidnapped from her village near Nagarparkar Town on June 6.
She was named Gulnaz after the conversion. The same day she married 36-year-old Shah at the marriage registrar’s office in union council Gulzar Khalil in Samaro of Umerkot district. Mr Meghwar said his daughter was born on July 14, 2001.
His lawyer contended that the marriage under the age of 18 was a punishable offence under the Sindh Child Marriages Restraint Act, 2013. He said the registrar had mentioned Mr Shah’s year of birth (1980) and the national identity card number on the marriage certificate. Ravita’s age was shown as about 18 years, but there was no mention of her NIC number.
Similarly, the lawyer said, the certificate of conversion to Islam also did not mention her date of birth and NIC number, but her age was shown as 18 years.
"She was kidnapped from her house and forcibly married off to a man twice her age," said Mr Meghwar, who had lodged an FIR against Ali Nawaz Shah, Madad Ali Shah, Umar Junejo and Sher Mohammad Junejo for kidnapping his daughter. The FIR was registered under Section 365 of the Pakistain Penal Code at the Dano Dandhal cop shoppe in Nangarparkar taluka a week ago.
Earlier, Mr Shah and Ravita had filed in the SHC an application seeking protection and accusing the girl’s parents of issuing death threat. The court had fixed June 30 the date of hearing on the application.
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[Guardian] Older men tend to have "geekier" sons who are more aloof, have higher IQs and a more intense focus on their interests than those born to younger fathers, researchers claim. Pictured here are two King’s College researchers celebrating the release of their study.
The finding, which emerged from a study of nearly 8,000 British twins, suggests that having an older father may benefit children and boost their performance in technical subjects at secondary school.
Researchers in the UK and the US analysed questionnaires from 7,781 British twins and scored them according to their non-verbal IQ at 12 years old, as well as parental reports on how focused and socially aloof they were. The scientists then combined these scores into an overall "geek index".
Magdalena Janecka at King’s College London said the project came about after she and her colleagues had brainstormed what traits and skills helped people to succeed in the modern age. "If you look at who does well in life right now, it’s geeks," she said.
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I would have been born 10 yrs earlier if the old man hadn't got delayed in the Pacific.
If WWII in the Pacific hadn't ended the way it did, I wouldn't have been born at all.
[AutismSpeaks] Research extends earlier findings on older dads and autism to other psychiatric conditions; increased risk is modest.
The Guardian article is aimed at making Guardian readers of both sexes comfortable with the life choices that led them to delay both marriage and children. However, given that Guardian readers clearly don't value technical thinking -- or they wouldn't believe many of the things they do -- I'm not sure how this helps.
[DailyCaller] During a Facebook Live Session sponsored by OneUnited Bank -- the largest African-American owned bank in the United States -- Dr. Melina Abdullah asserted that institutions such as Wells Fargo and Citibank are "putting the dollars that you give them in the institutions that keep us oppressed" and "if you’re not going to bank black, you are funding white supremacy," the Daily Wire reports.
Abdullah, a California State University professor and Black Lives Matter organizer, was joined by Teri Williams, the president of OneUnited, and Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin. In an effort to urge fellow African-Americans to bank with OneUnited. Until it goes Tango-Uniform.
Abdullah contends that OneUnited is going "to help us develop a reparations fund for our people" and "help fund the movements that are going to help us get free." The trio called on the African American community to move all their funds to OneUnited Bank immediately despite it’s history of financial impropriety. Don't worry. "White Privilege" will be called upon to bail out the inevitable crash..
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.
[Charlotte Observer] If the mugshot is any indication, an alleged burglar got more than he bargained for during an attempted break in at a Carolina Beach home.
[CBS Sports] Spanish matador Ivan Fandino died Saturday in France after getting caught in his cloak and being gored in the chest. Fandino was 36 years old, and is survived by a wife and daughter. He is the second matador to be killed in the past 12 months, with 29-year-old Victor Barrio suffering the same fate last July. Fandino was known for his brash style, famously fighting six bulls on his own in 2012.
[NYP] These inmates really earned their stripes -- for saving a deputy’s life.
[NEWS.XINHUANET] A family of beavers living in the canal in downtown Riga have reminded people of their presence in the Latvian capital by felling a tree last week, local television reported on Tuesday.
[Guardian] South Korea has proposed that North Korea host some of the skiing events at next year’s Winter Olympics, in a move it hopes will ease cross-border political tensions.
[DAWN] MITHI: The Sindh High Court has ordered police to produce Ravita Meghwar -- a Hindu girl who, according to her family, was 
