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Park officials warn visitors to STOP LICKING psychedelic toad
that sweats ‘trippy’ liquid
Sarah Hooper, The Sun
12:15, 10 Nov 2022, Updated: 14:55, 10 Nov 2022
PARK officials are pleading with visitors to stop licking psychedelic toads in a bid to get high because it can lead to death.
The Sonoran Desert Toad secretes a toxin from its glands that can create a hallucinogenic experience and make people sick.
Park officials have warned people to stop licking toads
The US National Park Service has now been forced to beg Americans to "refrain from licking" the toads, which are one of the largest toads native to North America - and one of the most dangerous.
Officials warned the toxins secreted from the amphibians could lead to hospitalisation or death.
They said: ''These toads have prominent parotoid glands that secrete a potent toxin.
"It can make you sick if you handle the frog or get the poison in your mouth."
As well as hallucinations, the liquid can cause anxiety, nausea or seizures and even potentially death.
Tim Hortons brand soup base recalled for containing insects
Recall only impacts soups sold in some Alberta and Ontario restaurants
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Nov. 10, 2022 1:30 p.m
A Tim Hortons brand chicken noodle soup base was recalled in Alberta and southwestern Ontario because it contained insects.
In an emailed statement, Tim Hortons said Thursday the recall does not impact canned soups sold in grocery stores, only the soup base that was made and sold to a few isolated restaurants. It said there were no reported illnesses.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said the recalled product was available to purchase in those provinces up to and including Oct. 20.
The agency said the soup base, which weighs 3.54 kilograms per unit, was sold to hotels, restaurants and institutions.
Tim Hortons said the incident only impacted a few isolated Tim Hortons restaurants, but the company proactively asked all restaurant owners that received product from the supplier in question to dispose of their product.
The company said the impacted batches were removed from restaurants, destroyed and replaced with new product from another supplier.
Chicken noodle soup base in other provinces, as well as canned Tim Hortons soup sold in grocery stores, are manufactured by another supplier and were therefore not affected, Tim Hortons said.
The recall involves products with best-before dates between March 13, 2023 and April 30, 2023.
The CFIA said not to use, sell, serve or distribute the product.
Tim Hortons said it is investigating the issue and believes relatively few guests were impacted, but added it will only restart production with the manufacturer once it’s confident this problem will not happen again.
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Israeli archaeologists discover oldest known written sentence
November 9, 2022
Israeli archaeologists discover oldest known written sentence. Ivory lice comb etched with a Canaanite prayer against lice discovered in Tel Lachish, Israel. (Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority)
The Canaanite script reads: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.”
By Pesach Benson, TPS
Israeli archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest sentence ever written – a prayer against lice etched on a Canaanite comb that dates back to around 1700 BC.
The letters of the inscription were engraved in a very shallow manner, saying “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.”
While the comb was discovered in 2017 at Tel Lachish in central Israel, the letters were noticed only in subsequent post-processing in 2022 by Dr. Madeleine Mumcuoglu of Hebrew University.
The inscription was deciphered by semitic epigraphist Dr. Daniel Vainstub at Ben Gurion University (BGU), who confirmed the 17 characters were of Canaanite script. The ivory was tested by Professors Rivka Rabinovich of HU and Yuval Goren of BGU who found the comb was made of elephant tusk.
Their findings were published in the peer-reviewed Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology.
Hebrew University Professor Yosef Garfinkel, one of the directors of the Tel Lachish dig, called the comb, “a landmark in the history of the human ability to write.”
“This is the first sentence ever found in the Canaanite language in Israel,” said Garfinkel.
“There are Canaanites in Ugarit in Syria, but they write in a different script, not the alphabet that is used till today. The Canaanite cities are mentioned in Egyptian documents, the Amarna letters that were written in Akkadian, and in the Hebrew Bible. The comb inscription is direct evidence for the use of the alphabet in daily activities some 3,700 years ago. This is a landmark in the history of the human ability to write.”
The ivory comb is small, measuring roughly 3.5 by 2.5 cm and has teeth on both sides. Although their bases are still visible, the comb teeth themselves were broken in antiquity. The central part of the comb is somewhat eroded, possibly by the pressure of fingers holding the comb during haircare or removal of lice from the head or beard.
The side of the comb with six thick teeth was used to untangle knots in the hair, while the other side, with 14 fine teeth, was used to remove lice and their eggs, much like the current-day two-sided lice combs sold in stores.
Ancient combs were commonly made from wood or bone. Elephants are not native to Israel, suggesting the ivory was a luxury object presumably imported from Egypt.
The researchers also found the remains of head lice between two of the teeth, 0.5–0.6 mm in size.
Apparently, it worked.
Lachish was a major Canaanite city state in the second millennium BC and the second-most important city in the Biblical Kingdom of Judah.
To date, 10 Canaanite inscriptions have been found in Lachish, more than at any other site in Israel. The city was the major center for the use and preservation of the alphabet during some 600 years, from 1800 to 1150 BCE.
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