Five crates of Scotch whiskey and two of brandy have been recovered by a team restoring an Antarctic hut used more than 100 years ago by famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. The stuff had been left there in 1909. The Shackleton expedition sailed away in 1909 as winter ice formed, leaving behind supplies, including the whiskey and brandy.

Source: Washington Post

Willow Creek Golf Course

Some Pahrump residents with their home ringing around lakefront property and a golf course in your backyard say raw sewage is being pumped into ponds next to their homes.

Ponds at Pahrump’s Willow Creek Golf Course are ringed with dead fish. There is a brown sludge that coats the edge as a thick film. Underneath this slime and the bottom of one pond is suddenly rising. Residents say it is three feet deep in human waste.

“I want to barf. I want to barf,” said resident Richard Cantino.

The owner of Willow Creek went bankrupt, but not before making a deal with the neighboring water treatment plant to let them pump “gray water” into the ponds, mixed in with clean water, to help recycle. [Read more →]