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Australian hospital accidentally declares 200 patients dead

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<b>MELBOURNE: 
An Australian hospital apologised "unreservedly" Thursday after sending 
out notices to the doctors of more than 200 patients telling them they 
had died instead of being discharged.</b><br />
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The error by 
Austin Hospital in Melbourne was spotted within hours and the doctors 
were contacted, but not before at least one had called a family member 
to express their condolences, the Herald Sun newspaper reported.<br />
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Austin
 Health, which runs the hospital, said the notices -- which were sent on
 Wednesday, July 30 -- were a result of "human error" after changes to a
 death notification template were saved to the standard discharge 
template.<br />
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"On recognising the error on the Wednesday 
morning, Austin Hospital immediately contacted all GP clinics affected,"
 Austin Health spokeswoman Taryn Sheehy said in a statement.<br />
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"We apologised unreservedly to affected clinics who, for the most part, were very understanding about the error."<br />
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Sheehy
 added that patient care was not affected, but the president of the 
Australian Medical Association´s Victoria state branch, Tony Bartone, 
said the blunder was "unacceptable".<br />
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"IT issues must not undermine patient care or trust in the Victorian healthcare system," he said in a statement.<br />
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"Many of these GPs have long relationships with these patients and their families."<br />
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It would have been distressing to receive such a fax, especially relating to the unexpected death of children and teenagers."<br />

Australian hospital accidentally declares 200 patients dead

MELBOURNE: An Australian hospital apologised "unreservedly" Thursday after sending out notices to the doctors of more than ...

11-YEAR-OLD UK GIRL HAS HIGHER IQ THAN EINSTEIN

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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLEe-WG3E6jhjGkqO6OuX_lR6PFiVQb07yCH8DeM8L2-0vAq10g6_Xi0eo2O0XRYYjKlqnZlqffsN3Z4sHG7vpdIpHtFAUegR8X4XCQuh4VgIaA7dzNHkSeLVkwk-38zH2iGK0sy7q_hg/s1600/Cerys-Cooksammy-Parnell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLEe-WG3E6jhjGkqO6OuX_lR6PFiVQb07yCH8DeM8L2-0vAq10g6_Xi0eo2O0XRYYjKlqnZlqffsN3Z4sHG7vpdIpHtFAUegR8X4XCQuh4VgIaA7dzNHkSeLVkwk-38zH2iGK0sy7q_hg/s1600/Cerys-Cooksammy-Parnell.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">An 11-year-old schoolgirl in the UK has achieved the highest possible score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test, making her brainier than scientists Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Cerys Cooksammy-Parnell, the grade six schoolgirl took up the Mensa IQ test with the aim of beating her father's score of 142.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Surprisingly, Parnell not only trounced her father in the test but also scored the highest mark possible in the test, scoring 162 on the Cattell B scale, 'The Daily Express' reported.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Cerys, from Northampton, UK, took the supervised test on July 27 this year with her father Dean, who is already a member of the genius group Mensa and has an IQ of 142.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">"My primary aim was to beat my dad who is very smart but I didn't expect to beat him by such a huge margin," she said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">"I am not sure if this score is a good thing or a bad thing as I know she will be questioning everything I tell her to do. We are a bit blown away," Dean, a lawyer, said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Cerys is one of the youngest people to have taken the test as it is only offered to children aged over 10 and a half, the report said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Cerys says she loves pop music, texting her friends and watching TV.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">"At 11, I do not have many intellectual discussions with my friends and to be honest there is more to a person than their IQ," she said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">"I like working with numbers so I think I would like to work for a bank or even one day become the Governor of the Bank of England," she said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Cerys has been invited to join British Mensa's 21,000 members, who all have IQ scores in the top two per cent of the country's population.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">"Cerys' score shows that she has great potential," John Stevenage, chief executive of British Mensa, said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Although, Einstein never took an IQ test as none of the modern intelligence tests existed during the course of his life, but experts believe he had an IQ of around 160.</span>

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">In a near-miraculous incident, doctors in Australia have saved the life of a 41-year-old woman who was clinically dead for 42 minutes after suffering a major heart attack.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Vanessa Tanasio was rushed to hospital last week after the heart attack, but was declared clinically dead soon after arrival. Doctors at Melbourne's MonashHeart hospital managed to unblock vital arteries and return her heart to a normal rhythm, using a high-tech machine that kept blood flowing to Tanasio's brain, AAP news agency reported.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Hospital authorities described her survival as "astonishing". Tanasio, a mother of two from Narre Warren, Melbourne, needed numerous defibrillator shocks, including one in the ambulance on her way to hospital, doctors said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">"I'm feeling excellent. For someone who has been dead for nearly an hour of this week I am feeling tremendously well," Tanasio said. Emergency medics used a device called LUCAS 2 to keep her blood flowing while doctors worked to unblock the arteries to her heart.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Tanasio, a sales representative, said she had no history of heart problems, the report said. "This has taken me completely by surprise. I am relieved to still be here for my children," she said.</span>

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Brazilians were outraged when they learned their country was a top target of the U.S. National Security Agency's overseas spying operation, with data from billions of calls and emails swept up in Washington's top secret surveillance program.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Yet when it comes to the cloak and dagger effort of catching philandering lovers, all high-tech weapons appear to be fair game - at least to the tens of thousands of Brazilians who downloaded "Boyfriend Tracker" to their smartphones before the stealthy software was removed from the Google Play app store last week, apparently in response to complaints about privacy abuses and its potential to be used for extortion or even stalking.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">"Brazilians are a jealous people, what can I say? Of course it's going to be popular," said Marcia Almeida, a 47-year-old woman in Rio whose marriage ended seven years ago in large part because of what she said was her husband's infidelity.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">"It's a different type of spying," she said of comparisons to the NSA surveillance program. "You're checking up on somebody you know intimately, not some stranger."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">The app, called "Rastreador de Namorados" (Portuguese for Boyfriend Tracker), promises to act like a "private detective in your partner's pocket."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Functions include sending the person doing the tracking updates on their partner's location and forwarding duplicates of text message traffic from the targeted phone. There is even a command that allows a user to force the target phone to silently call their own, like a pocket dial, so they can listen in on what the person is saying.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Similar apps are marketed for smartphone users in other countries, including Europe and the U.S., but Boyfriend Tracker is the first that has made any impact in Brazil, a country still irate as it learns more about Washington's snooping. Brazil has sent a government delegation to meet with U.S. leaders about the spy program that was revealed by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who has been on the run since May and was recently granted asylum in Russia.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Google spokeswoman Gina Johnson said by email that as a policy the company doesn't comment on why apps are removed.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Critics say even as advertised, apps like Boyfriend Tracker can violate privacy rights, and they warn that in the wrong hands they could be used for more sinister purposes, like stalking. Some in Brazil argue it breaks an anti-online harassment and hacking law in place since April. The law is named after Brazilian actress Carolina Dieckmann, who had nude photos of herself leaked by hackers in 2012 after she refused to pay about $5,000.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">However, similar apps popular on Google Play market themselves to parents as a means of monitoring how teenage children use the phone and where they are at any given moment.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Matheus Grijo, a 24-year-old Sao Paulo-based developer behind Boyfriend Tracker, says it has attracted around 50,000 users since its launch about two months ago, most since the site began attracting media attention two weeks ago.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Grijo insists his lawyer vetted the app and determined it does not violate any Brazilian laws. Despite being removed by Google, it is still available via direct download from his company's website.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">A disclaimer on that website stipulates the app is for "social and recreational use" and absolves the developer of responsibility for any misuse. The first line of the download instructions says a woman installing the tracker on her boyfriend's phone should do so "with his consent."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">"We are waiting for Google's position on the removal of `Boyfriend Tracker' from Google Play, which we consider an error," read a posting on a Facebook page Grijo set up for the app.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">To install Boyfriend Tracker, suspicious partners have to get their hands on their loved one's smartphones and upload the app. A free version leaves the app's icon visible on the target's phone, while a version that costs $2 a month masks the icon.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Grijo said the app began as a joke between him and his girlfriend but the idea quickly caught on among their friends.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">"In Brazil, we have this culture of switching partners really quickly, so this is a way of dealing with that," said Grijo. "People really appreciate having a tool to help them find out whether they're being cheated on."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">He acknowledged that "of course some people are against it, but on balance the response from users has been positive." He said he's received messages of gratitude from around 50 people who used the app to ferret out their partners' infidelity.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">While cheating in Brazil cuts both ways, the app is clearly marketed to women suspicious of their male partners, right down to the name. Postings on the app's Facebook page exhort: "Girls, share this."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Still, Grijo insisted he personally has never given his girlfriends any reason to worry.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">"I've had three steady girlfriends until now but I've never had these kinds of issues," he said.</span>

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According to the media reports, the the incident took place in the region of Chinese city of Wenzhou. It is reported that the place is surrounded by the mountains on three sides with the front of the city facing pacific ocean. The similar incident was reported in the year of 2012 when Yangtze river also changed its color.</div>
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Locals say at 4am the water flow was normal but by 6am it had turned a frightening shade of crimson.</div>
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An elderly resident who has lived by the river all his life says it has never happened before. Some people believe that changing of river color is due to the Industrial contamination that has ruled out because there are no chemical plants along it length.</div>
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Whereas, the environmental protection officials are taking water samples to find out what is going on. Wenzhou is a well-known town in East China’s Zhejiang Province.</div>
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Officials claimed the blood-red waters were a result of sand distribution due to upstream flooding but sceptics were not convinced and social media sites were full of bizarre theories including one that it was the start of “The Apocalypse.”</div>
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It is believed that everyone in the world has at least seven people who look exactly like them. If you have trouble believing that, take a look at these seven<span style="color: #f66793; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> Hollywood</span></span> stars and their unbelievable real life doppelgangers. The parents of these celebrities sure have some explaining to do!</div>
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While the real Leonardo remains unavailable, nature sent a replacement Leonardo our way to ensure that justice exists in the world. Frank Roberts, who has doubled up as the actor at the Titanic Museum, recalls, “About two years ago, we flew into L.A. and a tour guide said, ‘You’re Leonardo DiCaprio, aren’t you?’ The guy followed me for about two blocks.”</div>
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David Siegel of New York says that he has now grown accustomed to random people on the street mistaking him for the E.R. star and clicking pictures of him, and we can’t blame them- If we were to run into him and George in a dark alley, we’d be hard put to pick the real one as well.</div>
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World's largest aquatic insect specimen found in China

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<strong>(CNN)</strong> -- The world's largest flying aquatic insect, 
with huge, nightmarish pincers, has been discovered in China's Sichuan 
province, experts say.<br />

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Museum of West China, local villagers in the outskirts of Chengdu handed
 over "weird insects that resemble giant dragonflies with long teeth" 
earlier this month.</div>
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Several of these odd 
critters were examined by the museum and found to be unusually large 
specimens of the giant dobsonfly, which is native to China and Vietnam.</div>
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The largest one measured 
21 centimeters (8.27 inches) when its wings were open, according to the 
museum, busting the original record for largest aquatic insect held by a
 South American helicopter damselfly, which had a wingspan of 19.1 
centimeters (7.5 inches).</div>
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 face of a human adult, this scary-looking insect is also known among 
entomologists as an indicator of water quality, says the museum.</div>
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The giant dobsonfly makes
 its home in bodies of clean water and is highly sensitive to any 
changes in the water's pH as well as the presence of trace elements of 
pollutants. If the water is slightly contaminated, the giant dobsonfly 
will move on to seek cleaner waters.</div>
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The insect can be found 
in other provinces in China, India's Assam state, and in northern 
Vietnam. This is the first time it has appeared in Sichuan province.</div>

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Indian doctors remove 232 teeth from teen’s mouth

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<strong>INDIA: Doctors extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of 17-year-old boy.</strong><br />

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 seven hours. It is reported that the teenager had been suffering for 18
 months and traveled to the city from his village after local doctors 
failed to identify the cause of the problem.<br />

Ashik Gavai was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw, Dr 
Sunanda Dhiware, head of Mumbai’s JJ Hospital’s dental department. 
Doctors have described his condition as “very rare” and “a world 
record”. Dr Dhiware said in a statement that:<br />

“Ashik’s malaise was diagnosed as a complex composite odontoma where a
 single gum forms lots of teeth. It’s a sort of benign tumour.”<br />

She further added that:<br />

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“At first, we couldn’t cut it out so we had to use the basic chisel 
and hammer to take it out. Once we opened it, little pearl-like teeth 
started coming out, one-by-one. Initially, we were collecting them, they
 were really like small white pearls. But then we started to get tired. 
We counted 232 teeth.”<br />

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The surgery involved two surgeons and two assistants. Ashik now has 28 teeth. Take a look at these pictures:

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Man superglues his hand to his sensual organ

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<strong>CHICAGO: Some blunders you commit in your life causes you 
sheer embarrassment that even you feel utterly ashamed facing your dear 
ones, and a man in Chicago did exactly the same.</strong><br />

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He was taken to the hospital immediately and the doctors who attended him told:<br />
<strong>“This was a large amount of skin that was affixed together. 
There wasn’t just a small amount of glue. It wasn’t just one finger. It 
was, in fact, his entire palm and all his fingers, which were tightly 
affixed to his genitals.”</strong><br />

The doctors managed to get him out of this trouble eventually by their treatment and sent the couple home.<br />

One thing is proved by this mighty blunder that sex and superglue 
can’t go together and while having sex you can close your eyes but keep 
your eyes and mind well open before sex.<br />
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<strong>LONDON: Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo’s mother <span style="color: #3f3f3f;">Dolores Aveiro has confessed in her autobiography that she wanted to abort the Portugal football captain when she was pregnant.</span></strong><br />

In her newly released book ‘<span style="color: #3f3f3f;">Mae Coragem’ in Portugal on Friday, Aveiro claimed that, ‘I wanted to abort but the doctor didn’t support my decision.’</span><br />

She further said that Ronaldo knew about this incident, “<span style="color: #3f3f3f;">He told me when he found out, ‘Look mum, you wanted to abort and now I’m the one who’s pulling the purse-strings in the house’.”</span><br />

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFRAAc0vAKI-xF1P0NT8wawQEuH3dPYG91X9wOLVpBBEogzbTMwtu2_L8tFfLOXo-LvplBZ2rQuae1TLjqyByevApI2sKGzZWv1qabW-KQZWT83zd6oVyYJsbd1L8Gwyrk3BcGvUrBc6U/s1600/Cristiano-Ronaldo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFRAAc0vAKI-xF1P0NT8wawQEuH3dPYG91X9wOLVpBBEogzbTMwtu2_L8tFfLOXo-LvplBZ2rQuae1TLjqyByevApI2sKGzZWv1qabW-KQZWT83zd6oVyYJsbd1L8Gwyrk3BcGvUrBc6U/s1600/Cristiano-Ronaldo.jpg" /></a>In the present era Ronaldo is one of the best footballers of this 
generation, he was the FIFA footballer of the year 2013 and helped 
Spanish Giants Real Madrid to clinch their 10th UEFA Champions League 
title but failed to deliver in the FIFA World Cup 2014 for Portuguese.

I wanted to abort him, says Cristiano Ronaldo’s mother

LONDON: Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo’s mother Dolores Aveiro has confessed in her autobiography that she wanted to abort the Port...

Man sues makers of “Call Of Duty” for portraying him in negative role

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<strong>US: Former dictator and drug lord sues makers of the Call Of Duty (video game) for portraying him a negative light.</strong>
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According to the media reports, the makers of the most popular game  
franchise are being sued by the incarcerated criminal for portraying him
 as a ‘kidnapper, murderer and enemy of the state’ in Call Of Duty: 
Black Ops II.<br />

It is reported that the game features a nefarious character 
named Manuel Noriega who double crosses the CIA in Panama while 
murdering plenty of his own forces and others along the way.<br />

It is reported that the drug is sentenced 30-years in prison for 
money laundering and drug trafficking but he sued company for portraying
 him a negative role in the video game.<br />

In his lawsuit, brought before the Los Angeles Superior Court, 
Noriega states that the game publisher Activation Blizzard should be 
forced to pay him royalties because the ‘heighten[ed] realism’ of using 
real people ‘translates directly into heightened sales for the 
defendants.<br />

It appears that despite his negative portrayal he is in fact suing 
the publisher for unjust enrichment, unfair business practices, and 
violation of common-law publicity rights.

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Great white shark choked by sea lion

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<b>PERTH: A great white shark that washed up on an Australian beach this week had a sea lion stuck in its throat which likely caused its death, fisheries officials said Thursday.</b></div>
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The Western Australia Department of Fisheries said it had no visible signs of injury or disease, but had a large sea lion lodged in its throat.</div>
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"Such a large object may have damaged the shark's internal organs or impeded water flow into his gills, contributing to his death," he added.</div>
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"Alternatively, the shark may have accidentally become stranded in his attempts to get rid of the obstruction."</div>
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Brad Tapper filmed the shark as it struggled in shallow waters and posted the clip on YouTube.</div>
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Tapper, who had been at the beach with his children, said a dog walker first noticed the shark when his pet refused to go in the water.</div>
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Job Seekers Put Themselves in Window Displays Hoping to Get Hired

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Unemployment in Europe has recently hit record highs, and although 
Denmark has been shielded from the eurozone’s economic problems thanks 
to its low public debt, qualified professionals are still finding it 
tough to get a job. Danish marketing firm Reputation Copenhagen has come
 up with an ingenious way of helping academics get noticed – putting 
them on display in storefront windows.<br />

Many highly-trained professionals, ranging from former CEOs to 
lawyers and tax experts are currently finding it increasingly difficult 
to find decent employment on the Danish job market. Some of them have 
been trying for years, leaving their resumes with dozens of companies, 
without ever hearing back from them, and are now at a point where they 
are willing to try anything. Even putting themselves in display windows 
like mannequins, hoping to get noticed by someone in need of their 
services. Alexander Peitersen, managing director of Reputation 
Copenhagen came up with the idea of using his company’s office as a 
storefront for the campaign, as there are many businesses nearby that 
might be interested in the talent on display. So he set up a small desk,
 put up the “an available academic is sitting here” sign, and asked the 
unemployed to just sit in the windows like merchandise. It seems like a 
pretty desperate measure, but at least it works; according to the 
agency’s website 3 of the job-seekers in their window display got a job 
in a day or two.<br />
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 “I’m willing to try anything,” Hannibal Camel Holt, an unemployed political scientist, told the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a>.
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looking for work on and off for the last four years. ”I feel like a 
monkey…in a cage as people walk by and just stare at me,” the former tax
 ministry employee said while working at his desk and occasionally 
glancing at passersby hoping for a positive reaction. The ingenious 
campaign has proven a hit with both unemployed professionals and 
headhunters, so <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">Reputation Copenhagen</a>
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representatives or business professionals interested in the academics on
 display can scan a QR code to watch a presentation of the person 
sitting behind the glass, check out their LinkedIn profile or come 
inside and have a talk with them.<br />
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Man Claims African Patch of Land as His Kingdom So His Little Girl Can Be a Real Princess

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Last winter, when Jeremiah Heaton’s daughter Emily asked 
him if she could be a real princess, the doting father didn’t have the 
heart to refuse. Even though he didn’t want to raise her hopes or make 
any false promises, he found himself agreeing to the outlandish request 
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“Over the winter, Emily and I were playing, and she has a 
fixation on princesses,” he said. “She asked me, in all seriousness, if 
she’d be a real princess someday. And I said she would.”</div>
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So Jeremiah spent hours scouring the internet for a 
suitable piece of unclaimed territory. He focused his search on the 
Latin term ‘terra nullius’, which means ‘land belonging to no one’. 
After several months of searching, he has now managed to locate an 
800-square mile desert in Africa, thousands of miles away from his home 
in Abingdon, Virginia.</div>
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The desert in question is unoccupied territory, claimed by 
both Egypt and Sudan, but belonging to neither, due to a land dispute 
dating back over 100 years. Located along the Sudanese border, about 
halfway between where the Nile crosses into Sudan and Egypt’s coast 
along the Red Sea, the strip of land is locally known as ‘Bir Tawil’. It
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There have been several online claimants to the property, 
and Jeremiah knew he had to do something special to make sure his claim 
stood out from the rest. So he actually gained permission from Egyptian 
authorities and travelled all the way to Africa. And on June 16 – 
Emily’s seventh birthday – he planted a blue flag with four stars 
(designed by his children) on a rocky hill, after a 14-hour caravan 
journey through the desert.</div>
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Jeremiah even renamed Bir Tawil; he’s now calling it the 
Kingdom of North Sudan, where he is the undisputed King and his 
daughter, the princess. “It’s beautiful here,” he said. “It’s an arid 
desert in Northeastern Africa. Bedouins roam the area; the population is
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“As a parent, you sometimes go down paths you never thought
 you would,” Jeremiah explained. “I wanted to show my kids I will 
literally go to the ends of the earth to make their wishes come true.” 
So he made the journey, even though he was ‘fearful of going into a 
toxic environment’.</div>
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And when he got back home, Jeremiah and his wife got Emily a
 crown – she is now addressed as Princess Emily by family members. “It’s
 cool,” said the little girl, who sleeps in a custom made castle bed. As
 princess, she wants to make sure that all people in the region have 
enough food. “That’s definitely a concern in that part of the world,” 
agreed Jeremiah. “We discussed what we could do as a nation to help.”</div>
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Jeremiah now plans to make his ‘conquest’ official by 
reaching out to the African Union for assistance. He wants to formally 
establish the Kingdom of North Sudan , and he’s quite confident that 
they will welcome him. “I do intend to pursue formal recognition with 
African nations,” he said. His first step is to get Sudan and Egypt to 
recognize the kingdom.</div>
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Surprisingly, Jeremiah is quite sure that his claim over 
Bir Tawil is legitimate. He explained that planting a flag is exactly 
how other countries, including the United States, were historically 
claimed. The only difference here is that his is conquest is an act of 
love, not war. “I founded the nation in love for my daughter,” he 
declared.</div>
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Last winter, when Jeremiah Heaton’s daughter Emily asked him if she could be a real princess, the doting father didn’t have the heart to...

Baby Born after Mum Was Struck by Lightning Still Has Static Hair a Year Later

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One-year-old Kimberly Gordon was born under the most 
unusual circumstances. She was delivered last year by emergency 
C-section after her mother was struck by lightning in Albuquerque, New 
Mexico. Surprisingly, the miracle baby survived the electrical jolt, but
 with consequences – she now has the most adorable static hair that 
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The bizarre event took place on July 4 last year, when Ian 
Gordon and his 38-weeks pregnant girlfriend Kendra Villanueva were 
outdoors watching the Independance Day fireworks. It began to rain and a
 thunderstorm soon followed, and the couple were forced to run for 
cover. As they passed under a tree, both of them were struck by 
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According to Ian, the lightning traveled through his ears, 
jumped to Kendra’s body and left through her thumb. “They were both 
awake and looking at us,” said Lt. Ryan Perry of the Albuquerque Fire 
Department, who had rushed to their rescue. “But we knew that there was 
underlying injuries that we possibly couldn’t see that we needed to 
treat quickly and get them to the hospital.”</div>
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The couple was immediately rushed to the ER at University 
of New Mexico Hospital, where doctors decided to induce labor two weeks 
short of the due date. “Everybody we’ve seen says it’s a miracle she’s 
alive,” said Ian. “She’s just kind of a play-it-by ear baby.”</div>
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Although she was born healthy, Kimberly does have 
neurological damage because she was exposed to lightning in her mother’s
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sleeping. Even today, she can’t sit up or digest food very well.</div>
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 “It’s hard seeing she can’t eat like she’s supposed to and can’t have 
food yet, just through the tube,” said Kendra. “But other than that I’m 
glad she lived through it all.” Kimberly’s doctors aren’t sure when she 
might walk or talk, but they’re still amazed that she could survive such
 a shock. It’s incredibly rare – of the 11 pregnant women who were ever 
struck by lightning, only half the number of babies survived.</div>
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Spanish Town Installs World’s First Public Toilet for Dogs

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A small town in Spain has come up with a new way of dealing with dog waste – a canine public toilet. Located along a busy thoroughfare in El Vendrell, northeastern Spain, the stainless steel contraption consists of two sections placed side by side – a doggy potty and a doggy urinal.</div>
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The potty is a raised steel platform with a covered hole. Dog owners need to lift the lid for their pets to defecate, and later press a handle to flush. Jets of water are released, which carry the excrement through underground pipes into the sewer system. Right next to the potty is the urinal – also a raised platform with small holes over which dogs can squat. The public toilet is the brainchild of dog-lover Enric Girona, who has spent over ten years observing and photographing dogs. Through his work, he recognized the need for a toilet for dogs, so he set about creating one himself. “Over the years, I’ve seen that if you train and raise dogs well, these animals can be just like humans,” he explained.</div>
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Spanish Town Installs World’s First Public Toilet for Dogs

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Photos of Beautiful Women Are Actually Amazingly-Realistic Oil Paintings - Must See

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Each time we feature hyper-realistic paintings on OC, I think, “This is the best I’ve ever seen.” But then we get to see another artist’s work, and I’m amazed all over again. This time it’s the work of New York-based Israeli painter Yigal Ozeri. I’m still having a hard time believing that these paintings aren’t actually photographs of women.</div>
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Seriously, there’s no denying the fact that Ozeri’s taken hyperrealism to a whole new level. You can’t spot a single brushstroke in these photograph-inspired paintings, that’s how perfect his work is. He starts each piece by photographing beautiful women in nature-themed sceneries, while staying hidden at a safe distance from his models. Back at his studio, he alters the shots with Photoshop and prints them out. Using the prints as a reference, Ozeri then spends days recreating them with oil on canvas</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #5b6265; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Ozeri has lived and painted in New York for the past 20 years. His inspiration comes from the Pre-Raphaelites – artists from 19th century England who celebrated nature. His paintings have been exhibited extensively in Israel, Europe, and the United States. His work is also a part of many prominent collections at Albertina Museum in Vienna, The Jewish Museum in New York, and Scheringa Museum of Realist Art in the Netherlands, among others.</span></div>
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Photos of Beautiful Women Are Actually Amazingly-Realistic Oil Paintings - Must See

Each time we feature hyper-realistic paintings on OC, I think, “This is the best I’ve ever seen.” But then we get to see another artist’s w...