tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100006262060312012024-03-12T18:40:02.325-07:00TeroesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13725154659411029059noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810000626206031201.post-2019308337318388282017-12-05T22:31:00.000-08:002017-12-05T22:31:00.191-08:00Mitos Dan Misteri dari Keindahan Wisata Telaga Serangan<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCabddHKG-fqnilh-KX3GDaCCmMwdQp8mNswtdqTtnTQ99WdbD_bTxM2McdS7kZxXeEik8o-Jv8RlsnRTtfApyubPwkf6cx_uxqQ0j0Q6pDDy8hPwIX4ETquvZvhJpqWwYy9rlydGn3Aw/s1600/mitos+misteri+wisata+telaga+sarangan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="877" data-original-width="1080" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCabddHKG-fqnilh-KX3GDaCCmMwdQp8mNswtdqTtnTQ99WdbD_bTxM2McdS7kZxXeEik8o-Jv8RlsnRTtfApyubPwkf6cx_uxqQ0j0Q6pDDy8hPwIX4ETquvZvhJpqWwYy9rlydGn3Aw/s640/mitos+misteri+wisata+telaga+sarangan.jpg" style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></a></div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Sarangan atau yang populer dengan nama Telaga Pasir terletak di ketinggian 1.200 meter di atas permukaan laut dan terletak di lereng Gunung Lawu, Magetan, Jawa Timur.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Dilansir dari berbagai sumber, Telaga Sarangan merupakan obyek wisata andalan Kabupaten Magetan. Di sana pengunjung dapat menikmati keindahan Telaga Sarangan dengan berkuda atau menaiki speed boat alias kapal cepat.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Nah, selain memiliki keindahan wisata Telaga Sarangan juga menyimpan mitos yang beredar di masyarakat dan para wisatawan, yaitu cerita mengenai pembentukanan telaga yang kononnya dibuat oleh Kyai Pasir dan Nyai Pasir.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Dalam cerita yang melegenda, kedua tokoh ini berubah mejadi seekor naga raksasa, karena memakan sebutir telur yang ditemuinya di lereng gunung tersebut.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Setelah menyantap telur Nyai dan Kyai Pasir tersebut gatal dan menggerus-gerus pasir dan berguling-guling tanpa henti yang ahirnya membentuk sebuah cekungan besar dan mucul berbagai sumber hingga membentuk sebuah telaga yang kini dikenal dengan Telaga Sarangan.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Di balik semua mitos ini, namun Telaga Sarangan tetap menjadi primadona wisata di kawasan Magetan, Jawa Timur, seperti libur nasional Nyepi dan akhir pekan.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13725154659411029059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810000626206031201.post-48432623063514228522017-12-05T22:30:00.003-08:002017-12-05T22:30:25.061-08:00Soeharto Menangis Ketika Ditinggal Liem Sioe Liong Ke Singapura<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMoN4hyphenhyphen1cOFvs25BsvgvZ5iiGKWZ5jwZyYmyzNK2PTm1uNknY9P_ZjAgebljUDvXVlQEWm0iXmkHGD7PtAx53OprrZ5Q5z_iyrEICysxyCauqr_4E7Czs_dAgwuDd8Zx2yIuN9bQpSs50/s1600/Soeharto+Menangis+Ketika+Ditinggal+Liem+Sioe+Liong+Ke+Singapura.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1080" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMoN4hyphenhyphen1cOFvs25BsvgvZ5iiGKWZ5jwZyYmyzNK2PTm1uNknY9P_ZjAgebljUDvXVlQEWm0iXmkHGD7PtAx53OprrZ5Q5z_iyrEICysxyCauqr_4E7Czs_dAgwuDd8Zx2yIuN9bQpSs50/s640/Soeharto+Menangis+Ketika+Ditinggal+Liem+Sioe+Liong+Ke+Singapura.jpg" style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></a></div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Persahabatan antara taipan Liem Sioe Liong dengan mantan presiden Soeharto memang hanya bisa dipisahkan oleh ajal. Semasa hidupnya, dua sahabat tersebut mempunyai banyak kesamaan meskipun lahir di negara yang berbeda.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Salah satunya adalah keduanya mempunyai keyakinan tersendiri terhadap hal-hal yang bersifat spiritual. Jika Soeharto gemar menyepi dan bermeditasi, begitu juga Liem yang juga gemar membangun kuil-kuil sebagai tempat meditasinya.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Salah satu kepercayaan kaum yang memercayai spiritual, terutama Jawa, adalah ketika dua orang bersahabat erat, ketika salah satu meninggal maka yang masih hidup akan segera menyusul.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Untuk itu, ketika Soeharto meninggal dalam usia 86, 27 Januari 2008 silam, Liem tidak diberi tahu oleh keluarganya perihal berita menyedihkan tersebut. Waktu itu, Liem tengah berada di Singapura setelah kabur dari Indonesia pada saat kericuhan krisis ekonomi tahun 1998 silam.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Dalam buku biografi Liem yang bertajuk "Liem Sioe Liong's Salim Group: The Business Pillar of Suharto's Indonesia", Liem mengungkapkan bahwa terakhir kali dia bertemu Soeharto adalah pada akhir tahun 2006.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Waktu itu dia mengunjungi mantan orang nomor satu Indonesia tersebut di kediamannya di Jl. Cendana. "Kami mengucapkan selamat tinggal di pintu rumahnya," ujar dia, "dan Pak Harto menangis." Setelah kericuhan 1998, memang banyak pihak yang semula mendukung Soeharto berbalik menjadi lawannya. Namun tidak untuk Liem, dia loyal dengan Soeharto hingga akhir hayatnya. Sampai empat tahun setelah meninggalnya Soeharto, akhirnya sang sahabat menyusul meninggalkan dunia.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13725154659411029059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810000626206031201.post-66278394756649353182017-12-05T22:30:00.000-08:002017-12-05T22:30:01.205-08:00Negara-Negara Yang Sulit Bagi Kaum Perempuan<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5yGLKiSNnoIyxi8ZlzQf3M88VRXeVy6JqmknAkju7F97L1ED6XZojD_k1ZCscpGLSzHxeqtzFSYPPO9EWL3SSGhHv9AvHDjfT3jap4eZv2XLf32QA6J2-_YyMfAV1K3I2v_kTX8ic-Hg/s1600/Negara-Negara+Yang+Sulit+Bagi+Kaum+Perempuan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="1080" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5yGLKiSNnoIyxi8ZlzQf3M88VRXeVy6JqmknAkju7F97L1ED6XZojD_k1ZCscpGLSzHxeqtzFSYPPO9EWL3SSGhHv9AvHDjfT3jap4eZv2XLf32QA6J2-_YyMfAV1K3I2v_kTX8ic-Hg/s640/Negara-Negara+Yang+Sulit+Bagi+Kaum+Perempuan.jpg" style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></a></div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Tidak semua perempuan beruntung terlahir di negara maju,teratur,penegakan hukum yg jelas ,dan makmur</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Banyak diantaranya lahir di negara yg berantakan yg tentu menjadi neraka bagi perempuan,atau negara yg relatif stabil tapi masih memandang wanita sebagai manusia kelas dua,dsb.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Berikut rangkuman beberapa negara terburuk bagi wanita utk ditinggali (dinilai dari dua faktor,perlindungan keamanan perempuan dan kesetaraan gender/hak hak perempuan).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">1.Afghanistan </b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Rata-rata gadis Afghanistan hanya akan hidup sampai umur 45 tahun - satu tahun lbh rendah dibanding pria Afghanistan. Setelah tiga dekade perang dan taliban berkuasa,mulailah era pembatasan hak perempuan dengan dalil agama, melarang perempuan sekolah mengakibatkan hampir sluruh wanita muda buta huruf.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Lebih dari 50% dari semua pengantin wanita diseluruh negri berusia di bawah 16 tahun, dan satu wanita meninggal saat melahirkan setiap setengah jam. Kekerasan dlm rmh tangga bgitu umum sehingga 87 persen wanita mengaku mengalaminya.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Yg paling parah, ada satu juta janda yg menjajakan prostitusi dijalanan demi alasan ekonomi, baik inisiatif sendiri atau dipaksa.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Invasi USA ke afghanistan menggulingkan taliban tidak membawa harapan yg lebih baik bagi perempuan afghanistan...kecuali hanya satu perubahan signifikan,yaitu perempuan mulai bisa sekolah</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Afghanistan adalah negara dimana perempuan hidupnya paling tertekan didunia,diindikasikan dengan prestasi afghanistan sebagai satu satunya negara dimana perempuan lbh byk bunuh diri dibanding laki laki.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Nepal</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Knp nepal, bkn india?bukankah keamanan di india utk perempuan juga parah?india buruk di faktor keamanan dan hak hak/kesetaraan gender perempuan tapi nepal sama buruknya dikasus keamanan dan lbh buruk mengenai hak hak perempuan/kesetaraan gender dibanding india.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Pernikahan dini adlh hal yg umum di negara ini. dan satu dari 24 orng akan meninggal dlm kehamilan atau persalinan.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Anak perempuan dari keluarga miskin yg blm menikah biasanya dijual ke pedagang gelap sblm mrka berumur 17.berpacaran dngn orang yg dicintai? suatu hal yg harus disyukuri.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Janda menghadapi pelecehan dan diskriminasi ekstrem jika diberi label bokshi, yg brarti penyihir.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Saudi Arabia</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Wanita saudi arabia lbh beruntung dibanding nepal dan afghanistan krn negara arab saudi saat ini cukup stabil baik politik dan ekonomi di skala masyarakat.meski demikian byk wanita saudi menyuarakan ketidakpuasan hak hak mereka yg minim dan rendahnya kesetaraan gender disana(saudi menempati peringkat kesetaraan gender no.5 terburuk didunia),sementara perlindungan hukum utk perempuan disana jg buruk.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Wanita di Arab Saudi diperlakukan sebagai tanggungan seumur hidup, di bawah perwalian seorang saudara laki-laki.apabila seorang wanita saudi ingin keluar rumah,ia harus ditemani salah satu anggota keluarga laki lakinya,suatu hal yg tidak fleksibel.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Mereka jg kehilangan hak utk mengemudikan mobil atau berbaur dengan laki laki asing di tempat umum.olahraga di tempat umum jg terbatas.jg mahar menikah disaudi yg mahal membuat byk perempuan saudi tidak pernah menikah seumur hidupnya.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Kemudian yg plg sering disorot dunia adalah lemahnya posisi perempuan di mata hukum saudi.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Kasus pemerkosaan di saudi sangat rendah,ditenggarai karena perempaun saudi takut melapor apabila diperkosa.rata rata perempuan saudi sudah menyerah duluan utk melaporkan kasusnya apabila tidak memiliki 4 saksi mata pemerkosaannya.dan bagi yg bernyali membawa kasusnya kepengadilan bisa berakhir dengan kemungkinan si perempuan lah yg dipenjara dengan alasan menggoda si laki laki.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Selain itu meskipun pristitusi ilegal di arab saudi,namun prostitusi dijalanan sangat marak(pelakunya didominasi pekerja asing),kebanyakan mereka adalah orang orang yg terjebak(pembantu yg kabur dr majikannya dan paspor ditahan,biasanya akibat disiksa scr fisik atau diperkosa) sehingga dijual koleganya sendiri,atau justru menawarkan dirinya sendiri,kebanyakan berasal dari filipina, Indonesia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam, Kenya, Yemen, Algeria dan Tajikistan.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Pemerintah Saudi tidak pernah serius memberantas prostitusi jalanan ini,dan para germo dan jaringannya bebas berkeliaran menjalankan bisnis mereka dikarenakan polisi biasanya hanya mendeportasi pelaku prostitusi (yg didominasi pekerja asing) dan hanya selesai sampai disana.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13725154659411029059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810000626206031201.post-90864878984511624902017-12-05T22:29:00.002-08:002017-12-05T22:29:25.557-08:00Orang Zaman Dulu Suka Memotret Jenazah Anak<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRty7JxT1uNMtx8TtzEI-oPgTvxSp1pD6-Tgf1kXASFagwB2_WtolxuaMyc3dpigKGcghCvqH2a4ryaNok_-h9i7lkdWbSgw4c1k4KDbgdLG4FpRmqfT9OivOpUUx3jmUuwRJICJVhZ5o/s1600/Orang+Zaman+Dulu+Suka+Memotret+Jenazah+Anak.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="879" data-original-width="1080" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRty7JxT1uNMtx8TtzEI-oPgTvxSp1pD6-Tgf1kXASFagwB2_WtolxuaMyc3dpigKGcghCvqH2a4ryaNok_-h9i7lkdWbSgw4c1k4KDbgdLG4FpRmqfT9OivOpUUx3jmUuwRJICJVhZ5o/s640/Orang+Zaman+Dulu+Suka+Memotret+Jenazah+Anak.jpg" style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></a></div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Di masa kini, memotret adalah hal yang biasa dan bisa dilakukan semua orang. Memotret bisa dilakukan dengan kamera mahal profesional hingga memakai kamera handphone biasa. Hal berbeda terjadi di tahun 1800-an, di mana kamera adalah hal yang mahal karena baru ditemukan.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Penemuan Daguerreotype (proses fotografi paling awal) membuat orang-orang Eropa di masa lalu terkagum-kagum. Mereka bisa mengabadikan diri sendiri dengan cepat, dalam gambar yang sama dengan aslinya, berbeda dengan lukisan. Pada tahun 1839, hanya orang-orang tertentu yang bisa memakai jasa tukang foto.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Sebagai penemuan baru, banyak keluarga ingin mengabadikan potret-potret mereka, agar keturunan mereka kelak bisa melihat wajah leluhur mereka. Karena sangat antusias, mereka bahkan memotret jenazah anak-anak mereka dalam bentuk foto. Hal ini bisa dimaklumi, karena mereka ingin mengenang anak mereka. Tubuh jenazah akan hancur dalam tanah, tetapi foto tidak.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Bisa Anda lihat bagaimana foto-foto ini, Anda pasti mengira bayi di atas masih hidup, padahal itu adalah foto jenazah. Wajah saudara bayi di atas tampak tegang, mungkin mereka takut karena tahu bahwa adik mereka sudah meninggal.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Beberapa jasad anak-anak sengaja dibuka matanya, diberi bedak atau perona pipi agar tampak seolah hidup. Ada juga foto lain yang sengaja memperlihatkan bahwa objek foto memang sudah meninggal, anak-anak di biarkan berbaring damai dalam peti mati mereka.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Di tahun yang sama, ilmu kedokteran belum berkembang sebaik sekarang. Banyak wabah penyakit menyerang dan membuat banyak anak meninggal. Sehingga bisa dibayangkan, berapa banyak keluarga menggunakan jasa tukang foto di masa itu untuk memotret jasad anak-anak mereka.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Beberapa foto menggambarkan bagaimana wabah penyakit di masa itu begitu mematikan dan membuat hidup anak-anak ini berakhir sangat cepat. Mungkin bagi kita menyeramkan, namun inilah bukti bahwa anak-anak ini begitu dicintai keluarga mereka.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Selembar foto bisa menjadi sebuah kenang-kenangan manis bagi keluarga yang ditinggalkan.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13725154659411029059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810000626206031201.post-34211872627763641432017-12-05T22:28:00.005-08:002017-12-05T22:28:57.722-08:00Alasan Orang Zaman Dulu Tidak Tersenyum Ketika Foto<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFIgXstaWWC4Ytd3OVzPgXh_HCDUuFvivZAaztm2_UTLLnAZPpj7UNSCxlU1xPh8Q-7Jkcmlrjh7ofiUY00zed2BcJTmrDKCeMyZXWlh8sBvMWIcUOD2jZrST53uonYyGc49c5ldUyrXs/s1600/Alasan+Orang+Zaman+Dulu+Tidak+Tersenyum+Ketika+Foto.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="879" data-original-width="1080" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFIgXstaWWC4Ytd3OVzPgXh_HCDUuFvivZAaztm2_UTLLnAZPpj7UNSCxlU1xPh8Q-7Jkcmlrjh7ofiUY00zed2BcJTmrDKCeMyZXWlh8sBvMWIcUOD2jZrST53uonYyGc49c5ldUyrXs/s640/Alasan+Orang+Zaman+Dulu+Tidak+Tersenyum+Ketika+Foto.jpg" style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></a></div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Pada masa lalu, orang yang sedang di foto selalu dalam posisi duduk menghadap depan serta ekspresi wajah yang serius dan tanpa senyum. Ternyata terdapat beberapa hal yang menjadi alasan munculnya gaya seperti ini. Alasan pertama adalah karena teknologi fotografi yang masih baru bagi orang-orang tersebut.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Rata-rata foto dengan pose tersebut berada pada masa-masa awal fotografi ketika kamera masih belum canggih seperti yang dikenal beberapa dekade belakangan. Banyak orang masih tidak yakin untuk membuat foto mereka dan pada beberapa kebudayaan dipercaya bahwa berfoto dapat mengurangi usia yang mereka miliki. Itu sebab mengapa muncul wajah serius ketika difoto.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Alasan kedua adalah karena kurang canggihnya kamera sehingga waktu pemotretan cukup lama. Pada saat ini, mengambil foto merupakan kegiatan yang sangat mudah dan cepat hanya beberapa detik saja. Namun pada zaman dahulu, untuk menghasilkan sebuah foto dibutuhkan waktu pemotretan antara 5 hingga 30 menit. Lamanya waktu ini menyebabkan ekspresi mereka menjadi datar dan sering terlihat lelah ketika difoto.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Alasan ketiga adalah untuk menyembunyikan gigi. Pada masa lalu berfoto atau memasang wajah tersenyum dan menunjukkan gigi dipandang bukan sebuah hal yang menunjukkan wibawa. Oleh karena itu pose ini tidak dilakukan terlebih karena foto dapat disimpan dalam waktu yang lama. Demi menjaga wibawa maka hal tersebut tidak dilakukan.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Pada masa lalu selain karena keterbatasan alat, budaya pada masyarakat juga tidak mendukung seseorang berada dalam kondisi tersenyum. Itu alasan mengapa pada foto-foto lama seseorang selalu memasang wajah serius dan tanpa senyum ketika berfoto.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13725154659411029059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810000626206031201.post-85312321971303601232017-12-05T22:28:00.002-08:002017-12-05T22:28:25.054-08:00Bakteri di Luar Angkasa, Apakah Mungkin Milik Alien?<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0tDlN26qHVXoUPyILFENM7fefkTW6T2Fs1JkuindfVxgdxv0kuugzNBO3BnzMn9KyhA2WKrqrMDY79FwImInjHAwM4XyyuPHIsOMgHOwL2DykYmaKnFaBtq_BydaE5pOoM19JxjB5bMo/s1600/Bakteri+di+Luar+Angkasa%252C+Apakah+Mungkin+Milik+Alien.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1080" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0tDlN26qHVXoUPyILFENM7fefkTW6T2Fs1JkuindfVxgdxv0kuugzNBO3BnzMn9KyhA2WKrqrMDY79FwImInjHAwM4XyyuPHIsOMgHOwL2DykYmaKnFaBtq_BydaE5pOoM19JxjB5bMo/s640/Bakteri+di+Luar+Angkasa%252C+Apakah+Mungkin+Milik+Alien.jpg" style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></a></div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Kosmonot Rusia Anton Shkaplerov mengaku telah menemukan 'bakteri asing' menempel di permukaan Stasiun Antariksa Internasional (ISS). Ia kemudian menyeka bagian luar stasiun ISS dengan kapas yang terdapat bakteri asing itu menempel. Dari situ, para ilmuwan melakukan studi mengenai apakah bakteri tersebut memang berasal dari Bumi atau luar angkasa.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Shkaplerov, salah seorang kosmonot dari rombongan penemu bakteri misterius itu mengatakan, bahwa sampel pada kapas diambil selama aktivitas ekstravistik (di luar pesawat) yang menyelidiki area yang tidak jelas di sekitar eksterior ISS dan tempat limbah bahan bakar yang sudah terakumulasi dari debit mesin stasiun. "Bakteri yang belum ada saat peluncuran modul ISS ditemukan di atas penyeka. Artinya, mereka (bakteri) datang dari suatu tempat di luar angkasa dan menetap di luar stasiun," ujar Shkaplerov dilansir Mirror, Senin, 4 Desember 2017.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Saat ini tahap penyelidikan bakteri akan membuktikan apakah bakteri ini benar-benar bersifat ekstraterestrial (kehidupan di luar Bumi). Namun, ia menambahkan kalau beberapa bakteri yang berasal dari Bumi, khususnya Madagaskar, yang telah terbukti bisa bertahan dalam ruang hampa udara.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Fenomena itu juga dikenal dengan lift ionosfer. Namun begitu, ia dan ilmuwan lainnya berpendapat jika bakteri memang berasal dari luar angkasa, artinya, menjadi penanda kehidupan alien.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Sementara itu, menurut Shkaplerov, bakteri misterius tersebut tidak berbahaya bagi manusia.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13725154659411029059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810000626206031201.post-52767684115394554952017-12-05T22:27:00.001-08:002017-12-05T22:27:48.841-08:005 Kasus Kedokteran Yang Membuat Dunia Heboh<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAL0-4571gJEaCRVTDMyQbYszcjNEkTR4TcbOI9FPuyIJ76umxiC7yxycyoZayBnfl2nOufvi7Vtg5YSJ1wiS6lPzGSVGvkRg94NudeS5zXKO7CryT8exbCD0tBrGyKBf184EXifmt9IE/s1600/5+Kasus+Kedokteran+Yang+Membuat+Dunia+Heboh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1080" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAL0-4571gJEaCRVTDMyQbYszcjNEkTR4TcbOI9FPuyIJ76umxiC7yxycyoZayBnfl2nOufvi7Vtg5YSJ1wiS6lPzGSVGvkRg94NudeS5zXKO7CryT8exbCD0tBrGyKBf184EXifmt9IE/s640/5+Kasus+Kedokteran+Yang+Membuat+Dunia+Heboh.jpg" style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></a></div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Pasien berdarah hijau</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Pada bulan Oktober 2005, dokter di Rumah Sakit St. Paul, Vancouver melakukan operasi terhadap pasien lelaki usia 42 tahun. Betapa terkejutnya tim dokter itu, ketika dilakukan operasi pada kakinya, pasien mengeluarkan darah berwarna hijau gelap bukan normalnya darah yang berwarna merah.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Setelah ditelusuri riwayatnya, si pasien ternyata sering mengonsumsi obat sumatriptan dalam dosis besar atau 200 miligram setiap harinya. Obat ini diketahui untuk mengobati migrain.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Perubahan warna ini disebabkan oleh sulfhaemoglobin yang terbentuk ketika sebuah atom belerang masuk ke dalam molekul hemoglobin yang bisa disebabkan oleh obat-obatan yang dikonsumsi sejenis sulfonamida.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Ketika hidrogen sulfida (ion sulfida) dan ion besi bergabung dalam darah, maka darah tidak mampu membawa oksigen. Hal ini membuat jumlah sulfhemoglobin (SulfHb) dalam darah berlebih. Sementara darah merah terbentuk dengan bantuan oksigen.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Mata tertutup </b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Natalie Adler, mengidap penyakit aneh. Ia mengalami kebutaan secara rutin selama tiga hari dalam seminggu akibat kelopak matanya yang tiba-tiba selalu menutup dan tidak kuasa dibukanya.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Adler (21) mengaku dirinya mengalami kondisi kelainan medis ini selama empat tahun atau sejak ia berusia 17 tahun. Matanya tiba-tiba selalu menutup secara periodik dan akhirnya menutup sama sekali selama tiga hari.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Professor Justin O'Day dari bagian syaraf-oftalmologi Rumah Sakit Royal Victoria mengatakan kondisi ini disebut blepharospasm.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Dua set DNA</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Setelah didiagnosa oleh dokter, Karen Keegan, seorang guru wanita 52 tahun di Boston harus mendapatkan transplantasi ginjal. Anak-anaknya pun bersedia mendonorkan satu ginjalnya. Setelah dites, tak ada yang sesuai dengan profil genetik Keegan.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Pemeriksaan lebih lanjut cukup mengejutkan. Keegan diketahui mengalami chimerism, yakni kondisi saat ada bayi kembar di dalam rahim, namun kembar pertama 'menyerap' kembar lainnya hingga tersisa satu bayi saja. Akibatnya, embrio bayi pertama ini mengandung dua set DNA dalam tubuhnya.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Pensil dalam kepala</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Setelah menderita sakit kepala berat yang mengakibatkan terus mimisan selama 55 tahun, Margaret Wegner menjalani operasi pada bulan Agustus 2007. Saat inilah pensil sepanjang 3 inci akhirnya dikeluarkan dari kepalanya.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Uniknya, para dokter sebenarnya sudah mengetahui keberadaan pensil tersebut bersarang dalam kepala Wegner selama lima puluh tahun. Namun, selama itu pula dokter menunggu saat yang tepat. Dulu teknologi belum memungkinkan untuk operasi dan takut merusak kepala Wegner.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Untuk diketahui, Wegner mengalami kecelakaan saat berusuia 4 tahun dan menyebabkan sebatang pensil masuk ke dalam kepalanya.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Tertawa 12 tahun</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Xu Pinghui dari Chongqing mulai tertawa non-stop setelah menderita demam saat baru berumur delapan bulan. Aneh, setelah peristiwa tersebut ia kehilangan kemampuan untuk berbicara saat usianya menginjak 2 tahun, dan hanya bisa tertawa cekikikan.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Kondisi ini diketahui telah berlangsung selama lebih dari 12 tahun. Menurut spesialis yang menangani kasus ini, kemungkinan disebabkan oleh kerusakan pada lobus frontal akibat demam.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13725154659411029059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810000626206031201.post-12008656747721253542017-11-06T01:18:00.002-08:002017-11-06T01:18:19.068-08:009 Wonderful Christmas Gifts<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Mother Accused of Spoiling Her Kids with Mountain of Christmas Presents Buys Even More This Year</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;"> Emma Tapping, a mother-of-three from the Isle of Man, U.K, first made headlines last year, when she was accused of spoiling her children by getting them 87 Christmas presents each. That didn’t seem to bother her too much, as this year she bought even more gifts for them – 96 each.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">After Emma posted a picture of her Christmas Tree buried in a mountain of presents, last year, it went viral and made the rounds online with the caption “Nearly time for all the materialistic parents to compete and broadcast how many presents their kids have on Facebook! Just remember there’s some children’ who don’t get much.” After being approached by various news sites and TV shows about her Christmas shopping habit and the effect it has on her kids, the woman said that she only spoils them on Christmas, because she loves seeing the joy on their faces when they’re opening presents.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“If you ask me if I spoil my kids, I say at Christmas yes I do but I don’t throughout the year. They get the necessities, the school uniform, the things they need but we don’t go on holidays abroad or big shopping sprees,” she said. “Anything they want, they get for Christmas.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Last year, Tapping was even accused of “abusing” her children by showering them with so many Christmas presents, but that hasn’t stopped her from buying even more for them this year. “When it first happened I felt like I had to stick up for the kids and say they are not spoilt. I felt I had to justify what I was doing, but now I couldn’t give a toss what anyone thinks,” she told Channel 5. “I will put a picture of my Christmas tree up this year, if you don’t like it scroll on and it is a good job I am not your mum.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Emma, who runs a holiday cottage, started buying this year’s Christmas presents for her kids in July, and by the end of November she had already finished packaging everything. She has banned herself from going shopping until after Christmas because she is always ‘tempted to buy more’. This way she’ll have to stop at a whopping 96-presents per child. “This year they have a few more bits – 96 presents each. I am proud of this year’s pile!”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">As you can imagine, the kids – teenager Mia, nine-year-old Ella and toddler son Tatum – love her mother’s Christmas present obsession. “I love getting the amount of presents we do, who wouldn’t?”, Mia said. “I wouldn’t say we are spoilt. “Everything we might of got throughout the year we get on one day. I love it.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">With all the bargains and discounts she got last year, Emma Tapping still managed to spend over £1,500 on Christmas presents, and probably even more than that for this year’s Holidays. But she and the kids admit that some of the presents from last Christmas have gone unused after being unwrapped. “I couldn’t be bothered putting it all away. Some of it got boxed on top of my wardrobe as there wasn’t room for it,” Mia said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Yesterday after all the other Christmas gifts had been handed out and opened, Joe Riquelme and his parents sat back to relax and enjoy the rest of the holiday.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">At least, that’s what mom and dad figured. But Joe had one more present to give.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">He pulled a folded, unmarked envelope from his pocket and handed it to his mom.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">As he says…</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“Sometimes the best gifts come in the lamest packages.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">She opened it up and pulled out what appeared to be a bill.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">But it had a note attached to it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">And then it hit them… </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;"> Trolling family members with fake Christmas presents can be fun, as long as feelings aren't hurt and the victim of the prank actually gets a present in the end.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">But Christmas gift trolls should bow down to the master, Imgur user Lictalon's brother James, because James has turned gift trolling into an artform.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">First Lictalon was presented with an obviously guitar-shaped gift, which he found odd since he's "the least musically talented dude on Earth".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">But as he tore into the gift he found something too good to be true inside:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Knowing that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild wasn't set to come out until some time in 2017 Lictalon said "confusion set in...nah...can't be", and then he took the bait anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;"> ROCK ISLAND — A Rock Island woman's holiday gift turned out to be a $25,000 winner.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Mechelle Woolison, 45, said she received Iowa Lottery scratch tickets as a holiday gift. One of them, a $2 "Holiday Season Bingo" ticket, ended up winning the third of the game's seven $25,000 prizes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“I checked the numbers like three times,” Ms. Woolison told lottery employees as she claimed her prize Tuesday at the lottery’s regional office in Cedar Rapids. “Then I asked my partner to check it and she checked it like three times.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Ms. Woolison said she’s an occasional lottery player and was still in disbelief when she claimed her prize from the lottery.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“It’s not going to be real until I get the money in my hand,” she said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">She said she plans to use her lottery winnings to help pay for a kitchen remodeling project as well as some bills.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The winning ticket was sold at Sara Mini Mart, 1026 W. River Drive, Davenport.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;"> OCEANSIDE, N.Y. (AP) — A New York couple was horrified when a UPS delivery that they thought was a Christmas present turned out to be an assault rifle.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Newsday reports that Joel Berman opened the keyboard-sized case in front of his wife and 6-year-old granddaughter Wednesday night in Oceanside, on Long Island.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Instead of a toy plane they were buying for their friend's son, they found a semi-automatic rifle, scope, stand, ammo clip and copies of an Arizona man's driver's license and concealed-weapons permit.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">They hustled their granddaughter out of the room and called police, who picked up the weapon.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Atlanta-based UPS says it's investigating the "highly unusual incident." The company says it accepts legal shipments of some firearms. It says shippers must meet certain requirements.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;"> MACON, Ga. (UPI) -- A Georgia man's outburst of Christmas joy quickly turned to pain as a pet cat scratched his face and neck as he opened his gift.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Jessica Freeman shared video on Christmas Eve of a man frantically opening up a gift containing a Playstation 4 and raising the video game console above his head when a cat lunged toward his head and began scratching.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"Y'all, this is what pure joy looks like," she wrote. Also terror. Merry Christmas!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Freeman shared photos of the man's wounds which she said required a trip to the doctor for stitches, but they enjoyed laughing at the bizarre situation.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The video quickly went viral, gathering hundreds of thousands of comments, including several claiming the animal was provoked or mistreated.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Freeman responded to the comments by saying the cat comes from a good home and describing the pet as "spoiled" and a jerk.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"He wasn't 'provoked.' A grown up was acting overly excited as a joke and the cat walked across the room then back. He wasn't 'startled,'" she wrote. You can clearly see him walk up and calmly sit while planning his attack. Also, this is not my cat. No reason for me to lie.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Despite the cat's reputation as a "jerk," Freeman shared photos of herself with the man and the cat with the PS4 to show that everyone was living together in harmony after the incident.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">DALLAS, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A Texas woman is gaining viral attention after she used her ex-fiance's Christmas gift -- tickets to a Dallas Cowboys game -- and detailed their breakup with a sign.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Austin resident Brenna Canton's revenge on her ex went viral after she was photographed at Monday night's game between the Cowboys and the Detroit Lions holding a sign explaining that her tickets had been intended as a gift for her fiance before he broke up with her via text message.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Clanton told the Dallas Morning News the late-October text message, which came only four months after they became engaged, claimed the couple had "nothing in common."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"That threw me for a loop," she said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Clanton said the couple did share one big thing in common -- they are both huge Cowboys fans. She said she bought tickets to Monday night's game as a birthday gift for her fiance only one week before he sent the now-infamous text message.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Clanton attended Monday night's game holding a homemade sign reading, "My fiance dumped me in a text message. He should have waited until after Christmas. #NothingInCommon #Ghosting #ESPN #MNF"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"I decided to have some fun with it, this was my little get-back to him," she said. "I thought this might show up on the jumbotron or TV broadcast and I knew [my ex] would be watching the game."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The sign went viral after it was photographed by Alex McDaniel, an editor for the Oxford Eagle, and posted to Twitter.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Clanton was given another reason to celebrate when the Cowboys beat the Lions 42-21. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;"> From Phoenix comes a story of good will this Christmas season. It's a story about a woman with child who had an encounter with God in the most unusual of places.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Sarah Clark has been waiting tables at the Pita Jungle for the past seven years. It's a good job and the customers are more than generous when it comes to tipping. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Sarah is about to give birth and her fiance is recovering from knee surgery -- so money is tight. And Sarah has been putting in as many hours as possible before she goes on maternity leave.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">So what happened the other day -- well -- it's just one of those moments that makes Christmas the most wonderful time of year. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Sarah was clearing a table when she noticed the customer had given her a $900 tip on a $61.30 check! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The diners had written a note on the receipt:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"This is God's money - He gave it to us so we could give it to you."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Sarah marveled at such generosity and the tears started flowing as she contemplated her good fortune.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"I couldn't have asked for anything more right now," she told News 12 in Phoenix. "It's going to help with bills, with rent, with being able to stay home and spend more time with my baby."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">And when that little baby gets older, Sarah will be able to tell her child about the day she received a Christmas gift from God.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A nine-year-old son broke down in tears after reading news of the best Christmas present EVER - disguised as a joke inside a cracker.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Little Sean Brown, 9, had been hoping for a little brother or sister for years - and this year his wish finally came true.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Deciding to break the news of a baby on the way in a special way, parents George and Frances, from Glasgow, gave their boy an extra special present on Christmas Day morning.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Hiding the all-important news inside a Christmas cracker, they filmed the magical moment Sean read out their note and realised his family was expanding.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">And the whole world has been touched by his emotional reaction after the video posted on Facebook started to go viral.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"Me and Dad thought we would give you the best Christmas present you could ask for... and guess what it is... you're going to be a big brother!"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Once the news finally hit home, Sean was overcome with emotion, bursting into tears and asking: "Am I?"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Posted to Facebook by his proud grandfather, George, the video of the sweet family moment has racked up more than 100,000 views already.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The clip has been watched in countries around the globe - with people describing it the "best post this Christmas".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Telling how gobsmacked he is by the reaction, George said: "People have been in touch from Germany, and friends have asked if they could send Sean a gift.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The Muttel The Dog Menorah Is A Fun Looking Handmade & Hand Painted Metal Dog Menorah. In Bright Vivid Colors, This Menorah Is 14.75" L x 6.25" W x 12.40" H.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">WHAT IS HANUKKAH AND WHY DO WE LIGHT A MENORAH?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Menorahs Hold A Very Special Arrangement Of Nine Menorah Candles. Eight Of The Candles Are For Each Night Of Chanukah, And The Highest Candle, Known As The Shamash Or "Servant", Is Used To Light The Other Menorah Candles. Some Modern Followers Of The Jewish Religion Have Turned To Electric Menorahs, Which Use Light Bulbs Instead Of Candles, For Decoration Purposes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Menorahs Play An Important Symbolic Role In The Celebration Of Chanukah. Over 2300 Years Ago In A Country Called Judea (Israel) There Lived Many Hebrew, Or Jewish People. There Also Lived A Very Wicked King, Antiochus, Who Ordered All The Jewish People To Give Up Their God, Religion, And Customs And Worship Only The Greek Gods. Jewish Temples Were Destroyed Or Used For His Purposes And Those Followers Who Would Not Worship How He Commanded Were Severely Punished.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">After Years And Many Battles The Maccabees, Who Were Fighting For The Right Of Judaism, Overthrew The Wicked King And Took Back Their Temple. (Remember Chanukah/Hanukkah Means "Rededication.") Upon Finding Oil To Light The Lamps, They Realized There Was Only Enough To Light The Lamps For One Night. That Oil Miraculously Lasted Eight Nights! This Is Why The Menorah Has Eight Candles. Each Of The Menorah Candles Represents A Night That The Oil Kept The Lights Of The Holy Temple Burning.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">On The First Night Of Hanukkah One Candle Is Lit And This Continues For Eight Days Until All Eight Candles Are Shining Brightly. Menorahs Remind People Of The Miracle That Happened. Long Ago Olive Oil Was Used, But Over The Years Colorful Jewish Hanukkah Candles Have Been Substituted.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In Israel, Menorahs Are Called Hanukiyahs. They Come In All Shapes And Sizes And Resemble The One Found In the Holy Temple. The Right Hanukkah Menorah Can Be A Family Heirloom That Survives Generations. Traditions Jewish Gifts Offers A Wide Selection, In Many Of The Popular Styles Including, Metal, Electric, Hand Made, For Kids And Battery Operated Menorahs.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">HOW DO I LIGHT A MENORAH?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">On Each Night Of Hanukkah You Start By Lighting The Shamash Candle, Which Is Always At A Different Height Than The Other Eight Candles On The Menorah.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">On The First Night Of Hanukkah You Take The Lit Shamash And You Light The First Candle On The Far Right Of The Menorah.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">On The Second Night You Place Two Candles On The Far Right Of The Menorah. Once You Light The Shamus You Will Light The Menorah From The Candle Closest To The Left And Then The Candle To The Right Of It That You Lit The Night Before.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Each Night An Additional Light Is Added To The Left Of The Light Which Had Been Lit On The Previous Night.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Candles Are Always Added From Right To Left, But The Actual Lighting Of The Candles Is Done From Left To Right.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">WHAT BLESSINGS ARE SAID WHEN I LIGHT THE MENORAH?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">On The First Night Of Hanukkah You Recite The Following Three Blessings Before Lighting The Menorah. On The Second Night And All Subsequent Nights After You Only Say The First Two Blessings.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">THE FIRST BLESSING (RECITED ON ALL EIGHT NIGHTS OF HANUKKAH)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In Hebrew - Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech Haolam, Asher Kidshanu B’mitzvotav V’tzivanu L’hadlik Ner Shel Hanukkah.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In English - Blessed Are You, O Lord Our God, Ruler Of The Universe, Who Has Sanctified Us With Your Commandments And Commanded Us To Kindle The Lights Of Hanukkah.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">THE SECOND BLESSING (RECITED ON ALL EIGHT NIGHTS OF HANUKKAH)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In Hebrew - Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech Haolam, She’asah Nisim L’avoteinu, B’yamim Haheim Bazman Hazeh.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In English - Blessed Are You, O Lord Our God, Ruler Of The Universe, Who Made Miracles For Our Forefathers In Those Days At This Time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">THE THIRD BLESSING (RECITED ONLY ON THE FIRST NIGHT OF HANUKKAH)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In Hebrew - Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech Haolam, Shehekheyanu, V’kiyamanu Vehegianu Lazman Hazeh.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In English - Blessed Are You, O Lord Our God, Ruler Of The Universe, Who Has Kept Us Alive, Sustained Us And Brought Us To This Season. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Turning darkness into light: a Hanukkah menorah made of Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza into Israel.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The matt-glazed white porcelain Dachshund Menorah goes with Jonathan Adler's menagerie collection. Perfect for a pet lover! This is a loooong menorah representing a loooong doggy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Nine hexnuts glued inside an empty Altoids tin = Travel Menorah. Or, a Curiously Tiny Menorah. You can’t get much easier. Or smaller for that matter. (EDIT: see smaller one here.) Mine is the classic Altoids size, and it holds—just barely—a row of birthday candles with the Shammash nearby.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">I might have to name this a Mint-orah, although my gag reflex is already on the alert. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve made a Menorah-saur and a Men-armite and a Dorm-menorah and a Man-orah and my quickie Menurkey…</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The Altoids tin menorah is inspired by the continuing search for the right hanukkiyah to mail my college freshman. I predict she will reject my LED Dorm-Menorah as being not quite to her taste, and frankly, it is too sincere for mine as well. I loved the Easter egg repurpose, but the final product is, well, pretty. We prefer funny or kitschy or weird or all three. Maybe if I hadn’t spray-painted the eggs and yardstick?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">So, I’ll see if she wants this Altoids tin menorah. Definitely not kosher for a dorm with a “no open flame” policy, but these flames are so small and will burn so quickly that perhaps the RAs won’t notice?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">And speaking of kosher, guess what? Altoids aren’t. (Gelatin, of course.)* But don’t worry, I boiled, roasted and flame-throwered this tin before converting it into a ritual object. Just kidding.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">My treyfe tin doubles as candle storage. Ideally, all 44 Hanukkah candles would fit, ready for all eight nights, but alas, it holds but 35.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Altoids tin, the original size, about 3.75 inches wide</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">a washer or extra nut to elevate Shammash</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Birthday candles (not Hanukkah candles, which are too wide)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A quick search online reveals no other Altoids menorahs except the fabulous olive oil version by the artist Ken Goldman, who also has cool printable “Jewish Contemporary Arts” on his website.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Altoids tins are famously adaptable. Many a Pinterest page (see this neat one) is devoted to the creative repurposing thereof. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">*Sugar-free Altoids are supposed to be kosher (no gelatin, but perhaps no hecksher, either?), but as far as I know they only come in the “Smalls” tins, in which ordinary birthday candles would loom too large to fit in the requisite straight line. (EDIT: See my “Smalls” menorah here.)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">BUT, my kosher friends, fear not, for we have a heckshered alternative: Rabbi Mints. Yes, certified kosher mints in a tin that appears to be a size similar to the iconic Altoids. I’m intrigued, but not enough to buy the minimum dozen online. Those of you luckies who live in the Jewier regions (here’s a list of vendors) can traipse down to the store and pick up a single tin. You have my blessing to make the first Rabbi Mint Menorah. Just post a picture on my fb page, please, because I want to see it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">KASHRUT: BURN TIME</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Birthday candles don’t burn long enough to be “kosher” Hanukkah flames. The minimum burn time for candles and oil will differ according to one’s Authority, but most folks seem to say at least 30 minutes after sundown.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">SAFETY FIRST: Never leave any lit menorah unattended. Always place a menorah on a nonflammable surface to catch any stray drips or fallen candles. If you are concerned about the safety of this or any menorah I’ve written about, do not make or use it. Try an LED tealight version (here and here) or flameless LEGO versions instead! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">When our friends at BuzzFeed published this collection of awesome and unexpected menorahs for Hanukkah, we kvelled (reacted with joy for the non-Yiddish speaker).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Until we kvetched (reacted not with joy). Something had gone horribly awry. One by one, our handmade hanukkiah dreams were shattered as it became clear that not all was kosher on this list of lights.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">You see, there are specific laws that determine if a menorah is authorized for ritual use on Hanukkah. Most glaringly, the eight candles for the eight days must be arranged in a straight line.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">So, just to be sure, we’re highlighting 18 menorahs found on the web and stamped the HuffPost Religion hekhsher (kosher symbol) of approval on the candelabra that meet all requirements.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Happy (Kosher) Hanukkah! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;"> Because we always thought that Chanukah should have more dinosaurs.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;"> A Star Wars/PEZ Hanukkah collaboration. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">R.I.P. Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;"> As Superman is Jewish and I am not, we get to celebrate all sorts of holidays chez nous, and I am always looking for ways to add to our (very small) collection of Hanukkah decorations.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">I think I’ll stick to our traditional menorah this year. There's something "fishy" about this menorah.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The Vulcan salute (“live long and prosper”) is actually a Jewish hand gesture. So the weird thing about this menorah is actually the lack of Vulcans.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13725154659411029059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810000626206031201.post-63445909067585166512017-11-06T01:11:00.000-08:002017-11-06T01:11:00.848-08:009 More Bizarre Truck Spills<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. A 60-Ton Sperm Whale</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;"> Residents of Tainan learned a lesson in whale biology after the decomposing remains of a 60-ton sperm whale exploded on a busy street, showering nearby cars and shops with blood and organs and stopping traffic for hours.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The 56-foot-long whale had been on a truck headed for a necropsy by researchers, when gases from internal decay caused its entrails to explode in the southern city of Tainan.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Residents and shop owners wore masks while trying to clean up the spilt blood and entrails.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"What a stinking mess. This blood and other stuff that blew out on the road is disgusting, and the smell is really awful," a BBC News report quoted one Tainan resident as saying.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The whale had died on Jan. 17 after it beached itself on the southwestern coast of the island.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Researchers at the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan said enough of the whale remained to allow for an examination by marine biologists.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Once moved to a nearby nature preserve, the male specimen -- the largest whale ever recorded in Taiwan -- drew the attention of locals because of its large penis, measured at some five feet, the Taipei Times reported.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"More than 100 Tainan city residents, mostly men, have reportedly gone to see the corpse to 'experience' the size of its penis," the newspaper reported.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;"> It looked like free money all over the highway. But even the most opportunistic of motorists likely passed by without taking any.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Early Thursday morning, a tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 near the Delaware Memorial Bridge hit a highway barrier, flipped over and caught fire, spilling about 45,000 pounds of blank pennies across the northbound lanes, according to the Delaware State Police.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">That means about eight million coins covered the roadway. Had they been stamped, they would have been worth about $81,600.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Master Cpl. Jeffrey Hale, a police spokesman, confirmed that the vehicle had been heading to the Philadelphia Mint and that the coins were blank. That means, of course, that they were simply discs of copper-plated zinc that dreamed of being pennies.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The driver, Stefan Marinkovic, 25, of Chicago, sustained minor injuries after veering right and crashing into an impact attenuator before riding onto a highway barrier and flipping over.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The police did not know why the tractor-trailer had gone to the right, but Mr. Marinkovic was able to free himself and was taken to a hospital, the police said. He received a citation for inattentive driving.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Corporal Hale said that he did not believe any of the wayward coins had been picked up by passing drivers, but that he was not sure whether they had all been recovered.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Those that were will be stored until they can be taken to the mint, the police said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Parts of I-95 North and I-295 East were shut down for more than 13 hours in response to the crash, disrupting many people’s commutes. Some of them took to social media to complain.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A Twitter user named Jordan Naft said that what was typically a 20-minute drive to work was taking him close to an hour and a half because of the crash, which occurred just before 2 a.m.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“Now those delays make cents,” another Twitter user quipped.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Mike White, a spokesman for the United States Mint, said that pennies, which are 97.5 percent zinc and just 2.5 percent copper, weighed 2.5 grams apiece.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">After making sure the driver had not been seriously hurt, Jeff Gore, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founder of an organization called Citizens to Retire the Penny, said that he liked the idea of the image of hundreds of thousands of blank pennies on the road, as it illustrated the wasteful practice of continuing to produce the coins.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“We all know that nobody picks up actual pennies off the sidewalk,” he said. “But I imagine if you have a hundred thousand penny blanks on the highway, someone’s going to have to do that.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“Even if the truck had made it there without incident, they would still be doing something that doesn’t make any sense,” he added. “We’d still be making a coin that nobody wants.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The North Carolina Highway Patrol says a tractor-trailer driver hauling a load of Ramen noodles nodded off at the wheel and crashed, causing a mess along southbound I-95 near Rocky Mount Wednesday morning.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"I thought I could make it down to the truck stops in Kenly, and I didn't quite make it. I kind of drowsed off, and next thing I knew I had taken out the guard rail," driver Larry Scholting told ABC11.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Troopers said the truck hit the NC Hwy 48 bridge that goes over the interstate at Exit 145 in Nash County.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"[The] trucker ran off the road to the right, struck the bridge support, split in half," explained Trooper Kevin Heath. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Scholting was not hurt in the crash, but packets of noodles were scattered all along the highway.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A detour was set up while workers cleared up the mess. The noodles were all taken to a local landfill. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Police say a truck crash stranded thousands of piglets and drivers on a North Carolina highway.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Authorities say the tractor-trailer carrying more than 2,000 piglets overturned Tuesday on Interstate 40 south of downtown Raleigh, causing damage that triggered traffic problems for hours. They said a number of pigs died, but an exact figure wasn't available.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The police report said the truck was headed west on I-40 about 10:30 a.m. when a car changed lanes in front of it, leading to a collision. According to the report, the tractor-trailer went off the interstate, across an access ramp and hit a guardrail, causing the rig to overturn.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The truck was removed from the scene, but officials said some closures would stay in effect into Tuesday night as road repairs continued.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">No serious injuries were reported. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;"> What a mess.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A tractor-trailer carrying pig intestines spilled exiting the off ramp of Interstate 85 South onto Belmont-Mount Holly Road at 3:21 p.m. Tuesday.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The spillage created a powerful, unique smell that could be described as pork-scented garbage. The unsightly mess was expected to back up traffic until 7 p.m.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The wreck happened after the truck shifted its load trying to make a turn. Belmont police believe speed was a factor.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The pig intestines didn't spill onto any other vehicles, but its smell crept into cars stuck in traffic. Police at the scene moved backward as changes in wind direction brought a stronger stench.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Police haven't released the name of the driver. The name of the business associated with the truck wasn't clear, though the materials do have a few uses.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"Dog food, some products are used in makeup, or human food," Belmont Police Sgt. J.B. Quinn said. "It's a large variety. Some of it is just waste."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The driver was uninjured in the crash. A truck with the privately owned Carolina Environmental Response Team was sent to the scene to clean up both the pig waste and diesel material left behind from an earlier wreck on nearby Interstate 85 carrying chickens.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Quinn said people would be surprised at how often crashes happen that involve animal byproducts. He cited one on Wilkinson Boulevard a couple months back, and another crash on Interstate 85 a couple years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In June, a truck hauling bees wrecked close to the Gaston and Mecklenburg county line. In that wreck, traffic was also backed up and emergency workers had to deal with bee stings.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Two trucks, one carrying beer and the other hauling chips, collided in Florida in March 2016 littering the highway with the stuff that dreams are made of. The crash between the tractor trailer transporting Busch beer and the box truck filled with Frito-Lay products occurred on Interstate 95 in Brevard County. No word on whether or not couch potatoes attempted to gather up the precious bounty themselves, but it was eventually cleaned up and hauled to a landfill by officials. </span><br />
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The clip – filmed in an unknown European location by a passing passenger – shows almost half a mile of Kinder eggs, Kinder buenos, Nutella and other chocolatey goods scattered across three motorway lanes.</div>
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Some of the treats have been crushed by the fall and passing cars and others look in good shape.<br />
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A man and woman standing amongst the fallen treats seem to be making the most of things – taking pictures and even appearing to gobble some of the goodness they've found on the ground.<br />
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But the man filming saw nothing but a chocolatey apocalypse of ruined treats gone to waste.<br />
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As they pass what must be thousands of pounds of chocolate he moans: "Kinder. No. What a sad story!"<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The truck's driver was going too fast, officials said, which caused the truck to jack-knife at the Red Narrows, one of the canyon's sharp turns. The truck tipped over, skidded across the pavement and started a fire on the mountainside.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The flames reached the explosives and sparked a massive explosion just before 2 p.m. Wednesday, leaving only the truck's engine block and a mangled axle. The blast carved a hole in the road 30 feet deep and about 70 feet wide and propelled concrete barriers into the Spanish Fork River hundreds of yards away.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The force of the blast also sent out concussion waves that shattered windshields and crumpled car frames and left many of the witnesses with temporary hearing loss.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Motorists who stopped to help the driver out of the burning truck began running or driving away after one driver told people at the scene that the semitrailer truck was carrying explosives. At least 10 people were injured when the truck exploded.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The truck had picked up its load shortly after 1 p.m. at Ensign-Bickford Industries, an explosives company in Spanish Fork, and headed up the canyon with a shipment bound for Oklahoma.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Troy Lysfjord of Blackfoot, Idaho, a passenger in the truck carrying the explosives, was transported via helicopter to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in critical condition. He was later upgraded to fair condition and is expected to be released today.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The truck's driver, Travis Stewart of Rexburg, Idaho, was flown by helicopter ambulance to University Hospital. He was in fair condition Wednesday night.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The exact number of injuries is unknown because some of the individuals drove themselves to hospitals with minor injuries, such as cuts or bruises, said Utah Highway Patrol trooper Jay J. Przybyla. In addition to UVRMC, patients were treated at LDS Hospital, the University of Utah Medical Center and hospitals in Payson and Price.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Six were at Castle View Hospital in Price. All were treated for minor injuries and released. At LDS Hospital, the driver of a car behind the truck, Art Rigoli, was treated for minor injuries and released.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Lysfjord was the co-driver and has been professionally driving a truck more than five years. The driving partners have gone through the canyon numerous times, Lysfjord said. He was trying to get some sleep in the back of the cab when the truck rolled.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"I could feel it lean to the right . . . ; the next thing I knew I was being slammed" against the cab, he said. That's when he received most of his injuries, which were cuts and scrapes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">He found Stewart, whom he calls a friend, and helped get him out of the seatbelt. Stewart ran from the truck and Lysfjord followed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Lysfjord estimates that about 3 minutes passed between the rollover and explosion. He was about 75 yards away. He was in and out of consciousness in the canyon but said he tried his best to warn people to get away, maybe at the expense of his own safety.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"I spent way too much time trying to get people to move. They didn't move fast enough," he said. "That's hard to do when people don't listen. They're just curious, I guess."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Mapleton resident J.D. Herbert, who was treated for injuries at UVRMC, was traveling through the canyon and was thrown off his motorcycle by the explosion. He tried to seek shelter behind a minivan.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"The mom was screaming and her kids were crying," Herbert said. "Shrapnel (was) hitting the forest and crackling like bacon."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In all, eight people sought treatment at the Provo hospital, said Janet Frank, spokeswoman for UVRMC.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"The blast was hard enough to blow out windows," Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Al Christianson said. "That's pretty significant."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">He compared the blast to a war-zone-type incident, and the site was still being monitored for undetonated explosives into the evening.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The explosive devices that were in the truck — small orange tubes nearly 10 inches long — are used in seismic exploration and are normally safe. However, the intense heat of the fire was too much, and all but 60 pounds exploded, said UHP Lt. Kenneth B. Peay.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The truck was following federal regulations, according to the Utah Department of Transportation and company officials.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"It is up to the United States Department of Transportation to regulate and issue permits, but as far as we know, this truck had the necessary permits to carry whatever it was carrying," said Nile Easton, spokesman for the UDOT. He said rules and regulations pertaining to the transport of hazardous materials are left up to the federal government to ensure uniformity across the states where big rigs travel.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Because of the blast, the highway is impassible, and nearby railroad tracks were bent like pipe cleaners. There is no timeline yet as to when the tracks will be ready again. The line is used by Union Pacific Railroad, Amtrak and for coal transportation.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Amtrak officials said they are holding a passenger train in Grand Junction, Colo., that would have had to pass through Spanish Fork Canyon.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Paul Crespin, manager of track maintenance for Union Pacific Railroad, has been working on the line for 34 years and said he had never seen anything like this accident.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"It's not good," he said after returning from the blast site. "Not good at all."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Construction crews were on the way up the canyon by early evening with the goal of opening the road by this weekend, said Brent Wilhite, Utah Department of Transportation spokesman.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"Our number 1 goal is to make sure the area is safe," he said. "We will work around the clock to get this road open ASAP."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">UDOT will use its emergency funds to repair the road, but once everything is fixed, Wilhite said, there will be talks with the company's insurance group about restitution.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">However, construction crews will not just be focusing on clearing, refilling and repaving the road. They also must create support for the side of the mountain.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The blast shaved the mountainside, sending car-size boulders down on the road, and ignited several small fires.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">On top of the mountain, the blast also knocked down three power poles, disturbing phone service for the surrounding area. Scofield was the largest town affected.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Helicopters circled the area Wednesday afternoon, giving county crews a different look at the devastation. UHP pilot Steve Rugg had recently returned from serving as a pilot in Afghanistan and said this damage was incredible, much more damaging than anything he saw during the war.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"I never saw bomb craters as big as that one," he said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A truck carrying deli meat collided with another truck carrying bread on a New Jersey highway Friday morning, causing a sandwich-like spill on the busy roadway.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The trucks collided on Interstate 287's southbound lanes in Piscataway shortly before 6 a.m., causing backups that stretched several exits. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Chopper 4 footage from over the scene shows first responders cleaning up spilled bread and meats. The trailer portion of one of the trucks appears to be destroyed, and its contents are spewed about the roadway.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">By about 7:30 a.m., most of the cleanup had been completed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Backups on the roadway stretched several miles as all but one lane on the roadway's southbound lanes were closed.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13725154659411029059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810000626206031201.post-52750047698964457832017-11-06T01:06:00.003-08:002017-11-06T01:06:56.221-08:009 Incredibly Weirdest Fakes<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">9 Incredibly Weird Fakes</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;"> A number of people looking to buy hairless Sphynx cats for cheap fell victim to a scammer who meticulously shaves regular kittens to make them look exactly like the exotic breed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Genuine Sphynx cats usually sell for $1,000 or more, so when Shayla Bastarache, from Alberta, Canada, saw an ad for a Sphynx kitten for just $650, last month, she thought it was too good a deal to pass up. There was no photo attached to the ad, but the price was so enticing that she agreed to meet the seller in a gas station parking lot an hour north of Calgary, at night. She handed him the money and received two hairless kittens, one for herself and one for a friend. Bastarache says she only realized that she had been scammed two weeks later, when both felines grew a thick coat and were revealed to be regular house cats. The cat lover, who owns two genuine Sphynx cats – for one of which she had paid $1,500 – said she was amazed by how thoroughly the animals had been shaved. “I don’t know how she did it,” Bastarche told reporters.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Soon after Shayla Bastarache’s case was reported by Canadian media, another woman cam forward with a similar story. Holly Rattray had posted an ad on Canadian free classifieds site Kijji, looking to purchase a hairless Sphynx. She was approached by a person called Tim, who offered to sell her a Sphynx kitten for just $700. Rattray arranged to meet a friend of Tim’s and pick up the cat in Red Deer, Alberta. She had to drive over two hours from her home in Bawlf, but just like in Bastarche’s case, the price was just too enticing.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Holly Rattray remembers that the woman she met in a parking lot seemed to be in a big hurry, and even accepted $550 for the cat, instead of the agreed $700. She stormed off as soon as she got the money, before Rattray had a chance to thoroughly inspect the animal. She later noticed that the poor kitten had wounds all over her body, which she now suspects had been done by a sharp razor blade.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">She became even more suspicious after seeing how utterly hairless the kitten was. Genuine Sphynx cats usually have a bit of hair on the tail and near the feet, but this one was “literally hairless.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“Even underneath its legs, it was so clean-shaven that my husband did question it,” she told CBC. “But my husband was like, ‘There is no way, honey, that someone could have shaved a cat this good.'” It turned out someone had indeed shaved the cat, because it soon grew a full coat. It turned out to be another regular house cat which they named Stripes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">After discovering that she had been scammed, Rattray did some online research and discovered a Facebook post by yet another Alberta woman who had fallen for the same trick. JoAnne Dyck had also bought what she though was a Sphynx kitten online, at an unusually low price – $700.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“He was like a little tiny kitten, no more than eight weeks old, and he was naked. Completely hairless,” Dyck remembers. “It looked like a sphynx because he was very, very skinny and his face was really angular.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Only instead of wanting to be held to get warm, the kitten didn’t want anything to do with JoAnne and her family. It didn’t get along with her other cats, so she decided to give it away to another Sphynx lover. It wasn’t long before she learned that the kitten, named Vlad, had grown a full orange fur. However, his new owner, Shaniya Yung, decided to keep him despite being a regular house cat.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Both JoAnne Dyck and Shaniya Yung contacted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police about the scam, but were rebuffed because they didn’t have the seller’s information, and the supplied cell number wasn’t working anymore.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said that it recently received its first call about a fake Sphynx, but no formal complain has been filed about it. And even if it had been, there’s not much they can do about it, unless someone actually witnesses the shaving and the cat in question has clear signs of physical abuse.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">JoAnne Dyck says that the only way to avoid getting scammed is to buy Sphynx cats from reputable breeders, even if the price is considerably higher. “Definitely go to where the cats are being bred. Never meet them anywhere. If they won’t let you come to their house, their residence, it’s probably a bad sign,” she said. “Just be sure that it’s a reputable breeder if you’re looking for one of these specialty cats.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;"> Authorities in Ghana have recently shut down a fake United States embassy in the capital Accra that had been issuing illegally-obtained but authentic visas for the last 10 years. The fake institution was being run by members of organized crime from both Ghana and Turkey.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The real U.S. embassy in Acra is a large office building complete with security fencing and U.S. military guards, located in one of the city’s most expensive neighborhoods, while the fake one was just a rundown, pink two-storey building with a corrugated iron roof and a United States flag flown outside. There were no actual Americans working there, not even con artists. Instead the staff was made up of English-speaking Ghanian and Turkish citizens. And yet, for 10 years, the organized crime ring operating this fake embassy was able to convince people to pay thousands of dollars for visas and false identification documents. Maybe it was the portrait of Barrack Obama that police found inside that made the place seem legit.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">No that wasn’t it, actually, the criminals behind the operation were just really careful and paid off officials to turn a blind eye to their activities. The U.S. State Department revealed that the fake embassy operated three days a week, and didn’t accept walk-ins. Instead it used billboards and flyers to advertise their services in other cities in Ghana, but also Togo and the Ivory Coast. Interested clients were transported to Accra and offered accommodation in nearby hotels. At the embassy, they could pay for illegally obtained but legitimate U.S. visas, as well as false documents at a price of $6,000 each.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“It was not operated by the United States government, but by figures from both Ghanaian and Turkish organised crime rings and a Ghanaian attorney practising immigration and criminal law,” The U.S. State Department said in a statement. “For about a decade it operated unhindered. The criminals running the operation were able to pay off corrupt officials to look the other way, as well as obtain legitimate blank documents to be doctored.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">U.S. authorities were tipped off about the decade-old fake embassy while working on a completely different operation, and managed to shut it down with the help of the Ghana Detectives Bureau and police, as well as international partners. During the raid, they found 150 passports from 10 different countries and legitimate and counterfeit visas from the U.S., India, and South Africa.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Police could have gotten their hands on the industrial sewing machine used to recreate the binding on passports, but while preparing to raid the dress shop that allegedly housed the machinery, a corrupt local attorney falsely told detectives that they could not access the building because it was currently involved in another court case. By the time this claim was dismissed as a lie, the scammers arrested at the fake embassy had already been bailed out and managed to move all their counterfeiting facility elsewhere.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Fake US embassy in Ghana shut down after a decade</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">It flew the American flag, hung a photo of President Obama and issued US visas for more than a decade.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">But a building that operated as a US embassy in Ghana was a fake, the US State Department says.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The enterprise, which issued fraudulently obtained legitimate visas, counterfeit visas, and other false identification documents, was overseen by figures from Ghanaian and Turkish crime rings working in cahoots with corrupt Ghanaian officials, the US State Department said in a statement. It operated three days a week in Accra, the capital.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The State Department did not say how many people may have entered the United States illegally using documentation issued by the crime ring, nor did it say how the ring may have obtained official documents.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Visas and passports from 10 different countries were found during raids on the nondescript stucco building with the corrugated tin roof, the State Department said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Authorities shut down the operation after receiving a tip last summer and conducting a joint investigation by diplomatic security agents at the real US embassy in Ghana, Ghanian authorities and other international partners.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The operation also uncovered a fake Dutch embassy in Accra, the State Department said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Authorities in Ghana and the Netherlands did not immediately respond to a request by CNN for more information.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The sham embassy advertised its services through fliers and billboards to cultivate customers from Ghana and neighboring countries, the State Department said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">When Josh Brassow’s dozens of family members open his Christmas card this year, they will see the 25-year-old college student posing with a woman and her two teenage sons.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">What makes the holiday card very non-traditional is that Brassow, of Saginaw, Mich., only met the family the day of the Christmas card shoot and found them online in an attempt to send the ultimate holiday prank to his relatives.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“I have six brothers and sisters. My mom has six brothers and sisters and my dad has five sisters,” Brassow said. “My family is all pretty socially conservative and everyone gets married and it’s set in stone.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“I figured so many people hadn’t seen me in so long they’d think, ‘Man, I haven’t seen him in a few years and what did he get himself into. He got this woman twice his age pregnant and now has to step up and be a dad to these kids almost his age,’” Brassow said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Brassow posted ads for a family on local Facebook pages in late November and said he was quickly flooded with replies. He offered to pay $20 for the shoot but the individuals responding to the ads said they'd pose for free.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">People also offered to donate their photography skills and studio space to photograph the family that Brassow chose, a woman by the name of Jess Jaxx and her teenage sons.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“She said, ‘I can be an intimidating woman for your pictures. I have a lot of tattoos,’” Brassow recalled. “We tried our best to make her look intimidating and scary but she was such a good sport.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“We had her stand on a box so she was taller than me and we just tried our best not to laugh,” he said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The photos were printed last week and Brassow shared them on the private Facebook pages where he posted the ad because so many people were asking to see the final product.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The only problem was that people found the photos so funny they shared them too and the photos went viral before all of Brassow’s relatives got the card in the mail.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“My Aunt Beverly in Arizona said she read it in a news article and didn’t realize right away that it was me and was just reading about this strange kid,” he said. “She was laughing so hard she was crying and all of a sudden realizes it’s her goofy nephew.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Brassow said his own parents also got a good laugh out of it, after some initial wariness since Brassow said he has been talking about the idea for a few years.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“I didn’t show my parents for a couple of days because I knew my mom wasn’t a fan from the start,” he said. “But I put the photo as their computer background.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“My dad is a pretty stern guy but he came home and saw it and was laughing so hard there were tears in his eyes,” Brassow added.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The demand for the photos has been so high that Brassow just launched a Kickstarter page so even his non-family members can get his Christmas card.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“I couldn’t have asked for a better response,” Brassow said. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">I once got a ticket for not having a front license plate. To remedy that, I went to the DMV and got an extra license plate, but maybe I should’ve taken a page out of this woman’s book and just made my own.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Or not, because I’m not a crazy person.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">This Massachusetts woman was inevitably caught with a homemade license plate, made from cardboard and drawn with pens and colored pencils. The woman clearly took some pains to make it look like a real license plate, even drawing in the state motto — but that wasn’t enough to fool those crafty Massachusetts cops.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">She was pulled over on Tuesday driving down the I-391 in Chicopee, a town in the southern part of the state.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Evidently, the police found the whole ordeal as hilariously ridiculous as we do, as they posted a photo of the confiscated license plate on Facebook.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“The operator of the vehicle was charged with several violations, including having a suspended license and revoked registration,” Massachusetts State Police wrote on their Facebook page. “Moral of the story, if you shouldn’t be driving, please don’t.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">We’ve included the full Facebook post below, so you can see in detail the woman’s amazing handiwork and the Massachusetts State Police department’s impeccable sense of humor. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">For most of us, the airport is just the first stop on the way to a relaxing vacation—not the vacation destination itself. But one man recently embarked upon a luxurious 18-day vacation without ever leaving Singapore's Changi Airport, Atlas Obscura reports.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A former business developer, Raejali Buntut was returning to Malaysia after a trip abroad when he overslept in the Changi Airport lounge and missed his flight home. Instead of booking a new flight, Buntut inexplicably spent 18 days—from August 21 to September 7—living in the airport. For more than two weeks Buntut bounced from transit lounge to transit lounge, using his computer to forge boarding passes for different airlines. Buntut, who is apparently savvy in both forgery and Photoshop, added his name, fake flight numbers, and fake destinations onto mobile boarding pass images he found online, according to The Straits Times.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">But like all vacations, Buntut’s airport adventure eventually came to an end: An airport lounge employee finally noticed that Buntut had entered the lounge for the fourth time in just 10 days—a highly improbable event for even the most frequent flyers—and Buntut was arrested. It’s still unclear why he decided to spend weeks living in the airport instead of returning home, though it should be noted Changi Airport has no shortage of amenities. It has been dubbed both the "World’s Best Airport" and "The Best Airport For Leisure Amenities" by Skytrax and provides travelers with everything from shops and video games to a butterfly garden, and even a swimming pool with a Jacuzzi.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">SINGAPORE - A 32-year-old jobless Malaysian man who overslept at a Changi Airport lounge and missed his flight back to Kuala Lumpur decided to stay in the departure transit area.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">For almost three weeks - 18 days from Aug 21 until Sept 7 - Raejali Buntut remained in transit by using 31 forged mobile boarding passes to enter several lounges in the three terminals.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">But a staff at a lounge he had been to four times before saw through his ruse and called the police.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">On Friday (Sept 16), Raejali, a former business development manager with Royale Consultant Management in Singapore, was jailed for two weeks after he pleaded guilty to three out of 31 charges of forgery.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A district court heard that Raejali had a ticket for an AirAsia flight, scheduled to depart for Kuala Lumpur at 7.05am on Aug 21.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The night before, he checked in at close to midnight and went to the Plaza Premium Lounge in Terminal 1 - using his boarding pass and his Priority Pass, issued by Citibank.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">But Raejali woke up late and missed his flight. He decided to continue using the facilities at the lounges in the departure transit areas of the airport's three terminals.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The court was not told why he wanted to stay at the airport.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Passengers are required to have a valid boarding pass to enter into a transit lounge. Since Raejali's boarding pass was no longer valid, he decided to forge boarding passes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">He downloaded images of mobile boarding passes issued by two airlines - Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines - from the Internet, and then used an image editing software on his laptop to alter them.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Raejali inserted his name, a false flight number and a false destination on the fraudulent mobile boarding passes, before sending them to his mobile phone.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">He forged 31 such passes and used them at the following lounges:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">- Dnata Lounge at Terminal 1 and Terminal 3;</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">- Sats Premier Lounge at Terminal 1, Terminal 2 and Terminal 3;</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">- Plaza Premium Lounge at Terminal 1;</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">- Ambassador Transit Lounge at Terminal 2 and Terminal 3; and</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">- The Green Market Lounge at Terminal 2.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">For instance, he went into the Plaza Premium Lounge in Terminal 1 at about 11.30pm on Aug 21, and next moved to the Sats Premier Lounge at the same terminal at around noon on Aug 23.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The next morning, he went to the Dnata Lounge at the same terminal, before going to the Ambassador Transit Lounge at Terminal 3 the following morning.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Last Tuesday, a staff at the Dnata Lounge at Terminal 1 called police when she suspected Raejali's misdeeds. He had entered that very lounge as recently as three days earlier, on Sept 3. He had also gone there on Sept 1 and on Aug 29 and Aug 24.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Policemen nabbed Raejali at about 4pm the next day.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In a statement, the police said it "conducts patrols and regular security checks on persons in the airport's transit areas to ensure the safety and security of all passengers."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Raejali's sentence was backdated to the date of his remand on Sept 9. For forgery, he could have been jailed for four years and fined per charge. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;"> Somebody get this dude on Shark Tank. Just wait until you hear his restaurant pitch.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In late April, Jeff Waters strolled casually into a Bank of America in Jacksonville. (Raise your hand if you are surprised at all to hear that our story takes place in Florida. No one? Good.) He presented a check for the amount of $368 billion made out to cash.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">And this is when the story gets really weird.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Apparently Waters bought a blank U.S. Bank of Idaho check from the '90s off of a homeless man named Tito for 100 bucks. Good ol' Tito told Waters that he could make that check out to any amount he wanted, and Jeff was going to go big. He could have written just $10 million and be set for life. But no. He went for the billions.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Why so much money? He needed the very specific amount of hooch to achieve his life-long dream.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"It's always been my dream to own the best Italian restaurant in the earth," Waters reportedly told police. "I'm 10% Italian. Cooking authentic Italian food is in my blood. I had planned to make the restaurant 80 million square feet and able to accommodated (sic) 30 million eaters at once, plus it was gonna be totally underwater so people could look at sharks while they ate."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">How awesome does that sound?! An underwater Italian restaurant that seats 30 million people? Top that, Bobby Flay.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Unfortunately, the bank totally rained on his parade and refused to cash the check. Shocker.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"The bank wouldn't give me my money they owed me," Waters said. "Tito said the check was good for any amount I wanted to write it for. So blame Tito, not me. I'm as innocent as a schoolgirl."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The police found both bath salts and Chinese throwing stars on "innocent school girl" Waters when they arrested him for forgery, which we think is the basic starter kit for restaurant entrepreneurs.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) has launched an investigation into a video filmed at night on its Geneva campus depicting a mock ritual human sacrifice.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The video, which circulated online, shows several individuals in black cloaks gathering in a main square at Europe’s top physics lab, in what appears to be a re-enactment of an occult ceremony.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The video includes the staged “stabbing” of a woman. It is filmed from the perspective of a secret viewer watching from a window above who, as the ceremony reaches its climax, lets out a string of expletives and flees with the camera still running.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The ceremony appears to have been staged in front of a statue of the Hindu deity Shiva that is on permanent display at the complex, home of the Large Hadron Collider.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“These scenes were filmed on our premises but without official permission or knowledge,” a Cern spokeswoman told Agence France-Presse in an email.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“Cern does not condone this type of spoof, which can give rise to misunderstandings about the scientific nature of our work.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The “investigation” under way was an “internal matter”, she said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The video has raised questions about security on Cern’s campus.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Asked to detail the security procedures surrounding access to the campus, the Cern spokeswoman said: “Cern IDs are checked systematically at each entry to the Cern site whether it is night or day.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">She further indicated that those responsible for the prank had access badges.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“Cern welcomes every year thousands of scientific users from all over the world and sometimes some of them let their humour go too far. This is what happened on this occasion,” the email said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The spokeswoman was not available to comment the possible identity of those responsible.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Geneva police told AFP they had been in contact with Cern about the video but were not involved in an official investigation.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Cern hosts machinery carrying out some of the world’s most elaborate particle research, including an enormously powerful proton smasher trying to find previously undiscovered particles. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Between 1912 and 1914, museum palaeontologist Arthur Smith Woodward and solicitor Charles Dawson claimed that the fossils had been found in Piltdown in Sussex. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">This new fossil, called Eoanthropus dawsoni - "Dawson's dawn man" - supposedly showed a new evolutionary link between apes and humans. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The remains, with an ape-like jaw and braincase like a modern human, were stained dark reddish-brown like the gravel deposit they were recovered from. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Mr Dawson claimed to have discovered further evidence at a second site, close to the original, prior to his death in August 1916. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Doubts were immediately raised about the authenticity of the find but it took the scientific community 40 years to unveil it as an elaborate hoax. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">New research has revealed that the forgeries were created using a limited number of specimens all constructed using a consistent method - suggesting the perpetrator acted alone. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">It is highly likely that an orang-utan specimen and at least two human skeletons were used to create the fakes, which are still kept at the Natural History Museum. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The work, which points the finger of suspicion firmly at Mr Dawson, was undertaken by a team led by Liverpool John Moores University and used the latest scientific methods. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Dr Isabelle De Groote, from the university and lead author on the paper which is published in Royal Society Open Science, said the results point to a clear conclusion. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"Although multiple individuals have been accused of producing the fake fossils, our analyses to understand the modus operandi show consistency between all the different specimens and on both sites," she said. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"It is clear from our analysis that this work was likely all carried out by one forger: Charles Dawson." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">DNA analysis found that both the canine tooth planted at the first Piltdown site and the molar from the second probably came from one orang-utan. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The shape and form of the molar from the second Piltdown site was almost certainly from the other side of the jawbone planted in the first site. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">3D X-ray imaging scans showed that many of the bones and a tooth were filled with Piltdown gravel and the openings plugged with small pebbles. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Holes in the skull bones were filled with dental putty, which was also used to re-set the teeth in the jaw and to reconstruct one of the teeth that fell apart while it was being ground down. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Chris Stringer, human origins expert at the Natural History Museum, said: "Our work shows that a century on, we can add a new chapter to the Piltdown story through new investigative techniques. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"For example we found surprising evidence that the forger had even removed the molars in order to modify them, and had then replaced them in the jawbone." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">New genetic and morphological evidence which suggests a single hoaxer created the Piltdown Man is published in Royal Society Open Science. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">An 18-year-old Florida man has been arrested for allegedly operating a fake medical practice. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Malachi A. Love-Robinson is accused of seeing patients at his New Birth New Life Medical Center and Urgent Care in West Palm Beach, where he lists himself as president, CEO and founder, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The agency said he was investigated by the Florida Department of Health in October and cited for practicing medicine without a license. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The sheriff’s office said an undercover agent visited the clinic on Tuesday and was given a physical exam and medical advice by the would-be Doogie Howser, who posted several pictures of him with his staff on Facebook.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">He was arrested and charged with practicing medicine without a license. The Department of Health also issued several citations, the sheriff’s office said. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“I’m hurt because of all of these allegations,” Love-Robinson told WPBF, the local ABC station, as he was led away in handcuffs. “But this is not the first time I have been accused and I will pursue this, and when I do, you will be the first to know.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">His clinic says on its Facebook page that it offers “state of the art medical care with the usage of Naturopathic Medicine and Holistic Services.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Love-Robinson’s grandfather, William Robinson, told the Sun-Sentinel that it was a misunderstanding. He claimed Love-Robinson was certified to practice holistic medicine by online schools and wasn’t seeing patients himself but hoping to attract other doctors to come work for him. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">He told the newspaper: </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“He’s not out doing drugs, he’s not out trying to rob nobody. He’s trying to do something constructive, and if he did do something and the paperwork wasn’t right — he can get ahead of himself sometimes and he may have been trying too hard, but he had good intentions.” </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">However, the Palm Beach Post said Love-Robinson has been accused of faking medical expertise before. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Last year, when he was 17, he was caught allegedly walking around dressed as a doctor at St. Mary’s Medical Center, also in West Palm Beach, for a month. He didn’t see patients or perform treatments, and was not charged, the newspaper reported. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“I requested to shadow physicians — next thing I know, cops are there, that’s all I know, all I know, I have no idea,” Love-Robinson told WPBF.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">According to Love-Robinson’s personal Facebook page, he claims to have certificates from the American Alternative Medical Association and the American Association of Drugless Physicians, both of which are dated Oct. 5, 2015. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13725154659411029059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810000626206031201.post-44824113063402148412017-11-06T01:02:00.003-08:002017-11-06T01:02:38.277-08:0012 Odd People On Public Transport<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">12 Weirdest People on Public Transportation</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">While traveling through public transport is fun sometimes. You get to see lots and lots of hilarious things around. But these few people have crossed all limits. Here are the craziest things ever seen on any public transport. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">What does the fox say?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">We don't know.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Ask this guy. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Triple trouble: These amazing lookalikes spotted on public transport don't just look alike, they're wearing matching outfits too </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;"> It's not every day you're confronted with your lookalike.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">But this amazing set of pictures reveals you can come face-to-face with your doppelganger when you least expect it - even on the way to work.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">These unwitting commuters have taken social media by storm as they were snapped sitting beside their 'twin' on public transport.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Some embarrassingly stepped out in near-identical outfits or even sporting the same hairstyle.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The hilarious images led people to question whether they were seeing double or in fact there was 'a glitch in the Matrix'.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">It comes after 26-year-old Niamh Geaney from Dublin started searching for her 'twin stranger' through a social media experiment and found her lookalike living just an hour away.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">With a toothbrush moustache and jet black hair brushed over to one side, one Kosovan man believes he is the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler and travels everywhere with a copy of Mein Kampf.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Emin Djinovci from Mitrovica earns a living as a Hitler look-a-like and even charges tourists £60 for taking a photograph with him.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The 49-year-old has five daughters who he collectively calls 'Hitler's children' and is proud of his likeness to the Nazi leader because he fought against the Serbs – his enemies.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">'I am proud of my likeness to the Fuhrer because, like him, I fought against the Serbs - my enemies,' he told InSerbia News.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">'It is easy. I find myself in Hitler's character because he fought against my enemy. Enemy of my enemy is my friend. Yes, Serbs are my enemies.' </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Mr Djinovci moved to Kosovo in 1998 from Germany to fight of Kosovo Albanians for secession from Serbia.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">He carries around copies of Hitler's hate-filled autobiography Mein Kampf - My Struggle – wherever he goes and bills himself as 'Kosovo reincarnation of Adolf Hitler.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Kosovan media reported that local business leaders have no problem with his strange way of earning a living because they believe he 'shows great enterprise.'</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">But if he tried posing as the Fuhrer in Germany, he would be arrested immediately because any gestures of the old Nazi regime, or the displaying of any of its symbols, is a serious crime.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In April 1941 Hitler gave the order for German forces - backed by Italian, Romanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian Axis allies - to invade Yugoslavia and Greece. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The Serbs and the Croats made up the majority of the population of Yugoslavia at the time. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">There was a widespread persecution of Serbs during World War Two, referred to as the Serbian Genocide.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">This included extermination, expulsions and forced religious conversions of large numbers of ethnic Serbs by the Ustaše regime and Axis occupying forces. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">I hope I didn't sit in that seat after he got up...</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13725154659411029059noreply@blogger.com0