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 Lithuanian man arrested for faking heart attack 20 times to avoid paying bill at restaurants Aidas J., a Lithuanian man living in Spain was arrested for faking a heart attack in an attempt to get out of paying his restaurant tab. Aidas J., a Lithuanian man living in Spain was arrested for faking a heart attack in an attempt to get out of paying his restaurant tab. A con man living in Spain has been arrested for faking heart attacks on 20 different occasions to get out of paying for his meals at various restaurants. The 50-year-old man, a Lithuanian national identified as Aidas J., lives in the southeastern port city of Alicante and has acted like a “typical Russian tourist” while he ordered several items off the menu before refusing to pay the bill. Aidas was first arrested for his scams in Nov. 2022 and his most recent encounter with the law was on Sept. 19, according to Spain’s EFE news agency. In his latest target, the shameless scammer visited the El Buen Comer in the historic...

 I kept hearing clicking and rustling in my ear — doctors found a spider Along came a spider who sat down inside her. A 64-year-old woman in Taiwan experienced every arachnophobe’s worst nightmare in April when doctors found a spider scuttling about in her ear canal. A case study detailing her eight-legged auditory invader was published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. According to the report, the woman recognized all was not hunky-dory when she noticed “incessant clicking and rustling sounds” in her left ear. After struggling to sleep for four nights, she visited the ear, nose and throat clinic, where X-rays revealed the spine-tingling source of her discomfort. A small spider was moving about in her ear, and a discarded exoskeleton was nearby, as seen in alarming footage from the inner-ear exam. A 64-year-old woman in Taiwan experienced every arachnophobe’s worst nightmare in April when doctors found a spider scuttling about in her ear canal. New England Journal o...

  Absconding tortoise caught 5 miles from home three and a half years later. "Unusual tortoise" found in Florida identified as "escape artist" pet that went missing in 2020. The Putnam County Sheriff's office posted about the animal on Facebook on Saturday, saying deputies spotted the "unusual tortoise" in Interlachen. African sulcata tortoises, which are native to the Sahara Desert, are "escape artists," as they can dig out of enclosures, the sheriff's department said. They said the tortoise definitely seemed like someone's pet, since the turtle "likes people and head pats." Florida's Wildest Animal Refuge took in the tortoise as they searched for a possible owner. An African sulcata tortoise that went missing in 2020 has been recovered, authortities said. Putnam County Sheriff's Office Little did he they know at the time, the tortoise was someone's pet – and was last seen three and a half years ago. Social medi...

 America’s ally is nervous about waging war to defend Taiwan 1 The roar of the Japanese f-35 fighter jets above Misawa, in northern Japan, is formidable. At the base, which houses Japanese and American forces, pilots from the two countries practise flying together.  The risk of war with China over Taiwan has made those preparations ever more urgent. Japan plans to raise its defence budget by two-thirds by 2027 and acquire long-range missiles to make its Self-Defence Forces (sdf) fiercer. But it has not fired a shot in battle since 1945. Will Japan fight? 2 Geography puts Japan on the front line: its westernmost island sits 111km from Taiwan. Conflict is probably less likely if China believes Japan would join the fray. If war does break out, keeping Taiwan from falling may hinge on Japanese support and firepower. At a minimum, America would need to use its bases in Japan. And if Japan’s forces engaged in combat, success would be far more likely. 3 If a crisis around Taiwan...

1) Many people say that the best time to learn a language is when you're a young child. While there are many benefits to learning a language at a time when a child learns to speak, there are actually several disadvantages of learning a second language in elementary school, particularly kindergarten.  2) Before enrolling your child in a foreign language course or pushing for your school district to include foreign language at the kindergarten level, there are several factors to consider. Two Languages Can Be Difficult in Kindergarten 3) When children start kindergarten, they are expected to learn many things in just one year. They will begin learning phonemic and phonological awareness, which involves listening to different sounds in a word and eventually how to identify those sounds when reading.  4) Students in kindergarten will learn the basics of writing and reading fluency, learn how to write their name, read consonant-vowel-consonant words, answer questions about a story ...