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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jun 4, 2019
June 4, 2019
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When PRESIDENT TRUMP visits London this week, the Brits will have that giant, diaper-clad baby balloon flying in the streets --but that's not all. British tabloids say they'll also feature a giant, $25,000 robot depicting the U.S. president on a golden toilet, tweeting. The robot was reportedly made by Pennsylvania's DON LESSEM, the founder of Pennsylvania-based Dino Don Inc., which creates robotic dinosaur exhibits around the world. He was reportedly also an adviser on the STEVEN SPIELBERG movie, "Jurassic Park."
Congrats to DARRON BREEDEN from Orange, VA, who won the "Acme World Oyster Eating Championship" over the weekend at the New Orleans Oyster Festival. Breeden ate 44 dozen oysters in eight minutes to win the $2-thousand dollar prize. Breeden ate 40 dozen oysters last year, and now says he wants to beat the world record. That belongs to 48-year-old SONYA "The Black Widow" THOMAS, who managed to down 47 dozen Acme Oysters in eight minutes back in 2012.
For more eating records, head over to the Major League Eating website.Should women wear high heels while working? Apparently, there's a dress code in Japan that requires women to wear high heels in the workplace. Now, YUMI ISHIKAWA, who works in a Japanese funeral parlor, has started a petition calling for an end to the dress codes that more than 19-thousand people have signed.
Ms Ishikawa, who's also an actress, said: "I hope this campaign will change the social norm so that it won't be considered to be bad manners when women wear flat shoes like men."
But Japan is not the only country with high heel regulations. As recently as 2017, the government of British Columbia scrapped the dress code which required female employees to wear high heels.Looks like close to 12 million customers who used Quest Diagnostic services may have had their data stolen in one of the worst breaches so far this year. The "unauthorized user" siphoned off credit card numbers, medical information and personal data including Social Security numbers from AMCA, a billing collections vendor for Quest, from customers who used Quest from Aug 01, 2018 thru May 31, 2019. Quest provides lab testing services (including blood tests) to about half of the doctors and hospitals in the US.
More on EMMA BOETTCHER, the woman who ended JAMES HOLZHAUER's "Jeopardy" winning streak. The Philadelphia Inquirer says Emma grew up in the Philly suburbs and auditioned four times for the show --the first during her senior year of high school in 2010-- before breaking through following her 2017 audition. Monday's episode was filmed March 12, before the episodes featuring Holzhauer began to air, and the Inquirer reporter asked "What was it like having to keep it a secret that not only did you win, you unseated a dominant player like Holzhauer, who had become a national figure?" Her answer: "I couldn't tell anybody. Thankfully, my parents were at the taping. My sister, whom I'm very close with, I couldn't tell her. And my friends, I couldn't tell them. For the most part, people were pretty respectful and didn't ask me too many questions about it. But it was also very difficult keeping the secret that I was playing [Holzhauer] as people started getting into his run."
More on the Inquirer interview at https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/tv/jeopardy-new-champ-emma-boettcher-james-holzhauer-20190603.html -
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