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– For some, Black Friday will actually begin tonight. "I leave the house at 9:30pm on Thanksgiving," one serious shopper tells the New York Daily News. "Everything used to open at 6am, but every year it gets even earlier." With 138 million Americans expected to be out shopping for deals, how can you snag what you want? Some tips: "You gotta pack light, get your coffee and go," says the aforementioned shopper, who recommends—along with many of her seasoned peers—shopping alone, and organizing flyers and credit cards beforehand. Or bring a shopping pal ... and a strategy. "We tag-team," says one shopper. "My friend or I will stay in line while the other person runs to get their stuff." "Outwit, outlast, outplay," says another Black Friday veteran who befriends managers for "insider information" and cases each store beforehand so he'll know where to find products. He also recommends talking to other shoppers in line to make sure you're not missing any great deals—but, of course, don't give away any of your own secrets. "It's all mind games before the doors open, and then it's WrestleMania!" Sites like BlackFriday.info can help, but there's nothing like the time-honored just-grab-it technique: Says one shopper, "I usually spot what I want and get it before anyone else sees me or the product." Click here for five more tips from a pro.

Black Friday shopping: Local shoppers offer up strategy for full-contact sport post-Thanksgiving

 Lombard for News Rosemary Rizzo getting ready for Black Friday shopping in Bryant Park, Manhattan.

 Bargain hunting becomes a full-contact sport the day after Thanksgiving, when stores slash prices just in time for the holiday rush.

 Maneuvering the mob of 138 million Americans expected to hit the malls and outlets this season takes plenty of practice, but hard-core customers have got beating the crowds down to a science.

 "I leave the house at 9:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving," says Rosemary Rizzo, 40, from Ronkonkoma, L.I. "Everything used to open at 6 a.m., but every year it gets even earlier."

 The Tanger Outlets in Riverhead will open at midnight, so Rizzo needs to be in line by 9:45 Thursday to power through on her shopping spree until 1:30 p.m. the next day.

 "You gotta pack light, get your coffee and go," she says. "The adrenaline keeps you moving."

 Traveling light also means going it alone.

 "I shop by myself," she says. "You've got to be the fastest, to be able to go from store to store and not have anyone lingering, or you're not going to be able to get what you need."

 She subscribes to sites like BlackFriday.info that clue her in to sales in advance, and pores over her stack of circulars while she's still digesting her Thanksgiving turkey to map her route.

 Black Friday shopper Matt Kane of Allentown, N.J. outside the Princeton, N.J. Wal-Mart. (Denver for News)

 Organization is also key. "As I go in to each store, I have that specific flyer, my list of who I'm buying for and my wallet. Make sure your money and credit cards are organized, and you know your balance, so that you're not fumbling through your bag at the checkout."

 Past prizes include walking away with two almost-impossible-to-find Wii Fits in 2008 and scoring a $4,500 Coach bag for $99.

 "It's probably a $1,000 day, but I save up for it," says Rizzo, who's been doing this for over a decade. "Black Friday is my holiday. I look forward to it all year!"

 Her husband thinks she's bananas, but her friends, relatives and co-workers use her as a shopping service for picking up their own gifts.

 "I'm thinking of going into business as a personal shopper," she laughs. "You feel a real sense of accomplishment. There's nothing like the rush you get from finding a great bargain!"

 Black Friday isn't just a day of shopping for the frugal. For some, it's more like a game of "Survivor."

 "Outwit, outlast, outplay," says Matt Kane, 33, from Allentown, N.J. "It's all about competition for me — and victory!"

 To prep for one of the biggest shopping days of the year, the Black Friday veteran does days of research and cases each store to see where each product will be placed. ||||| My friend Cassie is a Black Friday pro. Every year she heads out to the stores in the dead of night and comes back in the morning with approximately $30,000 worth of Christmas presents for, like, 30 bucks. One time I asked her about her strategies and she regaled me with stories that might make a Vietnam veteran blush. But you know what? She gets all of her holiday shopping done in a few hours the day after Thanksgiving, and she comes out of it with a smile on her face, so more power to her. After talking to her and a few other Black Friday devotees, I’ve compiled a list of five indispensable tips for surviving this crazy capitalist holiday.

 What is most important to you? A big screen TV for $5? Thirty pairs of athletic socks for the price of one?

 Do your homework. Black Friday is not a day to leave things to chance. Peruse all the ads on Thanksgiving Day. Mark up the ones you’re interested in so you know exactly what you’re going for and, ideally, where it will be located. It’s best to focus on stores that you’re already familiar with so you don’t lose time trying to find certain sections. Scout the stores ahead of time if at all possible (wearing a ninja outfit can make this more fun). Pay attention to timelines, too: some sales last for two hours and some last for two days. Prioritize. What is most important to you? A big screen TV for $5? Thirty pairs of athletic socks for the price of one? Figure out which purchases are most important to you and which ones can be pushed to the back burner if necessary. It’s important to have clearly defined goals so you don’t get distracted at the shelf of musical Santa figurines at the door and miss out on everything. You also might want to think long and hard about your ethical principles: are you willing to push people out of the way? And how do you feel about psychological warfare? Bring backup. Here’s the deal: waiting in line for five hours by yourself is many people’s idea of hell. Waiting in line with your friends for five hours? Still sort of hellish, but at least you’ll have someone to go on latte runs and watch your spot while you pee. On a practical note, once you get inside the store your group can split up and grab multiples of different items. Power up. It’s usually best to not sleep at all the night before Black Friday since many sales start at midnight. Pack snacks and fuel up on coffee as often as possible. Adrenaline can only get you so far. Check your attitude. As Cassie puts it, “There’s nothing worse than watching some lady get irritated in line and you’re thinking, ‘Really? You didn’t know there would be a line?’” Black Friday is crazy and intense but if you’re not having any fun with it, you might as well not go.

 Are you guys planning to hit up the sales the day after Thanksgiving? And do you Black Friday veterans out there have any other important tips for surviving the busiest shopping day of the year? |||||


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LITTLE ROCK, AR-- A Central Arkansas couple wins the lottery twice in one weekend, winning more than a million dollars.

 The winnings for Steve and Terri Weaver of Stuttgart started Saturday, when Steve bought a $1 million scratch off and won.

 "I almost had a heart attack right then, my heart started going a hundred times an hour and we kept looking for something wrong," said Steve.

 The Weavers were feeling so lucky, the next day Terri bought a $250 thousand Taxes Paid Scratch off. She won $50,000 off of the game.

 "I just couldn't believe it. It's not possible," said Steve.

 In one weekend, together, the Weavers won $1,050,000.

 The Weavers admit, they were a little afraid to claim their winnings from the lottery commission.

 "I thought we were going to have to go do a lie detector test. And put our hand on the bible," said Steve.

 The Weavers say they will play again and they will go to work tomorrow.

 "It's unbelievable. It's just unbelievable "

 The couple plans to invest the money.

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– An Arkansas man won $1 million in a scratch-card lottery this weekend; the next day, his wife won $50,000. "I just couldn't believe it. It's not possible," says Steve Weaver. When they prepared to claim the cash, "I thought we were going to have to go do a lie detector test, and put our hand on the Bible," Weaver tells Fox 16. Together, Steve and Terri's tickets cost $30, Arkansas Matters reports. The couple isn't planning anything rash with their newfound $1,050,000; they'll invest it, keep working, and keep playing the lottery, they say.


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''It's a scary trend,'' said Dr. Rock Positano, director of the nonoperative foot and ankle service at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan. Dr. Positano said that his waiting room is increasingly filled with women hobbled by failed cosmetic foot procedures, those done solely to improve the appearance of the foot or help patients fit into fashionable shoes.

 More than half of the 175 members of the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society who responded to a recent survey by the group said that they had treated patients with problems resulting from cosmetic foot surgery. The society will soon issue a statement condemning the procedures, said Rich Cantrall, its executive director.

 The American Podiatric Medical Association is also likely to formally discourage medically unnecessary foot operations, said Dr. Glenn Gastwirth, executive director of the group.

 ''I think it's reprehensible for a physician to correct someone's feet so they can get into Jimmy Choo shoes,'' said Dr. Sharon Dreeben, an orthopedic surgeon in La Jolla, Calif., who is chairwoman of the foot and ankle society's public education committee.

 But advocates for the procedures say that critics simply do not understand the importance of high heels. ''Some of these women invest more in their shoes than they do in the stock market,'' said Dr. Suzanne M. Levine, an Upper East Side podiatrist who is widely quoted in women's magazines and has appeared on network television promoting the procedures.

 ''Take your average woman and give her heels instead of flats, and she'll suddenly get whistles on the street,'' Dr. Levine said. ''I do everything I can to get them back into their shoes.''

 Foot fashion and function have, of course, long been in conflict. Chinese girls' feet were bound to shorten them by bending the toes backward. High heels have been fashionable in the United States for decades, even though they can cause not only serious foot problems but knee, pelvic, back, shoulder and even jaw pain.

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 It is not just the height of shoes that can lead to damage. A 1991 study found that almost 90 percent of women routinely wear shoes that are one to two sizes too narrow. A 1993 study found that women have more than 80 percent of all foot surgeries, primarily because their shoes are too tight.

 Narrow shoes can cause the big toe to bend outward, permanently changing the shape of the bone and causing a bunion, or swollen big-toe joint. Women have more than 94 percent of bunion surgeries, the 1993 study found. By scrunching up the smaller toes, fashionable shoes can also cause or worsen claw or hammer toes, a condition in which the smaller toes are permanently bent downward. Painful and unsightly corns or calluses often form on the tops of such toes.

 Foot doctors disagree sharply over how to respond to such problems. Most advise patients to stop wearing the offending shoes. ''It's far simpler to cut the shoe to fit the foot than to cut the foot to fit the shoe,'' said Dr. Pierce Scranton, a Seattle orthopedic surgeon who was an author of the 1993 study.

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 But an increasing number of doctors are performing delicate and expensive operations to allow women to continue to wear their favorite shoes.

 Dr. Levine's Park Avenue office, called Institute Beauté, is decorated with cream and rose-colored wallpaper, pictures of Dr. Levine with celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer and Joan Lunden, and framed copies of articles in which she is quoted. Dr. Levine has medium-length blond hair, a striking resemblance to the singer Deborah Harry, and often wears fashionable high heels. A public relations firm schedules her media appearances.

 Sitting with a brown Yorkie in her lap, Dr. Levine explains that she is ''simply fulfilling a need, a need to wear stylish shoes.'' Although she would not provide specific numbers, Dr. Levine said that this year she will undertake 40 percent more cosmetic foot surgeries than she did three years ago. Among the most common are operations to shorten toes, at a cost of $2,500 per toe, and collagen injections into the balls of the feet -- to restore padding lost from years of wearing high heels -- about $500 per injection, she said.

 Her business is taking off, Dr. Levine explained, because shoes are an increasingly indispensable fashion accessory. ''These women come in and say, 'Listen, I just came from my other podiatrist who told me to stop wearing high heels, and I don't want to hear that,' '' she said.

 Many of her patients are youthful, beautiful women who want to look their best, she said. To prove her point, she walked into an examining room where Jennifer Cho, a 27-year-old Manhattan lawyer was waiting to have the stitches on her right toes examined.

 Wearing high heels caused her discomfort, Ms. Cho said, and her toes had begun to curl downward and develop corns. She saw Dr. Levine on NBC's ''Today'' program and decided to have the problem fixed. On Monday, Dr. Levine shortened the toes on Ms. Cho's right foot, and she is scheduled to operate on the left toes on Friday.

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 ''This will help me wear the shoes that I want to wear,'' Ms. Cho said happily.

 Dr. Levine and her partner, Dr. Everett Lautin, said that critics do not understand that when doctors tell their patients not to wear high heels, patients do so anyway. ''People say, 'why do toe surgery if they work just fine?' '' Dr. Lautin said. ''Well, 'why do a nose job when your nose is working just fine?' It's the same thing. People want to look their best.''

 The answer, Dr. Positano said, is that ''you don't walk on your face.'' The foot is a complex network of 26 bones, 33 joints, 107 ligaments and 19 muscles that must support more than 100,000 pounds of pressure for every mile walked. Even small changes can unexpectedly undermine the foot's structural integrity and cause crippling pain, Dr. Positano and others said.

 Even collagen injections have risks. Simone Levitt's toes are numb because collagen injections into the pads of her feet damaged nerves. Ms. Levitt was persuaded to get them because she thought they would allow her to walk freely in high heels. ''Like a dope, I let this happen,'' said Ms. Levitt, 74, who lives in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Now Ms. Levitt said that she is unable to wear anything but sneakers and that her feet hurt constantly.

 These risks explain why many foot doctors advise patients to try everything -- including never wearing high heels again -- before risking surgery. There are no solid figures for cosmetic foot procedures, so the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society is beginning a study to measure how common the operations have become.

 Critics say that one factor compelling the increase they are seeing in such procedures is a push by doctors to expand their practices in areas not covered by managed care. ''People are making a lot of money off of this, because patients pay in cash,'' said Dr. Dreeben, the California surgeon.

 Dr. Levine said that insurers pay for many of her procedures, because patients are in pain. ''I'm not looking to make a killing,'' she said. ''I make a living.''

 Dr. Reese finally found 2-inch heels that she could briefly wear while walking down the aisle at her daughter's wedding in July. She quickly changed into a pair of ballet slippers that she had dyed black and fitted with special supports. She expects, however, that she will never again be able to walk barefoot or wear anything but specially designed shoes.

 ''I really regret being worried about looking good for my daughter's wedding,'' Dr. Reese said, ''because I'll pay for it for the rest of my life.'' ||||| When Dr. Ali Sadrieh, a podiatrist, started Evo Advanced Foot Surgery in Beverly Hills, Calif., 13 years ago, he thought it seemed a little vain for women to ask for surgery because their feet hurt wearing fashionable shoes.

 “Patients would bring in shoes they dreamed of wearing,” he said over tea recently at the St. Regis New York, where he was staying to see New York patients. “On the surface, it looked shallow. But I came to see she needs these shoes to project confidence, they are part of her outside skin. That’s the real world.”

 For Dr. Sadrieh (who was wearing made-to-order Gucci brogues), foot surgery is a fusion of medicine and fairy tale. At his practice, you don’t have a bunionectomy; you have a Cinderella procedure.

 “I had never met a patient who asked for a hallux valgus correction with osteotomy and screw fixation,” he said. “So I decided to create a name that captures the result of the procedure, without all the Latin. The point of the Cinderella: being able to put a shoe on that didn’t fit comfortably before.”

 He also has coined the Perfect 10! (aesthetic toe-shortening — once administered, he said, to a 17-year-old fashion model, so she could wear the shoes her career demanded); Model T (toe-lengthening); and Foot Tuck, a fat-pad augmentation that he said helps with high heels.

 And he is not the only doctor changing the face, as it were, of foot surgery.

 Dr. Neal Blitz, a podiatrist who specializes in aesthetic and reconstructive procedures (including a Bunionplasty) at his private practice in Manhattan, and operates at Mount Sinai Hospital, calls this body part “the final frontier” for those who have had work done on their faces. “My practice has exploded because of Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin and Nicholas Kirkwood,” he said in a recent phone interview. “There’s nothing like opening a shoe closet that’s been closed to somebody for years.”

 Perish all thought of Dr. Scholl’s or Birkenstocks in these waiting rooms. Dr. Oliver Zong, founder of NYC Footcare and self-proclaimed “originator of the foot face-lift and toe tuck,” routinely corrects such conditions as High Heel Foot (a term he coined to describe a deformed foot that’s conformed to the shape of a stiletto), and Hitchhiker’s Toe, (an abnormally large big toe that sticks out like the thumb of a hitchhiker). He recently introduced the phrase “Toebesity,” which he plans to describe on his site, where flashing text promises: “Designer feet for designer shoes.”

 One designer, Cathy Hardwick, who gave Tom Ford his first assistant job, had bilateral bunion surgery from Dr. Richard Frankel, the founder of Park 56 Podiatry, in 2008. “He didn’t want to operate, it was so little,” she said of the bump. But, she added: “It was unsightly and it hurt when I wore certain shoes. A few years later he operated. My foot is perfect now. And I can wear sandals I couldn’t wear before.”

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 Indeed, it’s not unusual for patients to walk into Dr. Suzanne Levine’s Institute Beauté, a podiatry clinic and medical spa on Park Avenue, with a bag full of shoes they can’t wear because of bunions and hammertoes. Victorian boots, Jimmy Choos and Manolo Blahniks are some of the examples on floor-to-ceiling glass shelves. Dr. Levine consults with patients on the designer high heels best suited to their particular feet, knowing, for example that both Prada and Michael Kors make a wider-than-average shoe last. “Some people won’t go to the beach or the pool, they’re so embarrassed about their feet,” said Dr. Levine, who was wearing chunky-heeled Michael Kors bootees during a recent interview.

 Her solutions, described in five books such as, “My Feet Are Killing Me,” include, among others, platelet-rich plasma therapy; stem-cell injections; injectable fillers for metatarsal cushioning; Botox; Dysport; Myobloc for excess sweating. She also advocates exercises for the feet.

 The craziest request she’s received? “Once a patient came in asking for toe liposuction,” Dr. Levine said incredulously. And Dr. Zong said he had a patient ask to have a pinkie toe removed to fit into her shoes. Neither request was granted.

 Dr. Jonathan T. Deland, chief of the foot and ankle service and attending orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery, is opposed to even less-radical cosmetic procedures.

 “The most important thing about a foot is that is doesn’t hurt you and you can function,” he said. “If we’re just talking about three-and-a-half-inch-heel stilettos that cause pain and if they wear a two-and-a-half-inch heel with no pain, then that’s probably not a good reason to do surgery.”

 Dr. Deland is cautious about injections designed to pad the feet. “If there was an injection that really worked and that lasted, a lot of good doctors would be using it, because it’s a common problem,” he said. “The answer is, there is not. The patient should ask, ‘Hey, doctor, can you give me the article or the reference that shows long-term follow-up for that procedure?’ ”

 But to Annette Healey, an executive vice president in retail services with CBRE, elective bunion surgery felt like a necessity. “Sneakers never worked for my career,” said Ms. Healey. She had elective bunion surgery in 2011 two days after Christmas, “while everyone was away in St. Barts,” she added, so she “could camouflage it better with Uggs.”

 Her orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Craig Radnay, told her that her gait had become increasingly affected by her foot issues and that she was hurting her back.

 Ms. Healey said she can now walk 20 miles in fashionable boots. “If you live in New York, your feet are your wheels,” she said. Though she spends 95 percent of her time in chic flats or wedges, she also wears Prada, Manolo and Gucci heels. But there are limits. “Sadly, I will never get my foot into a Christian Louboutin,” she said. ||||| It’s like something out of a fairy tale: a New York princess can’t fit into her Louboutuins, so she calls her fairy godmother plastic surgeon and he snips little pieces off her feet until her shoes fit like magic! And then she and her shoes live happily ever after.

 As much as this might sound like a plot point in some horror-themed installment of Sex and the City, elective foot surgery is actually a thing that more than a few women are choosing to do. You can get your toes shortened or lengthened, your bunions removed, and even get fat injected into the bottoms of your feet so you have a permanent Dr. Scholls made of flesh, according to the New York Times‘s report on the surgery-for-shoes phenomenon.

 Apparently women get surgery to correct “high heel foot” (when your foot is stuck in the shape of a high heel) or “hitchhikers toe,” (when your big toe sticks out.) Some doctors have even gotten requests for toe liposuction, which they’ve denied. Dr. Oliver Zong, who founded NYC Footcare and coined the term “toebesity,” once had a woman ask him to remove her pinkie toe (he didn’t do it.)

 “Cinderella surgery” is just the latest in a long line of gross things women do to fit into clothes. Some women elect to have botox injected into their calves to slim them down for certain boots and skinnyjeans (although the process is dangerous, because of the major arteries in the legs). People get butt implants to channel Beyonce and J.Lo. Even guys are getting beard implants so they can participate in the lumberjack fad.

 Let’s just take second to remember that in the original Grimm’s fairy tale, the evil stepsisters cut off their heels and toes to try to fit into the glass slipper. Then they got their eyes pecked out by pigeons for being shallow. Just saying.

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– How far are women willing to go for fashion? According to the New York Times, pretty far. The newspaper walks a mile in the shoes of a handful of LA- and NYC-based podiatrists who perform procedures specifically designed to help women fit comfortably into designer heels. What types of surgery are women undergoing for the sake of their Manolo Blahniks? Aesthetic toe-shortening, fat-pad augmentation, and toe-lengthening procedures, by way of one Beverly Hills podiatrist, who brands his procedures with names like "the Cinderella" and "Perfect 10!" A Park Avenue podiatrist, who recommends Prada and Michael Kors for women looking for a wider shoe, offers injectable fillers for cushioning and other injections to tame profuse sweating; another NYC practitioner corrects what he calls Hitchhiker's Toe (a case of an outsize big toe) but drew the line at one patient's request: amputation of a pinkie toe to allow for a better fit. And it's not a new trend: The Times checked in on it in 2003, focusing on the "perils on the procedures"—an elective bunion removal, for instance, that ended up saddling the patient with serious foot pain. Time points out that woman are doing other "gross things" for fashion's sake, like Botoxing their calves to make them skinnier, and thereby better suited for skinnyjeans and slim boots. (And then there are these 7 people, who went under the knife in an attempt to look like a celeb.)


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Doctor says 24-year-old known as Oh needed two bodies’ worth of blood transfusions to save him and has nightmares about being sent back over border

 North Korea’s latest defector, a young soldier being identified only by his family name Oh, is a quiet, pleasant man who has nightmares about being returned to the North, his surgeon has said.

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 “He’s a pretty nice guy,” said lead surgeon John Cook-Jong Lee, who has been operating and caring for the 24-year-old. Oh has become a focus of worldwide attention after he was shot and badly wounded by fellow North Korean soldiers as he scrambled across the border in the demilitarised zone (DMZ) that separates North and South on 13 November.

 Video of Oh’s escape released on Wednesday showed him stumbling over the border and being dragged unconscious through the undergrowth by South Korean troops.

 Lee has been one of very few people to speak with Oh since he arrived at the hospital, the surgeon said in an interview at his office at Ajou University Hospital, a few floors away from where the defector lies guarded by South Korean special forces and intelligence officers.

 The surgeon, who has hung a South Korean flag in the soldier’s room, said he is avoiding subjects that may disturb his patient. Oh is eating his first “clear liquid” food such as broths, and can smile, talk, and use his hands, Lee said. But when his patient woke on Sunday he cried out in pain, and Lee said he is still anxious about the South Korean guards.

 Lee said Oh told him that he had joined the North Korean army when he was 17, after secondary school graduation. The soldier’s hair was styled “like a jarhead, like a US marine, so I actually joked ‘why don’t you join the South Korean marines?’ He smiled and said that he would never ever go back to the military system again.”

 Medical teams have worked for days to remove the shards of at least four bullets from Oh’s body, stitch up his shredded organs, and treat pre-existing conditions including tuberculosis, hepatitis B, and a case of massive intestinal worms, Lee said.

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 “He’s a quite strong man,” said Lee.

 Since Oh’s defection, North Korea appeared to have replaced all its security guards on the border, an intelligence source in the South told Yonhap news agency on Thursday.

 Lee said that when the defector arrived in an American military helicopter at the hospital – which is equipped with state-of-the-art diagnostic equipment and is used to treat VIP visitors such as visiting US presidents – he came with zero personal information.

 On the flight in, American army flight medics had fought to keep Oh alive, jabbing a large needle into his chest to treat a collapsed lung.

 Oh was immediately wheeled into a diagnostic room where doctors confirmed he was suffering from massive internal bleeding. “We knew then that we didn’t have time to hesitate,” Lee said.

 Two major surgeries were required to remove the bullets and patch Oh back together, and the medical team pumped as much as 12 litres of blood transfusions into his body. The normal body has less than half that much blood.

 “He told me that he is so thankful for South Koreans for saving his life and giving him that much blood,” Lee said.

 Lee has been playing South Korean pop music and American films and TV shows for his patient, but has not exposed him to any news coverage.

 Among the shows, Oh showed a liking for the French-American thriller Transporter 3, comedy Bruce Almighty starring Jim Carrey and Morgan Freeman, and the crime-solving TV series CSI, Lee said.

 Most North Korean defectors undergo security questioning by South Korea’s intelligence agency once they arrive before being sent to a resettlement centre for a three-month education on life in the South. After they are released, central and local governments provide 7m won ($6,450) in cash over a year, as well as support in housing, education and job training.

 Police officers are assigned to each of the defectors to ensure their security and safety.

 Even if Oh fully recovers, some scars will stay for the rest of his life, the surgeon said.

 Among the longest lasting wounds will be the damage to his colon, which was shredded by a bullet and had to be stitched back together in seven places. “It’s a lifelong complication for the patient, so he’s better to be very cautious in his diet,” said the surgeon.

 Besides the potential for further medical complications, Lee says he is most worried about making sure Oh recovers psychologically. The soldier has already told him he had a nightmare about being returned to the North.

 The surgeon said he has asked senior South Korean military officials who are eager to question the soldier to hold off while he recovers.

 “This North Korean guy is not going anywhere,” Lee said. “He is staying in South Korea. So we don’t need to be hasty. ||||| CLOSE The US-led UN command released dramatic video showing a North Korean soldier dash across border into South Korea as North Korean troops fire at him. The defector was wounded. The UN says North Korea violated the Korean War armistice by firing. (Nov. 22) AP

 This screengrab made from video footage released by the United Nations Command on Nov. 22 shows North Korea soldiers reacting to the news of a defection. (Photo: AFP)

 A North Korean soldier who was shot and wounded as he sought to scramble across a heavily guarded border to freedom in South Korea is a "nice guy" who appreciates American movies, TV shows and western-style pop music, according to the doctor treating him.

 Surgeon John Cook-Jong Lee told the Reuters news agency this week that the North Korean defector, a young soldier who is recovering in a Seoul hospital and has only been identified by the name "Oh," admitted to liking the comedy film Bruce Almighty starring Jim Carrey and Morgan Freeman and the gritty crime television series CSI.

 The 24-year-old also expressed admiration for K-pop, a South Korean musical genre that mixes elements of electronica, rock, hip hop, R&B and jazz.

 More: Video shows North Korean soldier's daring, bullet-ridden defection to South

 It wasn't clear if the soldier was first exposed to western movies, TV shows and music in the hospital ward where he arrived after being shot four times on Nov. 13, or if he gained access to them while inside North Korea. Pyongyang is a highly secretive regime that restricts information its citizens can access to crack down on dissent.

 Dramatic footage of the soldier's daring defection was released Wednesday by the American-led United Nations Command that helps police the 1950-1953 Korean War armistice. It showed showed him racing across the border under fire from former comrades, and then being hauled to safety by South Korean troops.

 "He told me that he is so thankful for South Koreans for saving his life and giving him so much blood," Lee said of the soldier in the interview. He said "Oh" was recovering well physically but having recurring nightmares about being sent back to the North.

 "He's a pretty nice guy," he said, adding that he had hair "like a jarhead, like a U.S. Marine, so I actually joked ‘why don’t you join the South Korean marines?’ He smiled and said that he would never ever go back to the military system again."

 North Korea is believed to have replaced all the border security guards who failed to prevent the soldier's defection, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Friday.

 Marc Knapper, the acting U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, tweeted a picture Thursday of what he said showed North Koreans planting two trees and digging a trench at the spot where "Oh" crossed into the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas. North Korean border guards who were chasing him had strayed into the area before turning back, technically violating the terms of the Korean War truce.

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 North Korean soldiers dig a trench and plant trees in the area where, on November 13, a defector ran across the border at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing North Korea and South Korea November 22, 2017. Handout via REUTERS

 The North Korean defector was shot and wounded by his fellow soldiers as he dashed into the South Korean side of the Joint Security Area (JSA) last week.

 The South Korean and U.S. soldiers who led a rescue attempt to drag the gravely injured soldier to safety have been awarded medals, according to U.S. Forces Korea.

 A group of senior diplomats based in Seoul visited the JSA on Wednesday morning where they saw five North Korean workers digging a deep trench in the area where the soldier had dashed across the line after getting his jeep stuck in a small ditch, a member of the diplomatic delegation told Reuters on Friday.

 In a photograph of the visit posted to the Twitter account of acting U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Marc Knapper, North Korean workers could be seen using shovels to dig a deep trench on the North Korean side of the line as soldiers stood guard.

 “The workers were being watched very closely by the KPA guards, not just the two in the photo, but others out of shot behind the building,” said the diplomat, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation.

 According to an intelligence official cited by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, the North has replaced the 35-40 soldiers it had guarding the JSA at the time of the incident.

 “We’re closely monitoring the North Korean military’s movement in the JSA,” a South Korean defense ministry official told reporters, without confirming the reduction in border guards. “There are limits as to what we can say about things we know.”

 Reuters was unable to independently verify the reports, although photos taken by Knapper and other diplomats of soldiers guarding the area where workers were digging the trench showed them dressed in slightly different uniforms to the ones usually worn by North Korea’s JSA guards.

 Two new trees had also been planted in the small space between the ditch and the line with the South, the diplomat told Reuters, in an apparent effort to make it more difficult for would-be defectors to drive across the ground.

 Meanwhile, in South Korea, U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said it had awarded its own JSA soldiers - three South Korean and three U.S. soldiers - the Army Commendation medal in recognition for their efforts in rescuing the defector.

 The medals were personally handed out by USFK Commander Vincent Brooks in a ceremony on Thursday, according to USFK’s Facebook page.

 The soldiers had been responsible for dragging the wounded North Korean soldier to safety in a daring rescue seen in security camera footage released by the United Nations Command earlier this week.

 Pyongyang has not commented on the defection of its soldier, who is now in stable condition despite sustaining multiple injuries sustained from gunshot wounds to his arm and torso.

 The young soldier, known only by his family name Oh, is a quiet, pleasant man who has nightmares about being returned to the North, his surgeon told Reuters on Thursday.

 (For a graphic, click reut.rs/2jfoZPI) ||||| No medical drama is complete without a bold-yet-sensitive heartthrob doctor in a leading role. The incredible tale of a North Korean soldier's escape across the demilitarized zone last week is no exception.

 The McDreamy in this case is Lee Cook-jong, the trauma surgeon who has operated on the soldier several times and provided updates along the way — including a video showing Lee picking 10-inch-long parasitic worms out of the man's intestines and his declaration Wednesday that the defector will survive.

 "The patient is not going to die," Lee told reporters at Ajou University Hospital south of Seoul, announcing that the man had regained consciousness and was stable.

 Although he remains in the intensive care unit, he could be transferred to a general ward as soon as this weekend.

 The 24-year-old North Korean soldier, who has been identified only by his surname, Oh, was shot five times as he made his brazen escape Nov. 13.

 Closed-circuit television footage released by the U.S. military on Wednesday showed Oh driving a jeep southward before the vehicle became stuck in a ditch yards from the Military Demarcation Line that forms the border.

 Oh jumped out and started running for the line. Four North Korean border guards tried to stop him, firing more than 40 rounds at him. One guard briefly crossed the line, violating the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953.

 The video showed Oh lying wounded in a pile of leaves against a building on the southern side. Then three South Korean soldiers crawled out and dragged him to safety.

 From there, he was put in a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and flown 50 miles south to the hospital in Suwon, where Lee was waiting.

 "If it weren't for their emergency measures, he would have died before arriving at the hospital," Lee said.

 [Dramatic video shows North Korean soldier making a run for freedom ]

 It was still touch-and-go when Oh arrived at the hospital. His blood pressure was so low after losing so much blood that the doctors did not even have time to check his blood type. Instead, they pumped about 40 units — between three and four times the amount of blood contained in a human body — of type O into him.

 He has had three surgeries, including an attempt to repair his damaged internal organs and stop the contamination caused by the parasites and the injuries.

 Through it all, the trauma surgeon, often in scrubs, has been giving regular updates on the soldier's condition.

 The revelation that the man had a severe parasitic infection — Lee said he had never seen such a case except in medical textbooks — and that his stomach contained raw corn kernels prompted widespread shock in South Korea. North Korean front-line soldiers were supposed to be elite troops, yet this man had worms not seen in South Korea since the 1970s and had been eating uncooked corn?

 Oh also has tuberculosis and hepatitis B, Lee said. And, at 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing about 130 pounds, he is several inches shorter and 20 pounds lighter than the average male 18-year-old South Korean.

 There is intense interest in the soldier, and military intelligence officers reportedly are eager to question him about his escape, but Lee has been fending them off. The soldier is showing signs of depression and post-traumatic stress, and it will take about a month before he is well enough to answer questions, the doctor said.

 For now, Lee is keeping the conversation light — talking about the way things are done in South Korea rather than asking him about North Korea — and trying to cheer him up.

 The medical staff played him "Gee," a peppy pop song by Girls' Generation — featuring lyrics such as, "Oh, it's too pretty, your soul's too pretty/It's love at first sight" — and he declared that he liked girl bands.

 Lee also said Oh has been watching the American TV series "CSI" and the action movie "The Transporter," in which a former special-forces operative hires himself out as a mercenary.

 The staff also has hung a South Korean flag in his room to reassure him he really is in the South.

 [Escaped North Korean soldier fights for life after being shot crossing DMZ ]

 This is not Lee's first time in the spotlight. The surgeon became a national hero in 2011 when he saved the life of a ship captain who had been shot by Somali pirates.

 After pirates seized a chemical freighter near the Gulf of Aden in 2011, South Korean commandos stormed the ship and the pirates shot the captain six times during the rescue attempt.

 Lee was waiting at a hospital in Oman and saved the captain's life, earning a reputation as the country's leading trauma surgeon. There was even a popular medical drama based on this story, "Golden Time." The title was a reference to Lee's frequent reminder that it is the hour after a severe injury that is most important for saving someone's life.

 The 48-year-old Lee, who is blind in one eye and renowned for working 36-hour shifts, was also the inspiration for a character in another drama, "Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim," released last year. He became such a celebrity that even octogenarians with diabetes were trying to get in to see him.

 Lee became a doctor in South Korea but trained as a critical-care surgeon at the University of California at San Diego Medical Center in 2003. He then went on to the Royal London Hospital's trauma center.

 Returning home, he realized that there was no equivalent facility at any hospital in South Korea and estimated that about 30,000 trauma patients were dying in the country each year because of treatment delays and a lack of dedicated trauma units.

 He persuaded authorities to fund proper trauma centers, including his unit at Ajou University Hospital. Now, 20 percent of revenue from traffic fines goes to trauma centers in the country.

 [American detained trying to enter North Korea; North Korean soldier escapes to the South ]

 But for a trauma surgeon, Lee faces a predicament that is unimaginable for American ER doctors: He seldom gets to treat gunshot wounds, because South Korea has very strict rules on gun ownership.

 Ten murders with a firearm were reported in South Korea between 2010 and 2015, compared with 8,592 in the United States, according to figures from the Small Arms Survey.

 Instead, the relatively few gunshot wounds he has treated have been sustained by South Korean and U.S. soldiers hurt during military drills, he told the Korea Times in 2015. Still, that appears to have been enough practice to save the North Korean soldier's life.

 Now, South Koreans are waiting for Lee's next statement on the soldier's prognosis.

 In online forums, South Korean "netizens" have been sending their best wishes to Lee and his patient.

 "A Korean who put his life on the line to cross over to the south. Hopefully he can be saved!" wrote one in an online medical forum.

 Another added, "Please survive so you can live in South Korea!"

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– North Korea is trying to make sure that no others will be able to defect the way that a young soldier did last week. The fixes aren't exactly high-tech: North Korean soldiers were seen digging a big trench in the border area where the soldier first drove and then ran to freedom, reports Reuters. They also planted trees, apparently to prevent vehicles from getting through in the future. Finally, North Korea also seems to have replaced all of its border security guards, reports the Yonhap news agency, which surmises that any officers involved are in for serious punishment. Details and developments: The soldier: "He's a pretty nice guy," the lead South Korean surgeon says of the 24-year-old defector, identified only by the name "Oh." The patient likes Bruce Almighty and CSI, though USA Today notes it's unclear whether he saw that US movie and show in the hospital or previously in North Korea on the black market. Oh faces a long recuperation, having been shot at least five times. One bullet decimated his colon. The surgeon: The incident has put the spotlight, again, on 48-year-old trauma surgeon Lee Cook-jong. Lee is the one giving regular updates after the surgeries he performs, and the Washington Post reports that he previously became a "national hero" in 2011 when he saved the life of a ship captain shot by Somali pirates. That feat became the subject of a medical drama. Lee, blind in one eye, also served as the inspiration for a character in a second drama called Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim, which was released last year and gave him certifiable celeb status. The Post uses the terms "heartthrob" and "McDreamy" in the profile. Next for Oh: The surgeon, taking note of Oh's "jarhead" haircut, jokingly suggested that Oh eventually join the South Korean military: "He smiled and said that he would never ever go back to the military system again." When he's stronger, Oh will be debriefed. Then he'll get help with housing, education, and job training from the South Korean government, reports the Guardian.


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 A legislative committee in Wyoming is drafting a bill to allow firing-squad executions, though the state has only one death-row inmate.

 Committee staffers are beginning work on the bill after the director of the state’s Department of Corrections suggested the state needs an alternative to execution drugs, which are increasingly difficult to obtain, the Associated Press reports.

 Currently the state has no execution drugs, corrections director Bob Lampert said.

 Wyoming law allows gas-chamber executions if lethal injections are found to be unconstitutional. The state doesn’t have a gas chamber, however.

 The only inmate on Wyoming’s death row is Dale Wayne Eaton, 69, convicted in the 2004 murder of an 18-year-old woman, the story says.

 A lawmaker in Utah has also announced plans to introduce a bill to bring back firing squads. Utah State Rep. Paul Ray said he backed the option because “the prisoner dies instantly” and “there’s no suffering,” the Associated Press reported earlier this month. “It sounds like the Wild West, but it’s probably the most humane way to kill somebody,” Ray said.

 Ray plans to introduce his proposal in the next legislative session beginning in January. Utah still allows firing-squad executions for inmates convicted before a 2004 law banned its use.

 Lawmakers in Utah and Wyoming had floated the idea of firing squads earlier this year, but those efforts had stalled. Now the states are reconsidering the proposal after the botched lethal-injection execution in Oklahoma, AP says. ||||| Republican Gov. Bill Haslam on Thursday signed a bill into law allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates in the event the state is unable to obtain drugs used for lethal injections.

 Tennessee lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the electric chair legislation in April, with the Senate voting 23-3 and the House 68-13 in favor of the bill.

 Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Tennessee is the first state to enact a law to reintroduce the electric chair without giving prisoners an option.

 "There are states that allow inmates to choose, but it is a very different matter for a state to impose a method like electrocution," he said. "No other state has gone so far."

 Dieter said he expects legal challenges to arise if the state decides to go through with an electrocution, both in terms of whether the state could prove that lethal injection drugs were not obtainable and on the grounds of constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

 A Haslam spokesman confirmed to The Associated Press that the governor had signed the measure Thursday evening , but offered no further comment.

 States have found themselves running out of drugs used to execute prisoners after a European-led boycott drug sales to prisons.

 Republican state Sen. Ken Yager, a main sponsor of the electric chair measure, said in a recent interview that he introduced the bill because of "a real concern that we could find ourselves in a position that if the chemicals were unavailable to us that we would not be able to carry out the sentence."

 A Vanderbilt University poll released this week found that 56 percent of registered voters in Tennessee support the use of the electric chair, while 37 percent are against it.

 Previous Tennessee law gave inmates who committed crimes before 1999 the choice of whether they wanted to die by electric chair or lethal injection. The last inmate to be electrocuted was Daryl Holton, a Gulf War veteran who killed his three sons and a stepdaughter with a high-powered rifle in Shelbyville garage in 1997. He requested the electric chair in 2007.

 A provision to apply the change to prisoners already sentenced to death has also raised a debate among legal experts.

 Nashville criminal defense attorney David Raybin, who helped draft Tennessee's death penalty law nearly 40 years ago, has said lawmakers may change the method of execution but they cannot make that change retroactive. To do so would be unconstitutional, he said.

 Supporters of the bill requested a legal opinion from state Attorney General Bob Cooper, who said the law would pass constitutional muster, but there was no guarantee it would not be challenged in court.

 Thirty-two states have the death penalty, and all of them rely at least in part on lethal injection. Fewer than a dozen regularly carry out executions, among them Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia and Texas, which leads the country. The federal government also uses lethal injection but rarely carries out executions.

 The Supreme Court has never declared a method of execution unconstitutional on the grounds that it is cruel and unusual. It upheld the firing squad in 1879, the electric chair in 1890 and lethal injection in 2008.

 The court made it clear over the years that the Eighth Amendment prohibits inflicting pain merely to torture or punish an inmate, drawing a distinction between a method like electrocution and old European practices such as drawing and quartering. The Constitution prohibits "unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain," the court said in 1976. |||||Summary:

– Amid shortages of drugs used in lethal injections and controversy over a botched execution in Oklahoma, Tennessee has become the first state to revive an older method of execution. Gov. Bill Haslam yesterday signed a bill allowing the state to use the electric chair if execution drugs are not available, the AP reports. State lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the bill last month. Other states allow condemned inmates to choose the chair, but Tennessee is the first to reintroduce it without giving prisoners a choice, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Wyoming, meanwhile, says it's all out of execution drugs, and lawmakers are drafting a bill to bring back the firing squad—though the ABA Journal points out that the state has but a single inmate on Death Row (that would be 69-year-old Dale Wayne Eaton, who was found guilty of the 2004 murder of an 18-year-old woman). State law currently permits death-by-gas-chamber, but the state doesn't actually have a gas chamber. (A recent poll found that one in five Americans supports bringing back gas chambers.)


An interesting historical fashion footnote: Thom Browne criticized President Obama’s wardrobe in a 2010 WSJ magazine interview. He said in the interview:

 “Obama could be dressed so much better. It looks like his clothing just doesn’t fit him. What is he doing? He’s a politician. My brother is a politician, and unfortunately they are too concerned that their constituents will not appreciate them looking better than everyone else. As opposed to thinking, “I should dress well because that’s what people want to see.” I saw a documentary on the Queen Mum during the war and she still dressed to go out and see the people because they expected it. They wanted to see a queen. They didn’t want to see her looking like them.” ||||| In 2009 Chief Justice John Roberts flipped some very important words in President Obama's swearing-in. Four years later, it appears the two still haven't figured out how to do get this tradition quite right. Here's the big "oops" moment from today's inauguration:

 "The office of the president of the United Sta—" is the flub, if you can call it that. President Obama seemed to cut himself off instead of saying the full word "States," and he sort of froze up. Here's our GIF of Obama upon realizing he (sort of) screwed up:

 And here's a freeze-frame:

 Four years ago, if you recall, it was Justice Roberts messing up the oath. And all that official practicing on Sunday seems for naught. It won't help much now, but here's how the oath of office supposed to go:

 I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

 Want to add to this story? Let us know in comments or send an email to the author at aabadsantos at theatlantic dot com. You can share ideas for stories on the Open Wire.

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– President Obama has been publicly sworn in for his second term—though he actually took the oath yesterday. Today the oath, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts, went off a little more smoothly than it did during Obama's first inauguration, though the AtlanticWire points out it wasn't error-free. And the flub this time was Obama's. While reciting the phrase "The office of the president of the United States," he effectively choked on the last word, saying just "Sta—," and making a little face after doing so. In other oath-taking tidbits, the president placed his hand on two Bibles: one Abraham Lincoln's and the other Martin Luther King's. (Prof. Cornel West wasn't thrilled about the latter choice, notes the National Review: West slammed the use of King's "prophetic fire as just a moment in presidential pageantry.") Joe Biden, meanwhile, again took the oath from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Wall Street Journal notes. Among other highlights of the ceremony thus far: The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir performed "Battle Hymn of the Republic," James Taylor sang "America the Beautiful," and civil rights leader Myrlie Evers-Williams offered the invocation.


SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s a piece of space junk — WT1190F — and it’s colliding with Earth on Friday, the 13th!

 That’s what scientists are calling a mystery piece of orbital debris heading our way. And impact really is Friday, November 13.

 WT1190F was orbiting beyond the moon, and according to a report in the science journal Nature, was “glimpsed by a telescope in early October.”

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 Scientists say it is three to six feet long and man-made. As for exactly where it came from, there is speculation it could be some 50-year old spent rocket, or perhaps a piece of “paneling shed by a recent moon mission.” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard called it “a lost piece of space history that’s come back to haunt us.”

 Bill Gray at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena has been tracking WT1190F. He calculates it will land somewhere in the Indian Ocean off the southern tip of Sri Lanka, but will likely burn up before reaching earth.

 Still, Gray cautions, “I would not necessarily want to be going fishing directly underneath it.”

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 According to NASA there are more than half a million pieces of debris orbiting Earth at speeds up to 17,500 mph. Given WT1190F is landing on unlucky Friday the 13th, suspicious earthlings in the target landing zone should probably duck for this one.

 CBSSF.com writer, producer Jan Mabry is also executive producer and host of The Bronze Report. She lives in Northern California. Follow her on Twitter @janmabr. ||||| Researchers call it sheer coincidence that a newly discovered piece of space junk is officially designated WT1190F. But the letters in the name, which form the acronym for an unprintable expression of bafflement, are an appropriate fit for an object that is as mysterious as it is unprecedented.

 B. Bolin, R. Jedicke, M. Micheli

 Scientists have worked out that WT1190F will plunge to Earth from above the Indian Ocean on 13 November, making it one of the very few space objects whose impact can be accurately predicted. More unusual still, WT1190F was a 'lost' piece of space debris orbiting far beyond the Moon, ignored and unidentified, before being glimpsed by a telescope in early October.

 An observing campaign is now taking shape to follow the object as it dives through Earth’s atmosphere, says Gerhard Drolshagen, co-manager in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, of the European Space Agency’s near-Earth objects office. The event not only offers a scientific opportunity to watch something plunge through the atmosphere, but also tests the plans that astronomers have put in place to coordinate their efforts when a potentially dangerous space object shows up. “What we planned to do seems to work,” Drolshagen says. “But it’s still three weeks to go.”

 WT1190F was detected by the Catalina Sky Survey, a programme based at the University of Arizona, Tucson, aimed at discovering asteroids and comets that swing close to Earth. At first, scientists didn’t know what to make of this weird body. But they quickly computed its trajectory after collecting further observations and unearthing 2012 and 2013 sightings from telescope archives, says independent astronomy-software developer Bill Gray, who has been tracking the debris with astronomers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

 WT1190F travels a highly elliptical orbit, swinging out twice as far as the Earth–Moon distance, Gray says. Gray’s calculations show that it will hit Earth at 6:20 utc, hitting the ocean about 65 kilometres off the southern tip of Sri Lanka. Much, if not all, of it will burn up in the atmosphere, but “I would not necessarily want to be going fishing directly underneath it”, Gray says.

 The object is only 1 to 2 metres in size, and its trajectory shows that it has a low density, and is perhaps hollow. That suggests an artificial object, “a lost piece of space history that’s come back to haunt us”, says Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It could be a spent rocket stage or panelling shed by a recent Moon mission. It is also possible that the debris dates back decades, perhaps even to the Apollo era. An object seen orbiting Earth in 2002 was eventually identified as a discarded segment of the Saturn V rocket that launched the second mission to land men on the Moon.

 WT1190F is a rare breed of space object. Researchers are currently tracking only 20 or so artificial objects in distant orbits, says Gareth Williams, an astronomer at the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There are probably many more such pieces of space junk in orbit around the Earth–Moon system, but it is impossible to say how many. No others are known to have made the return trip to Earth, although it is likely that some have done so without anyone noticing, McDowell says.

 Drolshagen plans to get spectral information on the object, which may help to identify it, and he hopes to coordinate impact observations conducted onboard ships or aeroplanes. But that may be the end of the concerted effort to study this class of object. Unlike near-Earth asteroids, space debris that flies well away from Earth has not commanded significant amounts of funding or attention. And the US military, which tracks space debris, says that it lacks the ability to identify WT1190F or to predict its path.

 “There is no official, funded effort to do tracking of deep-Earth orbits the way we track low-Earth orbit,” McDowell says. “I think that has to change”. |||||

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– An unknown object is falling from the sky—WTF?? Actually, astronomers refer to it as WT1190F and say it's destined to strike Earth on Friday the 13th next month, CBS San Francisco reports. Bill Gray, an expert at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif., says the unknown piece of space junk will land in the Indian Ocean not far from Sri Lanka. The object appears to be three to six feet long and has likely been orbiting way beyond the moon for a while now, Nature reports. It may be paneling or a used rocket stage from a recent trip to the moon, or could date back as far as the Apollo flights. Gray predicts it will burn up before landing, but adds that "I would not necessarily want to be going fishing directly underneath it."


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– President Trump probably won't be sending out celebratory tweets about this: Alec Baldwin says he will indeed be back on Saturday Night Live in the fall to reprise his presidential impersonation. "Yeah, we're going to fit that in," he tells CNN. "I think people have enjoyed it." However, Baldwin says a busy schedule means he won't be appearing as Trump as frequently as he did last season. He likened it to viewers getting "celery sticks" instead of a full meal. Some thought his last appearance was a retirement of sorts from the SNL impersonation. The news comes after Spike TV taped a tribute to Baldwin on Sunday featuring some big names. Two notable samples, via Vanity Fair: Bill Clinton: "I wouldn’t know an alternative fact if it hit me in the face. But I do know this: I first met Alec Baldwin more than 20 years ago. Even before that, I was a huge fan of his work in the movies." Ireland Baldwin, daughter: "I’m here to roast this big old ham I call my father. Speaking of pigs, some of you may remember me as that thoughtless little pig that you read about. That was a decade ago, but my dad and I are in a much better place now. He would never say something like that because I’m 6-2 and I would kick his ass."

Alec Baldwin received the ultimate presidential surprise Sunday night, when former president Bill Clinton made a surprise appearance at Spike TV’s lavish tribute, One Night Only: Alec Baldwin, at Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater in New York. Co-stars and family had gathered to honor the Saturday Night Live star’s three-decade career—but Clinton began praising Baldwin by first taking a dig at Donald Trump.

 “I wouldn’t know an alternative fact if it hit me in the face,” said Clinton, his first of two zingers aimed at Trump. “But I do know this: I first met Alec Baldwin more than 20 years ago. Even before that, I was a huge fan of his work in the movies.”

 Clinton went on to share how he admires the 30 Rock star’s genuine interest in helping others, which he learned early on as a child from his Irish-Catholic family. Clinton also found it inspiring that Baldwin started making movies in his backyard when he was 5, and that his interest in politics began in elementary school when he ran for class president. It was cemented during his days in college.

 “He ended up going to George Washington University for two years, ran for student-body president, then came back home to New York where he followed a then-classic path, from politics into soap operas,” Clinton said. “And now we know it works the other way around. You need to think about running again. You’ll probably win the next time.”

 Robert De Niro joined Clinton in scoffing at Trump. The iconic actor praised Baldwin’s Saturday Night Live impression of the president and encouraged him to mock Trump as long as possible.

 “I mean your Trump impression, Alec, is dead-on. It’s crazy,” raved De Niro, who directed Baldwin in the 2006 drama The Good Shepherd. “It’s great comedy and it’s good for the country. I hope you continue through the summer, because we can’t afford too much of a lapse in with these idiots.” De Niro then went off-script and continued to express his extreme dissatisfaction with Trump. “I think when Trump arrives, instead of playing ‘Hail to the Chief,’ they should do the theme of The Godfather.”

 Throughout the evening, an onslaught of Baldwin’s friends and co-stars such as Julianne Moore, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski, and Jack McBrayer paid tribute—and ribbed—the award-winning actor. His brothers Daniel and William shared childhood stories, while Baldwin’s 21-year-old daughter, Ireland, recalled the infamous 2007 voicemail message that he left her in which he called her a “rude, thoughtless little pig.”

 “I’m here to roast this big old ham I call my father. Speaking of pigs, some of you may remember me as that thoughtless little pig that you read about,” said Ireland. “That was a decade a go, but my dad and I are in a much better place now. He would never say something like that because I’m 6’2” and I would kick his ass. The truth is, that whole awful period nearly killed him emotionally until I showed him my first tattoo. O.K., my second tattoo. I couldn’t show him where I got the first one. My father has always been my biggest champion . . . I really am so proud to be your daughter and I’m proud to be here tonight. I absolutely love you and adore you.”

 At the end of the show, Baldwin took to the stage and retaliated by making harsh zingers to his colleagues and family rather than thanking them.

 “It’s great to see all of you. It couldn’t have been easy to get here coming all the way from obscurity,” he quipped. “This is for Bob [De Niro], whatever legacy-killing rom-com you are working on right now . . . Julianne Moore, you look lovely. In Still Alice, I played your husband as you struggled with Alzheimer’s. I was surprised that you thanked me in your acceptance speech, because I thought you actually had Alzheimer’s . . . Lorne Michaels couldn’t be here, fortunately. He was trapped under a pile of money he made off of all of our acts.”

 One Night Only: Alec Baldwin airs on July 9 at 9 p.m. on Spike TV.

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 The actor's impression of the President has become one of his most memorable 'SNL' sketches

 (CNN) Alec Baldwin is about to make your television great again.

 The 59-year-old actor said that he will be bringing back his famous Donald Trump impersonation to "Saturday Night Live" this fall.

 "Yea, we're going to fit that in. I think people have enjoyed it," said Baldwin, who was in New York City on Monday to promote is new movie "Blind." His busy fall schedule will keep the number of Trump impersonations to a minimum, he said, which means SNL fans will be treated to "a couple celery sticks" rather than a "whole meal" of blonde wigs and orange bronzer.

 Baldwin has been non-committal in the past when asked about bringing his Trump impersonation back to Studio 8H this fall. In March , he said that he wasn't sure he would keep playing Trump on "SNL," because he felt the audience couldn't take much more of it.

 Baldwin has hosted "SNL" a record 17 times and his Trump impersonation has become one of his most memorable sketches.

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– OJ Simpson has been out of prison for more than a month, and he's not exactly being a model parolee, according to TMZ. Sources tell the website that Simpson was chucked out of the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas for being drunk and belligerent. According to TMZ's sources, Simpson " was angry at hotel staff and glasses broke at the bar," though he behaved himself when security arrived to escort him out. Simpson is now apparently permanently banned from the hotel, though his lawyer, Malcolm LaVergne, says it was nothing to do with his client's behavior. He claims the hotel decided to ban Simpson even before he arrived. "Cosmopolitan exercised its right to issue a trespass notice," LaVergne said in a statement. "Any private property in Nevada has the right to tell any person that you are trespassing and please don’t come back; if you come back you are subject to a misdemeanor arrest." If Simpson was drunk, he could be in violation of parole terms, the Washington Post reports, though a witness tells KABC that Simpson abstained while other members of his party drank wine. LaVergne says Simpson was neither drunk nor belligerent and only tends to have one drink when he is socializing, WXYZ reports. (Since his release from prison, Simpson has been signing autographs and living in a friend's Las Vegas mansion.)

O.J. Simpson Thrown Out of Vegas Hotel ... For Belligerence

 O.J. Simpson Thrown Out of Vegas Cosmopolitan Hotel for Belligerence (UPDATE)

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 O.J. Simpson was booted from the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas Wednesday night after allegedly getting wasted and then being extremely unruly.

 Simpson had been frequenting bars at the hotel since his release from prison. Hotel staff tells TMZ ... at around midnight last night, Simpson was drunk and became disruptive at the Clique bar. We're told Simpson was angry at hotel staff and glasses broke at the bar.

 Check out the pic below of Simpson strolling through the hotel Wednesday night.

 Never know who you are going to see in Vegas.... yep, OJ Simpson pic.twitter.com/ginaBY6zwk — Brian Munz (@BrianMunzTSN) November 9, 2017

 Security showed up and removed Simpson from the hotel. We're told Simpson was nice to responding security guards. Still, we're told he's been permanently banned from the Cosmopolitan. ||||| OJ Simpson has been issued a trespass notice at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas after he was seen there Wednesday night.Details on what, exactly, occurred at the hotel while Simpson was present were scarce, but Simpson's attorney Malcolm Laverne, issued a statement confirming that the former athlete was banned."Cosmopolitan exercised its right to issue a trespass notice. Any private property in Nevada has the right to tell any person that you are trespassing and please don't come back if you comeback you are subject to a misdemeanor arrest," Laverne said.Las Vegas police said they were not involved in any investigation into an incident at the hotel involving Simpson, since it is considered a "private property issue."A patron at the hotel's bar told ABC News that Simpson arrived around 10:40 p.m. About 10 minutes later, the patron snapped a photo with Simpson.According to the witness account, others in Simpson's party drank wine, but Simpson himself abstained. Simpson stayed sitting at his table for the duration of the time he was at the bar, the witness said. He left around midnight.Laverne maintains that Simpson was not drunk and did not became belligerent, contrary to some media reports.There were no broken glasses or yelling at staff, Laverne said, reiterating that there is no video of any such behavior.Simpson's parole conditions allow him to consume alcohol, but not in excess. ||||| O.J. Simpson was reportedly removed from a Las Vegas casino early Thursday morning for unruly behavior.

 Simpson's lawyer, Malcolm LaVergne, said the Simpson was banned from The Cosmopolitan hotel, according to The Associated Press. LaVergne said no reason was given for the ban.

 But LaVergne said that the story about Simpson being drunk at The Cosmopolitan is completely untrue.

 LaVergne says that Simpson is a social drinker, meaning he usually orders one drink and sips on it while socializing, and that he was at the Cosmopolitan to eat chicken wings.

 LaVergne also said that the hotel-casino had apparently decided before Simpson's visit to trespass him from the property. LaVergne says that after Simpson was notified, he left the hotel-casino quietly.

 In addition, Simpson is challenging anyone with proof that he was drunk and belligerent to come forward. He is also taking steps to make sure that his probation officer is clear about what happened.

 Cosmopolitan still has not issued a statement in regards to the incident. LaVergne pointed out several times that the hotel-casino has the right to ban anyone they want for any reason.

 TMZ reports that Las Vegas police were contacted just after midnight on Thursday about an a drunk and disorderly guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Simpson reportedly was upset with hotel staff and broke glasses during the dispute.

 According to audio published by TMZ, a dispatcher mentions that "Orenthal is here" at Clique, a club inside the Cosmopolitan.

 There are no reports of Simpson being arrested following the incident.

 Simpson was released from prison last month after serving 10 years for kidnapping and burglary charges. As part of his parole, Simpson is allowed to consume alcohol, but not to excess — meaning he cannot test higher than .08 on a blood-alcohol level. |||||


LOS ANGELES -- The old adage is age before beauty -- unless you're talking about broadcast news. A local meteorologist is suing CBS corporation and Los Angeles affiliates KCAL and KCBS for age and gender discrimination, claiming that stations are rejecting wisdom and experience in favor of pretty faces.

 Kyle Hunter, an award-winning meteorologist with over 20 years of experience, says that his repeated attempts to apply for two open weather broadcaster positions were ignored or rebuffed because CBS was only interested in hiring young, beautiful women without regard to their qualifications.

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 The lawsuit documents [PDF] allege that Hunter, who has a bachelor's degree in geosciences and broadcast meteorology and is certified by the American Meteorological Society (AMS), was unfairly passed over because CBS wants to attract more male viewers to their primetime news programs with sexy newscasters.

 Hunter is being represented by lawyer Gloria Allred, who says the case may be the "first of its kind" because a man is claiming discrimination based on his age and gender. Her statement, in part, reads:

 There are many individuals in broadcast news who fear filing a lawsuit alleging employment discrimination because they worry that they will be retaliated against and be blackballed if they assert their rights to be free of discrimination. Kyle has decided to proceed today because he is concerned not only about the denial of his employment opportunity, but also because he is worried about what he considers to be a trend in television news to hire young women as weather broadcasters in prime time while denying qualified male meteorologists the opportunity to be considered for those jobs.

 Hunter is seeking unspecified damages, punitive damages and attorney's fees.

 Hunter claims that when he learned of longtime weatherman Johnny Mountain's departure from KCBS in 2010, he reached out to inform the station of his interest in applying for the position. KCBS never responded, and in fact ended up hiring Jackie Johnson, a weathercaster from KCAL.

 When KCAL started searching for someone to fill Johnson's vacant position, Hunter again reached out -- only to receive an email stating that there was "not an opening for you here now." KCAL ended up hiring Evelyn Taft as their new weathercaster, and the lawsuit claims that the station had to drop its American Meteorological Society certification requirement in order to do so.

 According to Johnson's KCBS profile, she attended the University of Southern Alabama and concentrated on meteorology, but ended up getting her degree in broadcast journalism from Middle Tennessee State University. She has also been a weathercaster for two other stations in Miami and Tallahassee, Florida.

 KCBS's Facebook page has photo albums of both their anchors and their reporters, but Johnson is the only broadcaster who is singled out with her own one. Her fans have commented on the photos, saying things like "please do playboy jackie" and "my 17,and 14..old boy watch cbs just too c her lol."

 KCAL does not have a Facebook page.

 The slideshow below contains screenshots of KCBS's official Facebook page and the photos in Jackie Johnson's photo album.

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 Allred is the go-to attorney for high-profile cases of sexual harassment or discrimination. Her past clients include Sharon Bialek, the woman who accused presidential hopeful Herman Cain of sexual harassment, and adult film actress Ginger Lee, who had exchanged explicit emails with Rep. Anthony Weiner.

 CBS's response to Kyle Hunter's lawsuit includes a cheeky meteorologist joke: ||||| Storm as experienced TV weatherman sues CBS for sex discrimination claiming they favour 'unqualified attractive young women'

 Lawsuit: Weatherman Kyle Hunter claims he is the victim of sex and age discrimination

 An experienced TV weatherman has sued CBS broadcasting for sex and age discrimination claiming his job applications were ignored purely because he isn't a 20-somthing and female.

 Hunter, who has been a weatherman for Fox5 in San Diego, sued the broadcasting giant in Los Angeles last week.

 However CBS claims Kyle Hunter's complaint is frivolous and based on gross misstatements of fact and say they will vigorously defend themselves in court.

 Hunter argues that his gender and age kept him from getting on-air weather jobs at CBS stations KCBS and KCAL despite his meteorology degree and years of experience.

 According to the lawsuit, Hunter, who is over the age of 40, is seeking 'unspecified' damages.

 He alleges that the CBS stations favour young, attractive women to induce more men to watch their prime-time newscasts.

 His lawyer Gloria Allred, who has represented the Family of OJ Simpson's murdered wife and Tiger Woods, says it is one of the first times a man has tried to claim unfair discrimination under California employment law on the basis of gender.

 Mr Hunter, who is a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and has worked for several Southern Californian TV stations, says he was passed over for two jobs in favour of women with no meteorological qualifications.

 The lawsuit reads: 'It appears the defendants do not want knowledgeable weather professionals as their prime-time weather broadcasters.

 'It appears instead that they only want attractive young women, and only attractive young women, broadcasting the weather.'

 Hunter says he was not interviewed for either of the jobs which he applied for in 2010 and 2011.

 A spokesman for CBS said: 'The complain is frivolous and based on misstatements of fact.

 'There was no need for the stations to interview someone we were already well aware of. |||||
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– A San Diego weatherman is suing CBS for sex and age discrimination. Kyle Hunter, who works for Fox 5, claims his job applications have been ignored by KCBS and KCAL in Los Angeles because he's not a 20-something female, reports the Daily Mail. Hunter, 40, is seeking unspecified damages for being passed over, despite his meteorology degree and years of experience. Two women with no significant weather experience were hired instead of Hunter, who wasn't even interviewed for the jobs for which he applied, according to his complaint. He's arguing that CBS wants young sexy women in weather spots to lure more male viewers. CBS calls the suit "frivolous." There was "no need for the stations to interview someone we were already well aware of," said a network statement.


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– Mise-en-scène is super important in Facebook photos, you guys. It's a lesson one couple learned the hard way when attempting to announce their engagement via the social media platform, WGN reports. According to Yahoo, the couple posted a photo of themselves sitting on the couch, with wife-to-be Miranda Levy pointing to the ring on her finger. "He wasn't able to give me a real ring yet, but what matters is what's on the inside," she wrote below the photo. Her family and friends soon learned just how true that was. For those who looked closely, the bottom corner of Levy's engagement photo included an open pregnancy test box. E! Online reports eagle-eyed Facebook friends soon started leaving comments like "Is that what I think it is in the corner?" and "Yo lmfao, gotta crop this guys…" and "Honey, you should call us. Your mother is confused." Having been caught, WGN reports Levy amended the photo to announce their pending baby as well as their pending nuptials: "Hey guys, we're having a baby too." (The wedding-to-be made news because of the innovative way he proposed.)

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 A couple wanted to let everyone know they're getting married, so they went to Facebook.

 The picture they posted shows the woman with her fiancé pointing to the ring on her finger.

 But not all her friends were looking at the ring -- they were looking at the pregnancy test next to them. You can see it in the lower left corner.

 The woman didn't realize it was there and asked why everyone was asking if she's pregnant. Then, she saw the box.

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 A woman who was so deliriously happy at getting engaged to her boyfriend didn’t check the Facebook photo before posting it - and let something MAJOR slip.

 Miranda Levy did what any other bride-to-be did and shared a picture of herself with her man - and her new engagement ring.

 Even though it wasn’t a real ring, Miranda said she was happy “regardless of material things”.

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 Ecstatic that she was marrying “the love of her life” Miranda added that she felt “truly blessed”.

 All fine of course - but her friends were more interested in what they could see in another part of the picture:

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 In case you didn’t catch it, tucked away in the bottom left corner is a pregnancy test:

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 Miranda, clearly not realising that she had just let a major cat out of the bag was confused by her friends’ questions:

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 Obviously there is no coming back from that Facebook gaffe and Miranda soon came clean:

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 Always, always check and crop before posting Facebook pics - rookie error. Congrats though, Miranda!

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Here is a news article: A 60-year-old Leonora man was found dead on Wednesday near Wiluna, 1000 kilometres north-east of Perth, after he abandoned his broken down vehicle.

 A woman, who left the same vehicle about 24 hours after the man, was found on the road by people from Wongawol Station who took her to Windidda Station, where the man had been heading.

 He had walked more than 40 kilometres for help with only a small container of water.

 The man's body was found by the road only two kilometres from Windidda Station.

 Police said there were no suspicious circumstances and a report would be prepared for the coroner.

 People who travel through remote locations have been urged to stay with their vehicle if they become lost or incapacitated as searchers can more easily spot a vehicle from the air, than a person.

 Travellers should carry a three day supply of food and water for each person. The vehicle should be in good condition and suitable for the road conditions.

 Ensure sufficient fuel between refuelling points and consider carrying a small reserve. Access current maps and know the state of the local road conditions. Shires will know those or check www.mainroads.wa.gov.au.

 An emergency beacon, satellite phone or CB radio may become lifesavers. Travellers should also let people at their destination know their plans and estimated time of arrival. ||||| PERTH, Australia (AP) — A 60-year-old man who attempted to trek 48 kilometers (30 miles) with little water in searing heat across Australia's parched Outback after his car broke down was found dead 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) from safety, police said on Thursday.

 The man was driving with a woman to Windidda Station, a cattle ranch in the remote Wiluna region of Western Australia state, when their car broke down on Sunday, police said in a statement.

 After no car passed on the lonely road over Sunday night, the man set out on foot across semi-desert country early Monday with what police described as a "small container of water."

 When no traffic had passed by Tuesday morning, the woman also decided to walk to Windidda Station. She was rescued by passersby on Wednesday afternoon and taken to her destination where she raised the alarm.

 Station residents launched a search and found the man dead late Wednesday 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) from Windidda, police said.

 A coroner will determine the cause of death.

 Police urged people driving across the remote Outback during the current summer months to carry plenty of water and to stay with vehicles that break down.

 Wiluna, a village of several hundred residents which is the biggest population center in the region, had a forecast maximum temperature of 39 degrees Celsius (102 Fahrenheit) on Thursday. ||||| Man dies after car breaks down on remote track in northern Goldfields region of WA

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 A man has been found dead after his vehicle broke down on a remote track in the West Australian Goldfields region, and he set off for help.

 The body of the 60-year-old was found on Wednesday on the roadside near Windidda Station, 200 kilometres east of Wiluna.

 Police said he was travelling between Wonganoo and Windidda stations with a woman on January 4, when their vehicle broke down.

 They said the occupants camped for the night, awaiting the arrival of another vehicle for assistance.

 When help did not come, the man left the vehicle with a small container of water the next morning to walk 48 kilometres to Windidda Station, but failed to arrive.

 The woman waited with the vehicle, but when the man failed to return, she attempted to walk to Windidda Station.

 She camped on the roadside on the night of January 6, and was found by workers from Wongawol Station the next day.

 A search of the area found the man dead by the side of the road, two kilometres from Windidda Station.

 Police said the man's death was not suspicious and a report would be prepared for the coroner.

 The maximum temperature at Wiluna reached 41.5 degrees Celsius on Monday, January 5.

 WA Police are reminding people travelling in remote locations by car to stay with their vehicle if they become lost or break down.

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– An Australian man is dead after walking nearly 29 miles on a steaming hot, lonely Outback road. The unidentified 60-year-old and a female companion were driving to the Windidda Station cattle ranch near the remote town of Wiluna when their car broke down on Sunday, police say. The pair camped overnight, hoping to flag down a passing car. When none had come by early Monday, the man began the 30-mile trek to Windidda with just a "small container of water," the AP reports. He didn't return a day later, so the woman set out after him. She was found yesterday by workers from the nearby Wongawol Station, who took her to her destination, ABC News reports. Her companion had not arrived. Workers began a search and discovered the Leonora man's body on the side of the road, a little over a mile from Windidda, police say. It isn't clear when he died. Though a coroner has yet to determine the cause of death, police say there are no suspicious circumstances; Temperatures reached 106 degrees in Wiluna on the day he began his journey. Police are now reminding Outback travelers to pack plenty of food and water and to stick by a vehicle if they get lost or are unable to continue as vehicles are far easier to spot from the air than humans, WA Today reports. (The story of a boy who spent nine weeks in the Outback has a happier ending.)