The Matchstick Eiffel Tower Saga and Joey the Donkey's Heartwarming Recovery

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm
Johnny Mack with five good news stories.

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Well watch out if you're trying to
break the world record for a matchtick Eiffel

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Tower. A French enthusiast, Richard
had his hopes dashed. He was told

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by the Guinness World Records that his
twenty three foot tower did not qualify because

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he'd used the wrong kind of matches. He told reporters, it's part of

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my dream that's vanished. His model
took eight years, seven hundred and six,

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nine hundred matches and twenty three kilograms
of glue to build. I'm an

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American and we don't understand metrics.
I don't know how much glue that is.

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Sounds like a lot. The final
piece was glued into place on December

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twenty seventh, one hundred years to
the day since the death of Gustaf Eiffel.

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After that, he put the one
forty fifth scale model on display and

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contacted Guinness and they said, hey, man, the rule stipulate only commercially

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available matches qualify for a record breaker. Richard said, they reckon that my

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matches weren't available for sale, so
they didn't qualify. It's pretty astonishing and

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actually rather annoying. What hurts most
is they don't acknowledge the work that I

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put in, the time I spent
the mental energy, because I could tell

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you wasn't easy. So when he
was putting this together, he realized the

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hardest part was going to be shaving
off the sulfur from the matches. So

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he contacted the match manufacturer and they
gave him sulfur less matches another word,

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sticks without the red part at the
end, technically not matches. But wait,

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this is five good news stories.
Richard heard from Guinness again. He

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said he was on an emotional rollercoaster
after having spent forty two hundred hours building

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his model. There are one hundred
and sixty eight hours in a week if

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you don't sleep or do anything else, So divide forty two hundred by one

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sixty eight a lot of time there. Guinness, this changed their mind.

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Mark McKinley, a director at Guinness
World Record, said, we're really excited

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to be able to prove it.
We're happy to be able to admit we

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were a little bit harsh on the
type of matches needed in his attempt,

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and Richard's attempt truly is officially amazing
congratulations. Richard, a grief stricken donkey

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had a stomach blockage. Joey the
donkey had stopped eating when his mom,

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Josie, passed away in November.
Joey was so stressed he got a gastric

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impaction, meaning food no longer was
able to pass through a small intestine.

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Jamie the Vett said, our vets
rushed into action, giving Joey an abdominal

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ultrasound and conducting a process called gestroscopy, putting a camera up his nose and

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into his stomach. As well as
pain relief, we flushed Joey's stomach with

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cola several times a day to dissolve
the solid. We used six liters of

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full sugar cola day, spread out
over three treatments for four days to soften

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and dissolve the impactions of his stomach. Farm supervisor Groom and Kaylee Yellen said,

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Joey'd been with his mom his whole
life. It was a massive change

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from me. He'd become quite nervous, didn't want to be around anybody.

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Every time we went to see him. We wanted it to be a positive

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experience. I didn't want Joey to
associate visits from us with the veterinary treatments

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he was receiving. I used positive
reassurance to help him along. I'd go

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in and scratch his neck and reassure
him and then walk away. Joey seems

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to be doing okay, and they've
paired him up with another bereaved donkey,

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Ben. Ben recently lost his friend
Bob the donkey. Kaylee said, by

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buddying the two together, we hope
their shared experience of loss will allow them

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to comfort each other. Their friendship
is still flourishing. It's early, but

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their futurest friends looks promising. For
example, Joey will lead out of Ben's

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bucket because he wants to be next
to Ben. Then Ben will follow Joey

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around. The events remind us never
give cola to a healthy donkey. Archaeologists

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in Egypt have discovered a series of
rock tombs that are somewhere between eighteen hundred

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and forty eight hundred years old does
pretty good range. There scientists that contained

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colorful mummy masks, plates, statues, and artwork. They even found a

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statue of Hypocrates, who as you
know as the child god of Silence.

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Doctor Mohammad Yusef is the Director General
of Sakara Archaeology and says the burials that

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have been revealed consists of the remains
of a human burial of a man with

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a colored mask, another burial of
a young child, as well as a

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number of latent heroic burials with a
coffin from the eighteenth family era inside an

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alabaster plot in good condition. They
also found parts of two mascots of Isis,

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pottery saddle and pottery pieces with inscriptions
nice job by firefighters in Minnesota.

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They helped rescue a dog that fell
into Lake Superior. The dog was nearly

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overcome by eight foot waves on a
lake that's a lot. Firefighters fought their

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way through the waves to find the
dog, but struggled to see the dog

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Because of the large waves and limited
light. The dog darkened color kept slipping

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below the surface. Meanwhile, firefighters
on the pier with the dog's owner used

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portable lights and shouted directions to the
crew to help them find the dog.

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This all ends well, of course, The firefighters were able to get hold

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of the dog by his collar.
At one point, the crew and dog

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were swept in towards the bay and
passed under a bridge, but crew members

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in the boat reached them, were
able to get the dog and the firefighters

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into the boat. Once taken a
land, the dog jumped in the owner's

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car. You gotta love dogs.
Ed and good news. If you have

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typhoid fever, Tomato juice can be
effective against typhoid fever, say researchers from

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Cornell, according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention and estimated eleven to

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twenty one million people get typhoid every
year. The Cornell team hopes that because

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tomatoes are widely available and affordable,
the research gets people to eat more tomatoes.

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And that's your good news stories for
today. Hope you enjoy the program.

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If you do well, you probably
do if you're still here, so

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thank you. Tell a friend about
it. They might enjoy too, and

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you have an awesome day.