Waiting Room News 20, July 22 by Nick Moore

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World AN OLD TRICK: A museum in China closed after claims its 40,000-strong collection of relics was made up of fakes. The Jibaozhai Museum closed its ticket offices following claims that its extensive collection of ancient relics were knockoffs, The Daily Mail reported.

Australia TURNBULL FIRMS: Kevin Rudd would lose the election by a landslide if the Coalition’s Malcolm Turnbull were restored as Opposition Leader, a poll showed. Mr Turnbull, knifed by Tony Abbott in 2009, was twice as popular as Mr Rudd as preferred PM and would put the Coalition in line to secure majority government, a Seven Network/ReachTEL poll said.

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Entertainment DOWNEY FORTUNE: Robert Downey Jr. tops Forbes 2013 list of highest-paid actors. The actor earned a reported $75 million from June 2012 to June 2013 via blockbuster hits such as The Avengers and Iron Man 3. Star of X-Men and Les Mis Hugh Jackman notched $55 million.

Northern Life FLIES IN HER: A UK woman was horrified to learn the scratching noises in her head after a holiday in Peru were maggots in her ear, Nine News reported. A scan revealed a New World Army Screw Worm Fly had laid eggs in her ear that had burrowed 12mm into her ear canal and hatched eight maggots that then feasted on her flesh.

Odd Spot A BRAZILIAN man, 45, died after a cow fell through his roof on top of him as he was in bed. The runaway cow climbed on the roof of his house, which backs on to a steep hill, Telegraph.co.uk reported. ANCIENT CALENDAR: Archaeologists in Scotland had uncovered what was believed to be the world’s oldest lunar calendar. Twelve pits, said to have been created by hunter gatherers almost 10,000 years ago, were unearthed in a field at Crathes Castle, Aberdeenshire.

EARNINGS OVERDRIVE: Jeremy Clarkson took home more than $23 million for Top Gear, accounts showed. Clarkson was paid $13.8 million for his stake in a joint venture with BBC Worldwide which markets Top Gear, on top of a nearly $8 million dividend payment. He was also paid $1.64 million for his salary as a presenter. SPLIT decision, Goss Rd, Virginia, all week. $50,000 IN BAG: An elderly Sunshine Coast resident was reunited with $50,000 stashed in an overnight bag that was mistakenly given to an op shop. The money was found in April after a customer tried to buy the bag for $5 and a shop assistant inspected it and found $50,000 in $100 notes in a side pocket, Fairfax reported. FOSSIL FIND: Construction workers in Brisbane unearthed animal and plant fossils about 50 million years old in a layer of oil shale more than 15m underground at Geebung on Brisbane’s northside. The find was brought to the surface by a piling rig last month during building excavation works, ABC News reported.

Did You Know? TALK show queen Oprah Winfrey made an estimated $US77 million from June 2012 to June 2013. Pop star Lady Gaga earned $US80 million in the same period. Source: Forbes.com

LOHAN PAYDAY: Lindsay Lohan was getting paid a reported $US2 million to talk about her problems to Oprah. Lohan would be followed post-rehab by Winfrey’s OWN network, for an eightpart “docu-series”. Lohan’s mother, Dina, had called Winfrey Lohan’s “salvation”.

C Visit issuu.com/waiting-room-news and read Waiting Room News for FREE anytime you like. World HIDDEN TOLL: More British soldiers and veterans took their lives in 2012 than died fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan over the same period. BBC News said 21 serving soldiers killed themselves last year, and 29 veterans. The Afghanistan death toll was 44, of whom 40 died in action. SWIM TRAGEDY: A British woman died while trying to swim the English Channel for charity. Susan Taylor was undertaking the 34km endurance swim for a hospice and a diabetes charity. Taylor, 34, was said to have collapsed in the water before being airlifted to a French hospital, where she later died, ABC News reported.

Odd Spot DALE Irby, a teacher in Dallas, Texas, wore the same polyester shirt and vest for his yearbook photo for 40 years, Telegraph.co.uk reported. It started as a mistake but became a running joke.

Australia VALUES LACKING: Fairness, honesty and transparency were among the values most lacking in Queensland government workplaces, a survey of public servants found. Terms public servants suggested should be used to describe their workplace included “cost-driven”, “micro-management”, “high workload”, “bullying” and “uncertainty”, News Corp reported.

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WETTING a line, and some feet, Shorncliffe. INVISIBLE TO SHARKS: An “invisibility cloak” to protect surfers from sharks was launched in WA, the scene of five fatal attacks in recent years. Based on a discovery sharks were colourblind, one wetsuit was designed to camouflage a swimmer or diver in the sea, the other to mirror nature’s warning signs to ward off any potential shark attack, Guardian.co.uk reported.

Entertainment NIGELLA DIVORCE: Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi declared neither would make a financial claim against the other in their divorce. The couple, each worth millions, said the divorce would be “undefended” and a decree nisi would be pronounced before the end of this month. BIEBER ‘SPAT’: An Ohio, US, deejay claimed Justin Bieber spat in his face while at a nightclub this month. According to the story reported by TMZ, the pop singer thought the man was taking photos of him. A spokesperson for Bieber said it was all a “lie” and that it “never happened”, HuffingtonPost.com reported.

Did You Know THE Good Reverend Pow Jackson, Pipitty L. Jackson, and Mutley P. Gore Jackson the 3rd – those are the names pop singer Mariah Carey has given to her new dogs, according to PeoplePets.com.

DEADLY RIOT: At least 18 people were killed at a boxing match in eastern Indonesia when supporters of the loser started a riot, police said. The crowd made a dash for one of only two working exits in fear the violence would get out of control and dozens of people were trampled.

SCAM BLITZ: Southeast Queenslanders had been targeted by computer scammers in the past two weeks, police said. The fraud squad said several people had been stung by callers pretending to work for Microsoft, who gained remote access to computers from unwitting users, Fairfax reported. “Too many have lost money and the fact is it is an aggressive campaign.” police said.

TINA WEDS: Tina Turner, 73, married German record company executive Erwin Bach, 57, at Lake Zurich in Switzerland. They cemented their union at a Buddhist ceremony last weekend in Zurich, which Turner had called home for the past 15 years, DailyMail.co.uk reported.

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BRITISH women spent 59 days of their lives shaving their legs, a study found. And 35% of women polled said it was their least favourite beauty chore. The second most detested was hairstyling, with eyebrow plucking third.

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$US6 BILLION - that’s how much tax the world’s richest man, Bill Gates, says he’s paid in total. He has given $28 billion to charity and was still worth $56 billion. His three kids will inherit ‘just’ $10 million each. Source: Guardian, Fairfax

You need to be careful it doesn’t become a batsman versus bowlers thing in the dressing room ... It’s really hard now for the Australian bowlers.”

ACCORDING to Aboriginal legend, there is a cave on the Wessel Islands off Australia’s north filled with doubloons and weaponry of an ancient era. African 1000-year-old coins had been found on the islands, News Ltd reported.

— Aussie spin king Shane Warne, about the poor performance of Australia’s batsmen in the first two Ashes clashes.

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Health EARLY THREAT: People who were obese for a longer time in their 20s, 30s and 40s were at increased risk of developing hardened plaque in their arteries, which increased their risk of having a heart attack or a stroke later in life, a new study showed, USA Today reported online.

KILLER CALL: Apple Inc was investigating an accident in which a Chinese woman, Ma Ailun, 23, was killed by an electric shock when answering a call on her iPhone 5 while it was charging, the US technology company said, but declined to comment on details, such as whether this was an isolated case.

Business FBT DEFENCE: Treasurer Chris Bowen defended last week’s move to tighten fringe benefits tax rules on cars used partly for work purposes, saying it would return $1.8 billion over four years and mainly affect high-income earners leasing luxury imported cars, Fairfax reported.

Northern Life SNACK PERIL: Softdrinks, cakes, biscuits, crisps and desserts might raise the risk of bowel cancer, a Scottish study claimed. It reported links with some established risk factors of colorectal cancer - such as family history, physical activity and smoking. They also identified new factors including high-energy snacks, BBC News reported.

Did You Know? ANXIETY, or excessive worrying, is the most common psychological problem in Australia and affects 14% of the population, according to the Bureau of Statistics. DEATHS DOWN: More Australians were surviving heart attacks, according to new figures from the National Heart Foundation. In 2001, more than 14,000 Australians died of heart attacks, compared with less than 10,000 in 2011, ABC News reported.

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ROCKET MAN: A UK inventor was getting $100m from the Government to build a 5600km/h aircraft capable of flying Britons to Australia in 4½ hours. Alan Bond had designed a jet-rocket hybrid engine that could blast an aircraft out of the atmosphere and into low earth orbit in just 15 minutes, The Australian reported. SOCIAL LEADERS: The most popular social media networks for businesses were LinkedIn and Twitter, a survey of Australia’s top 200 listed companies showed. LinkedIn was used by 58% of the companies, primarily for recruitment purposes, and 47% used Twitter for marketing, advertising, investor relations and recruitment.

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THE 2014 Mercedes S-Class offers a $350 option that wafts perfume through the car. There are four scents: Nightlife, Sports, Downtown and Fireside. The system atomises the perfume and distributes it throughout the passenger area.

THE sun’s core is so hot that a piece of it the size of a pinhead would give off enough heat to kill a person 160km away. Source: QI television show

Did You Know? AT some point, genes from at least eight retroviruses became incorporated into human DNA. They now perform important functions in reproduction, yet are entirely alien to our genetic ancestry. WOOLIES HIT: Woolworths announced higher-than-expected losses at its Masters hardware chain. Woolworths revised its expected before-tax loss for Masters up from $119 million to $157 million, blaming sluggish sales and high wage costs for the blow-out, ABC News reported.

Did You Know? THE antioxidant concentration in hot cocoa was almost twice as strong as red wine, two to three times stronger than green tea and four to five times stronger than black tea, a study at Cornell University determined.

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Q: Via lactea is the classical Latin name for which celestial body?

Q: Which is the only number in English with its letters in alphabetical order? Q: Is Helsinki the capital city of Norway, Sweden or Finland? A: Finland

A: The Milky Way

A: Yazz

Q: What is the highest Australian mountain?

Q: What did baseballer Babe Ruth keep under his hat to stay cool? A: A cabbage leaf

Q: Which singer had a hit with the 1988 dance track The Only Way is Up?

A: Forty

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LADIES who lunch, Virginia Golf Club, Saturday, July 20.

TAX TARGETS: The Australian Tax Office said it would crack down on workrelated expense claims by labourers and sales managers this year. It said that if you were employed in construction, sales or marketing, there was a much higher chance your work-related expense claims would be scrutinised, News Corp reported.

A: Mawson Peak, on Heard Island, stands 2750m

C BE KIND: Please place me back neatly for the next person to enjoy. THANK YOU! Health DEMON DRINK: Alcohol causes more than one in 20 deaths of New Zealanders aged under 80, University of Otago research suggested. Although most harm to young people’s health from drinking was through injury, alcohol also contributed to chronic diseases, The New Zealand Herald reported.

Science AUSSIE FAIL: Just 59% of Australians knew the Earth’s orbit of the sun took a year, a study by the Australian Academy of Science found. Asked if humans inhabited Earth at the same time as dinosaurs, 27% of respondents said yes, Guardian.co.uk reported. Dinosaurs became extinct 60 million years before humans appeared.

SHARP IDEA: UK surgeons had developed an intelligent knife that could tell them whether tissue they were cutting was cancerous. Known as the iKnife, the tool analysed the vapour given off as surgeons used electrical current to cut away tissue and reported in real time whether the tissue was cancerous, ABC News reported.

Fun Fact THERE are 200-400 billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, and a German supercomputer calculated there were 500 billion galaxies in the universe. Source: BBC Schools online

DOWN’S HOPE: Scientists had corrected the genetic fault that caused Down’s syndrome– albeit in isolated cells – raising the prospect of a radical therapy for the disorder. US researchers took cells from people with DS and silenced the extra chromosome that caused the condition.

Odd Spot PEOPLE’S closest friendships were formed with their colleagues – particularly if their workplace environment was stressful, research conducted by the Lancaster University in the UK concluded.

Business WINE WRECKAGE: Analysts slammed Treasury Wine Estates over the performance of its US wine business after it said it would destroy $35 million worth of wine and spend $40m to fund a fire sale of excess stock in its biggest export market, TheAustralian.com.au reported. TABLET TANKS: Microsoft appeared to be having a hard time selling its Surface RT tablets, with the company taking a $US900 million charge against earnings due to its inventory of unsold units. News of Surface’s struggles was a bad sign, considering the tablet was the flagship Windows 8 device, Fairfax reported.

IT’S RAINING GLASS: Looks peaceful enough, doesn’t it? But don’t let the calming blue hue fool you. That’s planet HD 189733b where, to quote scientists, “It rains glass, sideways, in howling 7000km-per-hour winds”. If you're thinking of making the 63-light-year journey, dress light - it’s a balmy 1000 degrees Celsius. PALACE FIND: Archaeologists said excavated ruins near Jerusalem were “the best example to date of the uncovered fortress city of King David”. Digging had unveiled two structures, one of which might have been a palace of the king (of David and Goliath fame); the other a storeroom for taxes, USA Today reported.

Fun Fact IF YOU drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the other side. Source: QI television show

Did You Know? AT the Santa Rita do Sapucaí jail in Brazil, inmates can pedal to generate electricity in return for a cut in their sentences - a day off for every 16 hours of effort on bikes hooked up to batteries. MOBILE PAIN: Google reported secondquarter results that missed analysts’ expectations for revenue and profit and showed that its desktop search business continued to slow while ad prices fell as it struggled to make as much money on mobile devices, Fairfax reported.

Did You Know? AN original Apple-1 sold for $US640,000 at an auction in Germany in November. The computer was priced at $US666.66 (about $US2700 in current money) when made in 1976, The New York Times reported.

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Q: Which sea captain commanded the First Fleet to Australia?

Q: Which is the only state in the US that begins with the letter ‘P’? Q: Is jujitsu a Japanese martial art or paperfolding craft? A: Martial art

A: Navel gazing A: Arthur Phillip

A: Paul Newman

Q: Cut, clarity. colour, and carat set the value of which gemstone?

Q: If you indulge in some omphaloskepsis, what are you doing?

A: Pennsylvania

Q: Who starred in movies The Hustler, Hud, Harper, and Harry and Son?

A: A diamond