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Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny mag with five

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guin news stories. This next story might be my favorite

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of the year because I just find it hilarious. I

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share this with my family in real life. So, nine

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year old Oscar came home from school. He was all excited.

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He'd been cast in the school play his role Elvis

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the Elf. But somewhere between the classroom and the front door,

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they forgot about the elf part. Oscar told the family

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he was playing Elvis and that his costume needed to

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be sparkly. Can you see where this is going? His

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older sister, Jade said, neither Oscar nor the school explain

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the elf part of Elvis the Elf. So the family

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did what any confused parents would do. They went online

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and bought a kid's size Elvis Presley jumpsuit. It fit perfectly.

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They sent them to school in his full Graceland glory.

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No one said a word. No one even caught this.

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The cast walks on stage, children are dressed as Elves,

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and there's Oscar dressed as Elvis Presley. Sister Jade said,

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The audience laughed, Oscar loved it. Teachers found the whole

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thing hilarious. They even left this alone during rehearsal. Oscar

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Leaner the role enjoyed the intention, and that is the

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tale of Elvis the Elf. Nice job. The rest of

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the stories today not nearly as funny, but good news

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for a disabled puppy. The puppy was found tossed in

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a jumpster. The puppy survived and found a new home

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just in time for Christmas. Dennis the terrier was discovered

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severely underweight, deaf, half blind, and covered in injuries. He

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weighed less than four pounds. The staff says the dog

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couldn't handle a bat, so they used damp towels to

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clean him up. His eyes couldn't focus, he couldn't hear

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anyone approaching. He off any corners or pressed himself against

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people for comfort. Because Dennis was both deaf and half blind,

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the team had to create new ways of communicating with him.

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They tapped their feet so he could feel vibrations, and

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gently tapped his body before picking him up so he'd

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learned what those cues meant. Once he was stable, he

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went into foster care and began mapping the house, running

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around confidently and learning from the occasional collision along the way.

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The way terriers tend to do. Now Dennis has a

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forever home. He will be spending his first Christmas surrounded

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by people who love him. Awesome job. Meanwhile, a woman

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who lost all four limbs after developing sepsist on a

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vacation in Spain eight years ago is celebrating something she

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once thought impossible. She has a new hand. Kim is

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sixty four. She underwent a fourteen hour surgery in hopes

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of receiving a double hand transplant, but complications meant doctors

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could only complete the left one. She says she's over

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the moon and has declared herself left handed now. I

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was right handed, but now I just do everything left handed.

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I've even written with my left hand. When she saw

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her new hand for the first time, she described it

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as feeling instantly right, perfect, beautiful, like it's meant to

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be mine. She joked at her husband, Steve, has to

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buy a new wedding ring and engagement rings because the

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fingers on her new hand are slightly bigger. She's stunned

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by how quickly she's gained function. Doctors told her motor

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skills could take up to a year to return, but

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she's already brushing her teeth, doing her hair, putting on makeup,

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and picking things up and feeding herself again. She says,

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little things like holding a glass of wine without dropping it,

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lifting an ice cream cone using a fork, Each one

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has been a milestone she never expected to reclaim. Scientists

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getting it done. There's a new, quick, easy breath test

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to detect pancreatic cancer. They're doing trials in the UK.

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An analysis of pancreatic cancer across the UK found that

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over sixty percent of cases are detected at stage four.

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At that point, there's not much to be done. The

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breath test detects volatile organic compounds known as VOCs, that

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are linked with pancreatic cancer even in early stages. The

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VOCs travel along the bloodstream and can be expelled in

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a single breath. Boy, that would be really great if

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they can figure that one out. In a lot of

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British news today, the organization England's National Highways revealed how

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many crazy things show up on the roadside, more than

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forty nine thousand abandoned objects so far this year. Two

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items were particularly odd. One was a full sized boat

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perched on top of a damaged trailer alongside the a

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forty two, nowhere near open water. Then in November, another

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officer found something along the M one to eight, a

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fairground ride sitting on the verge with no sign of

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why it was there. The police want you to know

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dispose of unwanted items properly and securior loads before driving.

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A few extra minutes of preparation could prevent dangerous collisions

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and keep boats and carnival rides from mysteriously appearing on

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the roadside. And those are your five good news stories

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for today. I'll see tomorrow.