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COVID-19 has found its way to an Oregon mink farm, where both staff and animals are getting infected, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA’s National Veterinary Service Laboratory has confirmed the presence of the virus in 10 samples it received from the Oregon Department of Agriculture, and the state veterinarian, Dr. Ryan Scholz, put the farm under quarantine until further notice. “We have been engaged with the Oregon mink industry for some time, providing information on biosecurity to prevent the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 and were ready to respond,” Scholz said. “The farmer did the right thing by self-reporting symptoms very early and he is now cooperating with us and Oregon Health Authority (OHA) in taking care of his animals and staff. “So far, we have no reports of mink mortalities linked to the virus but that could change as the virus progresses.” COVID-19 has been found on farms in three other states, including Utah, where 8,000 minks were lost to the virus, as well as in Michigan and Wisconsin. Outbreaks have also occurred on farms in the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Spain, and Denmark, where the virus forced the slaughter of 17 million mink.

A man was arrested after refusing to wear a face mask on a Delta Air Lines flight that was heading from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, authorities said. Joshua Colby Council, 44, was rushing to board his Delta fight at Salt Lake City International Airport around 10:40 p.m. Wednesday when a gate agent stopped and asked him to put on a face mask, according to a police report obtained by the Salt Lake Tribune. Council refused and continued to board the plane, police said. Once on board, the captain and flight crew also asked Council to wear a mask, but he became hostile and continued to refuse, police said. He also refused to leave his seat when airport security tried to escort him off the plane. Only when all the other passengers got up and walked out did he finally leave the plane, police said. The incident delayed the flight for 45 minutes. Council was booked into Salt Lake County jail on a disorderly conduct charge. He was released Thursday morning. “We apologize to customers for the delay on Flight 1382 on Wednesday as a passenger was removed from the flight for mask non-compliance,” the airlines said in a statement to KSL-TV. “There is nothing more important than the safety of our people and customers.”

He was porn star and didn’t even know it. A New York man who likes anonymous, online-only sex claims scammers hacked his computer and demanded cash after one amorous 2015 episode of internet intercourse — then plastered hot and heavy videos of him on Pornhub, iPornTV and XVideos without his knowledge. The man didn’t find out he was a sexy screen star until August, he claims in an $11 million Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit, which identifies him only by the pseudonym “Victor Voe.” His “private images and videos likely have been accessed by millions of users of these websites” before the victim was able to get them taken down, he said in the litigation filed against his unknown, unnamed tormentors. At the time, the man claims he worked “in a position of trust whereby the revelation of compromising videos and images of a sexual nature would be damaging to his employment and professional status.” The man’s sexy screen habits began five years ago when he went to sites like chatroulette.com and omegle.com for what he described in court papers as a “modern form of ‘safe sex’ — anonymous, consensual and conducted entirely through video chat.” Then one meeting with what he thought was a woman also seeking sex went south. The victim claims he moved their interaction to Skype in a bid to be more private, but the “woman” sent him a link to a website he didn’t know, a link the man now believes infected his computer with a virus and allowed hackers access to his files and personal information, including his home address, job and bank info. At the end of their session, the “woman” told him she’d recorded him, had gotten into his computer, knew who he was and said she’d release the clip if he didn’t pay up, he said in court papers. Virtual sextortion surging as more men stay home during coronavirus lockdowns The man refused and “deleted all information he could think of that may trace back to him,” according to the legal filing. The scammers made good on the threat and even posted the victim’s social media pics on gay porn sites, said the man, who is heterosexual. When he realized what happened, the victim said he spent $5,000 to “wipe” his digital record and increase his cybersecurity.” The sextortion scam, in which con artists threaten victims seeking online sex with public exposure if they don’t pay up, has been on the rise with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, and the lockdowns and shutdowns which followed.

Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller becomes first woman to play in the Power Five Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller made history on Saturday afternoon by becoming the first woman to appear in a Power Five college football game. Fuller normally serves as a goalkeeper on Vanderbilt’s women’s soccer team, which she led to the Southeastern Conference title last weekend. She was added to the Commodores’ roster after the team’s other kickers were forced into COVID-19 quarantine, rendering them unavailable for Saturday’s matinee at Missouri. The Power Five is comprised of the biggest conferences in college sports: the SEC, ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12. Fuller, a senior, made coach Derek Mason’s roster following a successful tryout earlier this week. “She’s got a strong leg,” Mason said. “We'll figure out what that looks like on Saturday.” The moment came at the beginning of the second half when Fuller, wearing a “Play Like A Girl” sticker on the back of her helmet, kicked off. She didn’t have an opportunity in the first half, as the Tigers dominated the visitors and ran out to a 21-0 lead. It was the only action she saw in her team’s eventual 41-0 loss, one that dropped Vanderbilt to 0-8 on the seasons. Nonetheless, Fuller became just the third woman to play at the top level of college football, after fellow kickers Katie Hnida and April Gross. “Honestly, I was just really calm — the SEC [Championship] was more stressful,” Fuller, in a post-game interview with the SEC Network, said afterward. “I just want to tell all the girls out there that you can do anything you set your mind to, like you really can. And if you have that mentality all the way through, you can do big things.” It’s not yet clear if Fuller will remain with Mason’s team when Georgia visits on Dec. 5. Oren Milstein, Mason’s first choice kicker in 2019, opted out of the 2020 campaign because of coronavirus concerns. Its other specialists had to isolate after coming into contact with people who tested positive for COVID-19 and might not be cleared in time for next weekend’s contest. Hnida broke the glass ceiling when she took the field for New Mexico in 2003. Gross followed in 2015 with Kent State. Jacksonville State’s Ashley Martin was the first woman to play NCAA football at any level in 2001. None have suited up in the NFL yet, although United States women’s national team great Carli Lloyd impressed during a workout with the Philadelphia Eagles last year, shortly after she helped the USWNT win its second consecutive World Cup. Like Fuller, Gross and Martin played soccer before switching to the gridiron. Vanderbilt folded its men’s soccer program in 2006. Before Saturday’s game, Hnida and Lloyd both voiced their support for the 6-foot-2 Fuller, a native of Wylie, Texas, who is majoring in Medicine, Health and Society at the Nashville school.

The little guy somehow missed the memo about everyone shopping online this year. A raccoon wandered into a Best Buy in Toronto on Sunday, and appeared to briefly peruse the electronics before being herded into a box and then carried outside by employees. “He just wandered in the front door while no one was paying attention and made his way to the back of the store,” witness Jamie Muir told Blogto.com. “We tried coralling him to the front door,” said Muir, who captured the moment on video. “But he absolutely didn’t want to leave because clearly it was awful outside and it was nice and warm inside.” The soggy critter may have been seeking a break from Sunday’s snowstorm, Muir mused. The raccoon failed to observe proper social distancing during his brief foray through the aisles, before workers were able to toss a box over him. But at least he was masked.

Celebrated doctor secretly fathered dozens of patients’ kids When Wendi Babst sees her face in the mirror, she sometimes feels troubled enough by her distinctive features to consider plastic surgery. The pain started as the result of an on-sale DNA test she decided, on a whim, to take in 2018. That’s when the former cop realized she doesn’t actually look like the caring military man she always thought was her dad — and instead resembles her mother’s unwanted “sperm donor.” Her biological father is Dr. Quincy Fortier, the late fertility specialist and accused child molester who made headlines for impregnating unwitting patients — including Babst’s mother — with his own seed over the course of four decades. Airing her disgust for the Nevada physician in “Baby God,” a documentary about the scandal airing Wednesday on HBO, Babst declares: “I want to change my nose [because] there is this monster who is living within me.” The 54-year-old told The Post she is “contemplating” going under the knife, explaining that her feelings toward Fortier are “complicated.” “I can’t really hate him because I wouldn’t exist without him,” she said. “But I’ve studied nature versus nurture so it’s scary.” For better or worse, Babst, who lives in Portland, Ore., is a member of a society of Fortier half-siblings that seems to grow larger every month. “[sibling] matches tend to come out after Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Black Friday when they do big promos for genealogy kits,” said Babst. The current roster totals 24 men and women from across the US, ranging in age from 30something to septuagenarians. Nearly all were shocked to discover the truth about their paternity after investing in biotechnology services such as those offered by 23andme and Ancestry.com. The mind-blowing information has also unearthed secrets about the sinister machinations of the OB-GYN, once lauded as a miracle worker for his ability to help women conceive. The film also reveals a shocking history in Fortier’s own nuclear family. “Baby God” director Hannah Olson told The Post that Fortier was an “extreme” example of a “widespread phenomenon” in the fertility industry that likely continued into the 1980s. “With or without the patients’ knowledge or consent, doctors would use their own sperm to ‘help’ a woman conceive,” she said. “They couldn’t predict the future and the ease with which people are now able to analyze their DNA.” Some specialists, particularly in the 1940s and 1950s, would combine their own semen with samples from a woman’s husband in a practice known as “sperm-mixing.” The idea, apparently: If the end result was a happy, healthy baby, who would even care? Babst’s mom, Cathy Holm, now 77, was flabbergasted when Wendi revealed Holm’s husband was not her dad. Still, when Wendi was growing up, Holm was struck by her daughter’s lack of resemblance to “her father’s side of the family at all.” As someone who married young rather than go to college, she said she couldn’t understand where Wendi got her intelligence from. “We were average,” she states in the documentary. Holm was 22 in 1966, when she saw the then 54-year-old Fortier at his Women’s Hospital in Pioche, Nev. She trusted he had done what she paid him to do: use a syringe to inseminate her with sperm from her husband. Holm recalls the procedure in the documentary. “[The doctor] was in and out of the exam room two or three times. [i thought] why does he keep going in and out?” she says. As Olson explained, in those days, only fresh sperm was used for the procedure. It wasn’t until the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s that samples began to be screened and frozen. Fortier, who fathered infants into his 70s, practiced his warped technique as early as 1948. That’s when he used his sperm on Dorothy Otis, a newlywed who consulted him about a suspected infection — not in an effort to conceive. She left his office unknowingly pregnant with her son Mike, now 71 and a retired tech writer from Maricopa, Ariz. Mike was investigating his supposed Native American Indian roots when he received the unsettling results of his Ancestry.com test in 2017. Otis told The Post he grieves the loss of “part of his identity.” Moreover, he is outraged for his mom, now 94, who admitted she wasn’t ready to bear a child in her early twenties and had to forgo her education. In a heartbreaking scene in “Baby God,” Dorothy feels the need to tell Mike she didn’t have sex with Fortier, before asking: “Was he trying to see how many people he could [put] on this earth before he died?” For Babst, the answer is a resounding yes. She calls it a reflection of his superiority complex — and the patriarchy in general. “It bothers me to think that these doctors thought they were smarter than their patients,” she said. “It was a case of: ‘Don’t look behind the curtain, little lady, while I make a baby for you.’ My mother wanted a family with the man she loved.” Otis has learned to embrace the notion that Fortier gave him life. “My view of the whole thing changed a little bit when I looked at my grandchild, and the love that my daughter has in her marriage, and I thought: ‘It has to be okay.’” The film takes a darker turn with the introduction of Jonathan Stensland, 55, a builder living in Minnesota. The adopted son of a Lutheran pastor and a nurse, he enjoyed a happy childhood. But at age 17, he decided to track down his birth mother. Her name was Connie Fortier and she was just 18 years his senior. “She called me just before Valentine’s Day in 1992 and came to visit,” Stensland told The Post. “Even at that early stage, I got the sense there was some kind of dark shadow over who my father was.” He found out the “donor” was Fortier, Connie’s adopted dad, through a series of letters in which she explained she had never had intercourse ahead of her pregnancy. “There was some crazy tale about Quincy giving her an examination and getting some swabs mixed up,” recalled Stensland. “He tried to say there was a possibility that it was a virgin birth.” Overcome by curiosity, Stensland went to meet Fortier in Las Vegas. “He had muscles like mine — like Popeye — and it was very clear we shared the same DNA,” he said. “He was whistling and, if I didn’t know better, I probably would have quite liked the guy.” Eight years later, Quincy E. Fortier Jr. filed a lawsuit against his father, then 87. He claimed he had been sexually abused by his namesake between the ages of three and 14 and had also watched his dad abuse his siblings and other kids. In 2002, a jury rejected the son’s claims. The verdict came a year after Fortier settled a lawsuit with a woman named Mary Craddock, who sued him for allegedly covertly inseminating her twice with his sperm, leading to her giving birth to a girl and a boy in the 1970s. Craddock was given a gag order. Interviewed in “Baby God,” Quincy Jr., now 67, labels his dad “crazy” and “a pervert” and says he would not be surprised if there are “hundreds” of half-siblings. He also stands by his former claims of abuse. “[My father] molested everyone. The happiest he ever made me was lying in his coffin dead. That’s when I knew I was safe.” Quincy Jr.’s words are especially painful for Babst, who spent much of her 31-year career in law enforcement protecting vulnerable people from predators. It led her to wonder out loud in “Baby God:” “Do you want to say your father was a monster? And what does that say about you?” In another scene, the mother of five boys points out: “He has propagated himself through me and my family. It’s a chain reaction that I can’t really stop.” Fortier died in 2006, 15 years after being named the 1991 “Nevada Doctor of the Year.” His deferential obituary acknowledged his eight children, 15 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The list did not include Stensland who, together with the other half-siblings, can only take guesses on the motivation and mindset of the man who fathered him. “I did sense that there was a little bit of a pleasure in pulling it off,” he says in the film. “These forbidden fruits shouldn’t even exist. But somehow he is the reason we exist.”

I need it like a lokh in kop. (Yiddish for hole in [the] head) I'm getting farblondzhet. [pronounced fuhBLUNjed] (Yiddish for lost)

Denmark's government said on Friday it wants to dig up mink that were culled to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, after some resurfaced from mass graves. Denmark is facing a new horror, as cadavers of the culled minks have re-emerged from the earth, as per footage from local channels. Denmark had ordered all farmed mink to be culled early this month after finding that people had been infected by a mutated strain of the virus that causes COVID-19, which passed from humans to mink and back to humans. The decision led to 17 million animals being destroyed and to the resignation last week of Food and Agriculture Minister Morgens Jensen, after it was determined that the order was illegal. Jensen's replacement, Rasmus Prehn, said on Friday he supported the idea of digging up the animals and incinerating them. He said he had asked the environmental protection agency look into whether it could be done, and parliament would be briefed on the issue on Monday. The macabre burial sites, guarded 24 hours a day to keep people and animals away, have drawn complaints from area residents about possible health risks. Authorities say there is no risk of the graves spreading the coronavirus, but locals worry about the risk of contaminating drinking water and a bathing lake less than 200 metres away. Earlier, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen broke down on Thursday when visiting a mink farmer who lost his herd following the government's order this month to cull all 17 million mink in the country to curb the spread of coronavirus. Frederiksen has faced opposition calls to resign and a vote of no confidence in parliament after an order by the government in early November, which it later admitted was illegal, to cull the country's entire mink population. The order was given after authorities found COVID-19 outbreaks at hundreds of mink farms, including a new strain of the virus, suspected of being able to compromise the efficacy of vaccines. "We have two generations of really skilled mink farmers, father and son, who in a very, very short time have had their life's work shattered," Frederiksen told reporters after a meeting with a mink farmer and his son at their farm near Kolding in Western Denmark. "It has been emotional for them, and... Sorry. It has for me too," Frederiksen said with a wavering voice, pausing for breath in between words. The move to cull Denmark's entire mink population, one of the world's biggest and highly valued for the quality of its fur, has left the government reeling after it admitted it did not have the legal basis to order the culling of healthy mink. After a tumultuous couple of weeks since the order was given on Nov. 4, the Minister of Agriculture, Mogens Jensen, stepped down last week after an internal investigation revealed a flawed political process. Denmark has proposed a ban on all mink breeding in the country until 2022. Tage Pedersen, head of the Danish mink breeders' association, said this month the industry, which employs around 6,000 people and exports fur pelts worth $800 million annually, is finished. Denmark's opposition says the cull of healthy mink should not have been initiated before compensation plans were in place for the owners and workers at some 1,100 mink farms.

Megalodons, the apex predator of the seas, may have gone extinct more than 3.5 million years ago, but experts may have discovered nurseries of the massive shark all around the world, according to a new study. The research, published in Biology Letters, notes that nurseries of the megalodon have been found in northeastern Spain, with fossils of adult and younger megalodons discovered. In all, five potential nurseries may have been found, including in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific basins, with fossils ranging from 16 million to 3 million years ago. “Our analyses support the presence of five potential nurseries ranging from the Langhian (middle Miocene) to the Zanclean (Pliocene), with higher densities of individuals with estimated body lengths within the typical range of neonates and young juveniles,” the researchers wrote in the study’s abstract. “These results reveal, for the first time, that nursery areas were commonly used by O. megalodon over large temporal and spatial scales, reducing early mortality and playing a key role in maintaining viable adult populations.” The experts looked at 25 megalodon teeth in the Reverté and Vidal regions in Tarragona, Spain, using crown height to estimate size and age. The experts determined the younger sharks were roughly one month old and were 13 feet in length, while the older juvenile sharks were approximately 36 feet in length. In September, a separate group of researchers determined the true size of an adult megalodon’s body, including its huge fins, based on fossils. A 52.5-foot-long megalodon likely had a head 15.3 feet long, a dorsal fin approximately 5.3 feet tall and a tail around 12.6 feet high, the scientists found. The findings of the new study suggest that nurseries were prevalent for megalodons, feeding and protecting young members of the species, just as they are for modern sharks. However, the prevalence of nurseries may have resulted in the megalodon’s downfall, the scientists added. “Ultimately, the presumed reliance of O. megalodon on the presence of suitable nursery grounds might have also been determinant in the demise of this iconic top predatory shark,” the study’s authors explained in the abstract. Scientists continue to learn more about the history of sharks, which have survived all five global extinction events. Teeth of the monster of the deep that have been found are typically larger than a human hand, the researchers added. In recent memory, megalodon teeth have been found in North Carolina, South Carolina and Mexico. In March 2019, a study suggested the giant shark spent millions of years evolving its teeth before they took their iconic form. The megalodon may have become extinct thanks to being outmaneuvered and outdone by its smaller, more agile cousin, the great white. Other theories suggest the megalodon was killed off by an exploding star approximately 2.6 million years ago. Another theory that has gotten a lot of attention in recent memory is that the megalodon simply was unable to regulate its body temperature. Cooler ocean temperatures during the Pliocene era led its preferred food, whales, to adapt, while the megalodon was unable. During the Pleistocene extinction event, many animals larger than 80 pounds went extinct, according to the Illinois State Museum. At roughly 50 feet in length and a weight approaching 120,000 pounds, megalodons would have been a prime candidate to be affected by the cosmic blast. Slow & steady or a big spurt? How to grow a ferocious dinosaur Large meat-eating dinosaurs attained their great size through very different growth strategies, with some taking a slow and steady path and others experiencing an adolescent growth spurt, according to scientists who analyzed slices of fossilized bones. The researchers examined the annual growth rings – akin to those in tree trunks – in bones from 11 species of theropods, a broad group spanning all the big carnivorous dinosaurs including Tyrannosaurus rex and even birds. The study provides insight into the lives of some of the most fearsome predators ever to walk the Earth. The team looked at samples from museums in the United States, Canada, China and Argentina and even received clearance to cut into bones from one of the world’s most famous T. rex fossils, known as Sue and housed at the Field Museum in Chicago, using a diamond-tipped saw and drill. Sue’s leg bones – a huge femur and fibula – helped illustrate that T. rex and its relatives – known as tyrannosaurs – experienced a period of extreme growth during adolescence and reached full adult size by around age 20. Sue, measuring about 42 feet (13 metres), lived around 33 years. Sue inhabited South Dakota about a million years before dinosaurs and many other species were wiped out by an asteroid impact 66 million years ago. Other groups of large theropods tended to have more steady rates of growth over a longer period of time. That growth strategy was detected in lineages that arose worldwide earlier in the dinosaur era and later were concentrated in the southern continents. Examples included Allosaurus and Acrocanthosaurus from North America, Cryolophosaurus from Antarctica and a recently discovered as-yet-unnamed species from Argentina that rivaled T. rex in size. The Argentine dinosaur, from a group called carcharodontosaurs, did not reach its full adult size until its 40s and lived to about age 50. Big theropods share the same general body design, walking on two legs and boasting large skulls, strong jaws and menacing teeth. “Prior to our study, it was known that T. rex grew very quickly, but it was not clear if all theropod dinosaurs reached gigantic size in the same way, or if there were multiple ways it was done,” said paleontologist and study lead author Tom Cullen of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and North Carolina State University, also affiliated with the Field Museum. The research was published this week in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. “Theropod dinosaurs represent the largest bipedal animals to have ever lived and were also the dominant predators in terrestrial ecosystems for over 150 million years – more than twice as long as mammals have been dominant,” added University of Minnesota paleontologist and study co-author Peter Makovicky.

If you drop a mysterious metal monolith in the middle of the desert, they will come. Daring travelers have been navigating a remote section of Utah to get a firsthand look at a 10 foot tall monolith that was planted in the soil amid a rock formation. The structure – which appears to be an art project in homage to a – was first discovered last week by wildlife officials who were counting sheep from a helicopter. Workers shared photos of their bizarre discovery, but did not divulge its coordinates, hoping to discourage people from seeking out the structure and getting lost in the remote area. Their caution couldn’t deter determined sleuths who combed through satellite maps to crack the case, and locate the structure 16 miles southwest of Moab. David Surber, 33, a former US army infantry, officer drove for six hours through the night to find it after reading about its supposed coordinates on Reddit. He posted a video with the caption: “Awesome journey out to the monolith today. Regardless of who built it or where it came from. It was a positive escape from today’s world. Some for many people to rally behind and enjoy together.” Surber said after he made the discovery, he was alone in the dark for only about 10 minutes before other intrepid adventurers arrived, tipped off by the intel of Reddit user Tim Slane, who tracked the helicopters radar and then used Google Earth to find the exact location. “I knew that once the location became public knowledge that people would visit the area,” Slane told the BBC. “I have received some angry messages for my revealing of the location. If I had not found it, someone else would likely have found it soon enough.” It’s still unknown who made the monolith and planted it, and why – but Google Earth imagery show it appeared sometime between August 2015 and October 2016.

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I just noticed that at the 1:30 mark, a little varmint scampers above a boulder and then at 1:40 a larger animal emerges from behind the boulder with the varmint in its mouth. Ah, nature!

'Zombie minks' in Denmark that were killed to stop spread of coronavirus appear to rise from their graves The minks were culled after 11 people were sickened in mink farms and factories Minks infected with a mutated strain of the novel coronavirus appeared to rise from the grave this week after thousands were culled in Denmark earlier in the month. The decision to kill the animals was made following the discovery that 11 people had been sickened by the same strain found in mink farms and factories. However, in the haste to dispose of the bodies, Danish authorities reported Thursday that some of the carcasses had risen to the surface of their makeshift graves after gases built up inside the decomposing bodies. The corpses were buried in military training fields outside the town of Holstebro. The bodies lay in trenches just over 8 feet deep and 10 feet wide and the first meter of dead mink were covered with chalk before adding another layer underneath the dirt, according to The Associated Press. Yet, although the mink should have been covered by at least 5 feet of soil, CBS News reported they were only buried about 3 feet deep and also close to a lake -- stoking concerns about possible pollution. Leaders said the grave will be monitored by authorities until a fence can be put up. The "zombie" mink are being reburied elsewhere and environment officials have promised to fix the situation. Some mayors have suggested cremating the mink corpses, according to USA Today. Parliament ordered around 15 million mink to be killed and all mink farming is banned until the end of next year. The country is the world's largest exporter of mink fur. Denmark has reported more than 74,700 cases and over 800 deaths, according to data from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.

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Instagram’s ‘hottest doctor’ called out for partying maskless on boat A Manhattan-based celebrity physician known as Instagram’s “hottest doctor” was caught partying maskless on a boat in Miami after months of stressing the importance of face coverings to his millions of followers, according to a report Thursday. Mikhail Varshavski — aka Dr. Mike — was photographed rubbing elbows with a group of bikini-clad women in Sunset Harbor during his 31st birthday bash, despite also urging the public to social distance during the pandemic, the Daily Mail reported. Images show the shirtless doc giving one of the women a neck rub and posing without a mask next to a bottle of Champagne — sparking outrage from fans who called him a hypocrite, the outlet reported. “I know it’s your life and you can do what you want, but you have chosen to be a public figure. And because of that, and your profession, you are held to a higher standard,” one follower, Irisheyez, wrote on Reddit. “You are supposed to be the example. I admired and respected you. Now that is all lost.” Since the spring, Varshavski — who was named “sexiest doctor alive” by People Magazine in 2015 — has pleaded with the public to mask up on social media and TV. “Please, if you’re going outside in public and are going to be around other people, wear a mask. It doesn’t matter if it’s silk, cotton or surgical grade. The purpose of the mask is to limit the respiratory droplets that you put out into the environment,” he told Maria Bartiroma on Fox Business in July. “By wearing a mask, you are essentially limiting the spread to the community.” In a conversation with Dr. Fauci posted on Youtube, he added, “Social distancing is incredibly important. That’s how we control the spread of this virus.” Varshavski works as a primary care physician in Chatham, New Jersey and flew from New York City to Miami for the birthday bash on Nov. 12, the outlet reported. He has roughly 6.5 million YouTube subscribers, 3.9 million followers on Instagram and 2.9 million on Facebook. “When you become a very large and growing medical influencer, one that a lot of people rely on for medical information in regards to the pandemic, it’s not a good look,” another follower slammed after news of the boat party broke. A rep for Varshavski sent The Post statement Thursday claiming he only removed the mask to take a dip. “Dr. Varshavski took off his mask only when getting in and out of the water, also per CDC guidelines on wet masks. The boat was privately owned,” says the statement, which the rep attributed to a “source close to” the doctor. “Dr. Varshavski has always been — and is — a proponent of mask wearing and safety amidst the pandemic. All federal, state and local CDC guidelines related to COVID-19 travel and safety were followed, including boat capacity, testing, and return to NYS protocol,” it adds.

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Deer, bears and other wildlife use Utah’s animal-only bridge It’s a real-life animal crossing. New video shows a stream of deer, porcupines, bears and bobcats walking over an interstate highway in Utah — using the state’s first wildlife bridge. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources shared the footage last week, showing that the $5 million Parleys Canyon Wildlife Overpass near Salt Lake City is being used as intended. “It’s working!” the agency wrote on Facebook. The state’s Department of Transportation took on the project as a way to reduce vehicle collisions with critters on Interstate 80, local outlets reported. The 350-foot long animal-only bridge was completed in 2018. In the two years prior, there were at least 106 vehicle crashes with wildlife, killing about 64 animals. Complete data wasn’t immediately available for the years since the overpass was completed. However, UDOT spokesman John Gleason told the Salt Lake Tribune last year that early results were “encouraging.” “From what we can tell, the number of accidents there is down dramatically,” he said. “At least initially, it appears the investment in safety is paying off. And we expected it to take several years before the animals got used to using it, so this is great.” To make the bridge more appealing to wildlife and help it blend into the surroundings, crews placed dirt, rocks and boulders on the crossing. “We want to make the bridge feel as much a part of the surroundings as we can,” Gleason said. “It’s a win for both wildlife and people that drive on the road.” Six miles of fencing were also put up to make sure wildlife would make use of the overpass, instead of trying to cross the interstate. “As you can see, the 2nd year of this overpass has been successful at helping wildlife safely migrate over busy Interstate 80 and helping motorists be much safer as well,” the Division of Wildlife Resources said.

Pat Sajak would like to buy a vowel — for the word “Sorry.” The perpetually cheery “Wheel of Fortune” host apologized for jokingly calling out a player who questioned the wording of a puzzle on the show Wednesday, according to footage and reports. Sajak ribbed contestant Darin McBain after he solved a puzzle but then pointed out its phrasing made no sense — prompting the host to quip that he was “ungrateful!” and sparking speculation he was annoyed by the player. McBain, whose mom cleaned up as a three-day contestant in 1982, was asked to come up with four “things that begin with the word ‘kitchen.'” He correctly guessed, “Cabinet, oven, towels, sink” — then told Sajak there’s no such thing as a “Kitchen oven.” “Kitchen oven?” McBain said. “What was that? Who calls it a ‘kitchen oven?’” “Don’t! You won! Don’t argue, Darin! … You got the puzzle. Ungrateful players! I’ve had it!” Sajak exclaimed with a smile. ”No, I’m just teasing. I finally snapped!” But some viewers appeared to take the game show host seriously, with one tweeting, “Oh my @patsajak almost lost it on this dude #WheelOfFortune.” Another added, “Pat’s not having it tonight.” Sajak later apologized to McBain, who ended up taking home $15,350, according to Yahoo! News. “I’m sorry I yelled at you,” he told the player. “It’s just — I don’t remember your mother giving us trouble like you did.”

The residents of a tiny Austrian village named F–king have voted to change its name after enduring unwanted attention from English-speaking tourists. Come next year, the village of 100 residents near the German border will be named Fugging. “I can confirm that the village is being renamed,” Andrea Holzner, the mayor of Tarsdorf, the municipality where the village is located, told regional daily Oberoesterreichische Nachrichten. “I really don’t want to say anything more — we’ve had enough media frenzy about this in the past,” she said. English-speaking tourists have increasingly flocked to F–king for a photo-op next to an entrance sign bearing the village’s name. Some even capture themselves striking lewd poses in front of the marker for social media. Signposts have also reportedly been stolen, prompting authorities to install new ones with concrete to deter thefts. A map from 1825 bore the village name of F–cking. But some experts believe the name dates back to the 11th century.

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