Party Poopers
What do you do when a pet owner won’t scoopthepoop?
An apartment complex in Raleigh, North Carolina,isusing
dog DNA to catch pet owners who fail to cleanupgreen
spaces and footpaths after their canines.
Apartment residents who own dogs are requiredtobringthem
to a ‘pup party’, where PawzLife collects their DNAwitha simple
saliva swipe and creates a unique DNA profile foreachdog.The
company then visits the neighbourhood to pickupandtestany
mess, and owners whose dogs are a match withthepoopDNA
are fined $100 per offence. Other apartment complexesandtown
councils in several parts of the world are triallingtheidea.
http://www.newsobserver.commonotone teenage boy’s voice, com-
plete with teenage boy attitude, had
morphed into something fuller, richer
- a voice that would later be described
by some as molten chocolate. From
the depths of my small frame a mel-
lifluous, resonant adult voice had
emerged – a gift! I didn’t know it at
the time, but my angst-ridden and
insecure 15-year-old self would be
propelled into a future I could have
never imagined – all because of ‘that
voice’. Many times I’ve said, “My voice
got the looks my face did not.”
My voice has opened a world of
opportunity. I have travelled with
my voice, narrated the most watched
cooking programme in the world, and
lured people to the cinema to watch
the biggest blockbusters.
The greatest bane of my life, my
dwarfism – a diagnosis I received from
Dr Spence at a tender age – believe it
or not, has turnedouttobeoneofmy
greatest assets.Insteadofsettingme
apart for allthewrongreasons,it
makes me memorableforallthe
rightreasons.Today, Lofty isoneofAustralia’s
leading voice-overartists.Asthe
narrator of MasterChefAustralia,
he’s heard in morethan 180 countries.
He lives with hispartner,photographer
Helen Trenerry,andtheirdogsonthe
New South Walescoast.THISISANEDITED
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