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The Social Media singing and dancing 33 years old Anita Chukwumfunaya Obidi, aka, Korra Obidi, in her very recent post on her Facebook handle reveals how she gets ice cream from an expensive shop in Los Angeles without paying for it and encourages her followers to copy suit.
Korra, who believes that paying $37.00 just to buy ice cream at the Bacio Di Latte ice cream shop in Los Angeles is insane, she advised her followers to use a testing tactics to consume different flavours of ice cream until they are full and then get out of the shop without paying.
Korra started by informing viewers about Bacio Di Latte as the most expensive ice cream shop in Los Angeles, followed by providing her followers with tips to get ice cream from shops like Bacio Di Latte without paying a cent for it.
While A lot of Netizens have condemned the presentation as they consider it a criminal Act that is not worth sharing, some believe that Korra was using her Facebook page to teach her followers how to engage in anti-social behaviours.
Junior doctors in England are taking part in a fourth walkout in their long-running contract dispute.
The 48-hour strike started at 08:00 BST as the doctors prepare legal challenges to the government's decision to impose changes to their pay and conditions from this summer.
Doctors are again providing emergency cover, but 5,000 operations and procedures have been postponed.
NHS England said the continued disruption was "deeply regrettable".
The latest action means the total number of treatments that have been delayed has now hit 24,500 during the dispute.
But despite pleas for both sides to get back round the negotiating table, both the government and British Medical Association (BMA) have remained adamant they will not budge from their positions.
Sources indicated there was now little dialogue between ministers and the union with the first ever walkouts of emergency care in the history of the NHS planned for the end of April.
The all-out stoppages will take place from 08:00 to 17:00 BST on both 26 and 27 April, and will see junior doctors refuse to staff A&E departments as well as emergency surgery and intensive care.
The BMA said it had been left with "no choice" in its fight against the government's plan to impose a new contract in which, it said, the profession had "no confidence".
Ministers have said the changes, which will see doctors paid less for working weekends while basic pay is increased, are needed to improve care at weekends. This is disputed by the BMA.
How the dispute reached stalemate
Talks at conciliation service Acas broke down in January
A final take-it-or-leave it offer was made by the government in February but was rejected by the BMA
Ministers subsequently announced the contract would be imposed in the summer
It will reduce the amount paid for weekend work, but basic pay is being increased
The BMA wants a more generous weekend pay allowance and more investment for more seven-day services (the government is not increasing the overall budget for junior doctors' pay)
Two legal challenges are being pursued by doctors against the imposition
Hospitals are pushing ahead with the new contract - offers are expected to go out in May
The government is refusing to reopen talks, arguing it made compromises earlier in the year
Dr Anne Rainsberry, of NHS England, said it was "deeply regrettable that thousands of patients are still facing disruption because of this recurring action".
"As always, the safety and care of patients is our number-one priority and everything possible is being done to make sure patients will still be able to access urgent and emergency services."
Over the past few weeks, a host of organisations, including patient group National Voices and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, have come forward to call on the government to drop the imposition and the BMA to stop the strikes and reopen talks.
'Alienating'
Speaking on the eve of this latest strike, Prof Derek Bell, of the Royal College of Physicians, said: "The situation should not have escalated to this level as matters of this importance can only be resolved in a sustainable way through negotiation."
He said the House of Commons health committee should launch an urgent inquiry into the impasse.
But BMA junior doctors' leader Johann Malawana said: "By pursuing its current course, the government risks alienating a generation of doctors.
"If it continues to ignore junior doctors' concerns, at a time when their morale is already at rock-bottom, doctors may vote with their feet which will clearly affect the long-term future of the NHS and the care it provides.
"Responsibility for industrial action now lies entirely with the government. They must start listening and resume negotiations on a properly funded junior doctors' contract to protect the future of patient care and the NHS."
Image copyrightOtherImage captionTicks appear to be the vector for this parasitic disease
Dog owners in the UK are being warned about an outbreak of an animal disease that is carried by ticks.
It is the first time that experts have established an outbreak of babesiosis in the country.
In Essex, one dog has died and three others are still seriously ill after contracting the disease.
Experts say that it will be impossible to stop the spread of the disease, which is caused by a single-celled parasite.
The ticks carrying the Babesia canis parasite have been found in fields in Harlow, Essex. The local council has put up a sign with a map defining the area and advising dog walkers not to enter.
Two government agencies are now investigating the outbreak: the Animal and Plant Health Agency and Public Health England.
Clive Swainsbury is a vet at the Forest Veterinary Centre in Harlow. He has been treating some of infected dogs, including the one that died.
"The parasite enters the bloodstream, enters the cells, and in the process of trying to kill the parasite the dog will actually destroy its own blood cells. So they become very anaemic."
The expectation is that it will spread throughout the country.
Easy to miss
"At present we have a very well defined area. The problem in the future is that every female tick will lay a couple of thousand eggs and all those offspring from that disease will also carry the disease.
"As mammals move around they will start spreading the disease. Although you can advise dog walkers not to go there, it's possible that foxes and other animals will transport these ticks."
The symptoms of babesiosis within dogs include weakness, lethargy, pale gums, red urine and fever. A serious problem is that Babesia can be mistaken for other less dangerous diseases.
Image copyrightASHLEY COOPER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYImage captionDogs spending lots of time outdoors are most at risk
"It's easy to miss it. And because it's a new disease to this country, we as a profession aren't used to looking for this disease on a regular basis."
The tick acts as a vector. In the same way that a mosquito transmits malaria by sucking the blood from a person, the tick does the same to an animal. It also sucks blood and in the process of feeding the disease will transmit from the tick to the dog. It's not contagious between dogs themselves.
The Pet Food Manufacturer's Association estimates that there are more than nine million dogs in the UK - almost a quarter of households.
It's dogs that spend a lot of time outdoors, especially in rough and wooded areas, that are most at risk.
Tip of the iceberg?
"The only solution is to kill the ticks quickly," says Mr Swainsbury. "Some of the tick products available will kill the tick quick enough to prevent the tick spreading the disease to the dog, because the tick needs to be feeding for 24 hours at least before it transmits the disease.
"But not all tick products do that and you need to seek advice from your vet."
The tick found in the UK carrying the Babesia canis strain is called Dermacentor reticulatus.
Prof Richard Wall is professor of zoology at the University of Bristol. He is helping to conduct the largest every veterinary study of ticks and tick-borne diseases, called the Big Tick Project.
"People who work on ticks and tick-borne diseases are concerned about this outbreak. It could be the tip of the iceberg. If it spreads quickly throughout the UK then it is going to be a very significant problem, but we don't have enough info at this stage to make a prediction about how quickly this will happen.
"It's highly unlikely that the problem will now disappear, we have the vectors, we have the pathogens established in the UK."
TV naturalist Chris Packham says: "The population of ticks is getting bigger year on, year on. That's because there is better over winter survival of the adults - it's warm and mild through our winters and that means they can breed more quickly in the spring and there are a lot more of them.
These animals are very good at what they do, and they need to find hosts to suck its blood to reproduce, and they do it brilliantly. So if you walk in an area where there are ticks, with a dog, they will get on to your dog."
There are several species of Babesia and some of them affect humans. In parts of the world including the United States, human babesiosis is transmitted by the same tick that carries Lyme Disease, caused by Borrelia bacteria.
"The first thing that dog owners can do to protect their animals is to be aware of the problem. Your dog could become very seriously ill or die, and if you get Lyme disease then the same could be the case for you."
