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In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
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Snooki Arrested for Alleged Public Drunkenness 
  
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 Always outrageous, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi allegedly took things too far this time.The petite reality star, 22, of Jersey Shore was being booked by the Seaside Heights, N.J., police department Friday after she was seen intoxicated in public, a police source confirms. Meanwhile, the cameras on her popular MTV reality show were rolling too.Polizzi was expected to be charged with disorderly conduct, another source says."She didn’t hurt anyone or get in a fight," says the second source. "She just needs to be in a drunk tank for two hours."A rep for the show declined to comment. ||||| WASHINGTON--President Obama was asked about Snooki, the New Jersey television character during his interview on "The View," broadcast on Thursday and taped Wednesday when he was in New York. Obama also brought up Snooki during his speech before the National Urban League on Thursday. But Obama's Snooki memory may be a bit hazy. 
  
 On "The View," host Joy Behar, in a pop culture quiz asked Obama, Should Snooki run as mayor of Wasilla? 
  
 "I've got to admit, I don't know who Snooki is," Obama said. 
  
 BUT OBAMA MADE A SNOOKI JOKE BEFORE: On May 2, 2010, Obama joked about Snooki during his speech at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner. "The following individuals shall be excluded from the indoor tanning tax within this bill. Snooki, J-WOWW, the Situation, and House Minority Leader John Boehner, 
  
 OBAMA'S URBAN LEAGUE SNOOKI REFERENCE: "I was on the "The View" yesterday, and somebody asked me who Snooki was. I said, I don't know who Snooki is. But I know some really good teachers that you guys should be talking about. I didn't say the teacher part, but I just -- (laughter.) The question is, who are we lifting up? Who are we promoting? Who are we saying is important?" 
  
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Nicole Polizzi, aka Snooki, was arrested this afternoon and charged with disorderly conduct, TMZ reports. The Jersey Shore star ran afoul of the law in Seaside Heights, NJ, where the MTV show was filming. She had been seen at the beach earlier in the day drinking Coke out of a beer bong. A source tells People, "She didn’t hurt anyone or get in a fight. She just needs to be in a drunk tank for two hours." "She was being very disorderly on the beach, bothering other patrons there," a local official tells the Newark Star-Ledger. "When our police went to deal with the situation—not Mike 'The Situation'—they found they needed to arrest her." The diminutive reality icon is having a rough week—she's already been dissed by a New York Times reporter, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and President Obama.


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Image copyright SWA 
  
 A decade of strong growth in Scotch whisky exports came to an end last year as overseas sales fell, according to new figures. 
  
 The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) said HM Revenue and Customs data showed exports fell 7% to £3.95bn in 2014. 
  
 The decline was in part due to a sharp drop in exports to the USA, the biggest market for Scotch by value, where sales fell by 9% to £748m. 
  
 The volume of global exports also fell by 3%, to 1.19 billion 70cl bottles. 
  
 SWA blamed the decline on "weaker economic conditions and political volatility" in some markets. 
  
 But it remained upbeat about the future, arguing that the long-term outlook for the sector was good with underlying strong growth in most emerging markets. 
  
 In Asia, Taiwan saw exports jump 36% to £197m, partly as a result of the growing popularity of single malts. 
  
 Exports to India were up 29% to £89m, despite a 150% import tariff. 
  
 Top six Scotch whisky export markets by value - 2014 
  
 1. USA £750m (-9%) 
  
 2. France £445m (+2%) 
  
 3. Singapore £201m (-39%) 
  
 4. Taiwan £197m (+36%) 
  
 5. Spain £166m (-8%) 
  
 6. Germany £141m (-18%) 
  
 But there was a mixed picture in emerging markets. Exports by volume to Mexico grew 5% to 42.8 million bottles, while value fell by 10% in that market. 
  
 There was a similar trend in Brazil, with volumes flat but value down 20%. 
  
 The important hub market of the United Arab Emirates continued to boom, with exports up 27% by value. 
  
 However, exports to the major regional hub of Singapore fell by 39% in value to £200m. 
  
 SWA said this was partly down to the ongoing austerity campaign in China - the final destination for much of the Scotch shipped from the UK to Singapore. 
  
 Direct exports to China, the 26th largest market by value, fell 23% to £39m. 
  
 Image copyright SWA 
  
 SWA said the 9% fall in exports to the USA was due partly to stock adjustments and an increasingly competitive spirits market. 
  
 Exports to France, the biggest market by volume and second biggest by value, were up 2% to £445m, suggesting that the French market was stabilising after Scotch was hit by a tax increase in 2012. 
  
 One encouraging sign for the industry was that global exports appeared to perform better in the second half of last year. 
  
 SWA chief executive David Frost said: "Economic and political factors in some important markets held back Scotch whisky exports in 2014 after a decade of strong growth. 
  
 "It shows that the industry's success cannot be taken for granted and that we must continue to argue for more open markets and ambitious trade deals that tackle barriers to market access. 
  
 "The long-term fundamentals remain strong, with consumers in emerging markets wanting to buy Scotch whisky as a high-quality and authentic product with a strong reputation and clear provenance. 
  
 "This drives the strong investment in Scotch whisky production in Scotland and the significant interest in entering the sector." ||||| Bourbon distillers are kicking their Scottish rivals in the kilt. 
  
 Global exports of Scotch whisky fell 7% last year, as American drinkers continued to switch in droves to bourbon and other American whiskeys. It was the steepest drop-off in Scotch exports since 1998 and only the third annual decline in 30 years. 
  
 Scotch sales to the U.S.,... |||||
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America's whiskey drinkers have joined the trend to buy local, which is bad news for the Scots: The latest figures show that export sales of Scotch whisky dived 7% to $5.8 billion last year, largely because of a 9% fall in sales to the US, reports the BBC. The slide in American scotch sales comes amid surging sales of American whiskeys, with bourbon and Tennessee whiskey sales up more than 7% last year, reports the Wall Street Journal. The popularity of American whiskeys—especially Jack Daniel's—is also hurting scotch sales around the world, the Journal reports, but although sales of cheaper scotches like Johnnie Walker Red Label are down, the pricier single malts are still selling pretty well. (The world's best whiskey, however, comes from Japan.)


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Image copyright British Museum Image caption The Townley Venus has since been fully restored by conservators 
  
 A waiter working at the British Museum knocked the thumb off a priceless Roman sculpture, it has emerged. 
  
 The accident occurred in December last year, according to The Art Newspaper, but has only just come to light. 
  
 The waiter, who was from an external company, had bent down underneath the Townley Venus and knocked its right hand while getting up again. 
  
 The thumb was knocked clean off the statue and fell to the floor intact. The statue has now been restored. 
  
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 The British Museum said it had taken the incident "seriously". 
  
 "This was an unfortunate incident. The preservation of the collection is of fundamental importance," a spokesman for the museum said in a statement. 
  
 "Our expert conservators have been able to fully restore the object and it has remained on public display. We have retrained all individuals responsible for events." 
  
 The Townley Venus is already missing its index finger, which was broken before the sculpture came to the British Museum. 
  
 The sculpture, which depicts a half-naked figure of the goddess of love, is a marble copy of the Greek original and dates from the 1st or 2nd Centuries. 
  
 It was excavated in 1775 from the baths at the port of Ostia in Rome and bought by English collector Charles Townley. 
  
 It was sold to the British Museum in 1805. The Greek original dates back to the 4th Century BC. 
  
 Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. ||||| When catering a prestigious event, any waiter may fear clumsily dropping a plate or spilling a drink on an eminent guest. 
  
 Few will suffer the indignity of accidentally knocking a thumb off a priceless Roman statue with their head. 
  
 The British Museum has admitted to an “unfortunate incident” which saw the thumb of the famous Townley Venus knocked clean off by a member of catering staff. 
  
 The caterer, who worked for an external company not regularly used by the Museum, had bent down underneath it and bumped into the marble as they got up again. 
  
 A spokesman for the museum said it had taken the incident “seriously”, with the sculpture “fully restored” quietly by conservators. ||||| Work on the Townley Venus was "straightforward". (Image: © Trustees of the British Museum) 
  
 The Townley Venus, one of the British Museum’s most important Roman sculptures, was damaged when its thumb was knocked off as catering staff were setting up for an evening event last December. Although the British Museum’s trustees were informed about the damage, the news was not released to the press or put into the public domain.The Townley Venus is a Roman copy of a fourth-century BC Greek sculpture of the half-draped, goddess of love. The London museum’s marble copy, just over two metres tall, dates from the first or second centuries AD. Found in Rome in 1775, it was bought by the distinguished English collector Charles Townley. In 1805 his descendants sold the Venus to the British Museum, where it is now prominently displayed.Shortly before 6pm on 10 December 2015, external catering staff were setting up for a corporate event in the room, which has Greek and Roman sculpture. The company is not being identified and the museum uses nine outside caterers. A caterer was working too close to the Venus, which is on a low pedestal, and knocked the figure. The thumb on the right hand broke off and fell to the floor. (A finger on the right hand was broken off before the Venus came to the British Museum.)A spokeswoman for the museum tells The Art Newspaper that the break was clean and the conservation work was “straightforward”. The thumb was fixed back with an adhesive and the work was done in situ while the museum was closed.The spokeswoman says that the museum conducted an investigation after the incident: “We have taken steps to ensure it does not happen again. Any staff who are involved in managing or invigilating events have gone through retraining on the protection of objects before and during events.” In 2012 a visitor knocked off part of the hand of the Townley Venus. This broke along an earlier break and was restored.The Venus is depicted in Zoffany’s 1782 painting of Townley’s antiquities collection, a picture now at the museum and gallery in Burnley. ||||| The British Museum and British Museum Shop use cookies to ensure you have the best browsing experience, to improve functionality and to make advertising relevant to you and your interests. By clicking on any link on this page, you are consenting to our use of cookies. (Last updated: 6 December 2018) Find out more |||||
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A waiter who was all thumbs cost a priceless Roman sculpture one of its own. The BBC reports on the incident at London's British Museum, which the Art Newspaper says took place in December, in which the unfortunate unnamed server from an outside catering vendor was setting up for a corporate function at the museum. The waiter got too close to the low pedestal of the 3-foot Townley Venus—a Proconnesian marble statue of the goddess of love dating from the first or second century and replicating the Greek original created in the fourth century BC—and accidentally headed the statue's right hand (already missing its index finger), breaking off the thumb and knocking it to the ground, per the Telegraph. "This was an unfortunate incident," a museum spokesman says, adding the museum is taking the breakage "seriously" and that "the preservation of the collection is of fundamental importance." The ancient statue was dug up in 1775 from the Roman baths at Ostia and scooped up by an English collector; he sold the sculpture to the museum in 1805. But apparently the appendage reattachment process was seamless, with another museum rep telling the Art Newspaper it was a "clean" break and the adhesive-assisted fix was "straightforward." That rep also notes that any staff members involved in special events at the museum have been rebriefed on how to work around the venue's antiquities. (A $15,000 Lego sculpture was trashed in its very first hour exhibiting.)


