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Jan 21st, 2021, 10:57 am
Archaeology news: Ancient coins and statues found in 'rare' 1,600-year-old hoard in Israel
ARCHAEOLOGY experts diving just off the coast of Israel have recovered more than 40 pounds of ancient coins, bronze statues of deities and lamps from the second-century Roman period.

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A treasure trove of "rare" archaeological artefacts was recovered by divers in the ancient Roman harbour of Caesarea. Diving duo Ran Feinstein and Ofer Ra‘anan stumbled a few years ago upon the 1,600-year-old cargo of a marine merchant from the Late Roman period. The divers eventually contacted the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), leading to a full-scale exploration of the wreck.
Archaeologists were astonished to find the remains of a large merchant vessel on the Mediterranean seabed.

Modern-day Caesarea sits at the site of an ancient Roman port and the Caesarea National Park.

Also known as Caesarea Maritima, the city was built under Herod the Great between 22 and 10 BC, and was later absorbed into the Roman provinces of Judea, Syria Palaestina and Palaestina Prima.

The port thrived as an early centre of Byzantine Christianity until its fall during the Muslim conquest of the Levant in 640 AD.

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According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, an exploration of the sunken wreck has revealed many ship parts and items.

Among the more intriguing artefacts were statues of the Sun god Sol and the Moon goddess Luna.

The archaeologists have also recovered two bronze lamps and animal-shaped objects, including one resembling a dolphin.

But the most surprising find was two metallic lumps composed of thousands of ancient coins.

The coins took on the shape of their ancient vessels and weighed about 44 pounds (20kg).

The coins were stamped with the portrait of Emperor Constantine the Great, who ruled over the Western Roman Empire between 317 and 324 AD, and then the Roman Empire between 324 and 337 AD.

The coins also bore the semblance of Emperor Licinius, who ruled in the east between 308 and 324 AD.

The two emperors were rivals during their lifetime and their feud ended at the Battle of Chrysopolis in 324 AD, after which Constantine had Licinius executed.

After the battle, Constantine assumed the mantle of the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.

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The bronze statues were preserved in great quality

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According to Jacob Sharvit, director of the Marine Archaeology Unit of the IAA, and deputy director Dror Planer, the merchant ship carrying the treasures most likely sank after hitting the Caesarea's seawall.

The archaeologists said: "The location and distribution of the ancient finds on the seabed indicate that a large merchant ship was carrying a cargo of metal slated recycling, which apparently encountered a storm at the entrance to the harbour and drifted until it smashed into the seawall and the rocks."

The experts added: "Metal statues are rare archaeological finds because they were always melted down and recycled in antiquity.

"When we find bronze artefacts it usually occurs at sea.

"During years of land excavation at Caesarea, only a few parts of bronze statuettes were found.

"Because these statues were wrecked together with the ship, they sank in the water and were thus ‘saved’ from the recycling process."

The precious cargo was most likely protected by the sand, leaving the statues in an incredible state of preservation.

The artefacts have been put on display at the Caesarea harbour visitor centre and the two divers who lead to the discovery have been awarded a certificate of appreciation.

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Jan 21st, 2021, 2:17 pm
Woman ruled dead in 2017 fights to be declared alive

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This undated image provided on Jan. 15, 2021 by Pierre-Jean Pouchain shows Jeanne Pouchain.
Jeanne Pouchain is officially dead and has been trying for nearly three years to prove that she is
alive. Pouchain’s deceased status has prevented her and her husband, her legal beneficiary now
that she’s dead, from using their joint bank account, and she is deprived of other critical amenities
of the living. (Courtesy of Pierre-Jean Pouchain via AP)


Frenchwoman Jeanne Pouchain has an unusual problem. She’s officially dead. She has been trying for three years to prove that she is alive.

The 58-year-old woman says she lives in constant fear, not daring to leave her house in the village of Saint Joseph, in the Loire region. Authorities seized her car over an unpaid debt she contests and which is at the center of her troubles. She fears the family furniture will be next.

Pouchain’s status has prevented her and her husband, who is her legal beneficiary along with her son, from using their joint bank account. Being declared deceased has deprived her of other critical amenities.

“I no longer exist,” Pouchain said by telephone. “I don’t do anything....I sit on the veranda and write.” She called the situation “macabre.”

Pouchain’s status as deceased is the result of a 2017 Lyon court decision that deemed her dead even though no death certificate was produced. The decision came at the end of a legal dispute with an employee of Pouchain’s former cleaning company, who was seeking compensation after losing her job 20 years ago.

But the initial complaint in France’s Prudhomme workers’ court misfired, falling on Pouchain, whose lawyer claims her company had no responsibility for the dismissal. A series of legal proceedings, decisions and appeals followed, all the way to the Court of Cassation, France’s highest court, which dismissed the case as outside its domain, Pouchain and her lawyer, Sylvain Cormier, said.

According to Pouchain and her attorney, snowballing judicial errors ended with the 2017 ruling by the Appeals Court of Lyon that Pouchain was not among the living. The legal imbroglio is all the stranger because, Pouchain contended, neither she nor her relatives received a summons for the hearing.

Pouchain’s husband and son were left with an order to pay 14,000 euros ($17,000) to the former employee.

Cormier, her attorney, filed an unusual motion last Monday to invalidate the 2017 decision by the Lyon appeals court due to a “grave error” by the judges. He said he has never before dealt with such a “crazy” case.

“At first, I had a hard time believing my client,” he said.

Pouchain says she can’t forgive her ex-employee for her plight but won’t identify the woman. The former employee’s lawyer did not respond to several requests for comment.

Cormier points the finger at the judges and their “extreme reticence to repair their error.”

“When an error is so enormous, it’s hard to admit,” he said.

Pouchain remains stubbornly hopeful that her attorney’s bid to overturn the judgement will succeed.

“It’s my last chance to recover my life,” she said.
Jan 21st, 2021, 2:17 pm
Jan 21st, 2021, 2:48 pm
Scary Video Shows Near Collision Of Singapore Airlines With 'UFO'

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The possibility of extraterrestrial life has always piqued our interest. While some scorn at the very idea others share some hard-to-ignore details about witnessing a UFO.

Adding to the multiple UFO sightings over the years, here's one caught on camera by a plane passenger.

The traveller was onboard a Singapore Airlines flight on 17 January and began filming the plane’s descent into Zurich, Switzerland, through the window.

The other passengers in the aircraft reportedly started panicking but the pilot followed safety protocol and tried to calm everyone down.

The passenger was about to record the landing but after minutes he witnessed a near collision with a UFO. The pilot followed safety protocol, the engines roared, and passengers panicked.

The clip shows the Swiss landscape before the aircraft begins its descend and tilts to the right. Suddenly, a white object whizzes past just below the flight path of the plane.

"Holy s**t," the man explains after seeing the white object.


The passenger describes this as UFO because the identity of the flying object is unknown. It is not a drone or a bird because of its invisibility on radar.

A pilot cannot see a drone or bird coming because of the small size, but in this case pilot is aware and prepared to dodge the UFO. According to reports, the 'UFO' was spotted by the passenger between 7:30 and 7:50 am. Experts reckon the object was not a drone or a bird due to its invisibility on the radar.

In another incident, a number of people living at different locations on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, claimed they saw a large UFO in the night sky on December 29 at around 8:30 PM.

A short clip of the incident, which has now been shared on social media, shows a blue glowing object moving across the night sky before falling into the ocean.

A local resident known named Moriah told Hawaii News Now she saw the blue object passing over Princess Kahanu Estates from outside her home. “I look up and then I was like oh s—! I started calling my husband and them because they were all in the garage. I was like hey. Come look up there. See if you see what I see. They all said yes! I don’t know what it was… This one was going so fast,” she told Hawaii News Now.

Moriah added she drove her car and followed the object until it disappeared into the sea.

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Jan 21st, 2021, 3:41 pm
Kangaroo born at New York zoo with all-white fur due to rare mutation

A red kangaroo born at a New York zoo is drawing attention for a highly unusual feature: its all-white fur.

The Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville said the joey born recently to parents Rosie and Boomer was removed from its mother's pouch for a medical inspection late last week, and zookeepers were shocked to see its fur was completely white.

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The zoo said the coloration was the result of by a rare mutation called leucism, which causes a partial loss of pigmentation. The zoo said the baby's eyes have black pigmentation, meaning the animal is leucistic rather than albino.

"We are not aware of any leucistic red kangaroo in the United States, proving just how rare this occurrence is," the zoo said in a Facebook post.

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Jan 21st, 2021, 3:42 pm
When a Student Couldn’t Pay Tuition Fees, Prison Inmates Rallied to Raise $32k to Help

n the prison system, crime and punishment go hand in hand. Rehabilitation—while often cited as a goal of correctional facilities—is usually more elusive. But, maybe if you add a book club to the mix?

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Not long ago, inmates at California’s Soledad Prison pooled their resources—earned over the course of three years—and actually paid the $32,000 tuition so that a student in need could stay in school.

The gesture was the culmination of a process set in motion by Jim Micheletti, an English and theology teacher/director of campus ministry and admissions assistant Mia Mirassou at the Palma School in Salinas.

Seven years ago, when the pair launched the Exercises in Empathy reading program at Soledad, they could not foresee the cascade of positive repercussions that would follow, nor envision how sowing a seed of change would eventually come full circle.

In the program, Palma students, faculty, and community members met regularly inside the prison to discuss books with inmates. More than a simple exchange of ideas, it became an opportunity to modify students’ preconceived perceptions and offered prisoners a chance to step outside of stereotypes.

“They go in thinking ‘monster,’ and they come out thinking ‘a man, a human being.’ They’ve done bad things, but there are no throwaway people here,” Micheletti told CNN.

In 2016, one reading club selection, Miracle On The River Kwai by Ernest Gordon was the perfect book to change lives. The story chronicles the transformation of a group of prisoners of war from a mindset of ‘survival of the fittest’ to one of solidarity with one another and self-sacrifice.

Jason Bryant, who was serving a 26-year sentence for his part in an armed robbery, finished reading the book and was so inspired by the story, that he and fellow-inmate Ted Gray set out to emulate the book’s example: “A small group of men made a different decision, and they decide to look out for each other.”

Newson Green, whose parents had both lost their jobs due to health issues, was chosen as the recipient.

For the next three years, Bryant and Gray worked behind prison walls gathering donations to finance Green’s education.

Green, now 19, graduated Palma last year and is currently a student at San Francisco’s Academy of Art University.

Bryant was granted clemency after serving 20 years, and now serves as the Director of Restorative Programs at CROP, a nonprofit that focuses on reducing the recidivism rate via training, career development, and stable housing.

In a system where so many inmates are locked into a cycle of crime and punishment, Bryant found the key to lasting change began with helping others. He embraces his second chance with a full heart.

READ: Inmates Are Earning Free College Degrees Behind Bars, And Their Recidivism Rate Plunges to 2%

“I don’t know about redemption… I can say this,” he told the Washington Post, “I know that those of us who have truly transformed our lives are committed to adding value in any way that we possibly can.”
Jan 21st, 2021, 3:42 pm

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Jan 21st, 2021, 4:12 pm
Japanese YouTuber finds fame in Turkey with funny videos

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Yoshi Enomoto came to Turkey in 2015 as an exchange student, but he loved the country so much that he decided to pursue postgraduate studies in the country as well. Now settled here, Enomoto found himself a YouTube celebrity with a string of videos where he promotes Turkish culture and life. Along with funny videos, he reaches out to a wider public with his charity campaigns.

“I tell them I am from Zeytinburnu when they joke that I am Japanese and a smart guy,” he says, referring to a famous quote in Turkish comedy hit G.O.R.A. where the lead character mistakes an Asian-looking guy from Istanbul’s Zeytinburnu district, heavily populated by migrants from Central Asian countries, as a Japanese.

Enomoto settled in Istanbul three years ago and is active on social media. The themes of his YouTube videos center on his struggle with the Turkish language, experience with Turkish cuisine and learning the culture. His past as a charity worker in South Sudan and Iraq also drove his ambition to join charity campaigns in the country, and most recently, he organized an aid campaign for survivors of last year’s deadly earthquake in the western province of Izmir.

He traveled the world to learn about their culture but says he would like to stay in Turkey which he fell in love with “forever.”

“I didn’t know much about Turkey when I first decided to study here. The only thing I knew about them was their national football team’s victory over Japan in World Cup 2002. When I talked to my 93-year-old grandfather, he told me the story of Ertuğrul frigate,” he told Anadolu Agency (AA) on Sunday. He was referring to the sinking of the titular Ottoman frigate off the coast of Japan’s Wakayama during a typhoon in 1890. “I found out how Japanese villagers helped to save Turkish sailors,” he said.

His journey introduced Enomoto to unforgettable moments, like the first time he played backgammon and drinking tea from “thin glasses,” a Turkish custom. For his love for Turkish food, he credits the mother of a Turkish friend who cooked “an awesome karnıyarık,” a stuffed eggplant dish.

Enomoto is pleased to see a rising interest in his videos. “I think people love how I speak Turkish. I lived in Azerbaijan for a while, and my Turkish is a mix of an Azerbaijani accent and Japanese accent. People think I am funny,” he said. He occasionally encounters racial slurs but he laughs them away. “Some people are prejudiced against the Japanese. For instance, they think we are all skillful in technology, but I can’t even use a cellphone or a computer properly,” he joked.

As for Turkish food, the YouTuber says he is not picky when it comes to seafood and is in love with dishes made with eggplants and lentil soup. He also immersed himself in traditional Turkish music and his knowledge of playing tar, something he learned in Azerbaijan, came in handy when he practiced Turkish music. “I can play and sing some songs like Üsküdar’a Gider İken and Sarı Gelin,” he says, referring to an Ottoman-era folk song and a folk song popular in eastern Turkey.

When it comes to the culture of the country, Enomoto says he discovered sharp differences between the two nations. “Japanese people are more strict in social rules, but Turks are more relaxed and flexible. I feel more comfortable here because of that. This is not a good thing at all times, though. “For example, people in Japan properly line up while a boarding train. Unfortunately, this is not the case here. Sometimes, someone cuts off your line,” he said. Enomoto, on the other hand, praised Turks’ respect for the elderly. “People give their seats in mass transit to old people, and they are more charitable,” he said.

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Jan 21st, 2021, 4:20 pm
Behind those dancing robots, scientists had to bust a move

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Marc Raibert, founder and chair of Boston Dynamics stands beside one of the
company's Atlas robots during an interview and demonstration, Wednesday,
Jan. 13, 2021, at their facilities in Waltham, Mass. The company engineered
the robot to be able to dance in a fluid manner that is almost human.
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The man who designed some of the world’s most advanced dynamic robots was on a daunting mission: programming his creations to dance to the beat with a mix of fluid, explosive and expressive motions that are almost human.

The results? Almost a year and half of choreography, simulation, programming and upgrades that were capped by two days of filming to produce a video running at less than 3 minutes. The clip, showing robots dancing to the 1962 hit “Do You Love Me?” by The Contours, was an instant hit on social media, attracting more than 23 million views during the first week.

It shows two of Boston Dynamics’ humanoid Atlas research robots doing the twist, the mashed potato and other classic moves, joined by Spot, a doglike robot, and Handle, a wheeled robot designed for lifting and moving boxes in a warehouse or truck.

Boston Dynamics founder and chairperson Marc Raibert says what the robot maker learned was far more valuable.

“It turned out that we needed to upgrade the robot in the middle of development in order for it to be strong enough and to have enough energy to do the whole performance without stopping. So that was a real benefit to the design,” Raibert says.

The difficult challenge of teaching robots to dance also pushed Boston Dynamics engineers to develop better motion-programming tools that let robots reconcile balance, bouncing and doing a performance simultaneously.

“So we went from having very crude tools for doing that to having very effective rapid-generation tools so that by the time we were done, we could generate new dance steps very quickly and integrate them into the performance,” Raibert says.

The quality of the robots’ dancing was so good that some viewers online said they couldn’t believe their eyes. Some applauded the robots’ moves and the technology powering them. Others appeared to be freaked out by some of their expressive routines.

Others added that what they were seeing was probably computer-generated imagery, or CGI.

Not so, Raibert says.

What was on display was a results of long, hard work fueled by a determination to program the robot to dance to the beat, he says.

“We didn’t want a robot doing robotlike dancing. We wanted it to do human dancing and, you know, when a human dances, the music has a beat and their whole body moves to it — their hands, their body, their head,” he says. “And we tried to get all of those things involved and coordinated so that it, you know, it was ... it looked like the robot was having fun and really moved with the music. And I think that had a lot to do with the result of the production.”

Teaching robots to dance with fluid and expressive motions was a new challenge for a company that spent years building robots that have functional abilities like walking, navigating in rough terrain, pick things up with their hands and use attached advanced sensors to monitor and sense many things, Raibert says.

“You know, our job is to try and stretch the boundaries of what robots can do, both in terms of the outer research boundary, but also in terms of practical applications. And I think when people see the new things that robots can do, it excites them,” he says.

The advanced Atlas robot relies on a wide array of sensors to execute the dance moves, including 28 actuators — devices that serve as muscles by converting electronic or physical signal into movement — as well as a gyroscope that helps it to balance, and three quad-core onboard computers, including one that processes perception signals and two that control movement.

Still, the fact that video of the dancing robots has fired up the public imagination and inspired a sense of awe was gratifying, Raibert says.

“We hoped ... that people would enjoy it and they seem to. We’ve gotten calls from all around the world,” Raibert says. “We got a call from one of the sound engineers who had recorded the original Contours performance back in the ’60s. And he said that his whole crew of Motown friends had been passing it around and been excited by it.”
Jan 21st, 2021, 4:20 pm
Jan 21st, 2021, 4:40 pm
Someone renamed NYC's Trump Tower 'Dump Tower' on Google Maps

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Some comedic genius has quietly renamed Donald Trump's glitzy Manhattan building "Dump Tower."

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If you Google "Trump Tower," you'll see a pin labelled "Dump Tower" on Fifth Avenue. Don't expect it to stay that way for long, though.

Some people online think it was a Google employee who changed the name, although that remains to be confirmed.

Changing a landmark name appears to be a manual process that needs authorization from an employee.

According to Google's instructions, changes to the map database are reviewed by hand, so theoretically, someone would have had to deliberately hit "confirm" on Dump Tower.

Trump supporters are not impressed.
Jan 21st, 2021, 4:40 pm

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Jan 21st, 2021, 7:41 pm
Toronto restaurant offering free burgers to seniors and the homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic

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TORONTO -- A restaurant in Toronto’s east-end is offering up free burgers to seniors and those experiencing homelessness as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on across the city.

“I just thought it was the right thing to do,” Fearless Meat owner David Brown tells CTV News Toronto.

Brown, who has been working with meat for almost 50 years, explains that butchers have a long tradition of giving back to their communities. He says that this act of charity announced earlier this month is just one way of keeping that legacy alive.

“And it's a tradition that I've always taken very seriously. In fact, in the days before they had food banks butchers were the local food banks. So, I strongly believe in giving back to the community.”

The promotion is simple: seniors, pensioners, the homeless and the hungry are entitled to a free 6oz. Certified Angus “Beach Burger,” no questions asked.

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The catch? There isn’t one.

“I want people when they come into our restaurant for a free burger, I want them to feel welcomed and respected.”

It’s unclear just how many burgers have been handed out since the campaign began at the beginning of January, mostly because Brown admits he doesn’t keep track.

“It’s been all over the map. Anywhere from a few a day to a hundred a day.”

Brown says this isn’t the first charitable act he and his company have been involved in and that it surely won’t be the last.

As Fearless Meat approaches its third anniversary on Jan. 19, Brown says he feels fortunate to still be in business amid the pandemic and is encouraging other restaurants as lucky as him to give back if they can.

“I'm hoping that what we're doing here is an inspiration to other restaurants or businesses to help out the vulnerable communities,” he said.
Jan 21st, 2021, 7:41 pm

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Jan 21st, 2021, 9:13 pm
Biden signed a wave of climate orders

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The US president Joe Biden used his first day in office to sign executive orders aimed at tackling the climate crisis. At the stroke of a pen, Biden began the process of bringing the US back into the Paris agreement. He also halted oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness and revoked a permit issued by his predecessor for the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline.

“The cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline is a defeat for big oil and a huge win for the health and safety of Americans and our planet,” said Marcie Keever, legal director at Friends of the Earth.

As the world’s second largest emitter, the US rejoining Paris is a major victory for climate action – but signing a document is the easy part. “Biden must go far beyond just rejoining the Paris agreement,” said Janet Redman of Greenpeace USA. “He must listen and work cooperatively with developing countries in addressing the challenges they face in implementing more climate action in the face of the pandemic and growing indebtedness.”

Away from the climate, Biden also signed an order repealing the ban on travellers from several Muslim majority countries from entering the US. The so-called “Muslim ban” was introduced by Donald Trump in 2017.
Jan 21st, 2021, 9:13 pm

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Jan 22nd, 2021, 12:07 am
Film Festival is Looking for a Person to Spend 7 Days Alone Watching Movies

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The Gothenburg Film Festival is conducting a “pandemic cinema experiment” in the form of a contest. One candidate chosen from applicants around the globe will be treated to a week’s stay at the site of the historic Pater Noster Lighthhouse located on the craggy island of Hamneskär off the west coast of Sweden.

While there, the winning cinephile will get free room and board along with unlimited access to this year’s festival roster of films. “They are totally isolated. They are not allowed to bring anyone, of course, but also no phone and not even a book,” said artistic director Jonas Holmberg. “…It will be only this person and the sea, the waves, the sky and the 60 different premieres that we are screening at the festival.”

Inspired by the pandemic, Holmberg says the experiment aims to examine how social distancing has transformed the movie-watching experience. The most obvious change is the shift from in-person to online and at-home movie viewership.

According to the festival website, “Göteborg Film Festival 2021 will be anything but conventional. No crowds, no parties, no sold-out cinemas. This year’s festival focus, Social Distances, explores the new world that has emerged in the wake of the pandemic. What does film mean to us when we are isolated from everything else? To investigate, we are opening a brand-new cinema. In the middle of the ocean.

“No phone, no family, no friends. Just you, the sea and the festival’s film program with 60 film premieres. For seven days.”

The immersive solo movie experience takes place from January 30 through February 6. The winner will live in the lighthouse keeper’s home but all movies will be air in a purpose-built, one-person cinema inside the lighthouse. Interested film lovers should apply at the festival website ASAP.

We’re not sure if popcorn is included.

https://goteborgfilmfestival.se/en/
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Jan 22nd, 2021, 11:44 am
Gigantic dinosaur fossils found in Argentina may be world’s largest creature

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Dinosaur fossils found in Argentina may have belonged to the largest creature to ever exist.

The fossils, found in the Patagonia region, belonged to a 98 million-year-old titanosaur, according to experts.

The titanosaur, which lived from the Late Jurassic Epoch (163.5 million to 145 million years ago) through the Cretaceous Period (145 million to 66 million years ago) was known for its long neck and tail and four-legged stance, according to Britannica.

Publishing their research in the journal Cretaceous Research, the paleontologists from Argentina’s The Zapala Museum, Museo de La Plata, Museo Egidio Feruglio and the universities of Río Negro and Zaragoza who found the bones believe the creature may have been as 122-feet long. A female blue whale, the largest living creature today, can reach a length of over 80 feet, for comparison.

“It is a huge dinosaur, but we expect to find much more of the skeleton in future field trips, so we’ll have the possibility to address with confidence how really big it was,” Alejandro Otero, a paleontologist with Argentina’s Museo de La Plata, told CNN.

Titanosaur fossils have been discovered around the globe, but a concentration have been unearthed in Argentina in recent decades.

The researchers said it would be impossible to determine how much the creature weighed without measuring its humerus or femur, but it may have weighed as many as 110 tons. A typical African elephant weighs up to 9 tons.
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It is your job to fine weird, funny or "good feel" stories from around the world and share them with our readers in our weekly magazine

How do you play?
Just post a story that you have come across that made you smile, laugh, feel good...
BUT NOTHING DEPRESSING :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

EXAMPLE POST
Naked sunbather chases wild boar through park after it steals his laptop bag
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A naked sunbather was seen chasing wild boar through a park after it stole his laptop bag.
Amusing photographs from Germany show the man running after the animal to try and claim the plastic bag back.
But the cheeky boar and its two piglets appear to be too quick for the sunbather, who can't keep up with their speedy little trotters.
As the incident unfolds, groups of friends and family sat on the grass watch on and laugh.
Heads are seen turning in surprise and amusement in the hilarious photographs.
The incident happened at Teufelssee Lake - a bathing spot in the Grunwell Forest in Berlin, Germany.

Rules:
Each Edition of IN OTHER NEWS will be open for 7 days...
You may post One Story in any 24 hour period
So in other words, you can enter only once a day
Each news day will start when I post announcing it
OR at:
9:00 AM CHICAGO TIME (UTC -6)
3:00 PM GMT (UTC -0)

on those days I space out and forget to post or can't due to Real Life :lol:
Stories may be accompanied with images - but No big images, please! 800x800 pixels wide maximum
Videos are allowed, but please keep them to under a minute, and post a short summary for those that don't like to click on videos
No Duplicate stories - Where a post has been edited resulting in duplicates, then the last one in time gets disallowed.
And please limit this to reasonably family friendly stories :lol: :lol: :lol:

Reward:
Each news story posted that I feel is acceptable (must be a real story, too few words or simply a headline are not considered acceptable) will earn you 50 WRZ$
If you post multiple stories on any given day, you will only earn 50 WRZ$ for the first story of the Day
Special Bonus - Each week I will award "The Pulitzer Prize" for the best story of the week
The weekly winner of the "The Pulitzer Prize" will receive a 100 WRZ$ bonus
It's just my personal opinion, so my judgement is final

So help bring GOOD news to the members of mobi, and join our reporting team...

IN OTHER NEWS


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Jan 22nd, 2021, 2:37 pm

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