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Contact Lens of the Future Is Remarkable Dig Unearths Find That Has Nudged the Course of HistoryEthiopia Planted 353M Trees —in Half a DayEgypt Opens “Bent Pyramid” Meet the New Electric Road Egypt opened two of its oldest pyramids, Ethiopia claims it has smashed a world located about 25 miles south of the capital record in the name of climate change— Cairo, to visitors for the rst time since and the tree planting isn’t even done. 1965. Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany More than 353 million tree seedlintold reporters that tourists are now allowed gs were planted across the country in to visit the Bent Pyramid and its satellite pyramid in the Dahshur royal necropolis, which is part of the Memphis Necropolis, You may one day drive down roads charged with electricity that your vehicle automatically detects and sucks up through an automatic arm—if a just 12 hours as part of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Green Legacy reforestation campaign. e campaign hopes a UNESCO World Heritage Site. e BentSwedish project gains any headway. Called eRoad- to see 4 billion indigenous trees plantPyramid, which the AP reports was built during the Old Kingdom of the Pharaoh of Sneferu, in about 2600 BC, is unique in that Arlanda, it has turned 1.2 miles of road outside Stockholm into a kind of slot-car track where electric trucks insert movable arms into a rail to recharge the vehicle’s ba ery while driving. Designed between May and October. Citizens had been encouraged to plant 200 million trees but Ahmed tweeted that 150 it has two internal structures. El-Anany saiders say the technology is weather-proof and the million had been planted a er just six hours. At the end of 12 hours, the country’s minster for innovation and chnology, Getahun Mekuria, announced 353,633,660 seedlings had gone into the ground—more than ve times as many trees as were planted in India over the Bent Pyramid represents a transitional form of pyramid construction between the Djoser Step Pyramid (2667-2648 BC) and arm will rise automatically when one car passes another, Sky News reports. The rails are also said to be safe to the touch. 12 hours in 2017. Some schools and government o ces closed to allow students and civil servants to take part, which notes 2.6 billion trees have now been planted across Ethiopia. e Guardian reports each citizen is asked plant at least 40 seedlings. e goal is to transform Ethiopia’s landscape, which the Meidum Pyramid (also about 2600 BC). e Guardian notes its "unusual" shape: e rst 160 feet rise at "a steep 54 degree angle, before tapering o towards the top." “One of the most important issues of our time is the question of how to make fossil-free road transportation a reality,” says eRoadArlanda Chairman Hans Säll. “We now have a solution that will make this possible, which is amazing.” Among its pluses, is seeing degradation, soil erosion, deforestation, and droughts and ooding tied to agriculture. About 80% of Ethiopia’s population relies on agriculture to make a living, with the result that just 4% of land is now forested, compared to 30% at the end of the 19th century, according to Farm Africa. Per El-Anany also announced that Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a collection of stone, clay, and wooden sarcophagi, some Säll says the electric road lets vehicles have smaller ba eries and therefore makes vehicles cheaper to produce. The $7.7 million project will be tested with a truck fleet for two years, and if the government approves, it could be implemented for $1.9 Al Jazeera, a recent study estimates that 1 trillion new trees could pull most 750 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—or about much as humans have released in the last 25 years—over several decades. of them with mummies, in the area. He said archaeologists also found wooden funerary masks along with instruments used for cutting stones, dating to the Late Period (664million per mile and include buses and cars. “Sweden is at the cu ing edge of this technology, which we now hope to introduce in other areas of the country and the world,” Säll says. US Teen Wins $3M at Fortnite World Cup 332 BC). Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said they also uncovered large stone blocks teen contestantsEmil Bergquist Pedersen from Sweden and David Wang from Austria shared a $3 million prize. Art Expert Gives Museum Some Really Bad News A museum in southern France suffered a terrible blow when experts declared that over half its paintings are forgeries, The along with limestone and granite fragmentsTerrus museum, dedicated to the work of Pennsylvania16-year-old painter Étienne Ter- Kyle Giersdorf plays 8 to 10 hours of Fortnite a day, but his parents aren’t complaining:Giersdorf, indicating the existence of ancient graves in the area. Egypt has been whipping up publicity for its new historical discoveries in rus, apparently knew nothing of the fakes until an art historian informed them. “It’s a catastrophe,” the mayor of Elne, where the museum resides, tells the Telegraph. “I put myself in the place of all the people who came to visit the museum, With a total prize pool of $40 million provided by Epic Games, Fortnite’s parent company, the tournament broke an the hopes of better known reviving a devastated tourismwho saw fake works of art, who paid an entrance fee. It’s in- as ”Bugha,” won e-sports record, though that record is expea record-breaking $3 million at the inaugural Fortnite World sector still recovering from the turmoil following a 2011 uprising that toppled tolerable and I hope we find those responsible.” Police have taken the fakes and are trying to find those responsible. cted to be broken by an August event called “ e International” Giersdorf, the rst longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Cup at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. e contest featured player in the North American East Region to qualify for the tournament, was domi100 participants out of around nant in the six-game series, beating rivals 40 million who entered the on- including runner-up Harrison “Psalm” line competition. Giersdorf, who Chang, who took home $1.8 million. won the solo event in front of a Giersdorf was hugged by his family a er Lionel Messi vanquished France, and now he has vanquished the famous egg of Instagram. An image of Messi cepacked stadium, says he plans to save the prize instead of going on a spending spree. ”All I want is a new desk and maybe a desk the win. “ is is life-changing for him,” mother Darcy Giersdorf says. “He’s been playing video games since he was three, this is his passion. He told us he could do lebrating Argentina’s dramatic Worldfor my trophy. In the duo event this, he put his mind to it and he did it.” Cup victory had racked up more than 78 million likes in the rst week a er his post. is number makes it the most-liked image ever on the platform. In second place is the aforementioned egg, which is currently clocking in at more than 56 million likes. Another sign of Messi’s popularity: Adidas, the o cial maker of his team’s jerseys, can’t keep up with “extraordinary demand”
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News WorldNews 15 Years Later, Tsunami’s Toll 12 Year Old Steals Moms Credit Card.. Heads on Vacation France Won’t Let Go of Long-Lost MasterpieceRemains Mind-Boggling It still haunts me.” e line from 28-year-old ai resident Suwanne Maliwan to Reuters expresses a common sentiment ursday, the 15th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed 230,000 lives. Ma and the heirs can’t quit squabbling. Here’s a look at where things liwan, for instance, lost both her parents and ve other relatives. ”Sometimes I dream that A 12-year-old Australian boy has pulled off a bold feat that drew international headlines: He stole his mom’s credit card and managed to fly to though it’s been nearly two years since Prince died, the executor of the estate, Comerica Bank and Trust, can’t split the money among Prince’s six surviving Internal Revenue Service and executor agree on the estate’s value a wave is coming,” she says. Vigils and memorials across Asia were commemorating Bali, Indonesia, for a posh, four-day vacation before ge ing caught. As recounted in the Australian program A Current Affair, the boy did some research online and figured out he could fly alone without needing a that might happen. The IRS and state of Minnesota are entitled the staggering loss of life in what was one of the world’s deadliest natural disasters. A 9.1 le er from a parent on Jetstar Airways. He nabbed his mom’s credit card, tricked his grandmother into giving him his passport, took a train to the airport, and flew to Bali. “They just asked for my student ID and collect about half, though the estate can stretch out the payments over time. Court magnitude earthquake o Sumatra island passport to prove that I’m over 12 and that I’m in secondary school,” filings several months a er Prince’s death suggested that it was worth around $200 taxes. The actual value remains one of the biggest secrets in the case, the morning a er Christmas in 2004 trig- says the boy, identified only as Drew. He then checked into a four-star hotel, having made reservations in advance, telling the clerk that his and redacted documents. The actual valuation could have gone up gered the tsunami and unleashed waves as older sister would be joining him soon. down since then. That’s because the various a orneys, accountants, and industry point had not yet finished appraisals and deals for the use of his music,high as 57 feet. And there he stayed, having a fine time while his panicked mom reportvideos, and assets including his Paisley Park studio. ed him as missing back home. It wasn’t until the boy posted a video of Coastal areas of ailand, Indonesia, India, himself in the hotel pool that his vacation finally came to an end. “I was shocked and disgusted, there’s no emotion to feel what we felt when sentative contacted school officials Thursday about the surprise message, says a spokeswoman for the district. Sri Lanka, and other countries were deluged. One of the rst areas hit was Indonewe found out that he’d le overseas,” says mom, per news.com.au. One reason she’s ticked: Her son had actually tried this stunt twice before, only to be turned away at the airport by Qantas and Garuda Airlines. Johnson said he admires Kelzenberg's courage but that he won't be able to a end sia’s Aceh province, notes CBS News. In fact, most of those killed were in Indonesia alone, Mom says she was informed her son’s passport would be flagged by federal authorities as a result, but that apparently never happened. In the a ermath, Jetstar promises to tighten up its policies. “He just doesn’t prom because he'll be in Hawaii filming Jungle Cruise. Instead, Johnson rented out a nearby movie theater on Saturday for where 170,000 deaths were registered. ”No words can describe our feelings when we like the word no and that’s what I got, a kid in Indonesia.” Kelzenberg and more than 230 friends and family to watch his latest movie, Rampage. Johnson even covered the cost of snacks tearfully saw thousands of corpses lying on this ground 15 years ago,” said acting Aceh Apparently 82 of the museum’s 140 works are phony, spo ed at times because they contained buildings constructed a er and drinks for the theater. "I couldn't believe it. I was so surprised," Kelzenberg says. "I just kept thinking, 'He saw me! He Gov. Nova Iriansyah at a ceremony in Sigli. ”And now, we can see how people in Aceh Terrus died in 1922. Acclaimed for his landscapes of French Catalonia, Terrus was close with artists Aristide Maillol and Henri Matisse and lived mostly in Elne, a town on the Tech knows who I am!'" Kelzenberg says she became a fan of Johnson's five years ago. Her favorite movies of his include Central were able to overcome su ering and rise again, thanks to assistance from all IndoneRiver that’s less than three miles from the Mediterranean coastofLanguedoc-Roussillon.Themuseumspent over $190,000 acquiring paintings they thought were his. But the Intelligence Jungle. and Jumanji: Welcome to thesians and from people all over the world.” Terrus likely isn’t alone: Art experts say at least one in paintings in the world’s top museums may well be fake. five Shop In RI 5 ShopInRI 7
France is trying to hang onto a medieval painting with a crazy backstory. e nation has blocked the export of a small, 13th-century work by the Italian artist Cimabue, a painting that hung unnoticed for decades above a hotplate in a French woman's kitchen. An auctioneer spotted the painting as the elderly woman was preparing to sell her house, and Christ then sold for a staggering $26 million at auction earlier this year, the Guardian. e buyers are anonymous, but they're believed group of Chilean collectors based in the US. Now, however, they won't be able to own the painting a er all. France's culture ministry has declared the work to be a "national and has at least temporarily overruled the sale, reports USA ministry hopes to hang the painting permanently in the Louvre, now has 30 months to come up with the money to buy it. In me, the family of the unidenti ed woman who displayed the years, unaware of its origin or its worth, must continue to pay insured. ey also owe a multi-million-dollar inheritance tax, likely have to work out a deal to pay it a er the sale goes through. Looking to permanently while away your days overlooking the Tasman Sea and sipping on vino while watching "nice animals" with other "nice people"? Karl Reipen wants to hear from you. e Guardian reports the German multimillionaire has placed an ad seeking 10 people up to age 70 to come live in what he calls his "paradise," a 550-acre, $5.6 million estate in Awakino, on New Zealand's North Island. "If you are interested to live a life with a Group of Interesting people it can be a new life for you," reads the ad, which Stu NZ reports was published twice in the New Zealand Herald. Reipen,
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King Charles Evicts Andrew: Disgraced royal will no longer be allowed to use Buckingham Palace
It looks like Prince Andrew was homeless for the holidays. Or at least as homeless as someone cleaved to the British taxpayer’s purse strings by birthright can be: Big brother King Charles III wasted little time in his nascent reign in kicking Andrew out of Buckingham Palace. Andrew, currently eighth in line to the throne, will no longer be allowed to use the building, maintain an o ce there, or use the address for correspondence. e Independent noted that prior to stepping down as a senior working royal in 2019, Andrew maintained an o ce and several sta at Buckingham. e noted Je rey Epstein pal will presumably continue to subsist at the 31-bedroom Royal Lodge at the Windsor estate, notes the Sun. Andrew was spotted with the rest of the royal family on their annual Christmas walk at Sandringham. Meanwhile,Charles gave his rst Christmas address as king. “Christmas is a particularly poignant time for all of us who have lost loved ones,” said Charles, whose mother, the queen, died earlier this year a er 70 years on the throne. “We feel their absence that every familiar turn of the season and remember them in each cherished tradition.” Multimillionaire Invites 10 People to Come Live in ’Paradise’ the property years before te. He still had to get the OK nation's Overseas Investment O ce, which signed o on his purchase it determined he had the and means to build the and maintain it. "It took to bring it to the standard writes in the ad. It's not clear ture dwellers in Reipen's self-proclaimed utopia will be selected.
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On one of the last days of an otherwise unexciting 10-week dig in Britain’s Northamptonshire Levente-Bence Balazs spotted teeth. en the dig leader saw gold. What Balazs, of the Museum of London Archaeology, suspected to be a rubbish pit was, in fact, a grave dating back 1,350 years, “a nd of international importance,” inside of which lay the remains of a woman who may have been both a princess and an abbess, making her one of the rst female leaders of the early Christian church in Britain. “ is is the most signi cant early medieval female burial ever discovered in Britain,” Balazs said at a press conference. “It is an archaeologist’s dream to nd something like this.” e woman, fully decomposed apart from tooth fragments, was buried in a bed in what’s now the village of Harpole between AD630 and AD670—and with treasure. e glinting gold turned out to be from a 30-piece necklace made from Roman coins, garnets, and semiprecious stones, with an intricate centerpiece. “It is, by a country mile, the richest necklace of its type ever uncovered in Britain and reveals cra smanship unparalleled in the early medieval period. “ ese artifacts haven’t seen the light of day for 1,300 years, and to be the rst person to see them is indescribable,” said Balazs, who also found a silver cross buried facedown, depicting a human face with blue glass eyes, and two pots from France or Belgium, containing residue still to be analyzed. “ is discovery has nudged the course of history, and the impact will get stronger as we investigate this nd more deeply,” said Balazs. “ ere’s so much still to discover about what we’ve found and what it means.” Heritage consultant Simon Mortimer of RPS Group said the “once-in-a-lifetime discovery—the sort of thing you read about in textbooks” showed the “fundamental value of developer-funded archaeology.” Homebuilding company Vistry Group had ordered the excavation ahead of a housing development. “Had they not funded this work, this remarkable burial may never have been found,” Mortimer said. Vistry gave up any right to the Police Santa Claus Uses treasure, Centre. which is to be donated to the Northamptonshire Archaeology Resource
Lamborghini to Deliver Organs
Two transplant patients in Italy received what police call a "Christmas A Lionel Messi Image Is Now the King of Instagram present"—delivered not by sleigh, but by Lamborghini. State police in Bologna used an adapted Lamborghini Huracan supercar donated by the automaker to deliver kidneys to two hospitals hundreds of miles apart this week, AFP reports. e organs were brought from Padua in the northeast to Modena and Rome. " anks to the State Police special Santa Claus, two people were gi ed a kidney," police said in a Facebook post. e police Huracan, which has a top speed of around 200mph, has a special cool box in the front trunk designed to hold transplant organs. from fans, reports Reuters. e company warns that his replica jersey and all Argentina jerseys are in short supply around the world.
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Restaurant owners who are still feeling the pinch of the economy and uncertainty over the postseason holidays can jumpstart their eateries by participating in a brand-new endeavor to attract customers.
The new Shop in RI Magazine’s “Dine With Us” initiative allows restaurants throughout Rhode Island to employ a team devoted to serving their marketing communications needs. The team of Jim Lombari (sales and publishing), Jenn Lombari (sales and writing), Anthony Cascio (printing), Guillermo Garcia(websitedevelopment,socialmedia,and photography), Owen Head (videography), Bob Crudale (promotional items), and Mark Berger (public and media relations) are combining their respective talents to provide these and other small industry owners the opportunity to help swing customers that way.
Lombari said that his mantra of “shop local” should be the consumer battle cry year round.
This team conceptcameaboutwhileLombari understood a growing problem. Before the holidays began, he witnessed an alarming trend of fewer people going out to eateries. The numbers dropped significantly after the pandemic. While it may have inched up slowly in the following years, there is still trepidation amongst families and groups feeling safe when they go out.
The services this team will provide includes the creation of graphic materials that will be published in the client’s o icial social media platforms, as well as the preparation of boosted posts and video materials.
That is where this initiative can help by using Head’s videography skills to visually tell a story, Garcia’s ability to build a website, or using the other members and their skill sets to reflect a di erent look and feel to encourage patrons to visit their site.
“We can lay the foundation for restaurants to pick themselves up and prosper. From there, it’s up to the restaurants to work towards returning and thriving,” Lombari said.
Shop in RI Magazine grew and started to produce advertising and editorial content to promote all the local eateries in the state. The Magazine caters to promoting the full-service advertising needs of its customers, both within and outside the state.
For more information about the program, please contact Jim Lombari at jim@rilocalmag.com, or 401447-9330.
