Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hi, there, Shanny Mack with five good
news stories. I'm laughing because I looked ahead to the
first story. Here, there's a candy shop in Tennessee and
they've got a problem. There's a repeat offender who keeps
breaking in. Yeah, it's a bear. The bear has broken
in four times and ransacked the candy store. They reported
the bear to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and the
agency has confirmed an investigation is underway. The owners say
they're oping the bear could be safely relocated without harm.
You know. For now, the candy shop remains open and
the bear is at large in Wales. They're trying to
figure out what's going on. You see. Hundreds of old
shoes turned up during a beach clean up. Volunteers with
the Beach Academy discovered around two hundred Victorian style shoes
at loose souls while working on a rock pool restoration project.
The founders said the shoes were clearly old fashioned, featuring
distinctive shapes and hobnails in the soles. After the discovery,
local residents told volunteers, oh, yeah, shoes like that have
been shown up on the coast for years. There are
two theories. One traces the shoes back to the shipwreck
of the frolic, a cargo vessel that ran aground in
the nineteenth century while traveling from Italy. That kind of
make sense, even though it's been more than five minutes.
According to that theory, the shoes sometimes show up because
of erosion. The second theory suggests the shoes were dumped
much later, possibly in the nineteen sixties, when cobblers just
were like, eh, we're done with these and threw them out.
I like the first theory a little bit better. Meanwhile,
as prices for recycled paper, plastic, and aluminum go up,
waste management companies are finding that AI sorting systems are
helping them get some good returns. Republic Services has installed
AI powered robotic sorders in about one third of their
recycling facilities. Those ais are trained on thousands of variations
of common waste items, allowing them to make thousands of
sorting decisions per minute based on quality, condition, and material composition.
Using robot arms and bursts of air, the machine's direct
materials into the correct recycling streams at high speed. The
chief technology officer said, there really is value in a
lot of recyclables and garbage. The bram has been the
cost of pulling those materials out. In Rome, they're really
struggling with over tourism. They keep trying to figure out
how to keep the crowds down while the Colisseum Archaeological
Park is opening up virtual access to the House of Griffins.
The House of Gryffins is an elite Roman residence that
has long been documented but never open to the public.
The House of Griffins takes its name from a pair
of white stucco griffins decorating an interior portico. The residents
once belonged to a patrician during the Republican era. Located
on Palatine Hill. Been there, It's pretty cool up there.
The structure was demolished and buried to make room for
the Palace of Emperor Domitian. However, burying all that preserved
the site to a pretty good degree. The floor to
ceiling frescoes and decorative elements survived largely intact. So what
they decided to do. Rather than open the site physically,
park officials are introducing guided virtual tours. A guide equipped
with a smartphone mounted on their head will walk through
the underground rooms, providing live narration up to twelve visitors
a time. We'll be able to watch the tour from
nearby vegetable above the site. Inside, colorful mosaics cover the floors,
frescoes line the walls. The deepest surviving chamber features green
marble floor tiles and even mirrors. If you enjoy this program,
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do it, all, right, John, Why reolate for work this time? Well,
you see, Boss, I was there on Highway one fifty one.
It was like six fifteen in the morning, and this
truck hit the guardrail and it turned over and blocked
the road and littered the road with kegs of beer.
A spokesperson for a brewing company said the truck had
been carrying two hundred and sixty four half barrel kegs
destined for distributors. The roadway was closed off State Highway
twenty six for several hours while crews worked to remove
the beer. All the humans are okay. As for the beer,
I'm not sure. Those are your five good news stories
for today. Have an awesome day.