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Message 2088933 - Posted: 25 Nov 2021, 8:12:12 UTC
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About a month ago Wiggo was surprised about finds from long ago in South America and I posted about a find in the UK. Here's another one, Roman mosaic and villa complex found in Rutland farmer's field
A Roman villa containing a rare mosaic that depicts scenes from Homer's Iliad has been found beneath a farmer's field.
The mosaic, found in Rutland, has been described as the first example of its kind in the UK.
It was discovered by the landowner's son and investigated by archaeologists from the University of Leicester.
Historic England described the mosaic as "one of the most remarkable and significant... ever found in Britain".
The mosaic and surrounding villa complex have now been protected as a Scheduled Monument by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on the advice of Historic England.

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Message 2088975 - Posted: 25 Nov 2021, 19:49:13 UTC

For those that have been missing their parcel deliveries lately we may have found them.

Hundreds of FedEx packages were found tossed into an Alabama ravine, sheriff says.

Hundreds of FedEx packages were discovered discarded in a ravine Wednesday in Blount County, Alabama, some 40 miles northeast of Birmingham, according to the local sheriff's office.

Deputies responded Wednesday afternoon to a ravine on private property, where they discovered 300 to 400 FedEx packages of assorted sizes that appeared to have been thrown into the ravine, the Blount County Sheriff's Office said in a statement on Facebook.

"Hopefully we will have some answers soon," the office said.

An area manager for FedEx responded to the scene, the sheriff's office said, and the company "sent multiple trucks and drivers from all over the south" who were set to begin loading the packages at sunrise Thursday.

An update by the sheriff's office Thursday morning said officials were "making a dent" in the cleanup and recovery effort.

In a statement to CNN, FedEx said the "security of our customers' shipments is a top priority and we are committed to treating our customers' packages with the utmost care."

"We are taking steps to recover and transport the affected packages as quickly as possible," the statement said. "In addition to cooperating with law enforcement, we are conducting a review of this situation and will take the appropriate action."
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Message 2088976 - Posted: 25 Nov 2021, 20:00:27 UTC - in response to Message 2088975.  

They didn't find any UK passports in there, did they?

Passports: Delivery firm apologises for UK delays

And yes, it was FedEx.
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Message 2088984 - Posted: 25 Nov 2021, 21:46:29 UTC - in response to Message 2088976.  

Hmm...
Passports have also been lost.
An online petition has been started demanding an investigation into HMPO's £77m three-year contract with TNT, signed in 2019.
HMPO is turning to alternative postal companies. Quoting a source at the department, it said that in cases where TNT had lost a passport it was re-printing the document and sending it by Royal Mail instead.
WTF?
One person tweeted: "Paid nearly £300 for two urgent Fast Track passports with a guaranteed 7-day turnaround. 20 days later and nothing - Can't get through to TNT and @HM_Passport seems to have washed their hands of it. Really distressed."
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Message 2088991 - Posted: 25 Nov 2021, 22:32:44 UTC - in response to Message 2088976.  

Are their drivers being particularly badly treated?

There has to be a law against the deliberate burn and churn of perfectly good employees to cruelly "burn them out" for the sake of that extra 1% greedy profit at all costs...


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Message 2088999 - Posted: 25 Nov 2021, 23:33:48 UTC - in response to Message 2088975.  
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For those that have been missing their parcel deliveries lately we may have found them.

Hundreds of FedEx packages were found tossed into an Alabama ravine, sheriff says.

Hundreds of FedEx packages were discovered discarded in a ravine Wednesday in Blount County, Alabama, some 40 miles northeast of Birmingham, according to the local sheriff's office.

Deputies responded Wednesday afternoon to a ravine on private property, where they discovered 300 to 400 FedEx packages of assorted sizes that appeared to have been thrown into the ravine, the Blount County Sheriff's Office said in a statement on Facebook.

"Hopefully we will have some answers soon," the office said.

An area manager for FedEx responded to the scene, the sheriff's office said, and the company "sent multiple trucks and drivers from all over the south" who were set to begin loading the packages at sunrise Thursday.

An update by the sheriff's office Thursday morning said officials were "making a dent" in the cleanup and recovery effort.

In a statement to CNN, FedEx said the "security of our customers' shipments is a top priority and we are committed to treating our customers' packages with the utmost care."

"We are taking steps to recover and transport the affected packages as quickly as possible," the statement said. "In addition to cooperating with law enforcement, we are conducting a review of this situation and will take the appropriate action."
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https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/cargo-container-theft-port-backlog-los-angeles/2742889/
Union Pacific railroad said there was a rash of cargo container break-ins as the containers were being hauled by train near downtown Los Angeles, as officials are trying to clear the backlog of cargo at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Thousands of boxes as far as the eye could see were strewn along the railroad tracks near Valley Boulevard and North Mission Road in Lincoln Park in footage captured by NewsChopper4 Monday.

The boxes appeared to have fallen or been tossed off cargo containers being hauled by Union Pacific trains.



https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/los-angeles-cargo-train-theft-packages-missing-delayed-fedex/2765071/
After thousands of empty boxes were found along train tracks in East Los Angeles when thieves targeted cargo trains, the Los Angeles County Sheriff said there are plans to investigate.

NBCLA found people connected to those empty boxes who were waiting weeks only to find out that their item had been looted from a train.
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Message 2089007 - Posted: 26 Nov 2021, 2:14:44 UTC - in response to Message 2088999.  

GPUs for cybercurrency mining?...


Ouch! On all counts!!

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Message 2089019 - Posted: 26 Nov 2021, 5:53:41 UTC


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Message 2089020 - Posted: 26 Nov 2021, 5:55:57 UTC


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Message 2089123 - Posted: 27 Nov 2021, 18:40:36 UTC - in response to Message 2089019.  


Oh the fun memories that brings back of the removal process when the cassette player spooled what seemsd like the whole tape inside the machine.
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Message 2089125 - Posted: 27 Nov 2021, 19:32:28 UTC

What will the younger generation think of next to sue for...

20 year old Daughter Sues Mom’s Doctor For Millions, Arguing She Never Should Have Been Born
“She claims that her mother never would have had her if her doctor had informed her that she needed to take folic acid supplements to minimize the chances of the defect affecting her baby,”

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Message 2089204 - Posted: 28 Nov 2021, 22:46:02 UTC - in response to Message 2089191.  

Here's a house cat for you, I don't see this cat running from a mere Dog... He's a BIG Boy... Wow!


Appears that image has been digitally manipulated (Photoshop, etc) to make a big kitty even bigger.
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Message 2089420 - Posted: 2 Dec 2021, 2:05:32 UTC

Did they need a rocket scientist and lots of money to find this out?
Study: Predictive Text Slows Users Down
Most Cases Bring Little Benefit

Crunching the numbers suggests the biggest benefit from predictive text comes when people use it for words of at least six letters and type the first three before checking the suggestions

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Message 2089493 - Posted: 3 Dec 2021, 5:26:30 UTC


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Message 2089501 - Posted: 3 Dec 2021, 8:14:18 UTC

We attempt to explain the 1979 Sears holiday catalog to a Millennial
Flashback Friday...
We expected to have to explain pop culture phenomena like disco balls and Mork. Surprisingly, Millennials seem well versed in "Nanu Nanu" and boogie fever. It was the humble trash compactor that demanded an in-depth explanation.

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Message 2089516 - Posted: 3 Dec 2021, 16:59:55 UTC

Fumble and a Recovery
Man fumbles while proposing at Cowboys stadium — and drops ring in waterfall fountain

My son proposed at AT&T Stadium and the ring fell in the waterfall, thankfully we found it @dallascowboys @dak @EzekielElliott pic.twitter.com/xM0Mkf3htW

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Message 2089542 - Posted: 4 Dec 2021, 1:37:59 UTC

What will they think of next to try?
Woman caught breastfeeding her hairless cat on a Delta flight
A message was sent through the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) to alert Delta crew in Atlanta that a passenger in seat 13A “is breastfeeding a cat and will not put cat back in its carrier when [flight attendant] requested.”

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Message 2089816 - Posted: 8 Dec 2021, 14:06:38 UTC

I always wondered why they stopped making the Grumman Albatross as they were a very handy aircraft. Well it seems that I wasn't the only 1 as an updated version is now going to be built down under in Darwin.

Amphibian Aerospace to set up Manufacturing in Darwin.

Amphibian Aerospace announced today that it has struck a deal with the Northern Territory government to set up a manufacturing plant in Darwin.

Sydney-based Amphibian Aerospace holds the type certificates for the HU-16 and G-111T variants of the Grumman Albatross.

The Darwin plant will manufacture G-111Ts fitted with modern avionics and Pratt & Whitney PT6A-67F turbo-prop engines....
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