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in around 500 of its stores.

In a statement, Walmart said that it has “worked with Bossa Nova for five years and together we learned a lot about how technology can assist associates, make jobs easier, and provide a better customer experience.”

It will test other technologies for tracking inventory and moving goods.

For now, humans will continue stocking shelves and tracking products.

Porch Piracy Act

Thieves in Oklahoma beware. The state is now coming after those who steal packages off people’s porches.

The Porch Piracy Act, which was signed into law in May by Gov. Kevin Stitt, went into effect on Sunday. The law lays out fines and potential prison sentences for those who steal packages, also known as porch pirates.

Under the act, stealing mail is a misdemeanor punishable by a year in jail, a $500 fine, or both. Those who commit porch piracy three times in a 60-day period can be hit with a felony charge, punishable by two to five years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000 – or both.

Those convicted under the Porch Piracy Act will also have to pay restitution to the victims.

“Porch piracy is becoming a common crime with the popularity of online shopping and home delivery,” state Sen. Lonnie Paxton, a Republican, noted earlier this year. Paxton was one of the authors of the bill.

Tulsa Police Department spokeswoman Officer Jeanne Pierce said that the department has had more problems with porch pirates since more people are working from home and ordering packages online.

“It’s really good that we have that felony aspect of the law because we are seeing a lot of the same people committing this crime over and over again,” Pierce said. “So if we can take several package thefts and charge them, we can turn that into a felony and they can get a more severe pun-

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A Personal Loss

The family of Dirshu deeply mourns the passing of Doctor Nachman Schorr, zt”l.

Rav Nachman was an outstanding role model: A person who learned Torah with fiery dedication and was tested in Dirshu’s Kinyan Torah program cycle after cycle for fifteen years, completing and being tested on all of Shas!

Rav Nachman was a prototype of ahavas haTorah, yegiah b’Torah and mesikus haTorah.

His loss is our loss. He will be sorely missed.

,עמדב םיבתוכה ושרד תלהנה אישנ ,רטטשפוה דוד בר ishment for the crimes they’re committing.”

Stories about porch pirates have gained attention in recent years. Two women in Washington state dressed as nurses and allegedly stole packages from front porches in May.

Last year, again in Washington, two women stole a package that contained a replica WWE championship belt meant for an autistic boy with a brain tumor. They later returned the package.

Ready to Roll

Ready to take your next vacation on the road? You may want to consider Jeep’s Gladiator Top Dog.

The car company has reimagined its 4x4 pickup as the ultimate base camp. The vehicle comes equipped with auxiliary lighting, rock rails, a two-inch lift kit, roof racks for bikes and gear, and a PCOR flatbed storage system in place of the bed that’s packed with some interesting accessories.

Lest you are too tired after a long day of hiking to build a fire, along with storage drawers and shelves, there are a battery-powered refrigerator and a hot dog roller grill.

Talk about luxury on the road.

The Lone Biker

Aaron Chamberlain biked solo around the Lone Star State in a mere 58 days.

The resident of Austin, Texas, rode more than 3,000 miles, calling it his “Tour de Texas.”

“Didn’t want to leave y’all waiting too long. Final map!! 3014.64 miles in 58 days (6 rest days, [52] riding days). Thanks for following along,” Chamberlain tweeted out on Wednesday along with a red-lined map that showed his Texas-shaped route.

Chamberlain described his experience of biking through Texas’ Big Bend region, in the southwest corner of the state, as “an unforgettable experience, with beautiful desert and mountain vistas making up for the painful hills.”

Well, they do say that everything is bigger in the State of Texas.

Split Fortune

A lottery win is making two sisters really happy.

An Australian woman won a $1.4 million lottery jackpot on Saturday when she was one of 10 division one winners in the Gold Lotto $20 Million Superdraw.

But she’s not keeping the goods all for herself. The winner told officials that she will be giving half of her winnings to her sister, as part of a long-held pact between the two women to split any major lottery jackpots they might win.

“I’ll be sharing half of it with my sister,” the winner said. “She buys Set for Life tickets, and I buy the Saturday Lotto tickets, and we’ve always said if either of us wins, we’ll go halves. So I’ll stick to the agreement and give her half.”

When asked what she will be doing with her half of the loot, the woman answered, “I’m off to a Melbourne Cup luncheon tomorrow so I might have a few extra glasses of champagne to celebrate then.”

Seems like she has her priorities straight.

Caesar Coin

A gold coin commemorating the assassination of Julius Caesar, minted just two years after the death of the Roman leader, fetched a re-

cord-breaking high bid of $3.5 million at an auction in Britain last week.

The London auction, conducted by Roma Numismatics, ended with the gold coin, which was minted in 46 B.C.

It bears the image of Marcus Junius Brutus, one of the leaders of Caesar’s assassination, as well as the image of two daggers and the words “Eid Mar,” which means the Ides of March, a reference to the March 15 date of the killing of Caesar.

Nearly 100 similar coins minted in silver are known to exist, but the one that sold for $3.5 million in the late October auction is one of only three known to survive that were minted in gold.

It was purchased anonymously.

The record-breaking sale marks a new world record for the most expensive coin ever sold.

The previous record-holder was an ancient Greek gold stater that sold for $3.25 million in 2012. The previous record for the most expensive Roman coin was a bronze sestertius of the Emperor Hadrian that sold for $2.5 million in 2008.

You know what Caesar would say?

I came, I saw, I conquered another world record.

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This is a whale of a tale.

A subway train in the Netherlands crashed through a barrier this week but thankfully no one was hurt. The train was saved by a giant sculpture of a whale when it came to rest on top of the whale’s enormous tail.

The train had jumped the tracks and crashed through the buffers as it approached the station. It would have crashed to the ground about 30 feet down if it hadn’t landed atop one of two whale tail sculptures next to the tracks.

The sculpture is appropriately named “Saved by the Whale’s Tail.”

Maarten Struijs, who installed the whale tail sculptures 20 years ago, said he was surprised to see the train had not damaged the plastic artwork.

Whale-y amazing.

Paid Surfer

favorite mindless activity.

The Norwegian makers of Internet browser Opera have announced that they are offering a $9,000 payday for two weeks of surfing the web.

The lucky “Personal Browser” will spend 14 days hunting for memes, watching cute baby animal videos, and researching unusual topics while livestreaming the experience on Opera’s social media channels.

“This might seem like a joke –

but it really isn’t. We are indeed hiring a person to just surf the web and actually get paid for it,” Maciej Kocemba, product director of the Opera desktop browser, said.

“What we are looking for in a candidate is the unpolished truth. We want someone who has the guts to share their online experience with the world.”

I am sure that there are a lot of candidates perfectly suited for that position.

Interested parties are being asked to record a 15-60 second video “where they talk about the most relevant browsing moment of their life.”

“It can be anything from a funny incident to a dead serious revelation,” the company said.

Like how important the internet is to them.

Coconut Cash

Don’t have money for college? No worries. You can earn your degree – as long as you have some coconuts on hand.

A hospitality college in Indonesia is offering students hit by the economic slowdown the chance to pay their tuition in coconuts and other natural materials.

The Venus One Tourism Academy in Gianyar, Bali, said students facing financial hardships will be allowed to pay their tuition and other fees by bringing in coconuts for the school to use to harvest virgin coconut oil.

If coconuts are hard to find, students can also pay school fees with moringa leaves and gotu kola leaves – leaves that are used to make herbal soap.

The school will use the coconuts and leaves to make products, which they will sell on campus to raise funds.

How about bottles of milk? Can the school accept those for payment too?

A Chipmunk Restaurant

Angela Hansberger, a food writer, misses visiting restaurants due to the pandemic and so she has opened one on her porch – for a rodent.

Hansberger, from Georgia, said that she took it hard when so many restaurants were forced to close.

“I was facing a lot of anxiety. I kind of hid it,” Hansberger told CBS News. “Gosh, I’m crying. I was really sad for all the people in the industry that I worked with.”

At one point, her uncle built her a mini picnic table to nail to her fence for squirrels to play and climb on. But when she left it on her porch for a few minutes, she came back to a surprise.

“When I walked back, there was a chipmunk sitting there like a little person. I gave him some nuts I had leftover from a holiday pie, and he ate them. The next morning, I did the same. He came every day, sometimes sitting at the empty table waiting for me.”

Having fun with her newfound “customer,” Hansberger started creating chipmunk-sized versions of popular restaurant foods to feed her daily guest, who she named Thelonious Munk.

“I began plating his dishes, learning about what was good and not good for a chipmunk diet, and trying to make entrees using nuts, grains and fruit,” she said.

She soon added a miniature bar to the restaurant for serving rodent-sized sushi and ramen bowls.

“One day he came up with this little tiny bundle – wadded up leaves – and put it on the table. So, I take it to mean he brought a tip,” Hansberger quipped.

Dining al fresco, even with a furry creature, is the way to go.