Saturday, December 10, 2016

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

A permanent year-round ice hotel is scheduled to open to the public in Sweden in mid-December.

The resort, known as Icehotel 365, hosts 55 rooms including 20 suites and is made up of 30,000 liters of frozen water from the Torne River.

The hotel uses a solar-powered refrigerating plant used to keep the ice and snow that make up the hotel frozen.

"The nature and environment are not only a huge source for inspiration for Icehotel, but also a necessity to create the hotel year after year," the hotel's website states.

The hotel is scheduled to be completed on Dec. 16, although guests were permitted to stay in the Art and Deluxe Suites in advance of the official opening.

"The guests are a part of something historical," Icehotel CEO Yngve Bergqvist said. "They inaugurate the first ice hotel in the world that will be open year-round and can experience the finishing touches of the build up close, which is a memory that will last a lifetime."

Guests at the hotel will have the opportunity to create their own ice sculpture, swim in the Torne River and sauna and observe an ice gallery from over forty artists, designers and architects from nine different countries that will melt back into the river and eventually be replaced.

"They also have the opportunity to follow the artists who are finalizing sculpting their suites, and meet builders, designers and creators - the people who during the past months have endeavored and created Icehotel 365," Bergqvist said.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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A long overdue library book was returned to a British school nearly 12 decades after it was originally checked out. Professor Arthur Boycott, a former student who attended Hereford Cathedral School from 1886 to 1894, checked out "The Microscope and its Revelations" by Dr William B. Carpenter and kept it until it was discovered by his granddaughter Alice Gillett 120 years later. "I can't imagine how the school has managed without it!" Gillett said. She told the school she found the book among 6,000 others, as she sorted through them following the death of her husband. A school spokesperson told The Guardiann Gillet was lucky her grandfather borrowed the book from the school, as they do not charge late fees to students. "We don't want to put them off borrowing books," the spokesperson said. "Our pupils are really, really good at bringing them back." The school estimated if the book had been borrowed from Hereford Library, the fine would have been $9,351.

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An Arizona yoga instructor said her classes have regularly sold out thanks to her unique twist on the fitness routine -- "Goat Yoga" assisted by actual live goats. April Gould, 38, a self-proclaimed "Goat Whisperer" and a former contestant on NBC's American Ninja Warrior, said she didn't expect when she started offering the classes that she and business partner Sarah Williams would be leading sold-out crowds of 60 people in yoga poses with help from the eight goats on her farm near Gilbert. "I kind of thought it was going to be a fun, trendy, kind of goofy thing, but I didn't expect to have this kind of response," Gould told the Arizona Republic. "I love the people that come. I feel like it's just a big party and everyone leaves so happy." The goats walk among the students as they practice their yoga poses and occasionally even climb on top of yogis when their torsos are flat. Gould said the hour-long classes cost students $10.




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15 minutes to comply? The cops were standing around for 15 minutes while this woman continued to dance on the roof of a car? That's patience. I'm impressed. Usually I'm exhausted after 5 minutes of dancing.


Drones have ushered in a new age of peeping. Although I think I could find a better subject than some middle aged man in the shower. He should be grateful somebody was willing to peep at him.


To the peeping drone user in Utah...why are you making it so hard on yourself? It'd be cheaper to get a laptop and wifi to use the internets and look at naked people all day. And best of all you don't have to hold a controller with both hands. It's cheaper and smarter, ya creep! --Chester

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