One year after opening at the foot of Mount Fuji, the Church of Scientology Mission of Shizuoka marks its first anniversary on October 25, 2026, with courses, seminars and a public display in operation.

Shizuoka, Japan – October 16, 2026 – The Church of Scientology Mission of Shizuoka marks its first anniversary on October 25, 2026, completing one year of operation at its location on Road 75 in Shizuoka City, Japan. The anniversary is the Mission’s first annual milestone since it opened as an Ideal Scientology Mission in October 2025.

Shizuoka City is the capital of Shizuoka Prefecture, located on Honshu, the main island of Japan, between the Pacific coast and the slopes of Mount Fuji. The Mission serves residents of the city and the surrounding region, and is one of the Church of Scientology’s centers in Japan.

Over its first year, the Mission has operated as a center for the introductory services of the Scientology religion. These include Life Improvement Courses on everyday subjects such as marriage, parenting, personal motivation and goal setting; seminars on topics including personal efficiency and the fundamentals of Dianetics and Scientology; and auditing, the religion’s form of spiritual counseling. The Mission also maintains a Public Information Display with multimedia presentations on the beliefs and practices of the Scientology religion and on the life of its Founder. The display is open to visitors.

Scientology Missions are local centers of the Scientology religion that deliver its basic and introductory services. An Ideal Mission is one equipped to provide the full range of those services under one roof. The Shizuoka Mission opened on October 25, 2025, following a dedication ceremony attended by parishioners and guests from across Japan and from overseas, including Taiwan and Australia. The one-year mark follows the Mission’s first full annual cycle of courses, seminars and public access.

At the Mission’s dedication, the Executive Director said: “This Mission represents more than a building. It’s a new starting point.” One year later, the Mission is in regular operation, with courses, seminars and the Public Information Display open to residents of Shizuoka and the surrounding region.

The Church of Scientology Mission of Shizuoka is located on Road 75 in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. More information about the Scientology religion is available at scientology.org.

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Prioritizing dexterous workflow and zero-shot instruction following, the Natura-1 is Nature Will’s first Physical General Foundation Model aimed at pioneering advanced robotics applications

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, United States, 16th Oct 2026 – Nature Will, a physical AI lab dedicated to building physical AGI, today announced the launch of Natura-1, a 50-billion-parameter physical general foundation model for dexterous hand control and zero-shot instruction following in advanced robotics applications. Pre-trained on over 1 million hours of egocentric human data, the Natura-1 combines instruction following with the ability to manipulate to changing task conditions and sustained actions over extended interactions, bringing the versatility of the hand within reach of a model that connects human intent to physical action.

With the rapid advancements in general AI and large language models, AI models developed for physical applications represent the next frontier in technological progress. Natura-1 showcases that generalization and fine physical control can be learned together in a foundation model for dexterous hands, applicable to any field where fine or delicate manipulations are required as part of the creation process. Built on a 50 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model trained jointly on language, images, video, and action, Natura-1 operates at a 100-millisecond control loop to unify language, vision, and high-degree-of-freedom action that connects language-directed behavior with the physical control.

“We believe general models that can handle every task must exist, and that those models must utilize dexterous hands,” said Ning Ding, CEO of Nature Will. “Natura-1 is our first step towards models that scale from human experience, building infrastructure that enables us to create the model from the ground up and that allows it to scale to any application. The Natura-1 is a 50-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with dexterous manipulation, long-horizon execution, and zero-shot instruction following, making it truly capable of scaling human experience into purposeful action.”

The model represents Nature Will’s first physical foundation model that is capable of general-purpose dexterous manipulation using real hardware, acting as a breakthrough in the development of general foundation models made to interact in the real world. Designed to scale, the model autonomously executes sustained, continuous workflows and follows complex natural language instructions, enabling it to reason through spatial constraints, multi-object relationships, and negative conditions.

For more information about the Natura-1, please read the official blog at https://www.naturewill.ai 

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Nature Will is a research-driven organization dedicated to building the physical artificial general intelligence. Focusing on training general-purpose foundation models, its team is working to develop models capable of closing the loop across perception, prediction, reasoning, and action in the real world, while exploring how embodied agents can achieve self-awareness and continuous learning within physically native environments. Nature Will’s R&D stack spans data acquisition and governance, foundation model pretraining, infrastructure, simulation and real-world evaluation, post-training, and reinforcement learning. Led by Founder and CEO Ning Ding, the company has assembled a full-stack physical AI team whose core members include frontier researchers, core contributors to flagship foundation models, champions of international student supercomputing competitions, and senior robotics hardware engineers.

To learn more about Nature Will, please visit https://www.naturewill.ai/

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Trumpery Times has launched as a satirical website publishing fictional stories and parody articles about entertainment, internet culture and modern media. Every story is clearly labeled as fiction.

Sheridan, Wyoming, United States, 16th Oct 2026 – Trumpery Times has launched as a satirical digital publication that uses parody, exaggeration and fiction to present fictional stories about entertainment, internet culture and popular media. The website is now live at https://trumperytimes.com and is publishing its initial collection of fictional stories and invented profiles.

The publication borrows the familiar language of online media, including headlines, interviews, profiles and feature stories, and uses it as the format for its humorous fiction. Each story begins with a recognizable cultural idea and then develops it into a fictional storyline. All characters, events and situations on the site are fictional and are presented as satire, not as factual reporting.

Coverage includes celebrity culture, film, popular culture and the media industry itself. The publication is written for readers who enjoy satire and parody related to entertainment and media. Familiar formats such as headline-driven stories, celebrity profiles and entertainment features serve as the framework, while the content inside them is invented.

“Satire relies on recognizable subject matter,” said Lucas Komerlin, founder of Trumpery Times. “Readers need to recognize the starting point before the story moves into fiction. Trumpery Times starts with familiar subjects and develops them into fictional stories.”

That approach shapes how every story on the site is built. A familiar idea provides the starting point, and exaggeration is used to develop the story. As the story develops, the connection to reality gradually loosens until the situation on the page is clearly invented. The goal is for readers to recognize where a story began while following how the story develops.

“Each story begins with a familiar idea and then develops into an invented situation,” said Komerlin. “The challenge is deciding how far that idea can be extended while keeping a clear connection to what inspired it.”

The publication’s tagline, “Don’t Believe Everything You Read,” reflects the purpose of the publication. It signals that the site is built for entertainment and that its stories are not intended to be taken as news. Stories are written as clearly labeled fiction, and the familiar formats of media are used as a creative device, not as a way to mislead.

“The intention is not to disguise fiction as news, but to use the familiar language of news and popular media to create satire,” said Komerlin.

Trumpery Times combines recognizable cultural references with fictional characters, invented situations and exaggerated narratives, organized around entertainment, film, popular culture and media-themed features.

Trumpery Times aims to give readers a space where familiar parts of contemporary culture appear in fictional and exaggerated forms. Visitors can browse the initial collection of satirical stories and fictional profiles through the website.

About Trumpery Times

Trumpery Times is a satirical digital publication covering entertainment, popular culture and modern media through parody, exaggeration and fictional storytelling. The publication presents familiar cultural ideas through fictional storylines and invented characters. Trumpery Times is operated by Raya Do Yaya LLC. Its guiding principle is simple: “Don’t Believe Everything You Read.” For more information, visit https://trumperytimes.com.

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