Honolulu has become the first American city to punish the so-called. telephone zombies, that is, those who look at the phone as they cross the street.
Authorities
in this Hawaiian city have adopted a rather strict law, according to
which even a quick look at the phone while crossing the street carries a
penalty of 15 to 35 dollars. Those who are caught the other way will be fined $ 99, which is a penalty for a repeated offense.
"For
very obvious reasons, your eyes do not look where they should look,
it's a huge risk, as pedestrians are in traffic. It's enough for just a
few seconds to look at the phone and it can be fatal for you," says
James Shayer from the Police Station in Honolulu.
Pedestrians, despite the new law, will still be able to talk as they cross the street. The only exception to watching the phone's display will be in case of an emergency call.
Otherwise, this law, known as "Disoriented walking", was adopted in
July, but it took three months for it to begin its application.
Namely,
these three months have been used to educate pedestrians in order to
familiarize them with all the provisions of the new law. Otherwise,
Mayor Kirk Kaldwell said they had decided on this law after an
increased number of traffic accidents that were caused by precisely
pedestrians who were scattered over the street. In fact, the number of pedestrians hit at crossings is higher than in
any other American city, and among the injured are a large number of
elderly people.
The latest law, which some call it and "zombie law", is something that
could be introduced to other US cities as there is obviously a need for
it.
At the beginning of the year, a similar law was to be introduced in Canada. Namely, the Toronto City Council requested an amendment to the
existing law on traffic, requiring penalties for disoriented
pedestrians, who were passing by on the street.
Instead, the province authorities in Toronto have rejected this
proposal, stating that it is necessary to go into pedestrian education,
not punishment.
This opinion is shared by Klint Stibe, a traffic policeman from
Toronto, who says that a "new law for common sense" should not be
introduced.
"Instead
of introducing new laws, we must force pedestrians to use common sense
and take responsibility for their safety," says Stibe.
In the Pacific Ocean there is a cemetery of space vehicles, whose missions are completed, according to scientific journals.
This isolated place in the ocean has the code name "Point Nemo" and is located 2,700 kilometers from the nearest land.
The remains of 260 planes, mostly Russians, were buried there, the first of which was there in 1971. In this way, the amount of larger pieces of space waste decreases in orbit.
The distance of this area from land, as well as from waterways and air
corridors, allows space agencies to avoid collisions easier.
Smaller satellites burn in the atmosphere, but the larger pieces remain and reach the Earth's surface, experts say.
The cemetery is located in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean, between Australia, New Zealand and Chile. Due to water currents fishermen do not love in that part of the ocean.
Among
the space ships "buried" in this area are the remains of the Spaceship
rocket, several cargo ships of the European Space Station, and the
Soviet space station "Peace".
Drones deliver food to residents of a Japanese town that was
devastated after a nuclear disaster in Fukushima, due to limited access
to stores.
Last year, residents were allowed to return to the Minamisome area, but now they are facing difficulty in purchasing supplies.
Food service operators using donuts say this is the first such service in Japan, Bi-Bi-Si reported.
The service was launched by the e-commerce company "Rakuten" and the chain of self-service "Loson". The planes move towards the city of Minamisoma, in the Odaka district, where mostly elderly people live.
This
district is partially located within a 20-kilometer circle around the
Fukushima Daiqi power plant, which was destroyed by the earthquake and
tsunami in 2011. People then had to leave their homes for fear of radiation.
The government of Japan has abolished the evacuation order for
Minamison in October last year and allowed locals to return to that area
after decontamination.
Buyers can order food and other household supplies, which are sent to them by the nearby "Loson" shop. Dron can carry up to two kilograms of goods in one flight. This service will be tested in the next six months.
A seven-year-old
girl escaped from her parents in Switzerland, passed security checks
and entered the passenger plane without check-in on the flight before
her crew members noticed and handed over to the police, a spokesman for
the airport in Geneva said.
A spokesman said
authorities had stepped up control measures to ensure that children
escorted adults when security controls passed.
A girl, who was not identified, withdrew her parents at the Geneva Railway Station and traveled to the airport.
She
then took advantage of the fact that the little girl in the crowd
passed all controls, as she seemed to travel with adults ahead of or
behind her, the airport spokeswoman said.
After failing from the first attempt, she tried again and entered the Izidžeta plane that was preparing for a flight to Corsica. The incident occurred on Sunday, October 29th.
LONDON, New York - The term "false news" has been named the Word of
the Year in the selection of the famous publisher "Kolins" after, as
reported, the ubiquitous use over the past 12 months.
The lexicographers working on the Collins Dictionary say that using
this term is 365 percent more frequent this year than last year, and the
phrase was most popularized by US President Donald Tramp.
His inflammatory rhetoric is often directed at the media who criticize
him, and although many of the terms were primarily associated with a
dirty campaign in the US presidential election, Tramp said a few days
ago that he coined him.
"The media is really ... this one, the best I came to, is fake. Others
have probably used the term over the years, but I've never noticed it,"
he said recently.
Nevertheless, according to Kolins, the term began to be used in the
21st century in the media sphere in the United States to describe
"false, often sensational, information that spreads under the news
coverage of a newspaper."
The use of the term began to be more and more frequent in 2015, and this year it "exploded".
In
the "word of the year" list, there was also the echo chamber, defined
as "the middle, most often on social networks in which one's opinion is
likely to come to approval, because only people who have similar
antidotes ", then the word" antifa "(antifascists) that reappeared in
the United States after violent conflicts of the right-wingers and
anti-fascists and deeper divisions to the" left "and" right ", and then
the term" gender-fluid ", defined as" someone who is not identified as a member of only one genre ".
British fashion designer Debi Wingam has presented to the world public the most expensive pair of women's shoes in the world. The cost of these shoes is $ 15 million.
The
most expensive styles are decorated with large and extremely rare pink
and blue diamonds, but also with white precious stones. The inside of the shoe is covered with gold threads and the jasmine flowers on them are also made of first-class skins.
Designer
Debi Wingam is known for her gorgeous creations and has worked for many
celebrities, royal families, and a wealthy elite during her career.
She
is also known for her fashion-like luxury creations like the most
expensive red "Diamond Abaya" dress that was covered with over 2,000
diamonds. The dress also reached the same ridiculous price of about $ 15 million. Also, the design firm Vingam has created the most expensive cake in the world worth $ 64 million.
In 1982, after the completed combat patrol over the Falkland Islands,
the British submarine committed an almost mythical act of theft - they
stole a secret sonar in front of a Soviet warship.
The
role of the "HMS Conqueror" in Operation Barmaid points to a larger
world of collusive intelligence services of the Cold War far from the
eyes of the public. "HMS Conqueror" was a nuclear submarine of the Churchill class and one
of the most powerful ships in the British Royal Navy in the 1980s.
During
the Falkland war, the Argentine Navy "ARA General Belgrano" sank, when
it was found that the ship was a threat to the operational labor of the
Royal Navy during the war. It was only the second time since the end of the Second World War that a submersible torpedo was sunk by some ship. The first time this happened in 1972 when the Pakistani submarine "Hangor" sank the Indian frigate "Khukri".
Just two months later, "Conqueror" was nine thousand miles away, in the Barents Sea. It
was equipped with an unusual set of tools: a pair of remote controlled
scissors for cutting steel cables and television cameras. All in the interest of stealing a top Russian traction sonar.
There are two types of sonars: active and passive. An
active sonar emits short sound waves, known as pings, who travel
through the ocean before bouncing back to the boat that made them. On the other hand, a passive sonar simply listens to the noise in the
ocean, listening to suspicious sounds such as active sonar pings and
noise of machines.
Passive
sonar can be difficult to use effectively, as the ship often has to
fight its own noise, especially the noise that propellers produce
through the water. As a result, the passive sonar is often dragged a mile or more behind the ship.
It is, according to The Telegraph, a tactic like the Soviet Union started in the 1980s. And
since the device did not broadcast any noise, almost no Americans knew
about the device, and they could not learn anything except to put it on
the table and split. So the United States and Britain decided to steal a sonar. The plan was to enter the disguised Soviet spy ship under the Polish
flag, and simply cut the cable that the sonar was attached to the ship.
The plan was complicated for several reasons.
First, "Conqueror" had to intercept an intelligence journey - which may have happened in international waters. Disclosure would imply immediate and perhaps deadly retaliation.
Secondly, the Royal Navy submarine had to carry out the operation while both ships were moving. Third, the submarine had to avoid recognizing through sonars trying to steal.
According to "The Telegraph", "Conqueror" did this and went on the run with an stolen device. Divers later surfaced and fetched the stolen sonar and transferred it to the home of Faslan in Scotland. From
there, he was transferred to the United States for further inquiries,
and what exactly was discovered, there is still a strictly kept secret.