Honolulu punishes "telephone zombies"

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.

Spacecraft in the Pacific Ocean

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 send food to returnees near Fukushima

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.

The girl escaped from her parents and boarded the plane

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.

The word of the year: Fake news

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 ".

Heels of $ 15 million

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.

Russians steal secrets of submarines, it is still unknown what exactly is

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.

He sued airlines for insomnia

SOCHI Levchenko of Sochi is sued by Russian airline Aeroflot because he could not sleep during the summer, and his break is important because of the specific nature of the work he is doing.

The cause of insomnia was the package that creaked during the summer, and which contained food for travelers.

Levchenko is a negotiator in the profession and states that he must endure the work for several flights a day, and that the lack of sleep is detrimental to his business skills.

He is seeking compensation in the amount of 999,999 rubles (about $ 17,000), says the "Russian word".

Levchenko also wants to replace the cellophane in packages for which he could not sleep.

Lego and Airbnb offer sleep in the Lego house

Lego offers interested parties the chance to sleep in the Lego house in Denmark.

The Danish company has teamed up with Airbnb, which mediates in renting apartments, to allow the family to sleep in their new 12,000-square-meter building filled with 25 million colored plastic cubes.
In the parents' room there is a Lego cat, slippers, coffee pots and newspapers, all made of dice. In the children's room are the Lego Bear and a storybook. Above the child's bed is a six meter high waterfall from the Lego Dice, while the pool below is filled with dice.
Design Manager at Leg Jamie Berard said he usually makes products that can be bought at the store, but this was "a wonderful challenge".
"To do something like this exaggerated waterfall or to make a bedroom from something that is not really a place to live is a wonderful experience," Berard said.
Those who want to sleep in the Lego house have to sign up and describe what they would do if they had infinitely many Lego cubes. During the stay in the Lego home, the winner will have the chance to make his idea under the supervision of the expert.
The Lego House was opened in late September after four years of making it. The attraction is located in Bilund, a small Danish town where Lego's headquarters are located.
In the center of the building is a 15-meter-high wood from the Lego Dice, called the "Tree of Creativity" for which there were 24,000 working hours. Made of six million dice, the tree follows the gradual evolution of the Leg's creations.
The competition starts today and will last until mid-November. The winner's family will visit the Lego House on November 24th.
This is not the first Airbnb's sleeping contest in a special place last year to invite interested to sleep next to a shark pool in the Paris aquarium, as well as in Dracula's castle in Romania.

$ 10,000 for a whiskey sack were thrown out of steam

One sip of a very old Scottish whiskey, a Chinese millionaire for big couples drinking at a Swiss hotel, was not exactly what the customer expected.
One of China's best-paid online writers, Jang Vei (36), from Beijing, gave $ 10,050 for just one sip of whiskey, when he visited the Devil's Playhouse in June, at the Valdhaus Hotel in St Moritz.
It is assumed that this is the most expensive payment sack of a Scottish whiskey ever. A very rare alcoholic drink was poured from a previously unopened bottle with the Macallan whiskey label of 1878.
Whiskey experts, however, doubted the authenticity of the sip of two centiliters, which prompted the drinks to be sent to a laboratory analysis, after which it turned out that the whiskey was a fake, Bi-Bi-Si said.
An analysis carried out in Scotland, at the request of the hotel itself, revealed that whiskey was not produced before 1970.
The hotel accepted the results of the laboratory analysis and then returned the entire amount of money to the buyer.