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Rio de Janeiro: Bar Codes on Sidewalks Give Tourist Info
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With an accompanying smartphone application, onlookers were able to take snapshots of the mosaic QR codes with their phones or tablets before being directed to a website that disbursed information in Brazil’s native Portuguese, and also in Spanish and English. A map of the area was also included.
They learned, for example, that Arpoador gets big waves, making it a hot spot for surfing and giving the 500-meter beach nearby the name of “Praia do Diabo,” or Devil’s Beach. They could also find out that the rock is called Arpoador because fishermen once harpooned whales off the shore.
Each stone code reportedly takes about seven days to construct due to the level of precision necessary to make it scan, though some future iterations will be constructed out of different recycled materials. The next four, expected by March, will pop up at Redra do Leme, Sao Conrado Beach, Mirante do Leblon and Pepe Beach in Barra da Tijuca.
The Department of Conservation said it plans to implement the co-called QRIO project at 30 locations across the city by the year’s end and 50 locations by July 2014 when Rio hosts the FIFA World Cup.
Please, kill yourself at home!
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The management of London has decided to deal with this phenomenon, which is why the government taped posters on subway on which is the box with pills above which say “Kill yourself at home.”, while the fine print below explained: “Why would you jump, when it is easier to swallow. Our customers and drivers alike will be grateful.”
How the campaign will be successful remains to be seen, in any case, this is a bizarre way.
Ritual Use of Caffeinated ‘Vomit Drink’
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The ancient people may have downed the brew before ritual vomiting as part of purification ceremonies, the scientists added. “We’re not sure when Native Americans stopped using black drink,” researcher Thomas Emerson, the director of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey, told LiveScience. “I think its use went more into the closet, due to pressure from Europeans to drop pagan practices.”
People in South America still make drinks from varieties of holly, like yerba maté and té o’ maté, though the drinks are typically made in more relaxed settings.
For many tribes of Native Americans, the black drink was a key component of purification rituals before war parties, religious ceremonies, important political councils or other important events. Rapid consumption of large quantities of the hot drink preceded ritual vomiting as part of the purification rituals. People in South America continue to make drinks from varieties of holly, such as yerba maté and té o’ maté, albeit in more relaxed contexts.
“I would argue that it was the first pan-Indian city in North America, because there are both widespread contacts and emigrants,” Emerson said. “The evidence from artifacts indicates that people from a broad region, what is now the Midwest and southeast U.S., were in contact with Cahokia. This is a level of population density, a level of political organization that has not been seen before in North America.”
How this early city held together for as long as it did has remained a mystery.
The study on the black drink appeared online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences August 6.
Beijing’s Bizarre ‘Two-Fly’ Rule
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Xie Guomin, the official in charge of the initiative, told the newspaper that the two-fly rule was not compulsory, but was a new benchmark to improve the Chinese capital’s notoriously unpleasant public restrooms.
The new regulations set forth aim to improve those public restrooms that are still unsatisfactory, and also to educate the public on clean bathroom habits.
It is not clear if failing washrooms will be punished and if so, how.
Even dogs sing national anthem in Russia
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In this world everything seems to be possible, even the dogs sing the national anthem. The author of this footage recorded the moment when a pack of dogs is readily accepted the Russian national anthem tune which is heard for the sound system.
Call the fleecer, the woman is mad!
States of Illinois Police arrested the girl because she was physically attacked and bites the family dog while intoxicated.
To be more precise, Analise Garner bites her bulldog Kingston with such force and “bloodthirsty”, that the police had to intervene.
“We will not raise any charges against the dog,” said police sergeant Mike Smith, the local media.
Police investigation showed that the angry girl first began to bite her mother and then began to move to the dog so hard that her teeth broke his skin. The court ordered her to be 72 hours removed from home, write the U.S. media.
A dog that has suffered trauma and physical injuries is now, according to a veterinarian, feeling good and is in rehab, while its owner have to face charges of cruelty to animals.
Teachers can not wear thongs to school
I wonder how they will be checked…? 😉
What clothes should be worn in schools is decided by the presidents of some municipalities. A ban was due to improper and indecent clothes educational workers. In some schools, educators are prohibited from carrying plastic bags, and snack, handy tools and notebooks must carry in their bags.
Teachers are not penalized, but have been criticized by the head. They have given them advice that for the job does not dress like the disco.
Before this prohibition some teachers were coming to class dressed as a schoolgirl, and then they had to order working coats in some schools.