World Latest Routine News: July 2013

The Copacabana Beach when the Pope Arrives

Copacabana Beach - one of the most famous areas of Rio de Janeiro. Here he is pictured below. The other day there arrived Francis Pope to participate in the commemoration of World Youth Day. On the beach to collect two million Catholics! See photos inside the post.

Incarnate by Maskull Lasserre

What is lurking behind that row of textbooks on your bookshelf? Did they just move? Why are they clamped together tightly with a vice? Maskull Lasserre creates startling artistic works using unusual media. One of the incredible pieces in his Incarnate series is a series of textbooks pressed tightly together with a long carpenter’s vice. When you spin the piece around you find a human skull glaring back at you. As you look closer you notice that Lassserre carved the skull right out fo the pages of the textbooks. Using power tools and patience Maskull created this death-like skull from the insides of the series of books.

Maskull used a real human skull as the basis for creating his skull book. Be careful what you choose to read tonight. You never know what may be lurking on the other side.

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An Alternative to NANO- You got to see this $600 car from China coming soon (INR::Rs 27965)

The Chinese Car is coming soon!

This will beat all the low fuel consumption cars in the world!

NEW CAR- FOR $600------- New Single Seat VW (INR :: Rs 27965)

New ride

If you could go to Shanghai for a vacation, buy two or more of these cars, one for your wife and one for yourself, and one for each of your kids, have them shipped to Canada and still spend less money than if you bought a car in Canada. Getting the car(s) into USA , still an ordeal.

This is not a toy, not a concept car. It is a newly developed single seat car in highly aerodynamic tear-shape road-proven real car. It is ready to be launched as a single-seater for sale in Shanghai in 2010 for a mere RMB 4,000 (US$600)!

Interested? Wait till you learn that it will cruise at 100-120 Km/Hr with an unbelievable 0.99litre/100Km (258 miles/gallon)!

Impressed? Totally, after you have read all the details below about the hi-tech and space-age material input into this car!

The Most Economic Car in the World will be on sale next year

Better than Electric Car - 258 miles/gallon: IPO 2010 in Shanghai

This is a single seated car

From conception to production : 3 years and the company is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

Will be selling for 4000 yuan, equivalent to US$600..(INR :: Rs 27965)

Gas tank capacity = 1.7 gallons

Speed = 62 - 74.6 Miles/hour

Fuel efficiency = 258 miles/gallon

Travel distance with a full tank = 404 miles

* As on 16/05/2010

The Poisonous Blue Lagoon of Harpur Hill — Buxton

From a distance, an abandoned quarry at Harpur Hill in the English town of Buxton looks like a true paradise. The water is a brilliant turquoise blue that looks like something from the Mediterranean. Locals call it the “Blue Lagoon”. But looks can be deceiving. In reality, the water in the pool is blue due to chemical pollution – toxic leftovers from its industrial days. There are signs close to the shoreline that warn people of the pool’s dangerous contents that include abandoned cars, dead animals and human waste, and the ‘beach’ is limestone chippings. Despite the warnings, the flooded quarry had become a bizarre holiday destination as young people and even families turn up to camp out, swim and hold all-night drinking parties there because the web pictures show an idyllic stretch of water with a ‘beach.’

The attractive coloring of the water is caused by the surrounding limestone rocks which leach calcite crystals into the water, turning it turquoise. The calcium oxide in the water turns it alkaline with a pH level of 11.3, only slightly lower than bleach (ph 12.6) and ammonia (pH 11.5) - toxic enough to cause skin and eye irritations, stomach problems and fungal infections.

In June 2013, the council poured black dye into the water to lessen its appeal, and so far the plans has worked. Tourists have stopped swimming in it. Local business owner Rachel Thomas told to BBC, “They don't think they're on holiday in the Bahamas any more, they know they're in Harpur Hill.”

Jayda Thompson, 14, right, and Remece Sabe, 13, left, paddle in the waters after being taken to the 'attraction' with their relative Sam Ahmed. She said it was alright for them to go in the 'amazing' water, as long as they were no deeper in than their neck.

Ignoring warnings: Mrs Ahmed smiles as she watches relatives Jayda, Remece, Tristan Thompson, aged six, left, and Malachi Croft, aged five, paddle in the perilous waters which are littered with rubbish

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Amazing Plant Sculptures at the Montreal Mosaiculture Exhibition 2013

Even if you’re not into gardening yourself, the plant sculptures in the international Montreal Mosaiculture Exhibition will blow your mind. As defined in the official website of the event, mosaiculture “is a refined horticultural art that involves creating and mounting living artworks made primarily from plants with colourful foliage (generally annuals, and occasionally perennials).” It is also a highly complex form of art, requiring different sets of skills from all the participating artists: not only do they have to plan and build the framework of the sculpture and match the colors, it is also important to understand the maintenance of each plant they use.

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This year over 200 horticultural artists from all around the world present 40 living plant sculptures, created from more than 22 000 different plant species – over 3 million flowers overall! The sculptures will be showcased in 10 exhibition greenhouses and 30 themed gardens at the Montréal Botanical Garden until 29 September. The competition also touches on ecology, challenging artists to work around the “Land of Hope” theme and interpret it in their sculptures from the ecological point of view.

The Mosaïcultures Internationale competition was founded back in 2000 by Lise Cormier after her visit to China: this is where Lisa saw an enchanting 40-feet-high sculpture of 3 doves and was instantly inspired to bring the idea back home. Don’t miss your chance to visit the event!