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The fastest train in the world at china - include video

Minggu, 24 Januari 2010

China on Saturday launched what is described as the world's fastest train service covering the distance of 1068 km at an average speed of 350 kilometers per hour. The distance between Wuhan in central China and Guangzhou in the south of the country covered by high speed train in two hours and forty-five minutes.

The new service will cut travel time between these cities is more than six hours. The train reached a maximum speed of 394.2 km per hour during the trail run which started on December 9. Commercial operation launched today with two trains while passing over a distance through 20 different cities along the route.

High-speed line will use technology developed in cooperation with foreign companies like Siemens, Bombardier and Alstom, said the source.

This new service is expected to act as a catalyst in the development of central China that include underdeveloped areas such as connecting to Xianning with highly developed Pearl River Delhi, which is an industrial center in south China.

China's railway authorities showed that the average speed of high speed railway is 243 km per hour in Japan, 232 km per hour in Germany and 277 km per hour in France.

Era of high-speed railway in China began in 2004 when Guangzhou is connected to Shenzhen, both in Guangdong Province, by train with a speed of 160 km per hour. This was followed by the launch of high-speed line linking the capital with the port city of Tianjin during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

The government recently announced plans to build 42 high-speed lines in 2012 in order to spur economic growth amid the global decline. China has launched a major rail construction program, considered the largest plan in the world outside the United States. The aim is to take the rail network from the current 86,000 kilometers to 120,000 kilometers.

Caring for a one-legged pigeon 3 children Rabbits

Rabu, 20 Januari 2010

These little bunnies, about 6 days old, were attacked by a dog and orphaned. Two Out of the litter of five did not survive, and these three were not doing very well.

Caring for a one-legged pigeon 3 children Rabbits

Noah is a non-releasable, one-legged homing pigeon/rock dove that is in the rehab centre. Noah kept going over to the bunny cage and looking in -- even sleeping in front of the door to the cage.

Then, suddenly, there were only two bunnies in the cage. But when Noah moved a bit from the front of the cage to everyone's surprise...there was the tiny bunny..under Noah's wing....sound asleep! That little bunny rabbit had crawled through the cage, preferring a featherbed, no doubt to snuggling up with its littermates!

Now, they are all together and the bunnies are doing GREAT. When the bunnies scoot underneath Noah's feathers, he carefully extends his wings out to surround them and then they snuggle.. When one of them moves and they start sticking out here and there, he gently pushes them back under him with his beak! It is beautiful and amazing to see.

Top 10 Ugly People in the World

Selasa, 19 Januari 2010

10 – Carrot Top = steroids + cosmetic surgery + red hair.

9 – Your stereotypical geek/nerd/dweeb from high school.

8 – Amazing talent from China huh? His caucasian cousin is below.

7 – This guy is just really ugly enough said.

6 – Sam Cassell AKA Mr. UFO.

5 – Verne Troyer AKA Mini-Me.

4 – This guy needs to visit the dentist soon!

3 – Beetlejuice from the Howard Stern Radio Show.

2 – Yu Zhenhuan AKA “King Kong” from China. He is single ladies!

And… The Number One is….
?Michael Jackson?
do I need to say more?

Fehmarn Belt bridge to link Germany and Denmark

Senin, 11 Januari 2010

Denmark and Germany signed up last week for the construction of a $8.1 billion (€5.6 billion) road and rail bridge by 2018. This 19 kilometres (12 mi) long bridge will connect the German island of Fehmarn with the Danish island of Lolland across the Fehmarn Strait in the western Baltic Sea .

The bridge should replace the ferry services and air traffic between the two countries. Sea traffic will be possible underneath the bridge as the vertical clearance will be of 65 m (213 ft).

It will be a cable-stayed bridge with three 724 metres (2,375 ft) long spans, and four pillars about 280 metres (919 ft) tall. It will allow four road lanes and two rail tracks.

The project is comparable to the Øresund Bridge, the Great Belt Bridge or plans for the Strait of Messina Bridge and will be the largest planned infrastructure project in Northern Europe. The route is the main connection between Hamburg, (Hamburg Metropolitan Region), and Copenhagen/Malmö, (Øresund Region); (in German: Vogelfluglinie, in Danish: fugleflugtslinjen) as well as further destinations in Scandinavia. (Wikipedia)

From the total $8.1 billion (€5.6 billion), Denmark will pay €4.8 billion. Germany will only have to pay for the connexion between the bridge and its existing transport infrastructure. Denmark expects to be reimbursed for its expenses through user tolls.

Of course the bridge is very expensive, and Denmark will be transformed into a transit country for neighbouring (Norway and Sweden) exports to Germany.

In Germany, Leif Miller, the head of environmentalist group Nabu, said:

This insane project, which will cost billions, is risky from a global warming perspective and when it comes to protecting the environment and different species. We will stop the construction with all legal means available.

However in Denmark, where the construction of the bridge has been discussed for more than 20 years, some people see it another way:

It means a reduction in emissions of among other things CO2 (carbon dioxide) compared to if ferry traffic between Roedby and Puttgarden continued.

The Bridge of the Horns is Longest bridge to link Asia and Africa

The Bridge of the Horns, if it really gets built, will be one of the great engineering feats of this century. The will link Yemen (Middle East) to the Island of Perim in the Red Sea and on to Djibouti (Africa) and “write a new chapter in the history of humanity”. The Red Sea is one of the busiest and most important seaways in the world and the construction as well as the service of the bridge will have to allow this heavy transit. The bridge will also allow much greater speed of transit and more cargo and people to be transported from one point to another.

It will be a 28.5 km (17.8 miles) long cable-stayed bridge. The suspension portion of the bridge will be the longest in the world. There will be six lanes of vehicle roadway and 4 rail lines, allowing 100′000 cars and 50′000 rail riders to cross the bridge every day.

Construction should begin in 2009. However, some issues concerning the tax-free metropolises (Al-Noor City) one both ends of the bridge first need to be solved. The first phase will consist of a “signature bridge” spanning from Yemen to the island. The second phase will extend the bridge to Africa.

By 2025 Noor City will have 2.5 millon people and its twin in Yemen will have 4.5 million citizens. An airport serving both cities is expected to attract 100 million passengers per year.

The bridge is part of a large project from Noor City Development Corporation (NCDC) and Middle East Development, from Dubai.

Al-Noor City

Al-Noor City will be a globally integrated city that will supposedly be ”a truly humanitarian effort”

The following is from NCDC:

The project’s goal is:

* Relieving poverty
* Creating equitable standards of living
* Satisfying basic needs of its inhabitants
* Establishing sustainable political practices
* Avoiding irreversible damages to nature
* Reconciling development with regenerative capacity of natural environment

“AL-Noor City” will be unprecedented in size and sophistication, driven by a logistics infrastructure to be serviced by air, sea, rail, road and communications. The city is to provide global, physical and virtual connectivity around the world, as well as optimum efficiency for these sectors/markets among them in order to integrate and create an added value nexus:

A Knowledge Hub

A campus to leverage Al cities’ high educational competence to develop the provision of knowledge,
learning and research, whilst capturing and maintaining high-caliber talent. It will include:

* Foundation centers (R&D)
* Higher education campuses
* College and vocational training facilities
* Medical and health centers and facilities
* Townships of knowledge

These facilities are overlaid within the logistics infrastructure that enables business to receive global supplies, manufacture and then export. It supports and enhances businesses competing within the global marketplace that recognize they have no choice but to respond where there is a demonstrable improvement in efficiencies and profitability. It will include:

* Seaport
* Port city
* Business center
* Industrial center
* Industrial park
* Logistic city
* Airport and aviation city

A Tourism and Leisure Center

This center will enhance Al cities’ attractiveness and draw tourists throughout the year to undeveloped parts of the Mediterranean edge. It will include:

* Resort hotels
* Maritime museum
* Entertainment
* Art city
* Institutional zone
* City center

It is also essential that the proposed program initially address the laws and policies so that appropriate legal drafting can be introduced to propose required changes to the relevant and applicable laws of the city to make the above aspirations to become a reality.

More Info

Noor City Development Corporation: http://www.ncdcme.com
Al Noor Cities Project: http://www.alnoorcities.com/

Amazing Building Constructions

Here are some pictures of amazing and particular constructions I found all over the net.

Burj Dubai, Highest Building in the World, Can See Iran from peak

Selasa, 05 Januari 2010

Although construction has not completed 100 percent, the world's tallest building, Burj Dubai, was inaugurated Tuesday (5 / 1) dawn of time Indonesia. With diresmikannya building 818 meters high, it is hoped international attention to the financial crisis that hit the United Arab Emirates could be replaced with the Burj Dubai.

Understand it, this building was recorded as the highest in the world, shifting the position of Taipei 101 building in Taiwan is high 'only' 509 meters. There is another CN Tower in Canada that has 555 meters high, but are not classified as buildings.

The fireworks display and light into the ceremonial inauguration of the construction of the building reached 1.5 billion U.S. dollars (USD 13.9 billion) this. Local media say, of 1,000 security personnel to secure the way down the building dedication. The day before the big event, janitors cleaning windows and floors of the building Burj Dubai.

Emaar, developer companies whose shares are largely controlled by the government expected international focus this time is the future potential of Dubai, rather than bring up mistakes of the past government, given the tarnished image of Dubai as the debt problem.

"The crisis came and went. This city continues to grow. We must keep moving because if you stop taking the decision, it will not be able to grow, "said Mohammed Alabbar, Director of Emaar Properties before the inauguration.

According to Alabbar, 90 percent of the building being sold is the combination of apartments, offices and other spaces.
"Burj Dubai is the new standard skyscrapers. The higher we build, it turns out we realized that we could build more than originally planned, "said Bill Baker, civil engineers and stylists building structure of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), a company that designed the building.
According to Baker, his department learned a lot from the construction of the Burj Dubai building this. In fact, he estimates could build as high as 1 km or even higher.

Building construction began in 2004, with all the financial problems in it. Burj Dubai has a design and construction of the latest technology. Structure of needle-shaped building with construction of concrete, steel and glass. This building consists of 160 floors with an area of 330,000 cubic meters. Burj Dubai building is equipped with 49 floors of offices, apartments and 1044 for the 57 elevator occupants. There are also hotels bearing the logo designer Giorgio Armani.

I was so high, Burj Dubai's spire can be seen from a distance of 100 km. Even from the 124th floor of a skyscraper that people can see the Iranian nation, the distance at 80 km from Dubai.

Burj Dubai has a Y-shaped design, which is the design architect Adrian Smith. Y shape is used to support the core structure of the tower, which has narrowed over height. At the top of the building has a steel structure with a large tower child. In the final stage of concrete must be raised to a height of 605 meters.

Although property prices in Dubai had dropped 50 percent last year, but brokers believe the property prices are offered at the Burj Dubai will not fall too drastically

5 Most Ugliest Bald Animals

Minggu, 03 Januari 2010

Like in humans, baldness can be seen in animals as well. Hair loss in animals can be because of a lot of reasons including hormonal imbalance. We may have seen bald cats where there a lot of spot on the cat which are bald. This can be because of stress and is called as alopecia. Hypothyroidism is found to be the cause in a lot of bald dogs.

Sometimes the balding is accompanied by itching and soreness and can be because of allergies as well. People have often noticed that their pet rats have gone bald in some areas. Usually the bald rat can be the doing of a cage-mate. If there are no other symptoms, you wont have to worry much about this.

Bald bears can be very ugly the baldness can be caused by a lot of agents including fur diseases. Unlike people, baldness in animals is not limited only to the head and usually spreads all over the body. There have been a lot of bald chimpanzees in zoos and the cause of baldness often goes unanswered. Even though these animals look ugly, they attract a lot of attention because of their unusual condition.

10 Strangest Contact Lenses

If you want something out of the ordinary when it comes to contact lenses then you might want to have a look at these special effect lenses, also known as crazy contacts or Halloween contact lenses, right from Hollywood plots. From a happy face to a soccer ball, see some of the craziest contact lenses ever worn.

Striking Back Hand Warts Dede 'Tree Man'

Dede (38) wart disease patients more commonly known as the human tree, which will again undergo surgical removal of warts on RSHS Bandung next month. Warts back in the hands of spread Dede.

"He said he wanted to rest first, tired back and forth, probably next month," said Chairman Tim Handling Dede, Rachmat Dinata, when contacted via phone, Sunday evening (3/12/2010).

Rachmat said, from the information it receives from Dede's family, warts are spread on the hands back Dede. However, Dede was able to perform daily activities.

"If that is in front of the chest and back is not spread, just at hand," he explained.

Dede who is a citizen Village Bunder RT 1 RW 06 Desa Tanjungjaya, Sub Cihampelas West Bandung regency, during the removal operation facilities provided free by the hospital.

"RSHS ready for it, for free. Enggak free of charge," said Rachmat.

According to the procedure before surgery, Dede will be observed for the preparation of the operation steps. Rachmat said it could not predict the thickness of the warts that attack Dede hand.

In February 2009, Dede Wart removal surgery a ninth. In operation, the doctors managed to raise 1.6 kg of warts that nest in the face, neck, chest, and diluting warts on both hands

"The goal is to reduce the remnants of warts and improve hand to function again," said Chief Surgeon Dr. Tim Hardisiswo time.

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