Wednesday, December 30, 2009

China unveils 'world's fastest train link'

Test runs for the service began earlier in December and the link officially went into service when the first scheduled train left the eastern metropolis of Wuhan on Saturday.

By comparison, the average for high-speed trains in Japan was 243 kilometres per hour while in France it was 277 kilometres per hour, said Xu Fangliang, general engineer in charge of designing the link, according to Xinhua.

Beijing has an ambitious rail development programme aimed at increasing the national network from the current 86,000 kilometres to 120,000 kilometres, making it the most extensive rail system outside the United States.

China unveiled its first high-speed line at the time of the Beijing Olympics in 2008 -- a service linking the capital with the port city of Tianjin.
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China unveils 'world's fastest train link'


AFP – Chinese workers put the final touch on the interior of a new railway station in Wuhan, central China's …


BEIJING (AFP) –
China on Saturday unveiled what it billed as the fastest rail link in the world -- a train connecting the modern cities of Guangzhou and Wuhan at an average speed of 350 kilometres (217 miles) an hour.


The super-high-speed train reduces the 1,069 kilometre journey to a three hour ride and cuts the previous journey time by more than seven and a half hours, the official Xinhua news agency said.


Work on the project began in 2005 as part of plans to expand a high-speed network aimed at eventually linking Guangzhou, a business hub in southern China near Hong Kong, with the capital Beijing, Xinhua added.


"The train can go 394.2 kilometres per hour, it's the fastest train in operation in the world," Zhang Shuguang, head of the transport bureau at the railways ministry, told Xinhua.

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Friday, December 25, 2009

First Solar Powered stadium

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This futuristic looking stadium is the first in the world to provide all its own electricity using the power of the sun.

The horse shoe-shaped structure in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, has been built for the World Games which will take place in the city in July.

It is the first stadium to use only solar power technology for all its electricity.

First solar powered stadium
The gigantic 19 hectare structure which has a seating capacity of 55,000, will be used mostly for athletics and rugby events, including hosting the main events for the 2009 World Games.

After that, the Taiwanese national football team will play home matches there.

Japanese architect Toyo Ito designed the innovative steel rod structure with a roof covered in solar panels.

Toyo Ito's steel rod design

Its unusual semi-spiral shape is intended to imitate a dragon and provide a 'cordial welcome and a cheerful greeting' to athletes and spectators with its open-ended structure.

Solar powered World Games Stadium
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30 Unusual and Incredible Surreal Artworks

Surreal Art has now become a very familiar medium of art and it is growing continuously in its popularity because in this medium of art, artist has much more room to show his creativity and convey his feelings and way of thinking to his audience

30 Unusual and Incredible Surreal Artworks

a collection of the most meaningful and conceptually creative surreal artworks. Surreal Art has now become a very familiar medium of art and it is growing continuously in its popularity because in this medium of art, artist has much more room to show his creativity and convey his feelings and way of thinking to his audience.
Here is a collection of 30 very conceptual and momentous Surreal Artworks
Idee fixe

Time

The weakness of silence

The cage

I wasn’t born to suffer

Nostalgia

The Remnant

Hope

Brainwash

Every God Damn Thing

Linking Meditation

Linking Meditation

Life is about..

Stop time III

CONSCIENCE

Deepration

Hardware Psychoanalizing

Six Experts

Too Much Heaven

The dream

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Thursday, December 17, 2009

1,176 trees to offset Obama’s Air Force One Flight

...to Copenhagen
too bad we seem to be chopping down trees faster than planting em!
We'll soon have to pay nations to stop chopping trees down.
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Canadian company says it will plant 1,176 trees to offset the carbon emitted by Air Force One when it carries President Barack Obama to Copenhagen
Obama will travel 3,979 miles to Denmark
Air Force One will emit an estimated 196 tons of carbon on that trip
"By offsetting President Obama's carbon emission, we are setting a precedent for the global community,"
privately held company based in Saint John, New Brunswick -- specializes in offsetting carbon emissions. Among other things, it offers several packages to make personal Internet usage “carbon neutral.”
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Friday, December 11, 2009

baby pics -

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beautiful images of sleeping babies being cared for by Mother Nature.
Naomi Mawson baby photo
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Naomi Mawson baby photo
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Naomi Mawson baby photo
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Naomi Mawson baby photo
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Naomi Mawson baby photo
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Naomi Mawson baby photo
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Naomi Mawson baby photo
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Naomi Mawson baby photo
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Naomi Mawson baby photo
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