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14 April, 2007 | No comments

Heat in the Western Europe

Temperature anomalies are more often disturbing us, reminding of global warming. Weather reports became number 1 news in the Europe. Germans and Belgians had no time to forget about the abnormally warm winter as these weekend Europeans had to change clothes urgently in summer clothes.
The heat has suddenly come to the Western Europe. This year the beach season has unusually early opened here. The column of the thermometer in Germany, Belgium and even the Great Britain rises to a mark of plus thirty.
The only way out is to replace warm coats with swimming trunks and to go swimming. This dream of all children has unexpectedly become the reality in Germany. The wave of the African heat has reached the Western Europe these weekends. The unusually warm weather has brought corrective amendments into the week-end plans of millions inhabitants of the Old World.
The temperature, meanwhile, beats one record behind another. In France and Switzerland air has got already warmed up to plus 25 degrees. Weather forecasters promise, that in the nearest future, the temperature will reach the mark plus 30 degrees and even hotter. Now, the same weather is fixed only in tropical resorts of South Asia. The role of palm trees and sand beaches in the Europe is played by concrete quays and park lawns. It is practically impossible to find any empty seat there.
The beach season has opened even in the Great Britain. It is quite early to swim in the sea, but thousand inhabitants of Foggy Albion have gathered to sunbathe at native English   coast.

11 April, 2007 | No comments

The museum of counterfeit goods in Germany

Recently, the first-ever museum of the forged goods has been opened in Solingen (Germany). In an exposition near to Original Armani jeans are skillfully adjoining to its counterfeited copy. The price of these “false Armani” jeans and sunglasses are really fantastic- just 20 and 10 euros accordingly.
The idea of creation of a museum of commodity fakes was born thirty years ago, when the well-known German industrial designer Rido Busse has visited fair in Frankfurt. The stand of a certain firm from Hong Kong, producing post carriages, has driven Rido’s attention. One of these carriages was the exact copy of those one, which Rido Busse had invented and had patented some years prior to this fair. Busse was deeply shocked with such rude plagiarism. After the fair, Busse has started to collect such fakes and to struggle with any forms of falsification.
This year Busse has realized the idea - has opened a museum “Plagiarius” on the basis of his own collection of industrial plagiarism. Busse has explained that the counterfeited goods (in the overwhelming majority) are made of materials more poor quality and museum’s exhibits - the original and a fake - are located by a number with each other, at one stand. It is practically impossible to distinguish the original from plagiarism. The largest part of the fakes, represented in a museum, is from the countries of East Asia. Manufacture of forged production causes the economy of Germany damage in tens billions euro annually. Finally, this leads to loss of 50 thousand workplaces.
Now, about 250 exhibits are presented in the museum. Clothes, footwear, home appliances, electronics are among the exponents. Fakes are not only the world brands, but these are also absolutely inexpensive marks, which are on sale in cheap German supermarkets. Even the experts hardly can distinguish a copy from the original.
 

8 April, 2007 | No comments

Chocolate festival in Belgium

Confectioners from Belgium “have modeled” the biggest chocolate swan in the world. The huge sculpture executed from white and black chocolate, reaches two meters in height, and it weight is about 2,2 tons.
The chocolate swan is established in the Belgian city Brugge on the occasion of carrying out the second festival of chocolate products here.
More than hundred confectioners represent their sweet creations. Especially for children they have equipped chocolate village, where it is possible not only to familiarize, but also to participate during manufacture of chocolate sweets.
 

5 April, 2007 | No comments

“The City of Women” will be created in China

China is continuing to surprise world society with high rates of economic grows, innovations and recently one more wonder has been offered to public opinion. The city, completely devoted to women will be constructed in one of the Chinese areas. Men, who will be allowed to enter the territory of this city, should obey orders of the wives or girlfriends and to carry out their any whims. The one, who will break this rule, will be punished without the right to the appeal - he will compel to wash dishes at local restaurants.
“The City of Women” will be considered not as the administrative region, but as a sight for tourists. Though the slogans of city also will “Women are always right”, it will not have anything common with feminism.
The idea of the city completely operated by women has been borrowed from the well-known Chinese reference - “Monkeys’ King”. The project has already been approved by the local government, and it will be carried out in current two years.
 

4 April, 2007 | No comments

Automatic metro in Paris

Parisian international Charles de Gaulle airport has offered automatic metro on which it will be possible to reach from one terminal to another one.
The new metro will replace buses. As local mass-media service informs, it will connect five stops - three terminals and two parkings. The average speed of new transport will make 70 kilometers per hour. The trip from the first up to terminal station will last for eight minutes. By the bus the same distance could be overcome for 25 minutes.
The movement of trains of the metro operates automatically.
The metro is calculated on transportation of 30 thousand passengers a day and it will be free-of-charge.
Construction of the metro is a part of the plan on increase in throughput of the airport. Its operation will approximately cost eight-ten millions euro a year.
 

4 April, 2007 | No comments

Astronomical trips

According to The Times newspaper’s research, people, wishing to see a full solar eclipse, which will occur on August, 1st, 2008, have already started to buy the so-called astronomical trips, offered by many western travel agencies.
In spite of the fact that the eclipse will last only for two minutes, travelers are ready to pay from $2000 for a three-day trip to Novosibirsk, the Chinese city Urumqi or to the Mongolian mountains Gurvansaikhan - the best points for the observance of the unique astronomical phenomenon.
Solar eclipse will start in the north of Canada and will pass through Arctic Ocean up to Altai, the western Mongolia and northwest China. During the trip the tourists will be accompanied by the astronomers, who will tell about the nature of an eclipse.

 

1 April, 2007 | No comments

Kinnietherapy

The interest to a new sparing technique of treatment of the most different diseases which is on a joint of homeopathy and traditional medicine has gained great popularity on Malta. The matter is that the group of the British researchers, studied various food stuffs with the purpose of revealing of their medicinal properties, have revealed unusual features of Kinnie - aerated water of local manufacture, favorite non-alcohol drink of Malteses. Within six years Kinnie has been tested on volunteers, who have been obliged to drink not less than liter of this drink a day and to fix changes of the state of health.
It is known, that the structure of confidential Kinnie’s recipe includes a bouquet of spicy grasses. Their combination has absolutely casually appeared curative, and the regular use of a drink well helps at the headaches, raised sweating, water-fear, and removes drowsiness. Scientists managed to prove, that constant use of Kinnie promotes significant improvement of a condition of patients with a prostatitis, fatigue and erectile dysfunction. Besides, the next stage of the clinical researches, devoted to influence Kinnie on treatment of more serious diseases, will be soon finished. It has already become clear that the list of diagnoses which can be eliminated by means of Kinnie will be very long. The information on new salutary properties of Kinnie has appeared the British press, and public interest to this theme is constantly growing. Malta has already started to receive the first kinnie-tourists - in England Kinnie is absent on free sale, and it is imported only for needs of researchers, and on Malta it can be bought in unlimited quantities.
Now Maltese Ministry of Health together with the British doctors has developed the project of opening of the first Maltese clinic of kinnietherapy. Progressive character of a technique does not assume indispensable stay at the hospital: patients can live in hotels surrounding clinic (on a regular basis) to visit a kursaal, and in the rest of the time - to enjoy pleasant pastime on Malta. The standard medical course of kinnietherapy requires approximately three-four weeks.
 

31 March, 2007 | No comments

New type of tourists

“Marathon” tourism becomes more popular in the world. Some people participate in marathon running not so much for the sake of sports, but for the sake of an opportunity to visit new places.
It is worth of mentioning that the number of the people who are taking part marathons and, so, the potential tourists, has grown almost on third during the last decade. The organization of these actions favorably affects a urban economics. As it has become known during one weekend of large marathons in Boston, Chicago, New York and Honolulu the city can receive more than 100 million dollars.
During a marathon in Los Angeles all hotel rooms in city on March, 4th have been reserved. The set of large running is spent outside the USA - in London, Rome and in more exotic places - in Kenya, China or in Mexica. Even less scale marathon running bring millions to city hotels and restaurants.
Marathon-travelers are usually regarded as a top-middle class and spend significant sums of money during the trips. Approximately a half of marathon-travelers take friends or spouses with them.

29 March, 2007 | No comments

Hotel of the future: Egyptian pyramids on the water

Modern world became so vain and restless, that it became practically impossible to find the pacified corner. Therefore some people prefer to move on serene surface of the ocean. In the distance from crowds of people and iniquitous electronic machines - such life is chosen by those whose opportunities are the widest.
The floating island, yacht-house, the plane-boat - at fans of a “sea” life have already got their certain choice. But in the nearest future one more “house on the water” - the Egyptian pyramids - hotel will appear.
Oceanic-Creations Swiss Company has declared about the beginning of construction of the whole series of commercial and residential buildings from new composite materials. The casino, shopping centers, offices, factories and even student’s hostels - all this should appear in the nearest future and will exclusively function on a water table. Well for now the most expected project of this company - hotel Maya Hotel- is to represent the floating Egyptian pyramid.
As it has become known the budget of this project - 209 million dollars and the hotel will be built up to 2010. The hotel in Caribbean Sea in the south of Cancun Mexico (will) resort will be settled down. Owing to full isolation, the hotel will be protected from sever frosts, the scorching sun, and in any climate it will be possible to enjoy all convenience which, undoubtedly, will be offered at room-numbers. Night clubs, disco centers and a lot of other institutions, which can be visited both by the clients of the hotel, and ordinary people from street will be settled down inside the complex.
Maya Hotel is only one of many other the water hotels, planned by Oceanic-Creations company. All of these hotels will be settled down in ports of resort cities, where construction of usual hotel is impossible because of absence of territory. Hotels will be also provided with parking which will be either inside of a building, or on a mooring. These will be 5-stars hotels, and their architectural registration will be very specific and nonconventional. It is necessary to wait only till 2010 when it will be possible to have the unforgettable rest in a modern variant of the Egyptian pharaohs’ apartments.

 

 

26 March, 2007 | No comments

Underwater hotel in China

The government of China has started the implementation of the program on utilization of developed and flooded opencasts. As it has already become known, hotel complex in province Songjiang (near to Shanghai) is to become the pilot underwater project.
The idea of Atkins Company, which has won the international tender for development of the half-flooded opencast and adjoining territory, provides the construction of the 4 floor complex. Two top floors of the complex would look as tower on a surface, and two bottom ones, including inhabited room-numbers and restaurant, are to be under the water. Lodgers should not consider through windows of hotel muddy waters opencast - the water will please with the cleanliness, and the huge aquarium will be built near to hotel.
The complex will have 400 room-numbers. Each room-number can brag of unusual underwater windows with a kind on the fantastic alive underwater world - an aquarium, or a magnificent panorama of the surrounding nature accessible to lodgers of the top floors.
The facade of the basic building of the hotel, made of glass and steel, will be decorated with waterfalls. The infrastructure of a complex will have all necessary for rest and business meetings, including a conference hall for 1000 people. The idea of environment protection became a basis not only for unusual design of the buildings, entered into a landscape, but also, for a technical stuffing - a part of the electric power, necessary for hotel,  will be gained from solar sources.

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