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Pista de Fórmula-1 na vertical

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:30:44 GMT

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Pista de Fórmula-1 na vertical

megalomania - e o dinheiro - desses árabes parece não ter fim.

E até o automobilismo é pretexto para inventar um novo prédio mirabolante.

Como a Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower, uma torre curvilínea “inspirada pela disposição geométrica de um floco de neve e pela aerodinâmica de um Fórmula 1”, que será construída... em Dubia, óbvio.

O projeto é do mesmo escritório de arquitetura responsável pela obra do Cubo d’Água, em Pequim.

O design, garantem os responsáveis, permitirá um processo de construção fácil e um uso eficiente de energia, além de fazer com que o prédio mude de visual durante o dia (por meio de barbatanas refletivas).

Depois de Dubai, a edificação será replicada em outras seis outras cidades pelo mundo.

Ten Tallest Buildings in the World

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:42:28 GMT

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Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan – 1671 ft (509 m) 101 Floors

Shanghai World Financial Center – 1614 ft (492 m) 101 Floors

Petronas Twin Towers – 1483 ft (452 m) 88 Floors

The Sears Tower – 1451 ft (452 m) 108 Floors

Jin Mao Tower – 1380 ft (421 m) 88 Floors

Two International Finance Center (IFC) – 1362 ft (415 m) 88 Floors

CITIC Plaza – 1283 ft (391 m) 80 Floors

Shun Hing Square – 1260 ft (382 m) 69 Floors

Empire State Building – 1250 ft (381 m) – 102 Floors

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Burj Dubai, Dubai, The United Arab Emirates (167 Stories)

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), is the official body that determines which buildings fall under the ‘The World’s Tallest Building’ category. It ranks the height of buildings, based on the height to the architectural top of the building, highest occupied floor, top of the roof or the tip of the building.

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Dubai builds the world's tallest tower (again)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:10:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Over one kilometer tall. Would you want to live on the top floor?

Clip Source: www.theroadtothehorizon.org

Currently, the world's tallest structure is the soon to be finished the Burj Dubai, which is rumoured to stand at 818 meters. Today, Dubai revealed its successor, the Nakheel Tower, to be "over one kilometre" high and have more than 200 floors.

Tags: dubai, emirates, uae, building, tallest tower, records, world records, middle east

New plans for world's tallest building unveiled in Dubai

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:57:57 GMT

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New plans for world's tallest building unveiled in Dubai

Plans to construct what could become the world's tallest building, at more than a kilometre high, have been unveiled.

Last Updated: 2:39AM BST 06 Oct 2008

The Dubai developer Nakheel – the company that created man-made islands in the shapes of a palm tree and the world – said the structure would be the centre-piece of an inner-city harbour planned as the emirate's unofficial capital.

It would not comment on the exact height or cost of the Islamic design-inspired Nakheel Tower. The building will have "more than 200 floors" and be part of "a multi-billion pound development", the company said.

The tower and harbour project will take more than 10 years to complete. Apart from the landmark structure, there will be another 40 towers, ranging in height from 20 floors to 90 floors. The entire development will be home to more than 55,000 people and a workplace for more than 45,000.

Tags: tech

Invisibility cloaks could take sting out of tsunamis

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:34:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "I think that this is a great idea with much potential," says Ulf Leonhardt at the University of St Andrews, UK. "One could really imagine protecting coastlines by arrays of cleverly designed concrete poles."

Such structures act like metamaterials, materials whose properties result from their structure not composition, and can be used to make invisibility cloaks for light, he says.

But Guenneau cautions that large structures like islands and coastlines are unlikely to become invisible anytime soon, because building the many small islands needed to protect one is such a big job.

"It's crazy – maybe only people in Dubai could do this," he adds, referring to the spectacular artificial islands built there.

Smaller structures such as offshore oil platforms would be easier to protect, he says.

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Invisibility cloaks that are able to steer light around two dimensional objects have become reality in the last few years. But the first real-world application of the theories that made them possible could be in hiding vulnerable coastlines and offshore platforms from destructive tsunamis.

The first working invisibility cloak, built in 2006, guided microwaves around a small, flat copper ring as if it wasn't there.

By October 2007, a device repeated the trick for harder-to-handle visible light, and some progress is reported on the yet more complex task of making cloaks to hide 3D objects

Now Stefan Enoch at the Fresnel Institute in Marseille, France, says that established cloaking principles could be applied to ocean waves, which are essentially two-dimensional.

Such techniques could be used to render vulnerable coastlines or offshore platforms invisible to damaging waves, he says.

Tags: tsunami, wave physics, invisibility

Top 10: Outrageous Dubai Construction Projects

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:15:10 GMT

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No.10 - Hydropolis

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No.9 - Burj Dubai

This skyscraper is currently the tallest man-made structure on the face of the planet.

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No.8 - Dubai Sports City

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No.7 - Dubailand

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No.6 - Burj Al Alam

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No.5 - Al Maktoum International Airport

Take the largest commuter airport in the world, combine it with the largest freight hub in the world, and then triple it.

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No.4 - Falconcity of Wonders

They've decided to make replicas of the Seven Wonders of the World and throw in landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa for good measure.

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No.3 - Mall of Arabia

The Mall of Arabia will have 10,000,000 square feet of leasable shop space, surpassing the previous title holder for Largest Mall in the World.

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No.2 - Business Bay

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No.1 - The World Islands

Global warming may drown Florida and most coastlines

Dubai's answer? Build its own islands rising out of an ever-rising sea. The World Islands make up the only man-made archipelago, consisting of 300 islands. You can own the last one for $250 million.

Tags: architecture, dubai, urban design

UAE to impose life ban on employment of fake degree holders

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:35:37 GMT

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Dubai, Oct 1 (PTI) The UAE will impose a life ban on the employment of those found to be using fake certificates in order to secure jobs in the country, its ministry of labour has said.

The contract would stand cancelled if the employee's documents are found to be forged," The Khaleej Times quoted a source in the ministry as saying.

"To provide fake documents is a misdemeanour which could lead to penalties, including fines ranging between Dh500 (USD 136) to Dh20,000 (USD 5,446) and/or prison terms ranging from 24 hours to three years," a legal advisor told the newspaper adding that the company can also file a compensation suit against the employee who causes damage to the firm.

Dollar-Friendly Destinations 2008

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:03:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: These ten high-value destinations are every bit as chic and luxurious as their highfalutin counterparts, but they'll make your greenbacks fly a lot further.

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The place: Little Corn Island, Nicaragua

It's a poor man's: Costa Rica

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The place: Buenos Aires

It's a poor man's: Barcelona

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The place: Portugal

It's a poor man's: Italy

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The place: Santa Ynez Valley, California

It's a poor man's: Napa

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The place: Jordan

It's a poor man's: Dubai

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The place: Barbados

It's a poor man's: Hawaii

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The Place: Hoi An, Vietnam

It's a poor man's: Phuket

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The place: Warsaw, Poland

It's a poor man's: Prague

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The place: Tunisia

It's a poor man's: Morocco

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The place: Isle Holbox, Mexico

It's a poor man's: Anguilla

Tags: travel

Burj Dubai tower - bloody high

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:01:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Photos taken in August 2008 by David Hobcote from a bell helicopter.

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Tallest Skyscraper in the World Almost Completed, Defies Belief

The Burj Dubai tower, the tallest skyscraper in the world, is about to be completed. To celebrate it, David Hobcote has taken a series of amazing high resolution pictures from the air which give an exact impression of the breathtaking, massive scale of this building. Inside, it looks like a set from Blade Runner or the interior of the Death Star.

Atlantis Pub, Dubai

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:45:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not a pool table to be seen.

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7days

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:31:38 GMT

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	Time to move on Rental costs forcing people to head home People caught out by a new ruling that bans the sharing of villas in Dubai have told 7DAYS they may have to quit the UAE altogether. Tenants are frantically searching for homes after Dubai Municipality ordered them to vacate their villas within a month, citing health and safety reasons....

Fantasic Dubai

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:14:38 GMT

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CIQ - Standard Aero

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:59:06 GMT

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Standard Aero Ltd.

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Standard Aero Ltd. provides maintenance, repair, and overhaul services to aerospace, defense, and energy industries. The company provides gas turbine engine and accessory repair, and overhaul services. It also offers energy and turbine maintenance solutions for industrial gas turbines and power packages for energy, oil and gas, and marine applications. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Winnipeg, Canada. Standard Aero Ltd. has locations in Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia. As of August 1, 2007, Standard Aero Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise.

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Palin's American Exception

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:25:58 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Sarah Palin loves the word “exceptional.”

But exceptionalism has taken an ugly twist of late. It’s become the angry refuge of the America that wants to deny the real state of the world.

Behind Palinism lies anger. It’s been growing as America’s relative decline has become more manifest in falling incomes, imploding markets, massive debt and rising new centers of wealth and power from Shanghai to Dubai.

Enough is enough.

If I were Obama, I’d put it this way: “Senator McCain, the world you claim to understand is the world of yesterday. A new century demands new thinking. Our country cannot be made fundamentally secure by a man who thought our economy was fundamentally sound.”

To persist with a philosophy grounded in America’s separateness, rather than its connectedness, would be devastating at a time when the country faces two wars, a financial collapse unseen since 1929, commodity inflation, a huge transfer of resources to the Middle East, and the imperative to develop new sources of energy.

Japanese dolphin drive hunts and the dolphin captivity industry

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:21:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The dolphin captivity industry, by purchasing dolphins from the drive hunts, are maintaining the drive hunts by keeping them economically viable. Both Japanese and Western dolphin trainers can be seen in these videos, so it's not merely a local thing to Japan.

Since the early to mid 1990s, SeaWorld has no longer purchased dolphins from the Japanese drive hunts for good PR, and has turned to a breeding program. However, there are now plans to build a new SeaWorld in Dubai, UAE. How do they plan to procure enough animals to open this new park? I very much doubt that the breeding program that SeaWorld maintains would sufficiently produce enough animals to stuff into a whole new park with a whole new Shamu show, and their other animals such as bottlenose dolphins? Especially with the high mortality rate in their parks as it is, with another Orca dying unexpectedly in one of the SeaWorld parks just recently.

So how would they do it? Without the restrictions imposed on SeaWorld in the

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To all those who believe that the dolphin captivity industry (eg. SeaWorld) truly loves dolphins and other cetaceans:

What the dolphin captivity industry has told you about their "love" for dolphins is a lie. A cold, bitter lie told to the public for good PR. The truth is that the dolphin captivity and display industry cares jack squat about the dolphins they keep in captivity.

Have you ever stopped to pause and think how the dolphinariums procure dolphins from the wild to display to the public? If not, I'll tell you the hard truth. There is a town in Japan called Taiji. Taiji is known for its dolphin drive hunts every year where hundreds or even thousands of dolphins are caught and slaughtered from the waters around the town's bay, and their meat sold to Japanese supermarkets.

Distressing and concerning, but what does it have to do with the Western dolphin captivity industry you might say?

Watch these two videos:

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