"Titli Chennai Express Song" Drum and Bass Remix

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The Beautiful and Majestic Statues__

The Beautiful and Majestic Statues Each country has its modern attractions and sights of antiquity, which are very popular and the love of locals and tourists. Usually this magnificent palaces, beautiful parks and plazas. Seldom has history buffs interested in travel and monuments. But there is a statue of the existence of which everyone should know.   1. Nearly 1.8 million tourists annually rise to the foot of a giant statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. It offers views of the city. (Magic Destination) 2. Easter Island in Chile are stone statues of compressed volcanic ash - moai. Who, when, and most importantly why did 887 monolithic stone sculptures in height from three to five meters high and weighing about ten tons is still a mystery. It is also interesting that almost all of the statues are looking inland. (Kachina Ma'an / Pellowah)   3. In the port city of Copenhagen (Denmark) is a statue of "Little Mermaid", dedicated to the main character of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. The small size of the monument (height of 1.25 meters and a weight of 175 pounds) did not prevent him to become the main attraction of the city and earn the love of tourists from all over the world. The opening of the monument took place in 1909 at the initiative of the son of the founder of the brewery «Carlsberg» Carl Jacobsen. (The Jawa Report) 4. In the interior of the mountain Linyunshan in a confluence of three rivers of China is a giant statue of Buddha. Statue of seventy one meter in height was built in 713 during the reign of the Tang Dynasty. The construction of the colossal monument took a long ninety years. Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Eric Finlayson / La Citadelle) 5. On a granite column in the center of Trafalgar Square in London is located five-meter image of the English Admiral Horatio Nelson. Forty-six-meter column in honor of the famous naval commander was built in the period from 1840 to 1843 years. It is said that Adolf Hitler had promised in the event of a successful capture of the UK to pick up a monument in Germany. (RedCoat) 6. On the banks of the Nile River in Egypt is the oldest monolithic monument - the Great Sphinx. Statue height of twenty meters and a height of seventy three carved out of a huge single block of limestone. It is designed as a lion lying on sand with a human face. When something between the front paws of a giant sanctuary was located. (Photo countries)   7. A symbol of New York City and the United States is often referred to as the Statue of Liberty, located on Liberty Island, three kilometers from the southern part of Manhattan, in New Jersey. It is noteworthy that the giant statue - it is a gift of French citizens to the centenary of the revolution in America.   8. On the border of the two districts of Bhaktapur and Nepali Kavrepalankok is one of the tallest statues of the world - a giant image of the god Shiva, created a few years ago from the metal and cement. Its height forty-four meters. (Kailashnath Mahadev Blog)   9. The most famous landmark of Brussels is the sculpture "Manneken Pis". The exact time and cause of the unusual monument is unknown. But there are two versions. According to the first - the monument is installed as a reminder of grimbergenskoy war. To encourage the warring citizens, with a small basket heir to the throne was ordered to hang on to a big tree, and the baby peed on the bottom of fighting men. The second legend tells of a little boy who kept his head and in a moment of danger put out a stream of urine ammunition laid out enemies under the walls of the city. (Pbrundel)   10. The most famous ancient Greek sculpture is located in the walls of the Louvre. Of course, it is known to many from the school armless statue of the goddess Aphrodite. It was supposedly created between 130 and 100 years before Christ. (Steve111/Panoramio)   __._,_.___   . __,_._,___

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Flying cars: Waiting in the wings or poised for takeoff?

Rob LovittNBC News contributor

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A Terrafugia Transition flying car prototype is seen in action in March of this year. The aircraft was on display this week at an air show in Oshkosh, Wis. “We wanted to demonstrate some of the technology and infrastructure that’s being deployed today that is actually making that Jetsons dream a reality,” said Carl Dietrich, Terrafugia's CEO and co-founder.

Look, up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… well, if you were in Oshkosh, Wis., this week, it just might have been a glimpse of the future as the Transition flying car took to the sky in its first public flight.

“It was a huge, huge milestone,” said Carl Dietrich, co-founder and CEO of Terrafugia Inc., the company behind the Transition. “We wanted to demonstrate some of the technology and infrastructure that’s being deployed today that is actually making that Jetsons dream a reality.”

During the demonstration, which took place at AirVenture, an annual gathering sponsored by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), the Transition clearly lived up to its name. After flying over the crowd, test pilot Phil Meteer landed, pushed a button to fold up the vehicle’s hinged wings and drove off.

And while the Transition lacked the Jetson car’s bubble-top design or seats for four (and a dog), Dietrich and others believe it’s a viable prototype that will eventually lead us down the road — or runway — to a future where flying cars are not a dream but a reality.

That dream, in fact, has been around as long as there have been both cars and airplanes.

“Aviation and automobiles came out at about the same time,” said EAA spokesman Dick Knapinski. “Ever since, people have dreamed about something that they could drive but instantly fly when they wanted to.”

Those dreams have taken a bewildering variety of shapes, ranging from winged motorcycles to rotor-powered hovercraft to cobbled-together contraptions that would give Flash Gordon pause. Most never got off the drawing board, let alone the ground, but perusing the 100-plus prototypes on RoadableTimes.com is a testimonial to the persistence of the vision.

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A ConVairCar Model 118 flying car, pictured during a test flight over California in 1947, was designed by Theodore P. Hall for the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Company of San Diego, California, but never went into production.

It’s not surprising that so few efforts have come to fruition, says Jake Schultz, a technical analyst at Boeing and the author of “A Drive in the Clouds: The Story of the Aerocar,” which tells the story of Moulton Taylor, who designed and built one of the few flying cars that actually flew back in the 1950s.

“The difficulty of the task is difficult for people to comprehend,” said Schultz. “Part of it is the physics and the engineering and part of it is the bureaucracies of finance, insurance and automotive and aviation regulations.”

None of which seems to stop people from trying. In addition to the Transition, there’s the PAL-V, a three-wheeled gyrocopter that made its first test flights in the Netherlands last year, and the Maverick, a dune buggy-like vehicle with a propeller and parafoil that was designed to take missionaries into regions where roads don’t go.

Dietrich’s vision is both less lofty and more expansive. As a pilot himself, his goal is to provide a solution to the problem of bad weather, which grounds small airplanes as much as 30 percent of the time.

“If you’re flying and the weather comes in, instead of turning around and going home or landing and waiting out the storm, you can land, fold up the wings in a minute and safely drive to your destination or another airport to take off again,” he said.

As such, the Transition is clearly a niche product designed more for pilots seeking a roadworthy vehicle than drivers hoping to fly. The $279,000 price tag and the requirement to earn a sport pilot license will also serve to limit its commercial appeal.

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With a price tag nearing $300,000, the Transition isn't for everyone ... yet.

Nevertheless, the company has already booked more than 100 orders, each with a $10,000 deposit. Pending certification from the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the company hopes to sell its first units in 2015 or 2016.

In the meantime, Dietrich is already thinking beyond the initial target market of delay-prone sport pilots. In May, the company unveiled its vision for the future, the TF-X, a four-passenger flying car that would use electric propulsion and tiltable rotors to facilitate vertical takeoffs and landings and eliminate the need for runways entirely.

“Within the next decade, we could have a vertical takeoff and landing, plug-in hybrid flying car that will land in an open space like a parking lot,” said Dietrich. “It would fit inside your garage and you wouldn’t have to go to airports at all.”

According to Dietrich, the incorporation of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technology would also mean the vehicles could be essentially driverless, eliminating the need for a pilot's license and minimizing the likelihood of operator-error accidents.

Whether that will actually happen in 10 years or 100 years or not at all will depend on a host of factors, including available technology, regulatory requirements, cost constraints and consumer acceptance. But for today’s aviation innovators, the only way to get to that future is to start working on it now.

“I love the fact that people are taking things that don’t exist, visualizing a possible future and then actively working on bringing it to reality,” said Schultz, who has some experience with the subject as a member of the team that turned Boeing’s Sonic Cruiser concept into the 787.

Likewise, “there will definitely be an evolutionary process” for flying cars, said Knapinski. “Will this or that product survive that process? Boy, if I could guess that, I’d make a lot of money consulting.”

$50,000-a-night 'floating' hotel room on Denver skyline

Keith Coffman, Reuters

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The $50,000 floating Denver hotel room - which has so far had no takers.

DENVER - If being a mile above sea level is not high enough for visitors to Denver, guests at one hotel can pay a cool $50,000 to get an additional 22-foot boost in an inflatable room hoisted into the downtown skyline.

Perched atop a mechanical scissor lift affixed to the roof of a van parked outside the Curtis Hotel in downtown Denver, "the world's only floating pop-up hotel" is a small but fully functional guest room, according to hotel promotional material.

The 5-foot-by-7-foot inflatable chamber - about the dimensions of an elevator - is the brainchild of New York-based artist Alex Schweder, who created the work for a local festival to promote the arts.

Made of clear vinyl with inflated walls like a bouncy room for kids, the chamber is furnished with a bed, chair, couch, and complete lavatory facilities. The couch and chair retract when the bed is deployed, similar to a pop-up book.

An aluminum railing around the room provides a measure of security lest a sleepwalker decide to take a midnight stroll.

The floating room concept is part of the Curtis Hotel's pop culture-themed lodging experience, said sales and marketing director Kate Thompson.

Other amenities included in the $50,000-per-night charge are limousine service, a Tiffany's diamond pendant and earring set, binoculars for viewing, and "groovy in-room" swag like 1960s-era scarves and bell-bottom pants.

Patrons can also host a disco party at the main hotel's '70s-style lounge. And guests who buy the package will be greeted at their hotel room by Sonny and Cher impersonators.

Although the quirky concept is creating a buzz in downtown Denver, so far no one has reserved the room, which will be available for another few weeks, Thompson said.

"We've had one serious phone call but no one has booked it yet," Thompson said.

An Arctic summer! Bears, bald eagles and having a whale of a time in sunny Alaska

To many minds, Alaska is wild, remote and impossibly cold.
True, for most of the eight long, dark months of the year, when dog sledging and the Northern Lights are the main reasons to visit.
But summer in America's largest - and only Arctic - state heralds a season of energy and adventure; of hiking, fishing, whale-watching, moose and bear-spotting, and some of the world's most scenically spectacular rail trips.

Great outdoors: Alaska is famed for its wide open space and Denali National Park certainly offers plenty of opportunities for solitude

This year, the journey to Alaska from the UK has been slashed to ten hours, with a new hop over the Pole from Reykjavik connecting with several UK airports. I arrive in Anchorage, the main city hunched between the snow-veined shoulders of the Chugach Mountains, which rise sharply from the fingers of Cook Inlet.
My hotel overlooks Lake Hood. There is a sense of awakening as people tinker with the float planes moored on the thawed water. With great swathes of Alaska unreachable by road year-round (you can't even drive between Anchorage and Juneau, the state capital), small planes are treated like buses and about one in 50 people has a pilot's licence. 

 

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Still, my first glimpses of 'the real Alaska' - which to Alaskans seems to mean anywhere beyond Anchorage - are from the train south to the ice-free port of Seward. With mountains and glaciers on all sides, and nothing but wild beyond, the track undulates along the shore of Turnagain Arm, the fjord named in frustration by Captain Cook in 1778 while searching for the Northwest Passage.

Chill out: Laid-back sea otters float in the waters and there are even chances to spot humpback whales and sea lions

With its sensational setting at the heart of the Kenai Mountains and the head of Resurrection Bay, Sewards's harbour is the gateway to wildlife cruises in Kenai Fjords National Park.
However, the vagaries of nature are the price for all this beauty, and the view from the deck of Alalik Voyager is of a ghostly seascape suddenly swirling with mist. 'A pair of sea otters swimming on their backs at 10 o'clock,' sings skipper Kerry from the bridge. Then 'bald eagle at three o'clock' and '...a huge herd of Steller sea lions on the rocks at nine o'clock'. Good thing we can all tell the time, especially when 'blow at one o'clock' announces the surfacing of a humpback whale with the girth of a Boeing.
More startling encounters awaited in Denali National Park. Another ride on the railroad took me inland to this vast tract of wilderness, which is bigger than Wales. The park is home to Mount McKinley (aka Denali, meaning 'the great one' in the native Athabascan language), the highest peak in North America. At 20,320 feet it dwarfs surrounding mountains and has its own weather system leaving it frequently shrouded in cloud.

Meet the locals: It's not unusual to see huge moose when you hike through Denali National Park

'Denali does not come to you, you have to go out and find Denali,' says park ranger Kris Fister as we set off to hike the Savage River Loop. She let off the occasional warning cry of 'hooee . . . yo-yo-yo!' explaining: 'I have been a ranger here for 11 years and believe me, the last thing you want to do is surprise a bear.'
No bears. But we do chance on a huge moose cow moving slowly through cottonwood and alder, and some powerful caribou bulls bending their antlers to drink. On one side of the trail is the rattling river, milky and bluish on account of its glacial origins; on the other, steep mountainside with arc-horned wild Dall sheep perched on rocky ledges. We pause at a glade next to a long beaver dam at the edge of Horseshoe Lake.
From here we have a clear view up to sparkling glacial peaks. Kris points out to me some of the famous fangs, which I will skim on my glacier-landing flight the next day. Short of a week-long mountaineering expedition, the only way to get up there is by plane.

Take to the skies: Seaplanes are used like buses by the locals in Alaska