Mall In Dubai

The Dubai Mall - A place like no other. A new day, a new dawn. From the wind swept sands, a new legend rises. A mall of epic proportions that is named The Dubai Mall.

. The Dubai Mall is the region's premier shopping, lifestyle and entertainment destination. With more than 1,200 stores and a host of world-class attractions, The Dubai Mall is revolutionizing the modern shopping experience.
With an impressive array of leisure pursuits, this is the ultimate, cutting-edge shopping experience. A range of adventure sports vies for attention alongside the romance of ice-skating. The Dubai Mall is a place where outdoor brunch can be followed by the delights of the big screen and where a 21st century gold souk is set off against a world class aquarium. When was the last time your sortie to the designer stores took place under the watchful eye of a giant sea turtle? Step inside The Dubai Mall and experience a place like no other.

From the timeless tranquility of the desert to the lively bustle of the souk, Dubai offers a kaleidoscope of attractions for visitors. In a single day, the tourist can experience everything from rugged mountains and awe-inspiring sand dunes to sandy beaches and lush green parks, from dusty villages to luxurious residential districts and from ancient houses with wind towers to ultra-modern shopping malls. Now a new activity has been added to create one of the most captivating contrast: Skiing in Dubai! YES SKIING; skiing on real snow.

Ski Dubai in Dubai Emirates Mall started in December 2005 is the worlds third largest indoor ski slope, measuring 400 meters and using 6000 tons of snow. Dubai skiing resort is the first Dubai indoor ski slope to open.A second indoors ski slope is the Dubai Sunny Mountain Ski Dome in Dubailand which is due to open in 2009. It will provide a great attraction, featuring a revolving ski slope, an artificial mountain range, an ice bridge, a cable lift, a snow maze, an ice slide, polar bears cold water-aquaria and special sound and light effects.

PODCASTING!!!!

GOOD POD CASTING TIPS

KEEP IT SHORT FROM 1-2 MINUTES

1)3 RULES TELL THE AUDIENCE UPFRONT WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO SAY ;]

2) SAY IT:(

3) TELL PEOPLE WHAT YOU SAID! ;)

The last attempt at a bridge designed to span the Strait of Gibraltar was a design by U.S. engineer T.Y.Lin in 1986 which would require three support pylons one mile high and footings that plunge to the sea bottom one half mile down underwater and then sink an additional quarter of a mile destroying the existing ecology of the sea bottom surrounding it significantly disturbing the marine environment of the area. Lin’s design was based on previous traditional bridge concepts and was similar to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco enlarged to five times its original size. Currently, the longest existing bridge is the Seto Ohashi Kojima bridge 13.22 kilometers long and built in 1988 for $8.3 billion dollars. It does not float

FREEDOM SHIP!!!!

M.S. Freedom Ship - A Floating City Ship concept put forward by Freedom Ship International.

The passenger ocean liner is, without question, the greatest of all man-made construction, especially as exhibited at the peak of its development from the 1930s onwards. They were as large then as any skyscraper or any of the world’s greatest railway stations. But unlike these edifices, locked to the earth, static upon their foundations, the passenger ocean liners, fitted with machinery as large as that of any power station, were powerful, mobile monuments of man’s engineering prowess. Cleaving the waves at anything up to 30 knots, they were the leviathans and monarchs of the oceans, and truly were floating cities.In the 19th and 20th century the ocean liner and their scheduled routes were a means of travel between countries. They enabled people for the first time to travel long distances between countries and continents on a regular basis. By the 1960s and 70s this role of the ocean liner had declined due to the advent of air travel. As a result in the late 20th century the ocean liner adapted for cruising and became the cruise liner. Now rather than being a means of travel cruise liners are a destination in themselves and have become floating resorts. In turn the ocean liner and cruise liners have sown the seed of the floating city concept. In the early 21st century we have seen the emergence of the first residential condominium ships. Thus marking the next stage in the continued evolution of the ocean passenger ship.

The ocean passenger liner has come a long way since the 19th century when its scheduled ocean services were a vital means of travel. In the 20th century the ocean liner evolved into the cruise liner and became a floating resort, and today in the early 21st century there is the new and exciting development of the residential condominium ship. We may yet be a long way from seeing the floating city ship concept becoming reality. But one thing is certain the ocean passenger ship that had its origins in the ocean liners of the 19th and 20th centuries will continue to evolve and doubtless there will be many more exciting developments in the future.

RoBoTs !!! :-)

USA Today is running a story about the emergence of robots in common aspects of life in Japan. Many simple yet social jobs are being filled by robots of increasing sophistication. The article suggests that Japanese culture is more open to such interaction than the majority of other cultures. Quoting: "For Japan, the robotics revolution is an imperative. With more than a fifth of the population 65 or older, the country is banking on robots to replenish the workforce and care for the elderly. The government estimates the industry could surge from about $5.2 billion in 2006 to $26 billion in 2010 and nearly $70 billion by 2025. Besides financial and technological power, the robot wave is favored by the Japanese mind-set as well. Robots have long been portrayed as friendly helpers in Japanese popular culture, a far cry from the often rebellious and violent machines that often inhabit Western science fiction."
source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/03/02/156229

SMART ARMOUR FOR SOLDIERS!!!

" The U.S. Army wants to turn G.I. Joes and Janes into superheroes right out of Hollywood. In the 1987 film Predator, Arnold Schwarzenegger played an Army commando battling an alien in a suit that rendered it invisible. The film got mixed reviews, but the Army hopes its so-called Future Warrior outfit will be a smash on the battlefield. "With a uniform like Predator's, our soldiers would really have a lopsided advantage," says Jean-Louis "Dutch" De Gay, a systems engineer at the Army's Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass." by http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_30/b3843083.htm

SPACE ELEVATOR :-)

Animated introduction presentation to space elevator (tether) concept envisioned by ISR. The Space Elevator, tethered to a platform in geosynchronous orbit, has been evaluated from a scientific and engineering perspective and determined to be feasible with existing and anticipated near-term technology. With the continued development of high-strength materials made from carbon nanotubes formed into composite threads, a space elevator could enhance the long-term sustainability of the NASA Space Exploration Vision. A space elevator system would provide a safe and inexpensive means of delivering a large mass of payload to earth orbit and to the Moon and Mars, and enable many new types of commercial ventures in space.