Dubai plans 'moving' skyscraper - generating power from wind to sustain the whole building

Dubai plans 'moving' skyscraper

The Dynamic Tower will constantly change its shape

The world's first moving building, an 80-storey tower with revolving floors giving a shifting shape, will be built in Dubai, its architect says.

The Dynamic Tower design is made up of 80 pre-fabricated apartments which will spin independently of one another.

"It's the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape," said architect David Fisher, who is Italian, at a news conference in New York.

"This building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime," he added.

The 420-metre (1,378-foot) building's apartments would spin a full 360 degrees, at voice command, around a central column by means of 79 giant power-generating wind turbines located between each floor.

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Computer animation of David Fisher's 'Dynamic Tower'

The slender building would be energy self-sufficient as the turbines would produce enough electricity to power the entire building and even feed extra power back into the grid, said the Italian architect at the unveiling of the project in New York.

The apartments, which will take between one and three hours to make a complete rotation, will cost from $3.7m to $36m.

There are also plans to build a similar, 70-storey skyscraper in Moscow.

"I call these buildings designed by time, shaped by life," said the Florence-based architect, who has never built a sky-scraper before.

"These buildings will open our vision all around, to a new life."

The skyscraper will cost an estimated $700m to build and should be up and running in Dubai in 2010.

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source: bbc.co.uk

BEST & Most Awe Inspiring video I ever watched on YouTube!

Lim Goh Tong passed away today , may he rest in peace

Lim Goh TongThe founder of Genting Berhad, Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong passed away at 11.20 am Tuesday at the Subang Jaya Medical Center (SJMC). A great man, entrepreneur Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong came to Malaysia from China with high hopes.

The fifth child in a family of seven children, Lim migrated from China’s Fujian province in 1937 at the age of 19. Although with a US$175 capital, he still managed to climb his way up the hill facing all the obstacles and challenges to build the great Genting in Malaysia which is standing tall till today.

The tycoon, who turned 90 this April started this brilliant idea of Genting when he was working on a hydro electric power project in Cameron Highlands in 1964 where mostly British colonials were working at the project. They were looking for a place which were cooling far from the tropical hear. Lim came out with an idea and implemented Genting as a mountain holiday resort.

Although my blog is all about sports but I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong for making the impossible possible! May you rest in peace Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong.

Genting

Genting Highlands, a cooling holiday resort in Malaysia

Can You Handle It Monthly Challenge : Advice on Men and Women

SHOPPING MATH

A man will pay $20 for a $10 item he needs.
A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn't need.
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GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
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HAPPINESS

To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
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LONGEVITY

Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
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PROPENSITY TO CHANGE

A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
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DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE

A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
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HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BUGGING YOU ABOUT GETTING MARRIED

Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

One Of The Best Marketing Strategies Ever ! :)

Just had to share this with you...

One of the best marketing strategies ever:

Father: I want you to marry a girl of my choice.
Son: "I will choose my own bride!"
Father: "But the girl is Bill Gates' daughter."
Son: "Well, in that case - ok"

Next: Father approaches Bill Gates.
Father: "I have a husband for your daughter."
Bill Gates: "But my daughter is too young to marry!"
Father: "But this young man is a vice-president of the World Bank."
Bill Gates: "Ah, in that case - ok"

Finally Father goes to see the president of the World Bank.
Father: "I have a young man to be recommended as a vice-president."
President: "But I already have more vice- presidents than I need!"
Father: "But this young man is Bill Gates's son-in-law."
President: "Ah, in that case - ok"

Moral: Even if you have nothing, you can make things happen.
That is very true my friend...

Now take a few seconds to see what you can do for yourself today to make things better ....

LIFE QUOTE

Something to think about....


There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second

richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very

interesting aspects of his life:


1. He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he
started

too late!

2. He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering

newspapers.

3. He still lives in the same small 3-bedroom house in mid-town Omaha,

that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has

everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a

fence.

4. He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or
security

people around him.

5. He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world's largest

private jet company.

6. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies.

He writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these companies,

giving them goals

for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis.

He has given his CEO's only two rules. Rule number 1: do not lose any

of your share holder's money. Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number
1.

7. He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time

after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch
Television.



8. Bill Gates, the world's richest man met him for the first time only

5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with

Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But

when Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates

became a devotee of Warren Buffet.

9. Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his

desk.



His advice to young people: "Stay away from credit cards and invest in

yourself and

Remember:

A. Money doesn't create man but it is the man who created money.

B. Live your life as simple as you are.

C. Don't do what others say, just listen them, but do what you feel

good.

D. Don't go on brand name; just wear those things in which u feel

comfortable.

E. Don't waste your money on unnecessary things; just spend on them
who

really in need rather.

F. After all it's your life then why give chance to others to rule our

life."