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Can anybody stop China? Certainly not and now China has received another feather in its throne of marvellous civil engineering sector. After building the Three Gorges Dam and the Beijing National Stadium, it has now revealed its latest project the Hangzhou Bay Bridge.
This amazing 35 kilometre long bridge connects Shanghai on one side with Ningbo on the other. It is now considered as the longest trans-oceanic bridge in the whole world. Now the journey between the two municipalities has been reduced by more than 120 kilometres. It will give you an amazing experience of driving over the ocean.
Though this bridge has already opened, but you have to wait another year just to have a proper look at the bridge. The service centre complex, which is located midway between the bridge is still under construction and a result right now the motorists have no option to stop on the bridge. The Chinese Government has decided to develop this complex into a small town. Shops, bars, hotels, multiplexes will be developed for entertaining the motorists and guests. It is a great engineering, indeed.
Tags: Asia, Bridge, China, World's Longest
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It can be better lending instead of lending to all the entrepreneurs in developing countries, if a protected marketing mechanism can be developed for them. Could not get the point? Ok, let me elaborate. If the lenders have doubt about the repayment of their credit, surely they can do so to decide for not lending the money. After all, they should use their money as they want it to use. Let the industry associations or government or regulatory authorities fix a quota system that will be reserved for developing countries entrepreneurs. If in a market the total average transaction amounts in 1000$, then let some 250$ be exchanged from the developing countries entrepreneurs! This is better lending because it will ensure certain level of access to money generation for entrepreneurs and a continuous transaction in the accounting book, will let the financer to finance the enterprise owner.
If the protective market mechanism cannot work, then let us decide for promotional rating systems that will rate the competency of an enterprise, i.e.; the entrepreneur’s skills. Then the rating system can be used as a tool to induce credit-lending facility. Just like the rating we are receiving here, why do not we apply it to the entrepreneur’s skills and enterprise? There can be preconditions developed for credit lending that certain rating must be achieved before getting the credit. In addition, the rating authority will be in combination of the social interest group or beneficiaries.
If even the second option cannot be adopted then the third option need to be cooperative approach. Well, let me explain. Cooperative approach of the enterprising skills of the entrepreneurs let the beneficiaries be partner for mutual benefit and collective efforts! This will result in their greater business success and may they will not have to take any credit!
If these three mechanisms can be applied, then some dramatic changes will be notice! Truly speaking tries it. Who loves to take 100$ loan and repay 125$. Everybody knows money is in the market; only thing is how you make it yours. It is completely a bad idea to think that an entrepreneur would seek credit for his enterprise! An entrepreneur does not want to be satisfied with some 125$ for his 100$ deposits annually. He wants to make his 100$ to 150$ or more dollars annually. They think this way. Trust me!
Tags: Development, enterprise, entrepreneurship, SME
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Researchers have discovered that feeding children fish from a young age can drastically reduce the chance of eczema. Their studies have revealed that if you feed a baby fish within their first nine months, their chances of getting eczema are reduced by 24%.
Eczema affects one in five babies before they reach one year of age, and the numbers have been increasing in recent years. According to the Swedish study, it does not matter what kind of fish your baby gets fed, and it can be either oily or white fish. Research has also revealed that having a pet bird in the home will also decrease the chances of your child getting eczema.
Tags: baby, child, eat, eczema, feed, fish, reduce, risk, science
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Big Dog is the US Army’s latest attempt to take some of the weight off their soldiers. The massive 11 stone machine is designed to carry four bags full of equipment through terrain that is virtually impossible to pass by any other vehicle. (more…)
Tags: army, Big Dog, equipment, invention, robot, soliders, terrain, US
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The Sahara Forest Project is one of the latest exploration projects that could turn deserts into thriving patches of vegetation. The design will use sea water and solar power in order to grow food in greenhouses in desert areas. (more…)
Tags: desert, greenhouse, plant, power, project, Sahara Forest, sea water, solar, temperature, test, vegetation
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be invisible? Have you thought about all the things that you could get up to, and all the jokes that you cold play on people? Being invisible has long been a far fetched dream for many of us; something that we can wonder about but would never happen. But is invisibility so far-fetched, or is it a possibility that it just around the corner? Scientists have now developed two new materials that are able to bend light the wrong way, bringing us one step closer to invisibility. (more…)
Tags: cloak, invention, invisible, light, material, nano, refraction, science, scientist
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Ancient life has been discovered in Antarctica dating back fourteen million years. Fossils of plants and animals that lived on the continent before it froze over have been found in a miraculous discovery. (more…)
Tags: Antarctic, crustaceans, discovery, Dry Valley, fossils, global warming, moss, preserve
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The southwest of England has been suffering from a record high number of strandings of dolphins along the coast. Experts fear that the loss of any more bottlenose dolphins in the area could cause the end of them all together. Conservationists have worked hard to devise a system to help the dolphins avoid being prey to fishing nets and the plan will be implemented in the waters of Cornwall. (more…)
Tags: boats, conservationist, Cornwall, device, dolphins, England, high-tech, invention, nets, signal, stranding, trawlers
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Imagine walking past a newspaper stand and seeing one of the magazine covers moving and changing shape before your eyes? Would that not make you stop and buy the magazine? In keeping up with the modern world, Esquire Magazine is set to launch the first electronic cover on its magazine! (more…)
Tags: battery, cover, digital, electronic, Esquire, magazine, museum
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Radical animal rights activists have proposed making lab-grown meat on a large-scale production worldwide. They have offered one million dollars to the scientist who can come up with a way to grow edible animal tissue to stop cruel methods of killing animals for food. (more…)
Tags: animal, cruelty, edible, green, laboratory, meat, PETA, test-tube
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When the world changed into digital, things became much easier for photographers. All of a sudden you could look at your photos immediately after taking them and you no longer had to wait a week to get them developed! With digital cameras, you were given the option to keep or delete the photos, and you would know if you had a good shot as soon as you had clicked the button! Many of us have still got old negatives lying around, or old rolls of film that have been tucked away in the corner. With the new digital film scanner, you can convert all of your old negatives into digital photographs within seconds. This great new gadget makes it so easy to use up those old films and to get copies of your old negatives which you may have thought were obsolete. The best thing of all is that you no longer need to wait for days to get them developed! (more…)
Tags: digital, film, gadget, invention, negatives, quality, scanner
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The Floating Ecopolis or the Lilypad is a unique architectural phenomenon designed by architect Vincent Callebaut. With the rising sea levels occurring throughout the world, Callebaut has come up with the design of a floating city as a solution for people needing to get away from the extreme climatic conditions.
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Tags: architecture, design, Development, Ecopolis, future, Lilypad
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Researchers at the University of Leeds have invented a “virtually waterless” washing machine. This new machine will use less than 2% of the energy and water of the machines that we are currently using while removing stains just effectively.
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Tags: invention, Leeds, researchers, University, washing machine, waterless
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