World's Most Powerful Electric Car - Mercedes SLS AMG

The new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive is the most powerful electric car in the world. We suggest you learn about it in more detail and enjoy this beautiful pictures.

Recently presented at the Paris Motor Show 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive is currently the most powerful of the produced electric car in the world. Now this is an impressive sedan SLS AMG with electric drive is in fact available to order the most expensive Mercedes car with a price of $ 538.000, which is more than two and a half times more expensive than SLS.

In addition to its dramatic appearance in the style of the liquid metal is blue and the corresponding insides. This SLS Power can reach speeds of 100 kilometers per hour in 3.9 seconds and a top speed of 155 miles per hour.

Four electric motors, one for each wheel is powered by a lithium-ion battery and produce 740 horsepower thanks to a special type of transmission of torque to each wheel individually. Each of the wheels can separate braking, depending on road conditions.

COOLANT battery is inserted in the same place where the fuel tank is usually located SLS AMG. It consists of 864 units in 12 separate modules, and developed the system in the unit Mercedes-Benz AMG in the UK. It worked the same experts that create a kinetic energy recovery system (Kinetic Energy Recovery System KERS) to Formula 1 cars. Battery performance is working with advanced temperature monitoring system that controls the cooling and air conditioning in the event of overheating.

A full charge from a standard 230-volt network takes 20 hours, but the bundle includes a quick charger to 22 kW, with which charging can be completed in 3 hours. As in the model for Formula 1, the battery is charged by regenerative braking.

This electric car will go on sale in the German market in the next year. 

Kuwait’s Golden Jubilee Fireworks Enters Guinness World Records

  November 10, 2012 marked the golden jubilee of Kuwait’s constitution and the country celebrated it with a spectacular $15-million fireworks display which earned the wealthy Gulf state a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.  Tens of thousands of Kuwaitis and expatriates filled the seaside Arabian Gulf Road to watch the dazzling display of colors and light that saw a staggering 77,282 fireworks launched over a period of one hour. The visual presentation marked 50 years to the day since the late emir Sheikh Abdullah al-Salem al-Sabah announced that Kuwait had become the first Arab state in the Gulf to issue a constitution and have a parliament. 

 

During the past 50 years, parliament was dissolved nine times, six of them since mid-2006, while some articles of the constitution itself were frozen twice to suspend parliament for a total of 11 years in the 1970s and 1980s.

The celebration came as the government and opposition are locked in one of the worst showdowns in the OPEC member's history, amid accusations by the opposition that the government has staged a coup against the constitution.

More than 150 people and 24 policemen were slightly hurt during three massive demonstrations held by the opposition to protest against the amendment of the electoral law ordered by the emir last month.

The opposition claims the amendment is in breach of the constitution and allows the government to influence the outcome of parliamentary polls slated for December 1.

World's Most Expensive Scrabble Board

Building up your vocabulary by playing interesting words-games is a useful way to employ fun, excitement and learning all together. Scrabble Game has been one of the most essential games, played all across the world, with letters available in several different languages, besides English. There are special Scrabble competitions held, not just within families to compete tough, but within schools and even nationally and internationally.

Now, Scrabble board has gone high-tech with Mind Sports International giving its own innovative touch to the word-game. For the company's new festival being held in Prague from December 1 to 4, the company has introduced a Hi Tech Scrabble board that has been built with RFID chips in each tile. This helps in detecting where each letter is placed and transmit data online immediately.

It consists of sophisticated tracking technology and all 100 letter tiles have a unique RFID tag. There are nine circuit boards connected to 225 RFID antennas. All of this technologizing of the Scrabble board has cost Mind Sports International a considerable amount of £20,000 (about US$31,800). All this much money must be worth something in its delivery too. Thus, the price tag along makes it the world's most expensive Scrabble board ever.

Also, it might not get any customers in the market place, the idea is not for the whole sale, but to test how much technology can support a brilliant mind sport game. It will surely attract the online viewers that the tournament is looking forward to. And those who are already fans of Scrabble will be delighted to see their favorite game get an upgrade.

Beautiful Turnip Rock Photos - North America

Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. Geologically, it comprises the larger portion of Lake Michigan-Huron. It is bounded on the east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the west by the state of Michigan in the United States.
Lake Huron is the second largest of the Great Lakes, with a surface area of 59,596 km2 making it the third largest fresh water lake on earth. It contains a volume of 3,540 km3, and a shoreline length of 3,827 m. 

Like the other Great Lakes, it was formed by melting ice as the continental glaciers retreated toward the end of the last ice age. Before this, Lake Huron was a low-lying depression through which flowed the now-buried Laurentian and Huronian Rivers; the lake bed was criss-crossed by a large network of tributaries to these ancient waterways, with many of the old channels still evident on bathymetric maps.

Photos Of Stunning Patterend Landscapes - Must See

The Aerial Photography of Christoph Gielen looks almost like wallpaper patterns or embroidery on cloth.


 

 Christoph Gielen was born in Bonn, Germany, but has lived in New York most of his life. He specializes in conducting photographic aerial studies of infrastructure in its relation to land use, exploring the intersection of art and environmental politics. With his work, Gielen hopes to trigger a reevaluation of our built environment, to ask: What kind of development can be considered sustainable? 

Diwali Rangoli Designs

Rangoli is the popular floor art of India. It is an auspicious art of decorating courtyards and prayer halls in India drawn mainly by women and girls. Rangoli is a popular art form among Indian woman. Rangoli are painted on the ground in front of houses using rice powder; sometimes supplemented by flower petals and other colorful materials. Some women use rice flour to draw a rangoli which is the traditional medium to be used while others use sandstone or limestone powder. The designs are then colored with various colored powdered dyes. Although this floor-art is known as Rangoli commonly in many parts of India, it is known as Kolam in Tamil Nadu, Muggulu in Andhra pradesh, Rangavalli in Karnataka, Poovidal or Pookalam in Kerala, Chowkpurana in Uttar Pradesh, Madana in Rajasthan, Aripana in Bihar and Alpana in Bengal.During Diwali, Goddess Lakshmi is believed to visit homes that are well lit, so families decorate their homes.

People wear their best clothes or buy new ones, children are given presents and new year greeting are exchanged through visits or Diwali cards. Thus, a Rangoli design is created on doorsteps to welcome everybody. Rangoli exudes a pattern in color that are specific for each region.

The colorful kolam tradition dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization (2500 B.C). Kolams were often drawn with coarse rice flour since it served as a food source to nature’s creatures like ants and crows. Rice flour is seen as an offering to Lakshmi, the goddess of rice and wealth. The goddess has the power to attract prosperity and to prevent poverty from entering the home. In this category you’ll find all kinds of small and big kolam designs which are further categorized for various occasions.

Decoration Ideas

 There are myriad ways to add to the overall appeal of rangoli. The designs of rangoli are created by a combination of different colors. It could be decorated either by colored powders or by colored pastes such as painting colors. You can enhance the beauty of your rangoli pattern by adding some decorative pieces to it, such as the lighted diyas, colorful flower petals and leaves, colored rice grains, colorful pulses, and colored sand. You may place a diya at the center of the rangoli. 

 Designs 

 Originated from Maharashtra, the art of rangoli is popular all over the country and therefore, different designs of rangoli have come into existence. 

The rangoli designs for Diwali have been passed on from one generation to the other, some of them being as old as hundred years. Although the designs vary largely, in different regions of India, the basic approach of the people is common – to please Goddess Lakshmi, so that she enters the home and brings in health, wealth and prosperity. Generally, the rangoli designs are geometrical shapes, proportioned in a balanced way. Geometrical figures such as circles, triangles, squares, ovals and rectangles dominate. Apart from geometrical figures, images of flowers, their petals, trees and creepers are also drawn. 

 Themes 

 The common rangoli themes are the holy symbols like mangal kalash, leaves of Ashoka tree, Om, Swastik symbol, a lighted Deepak, Shree, lotus and other flowers, creepers, trees, rising sun, moon, stars, chakra, fish, birds, elephants, dancing figures, trident, human figures and geometrical figures such as circles, semi-circles, curves, triangles, squares, ovals and rectangles. The footsteps of Goddess Lakshmi entering into the home are designed at the main entrance of the home or near the place of worship, which indicates the entrance of prosperity in the home.

World's Youngest Tattoo Artist

Ruby Dickinson is the World's Youngest Tattoo Artist, at age 3 she is already a tattoo artist. Ruby gets her tattoo skills from her dad, Blane Dickinson who owns a tattoo shop. Currently she practices with a toy kit, but for her 4th birthday she'll get the real deal and tattoo her father.

The First McDonald's

The business began in 1940, with a restaurant opened by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald at 1398 North E Street at West 14th Street in San Bernardino, California. Their introduction of the "Speedee Service System" in 1948 furthered the principles of the modern fast-food restaurant that the White Castle hamburger chain had already put into practice more than two decades earlier. The original mascot of McDonald's was a man with a chef's hat on top of a hamburger shaped head whose name was "Speedee". Speedee was eventually replaced with Ronald McDonald by 1967 when the company first filed a U.S. trademark on a clown shaped man having puffed out costume legs.

McDonald's first filed for a U.S. trademark on the name "McDonald's" on May 4, 1961, with the description "Drive-In Restaurant Services", which continues to be renewed through the end of December 2009. In the same year, on September 13, 1961, the company filed a logo trademark on an overlapping, double arched "M" symbol. The overlapping double arched "M" symbol logo was temporarily disfavored by September 6, 1962, when a trademark was filed for a single arch, shaped over many of the early McDonald's restaurants in the early years. Although the "Golden Arches" appeared in various forms, the present form as a letter "M" did not appear until November 18, 1968, when the company applied for a U.S. trademark.

The present corporation dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois, on April 15, 1955, the ninth McDonald's restaurant overall. Kroc later purchased the McDonald brothers' equity in the company and led its worldwide expansion, and the company became listed on the public stock markets in 1965. Kroc was also noted for aggressive business practices, compelling the McDonald brothers to leave the fast food industry. 

The McDonald brothers and Kroc feuded over control of the business, as documented in both Kroc's autobiography and in the McDonald brothers' autobiography. The San Bernardino store was demolished in 1976 (or 1971, according to Juan Pollo) and the site was sold to the Juan Pollo restaurant chain. It now serves as headquarters for the Juan Pollo chain, as well as a McDonald's and Route 66 museum. With the expansion of McDonald's into many international markets, the company has become a symbol of globalization and the spread of the American way of life. Its prominence has also made it a frequent topic of public debates about obesity, corporate ethics and consumer responsibility. Wiki