Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Peking dawned covering of yellow dust and with high contamination grade

As a surrealistic image dawned Peking this Saturday. Immersed in a dense cloud yellow color, the visibility diminished greatly and, although it did not cause accidents in the highways, it forced the use of masks the persons who risked to go out to the street.

The phenomenon happened when tons of sand of the deserts of the interior of China came with a thunderstorm that brought enormous dust quantities, about the midnight. The office of meteorology of Peking, there registered a maximum level of contamination, level 5, considered to be very dangerous for the human health for containing a particles concentration with thickness of more than 1.500 micrograms of granules for cubic meter.

Being this one of the worst thunderstorms that remember the places, few persons risked going out of his houses, and the parks and open spaces that are usually replete from early with citizens who practise martial arts, dances and all kinds of activities, they were today almost desert.

As he informed the Bureau of Environmental Protection, the thunderstorm that came to Peking with enormous quantities of dust and with direction to the southeast, it reached in the district of Changping, wind gusts of up to 100 kilometers per hour and covered also the provinces of Qinghai and Gansu, and the western Xinjiang region, before coming to the capital.

It is, not to doubt it, a different postcard of mysterious Peking.

Photo: Formless world


Thursday, March 18, 2010

All Nippon Airway offers in his flights exclusive baths for women

The men and women bath has always been a discussion topic and greatly more when of the bath of a plane ANN talks each other, that's why the company All Nippon Airway, has decided to install in his ships, baths only for women.

In order to do the most comfortable flight to the passengers, the exclusive baths for them will allow not to feel uncomfortable on having had to share the same wash-basins as the men who will be able to gain access to them only ‘in cases of urgency’ or when there are very few passengers.

The airline realizes international flights and of long trips to Dublin, Paris and Warsaw between one more dozen of other destinations and shortly it will put in validity this project in almost all the international routes except for some flights to Shanghai, Seoul, Peking, Qingdao (China) and Bombay.

The decision taken the air company, took place from the results of an opinion poll realized in 2007 that it revealed that 90 % of the women was considering to be a good idea the installation of a cleaning saved exclusively for them, especially in the trips of long duration. ‘We need baths only for women, since the men it make a disaster quite made’, he said one polled to what other answered ‘If baths offer for women, also they must put for men. They take one century’

The true thing is that according to the last survey realized by the searcher of cheap flights Skyscanner, one determined that the opinions are divided and between more than 900 interrogated persons, 46 % supported the initiative and asked all the airlines to do the same, while 51 % disapproved the idea.

Does it cover above or the lid below? the war of the sexes has begun, we will see how it ends.

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