Turning Torso – The Twisted Skyscraper

Name of the building: Turning Torso

Location: Malmö

Country: Sweden

Designed by: Santiago Calatrava

Opened on: 27th August 2005

Height: 190 meters

Floors: 54

Space covered: 27,500 square meters

Used as: Residential and offices

URL: http://www.turningtorso.se/

5 quick facts about Turning Torso:

• Also known as HSB Turning Torso, it is the highest building in Sweden. The building is also the third highest residential building in Europe. The term “turning” doesn’t indicate any sort of movement, but its unique architecture.

• The idea of the building is very unique. It is made up of 9 cubes. Each of them has 5 stories. All these cubes are stacked one above the other and keep twisting from bottom to top. They are twisted as much as 90 degree from top to bottom.

• Although it was the first skyscraper in the world of its kind, but currently there are two buildings under-construction, that are being constructed as a twisted building. Infinity Tower of Dubai to be completed in October 2013 while Chicago Spire(owned by Calatrava) in Chicago is expected to complete in 2014.

• If the building is twisted, what about the elevators? Are they also twisting like the building? The answer is NO, the elevators rise straight from bottom to top.

• The building has apartments, offices, conference centers and almost all the major facilities. It is a private building so the tourists are not allowed to visit the building.

God of cricket turns 40......!!!! Happy b'day Sachin....

Icon, hero and celebrity: Sachin Tendulkar turns 40
Cricketnext Staff Cricketnext | 24-Apr 08:15 AM
After playing 198 Tests and 463 ODIs in which he scored 100 international centuries, Sachin Tendulkar woke up a quadragenarian on Wednesday, but still with the same eagerness to play and perform as he had when he made his debut as a 16-year-old in 1989.
Speculations remain rife about his retirement, as has been the case for the last five years, more so since he lived his dream of winning the World Cup for India two years ago.
From then to now, Tendulkar quit ODIs to keep his Test career afloat but the flow of runs hasn't been anywhere near the standards he set for himself. In 21 Tests since India won the World Cup in 2011, Tendulkar has scored just 1145 runs at an average of 31.80. But that and media reports about his fast-approaching retirement haven't diminished Tendulkar's zeal to perform. In fact, he has a piece of advice.
"Your job is to write, my job is to play. I will stick to my job and you stick to yours," he said during a promotional event last week, adding, "People have been talking about my retirement since 2005, but that does not worry me at all."
Fifty-one centuries in Tests and 49 in ODIs are part of Tendulkar's 34,273 international runs, but he's been far from the batsman who Don Bradman thought was closest to how he played. It's something that finds evidence in his struggle to reach 100 centuries, which took a year to come.
The last of Tendulkar's Test hundred came in January 2011 in South Africa, when he scored 146. But undaunted, Tendulkar has chosen to march on, probably looking at another visit to South Africa later this year, even as compatriots Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Sourav Ganguly and more recently Ricky Ponting opting to hang their boots.

Records broken by Gayle...........Awesome....!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chris Gayle sounded out a warning to Pune as Bangalore prepared to play their last of three consecutive home games at the M Chinnsawamy Stadium. 

While the hosts are placed on second spot, Pune are languishing in the bottom half, and hurting after a crushing defeat to Punjab despite the batting finally coming good. 
However, Gayle said Bangalore would not take things lightly and ensure that they take maximum points before embarking on a long phase of away games. 

This is the most brutal inning played by any batsmen. The jamaican smashed 100 of just 30 balls breaking the record for fastest hundred in T20 history. The big man just got the most sixes by any batsman in an t20 match by hitting 17 sixes.

He scored 175 of just 66 balls. Which is the most runs scored by an individual in a T20 game. He became the second man to score 150 in a t20 match.

The Records Broken by Gayle are:

• Highest score by an individual in a T20 match. (175* in 66 balls)
• Most sixes by an individual in a T20 match. (17 sixes)
• Fastest fifty by an player in a T20 match. (of just 17 balls)
• Fastest hundred by an individual in a T20 match. (of just 30 balls)
• Fastest 150 by an player in T20 match.
• Longest six of IPL history. (119 m)

He is probably the best T20 batsman in the world. He is a hard hitter. He can just do anything. He is simply the one of best cricketer in the history.

Gayle storm.....smash that record....!!!!

Gayle blew past the previous record of 37 balls set by Yusuf Pathan before the first strategic time-out, which was taken at the end of the ninth over.

Chris Gayle left a trail of shattered bowlers on his way to the fastest 100 in IPL history. BCCI by Tariq Engineer 33 mins ago
        
Chris Gayle shattered the record for the fastest 100 in the IPL and the fastest 100 in T20 history with a six that flew out of the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. It was carnage on a grand scale as Gayle raced to three figures in just 30 balls, having smashed 11 sixes, most of them straight and over long-on, and eight fours.

The previous IPL record was owned by Yusuf Pathan, who bludgeoned a 100 from just 37 balls back when he played for Rajasthan Royals, but Gayle blew past that mark before the first strategic time-out, which was taken at the end of the ninth over.

He actually began sedately, scoring just a single from his first three deliveries. That has been his pattern this season, to take his time before flexing his hitting muscles. It was poor Ishwar Pandey who got Gayle up and running. Playing in his first game this season - and now possibly his last - Pandey started with two wide deliveries outside off that Gayle smacked for four. A no-ball and a free hit led to two more fours and by the end of the over, Gayle had 21 from 10 balls.

Mitchell Marsh was the next to suffer - in an over that was briefly the most expensive this season. Gayle went 6, 6, 4, 0, 6, 6, the last of which brought a burst of laughter from Virat Kohli sitting in the dugout. It was clean, powerful hitting from a man who has become synonymous with T20 cricket, and whom crowds the world over flock to see for this very reason.

Gayle's first 50 took just 17 balls but it turns out he was just getting warmed up. Pune Warriors brought on the left-arm spin of Ali Murtaza in desperation, but that was just more meat and drink to Gayle, who plundered 17 from the over. For reasons best known to him, Aaron Finch decided to bowl his own left-arm spin despite Gayle's assault on Murtaza. The result was devastatingly predictable.

The first ball Gayle faced in the over disappeared over deep midwicket; the second over nearly carried onto the roof over long-on. The third just went for four back over....

Place where 2 sea meet but don't mix......!!!!

Is there a place where two oceans meet but do not mix? A genuine photograph was shown and the message is a fact. The photograph was taken by Kent Smith, an Alaskan Cruise photographer and he shared it to Flickr. The news spread out rapidly on social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, etc.
The photograph shows that foam is formed between the two different bodies of water meeting in the middle of Alaskan Gulf. It appears as if the two oceans are colliding rather than mixing. It is said that the foam was the result of the melting glacier that is composed of fresh water. The ocean water has a higher percentage of salt. These caused the two bodies of water to have different densities. Because of the salinity and density differences, a thin wall was produced which does not allow the two different bodies of water to merge. This explains why the two different bodies of water did not mix. But given enough time, they will eventually mix together.

The said photograph was taken last year. The photographer was sitting on the deck for quite some time when he noticed something that seems to be a shadow of the clouds about five miles from the ship. As the ship approaches the shadow, he realized that it was something different. The photographer took many shots but he did not posted any of them until a year after the said image went viral

Intresting facts.....!!!!!

1
It is physically impossible for pigs to look to the sky

2
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants

3
The sheep do not drink water in motion

4
The cockroach can live nine days without its head before starving

5
You can make a cow up stairs but not the lower

6
The ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

7
The animal is more sleepy Koala, sleeps 22 hours a day

8
Camels hold up to 10 days without water but when there can drink over 106 liters in one sitting

9
Ants do not sleep

10
A mosquito can "smell" of their human blood meal from a distance of 50 kilometers

11
The giraffe is the only mammal that has no vocal cords, so it is completely silent

12
Animals can not sleep on their backs, only man and dog

13
Brain size of a crocodile is equal to the thumb of a person

14
The sailfish is undoubtedly the fastest fish in the sea that cuts short distances and can reach a speed of 110 km / h

15
In Bucharest, there are 4 rats per person eat each year 450 000 tons of rice, enough to feed 3 million people

16
The most experienced horse so far have reached 64 years

17
The sexual aggression male bullfrog is such that pairs with everything that moves

18
The stronger material created by nature is the spider web

19
The giraffe sleeps only 7 minutes per day and makes it stand

20
The mosquito has 47 teeth and the 9280 catfish has

LIFE.....!!!!!

Life is not a matter of mile stones, but of moments.