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Mmalaysian court sentenced an industrial climber Alain Robert (Alain Robert), better known by the nickname "Spider-Man", to a fine of two thousand ringgit (567 dollars) for illegal entry into the building of Petronas Towers. This Wednesday, September 2, reported Agence France-Presse. On Tuesday morning, Robert managed without the use of special equipment and insurance to get on one of the twin towers of the Petronas Towers, a height of 451 meters. Later he was arrested and taken to the police station, where he was held pending trial. In court, Robert explained his conduct "passion" of mountaineering. Alain Robert climbed in my life more than 80 different buildings. Almost always he was arrested, but mostly no charges "Spider-Man" did not show. The highest building in Malaysia's Petronas Towers, Robert managed to win only the third time - in 1997 and 2007 his attempts to close by the end of the ascent interrupted by police.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that because of improved economic and financial situation in some of the measures taken by the U.S. government is no longer necessary, transmits Associated Press.

This statement he made during a speech in front of the Control panel of the U.S. Congress, which is responsible for oversight of the effectiveness of spending on federal anti-crisis program assistance.

According to T. Geithner, the country is still much to do until the "true economic recovery will happen, but the improved situation with the situation of banks and other financial institutions have led to" the government begins to slowly turn off a program of financial support. " "The financial system shows very strong signals of recovery," he said.

Recall bailout plan proposed by the administration of President Barack Obama and supported by the Senate and the U.S. Congress would allocate 787 billion dollars to provide financial assistance to American industry.

Administration Barack Obama is considering a new economic program as a key step towards restoring the U.S. economy, which is already more than half is in a recession, experiencing the worst crisis since the Great Depression. In 2008. U.S. economy has lost 2.6 million jobs. Barack Obama hopes that his economic program will create up to 4 million new jobs. In addition, the White House plan assumes an increase of unemployment, reconstruction of transport infrastructure, investment in new technologies, including alternative energy.

Congress Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that plans to increase the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan do not find support in Congress, transmits Associated Press.

According to her, "I do not see that in the Congress or the country in general, the idea of sending more troops to Afghanistan, enjoyed popularity.

According to analysts, this position means that a bill by Obama to increase the number of U.S. troops in the country is not supported by the U.S. Congress, which puts the president in a very awkward position, since the idea of a speedy victory over the militants, the Taliban, by increasing military U.S. forces and allies has been a key element of his election platform.

In Afghanistan, are now 56 thousand U.S. military and 32 thousand allied soldiers from 41 states. The U.S. administration has decided to increase the American contingent to 68 thousand people.

Last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the military situation in Afghanistan deteriorates. According to him, in the near future will become clear how effective were the measures taken in respect of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the administration of Barack Obama.

Due to bad weather landing of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery delayed, transmits Associated Press.

NASA experts decided not to send a shuttle to the strip at Cape Canaveral launch site, as in this area now is torrential rain and strong wind blows.

At the command MCC shuttle while in orbit, he has time for two more attempts at landing in the main landing site, and if the weather does not improve, the Discovery sits on the back lane - Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Recall, Discovery was launched from Baikonur on August 28 in Cape Canaveral, sht.Florida. The spacecraft is delivered to the ISS cargo module Leonardo with different equipment. In addition, astronaut Nicole Stott was replaced by his colleague on the ISS, American Tim Koper, who was at the station from 15 July.

James Mason (James May) - Designer Lego fan since childhood. This Englishman was the author and implementer impressive and really original idea -- construction of this house only blocks from Lego. The creation of this house took the 272 types of parts Lego, while at the two-storey house in the end it took about 816 million pieces of bricks of the well-known brands.

Lubna al-Hussein had faced 40 lashes for wearing pants deemed too tight and a blouse considered too sheer. The threat of lashes was dropped when a court found her guilty but ordered instead that she pay a fine.

"She is now in jail," her attorney Nabil Adib told CNN. "She refused to pay the fine as a matter of principal."

Al-Hussein will appeal her verdict in an effort to have the conservative Muslim government's decency law declared unconstitutional, Adib said by phone from Khartoum.
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House Apartments dancing (Dancing apartment) in the near future will be built in South Korea. Authorship of the project in the spirit of modernism, which are alien to the foundations of classical architecture, belongs to Yang Yoonu Guyot (Yoon Gyoo Jang). According to him, the idea of designing the house, visited him while watching the movie «Transformers» Michael Bay. The image of the house came from an architect as a reflection of three-dimensional robotic machines, only in the real world.



But the house is interesting not only for its design, although it is certainly unusual and new. Yoon and Guillot Young cared about the comfort of future tenants: the project includes many open terraces, which, like a carpet, spreading grass and trees grow.
To make this oasis was possible in the large city, an architect turned the house into a sort of vertical «alpine hills», moving the «S-shaped» line the wall of the future of the skyscraper. Yoon Young Guyot your project immediately and tried to improve neighborly relations. The fact that the architectural feature of this building allows the tenants settle in accordance with their hobbies. The architect believes that this division «interest» would avoid unnecessary conflicts and help to establish good neighborly relations.
It is assumed that «Dancing House», primarily to attract creative people, therefore, were designed music studios, assembly halls for exhibitions of paintings, installations, sculptures and photographs, as well as a stage for theatrical performances and speeches by the talented residents of the building, because it is the people create ultimately, the one non-transferable atmosphere in which the house will prance!









source - Freshome