China: a ghost town built next to a nuclear power plant

The ghost towns are among the most fascinating stories Chinese that giant country, being seen, in other parts of the globe, with incredulity and astonishment. One of the newest cities built from scratch, in Huizhou, Southeast China, has as a neighbor one of many nuclear power plants in the country. The result? A new town â€" and even more deserted.

According to the international press, the venture has 22.5 square miles but ... no one wants to live there. For obvious reasons, by the way.

Called Dayawan, the venture is an hour from the largest city, Shenzhen. This is, in fact, the other argument that is moving away from the possible interested parties.

"Never buy a House there. Get quite scared at night, "explained Wen Lin. According to reports from journalists, only two of 2,328 apartments have lights on at night.

Those responsible for the venture will do anything possible to bring interested: downloaded the price of houses and even provide lunch for those who want to make a tour of the site. So far, however, without success.

See some of the photos of Dayawan â€" another housing complex Chinese completely empty.

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12 Portuguese citizens who have noble acts

The noble House of honored Citizenship for the second time, Portuguese citizens who have noble acts.

The awarded the distinction are sourced from various localities of the country and have been recognized for practicing "acts of altruism, to the benefit of any third party, absent of any personal interest, and that somehow reflect the character of those who practiced, as well as the integrity, honor and humanity", reads a statement issued by the noble House of citizenship.

The noble House of citizenship is a project to raise awareness of citizenship which is based on the premise of promoting individual example as civic improvement accelerator of the individual and society "and was created with the aim to identify, recognize and distinguish noble acts committed by citizens, paying them homage through honours"

The second Ceremony of Attribution of Praise ran on December 14 in Santarém. Find out about citizens who practised noble acts.

Afonso Eduardo-Alhos Vedros

In February 2000, he founded a social Center that, by the end of 2013, supported more than 400 needy families residing in the District of Setúbal and Vale da Amoreira.

Alexandre Moreira-Chamusca

Plunged into the Tagus River to save the life of a child of three years, that was being taken by the current in one afternoon of summer 2010.

António Martins-Algueirao

Intercepted with your own vehicle, the October 28, 2013, in Vila Verde, an uncontrolled vehicle coming down the street with a child inside.

Carlos Pinto-Tavira

In August 2011, founded the project "friends of Joy", which promotes social and cultural activities to users of home of Irene Foundation roll, contributing to "rejuvenate" who it benefits.

Elsa Caires â€" Lisboa

The Association's voluntary Conversation Friend managed, with persistence and dedication, help for a homeless person, having followed and watched the whole process of treatment through 2013.

Emídio Almeida-Santarém

There are 35 years saved a roof a family of five elements during the floods that ravaged the freguesia de s. Nicolau, in Santarém.

Hugo Martins â€" Lisbon

Conversation Association volunteer friend, helps homeless people in the greater Lisbon area, bringing them a message of hope and making sure you have access to basic health care.

Maria Fernanda Santos-Braga

Mentor of the project "Braga to the bone, Solidarity that moved the population of Braga to the importance of bone marrow donation to treat leukemia and lymphomas and which held awareness-raising and fundraising during 2012.

Maria Filomena Alves-Torre de Moncorvo

Supports more than 30 years, low-income households the Alferrarede food hampers, distributing and providing transportation to school to underprivileged children.

Maria Gomes-Santarém

Provided to a young better living conditions and a new reason to smile, to provide the Foundation for this could build a path his independent and with a future.

Mário Luis Mendes-Carnaxide

After several years of volunteering, founded in 2007 to his own youth association â€" TACE (Tread, Act, succeed, Evolve). Is the reflection of a man who despite the misfortune of life manages to give the best of themselves to the community that welcomed him, supporting and guiding young people to find new and better ways.

Raquel Gaspar-Lisbon

Participated in the April 7, 1999 on rescue operation of the life of a dolphin bottlenose dolphin of the Sado River, which got stuck in a narrow river.

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The most productive day of the week is Tuesday

If you want to monetize the most of your labour hours, concentrate on Tuesdays, since it is the most productive day of the week.

The conclusion is a study prepared by Accountemps and reinforces the same conclusion as has already been indicated in 1987, 1998, 2002 and 2007. In this year's study, most human resource managers claim (RH) that employees strive more and are more productive on Tuesdays.

About 39% of HR managers polled claim that employees of his companies are generally more productive on Tuesdays, while 24% pointed to Monday as the most productive day of the week. In 2007, approximately 57% of managers indicated that Tuesday was the workday more productive, referred to Quartz.

In contrast, the less productive days of the week are Thursday and Friday. This can be a very useful information for employers, as they tend to set deadlines and goals to keep production dynamics in the last days of the week.

In the case of employees, the best they have to do to increase productivity in the last days of the week is off of social networks and focus exclusively on tasks they have at hand, advises Kimberly Stiener-Murphy, Director of Accountermps. Stiener-Murphy also advised workers to concentrate on a project at a time, which is more productive than working in two or three at the same time.

Now that you know that Tuesday is the most productive day you can better organize your schedule for the week and schedule important meetings to this day.

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Sewers of London warn for possibility of clogging at Christmas

London families were advised by the city for not putting the remains of Christmas lunches and dinners down the drain, under penalty of the giant Fatberg-dirt masses that clog the drains â€" come back to haunt the city.

The Thames Water, which manages the London sewers, warned the families that the blockages in the sewer system can increase by 25% at this time of year, so the oils, leftover food and sauces should not be sent there.

"The biggest obstruction had to deal with was the size of nine double-decker buses in fat feed and baby wipes, under Leicester Square, in 2010. We had to get him out of there to pressure, and the smell is awful, "explained Danny Brackley, Deputy director of the sewers of London.

The Thames Water spent €14,2 million (US $ 45 million) a year to repair sewers due to phenomena such as the Fatberg.

"When the fat freezes, removes oxygen from the atmosphere, so we must be very careful not to be poisoned," said Brackley.

Actually, are consumers themselves to feel its bad practices in the skin. Who get fat feed into the sewers can see her climb the lids, near their homes, or even the toilet.

"Everyone must wait for the fat feed cool, put it in a container and recycles it," explained Brackley, which has been working for four years on Thames Water but it is continually impressed by the complexity and diversity of his work.

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Climate is shifting the North Pole for East

Climate change is causing the displacement of the North Pole, due to sudden changes in the Earth's rotation resulting from melting glaciers. The discovery suggests that monitoring the position of the polo can become a new tool to track global warming.

According to the sustainable planet, several computer simulations had already suggested that the melting of ice and the consequent sea level rise could affect the mass distribution of the Earth's surface. This, in turn, would lead to a shift of its axis, a fact confirmed by measurements of the positions of the poles.

Now, Jianli Chen, the University of Texas-Austin, and colleagues showed that the melting due to greenhouse gas emissions is also making its contribution to the phenomenon.

The oscillation of the axis of the planet is a combination of two main components, each with its own cause. One is called the Chandler wobble, and it is believed to happen because the earth not be rigid. Another is the annual oscillation related to orbit around the Sun.

Since observations began in 1899, the location of the North Pole has moved 10 cm towards the South per year, along the latitude 70 West. This is due to changes in the distribution of Earth's mass.

However, Chen's team found that, in 2005, this oscillation has undergone a change abruptly and started a movement to the East, which resulted in approximately 1.2 meters since then. This fact will be directly related to the rapid melting of the glaciers, observes the Newstrack India.

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Brazilian environmentalist tracks native species to reenter in the cities

Environmentalist Ricardo Cardim grew up in a typical apartment of São Paulo, between the concrete and asphalt of one of the largest cities in the world. Still, the sustainable planet, he fell in love with plants and their new project merges, exactly, these his two passions: the Green and the city

Ricardo tracks endangered species, like the Toucan-tongue, manacazinho-of-field or araçá, embaúba, angico-white, Palm-jussara and aroeira-pimenteira and reinsert them in the life of cities. "I'm fascinated by the species of Cerrado and Atlantic forest and, even then, I couldn't understand why the trees of São Paulo had nothing to do with what I studied and admired," says Ricardo Cardim to sustainable planet.

In 2007, Ricardo has created a blog that feeds until today, the Trees of São Paulo, where botanical curiosities history placed metropolis and tries to defend Brazilian biodiversity.

In 2009, when it was master at the University of São Paulo (USP), Ricardo decided to clean up and explore an abandoned area on campus. "I discovered there a living museum, a Cerrado remnant landscape, with bushes, fruit trees and rare flowers. I found this on another ground vegetation in Jaguaré ", stresses the responsible. Ricardo was after after State officials to get attention to the sites, such as conservation reserves.

The next step was to take the plants almost extinct, play them in nursery and applied in green roofs and walls of their sustainable landscaping company, Sky Garden. "It was the way I found to get my aim in practice: rescue our original plant diversity in urban centers" the next step is to open a shop to sell and propagate the value of these treasures.

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Bananas from Mozambique and Jordan hit by fungus that causes rotting

The fungus Fusarium Oxysporum f. SP. Cubense reached an important variety of bananas planted for export in Mozambique and Jordan, with scientists now fear that this will spread and the Cavendish variety, the most consumed in the world, is seriously threatened.

According to the Huffington Post, the fungus, which has been found in several plantations, cause evil-Panama, rotting bananas.

In the early 20th century, this fungus caused the first important losses in banana plantations, precisely, of Panama. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, on the other hand, he was decimating crops from around the planet. The variety Gros Michel, so predominant, succumbed to the fungus, until in the late 50 's found a variety that you resisted â€" Cavendish.

For many decades, scientists feared that this fungus, then confined to Asia and Australia, spreading around the world, endangering the Cavendish variety. "Given the current modes of travel, there are almost no significant doubts he will reach the largest harvests of Cavendish," said Randy Ploetz, plant pathologist, in 2008.

In his book Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, the author Dan Koeppel spoke with several researchers from the fruit, they told him it was only a matter of time before that bananas were destroyed by the fungus. "Just a little piece of contaminated land, literally, to see this thing in every continent," explained Koeppel.

The banana is the most consumed fruit in the world and, only in the tropics, is a staple food for more than 400 million people.

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