World's First Flying Hotel - Hotelicopter

Announcing the world’s first flying hotel! Welcome to The Hotelicopter. Experience the adrenaline rush of taking off and flying high in the largest helicopter ever produced.

The Hotelicopter features 18 luxuriously-appointed rooms for adrenaline junkies seeking a truly unique and memorable travel experience.

Each soundproofed room is equipped with a queen-sized bed, fine linens, a mini-bar, coffee machine, wireless internet access, and all the luxurious appointments you'd expect from a flying five star hotel. Room service is available one hour after liftoff and prior to landing." The Hotelicopter is due to fly maiden journey this summer(June 26th) with an undisclosed price..

According to the stories, the Hotelicopter is modelled on an old Soviet Mil V-12 helicopter and features 18 luxuriously-appointed soundproof rooms complete with queen sized beds, wireless Internet and room service.

As you might have guessed, the experience on board the Hotelicopter is far from your standard Motel 6. This gigantic flying Titanic machine features everything you would expect from a 5-star hotel—from private entertainment systems and room service to extras like spa treatments, yoga classes, gaming and a tea garden.

If you were wondering just how big and powerful this flying hotel really is, check out the specs:

* Dimensions Length: 42 m (137 ft)
* Height: 14m (45 ft)
* Maximum Takeoff Weight: 105850 kg (232,870 lb)
* Maximum speed: 255 km/h (137 kt) (158 miles/h)
* Cruising speed: 237 km/h (127 kt) (147 miles/h)
* Original Mi Range: 515 km (320 mi)
* Our augmented Mi Range - 1,030 km (640 mi)

 

 Obviously, only the affluent need apply—but anyone that is interested can head on over to the Hotelicopter website to get more info about setting up a reservation. 

Most expensive coffee in the world is made from animal poop - Kopi Luwak

 Good coffee is for many a life-elixir, already its aroma has a stimulating effect on us. Not surprisingly that a good coffee brand, for example Blue de Brazil or Peruvian Gold from South America has its price. One variety of coffee however, is special due to its taste, its method of production and the relatively low amounts that can be generated because of that, and its price: From the isles of Indonesia, to be precise from Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi, comes the coffee brand Kopi Luwak. Only 230 kilogram per year of this coffee are produced, which explains the price of about 700 US$/kg or US$50/- per cup

 The secret of the taste of Kopi Luwak: Palm civets act as biofermenters. They eat the coffee beans and excrete them undigested. 

The palm civet as biofermenter

The palm civet paradoxurus lives on the isles of Indonesia. Since one of its preferred habits is to climb up the coffee trees in order to eat the especially ripe coffee beans, the palm civet was considered first as a pest for the crop and therefore as a plague for the locals who live from coffee. The palm civet however, cannot digest the coffee beans and excretes them more or less unchanged. The so processed beans could be easily collected from the ground. After peeling away the outer shell and roasting the inner nucleus it was realized that enzymes in the digestive system of the palm civet must have changed the taste of the beans in a unique way. Apparently, certain bitter tasting ingredients were extracted from the beans, and also certain proteins contained in them might have been degraded by proteases in the digestive tract of the palm civet

 

The taste of Kopi Luwak

You have read correctly: the most expensive coffee beans in the world goes from the coffee tree first through the digestive system of the palm civet and only then to the roastery. But connoisseurs of Kopi Luwak are raving: The coffee has a unique full aroma with a sirup like chocolade taste. Since for the production of Kopi Luwak the elaborate collaboration of the cibet cats is necessary and the actual manufacturing process does not agree with everyone's taste, researches currently try to imitate the fermentation process in the laboratory. It is hoped that one could use bacteria present in milk - a technique that is already in use as the so-called wet process for some varieties of coffee. If this would be successful, Kopi Luwak certainly would become available much more broadly to a considerably reduced price, on the other hand the world would loose a unique manufacturing process for a coffee

If I were to ask you: what is the most exotic thing you have ever had? What would your answer be?

 

 

Meet the cat  & Beans :)

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Religion is the opium of the masses

He was rich, he was powerful, he was influential and he was addicted.

He was the president of the trust which owned one of the most influential temples in his location. The temple was so popular that it drew crowds even from the neighbouring states. Naturally, when there is such a high foot fall, there is bound to be good commerce in and around the temple. And he controlled that commerce.

He was not born rich or influential. He was the son of one of the priests of the temple. As was the custom, be too became the priest in the same temple. He had a certain charm and style of saying the prayers. There was a lot of life in his ways. This was noticed by the temple authorities and he was asked to chant the prayers during important and special occasions as the collections were generally higher when he conducted the sessions. People were mesmerised by his skills and were happy to donate considerable amounts.

His administrative skills were also not un-noticed. He made sure that the queue moved faster and special prayers were started on time and ended on time too. People liked the punctuality he introduced. He interacted well with both the temple staff and the devotees. He understood their concerns and often took steps to rectify them, as far as was possible in his capacity. These small gestures made him the favourite of the devotees as well as the temple staff. After a point of time, he was even considered lucky and was requested to preside over many of the functions and important occasions of people. Especially people who were rich and influential. That enabled him to develop a lot of important connections. All this took so much of his time that he did not have any time to get settled in a family and have kids!

Eventually he was made the treasurer of the temple. This brought him in the direct contact of all the trust members and enabled him to have a clear view of all the money that was exchanged between various parties. He knew exactly how much money came in and where it all went. During his period, the collections to the temple increased tremendously and hence no one, including the members of the trust bothered to look into minor details of where a certain share of it was going to. He knew the loopholes of the system and the money flowed freely in to those loopholes. Rather, he was able to direct the money into them quite perfectly.

Once he started to make more money, he wanted even more. And then, a lot more. He was able to make any amount of money he wanted to, and he was still in the good books of the trust members as the donations and collections kept increasing as well. After a point of time, he had so much black money that he had to open an account with a Swiss Bank. After all, the income tax department could raid the houses of important people any time! And he did not want to part with his money in the form of taxes, to the Government. First, it was made illegally and second, why should he give the Government any money? What did the Government do to him anyway? He was a very hard negotiator, even for small amounts and never spent huge amounts of money on anything.

In due time, he became the President of the trust. He started to make so much money that he had no idea of even how many zero’s were there in the value he held in his Swiss Bank! He had so much money.

Now, in his death bed, he was only worried about one thing – What would happen to all the money once he passed away?

He realised just too late that he had been addicted so much to making more and more money that he never thought about spending it! All his happiness came from making more and more and more of money alone. Money, in his case, became a commodity rather than being the medium of exchange, that it normally is!

Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Money is the opium of the rich.