Some new important updates on airlines

Do you honestly think that you have already seen everything when it comes the time to update the rules on the airplanes? Well, I am sure that you will be amazed to discover that in the future you are going to need to pay if you want to go to the toilet... Below is another msnbc.com article telling you the whole story:

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DUBLIN - Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary insisted Thursday he's serious about making passengers pay for the right to relieve themselves on flights — and is flush with interest in the idea of mounting credit card-operated toilets.

O'Leary, whose Dublin-based airline has pioneered the practice of filling air travel with extra charges, divided opinion last week by suggesting that his next target would be coin-operated toilets. Aviation analysts and the traveling public alike couldn't tell whether O'Leary — a cut-throat operator with an entertainingly bombastic style — was poking fun at his own reputation.

The Ryanair boss told a dumfounded Dublin press conference Thursday the days of the unlocked potty are indeed numbered.

"Eventually it's going to happen. It's just we can't do it at the moment because we don't have a mechanism for charging you," he said.

O'Leary said he has asked engineers at U.S. aircraft maker Boeing — which supplies Ryanair's entire fleet of 737-800s — to design toilets with doors that open only if you swipe a valid credit card through the locking mechanism. He conceded that his earlier idea, to make them coin-operated, wouldn't work in part because Ryanair operates heavily in areas using both the euro and British pound.

"We have looked into this before, and the problem is Boeing can't come up with a mechanism on the toilet door to take coins," he said. "We're suggesting they go back and look at a mechanism where you'd swipe the credit card for a quid (British pound) on the toilet door. They've gone off to look at that. ... We are serious."

He didn't seek to soften the impression that Ryanair was happy to make its passengers suffer.

"Most people would go to the loo (toilet) before they get on the plane, or they hold it until they land. You would only have to deal with the people who absolutely have to go," he said.

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Buying some new dining room furniture

While traveling all around the world, I realized that it is extremely important that you always pay attention to the furniture that you have at home so that you can always identify yourelf with the furniture and decoration of your house so that you can impress your friends and show them a bit about your personality by allowing them to discover it by looking at the furniture that you buy.

Personally, I am looking for some new Bar Stools and also a new Round Dining Table because I tend to redecorate my house about three times a year, making it absolutely mandatory that I always do my best in order to find the best deals on Dining Room Furniture. Fortunately, I recently came across the website to which I have linked above and where we are all given the chance to buy the most beautiful and stylish furniture that you willl ever be able to find for your dining room while also taking full advantage of the most incredible prices that I have ever seen! What else could I really ask for? Below is a photo of the new bar stools that I will be buying soon:




So, if you have also decided to redecorate your new house or if you are willing to buy some new dining room furniture then you should definitely take soem of your time and visit the website above! I am sure that you will find something that you will love and for the best price ever…

Visiting a new museum in Portland

Are you visiting Portland in the next few weeks or moths? If that's something that you are going to do, then you will be glad to know that there is another museum for you to visit there, making sure that you will always have something interesting to do there! Below is another msnbc.com article telling you the whole story:

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PORTLAND, Maine - The Portland Museum of Art has discovered that there's nothing like a little rock 'n roll to bring in the crowds.

The museum in Portland, Maine, drew a record 17,839 visitors in February, thanks to the popularity of its exhibition "Backstage Pass: Rock & Roll Photography." The figure broke the mark set by an Ansel Adams exhibition in 2000.

"Backstage Pass" draws from the nation's largest private collection of photographs of rock musicians. Many of the 268 photographs of artists including Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, the Clash and Madonna have been rarely seen in public.

Chief Curator Tom Denenberg says the exhibition "exceeded all of our expectations." It remains on view through March 22.

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Before buying a new car...

As you know, when you decide to buy a new car so that you can always feel secure about it and its performance, it is extremely important that you pay attention to every single aspect of its performance and even take a close look at the general appearence of the car on the streets!

Keeping this in mind, if you are now considering the possibility of buying a new car and if you would like to see some videos and photos of the car then you should definitely have a look at this Car Pictures Gallery which will give you a much more precise idea of how it handles on the road and how it really looks from every angle! Moreover, if you are buying a compact car, then watching the Compact Car Road Test Video of the car that you would like to buy may be one of the most important things for you to see before buying it as it will allow you to make up your mind easily and decide if you are buying it or not.

So, are you buying a new Acura or any other car? If that’s the case, then you would better have a look at the test videos, photos and many other extras on the website above while also watching this Acura Road Test Video that will definitely impress you with the amazing results that came out of the test.

New space museum for you to visit!

When you consider the big events of this century, which are the first ones to com to your mind? I would personally say that space events and space travels are definitely the ones that first come to my mind as the ones that have played the most important role of the century... Below is an msnbc.com article which will let you know everything about the new space museum:


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CONCORD, N.H. - First, a rocket landed gingerly outside the door. Then, a huge space shuttle model took form inside.

Now, New England's first air and space science center is opening to carry on the legacy of two New Hampshire space heroes: Alan Shepard and Christa McAuliffe.

The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center is four times the size of the original Christa McAuliffe Planetarium, opened in 1990 in honor of the Concord High School teacher who died in the space shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986.

With its observatory dome and 92-foot full-scale mock-up of the rocket and capsule that carried Shepard into space in 1961, the center, opening March 6, dwarfs the original planetarium. Its programs do the same.

"It's not just an expansion," said Director Jeanne Gerulskis. "It's a transformation of how we operate."

The new programs build on the planetarium theater presentations, interactive space and science displays and teacher and student workshops to offer fun ways to inspire kids and adults to learn about science and other careers.

The key, said center astronomer Kathryn Michener, is to make sure exhibits are more than just something to look at.

"We want people to have an amazing, immersive experience," Michener said. "When you enjoy what you are learning about, you will remember more of it."

Planning a mission to Mars
For instance, the new "Expedition to Mars" exhibit allows families or school groups to plan their own 18-month mission to Mars — designing living space, deciding on what provisions to take and how to protect themselves from the dangers of space.

"And they take a quiz to see if they would actually be able to survive emotionally and mentally a six-month trip one way, spend six months there and six months back in a very small enclosure with a bunch of other people," Michener said.

Other exhibits explore Earth's environment, energy use and even interesting jobs.

The "Real People, Amazing Jobs" interactive display allows visitors to learn about the daily lives of people including scientists, engineers and TV meteorologists.

The message for kids: "Maybe I could do something like this," said Gerulskis. "Here is this person right in front of me who has figured out how to do it."

The center's first "Real People" award will go to the country's latest aeronautic hero: US Airways pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger for landing his crippled airliner safely in the Hudson River in New York Jan. 15. He will accept via a taped video message at the center's opening ceremony March 6.

Gerulskis says Shepard, the first American in space, and McAuliffe, the first teacher in space, were courageous pioneers.

She points to the Redstone rocket and Mercury capsule. At just under a fraction under 6 feet wide, it's much smaller than it looked on TV blasting into space — appearing almost fragile as it sways slightly in the wind.

"Would you climb into that little capsule at the top?" Gerulskis said. "That was really brave."

The rocket is the centerpiece of Redstone Rocket Plaza outside the center's front door. An interactive exhibit surrounding it tells the story of Shepard, his historic flight and the race with the Soviet Union to land the first astronauts on the moon.

McAuliffe's mother, Grace Corrigan, said McAuliffe would be proud to be linked with Shepard.

"I just remember Christa saying when somebody said 'Oh, you are such a hero,' she laughed and she said: 'No. I'm not a hero. Alan Shepard; now that was a hero.'"

Gerulskis said planning began for the $15 million center shortly after Shepard, from Derry, died in 1998 at age 74.

A piece of space
The center will open in phases: interactive exhibits and the cutting edge observatory this week, with future phases over the next several years. They include a Challenger Learning Center for space and science studies, an aviation center including mock-ups suspended from the atrium ceiling of the Mercury capsule that carried Shepard in 1961, the Apollo spacecraft that took him to the moon a decade later and a jet he flew as a test pilot.

As good as the displays are, Gerulskis said, another key is finding employees who retain a kid's sense of wonder.

"It's the only place where I've worked that I found other people still have Star Trek toys," she said.

Planetarium educator Robert Veilleux has something better.

"Every day, when I come up here, I always bring along with me a little hunk of space," he said, reaching into his pocket for a heavy piece of pockmarked metal about the size of a thick arrowhead.

"It's an iron meteorite, it fell over in Russia in 1947," he said. "I let the kids hold a piece of space. Some of them, their eyes just light up."

Mission accomplished.

Veilleux, 66, was the New Hampshire runner-up to McAuliffe for the teacher-in-space spot on Challenger. He's been to five shuttle launches and uses his planetarium job to share his enthusiasm about space travel.

"I come here to play," he said.

Another way to play will be the interactive shuttle displays, including one on sleeping in space.

But Gerulskis suspects there will be a lot of interest in one "not-so-interactive" display that helps answer a common question about space travel: "How do astronauts go to the bathroom?"

"We have a shuttle toilet," she said with a laugh. "We'll have to block it off — the seating arrangement at any rate."

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