Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in the Strangest Situation in Mecca

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the president of Egypt, went to Saudi Arabia, Mecca, after that he went to pray in Kaaba in one of the most holy rites and events in Islamic world, but what is strange is the guards surrounding the Kaaba.

Where is peace of mind???

Incredible space stone seems like it has a nebula trapped inside

This is just a stone. Not a photo of a stone with a Hubble Space Telescope image pasted over it. Not a hologram made inside some piece of glass. Not a portal to another dimension. Just a stone. It's like a some spacetime wizard captured a piece of the Universe and trapped it inside.

 

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The stone is an opal. A "very fine American contraluz opal found" in Opal Butte, Oregon, according to Bonhams, the auction house that sold it last May for around $20,000. Their description says that the 4.6 x 4.4 x 1-centimeter gemstone is a "clear, transparent crystal body having a fine, firey play-of-color that is gem quality. The piece has a botryoidal jasper formation which forms a unique inclusion."

Japanese girl travels back in time in her own way

The young British (of Japanese descent), "Chino Otsuka" devised a unique method and distinct of its kind to go back in time, through the integration of her modern pictures with her childhood pictures, to show how different the time period between the them.

What was done in a series of images that she called it "Imagine Finding Me" is a unique artwork. The Photoshop was used to integrate images so that the merge process does not appear easily. And when we see the pictures, look like real to the extent that commentators on the pages of social networking have expressed their surprise and their belief that it pictures of her mother as she stands with her.

 

Incredible Personal armour - Bulletproof Vest

A bulletproof vest, ballistic vest or bullet-resistant vest is an item of personal armor that helps absorb the impact from firearm-fired projectiles and shrapnel from explosions, and is worn on the torso. Soft vests are made from many layers of woven or laminated fibers and can be capable of protecting the wearer from small-caliber handgun and shotgun projectiles, and small fragments from explosives such as hand grenades.

Metal or ceramic plates can be used with a soft vest, providing additional protection from rifle rounds, and metallic components or tightly woven fiber layers can give soft armor resistance to stab and slash attacks from knives and similar close-quarter weapons. Soft vests are commonly worn by police forces, private citizens, security guards, and bodyguards, whereas hard-plate reinforced vests are mainly worn by combat soldiers, police tactical units, and hostage rescue teams.

Modern body armor may combine a ballistic vest with other items of protective clothing, such as a combat helmet. Vests intended for police and military use may also include ballistic shoulder and side protection armor components, and bomb disposal officers wear heavy armor and helmets with face visors and spine protection. via

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You might imagine the inventor being someone from the Army or a policeman, but the true creator was a pizza delivery man! On July 21st, 1969, Richard Davis was delivering pizzas in Detroit when he was held up at gunpoint!

Luckily for the former marine, Davis had a gun of his own and shot two of the attackers but was hit twice himself. This incident gave him an idea for people like cops to avoid injury by wearing padding of some kind. The first prototype for the bulletproof vest was created by Davis out of a roll of nylon and the straps from his car’s seatbelt!

He went around to police stations shooting himself in the chest to demonstrate its power. Later, Davis created a second vest design using Kevlar, which is 230% stronger than nylon! via

Personal armour (also known as personal armor or body armour) is the whole of protecting clothing, designed to absorb and/or deflect slashing, bludgeoning, and penetrating attacks. They were historically used to protect soldiers, whereas today, they are also used to protect various types of police (especially riot police in particular), private citizens, private security guards or bodyguards. Two types exist: regular non-plated personal armor (used by the people mentioned above, except combat soldiers) and hard-plate reinforced personal armor, which is used by combat soldiers, police tactical units and hostage rescue teams.via

Super-Elastic and Flexible Statue Material

Super stretchy material stretches to eight times its size without ripping

The stretchy plastic material pictured is incredibly soft and stretches to about eight times its original size. It is a very durable material that stretches easily and can be injection molded to any shape. It is remarkable how easily you can double its size, and then double it again, and double it again and again without requiring much effort—and without ripping it.

There are two types of thermoplastics used as substitutes for rubber. These synthetic rubbers are what you are probably familiar with as the “gel” material used in a lot of computer mouse pads, seat cushions, and bicycle seats. These “gels” are typically made using materials based on Kraton or Septon, the trade names for two common formulations. Within the basic formulations, the stretchiness, softness, squishiness and strength can be customized for the application you need. What we are featuring here is a formulation that has a remarkable combination of being incredibly elastic and easy to stretch, yet very difficult to rip.

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Unbelievable Canadian Girl Cut Her Ears To Look Like Elves

A Canadian girl called Melynda Moon (23 years old) underwent a cosmetic surgery to cut a part of her ears to become like the form of  a "fairy", like a character in the world of  elves in the movie "Lord of the Rings," according to a British newspaper.

Melynda Moon paid to have her ears cut and stitched back together in a pointed shape in a procedure that took just two hours.

Melynda who currently work mannequin is very happy with her new appearance, she said that she was feeling of being different from humans. She has embarked on doing this surgery operation after watching the film series "Lord of the rings".

Melynda Moon paid £250 for 'elven ears'.  Ms Melynda Moon underwent a two-hour operation to have her ears cut and reshaped. The woman who wanted to look like an elf has had an operation on her ears to make them more pointed. Melynda Moon, 23, believes she comes from a different realm and was a fairy in her past life.

 

According to the newspaper, the young Canadian undergone cosmetic surgery to take her ears curving sharp look as one of the "fairies" in the fictional films.

Melynda said that despite the pain that she felt, but she is satisfied and happy for being able to achieve her dream. Melinda painted a tattoo "the forces of wisdom triple play" which is Special of Japanese game "The Legend of Zelda" on her hand.

She was also the lovers of reading and watching fairy tales in her childhood, she used to appear with different clothes and she conducted a cosmetic surgery for her ears for a long time using the programs  like adobe Photoshop. She said that the Faerie is characterized by simplicity and sincerity and symbolizes love and happiness.

“I have always been very close to nature. Pointed ears are the most adorable thing, and I find the elven attire is so elegant,” Ms Moon, from Ontario in Canada, said.“When I found out I could have my ears pointed I have never been so sure of something in my entire life.”She added: “I will never go back to being human. Now I just lack the glitter and wings to fly.”

The epic christmas split 2013 by Chuck Norris

VFX house Delov Digital from Hungary reminds us that Chuck Norris can do everything more awesome than anyone else.

Remember the Volvo commercial from several weeks ago featuring the (real) Van Damme performing his trademark 'split?' Well, here is the (not real) Chuck Norris version...

Chick Norris sends a special Christmas and New Year greeting while copying and topping Van Damme's famous Volvo leg splits. This time the famous feat is 'performed' between airplanes - with a little help from CGI and Delov Digital.

Now not to be left out, with a little help from a graphic artist and CGI, Chuck Norris can be seen in a spoof of the Volvo Jean Claude Van Damme commercial performing leg splits in the sky between two planes. Balanced on Norris' head is an acrobatic team and when fully stretched out they resemble a Christmas tree covered in fairy lights. This video was sent as a Christmas and New Year greeting from Delov Digital based in Hungary.

Maintenance Technician Filipino in a mosque in Saudi Arabia amazes everyone

In one of the mosques in Saudi Arabia: Filipino came to the mosque in order to do some maintenance in Audio devices and amplifiers after that he test the microphone and it was a surprise.

The surprise was a very beautiful voice came through  the large membrane of speaker devices. The test that he use to test these speaker devices was reciting the Holy Qur'an. 

Filipinos in Saudi Arabia are either migrants or descendants of the Philippines living in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is currently the largest hirer of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), and has the largest Filipino population in the Middle East. Filipinos make up the fourth-largest group of foreigners in Saudi Arabia, and are the second-largest source of remittances to the Philippines.

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About the Muslims in Philippines

Between 5% and 10% of the population are Muslim, most of whom live in parts of Mindanao, Palawan, and the Sulu Archipelago – an area known as Bangsamoro or the Moro region. Some have migrated into urban and rural areas in different parts of the country. Most Muslim Filipinos practice Sunni Islam according to the Shafi'i school. via

Have you seen the shape of the smallest details of snowflakes

The Russian professional photographer Alexei Kgatov use his microscopic lenses to photograph snowflakes with high accuracy.

It's known that snowflakes are not similar at all, such as fingerprints, and they influenced by composition changes very minor degrees of air and moisture that pass by during a freeze in the fall trip to Earth.

A snowflake is either a single ice crystal or an aggregation of ice crystals which falls through the Earth's atmosphere. They begin as snow crystals which develop when microscopic supercooled cloud droplets freeze. Snowflakes come in a variety of sizes and shapes. Complex shapes emerge as the flake moves through differing temperature and humidity regimes, such that individual snowflakes are nearly unique in structure. Snowflakes encapsulated in rime form balls known as graupel. Snowflakes appear white in color despite being made of clear ice. This is due to diffuse reflection of the whole spectrum of light by the small crystal facets.

Incredible Moroccan Young Man speaks 23 Languages

You'll see in this video a creative young arabian man, Nidal Jadaan, who was able to learn 23 languages​​.

We contacted with the Nidal to find out more information about this achievement, he said, he began to learn these languages, 3 years ago, with the exception of English and French, which began to learn them from a young age.

As for the duration of learning a one language, he says that it differ from one language to another, for example, he learned Polish a full year because it is a difficult language as he talked.

He did not disclose about the way in which he learned these 23 languages and he preferred to keep it to himself, but he says that his desire to learn these languages stemmed from his love of travel and exploration, along with his passion for cultures and civilizations and history of the various countries of the world. So the language is a visa to explore this world.

About the benefit of learning these languages, he says it makes him to feel excellence within the community and help him to find better opportunities in his life.

Banco Sabadell Celebrate The 130 Anniversary of Its Establishment

A little girl donates to a street musician to get a nice surprise which paint the delight in each attendee!

This idea was one of the international banks to celebrate the 130 anniversary of its establishment, this innovative presentation has been carried out, by more than a hundred professional musician.

On May 19, people enjoying a quiet evening out at Placa de Roc in Sabadell, Spain were in for a wondrously noisy surprise.

What appears to be a single street performer playing the opening notes of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony quickly expands to include more and more musicians. The group eventually includes over 100 people from the Orchestra Simfònica del Vallès and singers from the Amics de l’Òpera de Sabadell, Coral Belles Arts and Cor Lieder Camera.

The flashmob was assembled to celebrate it’s 130th anniversary of Banco Sabadell. The creative agency for the flashmob was Remake and the film was shot by Onidea.

Banco Sabadell is the fourth-largest banking group funded by private Spanish capital. It includes several banks, brands, subsidiary and holding companies spanning the whole range of financial business.
 

Specialising in commercial banking, it has a significant penetration in the company and medium and high level private customer market. It has a network of 1,387 offices employing a total of 10,699 staff. It is quoted on the Madrid Stock Market (SAB) and forms part of the IBEX 35 index.

The Arab World Union by George Galloway

The Arab world, also known as the Arab Nation, consists of the Arabic-speaking countries and populations in the Greater Middle East.

The standard definition of the Arab world comprises the 22 countries and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean in the southeast. It has a combined population of around 422 million people, with over half under 25 years of age.

George Galloway is a British politician, writer, and broadcaster, and the Respect Party Member of Parliament for Bradford West.

 Why this large world, which speak the same language, and believe in the same God and religion  ,  whereas in Euro they speak 150 languages, so why the Arab world doesn't have a union?

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Economy

The mineral resource of greatest value is oil. The Arabian Peninsula has the largest oil reserves in the world. With the exception of deposits in Yemen, the Arabian oil fields lie in the same great sedimentary basin as the fields of Iran and Iraq. Although oil was discovered in Iran in 1908, the first field on the Arabian side of the basin, in Bahrain, was not found until 1932. This inspired an intensive search in eastern Arabia that in time reached far into the interior. Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938, in Kuwait and Qatar in 1940, on the mainland of the Saudi Arabia/Kuwait Neutral Zone in 1953, on the mainland of Abu Dhabi in 1960, in Oman in 1964, in South Yemen in 1983, and in North Yemen in 1984. In 1951 oil was discovered in the Persian Gulf off Saudi Arabia, in 1958 in Abu Dhabi offshore, and in 1960 in the Saudi Arabia/Kuwait Neutral Zone offshor.
 

Van Damme Advertisement From The Perspective Of Jordanian Citizen

 The latest Volvo commercial, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme (actor and director best known for his martial arts action films).

The action star does the splits between two Volvo trucks in a new ad that went up on YouTube on Wednesday and already has been viewed more than 6 million times.

Here is what Van Damme said:

"I've had my ups and downs. My fair share of bumpy roads and heavy winds. That's what made me what I am today," says Van Damme, 53, in a voice-over at the start of the video. "Now I stand here before you. What you see is a body crafted to perfection."

 

All of us watch the famous Van Damme Advertisement, what is funny is that many of people use the idea of this advertisement to express about themselves. I post today this funny video which preview this advertisement from  the perspective of Jordanian citizen.

 Here is what the Jordanian citizen said:

"My life is upside down, the abuse does not stop, raise the price of clothing, I'll wear less. Because I am a Jordanian, I opened my eyes on coffee and cigarettes. But the winter on the doors, and the Gas price defies the laws of physic. Because of this I decided that no one bothered. I will finish myself by myself.
 
This test was to measure the degree of Jordanian citizens to carry high prices, particularly of fuel."

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Sultan Kösen - the world's tallest man get married

Sultan Kösen, who was born in 10 December 1982 in Mardin, Turkey and holds the Guinness World Record for tallest living male at 2.51 m, get married.

The turkish "Sultan Kösenon", known as the world's tallest man two meters long and 51 cm, picks Syrian girl from province of Hasakah "Marwa Depot" his wife as confirmed by the reporter Anatolia.

The Giant "Kösen", who was born in the state of "Mardin" southern Turkey, "I was looking since 4 or 5 years for a girl to marry, until I knew Marwa by, and loved she, and after marrige I will have a private life, and children. and added "Unfortunately, I did not find a fit girl that she tall as I, Marwa is twenty years old, and 1.75 cm tall.

Mada'in Saleh : a pre-Islamic civilization in Saudi Arabia

Madain Saleh or so-called the old city of stone,Al-Hijr, el Hijr, and Hegra. An archaeological site and pre-Islamic civilization in Saudi Arabia 

Mada'in Saleh is one of the most important archaeological sites in the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East ,located in the province of Ela belonging to the Medina and was the capital of the Kingdom of the southren Nabataeans in the north of the Arabian Peninsula. Al-Hijr is the name of Diar Thamood Valley villages between the city Medina and Tabuk, a place existed before the era of Islam in the region of Ela , within the area of Medina in Saudi Arabia.

Remnants has been found told us about the Nabataean and Roman occupation while mentioned in the Quran that there is a settlement in ancient times which is the folk of Thamood in the third millennium BC.

The Atlantic Ocean Road in Norway

The road was opened on July 7, 1989. It is an 8.3 kilometer (5.2 miles) section of Country Road 64 that runs between Molde and Kristiansund. The Atlantic Road is build on several small islands which are connected by bridges, causeways and viaducts. 

The route was originally proposed as a railway line in the early 20th century, but this was abandoned. Serious planning of the road started in the 1970s, and construction started on 1 August 1983. During construction the area was hit by 12 European windstorms. The road was opened on 7 July 1989, having cost 122 million Norwegian krone (NOK), of which 25 percent was financed with tolls and the rest from public grants. 

The road is preserved as a cultural heritage site and is classified as a National Tourist Route. It is a popular site to film automotive commercials, has been declared the world's best road trip, and been awarded the title as "Norwegian Construction of the Century".

Back to The Future project to revive the old photos by Irina Werning

Argentine photogtrapher woman "Irina Werning" initiated her photographing project (BACK TO THE FUTURE) in early 2010, which is still going on so far. 

Her project concluded in visiting people in their homes and choose old photos from their photos archives, whether from childhood images or images in young adulthood for the elderly and re-capture their owners in the same scene after being grown up. Next first image (CECILE) from France in 1987 and the other in 2010.

The photographers tend to define the photographic image as the moment in which the time stop to capture that moment by the camera lens but the point which is interesting in this project is to re-capture the moment after a long period of time to the same people and the same places to see how it changed people by the passage of time and the variation trends of the moments that captured them a long time ago.

(CECILE) from France in 1987 and the other in 2010

Humans are preparing themselves for the global disasters

Are people ready to disaster, yes, you can also find this the global vault seeds in Svalbard , we often read in the headlines about the types of animals threatened with extinction, such as humpback whales, rhinos and others, but do not forget that plant life is at risk as well.

Fruits and vegetables, which was the cause of the growth of human beings for thousands of years, taking into extinction, one study found that among more than 8,000 species of crops grown in the United States of America in 1903, only 600 species of them are remain in the year 1983.

What will happen if a global nuclear war takes place? What would happen if an asteroid hit the planet? Or catastrophic climate change, Will then be varieties plant exists able to supply human life? The solution lies in "Noah's Ark of seeds".

This life ship is located about 1,300 km to the south of the North Pole, in the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in an underground cave, This ship called the global seed vault located in Svalbard - very large fort accommodate  for types of 4.5 million seeds of plants. This ship is also called "Doomsday", which is a global insurance policy against possible disasters that plant life-threatening, where food production can be reproduced anywhere in the event of a regional or global catastrophe.

Incredible Glacier Waterfalls in Svalbard, Norway

Svalbard, which means "cold coasts", is an archipelago in the Arctic, constituting the northernmost part of Norway as well as of Europe. It is located about 400 miles north of mainland Europe, midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Despite being so close to the North Pole, Svalbard is comparatively warm, thanks to the warming effect of the Gulf Stream, which makes it habitable. In fact, Svalbard is the northernmost permanently inhabited region on the planet. 

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The islands cover a total area of 62,050 square km, nearly 60% of which is covered by glacier with many outlet glaciers terminating in the sea. Some of these glaciers have small waterfalls formed from melting snow and ice. Most of Svalbard is barren rock but during the short summer, the melting snow in the milder parts of the islands give place to vast stretches of tundra vegetation, sometimes dotted with delicate flowers.

Lionel Messi plan to build football-inspired house

Lionel Messi has revealed plans to build a new football house

Lionel Messi have Chosen the design of his new home in the form of a football stadium, in the neighborhood of the city Bdralbs Catalan , the Argentine star preferred this design, because of its symbolic character who was concerned by the architect Luis de Garrido to grant it to him. "de Garrido" explained that the idea of home in the form of a football stadium aired great enthusiasm at Messi, because he realized that he dedicated to him. "