Jordan’s Syrian refugee ‘city’ – with 115,000 residents, 12 districts, 6,000 shops and its own ‘Champs Elysees’
Syrian refugee ‘city’ in Jordan
Best sexy dance ever, Kizomba
This will make you want to grab hold of that dance partner of yours and sway!
The lovely pair in the video is dancing the sensual and romantic Kizomba dance – one of the most popular dance forms from Angola. Kizomba is a dance that was born in Angola in the late ’70s and the music is based on the Antillean Zouk and dance the Argentine tango. It is a sensual dance that allows you maximum freedom of expression. READ MORE
The Orthodox Christmas Eve in Serbia
Serbians attend a ceremonial burning of oak branches, the Yule log symbol for the Orthodox Christmas Eve, in front of a church in Smederevo, 60 kilometres east of Belgrade. The branches are also carried into the homes and burned. The Orthodox Christmas Day is celebrated today, 7 January (according to the Julian calendar).
Photo: ANDREJ ISAKOVIC
The school teacher’s outfit you can count on for 40 Years :)
There are superstars who wouldn’t wear the same dress twice, but this one teacher from Prestonwood Elementary (PE) in Richardson, USA, had himself photographed with the same outfit for 40 years in a row. PE teacher Dale Irby started his legendary yearbook photograph sequence by mistake, when he realized he was wearing the same polyester shirt and coffee-colored sweater like he did for the photo shoot one year ago, back in 1973.
“I was so embarrassed when I got the school pictures back that second year and realized I had worn the very same thing as the first year,” said Dale. It was his wife, Cathy, who managed to make a joke out of the situation, and dared her husband to wear the same clothes again next year. After this dare Dale wore his shirt and sweater for the next 5 years: “After five pictures,” he said, “it was like: ‘Why stop?’” Even when the clothes wouldn’t fit him anymore, Dale would bring them to school and wear exclusively for the photo shoot. Nice to have something you can count on these days!
via: dallasnews.com
FunTASTIC ornaments grandmother :)
Grandmother Agnes Kašpárková delicately paints traditional Moravian ornament on an early 18th century bell-tower.
Alibaba’s founder has become China’s richest person
Alibaba’s blockbuster $25 billion stock offering has made Jack Ma the wealthiest man in China, according to a new survey, as investor enthusiasm for Chinese technology names enriches a new generation of Internet moguls.
Ma, founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, and his family have a net worth of about $25 billion following last week’s initial public offering.
The shift reflects a flood of dollars into China’s rapidly growing Internet sector, as investors bet on firms such as Alibaba growing at a fast clip at home and becoming more globally competitive. China has seen a record 15 Internet IPOs so far this year.
Children riding auto rickshaw to a school in Beldanga, India
Riding a tuktuk (auto rickshaw) to a school in Beldanga, India. Image credits – Dilwar Mandal
Skywalking, the new trend sweeping Russia
Groups of young people are defying death as part of the new “skywalking” trend sweeping Russia. They are illegally climbing buildings around the world to take the most incredible shots of cities from vantages rarely seen.
Vitaliy Raskalov is taking us on a heart-pounding and one-of-a-kind experience while scaling the tallest building in China – the Shanghai Tower (click on photo to enlarge)
Starbucks to meet students’ caffeine needs wherever they pop up
College-age students love coffee; ok, we know that. However, the latest survey data from the NPD group, which tracks trends in what Americans eat and drink, finds that 18- to 24-year-olds are increasingly turning to coffee, rather than caffeinated sodas, as their pick-me-up of choice. And not just any coffee—they want the fancy stuff. This is where Starbucks come into play.
College campuses might have been among the few remaining places to escape the shadow of Starbucks. There are roughly 11,500 Starbucks outlets in the U.S., but only about 300 of them are on U.S. campuses. That is about to change as Starbucks have come up with an idea to deliver coffee from food trucks. Why trucks? They can travel around with students throughout the day, meeting students’ caffeine needs wherever they pop up.
The cafe chain is testing trucks on three college campuses while trying to find new store formats beyond the typical retail outlet.
Happy from Pancevo
A group of people got inspired and decided to show their way of feeling happy on the streets of Pancevo… Great job! 🙂
Pharrell Williams – Happy – We are from Pancevo (Serbia)
Happy in Belgrade – Awesome Video!
Positive vibes from Belgrade 🙂
Pharrell Williams – Happy – We are from Belgrade
Directed by Karlo Zagorac Cinematography by Marko Cvetkovic Edited by Vladimir Radakovic
Music by Pharrell Williams / Despicable Me 2
Belgrade, Serbia 2014
Hey Brother and Really Cool Music
Now that a deep freeze has settled over many parts of the world, some daring souls choose to revel in the frigid temperatures by engaging in activities that are only possible in a cold climate.
A band in Sweden called Ice Music celebrates “the winter spirit of Swedish Lapland” by using a new art form – where the musicians play on instruments made of ice. READ MORE
Rent a Grandma and Travel the World (VIDEO)
“You can trust our Grandmas. Plus, our Grandmas don’t text or tweet while they are watching your kids!”
With more and more families living further away from their relatives, there’s now a service that will place experienced grandmothers with families as nannies, babysitters, mothers’ helpers, housekeepers and maternity nurses. Should you wish to spend some time with your loved one away from your kids while traveling the world, renting a grandma might be a good idea 🙂 Anyway, Rent-a-Grandma is definitely a growing trend and maybe something you wish to sketch into your retirement plan if you still need some cash.
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Changes in Britons Shopping Habits; Disposable Fast Fashion is Falling Out of Favour
Retail chain John Lewis’s first report on its customers’ shopping habits, published on 31 October 2013, reveals that Britons have become both more tradition-minded and more individualistic under pressure of recession and a halting recovery. Disposable “fast fashion” is falling out of favour; things that last and have a pedigree are coming in.
There seems to be a national yearning for cosiness. Sales of board games like Bananagrams (a Scrabble-like game) are up 17% on last year. Baking is in: John Lewis sold 29% more bread makers and 70% more cooling racks in the past year. Despite the ubiquity of smartphone cameras, photo frames and expensive cameras are in demand.
Britons mostly shop as one country, but there are some regional variation, most notably in women’s underwear buying habits. Welsh women are especially partial to red lingerie while north-westerners go in for thongs and G-strings. Knickers aside, united by appalling and unpredictable weather, for 80% of items, there is little regional variation in what Britons buy.
Get the full story: How Britain shops – Looking backward, The Economist
Barbecuing as a Form of Public Protest in Brazil
Brazil’s somewhat laid-back answer to the Arab spring works like this: invite your friends on Facebook to a mass barbecue in a public place to protest against a specified injustice. Then wait for it to go viral. The result is somewhere between a flash mob and carnival – the perfect cordial protest for a nation with an inbuilt aversion to confrontation and an obsession with Facebook.
A Free School for Slum Children in India
Founder of a free school for slum children Rajesh Kumar Sharma, second from right, and Laxmi Chandra, right, write on black boards, painted on a building wall, at a free school run under a metro bridge in New Delhi, India. At least 30 children living in the nearby slums have been receiving free education from this school for the last three years.
Altaf Qadri / AP
Magic Touch of Stanley Jordan for Language Lovers (VIDEO)
PRODIREKT, with its Verbalists Education & Language Network, partnered with the organizers of the leading jazz festival in Europe — Nisville.
Our cooperation started in 2011, when the organizers set up several performing stages within the walls of the enchanted Nis fortress in Serbia. The global language network Verbalists was entrusted with a unique privilege to provide a regional media coverage of that prestigious event which instantly became a great playground for the vibrant summer Festival spectacles ever since. Verbalists have had the opportunity to interview the famous jazzists and celebrities, such as, the saxophone player Hans and Candy Dulfer, swing band “Jive Aces”, jazz vocalist Maya Nova, trumpet player Tom Harell, and Stanley Jordan. READ MORE
Soldiers in North Korea
Female North Korean soldiers patrol along the banks of Yalu River.
XXI Century Woman
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
