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What a selfie.

This is how real men shoot animals.

On the edge, Yosemite National park California.

When you trust your guy.

Devil's Pool: At the edge of Victoria Fall Zambia.

Boardpaddling, Bahamas.

Hanging around the Kvalvika beach cliff, Lofoten Norway.

Peep from Yoshmite National Park, California.

Nice selfie.

Rio: When u have so much trust in your man.

dominique can you do dis?

Meanwhile in Africa, dragging lions back to their cage.


Source: mostextremepictures(Instagram).

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patrickmuf:
Engineering masterpiece at its finest

@ its peak bro....When i saw it, i cant just ignore but to post it. The piece weighing 17,000 tons and over 250mtrs in lenght, its really shocking and i can't just imagine..

cool

This is amazing, but i can see Nigeria doing better than this in years.....

But my question is, what's turning/rotating that paet that weighs 17,000 tons?

source: http://wonderfulengineering.com/chinese-engineers-build-a-17000-ton-flyover-bridge-and-rotate-it-into-place/
cc: dominique

The bridge will be open for traffic by the end of the month. With the country’s high speed rail network being the largest in the world, it is no wonder that the engineers did not deem it feasible to halt the track beneath the bridge. The necessity pushed the engineers to come up with a creative and innovative solution, proving that engineers can make anything possible.

A China Railway High-speed train passes beneath the rotating sector of the bridge as engineers expertly swivel it into place.

After completion, the whole process took only 90 minutes as engineers rotated the section 106 degrees on a 15 meter high axis. This intuitive solution was a first for China, but was necessary because this part of the railway was considered too important to be shut down temporarily.Upon completion, the 256-meter long overpass will span 11 railways including the 1,428 mile long Beijing-Guangzhou service.

Extreme Engineering: Brilliant engineers in China have become the world’s first to build part of a massive overpass and rotate it into place so as not to disturb railways passing under the bridge. The 17,000 ton section at Wuhan City, was swung into place after being constructed for weeks parallel to the high speed railway track.

1. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?



2. How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?



3. In a country in which people only want boy, every family continues to have children until they have a boy. If they have a girl, they have another child. If they have a boy, they stop. What is the proportion of boys to girls in the country?




4. Why are manhole covers round?



5. Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco.



6. How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap?



7. You need to check that your friend, Bob, has your correct phone number, but you cannot ask him directly. You must write the question on a card and give it to Eve who will take the card to Bob and return the answer to you. What must you write on the card, besides the question, to ensure Bob can encode the message so that Eve cannot read your phone number?



8. You’re the captain of a pirate ship and your crew gets to vote on how the gold is divided up. If fewer than half of the pirates agree with you, you die. How do you recommend apportioning the gold in such a way that you get a good share of the booty, but still survive?



9. You have eight balls all of the same size, 7 of them weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more. How can you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighings?



10. Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.

Tech companies are notorious for testing applicants’ thinking skills with difficult interview questions. Although interview puzzles are less common these days with Google demphasizing or doing away them if you’re going for a job in Silicon Valley or just want to check out some interview brainteasers, here are examples of challenging interview questions that have made smart people feel very dumb.

(source is having the answer to the questions, thats why am not adding it.)
cc: dominique

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1. Al-Qaeda.


Al-Qaeda is without a doubt the most dangerous terrorist group in the world, whose objective is the unity of all Muslims through jihad, and the interpretation of the Sharia Law to the letter. The founder of this group is the late Osama Bin Laden, a once most wanted man by the United States and many other governments but who was killed by US forces in 2011. This terrorist organization is so dangerous because it carries out acts of terror that result in the loss of numerous lives, with one of the most notable attacks being the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US soil where over 3,000 Americans lost their lives. This terrorist group is famous for planting suicide bombers in crowded places, killing all people they consider infidels, Christians, and Americans and they do not hesitate to kill anyone they feel is against their cause.

2. ISIS.


ISIS is an acronym standing for Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shamand this group is fast becoming one of the worst terrorist groups in the world, operating especially in Iraq, Syria, Palestine and most of the Middle-East. This is a jihadist extremist group with its leadership hailing from the Suni Arabs living in Iraq and Syria. ISIS has affiliate groups in different parts of the world, including groups in Southern Asia, Nigeria, and Libya. This group lays claim to political, military, and religious authority of all Muslims around the world, and it has approximately 80,000 fighters pushing for its cause. One of the worst things about ISIS is its use of deadly measures, indiscriminately killing civilians and children alike. They have been known to start firing at civilians, treat their captives inhumanly, abuse people sexually, and do all sorts of evil against non-Muslims.

3. Taliban.


The Taliban was founded by Mullah Mohammed Omar, the man who continues to be the group’s spiritual leader since its inception in 1994. At one time, the United States assisted the Taliban in unshackling Afghanistan from Soviet Clutches and the group later ruled Afghanistan and formed the government between 1996 and 2001. Today, the Taliban is one ofthe worst terrorist groups in the world. Some of the ways this group makes money includes engaging in activities such as human trafficking, drug trafficking, and extortion. The Taliban is also responsible for indiscriminately killing innocent people in the name of jihad, with one of their ugliest and most senseless attacks being on a high school in Northern Pakistan where it killed over 130 students and teachers. The group is also famous for perpetrating heinous human rights violations such as raping women, ethnic cleansing, etc.

4. Boko Haram.



Boko Haram is the worst African terrorist group based in West Africa, and it is no surprise that it has close ties with Al-Qaeda. Although, like other terrorist groups, Boko Haram engages in kidnapping, bombing buildings and killing innocent civilians, propagating for and adopting the extreme and intolerant sharia law, and taking part in other inhuman activities, this group is uniquely against western education. In fact, the name Boko Haram actually means “Western education is sin.” Boko Haram’s founder and sect leader is Mohammed Yusuf, and under his leadership the terrorist group has conducted some of the worst crimes against innocent people, including kidnapping over 200 Nigerian school girls, killing over 5,000 civilians over a five-year period between 2009 and 2014, and threatening to take over governments.


source: http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/most-shocking/10-most-dangerous-terrorist-groups-in-the-world/?view=all

5. Hezbollah.


Hezbollah, which is a word that means Party of Allah, is a military group that is slowly falling off the list of international terror groups but is still considered a terrorist group in many parts of the world. Hezbollah, which is a group of very strong militants formed by Muslim clerics, came up and as a form of resistance to Israel’s 1982 occupation of Lebanon. This group has been linked to numerous terrorist activities including Embassy bombings, hostage crisis situations, flight attacks, and the killing of innocent civilians in Lebanon and especially Israel. Today Hezbollah has representatives in the Lebanese government as high up as in the cabinet, and the group has not been in the media for terrorism in the recent past.

6. Al-Shabaab.


Founded in 2006, Al-Shabaab is a terrorist group based in East Africa whose main objective is the elimination of foreign military forces in Somalia and the formation of an Islamic government. This terrorist group is well funded, with most of its income coming from kidnappings and ransoms, piracy, illegal trade, illegal collection of taxes, and obtaining sponsorships from other terrorist organizations. Al-Shabaab’s area of operation is around Somalia, Kenya, and Uganda, where they carry out deadly attacks against civilians through car bombs, indiscriminate shootings, the use of suicide bombers, and many more. Some of their worst attacks on Kenyan soil include the Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi in 2013 where over 60 people lost their lives, and an attack at a university in Kenya where 148 students died in 2015.

7. Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.


Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT) is a terrorist group whose name means Army of the Righteous. This group operates in areas in and around Pakistan and India, and it has a reputation of being one of the largest and most skilled militant groups in the area. The LT started off as a military wing of the Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad in the early 1900s, which is an Islamic fundamentalist organization that used to oppose the then Soviet Union presence in Afghanistan. This group has conducted several attacks aimed at Indian troops as well as against innocent civilians. This includes an attack on India’s parliament in 2001 where 12 people lost their lives, an attack in Mumbai in 2008 where over 160 civilians lost their lives, the 2006 attacks on Mumbai commuter trains where over 180 people died, and many other acts of terror in India. One of their objectives is to establish an Islamic state in South-East Asia where they can exercise and uphold the sharia law.

8. Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan.

This group is mainly made up of active Islamist groups along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the main objectives of the groups is to overthrow the government of Pakistan, fight the NATO forces in Afghanistan, and set up sharia law as the only law in Afghanistan. The current leader of this terrorist organization is called Mullah Fazlullah, a devoted anti-Islamabad, anti-Western, and proponent of harsh tactics. The strong ties that the group has with Al-Qaeda makes them to openly threaten toattack the US and Europe over Osama Bin Laden’s death. This group claimed responsibility for the car-bomb attack that failed to go off in Times Square, it has threatened to attack the UK because of its participation in the War on Terror in Afghanistan, it has endorsed numerous suicide bombings, it has bombed the Pakistani UN offices, it has attacked army and naval stations in Pakistan, among other despicable acts.

9. Forças Armadas Revolucionárias da Colômbia (FARC).



Translated to English, this organization is called The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and it is believed to have been formed during the period of the conflict between the conservatives and the Liberals in Colombia. This organization claims to be an anti-imperialist group that fights for communism, defends the poor farmers, and fights against the privatization of natural resources in Colombia. In order to do this, the group employs guerrilla tactics and other violent means. FARC makes money through extortion, kidnappings, drug trafficking, andillegal mining, and many countries around the world classify it as a terrorist organization owing to the numerous bombings, killings, and assassinations that it has committed in Colombia.