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I love being able to get up, and greet a wonderful new day. I suggest creating a morning ritual that includes saying thanks for your blessings. I’m inspired by the Dalai Lama, who said, ” Everyday, think as you wake up, ‘today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings, I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others, I am going to benefit others as much as I can.’ “

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"Beginners' photography"

Beginners' photography doesn't have to be difficult. I am a beginners' armature photographer.. i enjoy these hobby so far..and we don't need to be an expert to take that perfect shoot. I'm not!

And if you already are an expert, perhaps what follows may help you pass your own knowledge on to others.

I'll admit it right away - I am not a great photographer, but I do manage to take memorable photographs because one, I ask for advice (a lot of it) and two, I get really good equipment and learn how to use it.

 

"Owning a DSLR doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a DSLR owner"

Yes. when i say "i get really equipment and learn how to use it" it means that i do really got good equipment ( as an amateur). I'm a DSLR owner. I own Nikon D90 and now learning how to use it. I agree with the quote.. owning a DSLR doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a DSLR owner..

It was your shoot that makes you a  photographer...

But come to think of it, owning one, using it, and then learning from the process in such a way that you're consistent with the quality... technique inhalation etc, etc will soon makes you a pro..

 

 " Learning from the process in such a way that you're consistent with the quality "

Taking a photo a day will make you a better photographer. Using your camera every day will help you learn its limits. You will get better at composing your shots, you’ll start to care about lighting, and you’ll become more creative with your photography when you’re forced to come up with something new every single day.

" simplicity is the ultimate sophistication "

Here's a few of my photos (2009) .. and its for you to judge (^_^)

Mind you, I like taking photo of a simple thing.. by simple I mean like a cup of my morning coffee...a paper clip on my desk board , flowers in my moms garden..you know, simple things i stumble into everyday..

Classic Feeling~ a Cup of Old Town White Coffee

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My neighbours cat. Six.. aww! isn't he cute :-)
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The hand. Take your ordinary digital photos and simulate the Lomo Photography effect! i put Lomo effect on this photo.. now a spirit of some kind appeared on this photo (so for me)
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Jet'aime (I Love You) Adding texture to images can help create the appearance of an image being old ... Learn how to  add years to a photograph in mere moments here.
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Old Man at Gaya Street, Kota Kinabalu.
I love the texture and the edge – really adds to to the photo.
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Printed on Used Paper (save the tree!!)
( Which, of course, I think it totally cute  :-p)
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Starbucks
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As you can see, i'm addicted to a texture. Love how they add another dimension to photography
(Above Photo) more textured photo from me. Please bear with me as I fiddle with this textured theme ;-)

Proud and happy
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I wanted more of a dramatic type of processing on the photo...that is why the contrast might otherwise seem high. I personally like the dramatic effect of  texture and colors in it...

Dandelion seeds
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I name this 'Kundasang Dandelion'
Dandelions are disliked by many people but I Find the Beauty in Dandelions...

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In the Wood

More to come after this..

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I don’t really know love
I didn’t know it’d come like this

I can’t seem to control my heart when it comes to love
I wouldn’t have started if I knew it’d be like this

Now that it’s too late to turn back, I’m having regrets
I hoped you wouldn’t be love
I hoped that you wouldn’t be my love

I told myself I didn’t love you
I hoped we were just passing acquaintances
Because all I’ll have left is pain
But even so, I want you
It’s making me sad

A wrong start.
That’s all I saw it as

I believed I could let you go any time
I don’t know what went wrong

I have to avoid your love
But I long for you

I hoped you wouldn’t be love
I hoped that you wouldn’t be my love

I told myself I didn’t love you
I hoped we were just passing acquaintances
Because all I’ll have left is pain
But even so, I want you
It’s making me sad

Now I’m nothing without you
I can’t do anything about it
Knowing that I must erase you...

Makes my life harder

Complicated isn't it?  that's whats life is all about..and that's whats love is all about..
And... nope.. its nothing to do with me/my life.. Its a Korean Drama Soundtrack, Full House (English version lyric) ..FYI, i finished watching it marathon yesterday...

For me FULL HOUSE (download here if interested) is the most amazing and beautiful korean-drama I've ever watched!   well..many might say that Lee Young Jae and Han Ji Eun are the greatest love team ever.But for me, i rather if Han Ji Eun end up with Yoo Min Hyuk.. why? just watch the drama and you will know why i prefer it that way :-)

The theme songs fit the drama and the story line is amazing..the Lyric above is frequently played in this drama and at certain time, it nearly makes me cry...listen Full House-Why - Un Myung.mp3 here

 

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Usia perkenalan kami sudah masuk tahun ke 2...

dah banyak peristiwa suka dan duka kami lalui bersama

wang ringgit apa tah lg, (x t'kira banyak nya)

masa saya boleh di katakan bersama dia saja tiap² ari

setiap pagi tgh hari dan kadang malam..

tidak lupa juga, tiap² ari saya belanja dia minum

saya jaga dia bagai 'menatang minyak yg penuh'

yang best pasal dia, kemana saya mau pegi dia ikut akur..

TAPI

sejak akhir² ni dia bt perangai pelik

saya x penah menduakan dia.. betul!

apa tah lagi curang pada dia

tapi

apa salah saya ni...

apa lg yg x cukup saya bg kat dia

selama ni

sampai dia snggup

buat saya mcm ni...

sbb saya cayg sama dia (saya masih setia)

sbb

tu x mau tukar yg baru

(lagi pun budget belum cukup) hehe...

tapi kerana dia... koyak gak duit poket .....

 

saya sanggup kerana mu kereta ku sayang..

 

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(Google graphic,4 January 2010)

Today is a birth day of Sir Isaac Newton (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727- an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, etc etc...(just click here to know more). How a piece of fruit inspired the work that changed our understanding of the universe... you the man Sir Isaac! Anyhow, his birth day is not the main point of my post...:-) acctually, I'm amaze by New Google logo celebrating the birthday of sir Isaac Newton. Just sweet!  I like the falling apple on Google homepage! Mouse over apple and see the gravity on work :) I Was thinking, is it the 1st time they've animated it?

cheers

 

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BLUE MOON ECLIPSE :

please refer to my previous post! :-)

Blue Moons--rare. 

Blue Moons on New Year's Eve--really rare.

A lunar eclipse of a Blue Moon on New Year's Eve--well, that's just ridiculous.

Yet that's exactly what happened yesterday in Europe, Asia, Africa and parts of Alaska.

The Blue moon on New Year's Eve passed through the outskirts of Earth's shadow, producing this 8% lunar eclipse:

one of my coolest buddy on  flickr/facebook has been so kind for letting me use his photo...

Thanks   Ahmad Radhafizal AKA Bro Mart.... do visit his awesome photostream here!! (^_^)

..and here's the  photo of BLUE MOON ECLIPSE....

He said he's totally happy and satisfied for being able to capture this phenomenon! I can almost smell the excitement! :-D

Cool? comment his photo here

 

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Sambutan tahun baru malam tadi diserikan dengan peristiwa gerhana bulan separa pada waktu dinihari.. Science reveal that, gerhana bulan hanya berlaku ketika bulan sedang mengambang penuh sahaja. Maka, pada malam tahun baru, bulan purnama telah memancarkan sinarnya yang terang benderang pada magnitud -12 untuk menerangi alam maya dari kegelapan malam. Secara sinonimnya, ianya bagai melambangkan permulaan hari tahun 2010 akan dimulai dengan kegemilangan cahaya. So sweet!

Di Malaysia, kejadian tu telah berlaku pada detik 01.17am  1 januari 2010. pity that i dont have the chance to capture them trough my lenses......(I sleep early..around 12.30am) apa pun, bagi saya ia merupakan satu pengakhiran yang sangat manis bagi tahun 2009! dont you think so? Ia membawa makna tersirat yang hanya Tuhan saja boleh simpulkan maksudnya..Lets pray that this year will be our luckiest year..!more Ong!

satu lagi fakta menarik yang saya baca ialah, sedar atau pun tidak, kejadian bulan penuh/ purnama telah berlaku sebanyak 2 kali pada bulan disember 2009 lepas...Bulan penuh yang pertama adalah pada 2 Disember 2009 dan yang ke dua adalah pada 31 Disember 2009/1 Januari 2010.

Kejadian bulan penuh sebanyak dua kali dalam masa sebulan ini sangat jarang berlaku. Bulan penuh seperti ini biasanya digelar sebagai blue moon hanya berlaku sebanyak 41 kali dalam masa seratus tahun ini (kurun ke-21). Disebabkan oleh blue moon ini berlaku dengan sangat jarang, maka timbullah istilah once in a blue moon  yang digunakan untuk merujuk kepada perisitiwa yang jarang terjadi.. tapi kini kita boleh la gelar ia "Twice in a Blue Moon!" hehe...

*****apa yang berlaku?****
(dipetik dari Daily News UK)

Gerhana Bulan Separa 1 Januari 2010


Jom kita fokus kepada peristiwa ini. Sila rujuk rajah sebagai panduan.

Rajah 2
Klik untuk gambar lebih besar.

Gerhana bulan separa kali ini  bermula pada jam 01.17 minit pagi dimana bulan akan mula memasuki bayang penumbra bumi (P1 pada rajah 2). Ingin diingatkan disini bahawa bayang penumbra adalah bayang bumi yang separa gelap. Maka bayang yang akan bakal kelihatan di permukaan bulan berkemungkinan tidak dapat dikesan oleh mata kasar disebabkan oleh kontras yang kurang ketara.

Maka ingin saya cadangkan anda memulakan cerapan dengan mula melihat bulan ketika ianya sedang ingin masuk ke bayang umbra bumi pada jam 02.52 minit pagi (U1). Bermula dari detik ini, anda akan melihat sebahagian kecil dari permukaan bulan akan dimamah secara perlahan2 oleh bayang umbra bumi.

Keadaan ini akan berterusan sehinggalah kemuncak gerhana iaitu pada jam 03.23 minit pagi. Seterusnya bulan akan terus berada dalam bayang umbra sehinggalah ia keluar secara keseluruhannya dari bayang umbra pada jam 03.52 minit pagi (U4).

Bulan akan keluar dari bayang penumbra pada jam 05.28 minit pagi (P4) yang menandakan berakhirnya peristiwa kali ini.

Rajah 3
Perbandingan rupa bulan ketika gerhana (kiri) dan sebelum gerhana pada pagi 1 Januari 2010

(sumber dipetik dari: Daily News UK)



HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

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I want to wish VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR, one that is full of every blessing that the Universe can bestow upon you, and all for your Highest Good.

I recognize that the world is in turmoil, and some of you may be feeling helpless and overwhelmed by it all. Perhaps 2010 will be just as challenging as 2009 turned out to be...if we do nothing. me myself, plan to be positive and concrete about changing the energy in me...i want to be more positive about the way things end up...and be a new me..

At this time of year, many of us are thinking about making New Year's Resolutions to change things that haven't been working for us for in a long while. I Have made a list of the ways in which I’d like to change myself...

For my Body

# 1. Reduce my caffeine intake : There’s nothing like saying “You can’t” to make me crave things more. But yesterday wasn’t so bad—decaf green tea (which does have a little caffeine) and a little bit of chocolate (hurmm...putting more fat on my body duh...)

I’m headachy and sleepy around the edges, but I think that’s the cold that’s brewing.

Today, I only had one cup of coffee. Usually I have about four or five lol :-p

 

# 2. Reducing sugar.... in ....my tea &coffee from half a tea-spoon to zero (well, you cant imagine the taste of  sugarless coffee!)

#3. Substituting my mid-morning snack with a piece of fruit, rather than a snack bar..bye2 kerupuk!

#4.Not eating between meals -other than my 'authorised' mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks)

#5. drink plenty of water!! - in progress!

#6. Limiting my portion size when I eat (from gunung kinabalu to gunung emas :-p)

#7. Eating healthy foods (fruits, lean meats, whole grains) and cutting refined sugars (soft drinks)

#8. Running at least 3 times a week with at least one workout at night

#9. Cross training at least 2 days a week with stretching, yoga, or cycling.

uuuww... cycling @sunset would be very much fun!

For "Them"

#1. Be a forgiver

#2. Be a good daughter

#3. Be a good sister

#4. Be a good fiance (i'm not saying i'm not good at being a fiance! i am damn good at it... hehe)

#5. Be a good friend

#6. Be a good worker ... yes, wake up @ 5.30 and reach office before 8! ;-)

#7. Be a good student...  my supervisor lent me his articles and i have to finish reading it.. fast fast!!! (sorry for being soooo 'lambat' Dr.. huhu)

#8. Be a good listener .. FYI, i am not a very good listener..sorry kalau selama ni ada yang terasa..:-(

For this Country

#1. Vote (because i never vote...huhu)

#2. Be a good citizen (as ever)

sorry Najib! but well thats all i can offer for now...maybe after this saya akan berusaha untuk menyumbang kepada dasar 20juta penduduk :-))  :-p

For Me Myself & I

#1. Bully my hairdressser into a style I like

#2. Travel someplace where its snowing

#3. Win something. Anything!

#4. Learn some guitar

#5. buy new lense for my DSLR

#6. learn more technique on photography

 flower .! what do you think? ada peluang kah kawan?

i consider ME MYSELF as simply synonym for coffee cup + bokeh photography..hehe..

#7. get a facial / body massage (never had one...hmmm..)

I wonder what would I look like if i had one? 

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(sila jangan ketawa kerana ini cuma kes angan2 Mak Joyah)

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last but not least..

********* Do things instead of making lists *********

I know there are loads of numbers missing and a little  too ambitious (too much ) I think but Maybe I’ll fill them in as I tick things off.

By the time I actually  (Hopefully) do all of this stuff I ought to be pretty sorted.

 

Happy New Year!!

 

~cheers~

 

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Selepas 2 hari bercuti sempena Krismas + sabtu +ahad = 4 hari kesemuanya, saya telah merungut kerana kurang tidur , penat dan terlalu banyak tekanan dalam hidup.. saya jadi malu sendiri dgn perasaan jujur yang lahir dari hati yang suci bersih (heheheheh) kerana ternyata kerja saya di opis bukanla banyak sgt hujung2 tahun ni.... setelah menelaah beberapa teks rujukan dan berfikir panjang, akhirnya saya jumpa sebab kenapa ianya berlaku :

(formula keletihan berganda)

keletihan kerana terlebih kerja... tau kenapa?

Di bawah ini saya akan tunjukkan kenapa saya mempunyai beban kerja yang lebih dan ianya adalah benar dan bukan rekaan semata-mata ya..:

Populasi penduduk Malaysia sekarang adalah 23 juta orang (anggaran shj).

1.7 juta darinya sudah bersara.

Jadi tinggal 21.3 juta orang.

1.3 juta pula adalah golongan kanak² bawah 6 tahun.

Jadi tinggal 20 juta orang.

Dari 20 juta ini, 7 juta masih belajar (tadika, sekolah, kolej,

universiti dll).

Jadi tinggal 13 juta orang yang boleh buat kerja.

Dari 13 juta ini, 5 juta orang adalah pekerja kerajaan yang 'pergi kerja tapi tak buat kerja'.

Jadi tinggal 8 juta orang yang boleh buat kerja.

Tolak 3 juta orang yang duduk dalam hutan (tentera darat) pasal

diorang nie nak kerja macam mana... tinggal dalam hutan.

sudah tinggal 5 juta orang yang boleh buat kerja....

Dari jumlah itu, tolak 2.7 juta orang yang menganggur dan tidak kerja, suri rumah, orang² tua, fresh universiti student, kena buang kerja dll.

Tinggallah 2.3 juta orang yang boleh buat kerja.

Dari jumlah ini, sebanyak 1,215,512 orang dilaporkan sakit dan kini

berada di dalam hospital di seluruh Malaysia (tak kiralah hospital swasta ke atau hospital kerajaan dan ini termasuklah hospital gila).

sudah tinggal 1,084,488 orang yang boleh buat kerja....

Sekarang ini mengikut bancian terkini, terdapat 1,084,486 orang di dalam penjara dan Pusat Serenti di seluruh negara.

Jadi sudah tinggal 2 orang yang boleh buat kerja...

Dan 2 orang itu adalah kamo dan saya....

Dari 2 orang ini...

kamo SEKARANG INI masih duduk depan komputer, bukak blog, berfacebook, main internet, main games, reading jokes, membaca email, main chat dan tidak buat kerja langsung... jadi tinggallah saya sorang yang buat kerja dalam Malaysia nie...

Mana saya X letih!!

Jadi sedarlah skit kamo....

HAHA

P/S : Semua statistik di atas boleh dirujuk kesahihannya di Pusat²

Bancian, Kementerian Kesihatan, Kementerian Pertahanan, Jabatan Tenaga Raya, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat.

sekian dan terima kasih

 

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The year 2009 is now coming to a close, and it's time to take a look back over the past 12 months through photographs. Historic elections were held in Iran, India and the United States, some wars wound down while others escalated, China turned 60, and the Berlin Wall was remembered 20 years after it came down. Each photo tells its own tale, weaving together into the larger story of 2009. This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days. Please see also part 1 and part 2. (40 photos total)

Fireworks illuminate the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin November 9, 2009, during celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. (REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay)

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The new PS20 solar tower at the Solucar Platform in Sanlucar la Mayor, southern Spain, seen on Sept. 23, 2009. PS20, one of the most powerful commercial solar tower in the world, consists of a solar field made up of 1,255 mirrored heliostats aimed at the tower, producing steam which is converted into electricity generation by a turbine. (AP Photo/Miguel Angel Morenatti) #

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A reveler of Leandro de Itaquera samba school parades at the Sambadrome, as part of Carnival celebrations in Sao Paulo, Brazil, late on February 21, 2009. (MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Supporters of ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya clash with soldiers near the presidential residency Tegucigalpa, Monday, June 29. 2009. Police fired tear gas to hold back thousands of Hondurans outside the occupied presidential residency as world leaders from Barack Obama to Hugo Chavez appealed to Honduras to reinstate Zelaya as president. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) #

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Ted Kennedy Jr. kisses the casket of his father in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica during a funeral mass in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston on August 29, 2009. President Barack Obama, three former presidents and a nation's elite gathered in the rain to attend a grand Catholic funeral for Ted Kennedy, America's legendary political patriarch. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A Hindu woman devotee offers prayers after taking a holy dip in the waters of river Ganga in the northern Indian city of Allahabad May 4, 2009. (REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash) #

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A young girl and her dog looks out from a vehicle as she and her family wait for security clearance at a checkpoint on the outskirt of Bannu, a town on edge of the Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 as they flee a military offensive in South Waziristan. Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in Waziristan, a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both sides claiming early victories in an army campaign that could shape the future of the country's battle against extremism. (AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammad) #

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An eruption of Mt. Redoubt seen at sunset from the cockpit of a DC-6 flying over Cook Inlet near Anchorage, Alaska on March 31, 2009. Photograph kindly provided by Bryan Mulder - pilot and photographer. (© Bryan Mulder) #

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Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) employees work on the last-pre cast segments (rings) of the Phase-II underground tunneling project between neighborhoods Jangpura and Lajpat Nagar in New Delhi on October 12, 2009, part of a larger project to have metro lines to cover the entire National Capital Region for the 2010 Commonwealth Games (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A local couple canoes through Atlanta's famous Krog Tunnel on September 21st, 2009, after flooding followed heavy rains throughout the region. (© Caroline Smith) #

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A US Marine of 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade runs to safety moments after an IED blast in Garmsir district of Helmand Province in Afghanistan on July 13, 2009. Two US Marine soldiers were killed when the explosion occurred as they tried to clear a route into the Taliban heartland of southern Helmand province. (MANPREET ROMANA/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A US Marine from Fox Company 2nd Battalion 3rd Marines rests as his platoon finishes searching houses for the day during day two of Operation Germinate into the restive Bhuji Bhast Pass in Farah Province, southern Afghanistan, on October 8, 2009. The Bhuji Bhast Pass is effectively a Taliban corridor, mined with IEDs from one end to the other, and lined with villages that are hostile to the Western troop presence. (DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo is unveiled in Mojave, California December 7, 2009. Billionaire Richard Branson on Monday unveiled the first commercial passenger spaceship, a sleek black-and-white vessel that represents an expensive gamble on creating a commercial space tourism industry. (REUTERS/Phil McCarten) #

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A North Korean woman carries water she collected from the Yalu River in the North Korean city of Hyesan, which borders China's Changbai county, April 6, 2009. (REUTERS/Reinhard Krause) #

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A competitor crosses the Start/Finish line during the Northern Ireland Bog Snorkeling Championships in Peatlands Park, Dungannon, County Tyrone July 26, 2009. (REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton) #

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Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic watches a shot during Game 1 of their NBA Finals basketball game against the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles, June 4, 2009. (REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson) #

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Wadee Daoud, a five-year-old visually impaired Palestinian boy, reacts to light after a teacher opened the window blinds in his classroom at the Helen Keller Center for blind and visually impaired children in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina September 10, 2009. The Center was founded as a home for blind girls by English missionary, Mary Lovell, in the 1890s. (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis) #

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A local woman on a crutch shouts at Chinese soldiers wearing riot gear as a crowd of angry locals confront security forces on a street in the city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region July 7, 2009. Hundreds of Uighur protesters clashed with riot police in the capital of China's Muslim region of Xinjiang on Tuesday, two days after ethnic unrest left 156 dead and more than 800 injured. (REUTERS/David Gray) #

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Owen Rabago (left) wipes a tear from the face of his father, Specialist Sheldon Rabago, as his mother Nancy wraps her arms around both of them during a candlelight vigil at Hood Stadium on the Fort Hood Army Post in Fort Hood, Texas November 6, 2009. The day before, An Army psychiatrist opened fire at the post, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others. (REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi) #

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A scene from the annual Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake was held near Gloucester, England. After this notoriously dangerous race for the cheese, the man upside down was taken away to the hospital. (© Will De Freitas) #

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A section of the Rocky Mountain News newsroom sits empty on February 27, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. The edition on Friday the 27th was the last one for the nearly 150-year-old daily, Colorado's oldest newspaper. The owner E.W. Scripps Co. announced the day before that the paper was closing down after efforts to sell the money-losing newspaper failed. (John Moore/Getty Images) #

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Police officials detain a suspected militant from the site of a shooting at a police training center in Lahore March 30, 2009. Pakistani security forces took control of the police academy in Lahore on Monday after militants rampaged through the complex, killing at least eight cadets and wounding scores before holing up inside for hours. (REUTERS/Mohsin Raza) #

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Miss USA, Kristen Dalton, applies lipstick while posing for photographers on the "Top of the Rock" observation deck at the Rockefeller Center in New York September 2, 2009. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) #

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Chinese parents gather to sleep at an auditorium after they accompanied their children to a university to start their first semester in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province on September 7, 2009. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) #

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An injured girl cries during an evacuation after an earthquake hit Padang, Indonesia's Sumatra island September 30, 2009. A 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the city of Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island on September 30, 2009, killing at over 1,000 people and trapping thousands under rubble. (REUTERS/Muhammad Fitrah/Singgalang Newspaper) #

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Burnt out trees outside Kinglake that were destroyed by fire are viewed from this aerial shot on February 8, 2009. Over 170 people were killed and entire towns razed in one of the worst wildfire disasters in Australian history, sending thousands fleeing in scenes Prime Minister Kevin Rudd compared to "hell". (MARK SMITH/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Maldivian Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Ibrahim Didi signs a declaration calling on countries to cut down carbon dioxide emissions ahead of a major U.N. climate change conference in December, in the Maldives, October 17, 2009. The Maldivian president and ministers held the world's first underwater cabinet meeting, in a symbolic cry for help over rising sea levels that threaten the tropical archipelago's existence. (REUTERS/Maldives Government) #

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A rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the northern Gaza Strip flies towards an Israeli target Friday, Jan. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) #

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An Israeli boy takes cover under a desk in a bomb shelter at a school in Jerusalem June 2, 2009, after a siren was sounded during a nationwide civil defense drill simulating a rocket attack. (REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun) #

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A Jewish settler (right) and a Palestinian demonstrator shout at each other during a protest against an illegal outpost near the Israeli settlement of Kharsina in the West Bank city of Hebron on May 22, 2009. (HAZEM BADER/AFP/Getty Images) #

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The NASA space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope are seen in silhouette, side by side during solar transit on May 13, 2009, from west of Vero Beach, Florida in this image released by NASA May 14. The two spaceships were at an altitude of 600 km (375 miles) and they zipped across the sun in only 0.8 seconds during a risky but successful mission to rescue the Hubble telescope. (REUTERS/Thierry Legault/NASA/Handout) #

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A girl dives in a lake 100 km (62 miles) west of St. Petersburg, Russia, in this Aug. 7, 2009 photo. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) #

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Scientists at CERN's control center celebrate after the successful restart operation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on November 20, 2009 near Geneva, Switzerland. The world's biggest atom-smasher had shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, and restarted on November 20, 2009. CERN spokesman James Gillies said the injections lasted a fraction of a second, enough for "a half or even a complete circuit" of the Large Hadron Collider built in a 27-kilometer (17-mile) long tunnel straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva. (STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Seven-time Tour de France winner and Kazakh cycling team Astana (AST)'s Lance Armstrong of the United States rides in the pack under heavy rains on July 17, 2009 in the 200 km and thirteenth stage of the 2009 Tour de France cycling race run between Vittel and Colmar. Armstrong went onto finish the tour in third place, behind winner Alberto Contador. (JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A car plows into a parade that included Queen Beatrix and the royal family on the national Queen's Day holiday in the Dutch city of Apeldoorn April 30, 2009. Ten people were injured and eight killed in the attack, including the 38-year-old driver, who narrowly missed the open-top bus carrying Queen Beatrix and the royal family. (REUTERS/Robin Utrecht/Pool) #

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A gymnast balances on the beam during a practice session for the World Gymnastics at the O2 arena in London, Monday, Oct. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) #

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Militants from Hizbul Islam haul the bloodied body of Mohamed Ibrahim, 48, from a chest-deep pit after stoning him to death for illicit sexual intercourse with a woman in the Afgoye district, Somalia on December 13, 2009. Ibrahim was sentenced to death by a local Islamic court after he was found guilty of infidelity. (REUTERS/Stringer) #

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A hunter holds his hawk during an annual hunting competition in Chengelsy Gorge, some 150 km (93 miles) east of Almaty, Kazakhstan on December 5, 2009. (REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov) #

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U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Bill Mesta replaces an official picture of outgoing President George W. Bush with that of newly-sworn-in U.S. President Barack Obama, in the lobby of the headquarters of the U.S. Naval Base January 20, 2009 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Brennan Linsley-Pool/Getty Images) #

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Supporters cheer during the opening ceremony of the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Alexandria, Egypt on September 24, 2009. Host Egypt played against Trinidad and Tobago in the opening soccer match, winning the match 4-1 . (REUTERS/Marko Djurica) #

 

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