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Photos of the Day | Monday, July 19, 2010


Motorcycle racer Aleix Espargaro, of Spain, left, flies through the air after crashing with racer Randy de Puniet, right, of France, during the Moto GP race of the Grand Prix of Germany.Espargaro suffered a broken vertebrae and Puniet broke his leg.


A Lockheed Martin F-22 flies in a display during Farnborough International Airshow, in Farnborough, England, Monday.


A car leaves an evacuated area near a wildfire west of downtown Yakima, Wash. Fire officials say the 10,000 acre blaze burned at least three homes and several outbuildings.


Tourists stand at Berlin's Holocaust Memorial on Sunday. The memorial, designed by US architect Peter Eisenman, is in the heart of the capital.


A United States Marine helicopter door gunner aims during a flight near Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan on Saturday.


Lightning illuminates a windmill near Bad Saarow, eastern Germany on July 17.


Santa takes in his surroundings in the Dyrehavsbakken amusement park, north of Copenhagen, Denmark, Monday and as others gather for the World Santa Claus Congress.


A man passes by the graves of Greek and Cypriot soldiers who were killed in the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus at the Tymvos Macedonitissas military cemetery in the divided capital of Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, July 19, 2010. Greek and Cypriot soldiers were killed 34 years ago during the Turkish invasion and subsequent occupation of the northern part of the island of Cyprus. Sunday July 20, is 36th anniversary of Turkish invasion. Cyprus was split into Greek Cypriot south and Turkish Cypriot north in 1974 when Turkey invaded in response to a coup by supporters of union with Greece.


A girl is sillouetted as she reaches toward the image of a whale shark while watching the high definition movie of Okinawa Chraumi Aquarium shown at the Ginza Sony building in central Tokyo on July 19, 2010, to mark the Marine Day national holiday. Marine Day is a national holiday celebrated each summer to give thanks to the ocean.


A photographer takes pictures in front of high waves during the passage of tropical storm Conson at the northern coastal city of Hai Phong. At least one person was killed and a dozen others reported missing in Vietnam as tropical storm Conson hit after leaving 68 dead in the Philippines when it struck as a typhoon.

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A photographer takes pictures in front of high waves during the passage of tropical storm Conson at the northern coastal city of Hai Phong. At least one person was killed and a dozen others reported missing in Vietnam as tropical storm Conson hit after leaving 68 dead in the Philippines when it struck as a typhoon.

Những người này gan thật

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Photos of the Day | Tuesday, July 20, 2010


A two-year-old South American sea lion opens its mouth after eating a fish at the Manila Ocean Park in Manila on July 19, 2010.


Members of an Indian farming family plow a field in preparation for sowing cotton seeds in Kayla village some 70 km from Ahmedabad on July 19, 2010. The family previously used three bullock to plow their agricultural land but due to crop uncertainty related to less predictable rains, and the price of the animal now between 25,000 and 40,000 Indian rupees (530-850 USD) a piece, the farming family says buying and maintaining them is no longer affordable.


A firefighter rushes to aid his colleague who ran into trouble amid thick oil cover as they attempted to fix an underwater pump in Dalian, China on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea off a busy northeastern port after a pipeline exploded late last week, sparking a massive 15-hour fire. The government says the slick has spread across a 70-square-mile stretch of ocean.


Indian rescue personnel conduct recovery operations on the mangled wreckage of train coaches following a railway accident in Sainthia, India, Monday. A speeding express rammed into the back of a stationary passenger train in eastern India, killing at least 57 people and trapping others in several badly mangled carriages. The standing train was waiting to leave Sainthia station when the express slammed into its rear.


A child plays with water in a fountain at a park in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, July 20, 2010.

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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, July 21, 2010


An Indian farmer works in a paddy field in Kokrajhar, about 140 miles west of Gauhati, India, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. With the arrival of monsoon rains, farming activity has resumed in the paddy fields.


Osman dives for a ball as he plays beach volleyball on July 21, 2010 in Eckernfoerde, northern Germany.


This photo taken on July 20, 2010 shows a view of the flood waters in southwest China's Chongqing municipality, after torrential rains hit Yangtze River areas. Thirteen people were missing after a landslide on July 20 in southwestern China, where flooding caused by relentless torrential rains has triggered a series of deadly disasters, state media said.Rivers throughout rain-hit regions have risen to or beyond their warning levels, flooding numerous towns and cities.


Cirque Du Soleil performer Jing Han, of Jiangsu, China, center, uses her feet to juggle a prop in the shape of a giant kiwi fruit along with other performers during a rehearsal for the show named "Ovo," in Boston, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. The show, meant to depict the world of insects, and featuring acrobats, jugglers, and aerial performers, is to open July 22, 2010, and runs through Aug. 29, 2010.


Novices sit in lines in front of the Maha Chedi during a mass ordination at Dhamagaya Temple in Pathumthani province, central Thailand Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Ten of thousands men ordained monkhood in a dawn ceremony to mark the three-month long Buddhist Lent or the rainy season when Buddhist monks remain in the monasteries to study the teachings of Lord Buddha which this year starts on Tuesday, July 27, 2010.


Schoolgirls react as a car splashes water from a puddle formed after rainfall in Amritsar, India, Wednesday, July 21, 2010.


A U.S. soldier watches an Afghan movie on TV while relaxing at Combat Outpost Nolen, an outlying base for the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 21, 2010.


Richard Kruse (right) of Britain vies with Poland's Radoslaw Glonek in the men's epee team competition of the European Fencing Championships 2010 in Leipzig, eastern Germany, on July 21, 2010. Britain took place three, Poland place four.

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Photos of the Day | Thursday, July 22, 2010


A man sells hot dogs with a view of the commercial center of Port au Prince behind him on July 22, 2010 in the aftermath of the January 12 2010 earthquake.


Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu reacts during a press conference in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, July 22, 2010. Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu announced Thursday he is retiring from public life later this year when he turns 79, saying "the time has come to slow down" and spend more time with his family. The former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town said after his birthday on Oct. 7 he will limit his time in the office to one day per week until February 2011.


A child lies playfully in a hammock as his family works at a construction site in the commercial Connaught Place area of New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 22, 2010. The city looks like a messy construction site as many parts are under renovation ahead of the Commonwealth Games which are scheduled to start Oct. 3, 2010.


A sports fishermen tries his luck on a flooded old road after sunset at Liptovska Mara dam, near the city of Liptovsky Mikulas on June 21, 2010. Liptovska Mara is Slovakia's popular summer destination visited by many local Polish and Czech sports fishermen.


California Highway Patrol officers investigate a Greyhound bus crash on Highway 99 in Fresno, Calif., that killed at least six people and injured many others Thursday, July 22, 2010.


Southeast Asian clouded leopards, (Neofelis Nebulosa) are seen at Jardin des Plantes Zoological in Paris, Thursday, July 22, 2010. The two female cubs, named Pati and Jaya, born on May 14, 2010, recently made their first appearance in public.


Children look at a giant Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) which started to bloom, at the botanic gardens in Tokyo on July 22, 2010. The Indonesian plant has the world's largest blossom, standing 1.5m in height and smelling like decaying flesh to attract beetles.


Garth Bauman dressed as Batman waits in line to get into the preview night at Comic-Con International Wednesday, July 21, 2010 in San Diego.


Penguins walk in a basin of the zoological garden in Dresden, Germany, Wednesday, July 21, 2010.

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Cái greenhouse ở trường UW cũng có 1 cây như vậy. Mấy năm trước nó trổ bông có quá chừng người tới xem.

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Bông nhìn ngộ quá, chưa bao giờ thấy!

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cây bông nhìn ngộ ghê

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Photos of the Day | Friday, July 23, 2010


Robert Stabbert and his wife Sasha Stabbert captured a male peacock that was roaming around their neighborhood for the last several months in South Seattle. The bird was heard yelping and squawking throughout the night. There is still a female peacock on the loose. The male peacock was held in their garage until animal control could pick it up.


Gustavus Adolphus professor Scott Bur works in his aluminized office in St. Peter, Minn. Students slipped into the chemistry professor's office while he was on vacation and as a prank, covered everything right down to pens and even his coffee pot cord with aluminum foil. "It's sort of become a tradition in my research group," said Bur, who'd only managed to unwrap his coffee pot and a few other essentials by Thursday morning. "When I go on vacation and come back, I always find something,".


A hot air balloon flies in the early morning Friday, July 23, 2010, at the Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning in Readington, N.J. The festival runs through Sunday, July 25, 2010.


Royal Collection worker Caroline de Guitaut poses for photographs with a collection of hats Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has worn to the Royal Ascot horse race meeting over the years, during a media event held to preview 'The Queen's Year' exhibition at Buckingham Palace in London, Friday, July 23, 2010. The exhibition, which is part of the Summer Opening of the State Rooms at the palace, opens to the public on July 27 and includes displays of robes, gifts, uniforms, dresses and jewellery, giving visitors an insight into the principal national and ceremonial events in the royal year.


Muscovites dance on the embankment of the Moskva river in central Moscow late evening on July 22, 2010, relaxing after midday 36 degree centigrade heat. The temperature in Moscow is expected to reach 38 degrees centigrade (about 100F) by the end of the week.


Chinese workers clean up flood mud along a street by Jialing river in southwest China's Chongqing municipality. China, already reeling from deadly floods, braced for a potential new deluge on the Yangtze downstream from the huge Three Gorges Dam as its reservoir's level hit a high for the year.


A fire fighter is looking at a damaged carriage of a Glacier Express passenger train at the accident site in Fiesch, Switzerland, Friday, July 23, 2010. A popular tourist train traveling between Lax and Fiesch in canton Valais derailed on Friday, leaving at least 15 people injured.

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Muscovites dance on the embankment of the Moskva river in central Moscow late evening on July 22, 2010, relaxing after midday 36 degree centigrade heat. The temperature in Moscow is expected to reach 38 degrees centigrade (about 100F) by the end of the week.

aww, cute

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Út biết nhảy tango không?

Không biết mấy thứ này. Út mà nhảy - tội nghiệp người partner

Nếp biết nhảy hông?

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Sợ đạp nát chân người ta à?
Nếp cũng khống biết. Lúc còn nhỏ có học ball room dancing, nhưng học xong bỏ luôn vì có bao giờ đi dance đâu. Lúc học college có 1 anh bạn rủ nếp đi học tango, Nếp tính tham gia thì ảnh đổi qua học salsa dance, Nếp không thích điệu đó mấy cho nên không tham gia. Tới giờ thì chỉ biết có 1 điệu, đó là điệu làm thinh.

Nếp phải nói là "nát bấy" mới đúng

Bo rùm đén sình đó học ở high school hả?
Ở high school Út có lấy 1 lớp dance, nhưng mà không phải Bo rùm đén sình. Lớp này họ dạy basic bà lê, jazz, etc. Học thì vui lắm - bữa nào vô cũng bị lôi ra stretch. Nhưng học ở high school thì Nếp biết rồi đó, học cho vui vậy thôi chứ đâu biết gì. Vô college thì không có học

Nghe nói dễ nhất là điệu tự do , đổi qua điệu đó đi

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Photos of the Day | Monday, July 27, 2010


Pakistani commuters drive past a ceramics shop in Rawalpindi on July 26.


An Afghan boy shows harvested grapes as US soldiers patrol in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday.


A volunteer holds a turtle hatchling before releasing it into the Gulf of Mexico on Monday at Padre Island National Seashore in Texas. Federal biologists hope that by the time the tiny critters get as far east as the BP spill, the toxic oil will largely be gone.


A fishermen tries to clean oil from the ocean at Dalian. Chinese authorities have closed several beaches and an island resort near the major port of Dalian as they try to clean up an oil spill that has affected crude shipments, state media said.


Kite surfers take part in the Kitesurf World Cup 2010 in St.Peter Ording, northern Germany on July 25, 2010. The event took place from July 16 to July 26, 2010.


Oscar, right, a man who underwent a full-face transplant in April, and Dr. Joan Barret after appearing in public for the first time in a news conference at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, July 26, 2010. A 30-member medical team led by the Spanish doctor Joan Barret carried out a full-face transplant, giving a young man who lost his face in an accident a new nose, skin, jaws, cheekbones, teeth and other features.

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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, July 28, 2010


Technicians get ready prior to setting up an alarm on the Tete Rousse glacier (3.150 m) on the Mont-Blanc, in the French Alps, after a 75m deep water pocket was found, threatening to flood the Saint-Gervais valley.


A mascot from the Hudson Valley Renegades baseball team holds a sign on East Market Street July 28, 2010 in Rhinebeck, New York, where Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky are to be married July 31.


Indian run through a waterlogged street flooded after heavy rain in Amritsar on July 28, 2010. Heavy rains which fell in several areas of northern India have brought respite from the scorching heat of previous weeks.


A Chinese worker cleans up debris of demolished buildings in floodwaters, along the bank of the Yangtze River in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province on July 27, 2010. China has struggled for weeks with deadly flooding that has killed at least 823 people, left 437 missing and caused at least 22 billion dollars in damage, and authorities have warned of more destruction.


Pakistani rescue workers search for survivors in wreckage of a crashed passenger plane at The Margalla Hills on the outskirts of Islamabad on July 28, 2010. A Pakistani airliner carrying 152 people crashed in a ball of flames into densely wooded hills outside Islamabad amid heavy rain and poor visibility, killing everyone on board. Rescue officials said pieces of charred flesh and body parts were littered around the smoldering wreckage, partially buried on a remote hillside, in the deadliest crash involving a Pakistani passenger jet in 18 years.

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Photos of the Day | Thursday, July 29, 2010


An Afghan schoolgirl looks on during an exhibition on human rights in Kabul on July 29, 2010.


Vehicles are seen upturned in a river, after a bridge they were travelling on collapsed on the outskirts of the northern Indian town of Shimla, Thursday, July 29, 2010. One person was killed and 2 injured in the accident, according to a news report.


In a picture taken on July 28, 2010 barrels from a chemical plant float in the Songhua river in Jilin, northeast China's Jilin province. More than a thousand barrels that contained more than 160 tonnes of explosive chemicals were washed by floodwaters into the major waterway in northeastern China, state media said, in the country's latest environmental accident.


Pakistani villagers move into safe place from a flooded village near Nowshera, Pakistan, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains, washing away streets, battering a dam and killing at least 60 people in most severe floods in decades in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday. Hundreds of thousands more were stranded as rescue workers struggled to reach far-flung villages.


A woman, who declined to give her name, is hugged by her husband as they chat between the border fence separating Nogales, Ariz., and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona's immigration law from taking effect, delivering a last-minute victory to opponents of the crackdown. The overall law will still take effect Thursday, but without the provisions that angered opponents -- including sections that required officers to check a person's immigration status while enforcing other laws.


Palestinian children in Gaza attending UNRWA's (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) Summer Games attempt to smash their own world record for the number of kites flown simultaneously on the beach in Gaza City on July 29, 2010.


French skipper Damien Cloarec sails on his Port-de-Plaisance-Roscoff singlehull on July 28, 2010 during the first stage of the 41st edition of the solo sailing race "Solitaire du Figaro" between Le Havre and Gijon in Spain.

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French skipper Damien Cloarec sails on his Port-de-Plaisance-Roscoff singlehull on July 28, 2010 during the first stage of the 41st edition of the solo sailing race "Solitaire du Figaro" between Le Havre and Gijon in Spain.

Hình nhìn đẹp quá. Nhưng đêm đến chỉ còn một màu đen mênh mang không bến bờ...

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uh-uh, đâu phải có trăng là mặt biển hông đen tối

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Sáng sủa thì không sao, nhìn đẹp lắm. Nhưng Nếp thử nhìn mặt biển ban đêm coi, có phải đen ồm không thấy gì hông. Có lần đi ra biển với 4 người bạn để ngắm trăng, ca hát vui vẻ lắm, nhưng mà nhìn mặt biển thì ớn lạnh - khủng khiếp

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hihi, ra biển ban đêm 1 lần đó thì nhớ nó như vậy đó - nhìn ông trăng thì được - sáng sủa, tròn trịa dễ sương

Bên này ra biển ban ngày cũng nóng lắm. Đi sáng sớm coi mặt trời lên hoặc xế chiều tối thì chắc sẽ mát hơn. Nhưng mà coi chừng muỗi

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Sáng sủa thì không sao, nhìn đẹp lắm. Nhưng Nếp thử nhìn mặt biển ban đêm coi, có phải đen ồm không thấy gì hông. Có lần đi ra biển với 4 người bạn để ngắm trăng, ca hát vui vẻ lắm, nhưng mà nhìn mặt biển thì ớn lạnh - khủng khiếp

Đó là Út chưa thấy cá mập lội vòng quanh, hồi anh đi vượt biên là vậy đó