@Jessica Simpson...Macy's 84th Annual Thanksgiving Day Parade

Macy's 84th Annual Thanksgiving Day Parade


Jessica Simpson @Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2010

One-week-old locusts start forming bands.. cultivated land, outside Pyramid Hill, a town in the north of Victoria state, Australia

Insecticide is sprayed from the back of a farmer's truck onto the roadside soil where locusts have hatched and started hopping, outside Pyramid Hill, a town in the north of Victoria state, Australia, on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Spraying is under way to target locusts before they grow wings and start to swarm.

One-week-old locusts start forming bands and hopping towards cultivated land, outside Pyramid Hill, a town in the north of Victoria state, Australia, on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Spraying is under way to target locusts before they grow wings and start to swarm

Bruce Moon, a crop farmer, holds up a locust for a photograph outside Pyramid Hill, a town in the north of Victoria state, Australia, on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Spraying is under way to target locusts before they grow wings and start to swarm

Bruce Moon, a crop farmer, sprays insecticide from the back of his truck onto roadside soil where locusts have hatched and started hopping, outside Pyramid Hill, a town in the north of Victoria state, Australia, on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Spraying is under way to target locusts before they grow wings and start to swarm.

One-week-old locusts start forming bands and hopping towards cultivated land, outside Pyramid Hill, a town in the north of Victoria state, Australia, on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Spraying is under way to target locusts before they grow wings and start to swarm.

LOCUST Plague faces LOCUST MUNCHER..flv

The Australian plague locust

. Femen activists demonstrators...

Topless activists of the Ukrainian feminist group 'Femen', shout as policemen try to arrest them in front of the main police station in Kiev, Ukraine, 09 November 2010. Femen demonstrators alleged police in the Ukrainian capital were using intimidation tactics against members of the organization, because of Femen members' provocative dress and repeated criticism of Ukraine's pro-Russia government. Femen activists on 27 October protested against a working visit by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, some demonstrators claiming the Russian leader authoritarian government was 'raping' Ukraine




Topless activists of the Ukrainian feminist group 'Femen' are being detained by policemen in front of the main police station in Kiev, Ukraine, 09 November 2010. Femen demonstrators alleged police in the Ukrainian capital were using intimidation tactics against members of the organization, because of Femen members' provocative dress and repeated criticism of Ukraine's pro-Russia government. Femen activists on 27 October protested against a working visit by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, some demonstrators claiming the Russian leader authoritarian government was 'raping' Ukraine
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Ukrainian women activists protest against Saknieh execution - no comment

Spaceport America, the world's first commercial spaceport

Virgin Galactic's White Knight Two jet-powered carrier aircraft flies over Spaceport America during a runway dedication ceremony in Upham, N.M. on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010

Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, left, and Gov. Bill Richardson, give their stamp of approval during a dedication ceremony for the runway at Spaceport America in Upham, N.M., on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. Branson says he expects Virgin Galactic to begin offering suborbital flights within nine to 18 months

In this publicity image released by Virgin Galactic, the first flight to Spaceport America, the world's first commercial spaceport, circles the airfield in Upham, N.M., during a dedication ceremony on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Virgin Galactic, Mark Greenberg

annual carnival with dances dedicated to peace,.Valparaiso city

Members of different groups of dancers, covered in body paint, dance in the streets during their annual carnival, with dances dedicated to peace, racial tolerance and against discrimination, in Valparaiso city, about 121 km (75 miles) northwest of Santiago October 1, 2010.

Animal rights activists take part in a protest against the use of live animals in circuses in Vina del mar city, about 121 km (75 miles) northwest of Santiago October 2, 2010. The sign reads "Put oneself in their place".



Dancers perform during the opening ceremony for the Universal Forum of Cultures in Valparaiso city, about 121 km (75 miles) northwest of Santiago, October 22, 2010. Valparaiso city will host arts and cultural events throughout the city to coincide with the 45-day forum.

fans and gamers compete on opening day of BlizzCon 2010 in Anaheim, Calif

Fans and gamers compete on opening day of BlizzCon 2010 in Anaheim, Calif. on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. Over 20,000 fans sold out the BlizzCon 2010 convention in 2 seconds


Blizzard, fans and gamers attend opening day of BlizzCon 2010 in Anaheim, Calif. on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. Over 20,000 fans sold out the BlizzCon 2010 convention in 2 seconds.

Jay Wilson, Diablo III Game Director, left, and Bridget Marquardt pose for a photo on opening day of BlizzCon 2010 in Anaheim, Calif. on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010.

In this photograph taken by AP Images for Blizzard, Frank Pearce, Blizzard Entertainment co-founder and Executive Vice President of Product Development, left, and Mike Morhaime, Blizzard Entertainment CEO and co-founder, sign an autograph for a fan on opening day of BlizzCon 2010 in Anaheim, Calif. on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010

Diablo 3 Blizzcon 2010 Demon Hunter Reveal Trailer [HD]



Blizzard, the top five finalists onstage during the costume contest on opening day of BlizzCon 2010 in Anaheim, Calif. on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010

Blizzard, Bridget Marquardt, front, poses in her costume onstage while Jay Mohr speaks in the background on opening day of BlizzCon 2010 in Anaheim, Calif. on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010.

Blizzard, host Jay Mohr, left, and Bridget Marquardt pose for a photo on opening day of BlizzCon 2010 in Anaheim, Calif. on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010.

Blizzard, a fan participates in the costume contest on opening day of BlizzCon 2010 in Anaheim, Calif. on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010

Jamal Amwasi, a 35-year-old Palestinian civil servant is the proud owner of more than a dozen snakes..

Boys from the Amwasi family play with their pet snakes in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 13, 2010. The boys father, Jamal Amwasi, a 35-year-old Palestinian civil servant is the proud owner of more than a dozen snakes, including several large pythons, all of which live in a shed a few metres (yards) from his home in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.




Two year-old Nathalie Amwasi rides a three-meter pet python in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 13, 2010. Nathalie's father Jamal, a 35-year-old Palestinian civil servant is the proud owner of more than a dozen snakes, including several large pythons, all of which live in a shed a few metres (yards) from his home in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah



RAMALLAH: A lot of fathers would prefer their two-year-old daughters not to ride a giant Burmese python down the street like a pony — but not Jamal Amwasi of Ramallah.

The 35-year-old Palestinian civil servant is the proud owner of more than a dozen snakes, including several large pythons, all of which live in a shed a few meters (yards) from his home in the occupied West Bank.

"These snakes have become part of the family. Every morning and every night I check up on them and feed them," he says.

Amwasi stands out in the West Bank, where pets of any kind are rare and snakes are mostly viewed as farm pests. His experience has made him the leading local authority on the reptiles.

As a boy, Amwasi would hunt birds and gazelles in the surrounding hills, a pastime that eventually led him to snakes.

In addition to collecting local snakes, he has imported the Burmese pythons from a trader in Israel. He knows all the different species by their Hebrew names.

Some 40 species of snake inhabit Israel and the West Bank and around 10 of them are venomous, including the Sahara horned viper, the Palestinian viper, the saw-scaled viper and the long, black burrowing asp.

Amwasi used to own around 20 venomous snakes but got rid of them for fear that they might bite one of his children or a neighbour. He says he turned them loose in a remote area far from the city.

He has taught himself how to treat various bites, however, and once helped doctors administer antivenom to a 10-year-old boy who had been bitten by a snake in a village near Ramallah.

"I got a call from a friend who was visiting a patient at the hospital, and he said there was a critical case, a child the doctors said had been bitten by a snake." He raced to the hospital and asked the boy where he was from.

"I know where the snakes are in this area, so I knew the kind of poisonous snake that was in that village, as well as the antivenom," he says. Within three days, the child recovered fully.

'It thought my hand was a chicken'

Now he regularly gets calls from people asking him to remove troublesome snakes. If they are venomous he kills them. If not, he keeps them.

Back at home, his children enjoy the pet pythons. Ibrahim, 13, is responsible for feeding the three-meter snakes when his father is away.

"I'm not afraid of them at all," he says proudly.

Two-year-old Natalie used to be afraid, but now she kisses them and rides on their backs as they slither down the road in front of her house.

"I'm thinking about making her a saddle,' Amwasi says, as neighbours and passers-by stop and stare.

He raises chickens, ducks and rabbits in order to ensure a constant food supply for his pets, and says he fed a lamb to one of the pythons two weeks ago.

The lamb, he admits, was hardly bigger than Natalie, but he brushes aside concerns about her safety.

"Before they eat any animal they inspect it and sniff it and taste it," he says. "Anyway, they don't eat people."

Other snake handlers disagree. Yonatan Vronski, a longtime snake collector who works with Israel's Nahariya Zoo, says Burmese pythons, though usually docile, can be deadly.

"This is not a snake that one person can handle safely," he says. "If you leave your kid alone with a snake to go in and make coffee, by the time the water boils the kid can be dead."

Amwasi has had his own brushes with the snakes, but insists the python bite scar on his left hand was simply a misunderstanding. "It thought my hand was a chicken."


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Himba women gathered in the village of Ohungumure

This file picture taken on August 19, 2010 shows Himba women gathered in the village of Ohungumure, 15 kms west of Opuwo in northern Namibia. Their bare-chested bodies painted with rich ochre-red colours, Himba women sing and dance in villages untouched by modernity since their ancestors settled on the Angola-Namibia border 200 years ago

Himba - Part I - Nomads of Southern Africa -

Himba - Part III - Nomads of Southern Africa

Himba -Part II - Nomads of Southern Africa


Namibia Natives

Photorécit13 2 futuroscop3dijon adorable peuple himbas

Hommage to the Himba

Himba tribe: Unwanted Marriage - Tribal Wives - BBC

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Himbas 2000

Namibia (5/2007) - Himba tribe


MOVIE
http://injoyfreemovie.blogspot.com/2009/05/die-weisse-massai-part-123.html

A Pakistani wrestler or "Pahalwan", .. is several thousand years old and is a national sport in Pakistan.

Pakistani wrestlers or "Pahalwans" are pictured during a training session at a wrestling pit in Lahore, Pakistan on October 9, 2010. Kushti, an Indo-Pakistani form of wrestling, is several thousand years old and is a national sport in Pakistan

wrestlers or "Pahalwans", brothers Ahmad (R) and Ali Butt watch a colleague exercise during a training session at a wrestling pit in Lahore, Pakistan on October 10, 2010. Kushti, an Indo-Pakistani form of wrestling, is several thousand years old and is a national sport in Pakistan. In ancient times it was used for combat and self-defence. Pakistani wrestlers Azhar Hussain and Muhammad Inam have won gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth games in Delhi, India in the 55kg and 84kg freestyle disciplines. The last time Pakistan won a wrestling gold at the Commonwealth games was in 1970 at Edinburugh, Scotland.


Pakistani wrestlers or "Pahalwans" exercise before a practice session at a wrestling pit in Lahore, Pakistan on October 8, 2010.In ancient times it was used for combat and self-defence. Pakistani wrestlers Azhar Hussain and Muhammad Inam have won gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth games in Delhi, India in the 55kg and 84kg freestyle disciplines. The last time Pakistan won a wrestling gold at the Commonwealth games was in 1970 at Edinburugh, Scotland.

A Pakistani wrestler or "Pahalwan" exercises before a practice session at a wrestling pit in Shahdra near Lahore, Pakistan on October 11, 2010. Kushti, an Indo-Pakistani form of wrestling, is several thousand years old and is a national sport in Pakistan.

A Pakistani wrestler or "Pahalwan" sits with a "gar nal" or neck weight made of solid stone and worn around the neck to strengthen neck and shoulder muscles before a practice session at a wrestling pit in Shahdra near Lahore, Pakistan on October 11, 2010. Kushti, an Indo-Pakistani form of wrestling, is several thousand years old and is a national sport in Pakistan. In ancient times it was used for combat and self-defence. Pakistani wrestlers Azhar Hussain and Muhammad Inam have won gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth games in Delhi, India in the 55kg and 84kg freestyle disciplines. The last time Pakistan won a wrestling gold at the Commonwealth games was in 1970 at Edinburugh, Scotland.

pakistani wrestler ALI pehlawan beat indian wrestler sunny pehlawan

Khagendra Thapa Magar ..will be declared by the Guinness World Records

Khagendra Thapa stands by a doorway as he prepares to be measured and weighed by Guinness World Records officials in Pokhara West Nepal October 13, 2010.

Khagendra Thapa is helped by his mother Dhana Maya Thapa to get dressed in preparation to be measured and weighed by Guinness World Records officials in Pokhara West Nepal October 13, 2010.

Khagendra Thapa prepares to be measured and weighed by Guinness World Records officials in Pokhara West Nepal October 13, 2010. Thapa, who is turning 18 on October 14, will be declared by the Guinness World Records to the shortest man in the world, according to local media reports.

Khagendra Thapa is carried by his mother Dhana Maya Thapa as his younger brother, Mahesh, 14, helps him to get dressed in preparation to be measured and weighed by Guinness World Records officials in Pokhara West Nepal October 13, 2010. Thapa, who is turning 18 on October 14, will be declared by the Guinness World Records to the shortest man in the world, according to local media reports

Khagendra Thapa is helped by his mother Dhana Maya Thapa to get dressed in preparation to be measured and weighed by Guinness World Records officials as he plays with his younger brother, Mahesh, 14, in Pokhara West Nepal October 13, 2010. Thapa, who is turning 18 on October 14, will be declared by the Guinness World Records to the shortest man in the world, according to local media reports.

World's Smallest Man Khagendra Thapa Magar

The shortest 'man' in the world


Khagendra Thapa Magar marches to Deutschland, Deutschland Uber Alles

The Russian rocket carries US astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka.

People watch start of the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-01M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, from the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, early Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. The Russian rocket carries US astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka

The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-01M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off from the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, early Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. The Russian rocket carries US astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka

The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-01M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off from the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, early Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. The Russian rocket carries US astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka.

Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri, center, and Oleg Skripochka, center left rear, and U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly, center right rear, crew members of the mission to the International Space Station, ISS, walk to the rocket prior the launch of Soyuz-FG rocket at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Friday, Oct. 8, 2010.

From left: U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri, and Oleg Skripochka, crew members of the mission to the International Space Station, walk away from their base to the bus that will take them to the launch pad at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. A Russian rocket with a U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts onboard blasted off successfully early Friday for the International Space Station, with flame-haired Russian spy Anna Chapman making an unexpected appearance at the cosmodrome to wave them goodbye

Expedition 25 Crew Readies as Rocket Rolls Out To Launch Pad

Part 1 - ISS Expedition 25 crew prepares for launch as their Soyuz rocket moves to launch pad

Part 2 - ISS Expedition 25 crew prepares for launch as their Soyuz rocket moves to launch pad