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    Thanks F$.

    Pictures We Love: Best of January 2012


    Suspiciously Quiet

    Photograph by Dean Lewins, European Pressphoto Agency

    A plush penguin toy gets a genuine penguin grooming in Antarctica on January 13—just one of the National Geographic Digital Media photo editors' favorite pictures from January.



    Rings of Fire

    Photograph by Gemunu Amarasinghe, AP

    A fire dancer performs in an annual Buddhist procession in Kelaniya-near Colombo, Sri Lanka-on January 8. Hundreds of traditional dancers, drummers, and monks take part in the Duruthu Perahera, or Kelani Procession, one of the country's biggest festivals. Commemorating a visit by the Buddha to Kelaniya Temple, the event takes place before the full moon each January. (See more Sri Lanka pictures.)

    Buddhism is the dominant religion in Sri Lanka. The tropical island, formerly known as Ceylon, lies close to the southern tip of India.



    Capsized Concordia

    Photograph by Gregorio Borgia, AP

    Italian navy divers approach the cruise ship Costa Concordia on January 17—four days after the luxury liner ran aground near the Italian island of Giglio. Capt. Francesco Schettino is accused of causing the wreck after navigating the ship dangerously close to the island, where contact with the reef tore its hull.

    Seventeen people are confirmed dead, according to the Associated Press, which reported that Italian officials have now called off the search in the submerged part of the ship for 16 people who remain missing, citing safety concerns.



    Wish U Were Here

    Photograph by Brandon Smith, Your Shot

    New Year's revelers welcome 2012 with kisses—and mobile devices—in a picture taken in Los Angeles.



    The Red and the Black

    Photograph by Ben Bronselaer, Your Shot

    A southern ground hornbill glowers from this picture submitted to National Geographic's Your Shot in January. Native to sub-Saharan Africa, the species can climb trees in pursuit of prey. In flight, it can reach up to 18 miles (29 kilometers) an hour.



    Watertight

    Photograph by Robin Utrecht, European Pressphoto Agency

    A man keeps an eye on rising water from inside his home in Dordrecht in the Netherlands on January 5, 2012.

    Heavy rains in early January threatened dikes and forced the evacuation of hundreds, according to Reuters. More than 1,491 miles (2,400 kilometers) of dikes shield the low, flat land of the country—almost half of which lies below sea level.



    Through the Fire

    Photograph by Daniel Ochoa de Olza, AP

    A man rides a horse through a bonfire in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, on January 16, 2012. On the eve of each St. Anthony's Day, hundreds in the small village ride horses through the streets in honor of the patron saint of domestic animals.

    Called the Luminarias, the tradition dates back 500 years. Riding a horse through a bonfire is believed to purify the animal and protect it in the year to come.



    In Stitches

    Photograph by Kevin Frayer, AP

    The services of a streetside tailor prove useful to a man with damaged pants in New Delhi, India, on January 19, 2012.



    Cry of Protest

    Photograph by Sarah Rice, Getty Images

    Black material stretched over their faces, a group of performers makes its way among the Occupy Wall Street West protests in San Francisco's financial district on January 20, 2012. Protesters were rallying at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, where they delivered a proposed 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would outlaw "corporate personhood."



    Train of Thought

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    Train passengers in Beijing wait to return home for the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, on January 8. Train service is provided to migrant workers by the local government.

    The world's largest annual migration of people takes place in China each January, when more than 200 million people travel home for New Year's celebrations.



    Photograph by Rahul Talukder, My Shot

    Published February 1, 2012

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    I was raised in country with no freedoom. Portugal till 1974 was under a dictactorship and freedoom is very important to me.

    Life without freedoom is nothing. The one who is ready to abdicate for a small part of his freedoom sooner or later would be a slave.
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    That last set of pics are Awesome!


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    Thanks F$ nice words are always good to listen. And now for those who think you are too small to help...


    They say that because they had never been with Duke the menace for one hour.

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    2010 Pictures



    Earthquake in Haiti
    Photograph by Shaul Schwarz / Reportage / Getty Images for TIME
    The devastating January 12 quake registered 7.0 on the Richter scale.


    Mourning
    Photograph by Mark Wilson / Getty Images
    On April 5, a gas explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal West Virginia claimed the lives of 29 men. Miner Terry Cooper and his family, above, mourn their deaths.


    Fire in the Sky
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    Firefighters approach an oil pipeline blast site in Dalian, China, July 17.


    Volcanic Eruption in Iceland
    Photograph by Whitehotpix / Zumapress.com
    The ash spewed by the volcano on Eyjafjallajö kull glacier clouded the skies over the U.K. and western Europe, shutting down air travel for six days in April. This photograph, made by an amateur photographer, captures the scene over the glacier in the first few hours of the volcano's increased activity.


    The Chilean Miners are Discovered
    Photograph by Reuters
    Florencio Avalos, one of 33 miners trapped in a copper and gold mine in Copiapó, Chile, peers into the video camera that had been lowered through a shaft drilled into the chamber where the men had sought safety after a cave-in. Rescuers succeeded in finding the men 17 days after the section of the mine they were working in collapsed on August 5.


    Nameless Victim
    Photograph by Charlie Riedel / AP
    A laughing gull mired in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill struggles against the tide on East Grand Terre Island, LA, six weeks after the rig collapsed in April.


    Oily Mess
    Photograph by Benjamin Lowy / Reportage/ Getty Images
    Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill floats on the surface of the water in the Gulf of Mexico in June.


    Blast Walls
    Photograph by Peter van Agtmael / Magnum for TIME
    Cement barriers line a street at Camp Liberty, in Baghdad, Iraq.


    Displaced
    Photograph by Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images
    A man and boy flee before advancing floodwaters in Punjab, Pakistan, August 22. Flooding that began in Pakistan in July spread south through August, washing out millions of acres of farmland.


    Important Delivery
    Photograph by Ahmad Masood / Reuters
    A donkey transports ballot boxes to villages unreachable by car in Panjshir province, Afghanistan, on September 17, one day prior to an election for the Afghan parliament.


    Southern Sudan
    Photograph by Cedric Gerbehaye / Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund / Agence VU
    A young Dinka boy stands in a camp in Southern Sudan. The region will vote in early 2011 in a referendum that is almost certain to give it independence.


    Not So Little Green Men (and Women)
    Photograph by Menahem Kahana / AFP / Getty Images
    Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, in November.


    Uprising in Kyrgyzstan
    Photograph by Vladimir Pirogov / Reuters
    Protesters tackle a riot policeman and attempt to take the rocket-propelled grenade strapped to his back. In several days of rioting, protesters demonstrated against the policies of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who ultimately fled the capital.

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    The Child Song


    When a woman of a certain African tribe knows she is pregnant, goes to the jungle with other women, and together they pray and meditate until they get to "The song of the child."

    When the child is born, the community gets together and they sing their song. Thus, when the child begins his education, people get together and he sings his song.
    When you become an adult, they get together again and sing.
    When it comes to the wedding, the person hears his song.

    Finally, when your soul is to go from this world, family and friends are approaching and, like his birth, sing their song to accompany it in the "journey".

    In this African tribe, is another occasion when the men sing the song.
    If at some point the person commits a crime or aberrant social act, take you to the center of town and the people of the community form a circle around her.
    Then they sing "your song."

    The tribe recognizes that the correction for antisocial behavior is not punishment, is the love and memory of his true identity. When we recognize our own song, since we have no desire or need to hurt anyone.

    Your friends know "your song". And sing when you forget it. Those who love you can not be fooled by mistakes you have committed, or dark images you show to others. They remember your beauty as you feel ugly, your total when you're broke, your innocence when you feel guilty and your purpose when you're confused.

    Tolba Phanem
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    [size=14pt]Photo of the Day: Best of March 2011[/size]



    Kung Fu Master, China

    Photograph by Fritz Hoffmann, National Geographic

    Buddhist monk and kung fu master Shi Dejian (above) and his disciples hauled bags of cement and roof tiles up steep mountain paths to build an isolated retreat (in background) away from the tourist crowds at the Shaolin Temple.




    Hang En Cave, Vietnam

    Photograph by Carsten Peter, National Geographic

    Going underground, expedition members enter Hang En, a cave tunneled out by the Rao Thuong River. Dwindling to a series of ponds during the dry months, the river can rise almost 300 feet (91 meters) during the flood season, covering the rocks where cavers stand.




    Catacombs, Paris

    Photograph by Stephen Alvarez, National Geographic

    In a sandy chamber known as the "beach," a wave rolls across a wall painted (and repainted) by cataphiles in the style of Japanese printmaker Hokusai. Such works can take hundreds of hours—the painting but also the carrying in of supplies.




    Sunken Ship, Key Largo

    Photograph by David Doubilet, National Geographic

    Upholstered with luminous sponges and corals, the bridge of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Duane attracts schools of smallmouth grunts—and divers. The ship was intentionally sunk in 1987 off Key Largo to create an artificial reef 120 feet (36 meters) deep.




    Kogershin Village, Kazakhstan

    Photograph by Vincent J. Musi, National Geographic

    A woman milks a mare in the village of Kogershin in southern Kazakhstan. Recent archaeological studies have shown that the Botai people of the Eurasian steppes were the first to actively domesticate horses, 5,500 years ago.




    Machu Picchu

    Photograph by Robert Clark, National Geographic

    Perched high in the Peruvian Andes, the royal retreat of Machu Picchu testifies to the Inca's masterful building skills with its precision-cut stones and perfectly placed cascades of terraces.




    Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska

    Photograph by Michael Melford, National Geographic

    In the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes a stream carves a canyon through rock formed during the 1912 eruption of nearby Novarupta Volcano. The snowcapped peaks are Mount Griggs and Mount Katmai (far right), part of an active system of ten volcanoes surrounding the valley, a hundred miles south of the proposed Pebble mine.




    Diprotodon Tracks, Australia

    Photograph by Amy Toensing, National Geographic

    On a drying lake bed in Victoria, a farmer in 2007 alerted scientists to a major find: well-preserved tracks of a Diprotodon. The slow-moving behemoth had been crossing a volcanic plain 100,000 years ago, when megafauna still walked tall.




    Pagoda Forest, China

    Photograph by Fritz Hoffmann, National Geographic

    "Gained merit in battle" reads the epitaph of two of the 231 eminent Shaolin monks honored with shrines in the Pagoda Forest. The number of layers in a shrine reflects a monk's virtue; his bones, and often those of disciples, are buried below.




    Bristol Bay, Alaska

    Photograph by Michael Melford, National Geographic

    "We love our fish!" says Ina Bouker, a Yupik native and teacher from Dillingham who opposes the mine. "The salmon always run. But if their habitat is destroyed, they will not come back."

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    A great way to remind us of beautiful things outside of our own small area. Thanks Duke.

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