Winter 1
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Stroiteley
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Russia
1.28 Km to Stroiteley in Murmansk Russia
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winter
white
snow
landscape
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forest
canon
31 Ocak 2012 Salı
30 Ocak 2012 Pazartesi
Feu de VL
Feu de VL
Intervention des sapeurs-pompiers de Saint-Gaudens pour feu de vhicule.
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400d
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Digital
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31
photographie
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17-50
tamron
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firefighter
sapeur-pompier
sp
18
portrait
bombero
bombers
pompieri
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pompiers
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sapeur
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ari
casque
tenue
feu
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IMG_9250
IMG_9250
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29 Ocak 2012 Pazar
Middle & Merri Island rock shelf and pools low tide 1240341
Middle & Merri Island rock shelf and pools low tide 1240341
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Stingray
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Southern
Ocean
Warrnambool
Victoria
Australia
January
2012
Photographer LJ Gervasoni
27 Ocak 2012 Cuma
Wrecker's Beach, D'Estree's Bay, Kangaroo Island , SA
26 Ocak 2012 Perşembe
Enjoy Copacabana
Enjoy Copacabana
Renzo
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boys
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Brazil
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colores
colors
Copacabana
de
divertido
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fun
having
Janeiro
mar
outdoors
playa
praia
Rio
sand
sea
speedo
sunga
Panasonic
24 Ocak 2012 Salı
24.1/366
24.1/366
A wonderful visit to Venus Bay Beach No.3 for a surf and swim. Greeted by a seal surfing the waves in and swimming out to catch the next wave. It was working its way down the beach, chasing fish. Beautiful!
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366
Venus Bay
seal
23 Ocak 2012 Pazartesi
Brugge at night...
Brugge at night...
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Belgium
Brugge
Europe
night photography
Nikon D7000
night shot
buildings
architexture
low light
scenery
atmosphere
travel photography
22 Ocak 2012 Pazar
queen street viaduct, toronto, ontario
queen street viaduct, toronto, ontario
This river I step in is not the river I stand in.
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ontario
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19 Ocak 2012 Perşembe
cbu_0048
cbu_0048
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Canon EOS 7D
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7D
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College Wrestling
California Baptist University
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CBU Open
Riverside
Santa Ana
17 Ocak 2012 Salı
Bad skiing conditions - Easter 2011
Bad skiing conditions - Easter 2011
This one was taken during the Easter of 2011. Due to a dry and cold winter in the mountains (little snow), mild weather in April, and a very late Easter, the skiing conditions were not optimal. At this location it was not possible to continue... Skiing under such conditions is definitely for enthusiasts! Fortunately, the conditions were still good a bit higher up in the mountains , so we were able to do some proper cross-country skiing as well :-)
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D90
3exp
3xp
Photomatix
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Valdres
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Norge
Norway
Norwegen
Europe
Valtjernsnuten
Knatten
Vidde
Pske
Pska
2011
Easter
Oversvmmelse
Vasetlypene
conditions, skiing conditions
16 Ocak 2012 Pazartesi
Goodbye for now...
14 Ocak 2012 Cumartesi
Parque do Hotel Tau
Parque do Hotel Tau
Hotel Tau, Arax, Minas Gerais
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Hotel Tau
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13 Ocak 2012 Cuma
U.S. Attempts to Stem Video Outcry
Pentagon officials went to lengths Thursday to avert damage to the U.S. war effort from a video that shows a group of Marines urinating on militants' corpses.
Pentagon officials went into damage-control overdrive Thursday over a controversial video, which appears to show a group of Marines urinating on militants' corpses. Julian Barnes has details on The News Hub. Photo: Reuters
Even before the military confirmed the video's authenticity, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta telephoned Afghan President Hamid Karzai to say he found the images deplorable.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the White House also expressed remorse. "Anyone found to have participated or known about it, having engaged in this kind of conduct, must be held fully accountable," she said.
Mr. Karzai strongly condemned the video as "inhuman." A statement from his office called for an immediate investigation and "severe punishment" for the U.S. troops featured in the video.
The Americans' full-court press appeared aimed at conveying to the Afghan and U.S. public that the incident was an aberration. Western officials in Kabul described Mr. Karzai's reaction as levelheaded and not inflammatory, a break from his use of similar past incidents to stoke anti-Western sentiment in Afghanistan. Pentagon officials said they were also heartened by a Taliban statement that the incident wouldn't derail attempts to begin peace talks.
The video, which emerged on YouTube and other sites, runs less than a minute. It depicts four men in Marine Corps combat gear urinating on three corpses. "Have a great day, buddy," one of the Marines is heard saying.
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This image, which has been cropped by The Wall Street Journal, was taken Jan. 11 from an undated YouTube video and shows what is believed to be U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban soldiers in Afghanistan. Click to see a larger image. Warning: the image is graphic.
The Defense Department launched multiple investigations to identify the Marines in the video and the person who took it.
Military officials said the Marines in the video were from the 3rd Battalion 2nd Marine Regiment from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, a unit that is highly trained but not in the same elite class as Navy SEALs or Marines Special Operations forces.
Defense officials said that they didn't know who posted the video and that the investigation isn't expected to focus on that issue.
Two of the Marines in the video have been identified and are facing questioning but have not been arrested or detained, a military official said. The Marines aren't likely to be publicly identified unless they are charged.
Penalties could range from a dishonorable discharge for violating good order to court-martial for war crimes, which carries potential prison sentences. Marines accused of desecrating enemy combatants' bodies could be charged with violations of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice that carry a punishment of two years in prison, lawyers say.
The military investigation also is likely to examine actions of the unit's commanders. Current and former military officers said strong leadership should have prevented an incident such as the one depicted in the video.
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A file picture shows Afghan President Hamid Karzai during the last day of a meeting with Afghan tribal elders and leaders in Kabul on Nov. 19, 2011.
While unlikely to face criminal charges based on the video alone, the unit's leaders could face administrative discipline, which could end their military careers.
The Marine unit was deployed to northern districts of Helmand province of Afghanistan from March to September 2011, suggesting that the video was shot during the spring or summer. The unit has returned home and some of its officers have moved on to other units, making an investigation of the command climate potentially difficult, officers say.
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U.S. Plans Push for Taliban Talks
Fighting has been intense at times in northern Helmand. During their six months in Afghanistan, seven Marines in or attached to the unit were killed.
But military officials said Thursday that no matter how tough the fight was, the Marines should have known from their training that desecrating corpses of enemy fighters was a violation of the laws of war that could have a strategic impact on the war effort.
WSJ's Julian Barnes has details of U.S. efforts to start peace talks with the Taliban as a catalyst to end the war in Afghanistan. AP Photo/Allauddin Khan
Both in boot camp and in predeployment training, Marines receive lectures on cultural sensitivity and the laws of war. That training sometimes includes information about Islamic burial traditions, which stipulate bodies of the dead must be washed and buried within 24 hours.
It is unlikely that the Marines in the video would have received specific warnings about desecrating corpses, current and former Marines said.
The Taliban condemned the video, saying in a statement that U.S. forces have committed "war crimes, inhuman and immoral deeds" through the 10 years of war. But a spokesman also told several news organizations by telephone that the outcry over the video won't affect the insurgents' tentative negotiations with the U.S.
During the Iraq war, images and accounts of wrongdoing by U.S. military personnel, such as pictures of abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison, turned Iraqi public opinion against America.
In Afghanistan, where far fewer people have televisions or even electricity, the images aren't likely to spread widely. But accounts are likely to spread orally, and could fuel more violence against the coalition by Afghans who feel that the disrespect shown to the dead violates Islam.
The Taliban have a tainted record on that score themselves. When they took over Kabul in 1996, they brutally killed Mohammad Najibullah, the deposed communist president who was seeking refuge at a United Nations compound in the city. They hung his castrated corpse and that of his brother from a traffic light on a busy street in Kabul, in violation of Islamic tradition. The Taliban in recent years frequently hung suspected government spies from trees in areas they control.
A Western military official in Kabul said the coalition learned of the latest video late Wednesday night local time from a website called Liveleaks. In Washington, the Marine Corps first learned of the video when they were contacted on Wednesday by the Sun newspaper in Britain. Like the Wall Street Journal, the Sun is owned by News Corp.
On the U.S. side, incidents of abuse or misconduct have occurred throughout the Iraq and Afghan wars. Marine Staff Sgt. Sanick Dela Cruz, testifying this week in the trial of another Marine accused of killing civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005, acknowledged urinating on one of the slain Iraqis after that battle was over.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned a video published on the Internet that appears to show US Marines urinating on the bodies of Taliban fighters and called for the punishment of anyone involved with it.
Thomas Draude, a retired Marine general who teaches at the Marine Corps University, said in the current age, images like the one in the video can quickly have strategic effects on the battlefield.
"The old saying, 'The good, the bad and the ugly' is so different now from days past, where images were long delayed. There just was not that immediate impact," Gen. Draude said. "The cell phone video, the instantaneous Internet connectivity, makes the requirement for leadership on top of things even more important."
Gen. Draude said the quick reaction from the Pentagon was "the right thing to do, as well as the smart thing."
At the moment, there are no plans to review the cultural sensitivity training U.S. Forces receive, a Western military official in Kabul said, but "leaders are re-emphasizing our values."
By Thursday night, Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, the deputy commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, was preparing to send coalition troops a letter reminding them of the "proper conduct in war and conflict" and the coalition's "values—differentiating between right and wrong and treating insurgent bodies with respect."
Write to Julian E. Barnes at julian.barnes@wsj.com and Maria Abi-Habib at maria.habib@dowjones.com
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11 Ocak 2012 Çarşamba
Rolling in
Rolling in
Bengello Beach, Broulee, N.S.W. South Coast
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Australia
Beach
Broulee
Canon 7D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Clouds
N.S.W.
NSW South Coast
Sea
10 Ocak 2012 Salı
Barcelona Frum Fixie session
Barcelona Frum Fixie session
BCNbike.wordpress.com
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bianchi
9 Ocak 2012 Pazartesi
8 Ocak 2012 Pazar
Classic Kotor
Classic Kotor
Montenegro Set I Travel Collection I Steve's Website I © Steve Rosset 2011
Kotor, Montenegro
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Kotor
Montenegro
Europe
Balkans
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July
2011
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Steve Rosset, Travel Collection I Steve, MontenegroTagsKotorMontenegroEuropeBalkanstravelEuropeanvillagechurchtraditionaloldhistoricalperspectivecentrecenterafternoonlightlightingvividclassicbuildingsstonewalledarchitecturescalehearttownmountainssummerJuly2011GeoTaggedSteve Rosset
Sunrise, Sawtooth Ridge and Bridgeport Valley, CA
Sunrise, Sawtooth Ridge and Bridgeport Valley, CA
The sun rises on Sawtooth Ridge in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Bridgeport Valley in Mono County, California.
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Black and White
Bridgeport Valley
California
Canon EOS 50D
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Geology
Hoover Wilderness
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Matterhorn Peak
Mono County
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North America
Ridge
Sawmill Ridge
Sawtooth Ridge
Sierra Nevada Mountains
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United States
Winter
Sierra Nevada Mountains, Sawtooth Ridge, Bridgeport Valley, Mono County, Nevada MountainsSkySnowUnited
6 Ocak 2012 Cuma
Fair Grounds Results
FIRST-6f; $18,000; cl($12,500); 3YO
5
Dynmt Lnn D (Nprvnk)
5.80
3.00
2.40
7
Hudson's Creed (Sellers)
3.20
2.20
3
Goldenexpcttons (Brdgmohn)
2.20
* Exacta (5-7) $17.20 * Trifecta (5-7-3) $34.40
SECOND-6f; $19,000; cl($15,000); 3up; (f&m)
5
Goodwd Gl (Grhm)
6.40
4.40
2.80
1
Acacan Spce (McMahon)
12.00
5.80
7
Sarah's Kitten (Mena)
3.20
* Double (5-5) $19.60 * Exacta (5-1) $73.00 * Trifecta (5-1-7) $262.80
THIRD-1 1/8m; $22,000; opt clm; 4up; (f&m)
5
Rose Mdllon (Mn)
4.00
3.00
2.10
4
Kidding (Zimmerman)
8.40
4.20
1
May One (Albarado)
2.80
Scr: Isabel Express.
* Double (5-5) $24.80 * Exacta (5-4) $44.00 * Trifecta (5-4-1) $157.20
FOURTH-6f; $14,000; mdn cl($10,000); 4up
4
Baby Bwana (Erm)
4.20
3.00
2.40
1
Monkey Hands (Lanerie)
6.60
3.80
2
Uncle Braw (Bonnet)
3.60
Scr: Palmer Tour, Lucky Bad Boy.
* Trifecta (4-1-2) $75.60 * Consolation Double (5-13) $5.00 * Double (5-4) $12.80 * Exacta (4-1) $26.80
Winner picked by Affrunti
FIFTH-7 1/2f(T); $25,000; cl($20,000); 4up
9
Stand (Mena)
14.40
5.80
4.00
6
Quick Delivery (Graham)
3.00
2.40
8
Pious Preacher (Eramia)
8.20
Scr: Sgt. Mauro.
* Trifecta (9-6-8) $441.00 * Double (4-9) $35.20 * Exacta (9-6) $49.00
SIXTH-6f; $17,000; cl($5,000); 4up; (f&m)
1
C'Mer Lucy (Jcnto)
53.60
14.20
9.00
7
Aunt Kat Kat (McMahon)
3.20
2.80
5
Lady Leestown (Eramia)
9.40
* Double (9-1) $299.60 * Exacta (1-7) $198.80 *Trifecta (1-7-5) $1,669.40
SEVENTH-5 1/2fT; $46,000; mdn spcl wt; 4pf
6
dh-Jaconage (Grahm)
3.60
3.60
2.40
4
dh-Simply Delightful
7
Bella Dama (Hernandez,Jr.)
11.80
* Exacta (4-6) $12.40 * Exacta (6-4) $10.60 * Trifecta (4-6-7) $221.40 * Trifecta (6-4-7) $213.40 * Double (1-4) $166.80 * Double (1-6) $139.80
Winner picked by Affrunti
EIGHTH-1m&70y; $46,000; mdn spcl wt; 3YOf
4
Ave's Sense (Sllrs)
7.80
4.40
2.40
8
Uptown Berte (Albarado)
4.00
2.60
3
Treasured Up (Campbell)
2.40
Scr: Urbanini, Chernomorochka.
*Trifecta (4-8-3) $71.60 * Consolation Double (4-7) $3.80 * Consolation Double (6-7) $3.40 * Double (4-4) $18.00 *Double (6-4) $20.00 * Exacta (4-8) $25.00 *
NINTH-1m(T); $41,000; alw opt clm; 4up
10
Willist (Eramia)
11.00
5.40
3.40
12
Banta (McMahon)
7.40
4.00
3
Gustav Bay (Napravnik)
2.80
Scr: Cha Cha Rios, Tricky and Quick, Pleasant Woodman, Rocket King.
*Double (4-10) $53.80 * Exacta (10-12) $90.60 * Trifecta (10-12-3) $291.80
Winner picked by Affrunti
Trifecta, cl, cl
5 Ocak 2012 Perşembe
4 Ocak 2012 Çarşamba
147/365 - Urangan Pier (QLD)... Good holiday
147/365 - Urangan Pier (QLD)... Good holiday
Just had a trip up to QLD to visit some good friends for our holidays, and enjoyed spending some quality time with them, my family, and chilling out on the beach... 8-)
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QLD
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Nikon
Nikon d300
3 Ocak 2012 Salı
I Love Mondays
I Love Mondays
I came across this stick writing in the sand while walking along the Merced River. Taken in Yosemite National Park, California. Taken on April 27th, 2011.
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sand
stick writing
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Yosemite Falls
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skies
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watefall
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Interestingness
National Park
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valley
forest
tree
Topaz Labs
DeNoise
Adjust
Adobe
CS2
Photoshop
HDR
High Dynamic Range
Oloneo
Photengine
Yosemite
Yosemite Valley
Northern California
CA
California
USA
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travel
landscape
Canon
60D
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picture
photographer
2011
April
Azzura Farms Sterling
Azzura Farms Sterling
Azzura Strockcrate
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SterlingStockcrate
Trucks
Tippers
Newell highway
Jerilderie trucks
Quarterdeck
Flickr
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Transport
Haulage
Semi
2 Ocak 2012 Pazartesi
20111230-065-Random yacht
20111230-065-Random yacht
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yacht
Sydney Hobart yacht race
ocean
sea
sail
spinnaker
Tasmania
Australia
Canon EOS 50D
Canon EF 70-200mm f4 L IS USM
1 Ocak 2012 Pazar
Going Up
Going Up
Filling the envelope. Better on black.
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10-20
2011
7d
australia
balloon
blanchetown
flame
fly
hot air balloon
sa
sigma 10-20
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