Acid terrorism.OUTRAGEOUS!

Nu sunt vreo feminista, singurul lucru de care ma fac vinovata e prejudecata referitoare la lumea araba, mai exact opresiunea, sclavagismul, salbaticiunea si ingradirea nesimtita a drepturilor umane ale femeilor arabe.Ceea ce veti vedea mai jos sunt niste imagini revoltatoare ce vorbesc practic de la sine, imagini socante cu cateva femei pakistaneze ce au fost mutilate cu acid de catre niste fiinte pe care as vrea sa le pot numi "barbati" dar nu merita.

Zainab Bibi, 17ani, isi ajusteaza valul in timp ce pozeaza in Islamabad, Pakistan, miercuri, 24.Dec.2008. Zainab a fost arsa pe fata cu acid aruncat de un baiat pe care a refuzat sa-l ia de barbat acum 5 ani.A trecut prin cateva interventii chirurgicale in incercarea de a-si reveni in urma arsurilor.

Zainab Bibi, 17, adjusts her veil as she poses for a photograph in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008. Zainab was burned on her face with acid thrown by a boy whom she rejected for marriage five years ago. She has undergone plastic surgery several times to try to recover from her scars.

Shehnaz Usman, 36ani, pozeaza pentru un forograf in Lahore, Pakistan, duminica, 26.Oct 2008. Shehnaz a fost arsa cu acid de catre o ruda in urma unei dispute familiale acum 5 ani. Shehnaz a trecut prin 10 interventii chirurgicale plastice in incercarea de a-si reveni in urma arsurilor.

Shehnaz Usman, 36, poses for a photograph in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008. Shehnaz was burned with acid by a relative due to a familial dispute five years ago. Shehnaz has undergone plastic surgery 10 times to try to recover from her scars.

Shameem Akhter, 18ani, pozeaza acasa la ea in Jhang, Pakistan, miercuri, 10.Julie 2008. Shameem a fost violata de catre 3 baieti dupa care au aruncat acid pe ea acum 3 ani.Shameem a trecut prin 10 interventii chirurgicale plastice in incercarea de a-si reveni in urma arsurilor.

Shameem Akhter, 18, poses for a photograph at her home in Jhang, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 10, 2008. Shameem was raped by three boys who then threw acid on her three years ago. Shameem has undergone plastic surgery 10 times to try to recover from her scars.

Saira Liaqat, 26ani, pozeaza acasa in Lahore, Pakistan, tinand potretul sau de dinainte de-a fi arsa cu acid, miercuri, 9.Juie 2008. Cand avea 15ani, Saira a fost maritata cu o ruda apropiata care mai tarziu a atacat-o cu acid dupa ce a insistat ca ea sa locuiasca cu el, desi familiile au cazut de acord ca el sa astepte pana ce ea isi va termina studiile. Saira a trecut prin 9 interventii chirurgicale plastice in incercarea de a-si reveni in urma arsurilor.

Saira Liaqat, 26, poses for the camera as she holds a portrait of herself before being burned, at her home in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 9, 2008. When she was fifteen, Saira was married to a relative who would later attack her with acid after insistently demanding her to live with him, although the families had agreed she wouldn't join him until she finished school. Saira has undergone plastic surgery 9 times to try to recover from her scars.

Najaf Sultana, 16ani, pozeaza la ea acasa in Lahore, Pakistan, miercuri 9 July 2008. Cand avea 5 ani a fost arsa de tatal ei in timp ce dormea, din cate se pare pentru ca nu mai vroia inca o fata in familie. Ca urmare a arsurilor, Najaf a ramas oarba, si a fost abandonata de ambii parinti.Locuieste in prezent cu rudele. A suferit 15 operatii.

Najaf Sultana, 16, poses for a photograph at her home in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 9, 2008. At the age of five Najaf was burned by her father while she was sleeping, apparently because he didn't want to have another girl in the family. As a result of the burning Najaf became blind and after being abandoned by both her parents she now lives with relatives. She has undergone plastic surgery around 15 times to try to recover from her scars.

Naila Farhat, 19ani, Islamabad, Pakistan, miercuri, 24.Dec 2008. Naila a fost arsa pe fata cu acid aruncat de un pretendent la casatorie pe care l-a refuzat acum 5 ani. A trecut prin cateva operatii ca sa-si revina.

Naila Farhat, 19, poses for a photograph in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008. Naila was burned on her face with acid thrown by a boy whom she rejected for marriage five years ago. She has undergone plastic surgery several times to try to recover from her scars.

Munira Asef, 23ani, Lahore, Pakistan, duminica, 26.Oct 2008.Munira a fost arsa pe fata cu acid aruncat de un pretendent la casatorie pe care l-a refuzat acum 5 ani. A trecut prin 7 interventii chirugicale.

Munira Asef, 23, poses for a photograph in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008. Munira was burned with acid five years ago by a boy whom she rejected for marriage. She has undergone plastic surgery 7 times to try to recover from her scars.

Memuna Khan, 21ani, Karachi, Pakistan, vineri, 19.Dec.2008. Menuna a fost arsa cu acid de un grup de baieti care vroiau sa incheie o disputa intre familiile lor si cea a Memunai. A suferit 21 de interventii chirurgicale.

Memuna Khan, 21, poses for a photograph in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 19, 2008. Menuna was burned by a group of boys who threw acid on her to settle a dispute between their family and Menuna's. She has undergone plastic surgery 21 times to try to recover from her scars.

Kanwal Kayum, 26ani, isi aranjeaza valul in timp ce pozeaza in Lahore, Pakistan, duminica, 26.Oct. 2008. Kanwal a fost arsa cu acid acum un an de catre un baiat pe care a refuzat sa-l ia de sot. Nu si-a facut nicio operatie estetica de atunci.

Kanwal Kayum, 26, adjusts her veil as she poses for a photograph in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008. Kanwal was burned with acid one year ago by a boy whom she rejected for marriage. She has never undergone plastic surgery.

Irum Saeed, 30ani, pozeaza in biroul sau de la Universitatea Urdu din Islamabad, Pakistan, joi, 24.Iulie 2008. Irum a fost arsa cu acid pe fata, spate si umeri acum 12 ani de catre un baiat pe care a refuzat sa-l ia de sot.Incidentul a avut loc in plina strada ziua. A trecut prin 25 de interventii chirurgicale.

Irum Saeed, 30, poses for a photograph at her office at the Urdu University of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, July 24, 2008. Irum was burned on her face, back and shoulders twelve years ago when a boy whom she rejected for marriage threw acid on her in the middle of the street. She has undergone plastic surgery 25 times to try to recover from her scars.

Bushra Shari, 39ani, Lahore, Pakistan, vineri, 11.iulie 2008. Bushra a fost arsa cu acid acum 5 ani de catre sotul ei din cauza ca a incercat sa divorteze de el. A suferit 25 de operatii.

Bushra Shari, 39, adjusts her veil as she poses for a photograph in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, July. 11, 2008. Bushra was burned with acid thrown by her husband five years ago because she was trying to divorce him. She has undergone plastic surgery 25 times to try to recover from her scars.

Shahnaz Bibi, 35ani, Lahore, Pakistan, duminica, 26.Oct 2008. Acum 10 ani Shahnaz a fost arsa cu acid din cauza unei dispute familiale. Nu a apelat la chirurgia plastica.

Shahnaz Bibi, 35, poses for a photograph in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008. Ten years ago Shahnaz was burned with acid by a relative due to a familial dispute. She has never undergone plastic surgery.

Nu ca am putea noi vreodata sa influentam cu ceva cursul evenimentelor, dar sunteti invitati sa va spuneti mai jos parerea in legatura cu aceste cazuri, si de ce nu, in general cu ceea ce se intampla in tarile lui Allah in numele acestuia.

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10 Most fascinating deserts

^Taklamakan (Central Asia): a desert covered with snowfall
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^Lençóis Maranhenses (Brazil): a ‘desert' with lagoons
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^Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia): the world's largest salt desert
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^Namib (Namibia): the only desert with elephants
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^Simpson Desert (Australia): the red sand desert
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^The Black Desert (Egypt): the desert with black stones
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^Antarctica: world's driest and wettest desert

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^and, of course, Sahara (North Africa): world's largest desert

Facts about our SUN

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A sweeping prominence, a huge cloud of relatively cool dense plasma is seen suspended in the Sun's hot, thin corona. At times, promineces can erupt, escaping the Sun's atmosphere. Emission in this spectral line shows the upper chromosphere at a temperature of about 60,000 degrees K (over 100,000 degrees F). Every feature in the image traces magnetic field structure. The hottest areas appear almost white, while the darker red areas indicate cooler temperatures. (Courtesy of SOHO/EIT consortium)

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Detailed closeup of magnetic structures on the Sun's surface, seen in the H-alpha wavelength on August 22, 2003. (Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) operated by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Oddbjorn Engvold, Jun Elin Wiik, Luc Rouppe van der Voort) #

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NASA's STEREO satellite captured the first images ever of a collision between a solar "hurricane", called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and a comet on April 4, 2007. The collision caused the complete detachment of the comet's plasma tail. Comets are icy leftovers from the solar system's formation billions of years ago. They usually hang out in the cold, distant regions of the solar system, but occasionally a gravitational tug from a planet, another comet, or even a nearby star sends them into the inner solar system. Once there, the sun's heat and radiation vaporizes gas and dust from the comet, forming its tail. Comets typically have two tails, one made of dust and a fainter one made of electrically conducting gas, called plasma. (NASA/STEREO)

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Image of an active solar region taken on July 24, 2002 near the eastern limb of the Sun. The image highlights the three-dimensional nature of the photosphere when seen at these large angles. The structures in the dark sunspots in the upper central area of the image show distinct elevation above the dark "floor" of the sunspot. The height of the structures has been estimated by Dr. Bruce Lites of the High Altitude Observatory to be between 200 and 450 km. The smallest resolvable features in the image are about 70 km in size. There are also numerous bright "faculae" visible on the edges of granules that face towards the observer. (Prof. Goran Scharmer/Dr. Mats G. Löfdahl/Institute for Solar Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)

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The total solar eclipse of February 16, 1980 was photographed from Palem, India, by a research team from the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The photograph of the solar corona was taken with a camera system developed by Gordon A. Newkirk, Jr. This specialized instrument photographs the corona in red light, 6400 A -- through a radially graded filter that suppresses the bright inner corona in order to show the much fainter streamers of the outer corona in the same photograph. (Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee / High Altitude Observatory (HAO), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR))

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The planet Venus is seen by NASA's TRACE satellite, at the start of its transit across the sun on June 8, 2004. (NASA/TRACE)

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A view of a sunspot and granules on the Sun's surface, seen in the H-alpha wavelength on August 4, 2003. (Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) operated by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP)

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Solar flares produce seismic waves in the Sun's interior that closely resemble those created by earthquakes on our planet. On May 27, 1998, researchers observed this flare-generated solar quake that contained about 40,000 times the energy released in the great earthquake that devastated San Francisco in 1906, equivalent to an 11.3 magnitude earthquake, scientists calculated. Over the course of an hour, the solar waves traveled for a distance equal to 10 Earth diameters before fading into the fiery background of the Sun's photosphere. Unlike water ripples that travel outward at a constant velocity, the solar waves accelerated from an initial speed of 22,000 miles per hour to a maximum of 250,000 miles per hour before disappearing. (Courtesy of SOHO/EIT consortium. SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA)

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An animation of the sun, seen by NASA's Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) over the course of 6 days, starting June 27, 2005. (Courtesy of SOHO/EIT consortium)

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Hinode (formerly known as Solar-B) successfully captured a massive solar flare on 13 December 2006. It was one of the largest flares occurring in that period of solar activity minimum. (JAXA/NASA/PPARC)

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The image shows the corona for a moderately active Sun, with some (red) hot active regions in both hemispheres, surrounded by the (blue/green) cooler plasma of the quiet-Sun corona. Notice also the north polar-crown filament, the trans-equatorial loops, and the coronal hole in the south-east (lower-right) corner of the image and the smaller one over the north pole. This image shows the solar corona in a false-color, 3-layer composite: the blue, green, and red channels show the 171Å, 195Å, and 284Å wavelengths, respectively (most sensitive to emission from 1, 1.5, and 2 million degree gases). (TRACE Project, Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research, NASA)

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A view of an irregular-shaped sunspot and granules on the Sun's surface, seen on August 22, 2003. (Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) operated by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Oddbjorn Engvold, Jun Elin Wiik, Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Oslo)

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On November 8, 2006, Mercury is seen, beginning a transit in front of the Sun. (NASA/TRACE)

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This TRACE 171Å-wavelength image from November 11, 2006 shows a sizeable active region at the east limb of the Sun (rotated clockwise 90 degrees so north is to the right) just as it rotates onto Earth-facing hemisphere. Notice the low-lying dark structures of filaments at the leading edge of the region, some "levitating" dark material on the right-hand side of the region, and the small ephemeral region towards the lower right. (NASA/TRACE)

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The Sun, observed on May 22, 2008. With the Sun persisting in a near-minimal state of activity, only a few small regions of some activity are seen on the disk. The cell-like appearance is formed by the multitude of small clusters of magnetic flux that are collected in the downflow regions of the supergranular network of convective motions. (NASA/TRACE)

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A display of thin loops is seen arching above active regions of the Sun on January 1, 2001. (Courtesy Dick Shine, NASA/TRACE)

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This LASCO C2 image, taken 8 January 2002, shows a widely spreading coronal mass ejection (CME) as it blasts more than a billion tons of matter out into space at millions of kilometers per hour. The C2 image was turned 90 degrees so that the blast seems to be pointing down. An EIT 304 Angstrom image from a different day was enlarged and superimposed on the C2 image so that it filled the occulting disk for effect (Courtesy of SOHO/LASCO consortium)

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Detailed closeup of magnetic structures on the Sun's surface, seen in the H-alpha wavelength on August 22, 2003. (Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) operated by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Oddbjorn Engvold, Jun Elin Wiik, Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Oslo)

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NASA's STEREO (Ahead) spacecraft observed this visually stunning prominence eruption on Sept. 29, 2008 in the 304 wavelength of extreme UV light. It rose up and cascaded to the right over several hours, appearing something like a flag unfurling, as it broke apart and headed into space. The material observed is actually ionized Helium at about 60,000 degrees. Prominences are relatively cool clouds of gas suspended above the Sun and controlled by magnetic forces. (NASA/STEREO)

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A transit of the Moon across the face of the Sun on February 25, 2007 - but not seen from Earth. This sight was visible only from the STEREO-B spacecraft in its orbit about the sun, trailing behind the Earth. NASA's STEREO mission consists of two spacecraft launched in October, 2006 to study solar storms. STEREO-B is currently about 1 million miles from the Earth, 4.4 times farther away from the Moon than we are on Earth. As the result, the Moon appears 4.4 times smaller than what we are used to. (NASA/STEREO)

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On September 30, 2001, TRACE observed an M1.0 flare in an active region very near to the solar limb. Fragments of a prominence hovered above the regions, with filamentary dark (relatively cool) material moving along the field lines, which then spread to form this dragon-like bright outline. (NASA/TRACE)

In my garden at 10am

Finally got to finish reading this book

That is Diesel, one of the 3 cats in the yard

Naomi, a 2.5 months old german shepard and 9 kilos of fur and soul.Love her alot.

Inside the wave

Sun ... glints off wave
Clark Little/SWNS

Sand ... in surf
Clark Little/SWNS

Tubular ... shining
Clark Little/SWNS

Beach ... surf crashes down
Clark Little/SWNS

Molten ... liquid gold
Clark Little/SWNS

White ... tumultuous water

Splash ... stunning shot
Clark Little/SWNS

Red ... mysterious shot
Clark Little/SWNS

These incredible images of waves were taken by the number 1 photographer of surf: Clark Little. He has dedicated his life to photographing the waves and has published a selection of the best images of his career. He captures magical moments inside the "tube", as surfers say.

Thanks Sorin S. for this e-mail.

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Intercontinental Hotel: Hong Kong

Hugh Hefner Sky Villa, Palms Hotel Las Vegas. This suite takes up the entire 52nd floor. The pool cantilevers off the edge of the tower.

Golden Nugget Las Vegas . Yes that is a 200,000 gallon shark tank in the middle.

Hotel Elan, Dallas

Burj Al Arab: Dubai

Crown Towers Hotel: Taipa Island Macau

Blue Lagoon Geothermal Resort: Grindavík , Iceland (not technically a hotel, but what a beautiful place for a swim)

Begawan Giri Hotel: Ubud, Bali

Banyan Tree Hotel: Intendance Bay , Seychelles