Memories Of September 2010 - A Day In History - PART 2

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are about to begin our descent trip to September 2010. Currently We start the first day .i have certainly enjoyed having you on board my blog today, i hope to see you again more real soon, and thanks again for flying into the history with captain tarek dreams

FIRE DAMAGE: A man stood next to a truck burned in a forest fire in the village of Nikolayevka, Russia, Thursday. The Altai regional governor imposed a state of emergency. The fire left about 1,000 people homeless.

STUDENT TAKES A STAND: A student looked through the window of a classroom in an occupied university in Buenos Aires Thursday. Students took over several public universities and schools in a bid to have the government repair rundown facilities.

GAS EXPLOSION: Emergency responders canvassed the scene where a gas line ruptured and exploded Thursday in San Bruno, Calif., near San Francisco, killing at least four people and injuring at least 50.

HELPING HANDS: Models prepared for the catwalk during the Christian Siriano fashion show at Lincoln Center during New York Fashion Week Thursday.

SUSPENDED: A man stood waist-deep in water under a suspended bed frame in a flooded house in Tlacotalpan, Mexico, Thursday. About 250,000 people in the area have fled their homes due to flooding in one of the worst-ever recorded rainy seasons in the region.

VICTIMS MOURNED: Relatives mourned Yaselin Mamedova, 54, and Elnuz Ashimov, 7, who were killed Thursday in suicide bombing in Vladikavkaz, Russia, in the restive North Caucasus area.

TAKING AIM: A miner took aim with a slingshot as his fellow workers and their supporters blocked a national highway near San Roman de Bembibre, Spain, Friday. The miners were protesting over unpaid wages and government aid to the industry.

IN PROTEST: South Korean Choo Sun-hee poured paint thinner over his head Friday outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul in protest against Japan’s sovereignty claims over small islands called Dokdo under South Korean control. It’s unclear whether Mr. Choo set himself on fire.

RESCUE MISSION: Rescue workers searched muddy waters Friday in Atrani, Italy, for a woman swept away by a mudslide when heavy rains caused the banks of the Dragone River to weaken.

BOUND: A man lay on the ground after he was arrested in connection with a small explosion at the Hotel Joergensen in Copenhagen Friday.

SHOWING RESPECT: Shoes and a prosthetic leg lay outside a mosque as Muslims offered prayers in Jammu, India, Friday.

FETCHING WATER: A resident of a slum near the Yamuna River in New Delhi prepared to fetch drinking water Friday. The river rose above the danger mark, threatening nearby low-lying areas.

CARRYING HIS BED: A flood victim carried a handmade bed on his back as he walked to his village in Khairpur district of the Sindh province of Pakistan Friday.

DUAL FLAGS: A child held China and Myanmar flags while waiting for Myanmar leader Gen. Than Shwe to arrive at the Shanghai Expo Friday. The general was in China for a state visit to shore up support from the ally before Myanmar’s first major election in 20 years.

HOLE IN ONE: Onlookers in the press box at the LV County Championship in Hove, England, Thursday, had a view through a hole framed by cracked glass after Northamptonshire’s Mal Loye hit a cricket ball through the window during the team’s match against Sussex.

UP AND AWAY: French soldiers fired a mortar from Rocco Combat Outpost as part of an operation in Surobi, Afghanistan, Tuesday.

A MULTI-TASKING MOM: Licia Ronzulli, an Italian member of the European Parliament, brought her baby to a voting session in Strasbourg, France, Wednesday.

CHARCOAL CLOUD: Palestinians made charcoal in the West Bank village of Yabed Wednesday. For years, members of the same families have used manual labor and time-honored practices to turn wood into charcoal in a 10-day process that involves round-the-clock supervision.

IN THE CROWD: Women in Sukkur, Pakistan, listened to a speech Wednesday about proper hygiene to avoid the spread of diseases at a camp for people displaced by floods.

PATRIOTIC DISPLAY: A unionized truck driver waved a Greek flag as he dangled from a crane during a protest Wednesday in Thessaloniki, Greece, against plans to reform the industry.

SUBMERGING GANESH: Hindus in Jammu, India, prepared to immerse an idol of the elephant-headed Lord Ganesh in the Chenab River on Wednesday, the final day of the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi.

SECURITY CHECK: Romanian riot police officers secured a fence at a trade-union protest in front of government headquarters in Bucharest Wednesday. At least 10,000 people protested against wage cuts and austerity measures, authorities said.

HARD HAUL: Gladys Bhengu, 64, hauled a load of firewood near Durban, South Africa, Wednesday. Gender equality and the provision of basic services are issues on the agenda at the ruling African National Congress’s National General Council, which is under way in Durban.

SMOKY FIELD: A soldier walked through a cloud of smoke from burning marijuana in Tecate, Mexico, Tuesday. Authorities found three illegal marijuana plantations during air-patrol operations.

TEA FOR TWO: Public-service workers took a tea break after marching through central Warsaw Wednesday to demand salary raises.

PUBLIC BATHS: People bathed with sewage water Wednesday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, near buildings damaged by the deadly Jan. 12 quake.

AT ATTENTION: Soldiers marched in an annual military parade Wednesday in Tehran, Iran, to mark the anniversary of the beginning of the 1980-88 war between Iran and Iraq.

GUNFIGHT: Shell casings littered the ground outside a gas station Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro after an overnight shootout between drug gangs.

SCHOOL SMILES: Schoolchildren smiled for a picture through their classroom window in Thimphu, Bhutan, Wednesday.

A NEW ARMY: Newly trained female Afghan National Army officers attended a graduation ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday.

SEALING RICE: A worker sealed bags of rice in Hanoi Thursday. Vietnam is capable of exporting 7.2 million tons of rice this year — a record high — according to a local newspaper.

TRAVEL DELAY: A woman waited at an empty check-in desk at Gare de Lyon railway station Thursday in Paris during a nationwide strike over pension reforms that include raising the retirement age from 60 to 62.

IN FOCUS: A member of the Islamic group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia took a picture on her cellphone of protesters demanding that Sharia law be imposed in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday.

DEMOLISHING A SHANTY TOWN: Members of a government demolition team tore down shanties along a highway in Quezon City, Philippines, Thursday.

TAKING PRECAUTIONS: A worker sprayed chemicals Thursday in New Delhi to combat mosquitoes in standing water after heavy rains fell near accommodations for athletes competing in the Commonwealth Games.

SITE STABILIZED: Firefighters stabilized a pickup truck at the scene where the driver lost control of the vehicle and hit a flood-control channel, killing one person, in Westminster, Calif., Wednesday.

“WAITING FOR CUSTOMERS: A meat saleswoman waited for costumers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday.

GOING THE DISTANCE: A government soldier who lost part of his arms during the now-ended conflict with the Tamil Tigers ran at an annual event for disabled soldiers in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday.

MAKING DO: A man who survived floods washed his face with water on a street in Sujawal, Pakistan, Thursday.

BIG CATCH: A man carried a shark through the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday.

UNFURLING THE FLAG: Republican aide Ben Howard prepared a U.S. flag for the “Pledge to America” news conference in Sterling, Va., Thursday. House Republicans promised to end a slew of Democratic policies and restore trust in the government.

Visitors check out the Sukkah City design competition at Union Square Park.

A police helicopter sits in Jamaica Bay after making an emergency landing on Wednesday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) and German government spokesman Steffen Seibert (R), in town for the 65th United Nations General Assembly.

A sea urchin dish on the menu at Eataly, the new Italian market near Madison Square.

The New York Jets’ Dustin Keller catches a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter of the team’s win over New England Patriots last Sunday.

Mets pitcher Francisco Rodriguez was taken into custody at Queens Criminal Court over charges that violated a restraining order by sending text messages to an former girlfriend.

A snake that was found in a toilet in a Bronx apartment early Tuesday sits in a cage at Animal Care and Control in New York.

“After Shock”, an installation by Red Hook-based artist Jennifer Zackin, on display in Dumbo. The installation is made from hair booms–also used to clean up water and shoreways during the Gulf oil spill–filled with sherpa wool from a farm in Columbia County.

New York Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards exits Manhattan Criminal Court Tuesday after his arraignment on charges of drunk driving. Edwards, 27, was stopped early Tuesday morning for driving erratically in a Range Rover with heavily tinted windows.

York prep school students remove a frame from a hive during a rooftop beekeeping class.

Parade participants attended the 41st annual African-American Day Parade last Sunday in Harlem.

A protester demonstrates against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during the 65th United Nations General Assembly.

FIREFIGHTER SALUTE: Fire trucks and firefighters lined an Irvine, Calif., street Wednesday for the funeral of firefighter James Owen, 56, who collapsed during a training exercise.

PLANE CRASH: A Super Decathlon plane flew too low before it crashed and burst into flames during an air show in Bandung, Indonesia, Friday. The pilot, the only person aboard, was rushed to a hospital.

DUMPED UPON: An antiriot Italian police officer stood near a heap of trash Friday in Terzigno, Italy, during a protest against the opening of a new dumpsite.

BY THE COLLAR: Police arrested a man at a Jamaat e-Islami Party anti-U.S. protest Friday in Karachi, Pakistan, after a New York court sentenced scientist Aafia Siddiqui to 86 years in prison for trying to shoot U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan.

OUTDOOR BATH: A man and children bathed Friday where their homes were demolished by the government in Quezon City, Philippines.

STRANDED: People waited for help on the roof of their garage Thursday in Owatonna, Minn., after flooding caused by heavy rain lashed parts of the upper Midwest, forcing evacuations.

CAMPUS DEBRIS: Debris from the Bee Storage Barn at Ohio State University’s Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster, Ohio, littered the area Thursday. The campus has been closed since a tornado blew through the area last week.

SAD EYES: An internally-displaced boy stood at an abandoned factory in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday.

PORT CHAOS: Truck drivers clashed with riot police at Athens’s main port of Peiraeus Friday. Truckers attacked trucks that broke a union picket and riot police fired tear gas to disperse crowds that threw stones at trucks trying to enter.

CARRYING SAND: Young workers carried sand outside Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main venue for the Commonwealth Games, in New Delhi Friday.

IN HIDING: A masked Palestinian took cover while he prepared to hurl stones at Israeli riot police during clashes in the Arab neighborhood of Ras al-Amud in East Jerusalem Friday.

REFLECTIONS ON A PROTEST: A child photographed police union members, reflected in a bus window, during a protest in front of Cotroceni Palace in Bucharest Friday. Romanian President Traian Basescu said the country would stick to its austerity plan, despite protests .

CASUAL CAMPAIGN: Men sit next to a campaign poster in a garage in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday. President Hugo Chavez faces an important test of support when Venezuelans vote Sunday for 165 members of the National Assembly.

IN SILHOUETTE: A boy stood behind clothes hung to dry at Utmanzai relief camp near Charsadda, Pakistan, Friday. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called the floods in Pakistan one of the worst natural disasters the U.N. has responded to.

Bodies in Urban Spaces

Performers form a “human sculpture” on Sunday during a piece entitled “Bodies in Urban Spaces” by choreographer Willi Dorner.

Starting at sunrise Sunday, the performers inched their way into different spaces throughout the Financial District in lower Manhattan.

Audience members watch as performers stand on one another.

“Bodies in Urban Spaces” is a part of French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing the Line festival. Here, a performer helps another get into position.

Performers wrap themselves around a fire hydrant.

Performers lay on the roof of the Dubliner on Stone Street.

Performers pile onto a bench.

Performers at the New York Stock Exchange.

“Bodies in Urban Spaces” will be performed a second time on Monday, Sept. 26 at sunset. The show begins at Pearl Street between Broad Street and Hanover Square.

Choreographer Willi Dorner takes a bow at the end of the tour Sunday.

GAME FACE: A security worker looked out Monday over preparations in New Delhi for the Commonwealth Games, which open Sunday. The athletics competition, which has been beset by sanitation and security concerns, brings together nearly 7,000 athletes and officials from 71 countries and territories.

INSPECTING THE ‘CHINA’: A woman worked at an environmentally friendly tableware company in Laiwu, Shandong province, China, Sunday.

A TOUCHING MEMORIAL: A woman touched the inscribed names of people killed during the Georgia-Abkhazia conflict at a ceremony Monday in Tbilisi, Georgia, marking the anniversary of the 1992-93 war.

LOCKED UP: A child vendor displayed metal locks for sale at a roadside shop in New Delhi Monday.

MOVING FORWARD: A bulldozer removed rocks as construction began on private homes in the Jewish settlement of Adam, in the West Bank north of Jerusalem, Monday, after the Israeli government’s 10-month moratorium on new homes for Jewish families expired.

DUMPSTER DIVING: A scavenger sifted through garbage from a garbage dump in southern Lebanon Monday. The dump — near schools, hospitals and apartment blocks in Lebanon’s third biggest city — has partially collapsed into the Mediterranean Sea several times.

SOUND ASLEEP: Looped in a rosary, a child slept on the pavement in Manila Monday. The Philippine government will provide contraceptives to poor couples who request it despite strong opposition from the dominant Roman Catholic Church, President Benigno Aquino said Monday.

ELECTION RETURNS: Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez listened to National Assembly election results Monday in Caracas, Venezuela. Mr. Chavez’s allies lost their two-thirds majority, but held onto control of the congress. The presidential election is in 2012.

WAITING IN A WHEELBARROW: A boy rested on a wheelbarrow outside an old building in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday.

WATCHING THE BABY: Rehana, 12, knelt over her two-month-old sister, Zenub, while her family searched for belongings damaged by heavy flooding nearly two months ago near Nowshera, Pakistan, Monday.

MAN IN THE MIST: A man walked along a path as fog rose over a lake at Gray’s Lake Park in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday.

HOSPITAL OPEN HOUSE: Melissa Johns, 10, her brother, Sam, 5, and their mother, Lynnore Johns, toured the new Acute Care Pavilion at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego Sunday.

IMPROVISING: Men floated on calabash gourds across flooded farmland in the village of Gudinchin, Nigeria, Monday. Floodwaters have destroyed crops and displaced about two million people.

IN CUBA: A woman stood in the doorway of a home Monday in Havana during celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. The CDR keeps track of households by monitoring people’s movements and activities.

COVERING THE DEAD: Palestinians carried the body of Awni Abdelhadi during his funeral in central Gaza Strip Tuesday. He was among three alleged gunmen killed in an Israeli airstrike. Israel said militants preparing to fire a rocket were targeted.

RICE-MAN: An agile worker climbed stacked sacks of rice in a government warehouse south of Manila Tuesday.

ON THE MARCH: Miners walked Tuesday toward Villadangos del Páramo, Spain, on the eighth day of their march to protest working conditions in coal mines. They are seeking unpaid wages and aid for the industry.

CASTING A NET: A Kashmiri fisherman threw a net into the waters of Dal Lake in Srinagar, India, Tuesday.

POLITICAL POSTER: A worker hung a poster of candidate Rifat Klopic on a pole near Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tuesday. Bosnians are due to vote in parliamentary and presidential elections on Oct. 3.

HANGING ON: A woman and boy embraced each other in the flood-hit area of Sehwan, Pakistan, Tuesday.

CALVES COVERED: A man stood outside his house in the flooded village of Niedergurig, Germany, Tuesday. Heavy rainfall flooded several areas in the state of Saxony.

HAULING COAL: A man unloaded sacks of coal at a port in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday.

BABYSITTING: Isa Dan carried his younger brother past houses destroyed by flooding in the village of Ringim, Nigeria, Tuesday. Floodwaters rushed through Jigawa state, covering farmlands and damaging crops.

ROLLING IN: An armored police vehicle drove to the library at the University of Texas at Austin after a gunman opened fire inside the library Tuesday and then killed himself; no one else was injured. Police were searching for a possible second suspect.

A CITY SCORCHER: A boy cooled off in a public fountain Monday in Los Angeles, where temperatures hit 113 degrees Fahrenheit. It was the hottest day in the city since officials began keeping records in 1877.

IDs for India

India hopes to assign each of its 1.2 billion people a unique 12-digit ID number based on digital fingerprints and iris scans, in what many specialists consider the most technologically and logistically complex national identification effort ever attempted.

The sign-up effort is already under way in a handful of districts. In one early registration drive in Nagaram, dozens of people streamed into a government office one recent afternoon to have their fingerprints taken and irises scanned.

Local officials in Nagaram, 30 miles outside the southern city of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh state, had knocked on villagers’ doors the night before to tell them about the program. At left, an operator held 11-year-old Sehar Bano’s head still as she sat in front of the camera.

Many applicants had never used a computer, much less seen biometric equipment. Sheikh Mohammadie Begum’s children watched as she had her iris scanned.

The process is slow going, taking anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes per person. Capturing iris scans with binocular-like devices is tricky and can take several minutes.

India’s leaders are pinning their hopes on the program to solve development problems that have persisted despite fast economic growth. At left, an official directed 95-year-old Gandaiah to look at the camera to have his picture taken.

Officials say unique ID numbers will help ensure that government welfare spending reaches the right people and will allow hundreds of millions of poor Indians to access services like banking for the first time. At left, administrators had to hold Mr. Gandaiah’s eyelids open to get a good image.

The government hopes to issue the first 100 million unique ID numbers by March and 600 million within four years. An official helped a villager get a fingerprint scan.

Mr. Gandaiah lined up his hand for a fingerprint scan.

Officials in Nagaram say they have been signing up 200 people per day, and as of early September, had made it through half of the 4,500 residents.

A villager showed his family enrollment slip.

The goal is for hundreds of villages and towns in Andhra Pradesh to start enrollment soon, and to reach 30 million people state-wide by the end of the year.

Villagers, who ranged from vegetable and rice farmers to real-estate brokers and shopkeepers, waited outside the enrollment center.

TAUNTING LAUGHTER? A protester faced a riot policeman at the entrance to the Corte Inglés department store during a nationwide general strike in Málaga, Spain, Wednesday. Labor groups are protesting against spending cuts the government says are needed amid a debt crisis.

MEDICAL FLIGHT: U.S. Army flight medic Sgt. Tyrone Jordan gave first aid to a prisoner who was shot by Marines during a firefight as Marine Lance Cpl. Kristopher Brown guarded the prisoner aboard a medical helicopter near Marja, Afghanistan, Wednesday.

FROM THE TAP: A girl drank water in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday.

GROUP EFFORT: Men inspected a vehicle buried under mud after a landslide in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico, Tuesday. So far, 11 people are missing and none confirmed dead.

COMPACTING COAL: A worker drove a tractor across coal at a power plant in Huaibei, Anhui province, China, Wednesday. China’s goals to slow greenhouse-gas emissions will be tough and costly, the nation’s top climate-change official said Wednesday.

CHILD LABOR: A boy worked at a brick factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Wednesday.

LIFTING APPLES: A laborer carried a box of apples at a wholesale market in Jammu, India, Wednesday.

FUMIGATING: A health worker fumigated a house in Manila Wednesday. Philippines Secretary of Health Enrique Ona said 543 people have died from dengue as of September this year.

PROTESTING IN THE RAIN: Protesters marched in the rain in solidarity with trade unions against budget cuts in front of the Polish government office in Warsaw Wednesday.

MONITORING: A cleanup worker monitored the site of a fuel spill from a Suncor-owned refinery into the St. Lawrence River near Montreal Wednesday.

ASSEMBLY LINE: A man threw bricks to a worker as they rebuilt a house Wednesday damaged by floods in southern Pakistan.

NEVER FORGET: An elderly man cried during a ceremony Wednesday commemorating the victims of a Nazi massacre in Babiy Yar, Ukraine.

BLOWING BUBBLES: Children played with soap bubbles in a camp set up for Jan. 12 earthquake victims in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday.

HIGH JUMP: Italian rider Vito Campobasso performed a test jump Thursday in Rome’s Stadio Flaminio to promote the Red Bull X-Fighters World tour. The world’s best freestyle motocross riders will compete there on Oct. 2.

OPENING CEREMONY: Ryder Cup players watched as Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins entertained the crowd at the opening ceremony at Celtic Manor golf course in Newport, Wales, Thursday. Matches between Europe and the U.S. take place from Oct. 1-3.

PROTEST PERFORMANCE: An activist demonstrated in support of Sen. Piedad Cordoba in Bogota Thursday. The inspector general of Colombia ousted the outspoken senator Monday, barring her from public service for 18 years for allegedly “promoting and collaborating” with a rebel army.

CHICKEN IN CHINA: A poultry seller waited for customers in Huaibei, Anhui province, China, Thursday. The World Trade Organization ruled Wednesday that U.S. restrictions on Chinese poultry imports are unscientific and discriminatory.

PROTECTED: A paramilitary soldier wore riot gear Thursday in Ayodhya, India, as the Allahabad High Court ruled that the Babri Masjid site, sacred to Hindus and Muslims, will be divided between the groups. Officials feared post-verdict rioting.

GOING DOWN? Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador took an elevator after a news conference in Pinto, Spain, Thursday. He was suspended after failing a doping test.

WAITING THEIR TURN: Job seekers, reflected in a mirror, lined up to attend a diversity job fair at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York Wednesday. More than 600 applicants were expected to attend.

PREMIER SPEECH: China’s Premier Wen Jiabao delivered a speech at a reception marking the country’s 61st anniversary at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Thursday. China celebrates its National Day on Oct. 1.

BILLIONAIRES IN BEIJING: Billionaire financier and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates took questions at a joint news conference in Beijing Thursday. The men said they were impressed by China’s super-rich who gave back to society.

HEATED DEBATE: President Rafael Correa spoke with a demonstrator Thursday in Quito, Ecuador, during a protest against cuts to police and military benefits. Mr. Correa was later taken to a hospital after being exposed to tear gas. Protesting police officers blocked his exit from the hospital.

STRANDED: A dog chained to a hamburger stand sat on a table in a flooded street in Villahermosa, Mexico, Wednesday. The area has been battered by the remnants of a hurricane and a tropical storm that followed.

WATER RESCUE: A motorist stranded in floodwater waited for firefighters to reach him in Lancaster, Pa., Thursday. A series of storms pounding the Northeast brought flooding. The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for several Pennsylvania counties.

DESERTED: A vehicle drove across a desert near Marja, Afghanistan, Wednesday. U.S., coalition and Afghan troops continue to suffer losses in the region. 

RECOVERY EFFORT: Men carried a body recovered after a landslide in Amatán, Mexico, Wednesday. Landslides across southern Mexico killed at least 23 people this week; at least nine people are missing.

WRITING’S ON THE WALL: A woman walked past a mural along Houston Street in New York Wednesday.

SMILING FACES: Children posed for pictures in a Rio de Janeiro slum Thursday. Brazil will hold general elections Oct. 3.

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