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e live in amazing times. Only a short time ago, the idea of China hosting the Olympics seemed far-fetched. And yet the country recently hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics. Not long ago, it would have been difficult to foresee a woman possibly becoming the next U.S. vice president or a biracial man running for the world’s highest office...and winning! And yet it happened with the recent U.S. elections. More importantly, both of these individuals were not on anyone’s radar nine short years ago. Just imagine...On your bus ride to work, you could be standing next to a future U.S. president.
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Recently, at an event with some of the brightest minds of the Internet, a major newspaper publisher talked about the end of the paper in 2020 and explained how the paper is now an Internet company. Less than nine days later, the Christian Science Monitor killed its weekday paper editions. Papers are more concerned nowadays that their photographers get tons of
What, when and where is the future? It’s here, today. It all starts now. Look around and make a difference now, and who knows…Maybe I will be contemplating whether to vote for you nine years from now.
Meanwhile, the euro seems to have replaced the mighty greenback. What will be the next wonder currency nine years from now? Despite a financial meltdown that reminded everyone of 1929, Apple and others were discussing billion-dollar cash reserves and their dreams, which might turn present realities upside-down in nine months or nine years.
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o many Americans, polygamy is an archaic lifestyle practiced in the Middle East, some places in Asia and by religious fanatics in distant corners of the American west. Americans who practice polygamy (or “plural marriage”) are marginalized and subject to criminal prosecution. But to the polygamist members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) who live in the remote, high desert twin towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, polygamy isn’t a lifestyle choice, it’s a spiritually mandated prerequisite for admission to heaven and the highest form of salvation. Those religious beliefs, rooted in the 19thcentury teachings of Joseph Smith—the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS or Mormons)— have brought the people of Colorado City and Hildale into conflict with the laws of 21st-century America. Joseph Jessop, a grizzled 86-year-old, is a veteran of that conflict. He moved to what is now Colorado City, then called Short Creek, in the 1930s after his mother died and he was shuffled from relative to relative. He put down roots in Short Creek and married. And then he married a second woman...and a third. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entered World War II, Jessop joined the U.S. Army. In 1944, while he was serving his country, the FBI raided Short Creek and took his wives and children. They were released and returned to Short Creek a few months later.
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Nine years later, Arizona state troopers, backed up by National Guardsmen, raided Short Creek a second time. This time, Jessop was arrested. The memory of that raid is as fresh today as the day it happened. He remembers the troopers racing into town with sirens blaring and lights flashing while townspeople tipped off to the raid gathered in the school yard and sang hymns. He remembers the private detectives hired by Arizona Governor J. Howard Pyle reconnoitering the town and marking the polygamist homes on maps used by the troopers. He remembers being incarcerated in Kingman, Arizona, while his wives and children were kept in “protective custody” in Phoenix. To Jessop and other members of the FLDS, the infamous Short Creek raid, as it came to be known, was proof that the outside world wanted to destroy their faith. In April 2008, when Texas authorities raided the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas, people in Colorado City (Short Creek was renamed Colorado City in 1960) immediately thought about the infamous Short Creek raid. “It’s happening again down there,” Jessop says while working a field near his home, “nothing but religious persecution. What else could be behind it?” Around him, a dozen young people, teenage boys and girls, work. Some are weeding, and some are planting tomatoes. A few chat on cell phones while they work. One girl listens to music on her iPod. The wind, a constant presence in the high desert, carries the sound of laughter. Jessop continues, “I’m a patriot and proud to be an American. I served in the army in World War II. The Constitution is the best on earth, but it’s no better than the people who administer it.” And Jessop says he believes those people, when it comes to polygamy, are wrong. One of the women working in the field, who doesn’t want to give her name, echoes Jessop’s sentiments and adds, “It’s also about our children. They (the outside world) want them. After Short Creek, they tried to put them up for adoption. Sell them to people in Phoenix. The same thing happened in Texas. They were getting ready to adopt our children out to rich Texans.
Joseph Jessop, 86 years old, leans against his pickup truck in Colorado City, Arizona. Jessop, a polygamist and member of the FLDS, was arrested during the Short Creek raid in 1953 and had his wives and children taken from him for two years.
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“I’m a patriot and proud to be an American. I served in the army in World War II. The Constitution is the best on earth, but it’s no better than the people who administer it.” —Joseph Jessop
ROOM WITH A VIEW
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Mar. 27, 2007 - Zhengzhou, Henan, China - Students stand among sand sculptures during a demonstration in Zhongyuan University of Technology. More than 3,000 students participate in the event, which is aimed at arousing interest in farmers.
DTzine.com 19 People who didn’t want to have their own children.” Weeding and hoeing a cornfield by hand, she talks about the persecution the FLDS faces. “They (critics of the FLDS) are apostates. They’ve turned the back on the teachings of the Prophet (the leader of the FLDS).” As for the politicians in Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Washington? She says it’s hypocritical of the politicians to condemn plural marriage (the FLDS term for polygamy) while they have affairs and relationships with multiple women. Another polygamous woman calls them “serial monogamists.” Colorado City is on the Arizona Strip, the narrow spit of land between the north rim of the Grand Canyon and the Utah state line. The wind is constant. Sometimes it howls, sometimes it just blows, but it’s always present. In the summer, temperatures soar to over 100 degrees and the land bakes. In the winter, it’s below freezing. It seldom rains and when it does, it comes in a downpour. It’s a harsh, beautiful landscape. Towering red rock bluffs dominate Colorado City. Its isolation, nearly eight hours from Phoenix and five hours from Salt Lake City, is what originally drew polygamists to the area. The mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) practiced polygamy for much of the 19th century. Polygamy was legal in the Utah territory and was a constant source of conflict with leaders in Washington, who made the renunciation of polygamy a condition for Utah’s statehood. So in 1890, LDS leaders renounced polygamy, and in 1898, Utah was granted statehood. Almost immediately, polygamous Mormons who disagreed with their church leaders started looking for a new place to settle. And that place was Short Creek. In 1904, the LDS leadership hardened its anti-polygamy stand and promised to excommunicate any Mormon who still practiced polygamy. The trickle of polygamists moving to the Arizona Strip became a flood. And increasingly, they settled around Short Creek. By the early 1930s, Short Creek and the surrounding area was the largest polygamous community in the U.S. The polygamists in the FLDS insist they are the true inheritors of the LDS church
DTzine.com 21 created by Joseph Smith—that the people who turned their backs on polygamy also turned their backs on their faith. The mainstream LDS leadership in Salt Lake City doesn’t even consider the FLDS members Mormons. The Mormon political leaders in Utah (the state’s political leaders are overwhelmingly Mormon) are among the harshest critics of the FLDS. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, a Mormon, told a gathering of polygamists from Colorado City and Hildale in April 2008 that he had no plans to raid their community because he doesn’t have the resources. But he added that he would lock them up if he had the money and jail space. It’s attitudes like that which cause many FLDS members to feel betrayed by what they see as their wayward religious kin. In this patriarchal community, women aren’t afraid to speak their opinion, but they are hesitant to be identified by name, afraid anything they say will be used against them when the government raids Colorado City the way it did Eldorado or Short Creek. “We can’t go to the Wal-Mart in St. George (the nearest large town) without being harassed by them (Mormons),” one FLDS woman says. Watching children play nearby she continues, “The clerks in the stores turn their backs on us. People shopping tell us to leave our families or tell our children to leave us.” She says they don’t have any problems with Catholics or Protestants in St. George, just the Mormons. Shaking her head, she says, “They (non-Mormons) leave us alone, which is all we want.” Another woman says she had to hide her religious beliefs when she went to the doctor in St. George because he wouldn’t treat FLDS women or women in plural marriages. Others speak of harassment their children face. They teach their children not to refer to their father as dad or stepsiblings as brother or sister to maintain a facade of separate families. The FLDS dismisses reports of child sexual abuse and underage marriage as lies and religious persecution. They maintain that teenage pregnancy rates, drug and alcohol abuse and crime rates are lower in their community than neighboring towns. One woman,
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Hold That Tiger
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June 15, 2008 - La Jolla, California, U.S. - Tiger Woods does a major double fist pump after making a birdie putt on the last hole to force a playoff during the final round of the U.S. Open at the Torrey Pines Golf Course.
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A Long Way From Home
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June 17, 2008 - Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain - A Red Cross volunteer tries to help an emigrant who sailed a considerable distance and nearly died en route to Spain. The number of African emigrants reaching the Canary Islands, as well as other southern European frontiers like Sicily, Cyprus, Malta or Greece, has grown considerably over the years. Though many successfully escape poverty and grave human-rights violations in Africa, many of them also die during the journey.
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Message in a Bottle
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June 25, 2008 - Sumapaz, Colombia - Two guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) hold a sign addressed to U.S. presidential candidates Senators John McCain and Barack Obama that says that they want “change and respect, too.” The T-shirts with McCain and Obama were gifts from visiting U.S. missionaries. The FARC, originated as a guerrilla movement, was established in the 1960s as the Colombian Communist Party’s military wing. During the 1980s, the FARC became involved
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Gun Power
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June 26, 2008 - Orange, California, U.S. - Tactical Advantage Concepts instructor Chris Luzader fires a weapon. ‘’This has been a highly anticipated decision in the O.C. shooting community,” Luzader says regarding the Supreme Court’s Thursday ruling that Americans have the right to own guns for self-defense and hunting. “It’s exciting for what we all believed right along to be ratified by the court system.’’ This ruling marks the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history and overturns the law adopted by Washington’s city council in 1976 which bars residents from owning handguns unless they had one prior to the law taking effect.
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Beating the Heat
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June 26, 2008 - Shasta Lake, California, U.S. - CDF firefighter Erik Fiedler sets a backfire near a home he is protecting just south of the Shasta Dam. More than 1,000 wildfires continue to burn. About 265,000 acres of forest and parkland have been scorched across northern California since the fires began on June 20. Officials say lightning from dry thunderstorms caused many of the fires.
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Blue Man Group
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June 26, 2008 - Brussels, Belgium - Two actors painted blue reenact a CIA abduction in front of the European Parliament. Amnesty International is organizing the action to mark International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
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Viva LGBT!
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June 28, 2008 - Mexico City, Mexico - On or around June 28, gay-pride parades around the world celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (collectively known as LGBT) individuals. Gay-pride parades also serve as demonstrations for legal-rights issues such as same-sex marriage, as well.
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July 2, 2008 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - Members of the Air Education and Training Command perform a flag ceremony at Randolph Air Force Base.
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Segways to the Rescue
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July 2, 2008 - Jinan, China - Roughly one month ahead of the Beijing Olympics, members of China’s armed police demonstrate a rapid deployment on Segways during an antiterrorist drill held in Jinan, the capital of east China’s Shandong Province.
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Beemer Burnout
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July 3, 2008 - Manchester, England, U.K. - British race-car driver Andy Priaulx does a burnout in a BMW Sauber Formula One team car at BMW Pit Lane Park. More than 90,000 people will flock to the Silverstone race track to watch the British Grand Prix, one of the nation’s premier sporting events.
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Horny Marines
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July 3, 2008 - Washington, DC - The U.S. Marine Drum & Bugle Corps rehearse for the Fourth of July concert that will take place on the West Lawn and at the reflecting pool of the U.S. Capitol.
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Bubblicious
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July 4, 2008 - Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. - Margaret Hoelzer competes during the women’s 200-meter backstroke heat at the 2008 United States Olympic team trials.
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The Pirate’s Day in the Sun
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July 6, 2008 - London, England, U.K. - Spain’s Rafael Nadal dethrones prince Roger Federer and claims the men’s singles final after a rain delay and a nine-hour-plus match. This was the third straight Wimbledon final between the two and the longest match in Wimbledon history.
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Quake Dogs
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July 6, 2008 - Chengdu, Sichuan, China - Many dogs disabled in the May 12 7.8-magnitude earthquake live at the small-animal-protection center at Shuangliu County.Volunteers at the center rescued 110 pet dogs from earthquake-hit cities and gave proper medical treatment to the injured dogs.
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The Porsche Garden
Picture by Alex Lentati/Evening Standard
July 7, 2008 - London, England, U.K. - It is more Thunderbirds than Monty Don, but the Porsche Garden with Cardok is the latest space-saving solution for people who want to park their car in front of their house without losing any front garden. The car goes on a hydraulically operated platform that lowers, leaving only garden behind.
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Big Fish
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July 13, 2008 - Kent, England, U.K. - Anyone for sushi? At the Bluewater Shopping Centre, sushi is all the rage.
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Second to None
Picture by Sean M. Haffey/San Diego Union-Tribune
Aug. 13, 2008 - Beijing, China - Nastia Liukin holds her head in her hands minutes after Alicia Sacramone fell off the balance beam, costing the women’s team the gold medal.
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PAYCHECK to paycheck
Picture and text by John Pendygraft/St. Petersburg Times
Seventy percent of U.S. families say they live paycheck to paycheck. American savings are in the negative, the lowest level since the Great Depression. In the Tampa Bay area, the financial pressure for many is acute, with average wages lower than in comparable Sun Belt cities and unemployment rising higher than the state and national averages. Add a related surge in property taxes and insurance bills (not to mention higher gas prices) and the challenge to make ends meet is quickly becoming pervasive. It’s not a fringe problem. It’s your neighbor; it’s us.
July 13, 2008 - New Port Richey, Florida, U.S. Collin Pompilio, 11, and his little sister Brianna, 10, know the importance of having strong values and saving for the future, courtesy of their adoptive retirement-age grandparents. The children’s father abandoned his kids four years ago.
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PAYCHECK to PAYCHECK
Collin Pompilio, 11, is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind...and especially thrifty. He was allowed to move from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts a year early. He is determined to make Eagle. He eats vegetables and does chores with a smile. He has even opened a mutual fund to start saving for his dream of becoming a lawyer, “to argue for what’s right.” So far, he has saved $3,700. His sister, Brianna, 10, opened an account too, and has saved $3,000 for medical school. Life hasn’t always been so ideal. Two years ago, their retirement-age grandparents, Carolyn Pompilio, 61, and Rick Pompilio, 69, of New Port Richey, adopted the children. The kids don’t like to talk about their father, and when they do, they call him Brian. Their mother doesn’t come up in conversation at all. Grandma is Mom, and Grandpa is Dad. “We thought, hopefully, we’ll just take my son’s kids for the summer. Maybe he’ll get rid of his girlfriend, maybe he’ll straighten out. He said he wasn’t on drugs anymore,” explains Carolyn, who took the children in four years ago, “but after a month or two, my son just seemed to forget he had any kids.Time went by. Christmas came and went, birthdays came and went, and there was no contact.” She worries about the cost of raising children again. “We were set up financially to care for two people, not four. What if we run out of money before we die and they’re 18 or 21 years old?” “I have no doubt that if anything happens to us, these two will go to on college and they’ll be OK,” Rick answers. “They’re great kids. They’re survivors.” The kids know firsthand why it’s important to save—you might have to take care of yourself at any time. Ask Collin what he learned living with his father, before he was adopted, and he grows silent, shrugs, and remembers something. His face grows taut, and tears grow in his eyes. With his grandmother’s encouragement, he explains, “If you want something, you better save for it.You have to be prepared and expect what’s going to come so that you know what to do when it happens.”
Virgin Territory
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July 16, 2008 - M谩laga, Spain - Hordes take to the sea during the Carmen Day festivities honoring the patron of the sea, the Virgin of El Carmen.
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Ms. Decora
Picture by Melissa Lyttle/St. Petersburg Times
July 20, 2008 - Tampa, Florida, U.S. - A big fan of Harajuku style, Fiqa Ricker, 16, of Brandon wears decora (short for decorations) at Metrocon 2008, Florida’s largest anime convention. The convention, held at the Tampa Convention Center, is a celebration of popular Japanese entertainment, including anime (animation), manga (comics), J-pop and J-rock music, cosplay (costume design and performance) and video games.
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Hot Steel
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July 23, 2008 - Panama City, Panama - Panamanian authorities seize and destroy 986 weapons as part of a national campaign against violence and gangs.
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Taking the Leap
Picture by Zhou Chao/ChinaFotoPress
July 26, 2008 - Wuhan, Hubei, China - A boy jumps off a bridge into the Hanjiang River. Wuhan’s hottest day this summer was a steamy 37.1 degrees Celsius (98.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Earth, Rain and Fire
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July 31, 2008 - Reventador, Ecuador - The volcano Reventador erupts fire and ash. The volcano last erupted in 2007 with small explosions and lava flows.
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Coal Power
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Aug. 1, 2008 - Burgas, Bulgaria - There are still several operational coal mines in Bulgaria. Coal is being used to generate electricity in the power stations near this mine. Coal provides almost 100% of the national electricity demands of Bulgaria. Most mines are privatized. Working conditions in the mines are hard. Workers descend up to 700 meters underground. It is dangerous work, as the safety regulations are not taken very seriously. Workers have wages between 200 to 400 euros per month. Most of the miners die before the age of 50 due to lung diseases.
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Blackjack
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Aug. 4, 2008 - Beijing, China - The armed police who work in the National Stadium, also known as Bird’s Nest during the Olympic Games, have a special training session.
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Water Creatures
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Aug. 9, 2008 - Jupiter, Florida, U.S. - Athletes begin the swimming portion of the Loggerhead Triathlon at Carlin Park Saturday morning. The event, which began at 7 a.m., kicked off with a 3/8-mile ocean swim and will be followed by a 13-mile bike ride from Carlin Park to Loggerhead Park and concluded with a 3.1-mile run from Carlin Park to the Jupiter Inlet and back.
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Anyone See My Contact?
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Aug. 11, 2008 - Gori, Georgia - A bodyguard covers Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili during a Russian air raid on the city of Gori, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Tbilisi.
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As Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili began a speech to reassure his citizens, in the capital city of Tbilisi, a nearby loud explosion rocked his stage. Saakashvili hit the deck, fearing a Russian assassin or military action to silence him. Meanwhile, a full-scale evacuation of the Georgian city of Gori has started as fears rose that Russia would soon advance its troops across the border from the breakaway republic of South Ossetia into the main body of Georgia itself. Any such incursion would be a dangerous escalation of a conflict that has already reportedly claimed thousands of lives and displaced thousands more. Russia regained total control of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, and Georgia offered a unilateral cease-fire as it withdrew all its troops. International opinion hardened against Russia, which has been roundly accused of a “disproportionate reaction” to Georgia’s move into South Ossetia last week. Jim Jeffrey, the United States’ Deputy National Security Advisor, told reporters, “We have made it clear to the Russians that if the disproportionate and dangerous escalation on the Russian side continues, that this will have a significant long-term impact on U.S.-Russian relations.” But American diplomats conceded that the U.S. had few options and ruled out military intervention on behalf of Georgia. “We have no good options,” a U.S. National Security Council official told The Daily Telegraph. “We need Russia’s cooperation over Iran, and derailing that over a localized conflict in Georgia makes no sense. We just have to hope that diplomacy prevails. The next necessary step is for Russia to respond positively to Georgia’s cease-fire declaration.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Saakashvili, the president of Georgia, “must go.” Lavrov said Russia would continue its military action in South Ossetia due to the “continuing direct threat to Russian citizens.” The few Georgians left in South Ossetia were fleeing from the Russian advance. In spite of the evacuation of Gori, the town near the separatist republic that is Stalin’s birthplace, it seemed last night as if Russian troops were for now sticking to their side of the border. However, small-arms fire was heard deep inside Georgian territory, suggesting Russian special forces had made a preliminary advance.
But the conflict was meanwhile increasing in scope. Russian aircraft have already bombed a number of targets inside Georgia, including a strike, said the Georgians, on the civilian airport of Tbilisi. Abkhazia, a larger breakaway Georgian republic, is now a second front in the battle. Russian troops were reported to be advancing on the Kodori Gorge, a foothold of ethnic Georgians in the region. Top officials in Tbilisi appeared resigned to Russia establishing full control over both Abkhazia and South Ossetia. “We won’t win a military confrontation,” Georgian Vice-Prime Minister Giorgi Baramidze said. “Any face-to-face confrontation has been in Russia’s interest.We don’t want to do that anymore.” Russia’s navy was also involved, deploying a flotilla off Georgia’s Black Sea coast. The navy said the ships later put into a Russian Black Sea port, though there were reports that a Georgian boat carrying missile launchers had been sunk. Saakashvili called on the world to “speak with a united voice, and the united voice should [say that] Georgia’s territorial integrity should be safeguarded.” There was a huge rally last night in Tbilisi in a demonstration of support. “We just want to rally our president,” said one Georgian. “Somehow this has brought us together.” The U.S. was last night drafting a UN Security Council resolution condemning the “military assault” by Russia. Rice is planning to send an envoy to mediation talks brokered by the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The OSCE is responsible for monitoring the 16year cease-fire that had prevailed in South Ossetia since the republic became a semiautonomous region within Georgia. French President Nicolas Sarkozy voiced the hope that there could be a quick end to the conflict following the retreat of Georgian troops. Downing Street urged Russia and Georgia to agree to an “immediate” cease-fire. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin cut short his visit to the Olympics and flew on Saturday to a field hospital in North Ossetia, part of Russia on the other side of the border of South Ossetia. Putin denounced what he termed Georgia’s “crimes against its own people.”
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Aug. 12, 2008 - Beijing, China - Chinese volleyball player Zhang Xi gives instructions to her teammate Xue Chen during their match against Germany (Sara Goller and Laura Ludwig) at Chaoyang Park Beach Volleyball Ground during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
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Fetish Girrrl
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Aug. 15, 2008 - Tampa, Florida, U.S. - Model Defenz Mechanizm strikes a pose at the Secretroom.net Fantasy Masquerade Ball during Fetish Con 2008 at the Hyatt downtown. Other than the trade show, the Con also features seminars, nightly themed parties and a fetish fashion show.
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Let the Games Begin
Picture by Lucas Oleniuk/Toronto Star
Aug. 15, 2008 - Beijing, China - Athletes compete during the preliminary heats of the Olympic steeplechase at Beijing’s National Stadium on the opening day of Olympic athletics.
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Michael, Michael, Michael
Picture by Emilio Lavandeira Jr./EFE
Aug. 17, 2008 - Beijing, China - American swimmer Michael Phelps celebrates winning the 4x100-meter medley relay and his eighth Olympic gold medal with Aaron Peirsol (center) and Brendan Hansen (left).
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Horsing Around
Picture by New China News Agency
Aug. 17, 2008 - Hong Kong, China - Azerbaijan rider Jamal Rahimov falls from his horse Ionesco De Brekka during the equestrian jumping individual competition of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in the Olympic cohost city of Hong Kong.
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Say It Isn’t So
Picture by Sean M. Haffey/San Diego Union-Tribune
Aug. 19, 2008 - Beijing, China - Lolo Jones, the favorite in the women’s 100-meter hurdles, trips and stumbles, costing her a medal and earning her a seventh-place finish with a time of 12.72.
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Fire STARTER
Picture by Richard Lautens/Toronto Star
Aug. 20, 2008 - Beijing, China - The firing of the starter’s gun marks the start of the men’s 800-meter run.
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Red-Letter Day
Picture by Carlos Ortega/EFE
Aug. 22, 2008 - Cali, Valle del Cauca, Columbia - Troops seize 6.728 kilos of marijuana during an operation against the sixth front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
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Perfect Hair
Picture by Sven Simon/Imago Sports
Aug. 23, 2008 - Beijing, China - Chinese diver Huo Liang jumps off the 10-meter platform at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
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Waterfall
Picture by Lars Moeller/Imago Sports
Aug. 23, 2008 - Beijing, China - A diver takes the plunge in the men’s 10-meter platform at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
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Up, Up and Away
Picture by Michael Goulding/The Orange County Register
Aug. 23, 2008 - Beijing, China - The Brazilian women’s volleyball team toss their team captain, Helia Souza, after they win the gold medal. The U.S. women’s volleyball team won the silver medal for the second time after falling to Brazil in the gold-medal match.
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Holiday TRAFFIC
Picture by Oli Scarff/Telegraph
Aug. 23, 2008 - Gori, Georgia - Georgian troops wait in their 4x4 trucks on the outskirts of Gori, where they will be deployed, some 20 miles from the South Ossetian frontier. This is the first day after the Kremlin’s self-imposed deadline to withdraw troops from Georgia.
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I Can See for Miles and Miles
Picture by Richard Lautens/Toronto Star
Aug. 24, 2008 - Beijing, China - A volunteer takes pictures of the final fireworks at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
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Never-Ending Tragedy
Picture by Zou Sen/ChinaFotoPress
Aug. 31, 2008 - Panzhihua, Sichuan, China - Rescue workers dig out the bodies of those who died in the 6.1-magnitude quake that hit Panzhihua earlier that day.
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Mac Is Back
Picture by Derek Blair/Daily Telegraph
Sept. 4, 2008 - St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. - With clinched fists, Arizona Senator John McCain accepts his party’s nomination at the Republican National Convention.
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Bring in the Clowns
Picture by New China News Agency
Sept. 6, 2008 - Beijing, China - Clowns entertain the crowds at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games.
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Saved
Picture by New China News Agency
Sept. 7, 2008 - Changzhuang, China - A worker is rescued from the flooded Renhe coal mine in Changzhuang Township of Yuzhou City, central China’s Henan Province. More than 50 miners were working in the shaft when the flooding occurred, and about 30 of them managed to escape. Though six people have been saved,18 miners are still stranded in the coal mine.
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Going Down the Rabbit Hole
Picture by Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune
Sept. 15, 2008 - Blaine, Minnesota, U.S. - A large crowd greets Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (center) and Arizona Senator John McCain (right) at the Anoka County-Blaine Airport during a presidential campaign rally.
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Leap of Faith
Picture by New China News Agency
Sept. 15, 2008 - Beijing, China - Blind American track and field athlete Lex Gillette competes in the long jump at the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games.
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Obama Nation
Picture by David Calvert/ZUMA
Sept. 15, 2008 - Reno, Nevada, U.S. - U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign rally at the University of Nevada.
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Gathering the Tribe Visa pour l’Image turns 20
Picture and text by Scott Mc Kiernan
Joyeux Anniversaire - Happy Birthday - Alles Gute Zum Geburtstag - Buon Compleanno - Feliz Aniversario - Feliz Cumpleaños - Para Bem - Gelukkige Verjaardag Every year, photographers come from the four corners of the earth. Agents and editors from the major and no-so-major world players arrive from every country that licenses images. Educators flock from institutions of learning around the globe. This true gathering of the planet’s photojournalism tribe centers on exhibitions, nightly slideshow screenings and parties in the name of, well, everything and anything.
All this happens in the south of France in the town of Perpignan. Salvador Dalí, the infamous Catalán surrealist artist, declared Perpignan’s train station the center of the universe, saying that he always got his best ideas sitting in the waiting room. Perpignan is now the mecca for war/conflict photographers everywhere, as it’s the host of Visa pour l’Image during the first week of September every year. Two decades ago, Perpignan’s mayor, in an effort to help extend the tourist season in his decaying city, convinced Visa pour l’Image founder and Paris Match editor Roger Thérond to have a festival. Thérond created a photography festival like the suc-
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cessful annual Arles event, just down the road. Perpignan was created to concentrate on hard-core photojournalism—pictures like those that made his magazine successful. Michel Decron, editor of another famous and successful Filipacchi magazine, Photo, was made the festival’s first director. He stepped down the following year, and Jean-François Leroy has been its maître domo and keeper of its flame ever since. Leroy has grown the festival beyond the wildest dreams of its founder, Thérond, who passed away in 2001. In 1989, 123 professionals, seven agencies and only two countries attended the festival.
In 2008, over 3,500-plus professionals, 250-plus agencies and almost every country in the world were represented at Visa pour l’Image. If you believe in truth and have passion for images and image making, you must attend this event at least once. Many photographers come with dreams of being signed and having their careers made. That’s not going to happen. This event, like most in the industry, favors the established photographers. Though no one believes in Horatio Alger’s dream more than myself and a friendship made here could change your life, I suggest that you come to Visa pour l’Image—not for glory and with blind
ambition—to absorb the atmosphere and help recharge your batteries. No expectations. Just be yourself. Next year, come to the 21st Visa pour l’Image and join the tribe. Remember that the real key to Perpignan is not what it offers. There is no magic pill or easy solution in this tough business of being a professional photojournalist. Perpignan and Visa is only what you make of it. Enjoy! See you there. Long live Perpy!
DTzine.com 125 Pictures by Charles Porter IV The 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for Spot News Photography was awarded to Charles Porter IV for his haunting photographs, taken after the Oklahoma City bombing, showing Baylee Almon, a 1-year-old victim handed to and then cradled by local fireman Chris Fields.
A massive bomb detonates in an underground car park beneath the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Pictured: A police officer tries to control the scene in front Oklahoma City’s decimated Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
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Charles Porter IV: I was a busy young twentysomething—working my first full-time job at 25 as a loan credit specialist at Liberty National Bank in downtown Oklahoma City, 8-5 daily, newly married to his college sweetheart, with a passion for photography on the side. And then after Apr. 17, 1995, my life would never be the same. I grew up in quiet Stillwater, Oklahoma, and have never traveled outside of Oklahoma, much less been on an airplane, except on my honeymoon. I was a budding photographer at D T
the time, doing some sports coverage for the University of Oklahoma. And was lucky to have Dan Smith, the director of photographic arts at University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Oklahoma, as a mentor.
DT: You are the ultimate citizen journalist. Walk us through that day. You were at work, right? And you had a camera at your bank job. Why? CP: That’s right. Photo friends always told me that you‘ve gotta have your camera with you, in the passenger seat of your car, always.’ DT: Good advice. So, how did the day start?
DT: Give us the tech info on that day. CP: My camera was a Canon A2E, and I shot two rolls of film that day. One was a Fuji 200 ASA color negative and the other a Kodak Gold 200 ASA color negative as well, and both were 24 exposures. I shot every frame. I had no flash. I took the film to the Edmond’s Wal-Mart back then, and they did the rest while I waited.
CP: I worked at the bank headquarters, a 35-story huge building. I was on the ninth floor seeing a cohort. I remember like it was yesterday. It was 9:02 a.m., and we heard a massive boom, and the building shook, knocking people off their feet. I do not know why, but I just went into autopilot, hustled to get my camera on the 13th floor where my desk was and ran out of the building. Once on the street, I went toward the rising black smoke. I see the Murrah building
and was knocked to my knees by a dust cloud. It was raining paper and loose debris. DT: What made you go out there in the first place? CP: Hey, if they demo’d an old building, it might be a kinda cool shot for the portfolio. That day was like divine intervention. I had to crisscross our office building to get out. I debated whether to bother at all. What if it was no big deal. But I made every elevator, and I was outside in no time. I had cowboy boots on, a tie and a business shirt. DT: So, you got to the building and now it was all making sense. What happened next? CP: Frankly, it was east to find. Follow the smoke. I got to the courtyard by the church, which was covered in glass, a bed of glass. That was my first
Oklahoma City Police Sergeant John Avery passes an injured baby to firefighter Chris Fields. The baby was thrown from the Stars and Stripes day care, which was located on the first floor of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
real sign of trouble. I am starting to shot. A few minutes went by and they were setting up triage, trying to get control of the event.
around them and started crying. I thought maybe my local paper, The Daily Oklahoman, would run them.
DT: Is that when you saw baby Baylee?
DT: Everyone around the world saw them. How did that happen?
CP: Yes, I saw a fireman, Chris Fields, on the upside of the street and John Avery of the OKC police. He walks toward me as he hands off the bruised baby to the fireman. I shot deliberately, and after about 45 minutes, the TV news cameras showed up and police had some of the area roped off. HD: You must been drained, so much tragedy. CP: I was overwhelmed. I went back to work, got there by 10 a.m. They sent us home, and I rushed to Wal-Mart, where I processed and printed all my work. When my pictures came out of the machine, some of the ladies huddled
CP: I went to the AP bureau in town, the receptionist was very blasé about me having pictures of the disaster. I cooled my heels. But once photo looked at it, I remember a nice man named David saying, “You got something here!” He was very helpful, and they scanned an image or two for the wire, and I went home. Then everything went so fast. I went home and the calls just started coming, one after another, from all over the world. Then thousands of papers worldwide ran it on their covers, and it all started to sink in. Ironically, my local paper did not run it on the cover; they ran pictures by the staffers. I had some good experiences and some bad with the media.
DT: When did it die down? CP: It died down after two to three months, and then one day no one called. I was surprised and kept asking my wife why there were no messages. It was actually good. It put me in my place. DT: What do you do now? CP: I live in Dallas, happily married going on 15 years. My wife is the high school choir director. Life is good. Photography is my hobby. I don’t shoot as much. I mostly document life, and I shoot a wedding now and then. My new career and passion is physical therapy. I love orthopedic PT.
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June 18, 2008 - Mexico City, Mexico - After an intense evening forum on women in photojournalism at the Foundr y Photojournalism Workshop, the all-star panel jumps for joy (from left: Adriana Zehbraukas, Stephanie Sinclair, Andrea Bruce, Paula Bronstein, RenĂŠe C . Byer and Kael Alford).
June 15-21, 2008 - Mexico City, Mexico The Foundry Workshop was created to provide training, education and networking to emerging photographers and students who normally would not be able to afford workshops. The Foundry is a grassroots workshop series held in inspiring and photographically challenging global locations. The 2008 workshop in Mexico was the first of what all who attended hope will be an annual experience. Foundry 2009 will be held in Manali, India, during the week of July 26-Aug. 1. Visit www.FoundryPhotoWorkshop.org for more information.
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Hail to the Chief Picture by Michael Francis McElroy/ZUMA Aug. 28, 2008 - Denver, Colorado, U.S. - A delegate from Houston, Texas, listens to Barack Obama give his acceptance speech on the last day of the Democratic National Convention.