BROOKLYN - Chris Hondros, the renowned American war photojournalist who captured images of conflicts from Iraq and Afghanistan to Liberia and Libya, was honored in a Brooklyn memorial service today. Hondros and "Restrepo" director Tim Hetherington were killed in Libya last week. The two were hit by a rocket-propelled grenade on April 20 during intense fighting between rebels and government forces in Misrata, Libya.
An Ukrainian doctor was also killed during the fighting, and two other photojournalists were injured, but survived.
The service took place at the Sacred Hearts & St. Stephens Church in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn amidst hundreds of family, friends, and colleagues, bouquets of blue, yellow, and purple spring flowers, and the music of Bach, Beethoven, and Mahler. Hondros was remembered not only for his powerful war images, but as a humanitarian who was committed to telling the stories of the silenced, the living and the dead alike.
Father Anthony J. Sansone, who presided over the service, called Hondros a "prophetic witness," who was able to maintain the strength and courage necessary to do his work, because of the "heart of his conscience."
"(Hondros) never ran away from reality," said Father Sansone. "He was present there all the time."
Hondros was on assignment for Getty Images in Misrata when he was struck by the mortar, along with Hetherington, who died from his injuries moments after arriving at a Misrata hospital. Hondros was revived twice but died hours later due to a severe head injury. Shortly before his death, Hondros filed a number of photographs of the intense battle.
Due to be married to Christina Piaia, just months from now in the same church where his memorial was held today, attendees wept as Piaia spoke of her love for her fiancee.
"Oh, how I wish this were our wedding day," she said.
Best known for his photograph of a Liberian militiaman jumping into the air in exaltation after firing an RPG, and his shot of a young Iraqi girl crying alone, covered in her parents' blood after U.S. soldiers fired on her family's car when it didn't stop at a checkpoint. Hondros was often lauded for capturing both the thrill and the horror of war.
He was also regarded as a generous humanitarian who never forgot the people he photographed. Two years after capturing the photo of the Liberian commander, Hondros returned to the country to track him down, finding 28-year-old Joseph Duo lost without a purpose in peacetime. Hondros revisited the bridge with Duo and paid for his tuition at a computer school.
In an essay for The Digital Journalist, Hondros later wrote "Maybe the scars of a lifetime of horror and bloodshed are too deep to heal. But maybe not. And in any case, the future of Joseph Duo is, for the first time ever, in his own hands."
A funeral for Hondros will be held Saturday in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
In lieu of flowers, the loved ones of Chris Hondros have requested donations be made to The Chris Hondros Fund, which will provide scholarships for aspiring photojournalists and raise awareness of issues surrounding conflict photography.
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Friday, May 20, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Dead
WASHINGTON, KOMPAS.com - President of the United States (U.S.), Barack Obama on Sunday (05/01/2011) U.S. time, will announce that the Al Qaeda terrorist network leader Osama bin Laden, is dead, almost 10 years after the September 11 attacks, said a senior U.S. official told AFP.
The official, who requested anonymity, said that Bin Laden was dead, but gave no details about how the death occurred. However, according to CNN reports, Osama killed in a U.S. military raid on a house on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday evening local time.
Still according to U.S. officials, the announcement that Obama will be delivered via broadcast television on Sunday night U.S. time (Monday morning GMT).
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The official, who requested anonymity, said that Bin Laden was dead, but gave no details about how the death occurred. However, according to CNN reports, Osama killed in a U.S. military raid on a house on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday evening local time.
Still according to U.S. officials, the announcement that Obama will be delivered via broadcast television on Sunday night U.S. time (Monday morning GMT).
SOURCE : Here
Thursday, May 19, 2011
CNN's Don Lemon Reveals in Memoir: I'm Gay
“I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it’s such a personal choice," he says.
CNN anchor Don Lemon reveals in his new memoir, Transparent, that he is gay.
"I think it would be great if everybody could be out,” he says in an interview with the New York Times. “But it’s such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that. I do have to say that the more people who come out, the better it is for everyone, certainly for the Tyler Clementis of the world.”
Clementis is the Rutgers University student who jumped off New York City's George Washington Bridge after a sexual encounter with another male in his dorm room was taped by fellow students and broadcast online.
“I think if I had seen more people like me who are out and proud, it wouldn’t have taken me 45 years to say it, to walk in the truth,” Lemon said.
Still, it wasn't easy for Lemon to open up about his sexuality.
“I’m scared. I’m talking about something that people might shun me for, ostracize me for," he told the Times.
He notes there could be ramifications for his TV career, as well as race issues.
“It’s quite different for an African-American male,” he said. “It’s about the worst thing you can be in black culture. You’re taught you have to be a man; you have to be masculine. In the black community they think you can pray the gay away.”
“You’re afraid that black women will say the same things they do about how black men should be dating black women," he went on. “I guess this makes me a double minority now.”
Lemon was approached by a publisher to write a book several years ago after speaking on a panel called "The Black Man in the Age of Obama."
“It was supposed to be a little pamphlet,” he said. “You know: say your prayers; have a good, hearty handshake; say good morning to your boss.”
But as he was writing, he realized he wanted to tell his whole story, including how he was molested as a child. Later, he had second thoughts about revealing so many personal details, but then decided to go forward with his deeply personal memoir.
“But as I started to read it back, I said, no, leave it,” he told the Times. “I abhor hypocrisy. I think if you’re going to be in the business of news, and telling people the truth, of trying to shed light in dark places, then you’ve got to be honest. You’ve got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else.”
CNN has booked him Monday on daytime show CNN Newsroom and Joy Behar's show on sister channel HLN to promote his new book.
SOURCE : Here
CNN anchor Don Lemon reveals in his new memoir, Transparent, that he is gay.
"I think it would be great if everybody could be out,” he says in an interview with the New York Times. “But it’s such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that. I do have to say that the more people who come out, the better it is for everyone, certainly for the Tyler Clementis of the world.”
Clementis is the Rutgers University student who jumped off New York City's George Washington Bridge after a sexual encounter with another male in his dorm room was taped by fellow students and broadcast online.
“I think if I had seen more people like me who are out and proud, it wouldn’t have taken me 45 years to say it, to walk in the truth,” Lemon said.
Still, it wasn't easy for Lemon to open up about his sexuality.
“I’m scared. I’m talking about something that people might shun me for, ostracize me for," he told the Times.
He notes there could be ramifications for his TV career, as well as race issues.
“It’s quite different for an African-American male,” he said. “It’s about the worst thing you can be in black culture. You’re taught you have to be a man; you have to be masculine. In the black community they think you can pray the gay away.”
“You’re afraid that black women will say the same things they do about how black men should be dating black women," he went on. “I guess this makes me a double minority now.”
Lemon was approached by a publisher to write a book several years ago after speaking on a panel called "The Black Man in the Age of Obama."
“It was supposed to be a little pamphlet,” he said. “You know: say your prayers; have a good, hearty handshake; say good morning to your boss.”
But as he was writing, he realized he wanted to tell his whole story, including how he was molested as a child. Later, he had second thoughts about revealing so many personal details, but then decided to go forward with his deeply personal memoir.
“But as I started to read it back, I said, no, leave it,” he told the Times. “I abhor hypocrisy. I think if you’re going to be in the business of news, and telling people the truth, of trying to shed light in dark places, then you’ve got to be honest. You’ve got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else.”
CNN has booked him Monday on daytime show CNN Newsroom and Joy Behar's show on sister channel HLN to promote his new book.
SOURCE : Here
Nuclear Disasters a Sign of Judgement Day
Radiation continues to poison water and food in Japan after three Nuclear Reactors were damaged in the Recent 9.0 Earthquake. Since the March 11 Quake, Radiation levels have raised to unsafe, potentially deadly levels in Japan, signifying the coming Doomsday on May 21.
Earthquakes, floods, and natural disasters are mentioned throughout the Bible and Book of Revelations as warning signs that Jesus will return to Earth to rule during the Apocalypse. The Japan Earthquake is a sign of Doomsday. The flood caused by the tsunami that followed is a sign of Judgement Day. The Nuclear Disaster that in Japan is a sign of the Apocalypse. Keep your eyes open, there are signs of the May 21 Doomsday all around us.
These disasters will mask the return of Jesus to earth for those who do not follow Christ. Atheists will be shocked come May 21 2011 when Jesus returns to save His followers in the Rapture, and the rest are left behind until the End of the World due to Gods destruction comes on October 21 2011. There will be other signs of the apocalypse before He returns.
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Earthquakes, floods, and natural disasters are mentioned throughout the Bible and Book of Revelations as warning signs that Jesus will return to Earth to rule during the Apocalypse. The Japan Earthquake is a sign of Doomsday. The flood caused by the tsunami that followed is a sign of Judgement Day. The Nuclear Disaster that in Japan is a sign of the Apocalypse. Keep your eyes open, there are signs of the May 21 Doomsday all around us.
These disasters will mask the return of Jesus to earth for those who do not follow Christ. Atheists will be shocked come May 21 2011 when Jesus returns to save His followers in the Rapture, and the rest are left behind until the End of the World due to Gods destruction comes on October 21 2011. There will be other signs of the apocalypse before He returns.
SOURCE : Here
Indonesia National Army Annihilate Malaysian peg in Indonesia Region
On May 10, 2011, Pontianak (ANTARA News): Commander Korem 121/Alambhana Wanawwai, Colonel Infantry Toto Rinanto Sudjiman claimed it had destroyed two illegal peg marked Interpreter Measure Mapping Malaysia because of admission Jagoi Babang Sub District, about 250 meters Bengkayang to the detriment of Indonesia.
"The discovery that we have coordinated with the security forces of Malaysia and they said two poles was illegal so we immediately destroyed," said Totok Rinanto Sudjiman after attending a hearing with the Institute for National Resilience Institute governor saying the Governor's Office in Pontianak in West Kalimantan, on Tuesday.
He suspects, illegal stakes were deliberately created by the citizens of neighboring countries, with the aim to expand their agricultural land.
Danrem 121/ABW states, the discovery of two illegal stakes around Sepidak Village, District Jagoi Babang on 21 April 2011 by people who then followed up with a consolidated district to Korem 121/ABW.
"Until now the problems had been completed. For a while we have not received any cases of a shift in the boundary stakes in other places," said Totok.
Meanwhile, Anthony Ale Camat Jagoi Babang justify, the institute together with the community has followed the findings of the boundary shift peg to the TNI.
Peg in illegal border was found in the neighborhood Sentabang, Hamlet Kimdal, Sepidak Village, District Jagoi Babang Bengkayang District bordering Kampong Sitas, BAUK District (district level), Malaysia.
"Peg was deliberately made citizens of neighboring countries, then land about 250 meters into Indonesia is used for agriculture," he said.
Vice Governor of West Kalimantan Christiandy Sanjaya regrets, citizen action that could harm neighboring Indonesia.
"Mode as it is often the case with the aim of taking crops such as timber and replanted with plantations, such as oil," he said.
Moreover, according to Vice Governor of West Kalimantan Indonesia most of the border region with Malaysia is a protected forest that is very vulnerable to the shifting boundary stakes for the purpose of illegal logging or illegal activity in a wild forest.
The length of the land border between Indonesia - Malaysia in Kalimantan reached 2004 kilometers, consisting of 857 kilometers West Kalimantan and East Kalimantan, 1147 miles.
"The discovery that we have coordinated with the security forces of Malaysia and they said two poles was illegal so we immediately destroyed," said Totok Rinanto Sudjiman after attending a hearing with the Institute for National Resilience Institute governor saying the Governor's Office in Pontianak in West Kalimantan, on Tuesday.
He suspects, illegal stakes were deliberately created by the citizens of neighboring countries, with the aim to expand their agricultural land.
Danrem 121/ABW states, the discovery of two illegal stakes around Sepidak Village, District Jagoi Babang on 21 April 2011 by people who then followed up with a consolidated district to Korem 121/ABW.
"Until now the problems had been completed. For a while we have not received any cases of a shift in the boundary stakes in other places," said Totok.
Meanwhile, Anthony Ale Camat Jagoi Babang justify, the institute together with the community has followed the findings of the boundary shift peg to the TNI.
Peg in illegal border was found in the neighborhood Sentabang, Hamlet Kimdal, Sepidak Village, District Jagoi Babang Bengkayang District bordering Kampong Sitas, BAUK District (district level), Malaysia.
"Peg was deliberately made citizens of neighboring countries, then land about 250 meters into Indonesia is used for agriculture," he said.
Vice Governor of West Kalimantan Christiandy Sanjaya regrets, citizen action that could harm neighboring Indonesia.
"Mode as it is often the case with the aim of taking crops such as timber and replanted with plantations, such as oil," he said.
Moreover, according to Vice Governor of West Kalimantan Indonesia most of the border region with Malaysia is a protected forest that is very vulnerable to the shifting boundary stakes for the purpose of illegal logging or illegal activity in a wild forest.
The length of the land border between Indonesia - Malaysia in Kalimantan reached 2004 kilometers, consisting of 857 kilometers West Kalimantan and East Kalimantan, 1147 miles.
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