Warrior Ink
Reuters photographer Tim Wimborne documents the tattoos of members of the U.S. military serving in Afghanistan in the audio slideshow above.
View full coverage of the War in Afghanistan here.
Swiss cliche: alphorn festival
A Swiss mountain, Swiss flags thrown into the air and about 120 alphorn players in traditional clothes: Each summer the alp Tracouet in Nendaz, southern Switzerland, is the stage of an alphorn contest and festival - Swiss folklore the way you might have pictured it.
This year was no exception as the mountains echoed the International alphorn festival once again.
International? For sure! Joseph and Virginia Anderer tell us why in this audio slideshow.
Where do Clunkers go?
As the U.S. Senate approves a $2 billion boost for the “Cash for Clunkers” program, photographer Brian Snyder speaks with Tom Barenboim, owner of Clark Chrysler Jeep Dodge dealership in Methuen, Massachusetts, and parts manager Fred Coco about their experience with the program, and what happens to the clunkers once they are traded in.
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Who ever come up with this idear is a complete IDIOT I drove to see the Clunkers & many of them were very good autos.Better then many on the road. Why wreck a good running auto that has no problems and keep selling gas Guzzlers. If each auto is vigorously,tested why is there so many caravans & Windstars with junk transmissions. Windstars & Ventures with over heating problems that sometimes conpleatly wreck the engines. Why do Hondas & Toyotas run forever. Why dont the US build a car thats easy to work on instead of the compleat junk they have been building the last 15-20 years. I had a $80 GEO Metro that lasted 4.5 years got over 45 miles MPGs And I only had to replace the Battery & Radiator @ a cost of less then $200. Very easy to do repairs on.
A different world, just as real.
The first time I met Angelica I didn’t know how to address him, as a man or a woman. To call him Angelica and then hear his man’s voice was very strange. The first thing I asked was how he wanted to be treated. He said that it depended on how I felt more comfortable. For me she was Angelica.
Angelica is an extraordinary person through whose story I began my own in my new country, Mexico. Mexico is enormous and full of contrasts, color, smells and flavors.
Angelica has a very unique family. Her daughter Shadra has a pet Egyptian rat. I thought, how can a girl have a pet rat and love it as any child loves a dog. She proudly wanted to show it to me and put it in my hands, but I screamed and told her I was sorry but I just couldn’t hold a rat. I was ashamed to be such a coward. Luckily she understood; she’s an 8-year-old girl with incredible maturity that allows her to accept her father as a man and as a woman at the same time. She respects and doesn’t show shame.
Angelica’s wife, Chatall, a lesbian, has always worked to give the best education to their children, Shadra and her other child from a previous marriage, with an open mind that also teaches values and principals. When Chatall realized that she also liked other women, she managed to overcome the barriers and live openly.
Dear Journalist friend,
Excellent photos,excellent videos,worthwhile conversations and all like that.
Just to mention here,being a small country,Mexico can be well developed in all aspects.
back to transgender topic,in India,Tamilnadu,state has given equal rights,providing,understanding their problems,trying to solve their social isolations by debates,discussions,prticipations by government schemes.
We will all support these people by writing skills.
Homeless, sick and “thanking God for this wonderful place to live”
Reuters Boston Photographer Brian Snyder spent a very long and claustrophobic day in the tiny dark hotel suite where a homeless nurse, Tarya Seagraves-Quee, and three of her four children have been living in Massachusetts for nearly two months.
A record number of families are now being put up in motels due to high unemployment and the rising number of homes going into foreclosure, costing taxpayers $2 million per month but providing a lifeline for desperate families.
Seagraves-Quee has found refuge in a motel after losing her job in Georgia more than a year ago and going without health-care for about 10 months. She suffers from multiple sclerosis, Aspergers syndrome, anemia and lupus, and now is scared she may have cancer. Two of her children, aged 16 and 6, are autistic. After losing her job, and facing repeated physical abuse from a boyfriend, she spent $700 – almost all her savings — on airline tickets for her family to stay with relatives in Boston.
Never too old to be a porn star
Audio slideshow produced by Toru Hanai and Kim Kyung-hoon. A full story is listed below.
ICHIKAWA, Japan – He is a typical man of age — a few white hairs cover his round head and he wears dentures.
But 75-year-old Shigeo Tokuda sat on a movie set on Monday wearing just a silk kimono and loin cloth about to have sex on film with a woman who is younger than his daughter.
Tokuda is Japan’s oldest pornographic movie star and was shooting his latest film in which he portrayed a master of sex.
The director said the films showed people that their sex lives did not have to end with old age, and in 16 years of making such movies Tokuda has acted up with women ranging from their 20s to as old as himself.
“I debuted at 59, and have played in more than 200 porno movies since then,” he said, using his screen name, not his real one in an interview on the set.
Hi Mr Kim!
I am a photography enthusiast in Quebec City Canada. I am using this means to contact you because I don’t know how to do so otherwise.
I saw your most amazing photo in today’s edition of the Globe and Mail, the one with the raindrops on the car window all showing a man walking past a stock index board. I am very moved by that picture and would greatly appreciate it if you could briefly explain to me how you went about to take it.
I respectfully thank you!
Michel
Tent city in Florida offers hope
Click here or on any of the pictures below to launch an audio slideshow.******A Florida tent city for hundreds of homeless people lies at the end of a dead-end street, but residents say they have not given up hope of a better life despite the U.S. economic downturn.************The Pinellas Hope camp, 250 single-person tents in neat rows on land owned by the Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg in a wooded area north of the city, has room for about 270 and has been filled to capacity since it opened two years ago.************”I could open the gates and have over 500 people,” said Sheila Lopez, the chief operating officer for Catholic Charities at the St. Petersburg diocese.******The camp has a food hall, bathrooms and showers, a laundry room and a few computers for residents to look for jobs and prepare resumes.************”This is a great place to be. It gives us a great opportunity,” said Alex, a resident who declined to give his last name. “We have a safe place to live. It sure beats sleeping on the street.”******The number of homeless people in the United States, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, is difficult to pin down, advocacy groups say, because most people are homeless for only a short period of time.************The National Alliance to End Homelessness estimates about 675,000 people are homeless on any given night during a one-month period. Between 2.5 million and 3.5 million Americans experience homelessness for at least one night in a year.******The alliance said it expects more than 1 million people to become homeless as a result of the current recession.
Hi Carlos,
My name is Johnny and I’m doing voluntarily work for children and I’d like to use your picture were a hand i raied up in the sky and grapping the fence.
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/si te_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/haiti_02_01 /h29_21952455.jpg
I would want your permission to do that.
The pic will be printed out and symbolise some kind of freedom 
Yours truly
Johnny
Last gift for dying dogs
SAPPORO, Japan – Retirement can be a death knell for guide dogs, creatures who spend their lives caring for others, but a home in Japan is giving these canines a new lease on life in their twilight years. The Sapporo Retirement Home for Dogs, in the northern island of Hokkaido, has sheltered more than 200 animals since it opened in 1978, giving them the best possible care until they are either adopted by sighted humans or die.
“This is the last gift we can give these dogs who worked for people all their life,” said the home’s director Keiko Tsuji as she caressed the coat of Rick, a dog who is now paralyzed due to old age and can only feed from a tube. “Most of these dogs only live for 2 or 3 years after their retirement, and I want them to live comfortably for the rest of their lives,” she added.
Japan’s guide dogs must retire at the age of 11 or 12, because that is when their abilities, and physical strength, start to fail, according to the home’s staff. These aged dogs are then taken away from their masters because, after years of guiding, they will continue to perform their duties, putting themselves and their owners at risk.
The separation is difficult for both human and animal, and Tsuji, who has cared for dogs for more than 20 years, said that easing the transition from working dog to retiree is what the facility aims to do.
“What they need most is affection. They have lived very closely with people for a long time, so it’s very hard for them to feel isolated suddenly. It is essential for them to keep interacting with people,” she explained.
Only a few dogs live at the center permanently. Some are sent back to the home that raised them as puppies, and others are adopted, usually by workers at the center. Rick, whose emaciated body lies beneath a child’s blanket all day, is set to remain at the center, as is Yell, another guide dog who enjoys the facility’s sun room and all the affection he gets from the 12 caretakers.
wonderful, this bought tears to my eyes.. those guide dogs deserve the best possible life after they retire from guide duty.. its amazing to know that you have given them a wonderful place to spend their last days..
Taking the cows by the horns: Audio slideshow
In this audio slideshow, fighting cow owner Jean-François Rossat talks with Reuters photographer Denis Balibouse about traditional cow fights in the Alpine region of Valais, Switzerland.
Monks of the Namo Monastery – Audio slideshow
Click here or on the image above to view an audio slideshow from the Namo Monastery.
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The Wall
Great way to show the world what the men in uniform and their stories that would share of what inspires them.