A ring-tailed lemur licks a block of flavored ice handed by zoo keepers at the Israeli zoo of Ramat Gan, north of the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv, as temperatures reached 34 degrees Celsius on July 12, 2012. By Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images.
Category: Face Of The Day
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A reader writes:
As a push to increase the Dish’s pro wrestling coverage – one of the few controversial topics you don’t cover, according to that study – I submit the attached picture of current WWE wrestler Daniel Bryan. Even better than the picture is his catch phrase, “Respect The Beard”.
Update from a reader:
With your two mentions of pro wrestling in one day, I would be remiss not to share with you the latest project I’m working on: Total Divas! The show focuses on seven female wrestlers, one of whom, Brie Bella, is the live-in girlfriend of Daniel Bryan. The tag line of the show should be “What’s real and what’s wrestling?” as it is produced by the same production company that has brought us eight seasons of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Sadly it focuses more on boyfriend trouble and cat-fights than on the struggles of women trying to make it in the predominantly male business. But one aspect of the show that is interesting (and WWE sanctioned) is that it throws back the curtain on what goes into the highly choreographed performances that occur in the ring. (Never call it “fake.”)
Electrifying trailer after the jump:
Another reader:
I saw your post about Daniel Bryan and “Total Divas” and my jaw dropped. I’m a longtime fan of the blog and I WORKED on “Total Divas”. I would take breaks between the scenes and read your blog. Now seeing both of these together? My mind is officially blown.
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For his series Survivors, photographer Ken Hermann took portraits of people in Bangladesh who have been disfigured by acid attacks. Since 1999, more than 3,100 people in Bangladesh, the majority of them young women, have been victims of such attacks. Hermann worked with the Acid Survivors Foundation in Dhaka for the project. More pictures and background here.
(Photo: Jahanara, Ken Hermann)
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Long-time White House correspondent Helen Thomas takes up her seat on the front row of the remodeled James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing of the White House on July 11, 2007 in Washington, DC. By Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. She died today at the age of 92. Rest in peace.
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A man tosses green algae to friends at a beach on July 18, 2013 in Qingdao, China. A large quantity of non-poisonous green seaweed, enteromorpha prolifera, hit the Qingdao coast in recent days. Since June 8, more than 50,000 tons of such seaweed has been removed from the city’s beaches. By ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images.
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Russia jails anti-corruption activist; President Putin denounced as dictator by critics http://t.co/iwLCnaXDdn pic.twitter.com/9HZ0f0Kis3
— Reuters World (@ReutersWorld) July 18, 2013
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People enjoy parasailing on the beach in the French southeastern city of Nice on July 17, 2013. By Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images.
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Zimmerman and Martin with the races changed, from the Tumblr “While Seated” by Michael David Murphy.
The effect of race on acquittals in self-defense cases and with Stand Your Ground laws can be seen here. Update from a reader:
That FOTD just blew my mind. So powerful. Just sitting with it and being mindful of my own feelings and emotions, it’s amazing how deep-seated and unconscious some cultural and societal prejudices can be. Images like that bring them into consciousness though, which is the first step toward eradicating them. I’m emotionally shaken in a way I haven’t since this whole Zimmerman trial began, just imagining how different that hypothetical case would have played out. Could you imagine O’Reilly/Rush/Hannity’s rage in the unlikely event that an acquittal took place? Or their smug satisfaction when (far more likely) the black Zimmerman got the death penalty, and “justice” was done?
Ugh, I need to go take a shower.
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People sit during services honoring Trayvon Martin at Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan on July 14, 2013 in New York City. George Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges in the shooting death of Martin July 13 and some congregants wore hoodies during the service to honor Martin. By Mario Tama/Getty Images.
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“The Irreversible” is a series and book by Maciek Nabrdalik that documents Holocaust survivors. David Rosenberg explains:
In 2009, concerned that he was living with the last generation of Holocaust survivors, photographer Maciek Nabrdalik began meeting, interviewing and taking portraits of survivors for a series titled “The Irreversible”.
Nabrdalik felt a need to act quickly, noting that some survivors passed away after he made contact with them including the last known gay survivor Gad Beck. He said other survivors felt that while they had moved on with their lives and their recollections were not as vivid as they once were, they could never completely escape the nightmares of the past. That sentiment became the title of the project because “…it is difficult to escape something that lies so deep and returns uninvited in dreams, fears and associations. This, they say, is irreversible.”
(Photo: Zofia Posmysz, KL Auschwitz-Birkenau and KL Ravensbruck survivor, by Maciek Nabrdalik. The Irreversible was published this month.)
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