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(Reuters) - Robert Gilka, director of photography for National Geographic magazine for 22 years and a mentor to leading photojournalists, died on Tuesday at age 96, the National Press Photographers Association said.
He died in hospice care in Arlington, Virginia, following his third case of pneumonia this year, the NPPA said, citing photojournalist Bruce Dale.
"There is laughter and there are tears because Bob touched so many lives in remarkable ways," Chris Johns, National Geographic's editor in chief, told News Photographer magazine. "He encouraged us, set standards of excellence and instilled in us the desire to become better photographers and editors."
Many photographers considered him a legend for how he ran the photo operation at magazine renowned for its spectacular images.
In 2006, the Alexia Foundation, which promotes photojournalism, honored him with a lifetime achievement award.
Gilka was head of the Milwaukee Journal's picture desk starting in 1952 and joined the staff of National Geographic in 1958 as a picture editor, the NPPA said. He was named photography director in 1963 and retired from National Geographic in 1985.
After leaving the magazine, he was an adjunct professor of photojournalism at Syracuse University until 1992, the NPPA said.
(Reporting by Daniel Trotta in New York; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ex-national-geographic-photo-chief-gilka-dead-96-010950436.html
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Editor's note: Marc Young is a Berlin-based freelance journalist covering President Barack Obama's visit for Yahoo News.
Ever since John F. Kennedy made his legendary ?Ich bin ein Berliner? address almost 50 years ago to the day, Berlin has been a place where U.S. presidents come when they have something important to say.
In 1963, JFK set down a marker that America would not yield West Berlin to the Soviets just two years after the Wall had been built. And Ronald Reagan made one of his most memorable speeches in the still-divided city in 1987, demanding Mikhail Gorbachev tear down that very same Cold War barrier.
Keenly aware of the gravitas a Berlin visit can lend, Barack Obama made a passionate plea for a better world as a presidential candidate in 2008 to a huge crowd of 200,000.
Now leader of the free world, President Obama gave an eagerly awaited foreign policy address in front of Berlin?s symbolic Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday morning. But with the entire center of the German capital on lockdown for the duration of his whirlwind 24-hour visit, Obama will have little opportunity to mingle with Berlin?s denizens.
Yahoo News correspondent Marc Young hit the city?s few remaining unblocked streets to find out what people thought of the presidential pomp and ask which U.S. president they considered to be the best Berliner.
2:45 p.m. at the Berlin Wall memorial
Miriam
An American tour guide living in Berlin, Miriam was hurrying to quench her thirst on what?s turned out to be a real scorcher of a day just after Michelle Obama and her daughters visited the Berlin Wall memorial. The huge cross-section of the former "death strip"?the land surrounding the Wall was known for its mines and snipers?is the only place to get a feel for what the city was like during the Cold War. Miriam said the Obamas, besides being escorted by Chancellor Angela Merkel?s husband, Dr. Joachim Sauer, were with the president's half-sister.
"It?s great they came here with the family," she said. "It was a bit odd because the whole area was sealed off to the public, but there were lots of Secret Service agents looking like tourists walking around."
She added, ?I?m sure JFK was impressive in Berlin and Reagan?s speech was admittedly important, but I?m a total Obama fan.?
Presidential pick: Obama
10:45 a.m. near the Ritz-Carlton hotel at Potsdamer Platz
Manfred Fiifi
Once a derelict wasteland near the Berlin Wall, Potsdamer Platz is now home to shiny glass towers and the Ritz-Carlton hotel, where Obama and his family spent Tuesday night. Rumor has it that the president picked it because of its nice gym. Manfred Fiifi, a 58-year-old Berlin resident who works as a security official for an embassy, stopped by after a doctor?s appointment.
?It?s a huge operation today, but these types of visits are normal for Berliners," he said. "I?m here because of my profession; it?s interesting to see how the police are handling all this.?
(At this point, the police stop a car to let a dog sniff for explosives. One burly officer demands we step farther away with the friend phrase: ?When the dog is dangling from your bones??)
?I don?t have anything against Obama. He?s doing the best he can," adds Fiifi. "I?m not disappointed in him, but I didn?t really expect that much from him either. Of course, JFK was the first U.S. president to come to Berlin, then Reagan and Obama. So I?d say Kennedy really set the standard.?
Presidential pick: JFK
10 a.m. on Unter den Linden Boulevard
Bernd Schneider
The 63-year-old civil engineer for Germany?s railway took the day off to travel from Leipzig, an hour south of Berlin by train. But on the city?s grand Unter den Linden Boulevard, there was no getting any closer to the Brandenburg Gate just visible in the distance. After growing up in communist East Germany, Schneider fled to the West in 1986, just three years before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
?I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about," said Schneider. "I asked the police if they were getting the day off, since it?s so sunny and nice, but they really didn?t think it was that funny.
?Obama is OK. I?m not really bothered by the [National Security Agency] snooping. I grew up in East Germany, and you just can?t compare it with the Stasi [or the Ministry for State Security, the former secret police of East Germany]. I guess if I send pictures of my vacation and say, ?The weather was the bomb,? I?m going to be scanned. But I don?t mind if it helps stop terrorism. However, I?m pretty un-German about stuff like that.?
Presidential pick: JFK
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/view-obama-berlin-visit-street-134111608.html
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By Saliou Samb
CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's opposition parties on Thursday pulled out of U.N.-mediated election talks with the government, accusing police and youths of attacking one of their leaders and his supporters.
The negotiations aim to secure opposition participation in long-delayed parliamentary polls, which are meant to seal the mineral-rich nation's transition to civilian rule following a coup in 2008.
Cellou Dalein Diallo, who heads the UFDG party, announced earlier on Thursday that he was pulling out of the process after the attack by stone-throwing youths and police near his home in the capital Conakry on Wednesday.
The opposition said 17 people were injured in the clashes.
Other opposition parties decided to withdraw from the talks after a meeting on Thursday.
"We decided to suspend our participation in the dialogue to protest against the aggression suffered yesterday by former Prime Minister Diallo," said opposition spokesman Aboubacar Sylla.
He said the opposition would not return until their security was guaranteed.
"Diallo is the opposition's torch-bearer. He was a candidate in the second round of the 2010 presidential election. If he is not spared, nobody is safe," Sylla said.
The government said the violence had been provoked by youths from Diallo's own neighborhood.
Diallo won the first round of the presidential vote with 43.69 percent against President Alpha Conde's 18.25 percent, but lost in the runoff to Conde a few months later in a ballot marred by violence.
He had been returning from an appearance in court on Wednesday, where he was facing defamation charges brought against him by a Conde ally.
"They can't attack us like this, fire tear gas at us, allow thugs to throw stones at us and expect us to go along with it," Diallo said. "For now, the UFDG is suspending its participation in the dialogue."
More than 50 people have been killed over the past three months during protests by the opposition, which accuses Conde of stuffing the electoral roll with his ethnic Malinke supporters.
Political instability following the military coup has deterred some investors despite Guinea's large deposits of iron ore, bauxite, gold and other minerals.
The elections commission, known as the CENI, said this week that a June 30 date for the polls, rejected by the opposition, would need to be pushed back.
(Writing by Joe Bavier and Bate Felix; Editing by Andrew Roche)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/guinea-opposition-suspends-talks-government-194017178.html
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