Thursday, September 30, 2010

Inside the World’s Most Opulent Private Jets

Inside the World’s Most Opulent Private Jets



"The important high-tech instruments," says Nick Gleis, "are surrounded by the warmth and outer glow of an inviting command center. The lighting draws the viewer’s attention to the center - while the glow of the screens keeps the focus there." Photo: Nick Gleis


Gleis: "Utilizing the mirrored ceiling and specialized optics I was able to make the room appear much larger than it really is." Photo: Nick Gleis


"Combining the room lighting with supplementary lighting - then hiding the supplementary lighting so it doesn’t appear in the high-gloss cabinets - is always a major challenge." Photo: Nick Gleis


"Styling a photograph so that the room looks comfortable and inviting -- without overpowering the interior itself - requires a delicate touch. I often use a professional stylist I‘ve worked with for years to get just the right balance." Photo: Nick Gleis


"Designers go to great lengths to add fine details that sometimes become lost in overall room photos. About 20 percent of the photographs I take of large aircraft show small but important design elements in an artistic manner. Each element needs to be properly lit to accentuate the design and function artistically." Photo: Nick Gleis


Photo: Nick Gleis


Photo: Nick Gleis


"Dealing with reflections is always a major concern. Keeping both myself and my equipment out of the photograph is an art that takes many years of practice. Today’s technology allows the photographer more latitude with reflections, but one still needs to be very aware of them." Photo: Nick Gleis


"Lighting is everything. The highly reflective surface and the abalone shell made this photograph a real challenge to take." Photo: Nick Gleis


"On an aircraft the chairs, tables and divans cannot be moved other than to make small adjustments." Photo: Nick Gleis


Photo: Nick Gleis


"The reflection of the lighting behind the camera creates the effect of a golden angel spreading its wings. To achieve just the right look involves a lot of trial and error lighting - and more than a few hours." Photo: Nick Gleis


"Lavatories are always too small. Making such a small space look spacious without optical distortion requires the right equipment. The photographer must know how to minimize the inherent optical distortion of a very wide angle lens." Photo: Nick Gleis


"The combination of accent lighting, house lighting and photographer’s lighting must be effectively blended to give the viewer a clear feeling of what it’s like to stand in that room." Photo: Nick Gleis

For over 30 years, aviation photographer Nick Gleis has shot aircraft for the biggest aviation companies and the wealthiest of private clients. He is as likely to receive assignments from presidents, dictators or royalty as he is from Gulfstream, Boeing or Lear. Gleis’ photographs of large private jets are only one subset of his titanium portfolio, but they are by far the most intriguing. They are views into the expensive tastes of heads of state from around the world.
His striking series has been spreading from blog to blog recently, bringing disbelief to many viewers who would otherwise never get a window into this particular world of excess.
“My catch phrase is Capturing Aircraft Ambiance,” says Gleis. “Every photograph taken aboard an aircraft is an attempt to draw the viewer into the world that I am surrounded by when I take the photograph; a communication of the feeling that world gives me.”
Gleis has photographed over 800 private aircraft – ranging from the Lear 20 series to Boeing 747-400s. To date, he has photographed over 200 Gulfstream aircraft alone. Clients have included heads of state and royalty from Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, China the United Arab Emirates. He closely protects client confidentiality, which is not an easy job when one routinely manages, tracks and delivers thousands of security-sensitive images.
Strictly a commercial photographer, Gleis recently dipped his toes into fine art waters with an unexpected invitation from Magnum photographer Martin Parr to exhibit at The Brighton Photography Biennial, or BPB. “Because of the nature of my work, which is about 90 percent corporate aviation, I do not generally participate in festivals or exhibits,” says Gleis.

It should be no surprise that Gleis’ commercial work appealed to Martin Parr, BPB curator. Parr’s career is defined by his color-saturated images of excess, from greasy plates of orange food guzzled by the U.K. working class to the bling of Dubai. Fascinated by displays of wealth, Parr cites his photographs of the nouveau riche in Moscow as his best work. Gleis’ lavish interiors of jet-set toys were a natural choice for The House of the Vernacular installation at Parr’s showcase.
Gleis’ crossover is not without its problems though. While BPB introduced his work to an entirely new, arty audience, it also gave rise to a recurring irritation for Gleis. “To the average eye,” he says, “it is not the photographic skills that draw the attention but the subject itself. That is always a bit of a problem for me.”
Protective of his art and proud of his technical prowess, Gleis doesn’t want his images used for pure titillation. “People tend to want to sensationalize the images and thereby make my clients look like they are ostentatious. I want people to see the quality of the photograph not just the record of what was there.”
Calling for a return to artistic verve, Gleis urges the photographer to do the leg work before clicking the shutter. “Pre-visualizing the final outcome, then assembling the necessary elements, is the way to create lasting images.” Pre-visualization is a philosophy Gleis adopted early in his career working with Ansel Adams, whose Zone System technique allowed a photographer greater control of exposure levels and made final results more faithful to his or her artistic vision.
“Far too many new photographers today rely on digital tricks and software to produce technically good images,” says Gleis, “but images that neither excite nor inform the viewer. I would advise all up-and-coming photographers to slow down and look at the scene very carefully. Is there a better angle? Is the lighting optimal? After all, lighting is everything.”
Gleis also photographs on air-to-air assignments, capturing exterior images of subject aircraft by using chase airplanes such B-25 Bombers, Gulfstream IIIs and IVs and Lear 35s with special optics. Sometimes these assignments require the use of mounts on the outside of aircraft, which has lead to a few interesting situations. Gleis shared this anecdote:
Employed to make a video of an executive BlackHawk Helicopter owned – and in this case piloted – by a South Asian royal family member, Gleis mounted a $30,000 USD BetaCam camera to the front skid. Gleis and two assistants chased in a Bell 202, ultimately with the intention to cut the two sets of footage together.
Flying and filming for an hour over the jungle, they broke formation and headed back to base. Twenty minutes later, after a royal joyride, his highness touched down. “I couldn’t believe my eyes.” Recalls Gleis, “There was no camera on the skid. The mount was there, but no camera.” Unwilling to accuse a royal family member of carelessness and accepting the loss of a $30,000 camera to the jungle, Gleis jokingly requested that if any monkeys were found in possession of expensive video equipment, it be seized and returned to him.
A royal smirk broke. The pilot had landed the chopper, removed and hidden the camera, then returned to witness Gleis’ panic. Before the reveal, the royal prankster ended with a flourish, issuing an order to his commanding officer, “All monkeys with video cameras should be arrested immediately.”
Gleis will not elaborate on the ownership of the jets. Brighton Photography Biennial pegs the photographs as “showing the luxury of African dictators’ private jets [from the] 1960s and 1970s” and groups them in a selection titled “The Archive of Modern Conflict.”
In the same month that the corrupt Nigerian government put in its order for three new presidential jets, politically minded bloggers have noticed the problematic nature of Gleis’ series. “Something about this one makes me think Angola. Any other guesses?” quips Glenna Gordon, a photojournalist based in West Africa, on her blog.
Shrouded in mystery, these photographs are as political as they are eye-catching. Client anonymity is Gleis’ core responsibility but it is also the series’ Achilles heel. Rightly or wrongly, human rights abuses and blood money have been associated with third-world rulers and the unavoidable information-gaps in Gleis’ images are susceptible to worst-case-scenario thinking by audiences.
Even if Gleis had the opportunity to reveal all and photograph the owners, he wouldn’t be interested, “I am happiest when I am shooting and it doesn’t really matter what I am shooting … with the exception of people. I would rather work at WalMart than shoot portraits or weddings.”


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The most vicious mosquito spray

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Mosquito sprays usually contain only chemicals or drugs to paralyze mosquito. But Johannes Vogl designing mosquito spray by adding features that are weird. Armed with the skills to assemble, he makes a mosquito spray to extract the fire as well as matches.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Facebook Boss Still in Rental Homes

Boss up Mark Zuckerberg, The house is still rentIt's so simple figure for young people who have a wealth of $ 6.9 Billion, look at Mark's modest appearance, often the CEO up was seen using a plain shirt and jeans everywhere.  
Lihatlah perabot rumah makan dan dapur rumah kontrakan Mark, sederhana untuk ukuran Milyader sepertinyaEven in the postings previous ruanghati.com Mark also was known to have a girlfriend who sedernaha also looks a medical student named Priscilla Chan, whereas if only Mark would a girl as beautiful as a photo model world was he could get, but Mark seems more to see a woman not from the physical side of beauty in general.Look at the restaurant and kitchen furniture rented house Mark, it seems simple to size billionaireIn Oprah Winfrey's recent balum where Mark Zuckerberg is present as a guest on his life by Oprah peeled revealed several unique and interesting things from Mark himself one of them turns out that didiaminnya home today and that will later use if already married with his girlfriend Miss Chan was still a rented house.When viewed from a rented house rumahpun Mark relatively simple to measure a world-class millionaires like himself, as quoted ruanghati.com from 
Rumah yang didiami Bos Facebook yang milyader ini ternyata masih mengontrakLifeJournal mention wealth boss up is still bigger than Apple Inc. boss Steve Jobs, where Mark was rated the richest 35 people in America. Incredibly, young men who have strong financial capability but able to resist the temptation to show off what he had.Harvard medical student with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan of Chinese originHarvard medical student with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan of Chinese originStill in the Oprah show, Mark Zuckerberg is committed to helping a number of funds intended for schools that is being repaired in the U.S., the amount of aid donated to the school improvement reaches up to $ 100 million or equivalent to Rp 900 billion, imagine the money for it if you want marks can buy mansions in Beverly Hill or other luxurious places, but he would prefer to stay at home rented.The house is inhabited up the billionaire boss is still contractedThe figure of the founder of facebook This reminds us of a proverb, increasingly contain more and ducked rice seeds, a very rare figure of an age now where people are generally measured by the number of degrees of wealth and lifestyle you have, we see how many people memkasakan themselves to acquire a luxury lifestyle while although this should be done by selling debt or corruption even self-esteem. Salute to boss up on this oneLabels: Celebs

Batman Who Failed in the Abdomen




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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Soekarno create U.S. President knees





Bung Karno growled. Ike tried to seduce him, "Please release pilotku". But Sukarno still furious. Perhaps also because the flatter Sukarno was Ike, an old man. Ike is a nickname D. Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. president at that time. This time Americans do get the stone.

State Digdaya Indonesia was contrived embarrassed when the pilot, Allen Pope was shot down on the island of Morotai. More embarrassed again, as with the capture of the pilot, the U.S. cover and the CIA finally open. Guise that proves the U.S. through the CIA was playing with fire with his adventures behind the separatist rebellion in Indonesia. It also includes a U.S. infiltrating arming the rebels. It's what makes Bung Karno growled, and began to play one's trump card.

Bung Karno was dikerjai America, now back work on America. Bung Karno aware, the arrest of Allen Pope boost Indonesia's bargaining position in the face of America. The next story is how Ike and John F. Kennedy made a fuss.
This is the historic moment when Indonesia's poor for the first time have a high bargaining power in the face of "rich owners", American.

Bung Karno not just sue the U.S. must apologize. But still there are a series of other requests that make America "forward hit back hit". Eisenhower asked Indonesia releases pilot Allen Pope. But Bung Karno would not release it with free. The pilot is his trump card.
uf-nya.

Allen Pope

This is the story of how the Bung Karno with anger "neck pinned Allen Pope" as he forefinger beckoned Americans want knelt at the foot of Bung Karno (of course this is only a symbol theatrical).

Hanging Allen Pope! Legal Allen Pope die! Once the wave of protests in front of U.S. embassy in Jakarta after Allen Pope caught. in 1958 it. Rakyat Indonesia is made up of blood by the behavior of Allen Pope. Because the pilot was already dropped the bomb in Ambon who ate no less casualties.

In the middle of the hot atmosphere, friends, or Gunter Mas Tok Soekarnoputra not stop jammed with questions about the pilot Allen Pope.
Bung Karno conversation with his eldest son related it, many expressed a variety of sources. But there are actually more important behind the conversation between President Sukarno and Mas Tok following ... ..

Bung Karno was in the shower. Mas Tok are still teenagers banging on the bathroom door. Can not wait. Due to continued pounding on the door, peered briefly Bung Karno. "What tho Mas Tok? Mr. unfinished bath. "

Once the door is open, Mas Tok grabbed his father by asking, "Bener exemption is not it Mr. Allen Pope exchanged with Hercules ransom?". Mas Tok was impatient to get know the answer. At that time he also must have leaked the answer. It was previously among his friends, they already whispering gossip justify it. Mas Tok so hot as well. Because as a child of Bung Karno, he should know better than his friends.

Mas Tok's curious that do not have to wait a long time waiting for his father replied. Question Mas Tok was immediately struck by his father's distinctive laugh. Thundering, "hahahahaha ... ... let alone America's love for Mr Hercules. If the Americans send a plane again, I'll tell you another shot. As the ransom, Mr'm Marilyn Monroe and Ava Gardner. "





That's typical humor Bung Karno. Quirky humor of a statesman. How Bung Sukarno joked with colleagues politician everyday, not much different from his joke with her children. Mas Tok and her sisters had memorized his father's tradition. Basic Bung Karno!
But behind the jokes actually, maybe even Bung Karno and Mas Tok itself was not yet aware of something. That is the aftermath of Indonesia's bargaining position before, Bung Karno has begun a new milestone in the birth history for the Air Force fleet, namely the birth of Hercules squadron in Indonesia. This fleet will also have a stake in West Papua from the Dutch win.
It all started from the back and forth negotiations for the release of a pilot who makes America nervous. How could I not? Because if not rescued immediately, the pilot might open the mouth of confidential information relating to the CIA game.

First attack to the Palace Maukar's rumored fiance due to Bung Karno tempt the pilot.
The next rumor hit the Bung Karno again. That exemption pilot Allen Pope rumored since Bung Karno seduced by the wife of Pope, who accidentally imported from America.

Sounds like cheap gossip. But wait! History sometimes tinged cheap gossip, and leads to results that are not cheap. It is said that the name high-level political intrigue. Intrigue that uses the weaknesses of Bung Karno. The weakness especially if it's not about women? Just because Bung Karno womanizer ... ..

Bung Karno was womanizer. But the party's anti Bung Karno sometimes manipulate this side of excess. Just as the CIA's use of his weakness don yuan Bung Karno to derail the president of Indonesia in the eyes of its people. Dropping the Bung Karno was the only way for America may remain strong in Indonesia. 've Tried every way for Bung Karno fall, did not work as well. Tried by the threat of embargo, cessation of aid ... .. ehhh Bung Karno even shouted, "Go to hell with your aid!".



Eventually the CIA to use other means. Namely infiltration into various rebellions in Indonesia. The peak occurred in the battle on the island of Morotai, in 1958. When the TNI (army marines, shock troops AU, and AD) Permesta storm, rebellion movement in North Sulawesi.
Permesta weapons can not be taken lightly. Because there are weapons of external assistance. At first allegations that the CIA is the culprit of all this is still supposition. When a Navy destroyer and mustang AU launched its attack, a plane on fire falling Permesta.
Before the fall, there are two parachutes that seem to expand out of the plane. Parachute was caught in a coconut tree. TNI immediately arrested two people. One was named Harry Rantung Permesta member. And the unexpected, the other American Caucasians. That the pilot Allen Pope. From the documents seized, Allen Pope revealed related to CIA operations. That is to infiltrate the insurgency movement in Indonesia to overthrow Sukarno.Inevitably, allegations that the CIA was the mastermind American separatist rebellion, not a figment!
Event capture of Allen Pope was a slap to America. That may be represented in the sentence Allan Pope when caught. After B-26 plane that dropped dipilotinya mustang beaten Air Force and Navy destroyer, Pope comments: "Usually my country who win, but this time you guys that win." After that he still had time to ask for cigarettes.
itu dia masih sempat minta rokok.

B-26 shoot

But actually a disgrace that more Americans are not about to lose the Pope said earlier. But the arrest of Allan Pope reveal the dirty game the U.S. to overthrow Sukarno. Americans continue to deny ngeyel. But the evidence that there is, finally silenced American.
Dirty tactics that became international gossip. Without forgiveness, Vizard America with his CIA successfully opened Indonesia, complete with evidence of a landslide. American was forced to turn 180 degrees to be good at Soekarno. All CIA operations to shake the Bung Karno (temporarily) stopped.
Americans trying desperately to ask pilots released. Any way began to be done to take care of Bung Karno. Eisenhower invited Sukarno to the U.S. in June 1960. Then Sukarno also invited John Kennedy in April 1961. Behind all the diplomatic excuse about the visit, can not be denied that all the aftermath of the Bung Karno how to play his cards against the Americans.
During that period, Bung Karno playing tug with the release of Pope. Tug was walking a lot. Because the Bung Karno averse releasing Pope granted. Bung Karno deliberately linger "squeeze the neck" before the U.S. Pope Allan yes to his request of Indonesia. American dead lice. There was no other way. Negotiations were immediately begun. Tough negotiations that took 4 years, before finally Allen Pope truly free.
Beginning with Ike or Eisenhower who cajole, seduce and invite Bung Karno to America. But after that Bung Karno still refused to submit set-set Ike. The situation began to change slightly softened after switching to the U.S. presidency of John F. Kennedy.


Soekarno with John F Kennedy
John Kennedy knew, Sukarno very strong personality and hated in-dictation. Therefore, with the friendship he was able to "embrace" of Sukarno. "Kennedy was the American president who really understands me", said Bung Karno.With John, negotiations began to point to a bright spot. Regarding the same time, John sends his brother Robert Kennedy to Jakarta. Robert brings a number of missions, including: "Pope freed."
ebaskan Pope”.

Robert Kennedy and His Wife(behind Soekarno)
It is said that when it also sends America the beautiful wife of Allen Pope. Calculations, beautiful woman capable of heartbreaking Bung Karno. This is the origin of outstanding issues that Bung Karno seduced wife Allen Pope. Which not many people mentioned, namely the mother and sister also came to Allen Pope pleaded with cries for mercy Bung Karno.Create Bung Karno, the pilot was released or not released, same result. That does not make the sacrifices the pilots could bomb back to life. So why not take advantage of American fears that shriveled only if the pilot opening your mouth?
Bung Karno play one's trump card on the basis of what is required of Indonesia at that time. Indonesia really miserable and hungry, so take the money and rice. Indonesia was fighting against the Dutch to win the West Irian. So it took a weapon, a number of tools of war and combat fleet.
Request Bung Karno was certainly not conveyed by way of begging. But in a way that dragged the U.S. to make diplomatic interpretation. Inevitably, Sukarno made a diplomatic gesture Americans should be able to read between the lines behind it was written.Compared aka Ike Eisenhower, John Kennedy was more sensitive to read the hint. That meant that John Kennedy's Bung Karno understand him. Kennedy did not just simply invite Bung Karno to America to plesiran. But also there is real follow behind the invitation was diplomatic.
John understands Indonesia needs the war to wrest West Irian. Among other fighter fleet. Bung Karno therefore invited to visit the Lockheed aircraft factory in Burbank, California. There Bung Karno dbantu in the purchase of 10 Hercules aircraft type B, consisting of 8 cargo and 2 tankers.

Lockheed, Burbank, California.
Negotiating the release of Allen Pope between Ike and the Bung Karno was tough. But so slippery way with John. He is not stingy replied "good" Bung Karno meeting U.S. demand to free Allen Pope.

Allen Pope on trial
The result? Hercules from America, became the forerunners of the birth of Hercules for the Air Force fleet (a fleet that will enter the battle to seize West Papua). Bung Karno could make the U.S. stop the embargo. Then inject funds into Indonesia. 37,000 tons of rice are also hundreds of weapons and tools of war. Requirement that all is in accordance with the conditions in Indonesia at that time.
It turns out this way is called a high-level negotiations. Finally, Allen Pope was freed in secret by a secret mission at a dawn, February 1962. Negotiations were entirely course meal costs are not small. Who should pay for all this? It is said Permesta account should pay compensation due to the negotiations. Had heard rumors that the road by pass Cawang-Tanjung Priok and Hotel Indonesia Roundabout long in HI Thamrin, is a form of redress that. True? Wallahualam.Unfortunately Bung Karno intimate relationship with the United States ended after Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Kennedy assassination to make the CIA again freely the old dream which had been halted. That continues to shake the chair of Bung Karno, until the Son of the Dawn is finally completely immersed. We all know how the final episode.
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Monday, September 27, 2010

British Police "Catch" Hyundai

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LONDON, KOMPAS.com - UK Police Department decided to choose the Hyundai as a brand of automobile operations. This option is taken by various considerations, ranging from quality, price, operational costs until the discussion on post-sale 2 years.
For Hyundai, this is clearly a profitable business opportunities. Because, the police allowed to purchase a vehicle following operations van totaled 7800 units annually.
"Anyone in buying a car need to be sure they will get the best package that can be had from the amount of money spent," said Tony Whitehorn, managing director of Hyundai UK.
This decision as well as boost Hyundai's image in the minds of consumers, especially in Britain and continental Europe, generally. "This is true at all, let alone the people you're using tax dollars to buy thousands of units of the car. Quality, recovery, post-sale price and successfully demonstrated the ability of Hyundai," chirped Tony.
According to Hyundai, are several models that many bought the British Police is i20, i30, ix35, Santa Fe and iLoad. There has been no official information related to the sale of Hyundai will be obtained from this tender, but the amount is not small. That's for sure!

Heavy rain dampen legislators' free holiday to London

Heavy rain dampen legislators' free holiday to London

Hans David Tampubolon, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Mon, 09/27/2010 2:39 PM | Headlines
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Heavy rain in London has apparently hindered Indonesian legislators visiting the city from going to Princess Diana's burial site.

The legislators are from House Commission III on law and they are visiting London as part of a field study on the immigration bill.

Numerous reports have said that in London, most of the legislators' schedules consisted of sightseeing, not conducting a study or doing the research needed on the immigration bill.

Ahmad Yani from the United Development Party (PPP) acknowledged Monday that part of the legislators' schedule was sightseeing around London's landmarks, but that it was scheduled only during their free time.

"We would have liked to go sightseeing, but the rain was too heavy," Yani told reporters.

Yani added that the legislators were only able to visit Big Ben and he refused to acknowledge that the legislators had toured the Burberry fashion boutique, as previously reported by various media.

"[Burberry] is very expensive," he said.

North Korean leader's son apparently promote to general

By the CNN Wire Staff
September 27, 2010 -- Updated 2318 GMT (0718 HKT)
Kim Jong Un has been widely rumored to be his ailing father's anointed successor.
Kim Jong Un has been widely rumored to be his ailing father's anointed successor.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Kim Jong Un is rumored to be the successor to his father
  • He and King Jong Il's sister appeared to be on a list of military promotions
  • It could be the first public mention of Kim Jong Un by the North Korean media
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(CNN) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son apparently was among more than 30 military promotions announced Monday by his father during celebrations of the Workers' Party of Korea's 65th anniversary, North Korea's state news agency reported.
Kim Jong Un has been widely rumored to be his ailing father's anointed successor.
Kim Jong Il's sister, Kim Kyong Hui, was apparently also promoted to general, according to the state-run KCNA news agency.
While it has been speculated that Kim Jong Un will succeed his father, details about him are scarce in North Korea and out.
"This appears to be the first public mention of Kim Jong Il's son by the North Korean media," said Mike Chinoy, the author of "Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis."
Kurt Campbell, the top State Department official on Asia, told CNN that "the United States is watching developments in North Korea carefully."
He said the United States will be talking to all its partners in the six-party talks about what transpired but it is "too early to tell" what was unfolding or how the United States should respond.
Two senior administration officials said this was expected and will likely pave the way for eventual transition of the son to replace his father.
Chinoy said the announcement was a step in laying down the foundation for a transition.
"It's significant that there was an explicit reference to him, and the position of general is a very senior one, obviously," he said.
CNN's Elise Labott contributed to this report.

US 'disappointed' as settlement building ban ends

US 'disappointed' as settlement building ban ends

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: ''We're absolutely determined to press on''
The US says it is "disappointed" by Israel's decision not to extend a ban on West Bank settlement building.
US Middle East envoy George Mitchell has been sent to the region in an attempt to salvage direct peace talks that were restarted earlier this month.
The 10-month moratorium came to an end at midnight (2200 GMT on Sunday).
Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas said he would respond to the decision after a meeting of Arab leaders in Cairo next Monday.
On Sunday, he had warned that the direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks would be a "waste of time" unless the ban continued.
The UN and the EU also expressed disappointment at what UN chief Ban Ki-moon called Israel's "provocative" actions.
But Israeli Foreign Minister Avider Lieberman said the Palestinians had squandered the moratorium, which he described as a "unilateral gesture of goodwill".
"The Palestinians wasted time and completely refused to accept this gesture and accused Israel that it's a fraud, that it's not serious," he said.
Israel 'must do more' With peace negotiations in the balance, Mr Abbas is in a difficult position and may be forced to compromise, says the BBC's Jon Donnison in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
Under US pressure, there are signs Palestinian negotiators may accept that the moratorium will not be extended, as long as no major construction takes place in the coming months, our correspondent adds.

Analysis

It was only last week in New York that President Obama told delegates at the UN General Assembly an independent state of Palestine could be joining them a year from now.
Even then, his words didn't sound like a blueprint for the future laid down by the most powerful man in the world. They were more like a plea to both Israelis and Palestinians to keep talking.
The crisis over Jewish settlements has been waiting to happen ever since Mr Obama inaugurated this latest round of peace talks in Washington three weeks ago.
Mr Netanyahu leads a coalition government dominated by parties supporting the Jewish settler movement. It's the most dynamic political force in Israel, determined that the freeze will not continue.
A major reason why the settlements were started after Israel captured the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in 1967 was to make it politically impossible for Israel to give up what it claimed as Jewish land to the Palestinians.
More than 40 years on that strategy is working in the way the founders of the settlement movement intended.
On Monday, bulldozers started levelling ground for 50 homes in the settlement of Ariel in the northern West Bank, and similar activity was also reported in the settlements of Adam and Oranit. But construction work was reportedly slow because of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
The US state department praised what it called Mr Abbas's restraint, saying the US remained focused on the peace process's long-term objectives.
Mr Abbas said he would discuss the settlement issue with Palestinian negotiators in Ramallah on Wednesday, and the 22-member Arab League in the Egyptian capital Cairo next Monday.
"After all these meetings we may be able to issue a position to clarify what is the Palestinian and Arab opinion on this matter, after Israel has refused to freeze settlements," he said after talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris.
Mr Sarkozy said he deplored Israel's failure to extend the freeze, saying he would tell Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu that he had to do more.
As the moratorium expired, Mr Netanyahu called on the Palestinians to continue peace talks, which recently resumed after a 20-month pause.
He did not mention the settlement issue directly, but said it was possible "to achieve a historic framework accord within a year".
He had earlier urged settlers "to display restraint and responsibility".
Some Jewish settlers celebrated the end of the construction ban. At the settlement of Revava, near the Palestinian town of Deir Itsia, they released balloons and broke ground for a new nursery school before the moratorium expired.
Hamas call The exiled head of Hamas - the Palestinian Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip - called on Mr Abbas to quit the peace talks.
"I call on my brothers at the Palestinian Authority, who had stated they would not pursue talks with the enemy if it continued settlement construction, to hold to their promise," said Khaled Meshaal from his headquarters in Syria.

Obstacles to peace

Palestinian women queue to cross a checkpoint in Bethlehem, West Bank (3 Sept 2010)
"To negotiate without a position of strength is absurd."
Hamas seized control of Gaza in December 2007, ousting Fatah forces loyal to Mr Abbas.
The rival groups held reconciliation talks in Damascus on Friday and said they wanted them to continue.
It is estimated that about 2,000 Jewish settlers' housing units in the West Bank already have approval and settler leaders said they planned to resume construction as soon as possible.
The partial moratorium on new construction was agreed by Israel in November 2009 under pressure from Washington.
It banned construction in the West Bank, but never extended the ban to settlements in East Jerusalem.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since the Middle East war of 1967, settling some 500,000 Jews in more than 100 settlements which are held to be illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this. About 2.5 million Palestinians live in the West Bank.
Map: West Bank showing settlements and restricted areas
• 62% under full Israeli control. This area contains all Israeli settlements, roads used by settlers, buffer zones and almost all of the Jordan Valley
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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Warning over rising tourist road deaths


Warning over rising tourist road deaths


Traffic chaos in Delhi. File photo Tourists are vulnerable because of differences in road user culture around the world, the report says
The international tourism industry is being urged to do more to protect tourists from the risk of death and injury on the roads.
A report from the Make Roads Safe Campaign and the FIA Foundation warns that tourist deaths on the roads could almost double in the next 10 years.
Currently, some 25,000 tourists die on the roads around the world every year.
The report says tourists are vulnerable because of differences in road user culture in medium or high-risk nations.
It warns that worldwide tourist deaths on the roads could nearly double to 45,000 by 2020 and triple in number by 2030.
The document - released on World Tourism Day - points out that many medium- or high-risk countries are popular holiday destinations, and tourists may take risks themselves that they would not at home - such as hiring motorbikes without a helmet.
The road safety campaigners want tour operators to use their economic position to demand improvements - such as requiring all taxis to have working seat belts and trained drivers.
They also say there should be an international charter mark for safe and well-managed road transport to encourage good performance.

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