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The real story
The real story stays behind.
Is the silence that was left when some went.
What is the use of telling it here?
Reality?
These days, we are working hard to get the service of PhotoBlog better, with some nice features.
Takes a while, such stuff.
Furtheron, booking flights, almost leaving again.
SnowBlog phase 2 is about to start.
Should get into it. Soon.
No further news.
Posted on September 1, 2004
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Twin bus bombs rock Israeli city
Sixteen people are killed in simultaneous explosions on two buses in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.
[from BBC News]
Kinda strange expression: bomb rock city...
I guess more than the bomb itself, the reality of 'it is not over' hurts more.
The 'peace and quiet' of the last months is again lost hope.
On the other hand, it is not abnormal. What do people expect? That others just watch and accept what happens? That slowly slowly more and more ground is taken? (cfr. last message of Sharon building more settlements in West Bank)
It is a sad reality.
I don't know what I would do if somebody comes to me and says: 'You see this piece of ground, from today on, it is mine. Without any financial recuperation.'
I guess we would all shout if such a thing happens.
Posted on September 1, 2004
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Israel Destroys Bomber Home After Twin Attacks
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli army on Wednesday destroyed the West Bank home of one of two Palestinian suicide bombers a day after 16 people were killed in back-to-back bus bombings by the militant Hamas group, the military said.
[from Reuters: Top News]
An eye for an eye...
Posted on September 1, 2004
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PhotoBlog goes Minard
From October 13 on PhotoBlog has the opportunity to give young photographers a platform. Not just any platform... We are cooperating with Minard, a well known theater in Gent, Belgium, where a photo loving public can see new photographers' work.
The first exhibition will open October 13 with a special event and because we want to give you all the opportunity to be part of this event, we choose to collaborate with the Launderette-project.
The pictures of the first exhibition will be chosen from the launderette blog. so in fact YOU can be a presenting photographer.
Lees meer "PhotoBlog goes Minard" »
Posted on September 1, 2004
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PhotoBlog goes China
Just got this message in my mailbox:
Dear Ine,
Just talked with the editor of Trends Health magazine, there's some changes with the Breast Awareness project. Because the pictures that the Trends Health magazine collected from all over the world(especially from the photoblog.net) are really stunning, so the chief editor decided to hold an exhibition in Beijing and publish a book on this project after the magazine come out.
And the editor promised to give a certain space in the magazine to introduce photoblog.net, so would you please send me some words on your websites, the head persons of photoblog, and the exhibitions or some big events you ever had. And, don't forget the LOGO!
All of these will be down on 5.September, please write me back before the deadline.
Thanks!
moko
You want to be featured in the book too? Hurry up. Surf to BreastAwareness for more info
Posted on September 2, 2004
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Revenues.
PhotoBlog is booming,, big time booming.
By now, we are considering how we can something back from those 'non paying' bloggers.
Bannering used to be the thing done, but these days first of all it doesn't give big money anymore, neither very appealing on a site.
For that reason we are fully integration Google Ads soon.
Paying members will of course doesn't get such a burden.
Another thing to consider is the affiliate programs of Amazon an the newly established iTines Program.
Showing one's favorite music/books. It is something we were considering already, but now more easy to integrate.
Checking it out.
Posted on September 4, 2004
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Flying ticket
Booked.
Flight SNG04W Brussels - Tel Aviv
Leaving Sept 15, 7.10 PM
Arriving in TLV at 0.20 AM
Getting back to Belgium, Brussels
Oct 30, 1.15 AM
Arriving in Brussels at 5.00 AM
Jihaa, celebrating Israeli New Year's Eve in TLV
TMR, Sigal, I am almost back.
Posted on September 4, 2004
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Posted on September 4, 2004
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Chechnya
Today we must be together - this is the only way for us to defeat the enemy
President Vladimir Putin
In his address, Putin said Russia had failed to adapt to new defense and security needs and must now put this right.
"We failed to react appropriately to them and, instead, displayed weakness," he said. "And the weak are always beaten."
The Kremlin leader, speaking after a week of calamities linked to Chechen separatists, pledged to restore control over the North Caucasus, the part of southern Russia which includes the turbulent region of Chechnya.
But Putin, who rejects any notion of talks with separatists, made no direct reference to Chechnya in his 10-minute address.
I doubt if this is the best technique, ignoring the ones screaming to be heard...
I wonder if they will stop screaming.
Posted on September 5, 2004
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IM and Skype featured on PhotoBlog
Many PhotoBloggers get in touch with new soulmates on PhotoBlog; pictures speak louder than words. The stories of PhotoBloggers taking a plane to meet their 'inspiring other half' are numerous.
For all those PhotoBloggers meeting new inspiring people, we decided to launch a new feature: integrated Instant Messaging and Skype.
From now on you will see icons featured on many PhotoBlogs, allowing you to see if your friends are online and talk (Skype) or Chat (Instant Messaging) with them through a single click.
This new service is available for all new Member and XL Members. A donation of 5€/US$ (upgrade Membership) and 19€/US$ (upgrade to XL Membersip) for a period of six months (less than 1€/US$ or 4€/US$ per month), helps us pay the bandwidth and keep PhotoBlog growing. Upgrading is an easy 3-step process when logged in.
Posted on September 5, 2004
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Israelis begin barrier in south
Israeli bulldozers start clearing the ground for the southern section of the West Bank barrier.
[from BBC News]
Posted on September 5, 2004
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Do we tend to forget the 'Why?'
Sometimes I wonder if we forget to ask the 'Why' behind some sceneries.
I am indeed shocked by what happened in Russia. What brings people to blow themselves and with them children and other humans? I don't have the answer.
But while television show human bodies and research where 'terrorists are raised', I rather ask the question 'Why?'
Memorial estimates that approximately 3,000 people had vanished in Chechnya during the four years from 1999 to 2003. Given Chechnya’s estimated population of 700,000, that works out to approximately 43 disappearances per every 10,000 people
“Over the past one and a half years it’s become the biggest plague,” says Orlov of the kidnappings. Before, Chechen civilians used to be subjected to a different kind of horror, known as zachistki, or “mop-up operations.” As a way of combating guerillas, the military blocked off entire villages and then searched every house, checked everyone for ID, randomly detained people and questioned them. The questioning was more often than not combined with beatings and torture.
Maybe some answers are lying there.
Read the article
Another article from Israeli perspective:
Israeli historian Professor Ilan Pappe believes that suicide bombings are exploited by the Israeli establishment in order to discredit the Palestinian cause:
"The suicide bombs are presented to the Israeli public as an insane act by an insane people? with whom there is no chance for peace. Instead of putting a wider analysis which would say there is a way out of the suicide bombs. While everybody condemns them, and rightly so, there is a way out of it. And the way out of it is to provide the circumstances in which these young people would find avenues of hope instead of avenues of despair. "
Read the whole article here
And this is a interesting one from an Arabic point of view
Posted on September 6, 2004
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A conversation with a would-be bomber
Asked where he got the theological sanction to become a suicide bomber, Mukdi answers, "I listened to the Muslim preachers on television. They were my main authority."
As if he repeating an old lecture, he adds, "Dying for martyrs doesn't mean real death."
Mukdi ultimately attributes his fateful decision to the death by shooting, when he was nine years old, of a much older playmate and to two humiliating episodes at IDF checkpoints - one of which occurred just a year before he decided to become a shahid.
"I was hit by a black soldier at a checkpoint in the town of Hawara," he recalls. "I wanted to kill him, but I did not have the weapons."
When asked why did he not take his revenge against troops at a West Bank checkpoint, he says they are too well guarded. Yet it seems hard to believe that Mukdi did not encounter a single soldier on his way to the Tel Aviv boardwalk. Evidently, someone thought of a better use for 15 kilograms of explosives.
Read the amazing interesting article here, by Eric Schechter
Posted on September 6, 2004
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Music Plasma
Music Plasma is a nice graphicly beautiful site showing music links to new sounds. Try it.
Posted on September 7, 2004
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Cause and consequences
I have read 2 articles that are intersting to understand cause and consequences:
Hamas is a Creation of Mossad
Which explains how in the 70ies Israel was fearing the FATAH party of Yasser Arafat, resulting in sponsoring HAMAS. Later they would use and abuse the link for things that were in there advantage of not.
The second article explains how Hamas gets power in Gaza, by investing money they got from foreign 'sponsors' into heath, education and religion. A perfect way of 'my lord, my bread' and an explanation why they can get so much influence.
Fit the 2 articles together and get a better clue about the situation in Gaza.
Posted on September 7, 2004
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PhotoBlog facts & figures
More records: since yesterday we top more than 1 million daily pageviews.
-september 7th being low, since the day had just started when I took the screencap-
Posted on September 7, 2004
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Situation in Gaza
I get some comments on my blog, of people acting-reacting on the recent 'terrorist' events.
My reaction is slightly different from others, due to the fact that last Spring, I visited such a 'hometown' of 'terrorists'.
When visiting Gaza City and later, Rafah, the reality was shocking.
People living in few square meters -compared to our 2 store houses...- and on less than 1 km, a huge wall, where the shooting doesn't stop.
It didn't stop for a long time now.
Read a short story here and see some pics here, here, and here
Nope, it doesn't justify things. It is merely a glance of what I saw and made me ask some questions.
Posted on September 7, 2004
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Israeli tanks enter north Gaza
At least 20 Israeli tanks accompanied by bulldozers and attack helicopters seal off parts of northern Gaza.
[from BBC News]
Posted on September 8, 2004
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Pentagon Says Guantanamo Prisoner Improperly Held
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has determined for the first time that one of the nearly 600 Guantanamo Bay prisoners was improperly held by the United States as an "enemy combatant" and will be released to his home country, the Navy secretary said on Wednesday. [from Reuters: Top News]
Well, imagine... Sitting in jail for no good reason.
We thought this was only possible in 'non-democratic' countries.
Posted on September 8, 2004
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1,000
Another grim milestone in the Iraq war is imminent. Iraq Coalition Casualties reports there are 998 U.S. casualties as of Sept. 7 at 6 p.m. GMT +0300. By the time you read this, there may be 1,000 or more U.S. dead in Iraq.
[from Back to Iraq 3.0]
This is probably where the black and white turns into grey: no matter who is right or wrong, no matter what, war is wrong.
On this site the amount of people on the Iraqi side are counted. Numbers are slightly different from range...
Posted on September 8, 2004
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Kids
Since 1945 we have seen 150 conflicts erupt throughout the five continents, resulting in 20 million deaths and 60 million casualties.In the First World War, civilians accounted for 5% of the victims.
That figure has now risen to 80 per cent or even 90 per cent, half of these being children. Children are the first victims of war. They suffer doubly: those who do not lose their lives are deprived of basic needs such as a home, a school, and even their parents. Adult survivors are often without work, youths become dropouts and they need special programmes. In adition more than 20 million refugees and 30 million displaced persons are today living in the most precarious of circumstances, and at least 60% of their number are children.
out of Unesco Report.
I guess this is one of the main reasons why we started SnowBlog.net
I am leaving in 10 days to do a month of volunteering in teaching kids photography and web, in order to try to teach them that people are alike.
Israeli, Israeli Arab and Palestinian kids will reach for a friend on the other side of the border.
Posted on September 9, 2004
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Stand still..
I guess it reminds me very much about something, but yet, Why not?
Art in a shoppingstreet. Hiphip.
Posted on September 10, 2004
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Where did the Arabs go?
Russian Authorities identified 10 terrorists in school kidnapping.
6 are Chechen militants, 4 others are 'Ingush'
The ingush are islamic neighbours of North Ossetia, and are living in a tensed relationship with each other.
[Gazet van Antwerpen - Overzicht]
But where did the Arab jihad go?
Posted on September 10, 2004
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iPod Cameras
Over in Japan, Kyocera has teamed up with Apple to create 5 digital cameras in the iPod Mini colours. The 4-megapixel Finecam SL400R cameras are being sold on the Apple online store and come bundled with QT PRo and iTunes.
It seems that Apple's influence knows no bounds. Soon everything will be available in the 5 Mini colours - cars, washing machines, Gap jumpers - the possibilities are endless.
Posted on September 10, 2004
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Wifi city?
The first wifi city in the world: Jerusalem?
First or not... I am sitting in Tel Aviv... Damn.
(other: Amsterdam is due to become a wifi city, and possibly Philadelphia, which at 135 sq. miles, would become the biggest wifi city in the world.)
Posted on September 10, 2004
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Birthday color
What is your birthday color?
Posted on September 10, 2004
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Golden Lion
Belgium just won the highest reward at the Venice Biennale for Architecture:
The Golden Lion for the best installation presented by a Country is awarded to the Pavilion of Belgium and the installation "Kinshasa, The Imaginary City".
The Kinshasa installation is conceived and presented by: Katrien Vandermarliere (commissioner), Filip De Boeck & Koen Van Synghel (curators), Marie-Françoise Plissart (exhibitor). The project is recognized for its provocative and outstanding way of showing the public that the traditional strategies and typologies of architecture may not always be the best answer to the big challenges of the world. The project argues that the questions of identity, community and infrastructure are undergoing such heavy metamorphosis that new definitions and solutions are to be developed.
More info (in Dutch) here
Congrats AM Plissart. And the others.
Posted on September 10, 2004
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Myst IV Revelation hits stores Sept. 28
Ubisoft has announced that its new game Myst IV Revelation has gone gold master, the final step before a game enters duplication. The company expects Myst IV to hit store shelves on September 28, 2004. It will be released in hybrid format for Windows and Mac OS X on DVD-ROM for US$39.99 and has been rated "T" for Teen by the ESRB.
[MacCentral]
I am not a gamer, but when looking at this game... I guess I would get trapped in it. I want it...
Posted on September 11, 2004
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Walking my city
Yesterday I was walking my city. Ghent.
Due to circumstances, and too many trips abroad, the last 2 months I have been living at home home, my mom's place.
But I am sure, when I come back this time, I want my place in my city.
Hidden between world capitals as Paris, Londen, Brussels, Amsterdam, Gent is left unnoticed.
And I don't mind.
It has the mind of a village and the style of a city. And in less than 3 hours you can be in a centre of the world...
So why bother living else where?
Posted on September 12, 2004
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Packing stuff.
©Ine Dehandschutter
In some days I am leaving for the 'Promised Land' ;)
Today I am putting stuff on my desk, deciding what to take or not.
I found a Dutch site, helping you not to forget stuff.
Check it out
Posted on September 12, 2004
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Israel's Sharon Accuses Far-Right of Inciting War
©Ine Dehandschutter, 2002
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon accused far-rightists Sunday of trying to incite civil war over his plan to withdraw from the occupied Gaza Strip and called for measures to curb such groups.
[Reuters: Top News]
What people didn't read so much between the lines is now becoming slowly clearer: by Sharon's proposal to leave Gaza, he got many opponents in his own party.
He now is even getting protecting from attacks from the right winged Israeli's.
These are becoming difficult times. Sharon seems to be shuffling between what his voters want and what he has in mind as a solution. And what the Americans want of course :)
Posted on September 12, 2004
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What do we want?
[from Baeyens.net]
Posted on September 12, 2004
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Quote: Henry Ford
Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. but when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit...then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.
Henry Ford
[found on Bizwerk]
Posted on September 14, 2004
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Wandering around in a city I seem to know
It is funny to wander around in a city I used to live for 2 years. After 2 months things have changed and I am again a visitor in this town. New eyes discover what I forget to see after a while.
The streets are empty, a holiday is being celebrated and I wonder how suddenly all people seem to vanish.
Where did they go?
Posted on September 16, 2004
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Israeli Arab team enter big league
An Israeli football team with Arab and Jewish players kick off their first big international match with Newcastle Utd.
[from BBC News]
Posted on September 16, 2004
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From Beslan to Bethlehem
Americans have no trouble thinking clearly about terrorism -- when it happens in Russia.
[from MotherJones.com]
Interesting insight on why happened in Beslan.
Posted on September 17, 2004
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Off line
Heading for perfect silence and rest in Sinai.
Have fun you all. I surely will.
Took some books and a head for good memories to re-think.
A swimsuit and lots of laughs.
And NO computer. ;)
That's all one needs...
Posted on September 19, 2004
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Indeed...
heaven is near.
Heaven has no internet connection and loads of books.
Heaven has no news on terrible deeds of human beings, nor television to show them.
Heaven has a line with earth, to hear the voices you miss.
Heaven disconnects cell phones for an obvious reason.
Here and inbetween some ones arms, I guess that's where heaven is supposed to be...
Posted on September 24, 2004
in Travels - Egypt
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While I am away
and not planning to be back before next Thursday, I recommend you to read the Da Vinci Code,
or even to play the game
If you have read the book, these links are worth reading: here and here . Enjoy.
Posted on September 25, 2004
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Dahab
©Ine Dehandschutter
Heaven?
Posted on September 30, 2004
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