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I watched DJ copy his spelling words onto lined paper.s-c-a-r-e-c-r-o-wt-o-o-t-h-p-a-s-t-ea-w-h-i-l-ec-h-e-r-r-yk-a-p-u-tI stared at the last word. "Kaput?" I asked. I looked at my sister who was making rice in the kitchen."DJ has some Dutch spelling words," she explained. "You know, the words we still use around here."I raised my eyebrows. "No kidding."I lived the first 22 years of my life in a small Dutch settlement in the cornfields of Iowa, and it wasn't until I moved to Madrid five years ago that I realized that some of the words I used weren't actually English, they were Dutch.Actually, over time, the pronunciation and spelling of these words has changed, and many of them aren't recognizable to my Dutch friends either. "Yankee Dutch" is what my father-in-law calls these words he pick
Besides working on their very ambiguous 80s GTO/GTU project, the Belgian Dutch Skinning Team also has a Dutch Supercar Challenge mod for GTR2 in the pipeline.
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Amazing Grace is a flashy 8 year old, 15.1h. Welsh/Dutch Warmblood mare (Sire: Llandefalle Better By Far Dam: All Decked Out). Gracie is an adorable, smart and sensitive little mare who is a proven eventer and jumper. She is sweet, fancy, and tries hard to please, but she needs an intermediate rider because she can be tense under saddle with a beginner. She has easily schooled 36 at home, and up to Prelim Level cross country jumps including ditches, water, and banks. She placed 3rd in her first combined test in May 2007, and consistently placed in the top 3 in local jumper shows. At her very first recognized event in April 2008, she won 1st out of 17 (BN). Gracie is an eye-catcher with her darling head and rich seal brown coat. She is also an easy keeper with no vices. She loads, cli
RATE,FAVORITE,SHARE the MAIN video to support this Dawa effort. geert wilder speak about fitna (Part 1 of 2) _ An extended interview with popular Dutch Member of Parliament Geert Wilders on his upcoming anti-Koran film for Dutch television. Also discussed - Muslim immigration, tolerance and democracy. For more on [...]
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The commander of the Forts, Jacques de Chambly, was taken prisoner by the Dutch at this time. <ref>Mary Beacock Fryer "Battlefields of Canada" pg. 246 </ref>
The commander of the Forts, Jacques de Chambly, was taken prisoner by the Dutch at this time. <ref>Mary Beacock Fryer "Battlefields of Canada" pg. 246 </ref>
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After a month of occupation, he left Acadie and headed to [[New England]] where he attacked two British ships. Governor [[John Leverett]] of Massachusetts got a fleet together and attacked Aernoutsz in the [[Bay of Fundy]] where Aernoutsz and his crew were captured afte
On April 28, from being the Assistant Coach/Director of Scouting, Erik Spoelstra, 37, has been elevated to Head Coach of Miami Heat following Pat Riley’s stepping down as Head Coach of the team, making Spoelstra the sixth Head Coach in franchise history.
Spoelstra started in the Miami Heat staff in 1995 as the team’s video coordinator. In 1997, he became the Assistant Coach/Video Coordinator and
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Despite over three centuries of existence in the East Indies, today only some older people speak Dutch there. <ref></ref><ref>Ostler (2005) p.396</ref> There is no Dutch spoken in Ceylon or Southern India despite the century and half of Dutch rule. In Suriname, Dutch is the official language<ref>-world-factbook/geos/ns.html#People</ref> and one quarter of the 500,000 inhabitants use Dutch as a second language, but there are only one thousand native speakers.<ref>Ostler (2005) p.398</ref> Similarly, in the [[
When I was in 8th grade, it never ceased to amaze me how certain girls in my class felt that it was an 'honor' to get randomly felt-up by a male classmate, especially if he was the cute popular one. Back then, at the ages of 12/13, every one's hormones were raging, but my mother didn't raise a 'fast-tail' girl (that's what my grandmother called them).I remember one incident in particular and it took place during 7th period Chemistry class. Mr. Sakowitz had his typical coffee in one hand and cigarette in the other, yes my teacher smoked during class. As I made my way to my desk, I was approached by another classmate named Mustafa. Typically I tried to avoid him at all costs because he was a known culprit when it came to ass grabbing.When I finally reached my desk, he did the unthinkable, an
April 30 in the Netherlands is known as Queen's Day (Koninginnedag in Dutch). The day is a public holiday to celebrate the Queens birthday. It's actually the birthday of the last queen (Juliana), but it is said that the current Queen (Beatrix) kept it in honour of her mother, and also because her birthday is in January, too chilly to be celebrating outdoors.Queen's Day is the biggest party of the year in the Netherlands, and on the day the streets resemble a huge market (vrijmarkt, or freemarket) as anyone can sell anything in the streets. Further info at Queen's Day: The World's Biggest Street Party.Today I stumbled upon Dutch Orange Day, a little celebration the local Dutch community put on to celebrate Queen's Day in Melbourne. Clogmaker - Queen's Day in MelbourneDutch Poffertjes - Quee
It seems like I just went on a vacation only two months ago but in reality it was almost three! The events of the past couple of months with the MD-80 fleet have made a vacation a welcome diversion.Since I haven't been back to work in a couple of weeks, I'll have to supplement my blog with more vacation stories. My apologies once again.This time it was to be a week in The Netherlands with a side trip over to Belgium. We left from DFW on KLM's new service from DFW nonstop to Amsterdam. I've never been a huge fan of any Airbus product but I must admit that KLM's new A-330's are very nice. And the service on KLM was outstanding! Our US airlines are put to shame by the service from the foreign carriers. The overnight flight lasted just under 9 hours and was smooth as glass. Western Euro
In the "probably happened" theories this one is added to a long line of debunking books about the life of Jesus. According to Paul Verhoeven a Roman soldier got a basic instinct and raped Mary. Joseph said nothing of much significance. The Catholic League in America is up in arms. I wouldn't bother. An omnipotent God can look after Himself.Verhoeven can answer for himself. St. Paul will simply ask, "Where did you get such a preposterous idea from?". I'd far rather "let all grow until the harvest" than seeking to ban his book, or put him in jail or something.Fox News has the story.
via email One of my friend's relative s from Holland sent this to him this week: "We in Holland cannot figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election. On one side, you have a bitch who is...
The Jakarta leg of the Beijing Olympic torch relay began at 2 p.m. local time (0700 GMT) Tuesday in the Bung Karno Sports Complex as cloudy Jakarta sky turned to a bright sunshine. Jiang Xiaoyu, vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee of Olympic Games (BOCOG), handed over the torch, which was kindled with the sacred Olympic flame from ancient Olympia of Greece, to Rita Subowo, president of the National Olympic Committee of Indonesia.Governor Fauzi said in his opening speech: "Sports are always an element that can unite the world, unite many cultures in the world. Through sports, we promote peace and understanding among people in the world. "Jakarta is very proud of being the host of the Olympic torch relay. We wish the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games a great success."The chosen t
Software company Microsoft said Monday it is suing a company run by a Dutch mother because it had started using a Microsoft domain title in computer programmes aimed at curbing children's use of the Internet. "Microsoft has filed suit against Unicares...
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Mohsen Yahyavi is the highest-ranked politician to admit that Iran believes in the death penalty for homosexuality after a spate of reports that gay youths were being hanged.
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Argento-croat striker Dario Cvitanich decided that he will not head to Espanyol, so now they will have to look at Plan B. The Banfield net piercer saw the opportunity to go to Ajax and penned a five-year, 6 million euro deal to play for Ajax. Expect him to really shine next year where he will have one of the best teachers in the craft of scoring in Marco Van Basten. Spanish sports daily As reported on Sunday that Cvitanich will not see action at the Olimpic Monjuic next season.Cvitanich, who was also being looked at by Napoli and Boca Juniors, saw that Espanyol's offer was very low due mostly to the economic crisis that Los Pericos are going through.
Royal Netherlands Football Association Erste League Jupiler League BV Last Round! This is a crazy soccer league, with many goals, with many upsets. But in the last round there are two teams playing...
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Queen’s Day is a celebration in the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, and Aruba on April 30 (or April 29th if the 30th is a Sunday). Originally a celebration of the queen’s birthday, it is now mainly known for the ‘vrijmarkt’ (literally ‘freemarket’), the one day in the year that anyone is allowed to sell anything [...]
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PSV Eindhoven was held to a 1-1 home draw by FC Twente, missing a chance to secure its fourth straight Dutch soccer title. Second-place Ajax's match was postponed after fires broke out at FC...
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The £60,000 beach hut made out of driftwood and the roof of a grocery van is for saleA floating “beach hut” set in remote marshland has been put on the market at a guide price of £60,000.
The Ark, in Burnham Overy Staithe, near King’s Lynn, Norfolk, measures just 16ft 5in (5m) by about 6ft (1.8m) [...]
The western press continues publishing stories about “mass protests” in Muslim nations by infuriated Muslims who are upset at the film made by Dutchman Geert Wilders. The assumpton of these media pieces is to attempt portraying the entire Muslim world as being concerned about a silly film made by an obscure Dutch right wing politician [...]
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Conservative State Secretary of Justice, Nebahat AlbayrakIn an emergency debate in the Dutch Parliament Lower House this afternoon the conservative State Secretary of Justice, Nebahat Albayrak, confirmed that the gay Iranian, Mehdi Kazemi, will be returned to the UK.The debate was the initiative of the liberal D66 party. They found enough support in parliament on Tuesday from the GroenLinks (Green), ChristenUnie (centrist), PVV (conservative), SP (left) and PvdA (social democrats, sister party of the British Labour Party) opposition parties to secure today's debate. The PvdA agreed to open the debate.The Dutch have a policy to not return gay refugees to Iran.Figures quoted in the parliament by Boris van der Ham, the D66 (liberal) MP, who has led the defence of Kazemi amongst MPs, show tha
The Hague - Last night's debate in the Dutch parliament on the anti-Islam film Fitna turned into a major confrontation between populist right-wing MP Geert Wilders and the government.During the debate, confidential records were released of a conversation in early November between Mr Wilders, Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin and Interior Minister Guusje Ter Horst. The document states that Mr Wilders had said he planned to remove pages from the Qur'an and throw them into a fireplace.This explains why the government treated the impending film as the potential source of a major crisis. Minister Hirsch Ballin suggested that the film had been adapted after their meeting, as the scene was chaned in the final version. However, Mr Wilders denied having mentioned such plans, adding "Th
Suspiciously it turns out that Dirk Kuuyt knows the referee who made the crucial error is last night's game rather well, this is the referee who failed to award us a clear penalty when the aforementioned player took down Alexander Hleb when he was clean through on goal. Kuuyt appears to be as dumb as he is ugly:
"I think the referee got the decision right. I did touch Hleb but I didn't pull his
Indonesia will start blocking YouTube at the end of this week if an anti-Islamic film that has sparked protests here is not removed from the file-sharing site, the government said Thursday.The information ministry has written to Internet service providers telling them to prepare to block access if YouTube fails to remove the film, made by the far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders.The government wrote to YouTube on Monday asking it to take down the film, which provoked a violent demonstration outside a Dutch consulate building here on Wednesday."If there is no response, then we will do it (block the site) from inside the country, with the cooperation of ISPs," said Sukemi, a ministry official, adding that the government would wait "until the end of this week" for a response from YouTube.The 17-m
During the week since Fitna was released over the internet, the reaction in Indonesia has largely been muted. There were a pair of demonstrations in front of the Dutch embassy in downtown Jakarta by hardliners from Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia and the Islamic Defender's Front, but both events were long on fiery rhetoric and short on violence. That changed yesterday noon (2 April), when several dozen protesters from HMI, a Muslim student organization, vandalized the Dutch consulate in Medan, the provincial...(read more)
Kudos to Mydin Mohamed Holdings Bhd for doing the right thing! Now, what about our GLC companies such as Petronas, when are they going to do something about this?Do you know that Petronas has a lot of business dealings with Dutch offshore companies?By the way, I wonder why Malaysian Chinamen companies didn’t want to boycott Dutch products like Mydin did. I thought Malaysia is multi-racial country and we are all supposed to share pain and tears together. :-) (Devilish smile there)Tags: fitna geert, geert wilders film
April 1, Channel News AsiaJAKARTA: Indonesia's president has urged the mainly Muslim nation not to resort to violence in protests against an anti-Islamic film, and barred the Dutch filmmaker behind it from entering the country.President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono also said the screening of "Fitna", which has sparked several protests here since its release on the Internet last Thursday, would be banned in the former Dutch colony."I am asking (Indonesians) not to engage in actions such as destruction, violence and sweepings (harassing foreigners), because Islam and the other religions forbid violence and it is also against the law," Yudhoyono told journalists late Monday.The 17-minute film features imagery of the attacks on New York in 2001 and Madrid in 2004 combined with quotes from the Kora
I guess the following news clip from AFP is telling everybody in the world that it is not wise to piss off Muslims not only in Indonesia but also in other parts of the world.I sincerely hope that certain parties in Malaysia will also learn a lot from this incident. Muslims may look dumb and stupid to you people out there but we have courage and dignity far greater than you thought.'Abdullah bin Abi Aufa's Hadith, may Allah be pleased with him.Abu Al-Nadr narrated from a book that was sent by a man from Aslam tribe, who was a Companion of the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) and whose name was 'Abdullah bin Abi Aufa, to 'Umar bin 'Ubaidullah when the latter marched upon Haruriyah (Khawarij) informing him that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) in one of those days when he wa
Jakarta, March 31 (RIA Novosti) Indonesian and Malaysian officials have demanded banning of a Dutch film that juxtaposes verses from the Koran with graphic images of violence.
The 16-minute film, titled ‘Fitna’ - an Arabic word meaning strife - was posted on the Britain-based video website Liveleak Thursday evening.
It was made by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, [...]
Jakarta, March 31 (RIA Novosti) Indonesian and Malaysian officials have demanded banning of a Dutch film that juxtaposes verses from the Koran with graphic images of violence.
The 16-minute film, titled ‘Fitna’ - an Arabic word meaning strife - was posted on the Britain-based video website Liveleak Thursday evening.
It was made by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, [...]
50 members of a hardline Muslim group hold a protest over a Dutch film accusing the Koran of inciting violence.
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Endy Bayuni, writing in the Jakarta Post, urged Muslims throughout the world to simply ignore the new film, “Fitna” by Geert Wilders, the Dutch right wing fanatic. “Wilders is just as guilty of spreading hated through his lens about Islam as the Muslims who preach and use violence against what they perceive to be the [...]
Muslims from around the world are asked to boycott all products from Holland. This is due to Ducth lawmaker Geert Wilders produces a film depicted Islam as being violent, adding that "we are very weak and cannot take any action against them.This film Fitna, has angered Muslims which uses Quranic verse with a backdrop of images from terrorist attacks.Therefore Muslims which now amounted to 1.3 billion in the world can effectively united and boycott products from Holland, and the country's economy would collapse.Denmark lost USD1.3 million every day when their products were boycott from Muslims around the world.The film that potrays Islam as a religion advocating extremism and violence, is not only misleading and erroneous but also a blatant disregard and utter disrespect for Islam and the s
Err… Pardon me for asking, Mahathir; but why didn’t you make that much noise when certain quarters in Malaysia pissed off Muslims here in our own country over and over again?Ka'b, may Allah be pleased with him, reported:Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: the similitude of a believer is that of a tender crop in a field which is shaken by wind, sometimes it bends and then it comes to its original position. The similitude of a non-believer is that of a pine tree which stands on its roots and nothing shakes it till it is uprooted (with) one (violent stroke).Hadith number in Sahih Muslim [Arabic only]: 5025Tags: islam, malaysia kini, malaysiakini, malaysiatoday, malaysia election, 2008 election, barisan nasional 2008
A Dutch legislator’s film that portrays Islam as a ticking time bomb aimed at Western democracy prompted denunciations from Muslim capitals and street protests in Pakistan, but a restrained reaction from Dutch Muslims who had expected worse.
The 15-minute film entitled “Fitna,” an Arabic word meaning “ordeal,” by anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders was posted on a [...]
Criticism from home and abroad of Dutch opposition lawmaker Geert Wilders' anti-Islam film grew Friday after Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende appeared on television to distance the government from the film.Balkenende spoke shortly after the film, Fitna - in which Wilders draws links between terrorist acts by Muslim extremists and the words of the Koran - was posted on the www.liveleak.com website Thursday evening. In the run-up to the film's release, Wilders had described the Koran as a "fascist book" that incites people to violence.The prime minister told reporters during a press conference that the Dutch government regretted the fact that Wilders had decided to release the film, even though the government had asked him to refrain from making it public.The European Union condemned the
Go Read. I think it's the best movie ever made, about Islam. I personally think we need to follow Ann Coulter's Advice. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war. - Source No wiser words have been said.
March 28, AljazeeraGeert Wilders, a Dutch politician, has posted a film on the internet that accuses the Quran of inciting violence, despite government fears that it will offend Muslims and cause protests.It was posted on his Freedom Party's website but could be watched only briefly before the site said it was not available for technical reasons. The 15-minute film called Fitna, a Quranic term sometimes translated as "strife", started with a warning that it contains "very shocking images".It is interspersed with images of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Centre and other bombings with quotes from the Quran. International criticismThe Dutch government has distanced itself from Wilders' views and fears the film will cause protests by Muslims similar to those sparked by the
Dutch Apple Reseller, The Innovators, is announcing that it will reveal a new product (iPhone ?) on March 29th.A pair of hints have been posted online which suggest that the product has never been available in the Netherlands to date, and also that it makes it easy to call. The announcement is scheduled for 11AM Dutch time on March 29th.Read More This blog will tell you how to Unlock Jailbreak Activate and Hack your iPhone and iTouch firmware for FREE
An easy to read book full of interesting customs from around the world, Going Dutch in Beijing: How to Behave Properly When Far Away from Home by Mark McCrum is like a Miss Manners for travel. Chapters on greetings, gifts, food and eating, business etiquette and other topics share what to expect and how to act in different cultures.What I like about the book is the way it not only tells you the customs, but in many cases, explains the reasoning behind them.Why does that driver in Thailand tell you he knows where your hotel is, only to drive in circles all through town? It might be a bid to save face, not necessarily that he wants more money.Why do some people only want to talk about personal subjects during a business meeting? If they are from certain countries, it could be because th
Antilles get serious: Dutch Antilles vs Nicaragua Tuesday 25 March 2008 Unlike fellow influenced CONCACAF combatants Suriname, the Dutch Antilles are allowed to use their Netherlands-based players in the national team. And the islanders are taking full advantage of their connection to the Low Countries, too. With an entire [...]
Antilles get serious: Dutch Antilles vs Nicaragua Tuesday 25 March 2008 Unlike fellow influenced CONCACAF combatants Suriname, the Dutch Antilles are allowed to use their Netherlands-based players in the national team. And the islanders are taking full advantage of their connection to the Low Countries, too. With an entire starting 11 comprised of talented and [...]
VOA News - A U.S.-based Internet service provider has closed down a Web site that a Dutch lawmaker had reserved to post a controversial film that is triggering an uproar in much of the Islamic world.Network Solutions says it invoked the suspension after receiving complaints related to the film. A statement posted on the Internet says those complaints are under investigation.Far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders says the 15-minute movie, set for release March 31, will underscore his view that Islam's holy book, the Koran, is fascist. Wilders turned to Internet distribution after television networks refused to air the film.Network Solutions also cites technical reasons for suspending the Web site, including the anticipated "excessive use of services" by onlookers who could overload and cras
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Indonesia's foreign ministry has called on Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders to abandon plans to release a film critical of Islam, citing fears of a backlash by Muslims.Mr Wilders, a member of the Dutch parliament, plans to release a short film this month which he says will depict the Koran as a "fascist book".Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman, Kristiarto Legowo, says the film will not only hurt Muslim communities but would stand in the way of inter-religious dialogue essential for global stability and peace.Indonesia News Blog:
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MiFID is an EU directive which provides a harmonized regulatory regime for investment services for all members of the European Economic Area and which became effective on 1 November 2007. MiFID’s objectives are to increase competition – and thus to make the price of corporate finance deals more competitive – and [...]
Dutch council officials will permit gay sex in public areas but fine dog owners who let their pets off the leash in Amsterdam's Vondelpark. Paul van Grieken, an Alderman in the Oud-Zuid district of the city, has startled many Amsterdammers, despite their famously liberal attitudes, with plans to allow public sex as part of this summer's new rules of conduct for the country's best-known park. "Why should we try to impose something that is actually impossible to impose, which also causes little bother for others and for a certain group actually means much pleasure?", he said. Amsterdam's beautiful Vondelpark in the centre of city draws hordes of summer visitors, families, skaters and joggers. But the park's rose garden has become famous as a trysting spot for gay men looking for uncomplicate
A Dutch government agency aims to help southern agricultural businesses increase their export values and promote their goods in the European Union.
The Center for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries, known by its Dutch acronym CBI, signed the agreement with the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Agriculture Consultancy and Support (HCACS) Thursday.
The project will focus on Dong Thap,
During most of Elizabeth's reign, Holland and England had been allied against Spain; whenever the Dutch lagged in their fight for freedom, Elizabeth lent a helping hand. Throughout history England has repeatedly expended her strength to keep the Low Countries free. But, between 1652 and 1674, England went to war with Holland three times. This reversal of the traditional policy resulted from clashes over colonies and trade. Although Sir Walter Raleigh had shown keen recognition of the worth of colonies in North America, the average Englishman could see little of commercial value there except the fisheries in Newfoundland. As everyone knows, the first permanent English colonies in the New World were settled during the early seventeenth century; and by the late 1640's, some of those colonies,
If the English were drawn to the sea, the Dutch were driven to it, for the land could not produce enough to support their population. Nonetheless, they took to it with zest, for they were then the world's best fighters, navigators, and traders. They could build ships more cheaply and sail them better than any other people in Europe. As the seaboard outlets for the commerce of central Europe's river system, Dutch ports had long carried on a thriving shipping business in that day of negligible land transport. Their country was strategically located between the Baltic with its timber, wheat, and naval stores and the Iberian Peninsula, where their ships called at Lisbon for Portuguese spices to be redistributed throughout Europe. By 1550, the Dutch were monopolizing Europe's coasting trade, an
When the news of the revolt of the people of Brussels reached the European courts in September, 1830, it touched the sensitive nerves of international organization and of political philosophy which were woven together in the history of the preceding forty years. Thus it is necessary to turn back to the year 1790 in order to grasp the exact character and the effect of this event, for the antecedents of the period of Belgian political independence show plainly the play of the forces which were to influence the course of the entire century to follow. The intellectual, social, and political movement known as the French Revolution had upset the ideas and the political order of Europe during a quarter of a century before its final collapse at Waterloo--in the heart of Belgium--on June 18, 1815.
High versus lower ranking debt
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The Netherlands’ cable internet operators collectively added more customers than the total for xDSL services providers for the first time since 2002, Telecompaper reports. By the end of last year there were a total of 5.588 million broadband connections in the country, up 10.8% year-on-year, with Q4 2007 growth standing at 2.9%, or roughly 160,000 net additions. Broadband penetration now stands at 34.1 lines per 100 of population, up from 30.8% at the start of 2007. Zesko Holdings, the cable conglomerate formed through the merger of @Home, Casema and Multikabel, reported 1.268 million high speed internet users, up 93,000 quarter-on-quarter, while broadband ISP Het Net had 643,000 DSL users, the Dutch online journal writes, thanks to nearly 15,000 net additions in the final three months o
Last time I was up at Golden Lane (for the London I v Wimbledon match), GM Neil McDonald happened to be sitting at the table directly behind me.I was pleased to take the opportunity to thank him for the work he put into his book on the Dutch which I bought recently. Unlike many of the chess books I've bought over the years, which number far too many, this one happens to be pretty useful. It's not a theory-heavy tome but does a very good job of explaining the basic ideas behind the three main branches of the Dutch Defence.Good though it is, the book managed to reinforce a confusion concerning one particular position in the Classical Dutch that I've been suffering for around twenty years.On page 76 McDonald writes that in the line that goes,1. d4 f5, 2. c4 Nf6, 3. Nf3 e6, 4. g3 Be7, 5. Bg2 0
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In the Netherlands Antilles there is no specific law relating to advertisement or promotion of on-line gambling/gaming; subsequently there are no restrictions to advertisement and promotion of these games to Netherlands Antilles citizens nor to citizens of other nations.
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This odd vehicle is a public transportation concept being developed by the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, partly at the behest of the Dutch government.alien-headhl.jpgThis highly streamlined Future Bus is aimed at providing convenient, and even personalized public transportation, at speeds that will rival Europe’s railway lines. The sleek profile and small frontal area of the bus concept are said to allow it to travel at up to 155 mph. One rather frightening drawback to the aggressive design however, is the uncanny resemblance it bears to the murderous extraterrestrials from Ridley Scott’s Alien movies.At nearly 50 feet long, and 8 feet wide, the Future Bus should have a seating capacity of up to 50 passengers. Those passengers will be able to use the bus in a sort
This Raven-Symone - Double Dutch Bus Video is quite cool. Raven-Symone Music Video for the single “Double Dutch Bus” from her new movie College Road Trip
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Raven-Symone - Double Dutch Bus Video
On the very day that our Prime Minister is burbling about being "pro-European" and denying the people the referendum he promised, albeit for a constitutional treaty and not this treaty, even though the authors of the original say the two are 98% similar, we get a chance to see (in Dutch, so Nick Clegg can read it!) all the gory details of the rackets and rake-offs in Brussels. Dutch MEP Paul van Buitenen has published a confidential internal report on abuse of staff allowances described by a colleague as "dynamite".It all goes to show that these gravy-train merchants, who have been basically operating a fraudulent operation for years, are now, yet again, exposed for what they are. Does Gordon Brown give a fig? Or is he just not bothered, like he can't be bothered to clean up the expense fi
Dear Useless Men I'm curious as to WHAT exactly is going through a man's mind when the suggestion of going on a 'date' but paying for one's self, is. Is that in fact a 'date' or is it a couple a friends hangin' out? I pay my own way all the gawd damn time when I'm out with girlfriends... But should I even consider him to be a potential suitor if I have to cover my half? Thanks! psWhat if he drinks/eats more than I do?What does etiquette dictate in that circumstance??? Dear Curious, I can appreciate your frustration here. In this modern day of political correctness and equal rights I can understand that there would be confusion when it comes to etiquette. More families are eating in front of the TV. Kids are encouraged to talk back to their parents and more men are becoming stay at home Dad
It’s not merely a mailbox
According to the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), a tax haven (or offshore jurisdiction) is a jurisdiction which actively makes itself available for the avoidance of taxes which would otherwise be paid in a higher tax jurisdiction. There are more and less advanced offshore jurisdictions. The concessions and benefits [...]
It is common practice
It is common practice around the world for (dealing rooms of) banks and brokers to tape conversations with their clients in order to avoid misunderstandings as to the selling or buying instructions given by the clients. There are no specific laws or regulations in the Netherlands Antilles applicable on this aspect of [...]
A license is required
In many international group structures, one or more Netherlands Antilles legal entities or companies (offshore companies) are inserted. This is mainly done for tax reasons. Another reason for using a Netherlands Antilles company may be to have a company with a seat in a respected jurisdiction with a well functioning legal and [...]
Broadband in general, and FTTH in particular, may enter politics in the Netherlands. An FNV sponsored survey (in Dutch), conducted by ADV Market Research, revealed that people increasingly want to work from home (teleworking = working through home broadband connection).
FNV and ADV point out that teleworking will contribute to reduced pollution (less traffic congestion), increased productivity (
Money wired to Russia and Ukraine
Dutch police have arrested 14 suspects who allegedly lent their bank accounts at ABN Amro to cybercriminals in Russia and Ukraine. After being recruited by the fraudsters, the mules received funds taken from phishing scams, which they transferred overseas.…
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