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It still quite huge. Wikipedia is updated too. Meanwhile, go swimming in those healthy oil spilled beaches!
Jul 012010
Jul 022010
Legendarisch harde wedstrijd en een totale vernedering voor de Brazilianen onder meer verzorgd door helden als Cruijf, Neeskens en Van Hanegem.
Jul 032010
Although there was a spectacular fire yesterday during the presentations.
Today, this afternoon, it is for the first time for the points.
Hope we keep it dry. All riders have their own flag, drop-outs half flag?
Latest on Twitter of course.
Update: Follow it with the WEBCAM.
Jul 072010
Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth.
Only, i don’t know how they got out, dear.
The Shins: New Simon & Carfunkel?
Jul 082010
Jul 092010
Zondag 11 juli zijn er twee plekken om de WK wedstrijd Nederland vs Spanje te kijken in Beijing China:
- 1) Samen Holland vs Spanje met de Nederlandse Vereniging kijken, 25 yuan voor een biertje
- 2) Nederlandse WK kroegfeest voor backpackers, 10 yuan voor een biertje
Kies je voor optie 2 dan is 0,65 liter Tsingtao Beer 10 yuan (+/- 1 euro), en wordt het commentaar verzorgd door Radio 1 (Jack van Gelder):
365inn
55 DaZhaLan Xijie Beijing
Schuin tegenover ‘Leo Hostel’: www.365inn.com.cn
Aanvang: N.V.T.
Heb je vrienden die tijdens hun reis in Beijing zijn stuur ze dan s.v.p. een mail want we hebben geen Twitter of Facebook, dit WK feest moet het grootste WK feest van Beijing worden!
Want to watch the world cup game Holland vs Spain (Netherlands vs Spain) then join the Dutch at:
365inn
55 DaZhaLan Xijie Beijing
Near ‘Leo Hostel’: www.365inn.com.cn
let niet op het kromme taalgebruik dat is voor Google 
Within a year swimming at the US East-Coast (and a substantial amount of the natural sea life there) is over? Yup, keep thinking its no big deal Maimi, New York, etc.
Jul 142010
The European Parliament has adopted the so-called SWIFT agreement on 8 July 2010 allowing sharing EU citizens’ bank data with the US authorities, but failing to stick to its initial position on privacy safeguards from February 2010. (..) However, even the data protection European bodies – EDPS and the Article 29 Working Party – have underlined that the current agreement does not meet the European privacy standards. (..) There have been reports that the US Treasury has received up to 25% of all SWIFT transactions, which number in the billions each year. (via)
Seems that the EP still cannot guard basic privacy rights for EU citizens.
5 Years more of lack of civil rights as financial privacy. This adds to the believe that the EU is still toothless and doesn’t fend with the power, it really should have!
See also earlier posts.
Jul 152010
Jul 162010
Inspirational Artists: Pascal Campion from Onyx Cinema, Inc. on Vimeo.
Getting better, by telling better. Less frustration, way more fun.
Jul 182010
Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics. I feel (without walls) therefore i’m free.
Jul 192010
I’m still surprised people dare to sit, dig sand and even swim there on the beach.
Jul 202010
And here’s another one.
Jul 212010
While higher education is discussed, let’s turn shortly to the status of the basics.
Above the example of Arduenn, who’s child is wrongly corrected in maths. I find it unbelievable that teachers who cannot even count with their fingers are allowed in class. According to this Elsevier-article of 2006 the level of PABO-students is not all that good: PABO-students from mbo are really bad: Almost 3/4 of them, doesn’t even reach the level of a smart 12-year old student.
SHAME!
If education at that age is that bad, no wonder that students score badly later.
