[Deel 1576]Far from the Reyaing crowd

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Op dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 17:36 schreef Autodidact het volgende:
Nu heb ik de koopakte van een huis voor mijn neus, en staat de prijs 50.000 euro lager dan overeengekomen. De allochtoon in mij zegt: tekenen!

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Op dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 20:44 schreef Montov het volgende:
Ik distantieer mij van dit topic.

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Op dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 20:56 schreef Mutant01 het volgende:
Nog wat gemist afgelopen maand?

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Op maandag 17 augustus 2009 22:30 schreef TitusPullo het volgende:
Jullie mogen best weten dat ik Mutant mis.

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Op dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 20:56 schreef Mutant01 het volgende:
Nog wat gemist afgelopen maand?

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Op dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 21:51 schreef Rock_de_Braziliaan het volgende:
Wat houd je tegen?

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Op dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 22:04 schreef Nautilus_ het volgende:
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Hèhè. Die Kim.

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Op dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 22:21 schreef Rock_de_Braziliaan het volgende:
garpenmakers!

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Op dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 22:04 schreef Wheelgunner het volgende:
Het is weer een getint avondje bij Opsporing Verzocht...

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Op dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 23:01 schreef Mutant01 het volgende:

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Tja witteboordencriminaliteit leent zich niet voor dit soort programma's he.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 10:52 schreef TitusPullo het volgende:

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Maar geen spoor van wederkerigheid.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 12:04 schreef Reya het volgende:
Hoeveel deuken heb je weten te verzamelen?

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 13:00 schreef Rock_de_Braziliaan het volgende:
http://www.anwb.nl/binaries/pdf/vrije-tijd/pizzatest.pdf

Nu met smakelijke pizza!

Ondanks het feit dat Napoli het hoogste cijfer heeft gekregen op de smaaktest, wordt de pizza aldaar deels belegd met analoogkaas.

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MPs reject Senate change to key bill

Lawmakers on Wednesday rejected the Senate's endorsement of a government proposal to allow all non-Muslim organisations to operate in the country under the Societies Law, reaffirming an amendment to allow only Christian organisations.

Two weeks ago, the House amended the government’s version of the law, which allows all non-Muslim commissions to work in the Kingdom, regardless of their religion.

MPs who rejected this proposal said that if the law is endorsed as proposed by the government, it will open the door for Jewish organisations to be licensed and work in the country.

The Senate, however, endorsed the language of the government proposal and returned the law to the House for further discussion.

As a result of yesterday’s decision to reject the Senate amendment, a joint session of both Houses will convene to discuss the matters of dispute as stipulated in the Constitution.

According to Article 92 of the Constitution: "Should either House twice reject any draft law and the other accept it, whether or not amended, both the Senate and the Chamber shall hold a joint meeting under the chairmanship of the president of the Senate to discuss the matters in dispute. Acceptance of the draft law shall be conditional."

Minister of Justice Ayman Odeh said the House amendment of this article contradicts the language used by the Constitution and the Tribunals of Religious Communities when talking about religions other than Islam.

He said that both refer to non-Muslim religious communities generally, and not only Christians.

Article 108 of the Constitution says: “The Tribunals of Religious Communities are those for the non-Muslim religious communities which have been or will be recognised by the government as established in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.”

He also added that many churches working in the Kingdom represent communities that the Council of Churches in Jordan does not consider Christian communities.

“These churches are registered as societies and have been working here for years… but if we change the wording of the law to refer only to Christians, we would have to close them down,” Odeh told deputies yesterday.

Also yesterday, deputies endorsed the higher education and scientific research draft law after introducing some amendments to its articles.

Lawmakers amended an article related to the members of the Higher Education Council (HEC), calling for three university presidents to remain members of the council.

According to the government’s proposal, the HEC would consist of the minister of higher education, the ministry’s secretary general, the president of the Higher Education Institutions Accreditation Commission, four academicians and four higher education experts.

In their amendment, deputies said that the council should also consist of the presidents of three universities, two public and one private.

Currently, the Kingdom’s university presidents also sit on the council, but their membership would be revoked if the government’s proposal is passed, a measure officials said aims to guarantee universities’ independence from the HEC.

The Lower House also rejected a tax imposed on public shareholding companies to support the Scientific Research Fund.

They said that the tax contradicts the income tax draft law, which they began discussing yesterday.

In its proposal, the government imposed a 1 per cent tax on the profits of the country’s public shareholding companies to support the fund.

In yesterday’s evening session, lawmakers endorsed the first and second articles of the Income Tax Law, which concern the name of the legislation and its definitions. They will continue their deliberations on the law on Sunday.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 19:33 schreef Reya het volgende:
En wat is er mis met donker zijn? Racist.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 19:29 schreef Mutant01 het volgende:
Hadden jullie mij niet kunnen vertellen dat Monolith nu member van de Dark Side is.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 20:00 schreef TitusPullo het volgende:
Mijn pasta daarentegen was uit de kunst.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 19:29 schreef Mutant01 het volgende:
Hadden jullie mij niet kunnen vertellen dat Monolith nu member van de Dark Side is.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 20:15 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

White House Reveals Obama Is Bipolar, Has Entered Depressive Phase

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 20:35 schreef TitusPullo het volgende:
Hihi.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 20:15 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ik heb gewoon een hekel aan kromme analogieën.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 22:21 schreef Reya het volgende:
Ik heb vernomen dat ze inmiddels is geromaniseerd, doch.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 22:25 schreef Mutant01 het volgende:

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Ik heb een hekel aan onwetendheid en subjectivering van vrijheid van meningsuiting.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 22:27 schreef Mutant01 het volgende:

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Ik heb iets anders vernomen, namelijk dat jij de songtekst-writer was van de band "De Raggende Manne".

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 22:28 schreef Autodidact het volgende:

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Kop op, niet zo'n zelfhaat.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 22:29 schreef Reya het volgende:

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Ik heb zelfs een stuk aan jou opgedragen.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 22:30 schreef Mutant01 het volgende:

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De romantische lyrics galmen nog steeds door mijn hoofd. Net als een andere substantie overigens.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 22:32 schreef Reya het volgende:

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Raki? Een verstandige keuze.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 23:00 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
Strand. Zij aan zij met fastige wijven in te kleine bikini's omgeven door schreeuwende kutkinderen. Geen enkele hoeveelheid lauw/warm geworden bier kan dat verdrinken.

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WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials.

Executives from Blackwater, which has generated controversy because of its aggressive tactics in Iraq, helped the spy agency with planning, training and surveillance. The C.I.A. spent several million dollars on the program, which did not successfully capture or kill any terrorist suspects.

The fact that the C.I.A. used an outside company for the program was a major reason that Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A.’s director, became alarmed and called an emergency meeting in June to tell Congress that the agency had withheld details of the program for seven years, the officials said.

It is unclear whether the C.I.A. had planned to use the contractors to actually capture or kill Qaeda operatives, or just to help with training and surveillance in the program. American spy agencies have in recent years outsourced some highly controversial work, including the interrogation of prisoners. But government officials said that bringing outsiders into a program with lethal authority raised deep concerns about accountability in covert operations.

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Satellites Unlock Secret To Northern India's Vanishing Water

ScienceDaily (Aug. 19, 2009) — Using satellite data, UC Irvine and NASA hydrologists have found that groundwater beneath northern India has been receding by as much as 1 foot per year over the past decade – and they believe human consumption is almost entirely to blame.

More than 109 cubic kilometers (26 cubic miles) of groundwater disappeared from the region's aquifers between 2002 and 2008 – double the capacity of India's largest surface-water reservoir, the Upper Wainganga, and triple that of Lake Mead, the largest manmade reservoir in the U.S.

People are pumping northern India's underground water, mostly to irrigate cropland, faster than natural processes can replenish it, said Jay Famiglietti and Isabella Velicogna, UCI Earth system scientists, and Matt Rodell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

"If measures are not soon taken to ensure sustainable groundwater usage, consequences for the 114 million residents of the region may include a collapse of agricultural output, severe shortages of potable water, conflict and suffering," said Rodell, lead author of the study and former doctoral student of Famiglietti's at the University of Texas at Austin.

Study results will be published online Aug. 12 in the journal Nature.

Groundwater comes from the percolation of precipitation and other surface waters down through Earth's soil and rock, accumulating in aquifers – cavities and layers of porous rock, gravel, sand or clay. In some subterranean reservoirs, the water may be thousands to millions of years old; in others, water levels decline and rise again naturally each year.

Groundwater levels do not respond to changes in weather as rapidly as lakes, streams and rivers do. So when groundwater is pumped for irrigation or other uses, restoration of original levels can take months or years.

"Groundwater mining – that is when withdrawals exceed replenishment rates – is a rapidly growing problem in many of the world's large aquifers," Famiglietti said. "Since groundwater provides nearly 80 percent of the water required for irrigated agriculture, diminishing groundwater reserves pose a serious threat to global food security."

Data provided by India's Ministry of Water Resources had suggested that groundwater use across the nation was exceeding natural replenishment, but the regional rate of depletion had been unknown.

In the new study, the hydrologists analyzed six years of monthly data for northern India from twin satellites called GRACE – NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment – to produce a chronology of underground water storage changes.

GRACE detects differences in gravity brought about by fluctuations in water mass, including water below the Earth's surface. As the satellites orbit 300 miles above Earth, their positions change – relative to each other – in response to variations in the pull of gravity. They fly about 137 miles apart, and microwave ranging systems measure every microscopic variance in the distance between the two.

"With GRACE, we can monitor water storage changes everywhere in the world from our desk," said Velicogna, also with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "The satellites allow us to observe how water storage evolves from one month to the next in critical areas of the world."

Groundwater loss in northern India is particularly alarming because there were no unusual trends in rainfall – in fact, it was slightly above normal during the study period. The researchers also examined data on soil moisture, lake and surface reservoir storage, vegetation and glaciers in the nearby Himalayas to confirm that the apparent groundwater trend was real. The only influence they couldn't rule out was human.

"For the first time, we can observe water use on land with no additional ground-based data collection," Famiglietti said. "This is critical because in many developing countries, where hydrological data are both sparse and hard to access, space-based methods provide perhaps the only opportunity to assess changes in freshwater availability across large regions."

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Op donderdag 20 augustus 2009 12:35 schreef Reya het volgende:
Hallo.

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Op donderdag 20 augustus 2009 13:33 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Gaat heen en sterf.