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relief from cluster headache

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:24:05 GMT

New Scientific Review Shows That Zolmitriptan ('Zomig(TM)') Nasal Spray Provided Efficacious Relief From Cluster Headache(1)

LONDON, September 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Results from a new pooled data analysis presented at the European Headache and Migraine Trust International Congress (EHMTIC) 2008 today show that zolmitriptan ('Zomig') nasal spray provided fast and efficacious relief in the treatment of episodic and chronic cluster headache.(1) The data shows that zolmitriptan nasal spray provided significant relief from cluster headache at 30 minutes - this maybe of real significance for patients whose current treatment options (oxygen inhalation, self administered sumatriptan injection or a combination of both) are limited due to inconvenience of use.

Zolmitriptan nasal spray has recently been approved in the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany by their national licensing authorities for the acute treatment of cluster headache, but is not yet licensed in the United Kingdom.

More War?

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:46:09 GMT

clipped by: sahara

Clip Source: www.debka.com

A Dutch AIVD Secret Service ultra-secret operation underway in Iran in recent years has been halted and an agent recalled in view of “impending US plans to attack Iran,” within weeks, writes Joost de Haas, known for his good intelligence contacts, in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.

America's largest unmanned aerial vehicle

The AIVD operation aimed to infiltrate and sabotage the weapons [and nuclear] industry in the Islamic Republic.

According to intelligence sources in the Netherlands, the US [or Israel] was expected to make a decision within weeks to attack nuclear plants with unmanned aircraft

According to DEBKAfile’s sources, the expectation disclosed by the Dutch newspaper would explain the fresh spate of threats from Iran.

Thursday, Aug. 28, Iranian sources told the London-based Arabic al Quds that Tehran had recently transferred to Hizballah new long-range rockets capable of hitting every inch of Israeli soil with great accuracy.

to be fired if Israel or the United States attacked

Tags: war, peace, israel, iran, us, russia, china

David Lynch on 9/11

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:09:29 GMT

clipped by: Spiritualmonkey

Clip Source: www.brasschecktv.com

The official story doesn't add up

Military experts, scientists, and engineers have been questioning the government's 9/11 cover story practically since Day One.

In this video one of America's most successful film directors, David Lynch, questions the reality of the "official consensus" version of events.

Note that this interview was broadcast in the Netherlands. Intelligent discussions of 9/11 are for all practical pruposes banned from broadcast channels in the US, both commercial and public.

[Video]

Tags: 9/11, terrorism, movies, documentary, video, david lynch, controlled demolition

Dutch sabotage agent recalled from Iran over “impending” US attack - report

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:58:41 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie
clipper's remarks: Two indicators of an attack in the last couple of days ... Will it be before or after Christmas with George WS doing the dirty work for his successor.

Clip Source: www.debka.com

The AIVD operation aimed to infiltrate and sabotage the weapons [and nuclear] industry in the Islamic Republic.

According to intelligence sources in the Netherlands, the US [or Israel] was expected to make a decision within weeks to attack nuclear plants with unmanned aircraft, used to avoid risking the lives of air crews and warplanes.

necessary in Israel’s case to hold its air fleet and flight crews ready to defend the country against reprisal from Iran’s allies. Syria and the Lebanese Hizballah have stockpiled thousands of rockets for this purpose.

Tags: politics, i-policy, i-war, i-attack, i-forecast

Nuclear Deal With India

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:12:05 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: Not so fast! New Zealand, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, Norway, Netherlands are among those who see the need to curb the Nuclear Expansion. America must see the deal for what it is: More Danger and More Nuclear Weapons in a world that needs Alternatives.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Let’s Hear It for New Zealand

If you are feeling anxious — and you should be — about the world’s appetite for nuclear weapons, there is a bit of good news. More countries than we ever expected are refusing to be pressured by the United States and India to approve an ill-conceived nuclear deal.

For 30 years, ever since India used its civilian nuclear program to produce a bomb, the world has been banned from selling nuclear technology to India. Three years ago, President Bush agreed, with far too few conditions, to break that ban and sell India reactors and fuel.

The White House argued that India is an important democracy and shrugged off critics who said that breaking the rules would make it even harder to pressure Iran and others to abandon their nuclear ambitions.

But before it can go forward, the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (which sets rules for nuclear trade) must also agree.

10 things about Netherlands

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:19:33 GMT

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Clip Source: dailycandor.com

Please keep in mind that not all of the women you see in the windows in the Red Light District are really women.

If something bad happens to you, please find a policeman/policewoman and explain the situation to us. Please do not be embarrassed - we have really seen it all before. You couldn’t possibly shock us.

Vice is fading fast in De Wallen, Amsterdam's red-light district

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:09:52 GMT

clipped by: madame travels

Clip Source: www.time.com

In a break with Amsterdam's "anything goes" attitude, Cohen and city officials have vowed to finally crack down on what they say are extensive criminal networks operating in the neighborhood. Their campaign won't bring an end to prostitution, which has been legal in the Netherlands since 2000; nor will they systematically uproot the red-light district's scores of coffeehouses, where the sale of marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms has long been allowed. But the easy tolerance of sex and drugs that has so long characterized Amsterdam is fading fast

Beginning last year, the city has intensified its pursuit of financial investigations into the neighborhood's sex and drug businesses

anyone suspected of criminal activity can have their application suspended or refused, whether or not the charges have been proved

A wall map in City Hall shows a block-by-block plan that aims to halve the size of the red-light district over the next few years by shutting scores of brothels,

Beijing 2008 - It's a wrap

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:06:41 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: Wrapping up the games - with some more super pics. For captions pls click on the link...

Clip Source: www.boston.com

Beijing 2008 - It's a wrap

Over the past couple of weeks, in Beijing, China, over 11,000 athletes from more than 200 countries participated in 302 events in 28 sports. below are some highlights of the last week in Beijing, and a few shots of the Closing Ceremony last night in the National Stadium. (39 photos total)

Left-to-right: Netherlands Antilles' Churandy Martina, Zimbabwe's Brian Dzingai, Jamaica's Usain Bolt, Wallace Spearmon of the US and Britain's Christian Malcolm compete in the men's 200m final at the Bird's Nest National Stadium during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on August 20, 2008. Bolt went on to win the event, in a world record time of 19.3 seconds. (Olivier Morin/AFP)

Afghanistan's Rohullan Nikpai reacts

Fireworks light up the sky at the end of the closing and hand-over ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at the National Stadium also known as the "Bird's Nest" on August 24, 2008. (Christophe Simon/AFP)

closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

Tags: olympics, beijing, china

Law and Order in the virtual universes

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:26:25 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: i think it is interesting the way a community is being built.

from the article: "In 2006, Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life, canceled Marc Bragg's account for violating the world's policies on real estate deals. Bragg sued Linden, saying he legally owned the content he created in Second Life, including land and businesses. The suit was eventually settled, and Bragg's avatar was restored.

Authorities also have intervened in crimes committed in online worlds. In the Netherlands, for example, a teenager was arrested for stealing more than $5,000 worth of virtual furniture in a world called Habbo.

"This is such a nascent area when it comes to the law," said Sean F. Kane, a partner in the law firm Drakeford & Kane. "If a certain world allows you to be a thief, is it a crime or just an aspect of the game? Should real-world law apply?"

there is much thinking to do, involved...

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Virtual Worlds Get Real About Punishment

In the online community Cellufun, troublemakers found guilty by other users get their virtual alter egos placed behind bars. (Cary Torkelson)

Virtual worlds have often been called the digital equivalent of the Wild West, where animated alter egos can live in a fantasy frontier. But in some of these universes, a sheriff has come to town.

Slipping a four-letter word into an instant message now could land a user in a virtual timeout. Repeated attempts to make friends with an uninterested character could result in a loss of blogging privileges. And if convicted of starting a "flame war," or an exchange of hostile messages, a user may endure the ultimate punishment -- permanent exile.

A virtual world for mobile devices, called Cellufun, has established a courthouse, where rule-breakers are indicted by their peers

Some worlds have devised their own versions of jail, where boredom is the punishment

VZones, created the Void

holding cell

Tags: virtual, social networking, laws

10 Homes that Defy Gravity

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:19:03 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: Amazing pads!

Clip Source: www.oddee.com

10 Homes that Defy Gravity

Wozoco Apartments (Amsterdam-Osdorp, Netherlands)

A zoning law and blueprint flub were the inspiration for this apartment complex.

Floating Castle (Ukraine)

Supported by a single cantilever --and quite discussed at Panoramio, this mysterious levitating farm house belongs in a sci-fi flick.

Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)

Apartments connect and stack like Lego blocks in Montreal's Habitat 67.

Free Spirit Spheres (British Columbia, Canada)

Free Spirit Spheres can be hung from the trees as shown, making a tree house.

Cube House (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Living in a tilted house is much easier than it looks—just ask the people living in these the Kijk-Kubus homes.

Gangster's House (Archangelsk, Russia)

Russian gangster Nikolai Sutyagin’s home is certainly unusual.

begun in 1992 stands 13 floors, 144 feet high.

Mushroom House (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Upside-Down House (Syzmbark, Poland)

Pod House (New Rochelle, New York)

Heliotrope Rotating House (Freiburg, Germany)

Tags: architecture, gravtational force, apartments, housing

Diary of his mother's death

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:55:20 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

5.30pm: Dad is bent over the toilet bowl with a brush in his hand and a scowl on his face. I walk up to him. "Shall I give you a hand?" Dad begins to snigger, abandoning any attempt to make sense of the situation. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our backs to Mum, who paces around the landing with a newly fitted catheter in her hand.

The catheter has been put in by nurse Marianne to enable our GP, who will be with us in half an hour, to give Mum a lethal injection. But instead of having a moment of peace with us, as Marianne suggested, Mum demands that we clean the toilets. Both upstairs and downstairs.

My brother, Maarten, is sitting on the edge of the bath, staring out of the bathroom window.

"Imagine," he mutters. "Her last hour, spent like this."

This is the Netherlands, where voluntary euthanasia is permitted, as well as physician-assisted suicide. This is the day my mother has chosen to die, and the toilets need to be spotless.

Three months earlier

Germans Own Eventing Gold But Miles Claims Silver

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:09:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Germany may have earned all the gold medals in eventing, but Gina Miles brought the individual silver home to the United States, knocking German Ingrid Klimke and Australian Megan Jones off the leaderboard with her two perfect show jumping rounds.

Hinrich Romeike won individual gold and led the Germans to team gold, and Tina Cook of Great Britain earned team and individual bronze medals. Australia brought home silver in the team competition.

http://www.chronofhorse.com/index.php?cat=1212907081247892&ShowArticle_ID=1131208084310203

Clip Source: www.chronofhorse.com

Anky van Grunsven and Salinero put in their trademark impressive freestyle to claim the individual gold.

Clip Source: www.chronofhorse.com

Anky van Grunsven rode Salinero to her third consecutive individual gold medal.

Clip Source: www.chronofhorse.com

Satchmo and Isabell Werth claimed the individual silver.

Clip Source: www.chronofhorse.com

Heike Kemmer and Bonaparte's freestyle score of 75.95 percent let her hold on to the bronze medal.

Clip Source: www.chronofhorse.com

Bonaparte and Heike Kemmer trotted off with the bronze medal for Germany.

Clip Source: www.chronofhorse.com

In Ravel's freestyle, performed to music from the Rolling Stones and Talking Heads, Steffen Peters showcased the horse's power and grace.

Clip Source: www.chronofhorse.com

Ravel excelled in his first international appearance with Steffen Peters, putting in a freestyle that scored 76.50 percent and put them into fourth individually.

Clip Source: www.chronofhorse.com

Hans Peter Minderhoud rode an exceptional freestyle on Nadine, scoring a 75.15 percent to take fifth overall for the Netherlands.

Clip Source: www.chronofhorse.com

With a freestyle that scored 73.85 percent, Alexandra Korelova and Balagur moved up to sixth overall for Russia.

Clip Source: www.chronofhorse.com

Emma Hindle on Lancet

Clip Source: www.chronofhorse.com

Max and Kyra Kyrklund

Clip Source: www.chronofhorse.com

Tags: olympics, equestrian eventing

GolF Holland

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:55:07 GMT

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Clip Source: clipmarks.com

One button that lets you share text, images, and videos

Clip Source: www.europeantour.com

The KLM Open
Kennemer G & CC, Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Netherlands

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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:52:10 GMT

clipped by: chrisjones1986

Clip Source: site.sports.betfair.com

Folk 20th Aug
17:25 1m2f Mdn Stks

Matched: £57,266

Athletics (M) 200m
Winner

Matched: £1,184,006

In-play

at 15:20

Newt 20th Aug
17:40 2m1f Mdn Hrd
Clair (RSA) 20th Aug
13:50 R5 1200m Hcap

Athletics (W) 400m Hurdles
Winner
Athletics (M) 800m
Winner
Athletics (M) 5000m
Winner
Athletics (M) 110m Hurdles
Winner
Sailing (M) Windsurfer RSX
Winner
Sailing (W) Windsurfer RSX
Winner
Taekwondo (M) -58kg
Winner
Taekwondo (W) -49kg
Winner
Wrestling (M) 66kg
Winner
Wrestling (M) 74kg
Winner
Basketball (M) USA v Australia
Match Odds
Hockey (W) Netherlands v Argentina
Match Odds
Boxing Rasulov v Correa
Match Odds
Handball (M) S Korea v Spain
Match Odds
Volleyball (M) China v Brazil
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Baseball Ch Taipei v Canada
Match Odds (Action)
Baseball USA v Japan
Match Odds (Action)

HGrn 20th Aug
13:51 A4 480m