Netherlands Eases Segway Ban

clipped from www.reuters.com Dutch to ease ban on self-balancing Segway scooter AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands is to relax its ban on the Segway motorized scooter, a two-wheeled, gyroscopically-balanced machine of which U.S. President George W. Bush is a fan. "The general use of the Segway will be allowed on bicycle paths and roads under the condition that a maximum speed of 25 km per hour will be kept to," the Dutch government said in a statement. clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.segway.nl 01-07-2008 | Segway uiterlijk op 1 juli a.s op de weg!!!. lees verder clipped from www.minjus.nl Uitvoering moties Segway Persbericht | 18-04-2008 Op 25 maart 2008 heeft uw Kamer twee moties inzake de Segway (TK 2007-2008, 29 398, nrs. 82 en 83) aangenomen. Het lid De Krom vroeg na afloop van de stemmingen, geïnformeerd te worden over de uitvoering van deze moties. Met deze brief delen wij u mee op welke wijze het kabinet met de moties om wil gaan.

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VoteMatch -- Dutch US Elections Website

clipped from www.sunherald.com VoteMatch Goes for President VoteMatch (http://www.stemwijzer.nl) is back online in the Netherlands, starting today. Not for Dutch elections this time, but for the presidential race in the United States. For and in collaboration with Dutch public TV news and current affairs program Een Vandaag, the Institute for Public and Politics (IPP) has developed a special VoteMatch USA website (http://www.VoteMatchUSA.org). clipped from www.votematchusa.org VoteMatch USA 2008 clipped from eenvandaag.nl Welcome to the OneToday’s VoteMatch USA VoteMatch determines your political preference through statements from the largest democratic and republican candidates taking part in the preliminary US presidency elections. The statements Answer the statements by clicking on agree, disagree or don't know.You can add extra weight to any statements you find especially important. In a separate screen you can choose which candidates you would like to include in your result calculation. In the result screen you can see the candidate you agree with most.

New Energy Uses for Asphalt

Dutch company uses asphalt to capture solar energy

(AP Photo/ Bas Czerwinski) :: A model of a lattice work of flexible plastic pipes, held firmly in place by a plastic grid, covered over by asphalt, which magnifies the sun's thermal power, is shown at Ooms Avenhorn Holding BV in Scharwoude, northern Netherlands, Friday, Dec. 14, 2007. The pipe-work by Dutch civil engineering firm Ooms, is claimed to be capable of siphoning the warmth from roads and parking lots to heat homes and offices.

SCHARWOUDE, Netherlands (AP) [...] A Dutch company is now siphoning heat from roads and parking lots to heat homes and offices.
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Solar energy collected from a 200-yard stretch of road and a small parking lot helps heat a 70-unit four-story apartment building in the northern village of Avenhorn.
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"The prospect of relying on the sun for all our power demands is finally becoming realistic," says report in New Scientist.

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Dutch Christmas (video)

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Dutch to build Tulip Island?

Dubai built Palm Island. Now The Dutch are considering building a tulip-shaped island in the North Sea

The Dutch parliament has asked a commission on coastal development to look into the idea of building islands in the North Sea that could be used for housing, farming or a nature reserve, while at the same time helping to protect the coast.

Dutch debate building Tulip Island in North Sea | Science | Reuters

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Dutch Government Requires Open-Source

The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software

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Netherlands Adopts Open-Source Software

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software — freely distributed programs that anyone can modify — the Netherlands Economic Affairs Ministry said Thursday.

Government organizations will still be able to use proprietary software and formats but will have to justify it under the new policy, ministry spokesman Edwin van Scherrenburg said.

Van Scherrenburg said the plan was approved unanimously at a meeting of two parliamentary commissions on Wednesday.

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Who is Sinterklaas (2)

Sinterklaas

The Feast of Sinterklaas, or St. Nicholas, is an annual event which has been uniquely Dutch and Flemish for centuries. St. Nicholas' Feast Day, December 6th, is observed in most Roman Catholic countries primarily as a feast for small children. But it is only in the Low Countries - especially in the Netherlands - that the eve of his feast day (December 5th) is celebrated nationwide by young and old, christian and non-christian, and without any religious overtones.

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