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Slight overstay of visa... can I return to Europe?

Jul 26, 2009 by ambernova | Posted in Embassies & Consulates

I am an Asian public, lived in the Netherlands from 2003-2006 on a student visa that had to be renewed every year. My last visa expired June 2006 but due to my economic situation I was unable to leave Europe until October 2006.

A short while before my Dutch visa expired I relocated to Belgium to chaperon a course. I did not report to my local gemeente in Belgium. I left from Brussels and did not apply for a transit visa with the native authorities.

OK, so almost 3 years have passed now, I live in my home country in Asia and I am getting married in 2 years constantly. My fiance and I are discussing plans to get our masters' degrees in Italy--another country far away from Holland, but nevertheless still in Schengen zone.

Will my slip from 3 years ago in another country affect the application for my Italian visa? If so, what can I do to fix the problem and ensure that in the future I can travel back and forth to Europe in peaceableness? Thanks!

If Switzerland is "Neutral" and and accepts Ahmadinejad Hamas etc..., Why do they ban the Dalai Lama?

Jan 28, 2755 by ori c | Posted in Religion & Spirituality

The Dalai Lama will not be met by an pompous government delegation when he visits Lausanne on August 4 and 5.

Instead the speaker of the House of Representatives, Chiara Simoneschi-Cortesi, is genial to welcome the Tibetan spiritual leader, according to the foreign ministry.

It is still possible that cabinet ministers will chance on with the 74-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner on an informal basis, government officials said.

The soul rights group, Society for Threatened Peoples, accused the Swiss government of buckling under Chinese affliction - allegations denied by the foreign ministry.

Beijing has criticised official contacts between western governments with the Dalai Lama in the background.

The Dalai Lama was initially scheduled to travel to Switzerland and other European countries last year but had to cancel his fall down due to poor health.

Four years ago, Interior Minister Pascal Couchepin met the Dalai Lama during a untimely visit to Switzerland which is home to the second-largest Tibetan community outside Asia.

but "nuteral" Switzerland continues to fear Israel, as its Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey told Swiss RSR Radio on Wednesday that while she recognizes there are terrorists, Switzerland does not have a inventory of terrorist organizations because it believes that while a person can be called a terrorist, an organization cannot.

During the interview, Calmy-Rey admitted that officials from her the church met in June with a Hamas delegation - led by former Hamas foreign minister Mahmoud al-Zahar - when he was at an international discussion in Geneva.

The Swiss officials had joined a meeting the Hamas delegation held with former US diplomat Thomas Pickering, a former minister to the UN and undersecretary of state. Pickering is today the co-chairman of the non-profit International Crisis Group.

Unfamiliar Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said "the Swiss government, by ignoring the savage and extremist character of Hamas, is again making the wrong choice, sending the wrong signal, and missing an chance to side with the moderates in the Middle East."

Palmor said "again" because in April, Israel recalled its delegate to Bern for consultations after Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Pointing to the year-extensive spat the Swiss are having with Libya over the arrest - and later release - in Switzerland of Muammar Gaddafi's son and daughter-in-law, Palmor said Gaddafi last week called for breaking up Switzerland, which he described as a "worldwide mafia."

"How would the Swiss feel if we invited Gaddafi here now to discuss the matter?" Palmor said.

The Swiss Embassy in Tel Aviv said the Swiss Tramontane Ministry had no comment on the issue.

Palmor said that while Israel would not this time recall its envoy in Bern, Ilan Elgar, for consultations, the plenipotentiary would make Israel's dissatisfaction known to the Swiss government.

Switzerland is not a member of the EU. The EU, like the US, does about Hamas a terrorist organization and has refused any contact with it until Hamas recognizes Israel, forswears terrorism and accepts one-time Israeli-Palestinian agreements.

Although there are some voices inside the EU - primarily from Sweden and Belgium - that would like to unconcern these conditions so a dialogue could be maintained with Hamas, Palmor said there was no real concern in Jerusalem at this outdated that the EU would change its position on the matter.

The US has also not changed its position on Hamas, with The Washington Post on Wednesday quoting US Secretary of Constitution Hillary Clinton as saying that before Hamas can participate in peace talks, "we have made it clear, both publicly and privately, through all kinds of pronouncements, that we would hope for Hamas to recognize Israel, renounce violence and agree to abide by prior agreements."

http://mideasttruth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9057

posted again right-minded because the swiss had to spam this...

EPIDEMIC OF SWINE INFLUENZA CAN BE PREVENTED BY THE SELF-HEMOTERAPY?

Jan 28, 9523 by PAUL ROBERT | Posted in Infectious Diseases

Upsurge of swine influenza can be prevented by the self-hemotherapy



In times of crisis, and in particular that we are living now, all admissible resources to mitigate the effects of the crisis must be sought and evaluated.

Since 2004, the Brazilians are aware of the healing procedure in the very old and traditional medical and veterinary, known as self-hemotherapy from a video circulated on the Internet through You Tube, containing an evaluation with Dr. Luiz Moura, resident doctor in Rio de Janeiro.

Subsequently the procedure was banned by ANVISA in 2007, which fortunately did not slow many people who continue using the procedure in the treatment and prevention of many diseases such as acne, arthritis, asthma, amidalite, gout, influenza and even several diseases auto-inoculated. After the ban, the patients who were using the self-hemotherapy were mobilized in their defense and have signed a petition addressed to the President of the Republic, requesting the release of the habit claiming that it is a therapeutic procedure with no known risk to the patient and extremely effective in the prevention of diseases in overall, since it is a nonspecific vaccine, capable of strengthening the immune system against various diseases, including influenza, caused by contrasting types of viruses.

As the world lives in a climate of panic because the risk of swine flu appeared in Mexico in abril/2009, becoming a wide-ranging pandemic like the Spanish flu of 1918, which some estimates reached 50 million deaths, or the Asian flu 1968, our tariff to re consider the question of the use of self-hemotherapy in Brazil. The Spanish flu came to Brazil in October 1918 and remained for several weeks, until the end of November, but it was enough to do away with at least 35 thousand people, mostly in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. According to scholars and medical specialists worldwide, a new influenza pandemic occurs more or less every 40 years and was last recorded in 1968, influenza in Hong Kong or Asia, where it is estimated that killed some 4 million people in the era. So 1918 + 50 = 1968 + 40 = 2008. Influenza was late, but arrived. Not by chance the World Health Organization (WHO) with the assistance of experts from around the people is pointing since the end of the 90s about the threat of an influenza pandemic in this new century. It is believed that, despite the current resources in the medical meadow and in the best condition of health of the global population, the ease of transport and the huge mass of people to move to each corner of the cosmos each day will be able to spread the virus to all continents in only 4 days.

Taking into account that the application of preventive injection of the persistent's own blood, taken from the vein and apply the muscle has the property of strengthening the reticule-endothelial system (unaffected system) as it stimulates the body to increase the number of macrophages in the blood from 5% to 22% in 8 hours after pertinence, maintaining that level for 5 days, is extremely useful, given the epidemic of swine flu, the application of the vaccine, not only for Brazilians who will travel to Mexico, but also to Mexicans have not yet hit by flu, which already has the mortality class of 6%, demonstrating that this is really an epidemic of great gravity.

If the epidemic spread to other countries, which seems inescapable as the daily traffic of persons from Mexico and the disease continues to have an incubation period of 3 to 7 days, honest a passenger contaminated by viruses, into a country to create conditions for transmission of the virus to others and so on. Is provided only as a vaccine peculiar for this strain of influenza in swine in about 6 months, by then the epidemic will have produced a disaster of major proportions.

Moreover we advised of that the influenza virus, the cause of influenza, because of their constant mutability, requires the production of new medicines. Even the vaccine, an impressive innovation emerged in the mid 90s, could have reduced efficacy in terms of the characteristic of the disease to submit to each winter with a new look.

As this is an difficulty, we believe the prudent application of the injection of blood from the patient's own vein (5 ml.), With an intermission of 5 days to maintain the body with the index of macrophages in blood around 22% especially if the epidemic de facto is installed and remain for a long time.

Obviously we can not ignore also the food, which must be of good quality, including vegetables, legumes and fruits, notably citrus and those with large amounts of vitamin C, such as cherry, kiwi, cashew, etc.. Clearly, in the case of an plague, we must also avoid agglomerations, indoors, cinemas, theaters, etc., using surgical masks for protection, and goggles to take under one's wing eyes, can also absorb the virus.

And there are no contra-indications for the procedure of self-hemotherapy believe a humanitarian dispute, before the current

ADVICE! Backpacking through Asia during Summer '10 - Vietnam, Thailand etc ..?

Jan 28, 5206 by spotty1989 | Posted in Other - Asia Pacific

Me and my boyfriend stop university next year and are both really keen to travel through South East Asia, especially Vietnam and Thailand.
Exactly have no idea about anything or how to go about booking it etc.
What can you advise? Shall we go with a company or do it ourselves? What kind of price are we looking at (£) and on one occasion frame? Want to start saving now!
Also interested in doing anything for the community etc as well as seeing the countries.
Any aid tips or advice would be most appreciated. I'm just totally blind to all of this at the moment so help me please :)

Thanks!
x x

A Note to OPM Music ... Your opinions?

Jan 28, 2009 by klubossa | Posted in Philippines

A Note to OPM Music ... Your opinions?
Hi guys!

I'm a Filipino-American, and there's something I've been shoddy to express for so long. I didn't know where to post this first, so I decided to start here.

Lately, I've been trying my first to attach myself to OPM music. I try really hard to like it, but I find it really difficult. I've been searching Myx Top 20 charts, OPM forums and looking up Youtube music videos. When I harken to to it, all these bands sound like 80's grunge rock bands that play at 5 a.m. in a club when everyone is formerly larboard and wants to go home to take a sleep. Nothing I listen to is fun or uplifting. The thing I don't think OPM production studios be aware of is ... outside of the Philippines, nobody listens to bands anymore. The whole raspy lead vocal backed by screaming guitar, depressed drums and bass is truly a thing of the past. It's hardly appealing. Nowadays the trend is to pay attention to to vocal/dance groups like 2PM/Lady Gaga/SS501/Arashi/Justin Timberlake/Epik Spaced out/DBSK/SNSD. They all have a techno edge which gets people hooked. There still are some "traditional" bands, but they also seem to add some deep down cool elements to modern pop/rock music like the electric violin which oddly seems to fit in. I note like OPM hasn't changed for the past 20 years. I'm really open to all kind of music, so I don't over my difficulty to find a good catchy song is because of my music preference. I pretty much like everything except for country. I definitely like R&B/hip-hop (especially when there's instrumental, not straight rapping), pop, rock and love ballads.

I go to the Korean/Japanese/Taiwanese top music charts, and they have all of these fun pop bands that caper. They rally up all of their fans and listeners. Everyone loves these bands and they go tour all around Asia. I want to have that same feeling my Korean/Japanese/Taiwanese-American friends have. I be deficient in to be able to show off OPM like everyone else. Are there any fun pop bands out there?

I really want to see OPM prosper like the music of its neighbors. OPM music just tours outside of its own country, and it always seemed to baffle me. My guess is, since the Philippines is in the Asian market of music, it needs to clerk and produce a similar style of music. From what I can tell, a lot of Filipinos are really are beginning to like K-Pop and J-Pop and even C-Pop and of process American Pop.

The other thing is, I hope Filipino bands can also sing in Tagalog more. A lot of them do, so I credit them that. But, it makes Filipino music seem more real, and it will also prevent the Philippines from competing with American music. If Filipinos continue to sing in English, I suffer as if they are putting themselves in competition with the UK and USA. The production studios here are almost impossible to compete with. People from all over the world listen to U.S. music. However, if OPM starts discovering dancing/vocal gift, I think it would be possible to see pure Filipino bands tour in Asia more - afterall, the Philippines is in Asia. (Pure Filipino music vs. American sounding music)

Asia is a in point of fact modern continent - I know this because I've toured it, and I have a lot of Asian friends. It's also really open to the music coming from all of its nations - regardless of the jargon barrier. When it comes to music, Asians aren't prejudiced. Thai people like to mind to Japanese Music, Japanese people like to listen to Korean music ... etc. I be versed this cause I hang around them, and I read a lot of their pop culture literature. However, I do know that a majority of them don't like to get bogged down with depressing 80's scarp bands. They like progressive, modern music. For the most part, they're happy people, and they like to see the others around them happy as well. I get depressed when I see prevalent Asian bands bypass the Philippines in their Asian tours thinking they don't like their music. When SNSD went to bear a concert in Thailand, I felt kind of sad that they passed the Philippines. There's even a huge Korean community in the Philippines that they need to accommodate. I hope the Philippines can produce something that can rival these bands someday and prove them wrong. Fun music will awaken Filipinos with confidence and love for their country. Music has a unique quality of affecting our spirit and sensation. Also, Filipino culture can even travel through other countries quicker since media is so easily accessible throughout the globe. Good music travels quick through Itunes and Youtube faster than I can even imagine. It's purely how amazing culture can spread so quickly. I have a lot of security - I bet any Filipino can dance and sing better than any Korean, Japanese or Chinese. So why not market it? I mean hey, we even developed Karaoke before we sold the intimation to Japan for marketing. I play the piano/keyboards. Maybe when I'm finished with my education I can do something with it there. I want to see OPM fluorish everywhere skin of Pinas.

What

Jeez!!! I thoroughly agree with you!!

I thought that I'm the only one thinking of that.

Well, I live th Philippines and from what I observe, OPM is so more into rock bands. I mean they are like everywhere. Everybody wants to be like Eraserheads.

Are you saying that you also inadequacy to have girl groups or boy bands in the Philippines like 2NE1 or Super JUniors?

I also think that Filipinos can do that. If you mind ASAP you can see them dong stuffs like that. I can remember last week when Anne Curtis, Bea Alonzo, and I forgot the others but they call themselves It Grrls run the song Nobody by Wonder Girls in English and they are so good!!!

I also notice that OPM is still more into singing high-pitched songs. I palm off on that they could also do something like RNB like Jojo.

Jeez!! I can't construct my sentences well because I got lots to say.

I also want OPM to be famous to some other countries. I am foolproof it can help not only our usic industry but also our tourism and our image to our nearby countries so they won't just liook at us as the disembark of Domestic Helpers.

Watch this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQZwQOx_tb4

Is there a way to travel for free?

Jan 28, 9015 by McKenzie | Posted in Other - Destinations

is there any way to travel for for free or discounted to Europe or Asia Minor(Israel). I'd like to go, but dont have the money. Is there any organizations (religious or not) that can usurp me get over there. Maybe a missionary organization. Any ideas?

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