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Sightseeing in Oslo - Oslo, Norway (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:09:29 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Oslo, Norway Yesterday we saw several museums around Oslo. Oslo has a museum district on a peninsula, called Bygdoy. We walked down to the waterfront from the hotel and caught a ferry to the peninsula. The ferry was a good way to see the city from the water. Once on the peninsula we could walk to all the museums. We went to the Fram Museum, the...

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Made it to Norway - Oslo, Norway (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:04:30 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Oslo, Norway I made it to Oslo, Norway. We left Lansing approximately 4:30pm on June 30th. We arrived in Oslo at about 10:00am on July 1st. We were on United from Lansing to Chicago. In Chicago, we switched to SAS. The SAS flight went from Chicago to Stockholm, Sweden. The plane was a nice Airbus A330. It had an entertainment system in the seat...

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Oslo Mission – a gripping and relevant who-dun-it (Sri Lanka Guardian)

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HAWAII, OSLO’s Erik Poppe Returns With DE USYNLIGE! (Twitch)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:47:36 GMT

That Norwegian director Erik Poppe isn’t a huge force on the international film scene is something that alternately baffles and angers me. His Hawaii, Oslo is one stellar piece of film making, as is his earlier Schpaaa . Sure, his profile isn’t helped by the fact that he makes a new film only once every four or five years but I think his biggest problem is that he doesn’t synopsize well. There’s...

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Job satisfaction (The Croydonian)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:46:00 GMT

I imagine most of us know the 'what? And leave show business' joke, so I'll spare the repetition. Anyway, next time work seems dull, pointless or downright Sisyphean, consider the lot of Oslo's Finest : " Four persons who arrived in Oslo without any identity papers were mighty surprised when police later confronted them with the remnants of their passports – found after sifting through...

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PRICE OF FUEL AROUND THE WORLD (Afrigator)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:08:11 GMT

Oslo, Norway $6.82 Hong Kong $6.25 Brussels, Belgium $6.16 London, UK $11.96 Rome, Italy $5.80 Tokyo, Japan $5.25 Sao Paulo, Brazil $4.42 New Delhi, India $3.71 Sidney, Australia $3.42 Johannesburg, South Africa $3.39 Mexico City $2.22 Buenos Aires, Argentina $2.09 THIS IS WHERE IT GETS INTERESTING ….. Riyadh , Saudi Arabia $0.91 Kuwait $0.78 Caracas , Venezuela $0.12 ]]>

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An ill wind is blowing for world's biggest salmon-farm company (CBC.ca)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT

It's been a tempestuous year for global salmon-farming powerhouse Marine Harvest Group.The Oslo-based company is the biggest player on the salmon farming scene. It has about 7,500 employees worldwide and produces one-third of the world's farmed salmon and trout in Norway, Chile, Scotland, Canada and the Shetland Islands.

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Norway Turns the Spotlight on Tax Havens (http://www.CelebrityVideoTube.com)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:31:48 GMT

Los Angeles Times OSLO, Jul 4 (IPS) - A new commission appointed by Norway will investigate ways of putting a stop to the huge flows of money into tax havens. Tax evasion and corruption are believed to cost poor countr… Read the full article here

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PGS 2008 Second Quarter Results, Webcast and Conference Call Contact Details (EuroInvestor.co.uk)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:04:42 GMT

July 4, 2008: OSLO, NORWAY, Petroleum Geo-Services ASA ("PGS" or the Company) (OSE: PGS) will as previously announced release its 2008 second quarter financial results on Friday, July 25, 2008 at ap.. - Read more

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Found refugees' passports in aircraft’s septic tank (AftenPosten)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:41:28 GMT

Four persons who arrived in Oslo without any identity papers were mighty surprised when police later confronted them with the remnants of their passports – found after sifting through the contents of their flight's toilets.

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Murdered student was stabbed 20-30 times (AftenPosten)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:05:25 GMT

A 19-year-old woman murdered in a student housing complex in Oslo was stabbed more than 20 times by her husband, who later fled the country. Police are now fairly certain it was his body that later was found floating in a harbour in northern Denmark.

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Northland Resources Inc.: Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister Visits Northland's Iron Projects (Market Wire - Manufacturing and Production: Mining and Metals)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:30:00 GMT

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) Mr. Ralph Rushton, a Director of Northland Resources Inc. (TSX: NAU)(FRANKFURT: NBS)(OSLO: NAUR), is pleased to report that Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Enterprise and Energy, Maud Olofsson, recently visited Northland's projects near Pajala in northern Sweden. On Monday June 30th, Mrs. Olofsson met again with representatives of Northland...

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Norway needs more Pinoy nurses, other skilled workers (ABS CBN)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:44:02 GMT

Norway needs more nurses and other skilled workers from the Philippines, but the language barrier appears to be the biggest stumbling block to the recruitment of more Filipino workers to Oslo.

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Norsk Hydro to make staff cuts at car parts plant (Reuters UK)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:42:25 GMT

OSLO, July 4 (Reuters) - Norwegian aluminium group Norsk Hydro said on Friday that production at its Raufoss car parts plant will be about 15 percent lower in the second half of 2008 compared with the first, and that it will make staff cuts.

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Shopping center on fire (AftenPosten)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:38:33 GMT

A major fire broke out Friday morning in the Ski Storsenter south of Oslo. The shopping center was evacuated and firefighters from the capital were being sent to help battle the blaze.

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Brynestad's soccer club ailing as well (AftenPosten)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:02:38 GMT

Businessman Atle Brynestad finally managed to sell his Smart Club retail chain on Friday, but still has problems with his Oslo soccer club Lyn. Now he says the club needs to sell players to cut costs.

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Naming the Baby (Planet Intertwingly)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:57:00 GMT

I've been working on "Oslo" for quite a while now. Like "Oslo" itself, several of the major pieces of "Oslo" have placeholder code names that will be replaced with the actual names we'll brand the product with. This makes writing titles and abstracts for PDC talks especially challenging. We can't use the internal code names, because they're not long for this world. We also can't...

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Norway Proposes No New Suburban, Drive-To Shopping Malls (Treehugger)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:53:49 GMT

Malls like this one in Oslo, accessible by tram and on foot, are still okay. In Norway wages have kept pace with fuel and food price hikes, so car trips haven't yet dropped drastically. To discourage driving, Environment Minister Eric Solheim has now proposed a bill that would forbid shopping centers of 3,000 square meters or more from being built along highways in Norway's suburban centers....

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At last, a ban on cluster bombs (monochrom)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:26:00 GMT

"War scrap is a resource like wood or bamboo" By Angela Robson More than 100 countries, gathered in Dublin, agreed on 28 May to ban cluster bombs in what campaigners called the most significant disarmament treaty for a decade. The signatories, who agreed the text for the treaty to be signed in Oslo in December, include some of Europe's biggest traditional users and stockpilers of the weapons,...

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Someday I'll Find You, Moose Light Behind You (a fool in the forest)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:04:00 GMT

Behold "Moo," the illuminated moose head. His glowing physiognomy a majestic addition to any room, Moo was designed by Trond Svengård and Ove Rogne for Oslo's Northern Lighting: The inspiration behind the Moo lamp was found in northern Norway --...

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