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The Finnish Meteorological Institute has relaunched the development of its LUOVA early-warning system for natural disasters.

The paper identifies obstacles to knowledge transfer in project-based organizations and emphasizes the importance of organizational and project cultures in this process.

Frasca International, Urbana, IL is proud to announce that the Finnish Aviation Acedemy , has received JAR-STD2H FTD 3 MCC qualification for their Frasca built EC-135 helicopter Flight Training Device.

Back home in Finland our planet's global warming has taken strange forms. This last winter snow didn't really arrive until March which is when it should normally start melting.

Jutta Urpilainen, the new leader of Finland's opposition Social Democratic party, did not get off lightly in her first test of strength against other party leaders in Pori on Wednesday, with Matti Vanhanen ...

Dockwise Ltd. announces that the Perdido Truss Spar was safely delivered by the semi-submersible vessel Mighty Servant 1 on Friday 27 June 2008.

Gordon Brown has committed Britain to a nuclear future, but can a new generation of reactors shed their murky, costly image in time to solve the looming energy crisis? The Guardian , Saturday June 28, 2008 ...

Oil prices took their largest single-day leap ever Friday, and energy ministers from the world's top industrialized nations pledged Sunday to work to fight soaring energy costs.

As the clock ticks down, new groups of entrepreneurs have appeared with a view to rescuing Finnjet , a cruise ferry which was built in Helsinki in 1977 by WA rtsilA , from being scrapped and broken up in India.

Connecticut's state tax on diesel fuel will rise 7.7 cents per gallon as of July 1. The Hartford Courant reports that the state tax department is required by law to calculate the tax based on the average ...

The hull of one of the world's deepest oil production facilities last week embarked on an 8,200-mile journey from the shipyard in Pori, Finland, to Ingleside, Texas.

The construction of the hull of one of the world's deepest oil production facilities is now complete and today it started to make its 8,200 mile journey from the shipyard in Pori, Finland , to Texas, USA .

Rockwood Holdings, Inc. and Kemira Oyj today announced they have agreed to form a joint venture that will be one of the world ' s leading producers of specialty TiO 2 pigments.

“You do the album, and then you go do shows. When we slack down, we can do things separately, and then we get back together and keep trying to put out an album every year.”

Burning Up The Road With Sharon Jones Wednesday, May 7, 2008 4:22AM Red-hot soulsters Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings have added a slew of new dates to the trek in support of 100 Days, 100 Nights that has kept ... via Pollstar News

MALICE IN WONDERLAND: STAGE DOLLS Cover Posted Online - May 5, 2008 Norwegian dark sleaze rockers MALICE IN WONDERLAND are currently in the studio recording the follow-up album to their self-titled debut. via BlabberMouth.net

Exchange: TSX-V Symbol: BEL VANCOUVER, May 2 /CNW/ - Belvedere Resources Ltd. BEL:TSX-V is pleased to announce that it has filed its audited consolidated financial statements and management discussion and ... via Canada NewsWire

Finnish minerals processing technology provider Outotec Oyj said on Tuesday that it has agreed with Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine AG of Germany upon continuous test runs to be performed with Zangezur's ... via M2.com

“It's just fascinating because we don't get out of Minnesota that much”

' What do a lawyer, a banker, a seaport expert and a sales manager all have in common? Well, they're all from Finland and they all visited Fairmont this week. via Sentinel

“Mainer", a photographer, and the grandson of Finnish immigrants. The purpose of "Finns & Friends”

UNION : It is not unusual for descendents of emigrants to visit the homeland of their ancestors, or even the place in America that first became their home. via Village Soup

It is not an April Fool's joke: the warm sunny spring weather that started on Monday in Southern Finland is predicted to last for another couple of days, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute. via Helsingin Sanomat