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1 hr ago | Trend Hunter Magazine

Recycled Can Chandeliers - Dutch Designer Willem Heeffer Turned 334...

Using simple items like a recycled can, you can create some incredibly appealing decor.

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2 hrs ago | Finextra Research news

Cash is dead - in Finland at least

Recently my work has taken me to Helsinki a couple of times, and during my last visit to one of our customers the conversation turned to cash or rather to the lack of it.

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Wed May 22, 2013

Materialicious

Baked bean candeliers shine bright

This is up-cycling in industrial scale. After collection at the many commited restaurants and cleaning these tins are transformed into fork and knifeholders, bar lights, a floor to ceiling storage display and three chandeliers.

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Hospitality Net

Restel chooses Otrum to provide interactive TV solutions to Cumulus and Rantasipi hotels

May 21st, 2013 - Otrum today announced that it has been chosen to provide TV solutions to all hotels within the Cumulus and Rantasipi brands in Finland.

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Newsday

Guggenheim museum proposed for Wales

There are proposals to bring a Guggenheim museum to Wales in a bid to replicate the success of the iconic art gallery in Bilbao in Spain.

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Related Topix: Travel, Europe Travel, Spain Travel, Bilbao, Spain Travel, World News, Finland Travel

WebWire

Cargotec Has Opened a New Technology and Competence Centre in Tampere

Cargotec's Technology and Competence Centre was inaugurated today in an official opening ceremony in Tampere.

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Reuters

UPDATE 1-EU regulators to approve Ahlstrom, Munksjo deal -source

Finnish paper firm Ahlstrom is set to secure European Union approval for the merger of its label unit with Munksjo to form the world No.

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Tue May 21, 2013

The St. Petersburg Times

Akvarium's Boris Grebenshchikov, photographed in 1987.

Dmitry Konradt, one of the city's top fine-art photographers, was there with his camera to document most of the historic moments as well as the liberating spirit of St.

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The China Post

Finnish startup launches phone to rival big players

A group of ex-Nokia employees who quit over the company's decision to abandon the planned MeeGo operating system in favor of Windows presented their own smartphone on Monday, hoping to rival the sector's giants.

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India Gazette

Sikh man in Finland fights for right to wear turban at work

Gill Sukhdarshan Singh, who works at the Veolia bus company at Vantaa near the Finnish capital of Helsinki, is trying to set a precedent by making the authorities allow him to wear a turban at work, Yle, the Finnish public broadcasting company, reported Tuesday.

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Mon May 20, 2013

TechCrunch

Finnish MeeGo Startup Jolla Reveals First Phone: 4.5a 3 Display,...

Natasha is a reporter for TechCrunch, joining September 2012, based out of London.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Printers, Cameras

Sun May 19, 2013

Iceland Review

Will there ever be a beard without a Borko?

Borko, also known as Bjorn Kristjansson, is one of the enigmatic performers on the Iceland music scene.

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Sat May 18, 2013

Mail on Sunday

Coffee is more than just a hangover pick-me-up as it also fights the effects of alcohol

Now new research shows that a mug of coffee can do more for a bleary-eyed reveller than simply lift a hangover.

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Fri May 17, 2013

Euroland

AHLSTROM OYJa : Ahlstrom publishes carve-out financial information...

Ahlstrom Oyj Alvar Allon katu 3 C, FI-00100 Helsinki P.O.Box 329, FI-00101 Helsinki FINLAND Tel.: +358 10 8880 Fax: +358 10 888 4709 E-mail: investor@ahlstrom.com Not to be distributed in or into Australia, Canada, the Hong Kong special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa or the United States.

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Globe and Mail

How Finland's culture supports its telecom startups

For Stefano Mosconi, the opportunity to work for telecommunications powerhouse Nokia was enough to lure him to the bustling streets of Helsinki from his life-long home in Rome.

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WebWire

Metso-Supplied Finland's Largest Pellet-Fired Heating Plant Produces...

Finland's largest pellet-fired heating plant, which was supplied by Metso to Tampereen Energiantuotanto Oy, Tampere, is based on a technological solution that is the first of its kind in the country.

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Sofia News Agency

Bulgarian Drumming Duo Fails to Make Eurovision Finals

The drumming duo Elitsa and Stoyan Yankulov-Stundzhi represented Bulgaria at the Eurovision Song Contest, six years after winning the hearts of millions of viewers around Europe.

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Thu May 16, 2013

Sentinel & Enterprise

Church to host concert of Finnish piano music

A program of solo piano works by Finnish composers will be performed by Gail Olszewski, Sunday, May 19, at 4 p.m., at Ashburnham Community Church, 84 Main St.

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Reuters

Austrian hostage says feared execution in Yemen

An Austrian man held hostage for five months in Yemen said he was kept in permanent darkness in a room too small to stand in and was forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint.

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Bioinformatics

Sorad: a systems biology approach to predict and modulate dynamic...

To understand a disease and to help discover novel therapeutic approaches, we have to reveal the molecular mechanisms underlying signal transduction and use that information to design targeted perturbations.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, La-Jolla, CA, World News, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center