The last few years have seen a resurgence in the zombie genre, to the point where zombie film rarely stand on their own weight, instead acting as flavoring to other stories — be they documentaries (World War Z), romantic comedies (Zombieland) or historical dramas (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies). Regardless of how they’re used, the shambling [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Norway’
“Israel preparing for major war”
January 4th, 2011 |
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One of the U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks shows that Israel was preparing for a major war in the Middle East.
The cable was published in an article in Norway’s Aftenposten daily, the BBC in Serbian is reporting.
Seadrill buys two rigs for total $1.54b, shares up: Update 2
January 3rd, 2011 |
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Norway’s Seadrill (SDRL.OL) is to acquire two ultra-deepwater semi-submersible drilling rigs, expecting to reap benefits from an improving drilling market this year and sending its shares higher.
Seadrill, one of the world’s largest deep-water drillers, said on Monday the total project price for the two rigs is estimated to be about US$1.2 billion ($1.54) and said it had secured new bank debt to finance the investment.
Seadrill buys two rigs, shares rise: Update
January 3rd, 2011 |
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Norway’s Seadrill (SDRL.OL) said on Monday it would acquire two ultra-deepwater semi-submersible drilling rigs, sending its shares higher.
Shares in Seadrill rose 1.9% to 201 crowns in the opening trade, outperforming a 0.8% rise in the Oslo stock exchange benchmark index.
Visa-free travel for Bosnia, Albania
December 15th, 2010 |
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As of Wednesday, the residents of Bosnia-Herzegovina who possess biometric passports will be able to travel visa-free to the EU member states. This also applies to trips to Switzerland, Iceland, and Norway.
James Franco, Anne Hathaway to host 2011 Oscars
November 30th, 2010 |
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James Franco and Anne Hathaway will be co-hosting the 83rd Academy Awards, according to the organisers. As per producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer, the “fresh, exciting and multi-talented” pair “personify the next generation of Hollywood icons”, reports the BBC. Hathaway was nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for ‘Rachel Getting Married’, while Franco is [...]
Singapore’s Keppel wins $236m jackup rig contract
November 25th, 2010 |
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Singapore’s Keppel Corp (KPLM.SI), the world’s largest rigbuilder, has won a US$180 million ($236 million) contract to build a jackup rig for Standard Drilling, it said in a statement today. The contract value may rise to US$550 million if Standard Drilling, which is part of Norway’s Ferncliff group, exercises options asking Keppel to build another two jackup rigs.
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Eating a variety of fruit cuts lung cancer risk by up to 23pc
November 20th, 2010 |
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Consuming a variety of fruit may reduce the risk of lung cancer by up to 23 percent, according to a new study. Eating five portions of fruit and vegetables per day is one of the means that experts most frequently recommend for preventing cancer. Now, the European EPIC study carried out by researchers from 10 [...]
STX OSV to Double Brazil Output on Petrobras Spending: Update 2
November 15th, 2010 |
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STX OSV Holdings, the biggest maker of oil-rig support vessels, plans to double capacity in Brazil as Petroleo Brasileiro SA works through the world’s largest oil-exploration investment plan.
The offshore-vessel maker will begin production at a second yard in Pernambuco, northeast Brazil in 2012 and begin deliveries the following year, Chief Executive Officer Roy Reite said in a Nov. 12 interview. Alesund, Norway-based STX OSV has orders for eight ships to be built at the new facility.
Miss United States Alexandria Mills Wins Miss World Pageant
November 1st, 2010 |
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Go Team USA! Dark horse Miss United States Of America Alexandria Mills walked away with the prized tiara at the 60th annual Miss World Pageant in the Chinese city Sanya on Saturday. The 18-year-old aspiring teacher from Kentucky wore a ravishing white gown as she beat out 114 contestants from across the Globe for the [...]
Evangelical Christians: Heaven and earth
October 28th, 2010 |
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An intra-Christian gap has closed a little
FOUR decades ago, global Christian bodies were riven by rows over where their main duty lay—changing the world or saving souls. The Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC), dominated by liberal Protestants and Orthodox churches from communist lands, stressed “liberation” and social justice. That was one reason why America’s Billy Graham and other top evangelicals went to Lausanne in 1974 to set up a new body that would focus more on winning the 2.7 billion people who, by its calculation, had yet to hear the Christian message.
The so-called Lausanne movement remains ebullient. Its gathering of 4,000 evangelicals from 200 countries, which ended in Cape Town on October 25th, was billed as the biggest and broadest Christian meeting in history. But coming from a body that stresses the spiritual, parts of the meeting’s final statement were quite earthly. Humanity must “repent of our part in the destruction, waste and pollution of the Earth’s resources, and our collusion in the toxic idolatry of consumerism,” it said. Also, the WCC’s new head, Olav Fykse Tveit of Norway, was invited to Cape Town, despite his roots in liberal Nordic Lutheranism. …
Opera 11 Alpha Ships
October 21st, 2010 |
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Opera Software delivers the alpha version of the new Opera 11 browser, which supports extensions. – Opera Software has released the first alpha of Opera 11,
the next version of the company’s desktop Web browser.
At its recent quot;Up
North Web quot; event for press and analysts in Oslo,
Norway, Opera previewed
Opera 11 and announced that it will support extensions. The company on Oct. 21 re…
China cancels Norway meeting over Nobel
October 11th, 2010 |
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Chinese officials have canceled a meeting with a Norwegian minister, RFE/RL is reporting. It came after the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
Patterson Hood Talks New Drive-By Truckers Tour, Album
September 21st, 2010 |
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TOUR STARTS SEPTEMBER 17 IN MEMPHIS, TN
 Drive-By Trukers |
Patterson Hood of the Drive-
By Truckers issued this statement yesterday:
“Y’ALL:
We leave this week for next leg of DBT The Big To-Do Tour. This will be final USA leg of the tour and it’s a
good one. Our opening act for most of it are The Henry
Clay People who opened for us
earlier this year and are
Fantastic. We’ll also be playing a couple of dates with our dear friends Hill Country Revue who put on a
kickass show.
Don’t forget, there’s a little more time before the deadline to enter
the Nuci’s Space / Drive-By Truckers Halloween Rock’ N
Raffle. The Winner will get all inclusive
trip for two to see DBT in our beloved Richmond VA at The National (one of the greatest venues in America) on
Halloween Weekend. Our dear artist Wes Freed (who does all DBT artwork) lives there and we’ll be going
all out celebrating Halloween that Saturday Night. Prizes include airfare, VIP tickets for two (including Meet and
Greet w/ band), hotel accommodations and spending cash. It’s a $2000.00 valued prize and entering is only $5 plus
you’re supporting a great cause. Go to www.rocknraffle.com for more details.
We’ve been wanting to play a Halloween Show in Richmond for years and are finally getting to do it (at least on the
29th and 30th). Richmond is a beautiful and somewhat haunted town that has inspired Edgar Allen Poe, Wes Freed
and certainly us. The National is an amazing venue and Bobby Bare Jr is opening, playing songs off of his stellar new
album A Storm – A Tree – My Mother’s Head which will be on my year end list.
Tickets are selling fast for our upcoming European / UK Tour. The UK dates look like they’ll all sell out in advance
and the European sales are by far our fastest and best yet. It’s been too long and we plan on making it up and then
some.
We’re also gearing up for our year end finale in NYC for NYE. More details to be announced soon. We also recently
added a show in Philly on Jan 1 at the TLA, tickets are on sale now for both shows<www.drivebytruckers.com/tour>.
Oh Yeah, we also finished our next album this week and I can’t wait to tell Y’all all about it very soon.
See You at The Big To-Do!
Patterson Hood
Drive-By Truckers“
Fri Sep 17 Memphis TN MINGLEWOOD MUSIC HALL
Sat Sep 18 Bristol TN BRISTOL RHYTHM & ROOTS REUNION
Sun Sep 19 Raleigh NC LINCOLN THEATER – OUTDOORS
Wed Sep 22 Mobile AL SOUL KITCHEN
Thu Sep 23 Houston TX HOUSE OF BLUES HOUSTON
Fri Sep 24 Austin TX STUBBS OUTDOORS
Sat Sep 25 Dallas TX HOUSE OF BLUES DALLAS
Sun Sep 26 Kansas City MO CROSSROADS
Tue Sep 28 Madison WI MAJESTIC THEATER
Wed Sep 29 Iowa City IA ENGLERT THEATRE
Thu Sep 30 Minneapolis MN FIRST AVENUE
Fri Oct 01 Milwaukee WI PABST THEATER
Sat Oct 02 St Louis MO THE PAGEANT
Sun Oct 03 Indianapolis IN THE VOGUE
Tue Oct 05 Akron OH MUSICA
Wed Oct 06 Columbus OH NEWPORT MUSIC HALL
Thu Oct 07 Morgantown WV WVU – MOUNTAINLAIR BALLROOM
Fri Oct 08 Louisville KY BROWN THEATER
Sat Oct 09 Atlanta GA BUCKHEAD THEATER
Thu Oct 28 Boone NC LEGENDS @ ASU
Fri Oct 29 Richmond VA THE NATIONAL
Sat Oct 30 Richmond VA THE NATIONAL
Sun Oct 31 Charlotte NC THE FILLMORE CHARLOTTE
Wed Nov 10 Glasgow, Scotland ABC-GLASGOW
Fri Nov 12 Manchester UK ACADEMY 2
Sat Nov 13 Birmingham UK ACADEMY 2
Sun Nov 14 London UK SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE
Mon Nov 15 Brighton UK CONCORD 2
Wed Nov 17 Amsterdam, Holland PARADISO
Thu Nov 18 Groningen, Holland VERA
Fri Nov 19 Berlin, Germany LIDO
Sat Nov 20 Munich, Germany CLUB 59:1
Sun Nov 21 Milan, Italy SALUMERIA DELLA MUSICA
Tue Nov 23 Barcelona, Spain RAZZMATAZZ 2
Wed Nov 24 Madrid, Spain SALA HEINEKEN
Thu Nov 25 Bilbao, Spain KAFE ANTZOKI
Fri Nov 26 Toulouse, France LA DYNAMO
Sat Nov 27 Rennes, France UBU
Sun Nov 28 Antwerp, Belgium TRIX CLUB
Tue Nov 30 Odense, Denmark POSTEN
Wed Dec 01 Gothenburg, Sweden BREWHOUSE
Thu Dec 02 Malmo, Sweden KB
Fri Dec 03 Stockholm, Sweden DEBASER
Sat Dec 04 Oslo, Norway ROCKEFELLER
Fri Dec 31 New York NY TERMINAL 5
Sat Jan 01 Philadelphia PA THEATER OF LIVING ARTS
Sat Jan 22 Orlando FL HOUSE OF BLUES – Hannah’s Buddies Benefit
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Valuing education: Critical thinking
September 9th, 2010 |
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Where do graduates end up doing unskilled work? And earning most?
ACADEMIC qualifications’ value in the workplace is a big issue for students, policymakers and taxpayers, especially as the rising numbers of students in higher education make them less distinctive. In the latest annual report on education by the OECD, a rich-country think-tank, the answer is clear: the pay-off from tertiary education is still good, both for the individual and the economy. Most graduates take jobs fitting their qualifications, earn more than non-graduates, and thus tend to pay more in taxes.
The workforce is smartening up. In the OECD 35% of the 25- to 34-year-old workforce has completed tertiary education, compared with 20% of the cohort approaching retirement. Countries such as Japan and South Korea have invested so heavily in educating their young that more than half now hold post-school qualifications. Norway, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands are close behind. Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s chief of education research, reckons that these countries may well become more competitive as a result. …
Researchers Find Quantum Encryption Hack
September 1st, 2010 |
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UPDATE: A team of researchers has demonstrated a new way to crack quantum cryptography using bright light. – A team of researchers has uncovered a new way to crack the security of quantum cryptography.
The researchers hailed from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway as well as the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Germany. Their fi…
Amy Winehouse Moved To Tears By Imprisonment Of Lindsay Lohan
July 22nd, 2010 |
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Crackie To Crackie: Amy is feeling LiLo’s pain. Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse burst into tears after watching live stream of actress Lindsay Lohan being carted off to jail, London’s Daily Star dished in a scoop this week.Lohan is expected to serve approximately two weeks of a 90-day sentence for violating the terms of her [...]