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A helicopter of unknown make and model* was parked at a gas station by the side of the road.

• It’s a Russian Mi-2 model, of Mil bureau, NATO code name ‘Hoplite’, was developed in the early 1960’s (Igor Polyakov).

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Remembering the dead on a wet November night

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PRESS RELEASE

Final Decision: NIFCA Is Shut Down Together with nine other culture committees and institutions within the Nordic Cultural Collaboration

The Nordic culture ministers decided 26 October 2005 during the meeting of the Nordic culture ministers in Reykjavik to shut down 10 of 21 committees and institutions within the Nordic Cultural Collaboration at the end of the financial year 2006. These include the following: The Nordic Steering Committee for Children’s and Youth Culture (BUK), Nordic Steering Committee on Culture and Mass Media (KM), Steering Committee for Nordic Cultural Projects Abroad, Nordic Artists’ Centre in Dale (NKD), Nordic Centre for the Performing Arts (NordScen), Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA), Nordic Literature and Library Committee (NordBok), Nordic Museum Committee, The Nordic Music Committee (Nomus), and Nordisk Journalistcenter (NJC). For more information about the decisions taken in Reykjavik, please, see the web site of the Danish Ministry of Culture: www.kum.dk

The new structure for the Nordic Cultural Collaboration will be made up of time-limited programs initiated by the culture ministers. Three overall programs are already decided upon: A mobility and residence program starting in 2006 that includes the recidence and mobility programs already developed by NIFCA, NordScen, and Sleipnir. A thematically oriented program geared toward developing Nordic computer games for children that starts in 2006, as well as a cross-sector art program planned to start in 2007.

NIFCA and other culture institutions and committees now begin extensive work, together with the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Culture Secretariat, in finding ways that the new structure can include the important functions handled by the committees and institutions during the past twenty years and more.

On behalf on NIFCA we want to warmly thank you for the strong support we have experienced during the past months from a wide spectrum of players in the field, institutions and seats of learning in the Nordic region, as well as internationally.

For more information about the process concerning the restructuring of the Nordic Cultural Collaboration, please visit our website: www.nifca.org

Board of NIFCA, 24 November 2005

For more information, please contact: Åsa Sonjasdotter Chair of NIFCA´s board +45 29 80 92 21 / aasa@post7.tele.dk

PRESS RELEASE: London, November 2005

Interior Design: Ambient Lounge has opened up bean bags to a wider, more sophisticated audience

The new online retailer www.ambientlounge.co.uk has revolutionised the bean bag market in the UK and Europe by introducing new shapes that are not only quantum improvements in comfort and function, but reflective of the modern style, colours and tastes of home wares today. Rather than being an embarrassing luxury shoved into the cupboard when guests come around, Ambient Lounge bean bags are now a centerpiece of style & quality in many people’s living rooms. With the outstanding new designer range developed by their interior design team, this is set to accelerate exponentially into 2006 and beyond, both in the UK and ‘style driven’ European markets such as France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden.

Importantly, these items have been developed around affordable price points not too far removed from those ‘old school’ bean bags of yesteryear. To put it simply; bean bags have been around in their traditional ‘teardrop’ form since the late 60’s, with little innovation and imagination. Even though they have been widely recognized as the most comfortable & cost effective form of furniture – many people did not wish to purchase beanbags because of the ugly aesthetics or poor quality of the products offered at retail. Ambient Lounge bean bags are now the sophisticated alternative for youth and adults alike - and look the part anywhere from a student dorm to a living room in a high-flying inner city Penthouse. They compliment and personify the new era of Apartment living.

Ambient Lounge bean bags have opened the market to a vastly wider audience previously starved of anything ‘cool’ or stylish. They truly represent Urban Lounge Wear and a new level of affordable, comfortable, flexible furniture.

You can check out this season’s designer bean bag range here: http://www.ambientlounge.co.uk

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The Hurriganes are/were a local band who now have a beer named for them and the packaging is illustrated by Mauri Kunnas.

I presume they won’t be marketing the beer in the US given the NY skyline. I can just imagine the lawsuits.

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"Is this a dagger I see before me?" Finn-Brit Players, www.finnbritplayers.com/ , perform Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters.

Art - The Baltic Times- NEWS FROM ESTONIA,LATVIA AND LITHUANIA

RIGA - “There are millions of chairs in the world, so you have to create a special one to be noticed.â€? So says Indra Krizus, director of Baltic Furniture Design Factory, a Latvian furniture maker, and this is indeed the challenge now facing the Baltic industry. Furniture is both one of the oldest and one of the most competitive industries in the world. In the words of Enn Veskimagi, president of Standard Furniture, “Our main competition is from everywhere: the whole of Central and Eastern Europe, the West, Scandinavia, China…â€? And with China rapidly becoming the producer of choice in the world’s labor-intensive industries, tiny operators such as those in the Baltics are in danger of extinction.

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pe3 blog » Blog Archive » English language blogs in Finland

pe3 wrote this short but adorable article where he pointed to some English language blogs, there are really not many of them. Our Nordic Design Blog among them too.