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Soundings - Wed Dec 9, 7:02 pm ET
Emitting only water vapor and gliding silently through Amsterdam's centuries-old canals, a canal boat - a popular tourist attraction - powered by fuel cells made its debut cruise Wednesday.
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Business Travel News - Thu Dec 10, 8:29 am ET
DECEMBER 09, 2009 -- Finnair is considering expanding the introduction of a surcharge on credit card payments for reservations made through travel agents in the first half of next year, it told EuroBTN on Dec. 9. Last month, the Finnish flag carrier introduced a surcharge of €7.50 in the Netherlands, following a similar initiative from KLM in August.
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Renewable Energy World - Thu Dec 10, 9:34 am ET
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to provide €300 million for the construction of the BritNed Interconnector, a new electricity transmission cable between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The BritNed cable is a 50:50 joint venture, between National Grid and TenneT, who operate the grids. It will have a capacity of 1,000 MW and will boost competition by improving connections ...
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Cruise Addicts - Wed Dec 9, 11:59 am ET
Note that you can control this panorama video with your cursor. Simply click on the image, and you can make the video pan to either left or right, quickly or slowly. Rob Matthew is Nieuw Amsterdam’s 3rd engineer.
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Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance - Thu Dec 10, 8:55 am ET
VENLO, THE NETHERLANDS--(Marketwire - 12/10/09) - Vistaprint N.V. (NASDAQ: VPRT - News ), the company that provides high-impact personalized products and services for small businesses and the home, recently conducted a comprehensive survey that unearthed interesting trends in small business marketing. According to the survey results, small businesses are likely to increase their use of online ...
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Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance - Thu Dec 10, 8:28 am ET
MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - 12/10/09) - (TSX: CAE - News )(NYSE: CAE - News ) - CAE today announced a series of military contracts with the Netherlands, Germany, and other global defence forces. The contracts, valued at more than C$100 million, include a major contract with the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) to expand CH-47 Chinook helicopter training at CAE's Medium Support Helicopter ...
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Marketwire - Thu Dec 10, 2:57 am ET
BREDA, THE NETHERLANDS--(Marketwire - December 10, 2009) - Reference is made to the announcements by Dockwise Ltd. on 30 November and 7 December 2009 regarding the 20:1 share consolidation (or reverse stock split) in Dockwise Ltd. that became effective on 2 December 2009. Dockwise Ltd. expects to pay the compensation for rounding down of fractional shares to the closest whole number of common ...
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FOX 61 Hartford - Fri Dec 4, 2:58 pm ET
A local man who police say downloaded child porn from a web site in the Netherlands has been arrested.
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Fast Company Magazine - Wed Dec 9, 10:39 am ET
Whether a binding climate change agreement will be reached at this week's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is still up in the air, but at least some progress has been made in the realm of renewable energy. Nine European countries--Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Ireland--signed the "North Seas' Countries Offshore Grid Initiative," a plan to ...
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PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Dec 9, 4:01 am ET
In the context of a legal dispute in which RPG, a company owning more than 44 thousand apartments in the Czech Republic, defends its fundamental rights against an assault by the Czech Parliament, RPG announces the appointment of law firm, Amsterdam & Peroff.
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Rolling Good Times - Wed Dec 9, 2:11 pm ET
THE NETHERLANDS -- Dutch political parties are calling for the privatization of state-owned Holland Casino, according to a report in NRC Handelsblad. The government has responded that there are no plans to privatize Holland Casino at the moment.
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GenomeWeb News - Wed Dec 9, 12:46 pm ET
In Genome Research this week, scientists led by the Netherlands Cancer Institute's Bas van Steensel and University of California, San Diego's Trey Ideker have created a network model of interacting chromatin proteins in the fruit fly genome . Basing their Bayesian model on genome-wide binding maps, they targeted a set of 43 chromatin components in Drosophila and found "many novel functional ...
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New York Times - Tue Dec 8, 8:35 am ET
The Netherlands Opera has come up with a spirited and inventive new production of Puccini's
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Dec 9, 4:17 pm ET
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands----REPEATING...
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Cruise Addicts - Tue Dec 8, 1:44 pm ET
Below are photos of Nieuw Amsterdam’s Azipod slip-rings taken today. Ed van Weijen is Nieuw Amsterdam’s electrical project manager at the yard. Read Full Article..