Making Furniture From A Tree

2010-02-23T12:47:31Z

The trees I use for furniture making come from Scandinavia.However for me travelling through the pine forests in Sweden and Finland, is not exactly breath taking. Row after row of trees, but this is sustained tree management, the forests are planted and grown and cut an felled. It is relatively a quick process, the trees, when felled are taken by truc...

US writers on winning streak in France

2010-02-25T21:12:56Z

<div><p>US novels are catching on like wildfire in France, with almost 20 percent of next season's 659 new books penned in America. </p><p>Of the 229 novels translated into French for release from September, 121 are American, including veteran Philip Roth's 2008 "Exit Ghost" that sees th...

Roskilde festival raises $373,000 for Malawi

2010-02-26T12:57:45Z

<div><p>The Roskilde rock festival in Denmark has given two million kroner (306,000 euros, 373,000 dollars) to humanitarian organisation DanChurchAid to fund climate projects in Malawi, it said Monday.</p><p>The donation is part of the festival's "Green Footsteps" climate campaign.</p><p>The money, of which 276,500 kroner wa...

Skyscraper greenhouses to sprout in crowded cities: expert

2010-02-27T01:10:27Z

<div><p>Vertical greenhouses that grow organic fruit and vegetables smack in the middle of crowded cities where land is scarce may soon be a reality, a Swedish company developing the project said Friday.</p><p>"A tomato seed is planted on the ground floor on a rotating spiral and when it arrives at the top, 30 days later, you pick the fruit," the vice president of Plantagon, Hans Hassle,...

dwp model railway

2009-04-17T12:24:31Z

Train in Vain Model train enthusiasts will revel in the news that German twin brothers have constructed the world's biggest toy railway. The model stretches out over 1,150 square metres (3,772 square feet) and features almost six miles (9.7 kilometres) of track. Frederick and Gerrit Braun, 41, have spent 500,000 hours working on the project and over $11.6 million (£8 million). The ...

Tularemia

2010-03-05T11:56:34Z

Tularemia (also known as deerfly fever or rabbit fever) is an infectious disease. Tularemia was first described by scientists in 1911. Its ability to infect whole populations was seen during outbreaks of waterborne disease in Europe and the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s

Health experts believe that tularemia is underrecognized and underreported. There are about 200 reported cases in the

European markets post huge gains at close

2010-03-01T05:29:44Z

<div><p>European stock markets posted huge gains at close of trade Monday, with London up 6.19 percent, on prospects for fresh government action against the financial crisis.</p><p>The London FTSE index of leading shares added nearly 251 points to end the day at 4,300.06, while in Paris the David Montgomery</em> has agreed to relinquish some control over his struggling European newspaper empire, <a href="http://www.mecom.co.uk/"><em class="bold">Mecom</em></a>. He is to give up his role as executive chairman to become chief executive in the face of a plunging share price, down to 1.73...

Country diary

2010-03-01T18:12:29Z

<div><p>This month our village has been invaded by a mob of fieldfares, which come here in winter from eastern Europe and Scandinavia. The exact number in the area is difficult to establish partly because of the strange mechanics of fieldfare behaviour as they harvest the berries on the hawthorn hedgerows.</p><p>The bird's personality is an int...

Betsson Plays Online Gambling for Growth

2010-03-01T18:14:30Z

<div><p> A cold winter night in Scandinavia seems the perfect time to light a roaring fire, cozy up to your computer and spend a few hours gambling. Winter or summer, online betting is a business that has proved highly successful for Stockholm's Betsson (BETSB.ST), a 45-year-old company whose recent surge earned it the No. 14 spot on this year's MTA” with MTA chairman H. Dale Hemmerdinger at the B’nai B’rith Real Estate Unit Luncheon. Cornell Club, 6 East 44th Street, Ivy Room. $60 in advance. $70 at the door. Contact Aracelis Kuilan by phone (212-8...

Stockholm capitalises on confidence

2010-03-02T03:58:13Z

<div><p>Stockholm's new image.Like any other tourist destination, the city of Stockholm is hungry to get you to come over and spend your hard-earned cash. But its latest effort to attract travellers has infuriated its Scandinavian cousins, Copenhagen and Oslo, writes <em>Gwladys Fouch&amp;eacute;</em...

Chemical released by trees can help cool planet, scientists find

2010-03-02T13:28:23Z

<div><p>Trees could be more important to the Earth's climate than previously thought, according to a new study that reveals forests help to block out the sun. </p><p>Scientists in the UK and Germany have discovered that trees release a chemical that thickens clouds above them, which reflects more sunlight and so cools the Earth. The res...

Passengers stranded as budget airline collapses

2010-02-27T19:17:47Z

<div><p>Hundreds of passengers were stranded at a major holiday airport today after flights were cancelled following the financial collapse of Denmark-based budget carrier Sterling Airlines.</p><p>Two flights to Billund in Denmark - home to the original Legoland...

$10bn for Goldman Sachs! Now I want to man the barricades

2010-02-28T01:08:37Z

<div><p>It's been gut wrenching watching politicians dole out hundreds of billions of taxpayers' pounds into institutions who greedily parcelled up sub-prime mortgages and credit default swaps (CDS); selling them on and on while taking management fees at every turn.But somehow the one incident that makes me want to man the barricades more than any other is the $10bn injection of US government money into&amp...

Instant Weekend ... Malmö

2010-02-28T03:14:55Z

<div><p>Why go now?</p><p>Malm&amp;ouml; is the epicentre of Sweden's design-minded, forward-thinking Sk&amp;aring;ne region and one of the backdrops to Wallander, a new BBC crime drama starring Kenneth Branagh. Linked by the ...

Game Group beats high street gloom

2010-02-28T07:21:53Z

<div><p>Game Group bucked the gloomy trend on the high street yesterday as it upgraded sales forecasts and reported strong consumer demand for computer games.</p><p>The retailer said games such as Tomb Raider, Grand Theft Auto and Wii Fit were remaining popular despite the economic downturn as an "affordable alternative" to other leisure activities. United Arab Emirates, we lost him along the Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia, where inclusiveness and egalitarianism are G...

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