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[Wiki loves monuments 2011 European Website] Make European Cultural Heritage Accessible to the World « Wiki ...: Wikimedians from 16 European countries announced the first-ever Pan-European Wiki Loves Monuments contest, a photography contest, running throughout the month of September, focused on capturing and sharing images of important monuments and buildings in Europe. Since its September 1st launch, more than 1000 images have been uploaded from a few of the most active countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain.

[ISN Blog] ISN Blog » The End of European Exceptionalism?: The Euro had just entered circulation, membership of the EU was about to reach for the first time behind the old iron curtain, and people were getting used to the prospect of Europe as a second superpower alongside the United States. Perhaps Kagan’s article was so influential because it suggested what few at the time believed: that what Europe had achieved in preceding decades would not easily or inevitably be repeated elsewhere in the decades to come, that European advances were themselves contingent and fragile.  That power was not obsolete.

[Wiki loves monuments 2011 European Website] Wiki Loves Monuments takes off: After several months of preparation, Wiki Loves Monuments took off this night, and already we passed the 500 submissions! 16 countries are currently participating, all from Portugal to Estonia.

[Pulp and Paper News / Paper Industry News] CEPI : Start of Consultation for Product Footprint Rules for Paper ...: The Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) is a Brussels-based non-profit making organisation regrouping the European pulp and paper industry and championing this industry’s achievements and the benefits of its products. Its mission is to promote the members’ business sector by taking specific actions notably, by monitoring and analysing activities and initiatives in the areas of industry, environment, energy, forestry, recycling, fiscal policies and competitiveness in general.

[Recent Business News] Link by Link: On Wikipedia, 9/11 Dissent Is Kept on the Fringe: Reuters Citing fears the deal will hurt consumers, the Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit on Wednesday to block AT&T’s ( T ) $39 billion planned takeover of T-Mobile USA, setting the stage for a prolonged legal battle that will captivate the wireless industry. The DOJ’s opposition doesn’t kill the controversial marriage of the No.

[Wiki loves monuments 2011 European Website] Introduction « Wiki loves monuments 2011 European Website: Cultural heritage is all around us, and this contest gives you the opportunity to discover the heritage nearby you! In every participating country you can win nice awards, and the best 10 photos in each continues to a European jury –

[Quite Normal] Euro poll: Majority of Europeans favor establishment of yet another ...: Despite widespread support on the European street, none of the three countries have officially announced their intentions for the Palestinian UN bid on September 20, and policy differences with regards to the Palestinian state surfaced among EU nations when a number of European foreign ministers met in Poland earlier this month.

[360 Cities – Europe] Pag Croatia Europe: The word Europe comes from the Greek goddess Europa, who was kidnapped by Zeus and plunked down on the island of Crete. Europa gradually changed from referring to mainland Greece until it extended finally to include Norway and Russia.

[DBpedia] DBpedia » Blog Archive » DBpedia 3.7 released, including 15 ...: However, since there are many pages in the non-English Wikipedia editions that do not have an equivalent English page (especially small towns in different countries, e.g. the Austrian village Endach, or legal and administrative terms that are just relevant for a single country) relying on English URIs only had the negative effect that DBpedia did not contain data for these entities and many DBpedia users have complained about this shortcoming.

[Clove Cigarettes News Blog and Online Shop] Universal Corporation Reports EU ... - Clove Cigarettes News Blog: Universal Corporation (NYSE: UVV) (the “Company”) announced that earlier today the General Court of the European Union (the “Court”) issued a decision rejecting the appeal of Deltafina, S.p.A, its Italian subsidiary. That appeal related to the European Commission’s revocation of Deltafina’s immunity from a penalty of EUR 30 million (about million on September 9, 2011) assessed against Deltafina and the Company jointly for actions in connection with Deltafina’s purchase and processing of tobacco in the Italian raw tobacco market between 1995 and 2002.

[SoNet Blog] Link Spamming Wikipedia for Profit: However, the diligence ofWikipedia’s community mitigates this strategy, as the linksreceive few exposures (i.e., views) before they are reverted.While the Wikipedia community is capable of detectingeven subtle spam behaviors, it has a weakness - the inher-ent human latency with which it mitigates spam links. Inthis paper, we described a novel spam model that exploitsthis latency by using aggressive techniques to maximize re-source utility in these brief windows of opportunity.

[The Irish Economy] The Irish Economy » Blog Archive » Ireland's Fiscal Strategy: In one direction, the sizeable reduction in the interest rate on European official funds that was agreed in July 2011 means that debt servicing costs in 2012 will be significantly reduced. On the face of it, this should mean that a €3.6 billion fiscal consolidation package should result in an overall deficit that is significantly lower than the 8.6 percent ceiling - for instance, the ESRI scenario analysis that was published during the week projects an overall deficit of 7.8 percent of GDP for 2012.

[Creative Commons » Commons News] Dossier on EU sound recording copyright extension - Creative ...: For example, as the Joint Academic Statement points out, the so called use-it-or-lose-it provision is a regular part of the German copyright code since decades ago and was introduced without any connection to a retrospective term extension.

[Stuart Dunn's Blog] Semantic MediaWiki: a tool for ... - Stuart Dunn's Blog - WordPress: This seminar will give an overview of Semantic MediaWiki, with a special focus on the Judaica Europeana Haskala database of the Jewish Enlightenment literature, which is currently being converted into an SMW system. While the focus of the lecture will be on Semantic MediaWiki, the lecture will be of relevant to broad aspects of e-Research. The British Library is a partner in the Judaica Europeana project to assist with technical advice and dissemination.

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