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I am just editing the design of aindreas.com. The site is fully functioning as is and if you notice any changes this is why. I will be finished playing with the code at 00h30 G.M.T. 9th February 2010.

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Jon Lilygreen & The Islanders have  been chosen to sing Life looks better in Spring for Cyrpus at the 2010 Oslo Eurovision.

Sieneke has been chosen to sing for The Netherlands in Oslo at the 2010 Eurovision in Dutch the song Ik ben verliefd (Sha-la-lie).

The Netherlands won the Junior Eurovision in 2009 with the catchy song Click Clack sung in Dutch by Ralf Mackenbach.

Chanée & N’evergreen have been chosen to sing for Denmark in Oslo at the 2010 Eurovision.

Chanée & N’evergreen – In a moment like this below

Lol, got ya. Hera Björk has been chosen to sing for Iceland in Oslo at the 2010 Eurovision.

Hera Björk – Je ne sais quoi below

With just under four months to go until an expected  125 million people will tune in the 2010 Oslo Eurovision.

Accreditation (online)

Media accreditation for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo will start on Tuesday, 9th of February, at 14:00 CET. The accreditation window will close on Sunday, 25th of April, at 23:59 CET. Apply for accreditation as soon as.

Accreditation takes place online here on the above dates.

Dates

7 February – Semi-Final Allocation Draw, Oslo
8 February – Start of the ticket sales
9 February – Opening of accreditation window
22 March – Entry submission deadline of the EBU (all participants and songs known)
23 March – Draw of the Running Order, Oslo
30 March – Official Hotels reservation deadline
25 April – Closing of accrediation window
25 April – Availability Media Handbook 2010 (online)
15 May – Opening of Press Centre & Accreditation Centre, Telenor Arena
16 May – Start of open rehearsals, Telenor Arena
23 May – Welcome Reception (location in Oslo, TBD)
25 May – First Semi-Final of the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest + Winners’ Press Conferece
27 May – Second Semi-Final of the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest + Winners’ Press Conferece
29 May – Final of the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest + Winners’ Press Conferece
30 May – Closing of Press Centre (4:00 am)

ref Satorialist

Speaking of cool cloths it was pouring out of the heavens last Thursday and I was walking home. Cut to the chase – holes in the soles of my shoes. Both of them.  Out of nowhere they appeared! Gonna head to Fitzgeralds on Grafton Street tomorrow and pick up a pair I saw Friday.  Ah, lace ups, dark tan, Italian classic, hope the 20 % discount will still be there tomorrow.

With Ireland having the world’s third most globalized economy * changes to the IFSC are ever occurring. The principles of Shariah Law Finance have been introduced into the Irish Finance market.  Now in Ireland Islamic funds will be treated as other funds accruing the same operational benefits.

Basically Shariah Law Finance is back to basics banking! There is a prohibition of charging interest, and making money from money ie speculation.

Shariah Financing accounts for 500 billion to 1 trillion** U.S. dollars in the global finance market and is expected to double.***

Ireland fund management accounts for @ 30% global market ie 2 trillion, and has 9000 fund industry personnel in Ireland.

You can be a Shariah compliance bank operating funds in accordance with it’s principles, and then there are Islamic Banks.

There are nearly 300 Islamic banks and financial institutions worldwide whose assets are predicted to grow to $1 trillion** by 2013.

* Ernest & Young

** Islam Online

** *Nick Ryan report Enterprise Ireland (PDF)

NB: The above is taken from an essay I’m writing. So, if my Macro Economics lecturer comes across this it’s not plagiarism.

I’m putting the NB in as another of my lectures has told us all of the wonderful story of googling an essay he was marking and finding it word for word copied from another author which he found online. As an aside it never ceases to amaze me when I get an email from someone pointing out this and that about something I’ve wrote. [I love getting feedback ] So that’s my clarification – that and I’ll do anything but finish the damn essays! lol.

I’ve said before I’d stick up the essays – I will once they are marked and back with me. Warning they will not be thrilling reads unless you like the subjects of social policy, economics, the E.U, oh and the pièce de résistance – organization and management.

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Bishop Pat Buckley, ordained in the Roman Catholic church, will marry his boyfriend Eduardo this Monday 8th February 2010.

Bishop Buckley conducts his ministry from The Oratory, Larne in Antrim. He has a following of Catholics and Christians, and others, from all over Ireland and further afield.

Now, if only he had a ministry in Dublin!

Is it too late to make a New Years Resolution? Well here’s one; am gonna go on a desert safari this year!

Lots happening with the 2010 Oslo Eurovision this coming week. It all starts tonite in Iceland. Iceland will pick their representative tonite live on air.  They had a very strong contender last year. Eva María Jónsdóttir and Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir will host the show Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins.

Coming up  we have;

06- February- 2010 – Sweden (first semi-final)

06 – Denmark (final)

06 – Iceland (final)

06 – Romania (final line-up revealed)

07 – Bulgaria (semi-final)

07 – Slovakia (sixth qualifying round)

07 – Serbia (sixth heat)

07 – Cyprus (final)

07 – The Netherlands (final)

This Sunday (7th February 2010) Host Broadcaster NRK and the EBU present the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest Semi-Final Allocation Draw. The event in downtown Oslo will be streamed live through Eurovision.tv, starting at 14:00 CET.

This Monday (8th February 2010) at 09:00 CET, some 90,000 tickets will go on sale for those who wish to attend the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest Dress Rehearsals, Semi-Finals or the Final in Oslo, Norway.

So far the following have been chosen to represent their countries at the 2010 Eurovision in Oslo.

MaNga for Turkey	Tom Dice for Belgium	Michael von der Heide for Switzerland

The main objectives of the Network offically launced during the past week (February 4th 2010) are:

to maintain and develop the relationship established at Farmleigh (in Ireland where the first Global Irish Economic Forum meeting was held September 2009), between Ireland  and the most influential members of the global Irish business community representing the seventy million Irish Dispora.
Ref Félix Peña

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Geeky Stuff = Facebook celebrates its 6th year of operations and has rolled out another new design on Facebook proper.

Kinda looks like a myspace lite. Facebook lite is still around if you have slow broadband live access or just like it real clean and simple.
Facebook display ad agreement with Microsoft… has changed. Now Facebook retain control over the display ads. Microsoft retains the  text ads aswell as Facebook search control.

Live messenger is integrated into Facebook more. I like.

Each day the most inspiring images from the biggest galleries on the web will are presented here.=

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