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Holland frowns on two finalists for open WyCo commission seat
Wyandotte County commissioners are planning to pick a new member this week, but county Mayor Mark Holland first wants them to talk about going back and finding finalists who paid their taxes on ...
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Hockey Black Sticks to face Dutch in semi
New Zealand will face hosts the Netherlands in their World League semifinal in Rotterdam early on Thursday - a replay of their Olympic Games semifinal in London last year. New Zealand lost that in a penalty shootout after the scores were locked 2-2. The Black Sticks, ranked third, advanced to the last four with a 3-1 win over No 9 Japan, while the Olympic champions and world No 1 Dutch hammered ...
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Aegon International gives Laura Robson a first victory under new coach
Laura Robson , recorded her first win under her new coach, Miles Maclagan, to reach the second round of the Aegon International in Eastbourne.The 19-year-old teamed up with Maclagan before the grass season but lost her first match in Birmingham last week to the eventual title winner, Daniela Hantuchova.Robson had a better draw this time, facing the Ukrainian qualifier Yuliya Beygelzimer, and she ...
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Airbnb says its Amsterdam tourists spend more stay longer
economic impact study -- this time for Amsterdam -- once again touting that its guests stay longer and spend more. The company again threw out some big claims and while it didn't include a total figure for how much money Airbnb brings to the city, the average amounts generated per tourist were slightly ...
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Malisse ousts Ferrer on grass in Netherlands
ROSMALEN, Netherlands -; French Open finalist David Ferrer lost his first-round match Tuesday at the Topshelf Open, a grass-court tournament held the week before ...
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New Amsterdam Market Returns To Seaport For Sunday Only
New Amsterdam Market returns to the South Street Seaport this Sunday but don't expect to find all the growers, chefs and food producers there every weekend, as this will be a one-day-only event. Breaking with a two year tradition that saw the market open weekends from spring through the fall, this single day affair is the first in a monthly series of food events, to announced at a later ...
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Amg Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. Unit Amg Aluminum Closes The Sale Of Its Interest In Chinese Joint Venture
--- AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. ("AMG", EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: "AMG") announces that AMG Aluminum has closed the previously announced sale of its 45% equity interest in Nanjing Yunhai KB Alloys Co., Ltd ("YKB") to Nanjing Yunhai Special Metals Co., Ltd. AMG Aluminum is the world-leading provider of aluminum master alloys and grain refiners for the aluminum ...
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Holland Receives Carrier Excellence Award from BNSF Logistics
. Award recipients were nominated by BNSF operations team members, then critically evaluated across a number of objective measures including: on-time service, capacity and overall customer service performance throughout the year of ...
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Spinnaker Support Shows Support for Financials 2013 Conference by Participating in Amsterdam Event
Educating the SAP marketplace about their third-party maintenance and co-sourcingSM services, Spinnaker Support is excited about the traction gained at the conference DENVER and LONDON - Spinnaker Support, the global market leader for SAP and JD Edwards third-party maintenance, co-sourcing, and consulting services, today announced that they had a successful week meeting with SAP users at the ...
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Paradigm to Showcase its Geolog Formation Evaluation Solution at SPWLA 2013
booth 516 for both main theater presentations and one-on-one demonstrations showcasing the new and enhanced capabilities in Geolog 7. ...
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Dutch teens convicted for killing referee
A Dutch court has convicted six teenage soccer players and a father of manslaughter for kicking a volunteer linesman to death. The game between the two teams, Nieuw Sloten and Buitenboys, took place last November in Almere, near Amsterdam. The game ended in a 2-2 tie after Nieuw Sloten came back from being down 2-0. While the players were shaking hands with the three volunteer officials after ...
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Seven men convicted following death of Dutch linesman Richard Nieuwenhuizen - video
Six teenage football players and one 50 year old man were convicted of manslaughter on Monday in a Dutch court, after kicking a volunteer linesman, Richard Nieuwenhuizen, to death. Forty-one-year-old Nieuwenhuizen was officiating in a match in which his son was playing. The defendants still maintain their innocence and have two weeks to ...
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FIFPro Opens and Bluewater breaks ground in the Netherlands Park 20|20 Development
BEUKENHORST ZUID, HOOFDDORP, The Netherlands, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --In recent weeks, FIFPro, worldwide representative union for professional soccer players, opened its new headquarters building and Bluewater Energy Solutions, a technical service provider to the energy and industrial marketplace, broke ground for a new building at Delta Development's Park 20|20, the first full-service ...
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Ireland well beaten by Netherlands
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Amsterdam to remain a competitive Hot Spot until 2025
Amsterdam has been ranked as the 13th most competitive city "Hot Spot" in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Hot Spots 2025 ...
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Hong Kongs Li purchases Dutch waste company for 944 mil. euros
A group of Li's companies including Cheung Kong Infrastructure said Monday they were buying AVR-Afvalverwerking BV. Li's companies said they were buying the company because it represents a "compelling long-term investment opportunity for the consortium." Van Gansewinkel Groep, which is selling the company, said the deal would close in the third quarter of 2013. The deal still ...
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Amsterdam and the Clash of Civilisations: is this city on the frontline?
There is a polarising pattern of insult and violence going round and round in Europe, and Amsterdam seems to be one of the cities leading the continent down the spiral toward a culture of intolerance toward everyone who isn't European.
The Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks is frequently in the media for his decisively controversial cartoons that seem to unremittingly try and provoke the Islamic communities across Europe. Just this week alone he was the target of two separate assassination plots that were to be carried out, interestingly, by two women who had converted to the religion he vilifies. Read more
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