OsloBG - Blog Gathering

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Oslo Blog Gathering 2010 – The Official Program Site

Visit Oslo, the capital of Norway:

August 18th – 22nd to explore the city and Norway’s history, culture and traditions!

A compact guided adventure invited by RennyBA’s Terella, to give everyone in Blogsphere a chance to see some of the attractions presented on this blog over the last four years.

After the first day’s guided tour: Highlights of Oslo, you’ll learn how to navigate, use the public transportation and chose your favourite attractions such as museums, historical buildings, shopping, boat trips or hiking in the woods.

Blogging Connecting People:

As an active networker I enjoy using social media and blogging extensively. Through this I have met many nice people online which I am curious about, and would like to meet personally. This is the reason behind this project and no other – I am not sponsored by any tourist group or agency, or any of the local hotels.
However being a network evangelist and traveller I have a lot of experience in planning and some good connections in the local area. I have used my capability to try and arrange a good offer for those who wish to come together and meet while exploring Oslo and hope many of you will join us. This is not a commercial venture for me and I do not earn anything on the participation.

The Program:

18th: Participants arriving from all over the world
19th: 10AM – 1PM – Highlights of Oslo – A compact guided tour
19th: 5PM – Grand opening by The Mayor of Oslo
20th and 21st – Daytime: Free choice of Oslo attractions, some guided by locals
20th and 21st – Evening: Group outdoor activity to enjoying the long summer night
22nd: Participants returning home

Link: http://www.terella.no/oslobg/

Angry Boy or Sinnataggen
in Vigeland Park, Oslo

via http://oslodailyphoto.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html

Note: borrowed the photo idea from RennyBA, it's at the bottom of terella.no & was excited to find this Daily Photo Blog from Oslo then see they're taking a break?! I have to one day - maybe in August - yet make it to Oslo, the capital of Norway, to enjoy this park of statues for sure?!

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Ida, Missing Link, in Oslo

The Norway Post, Doorway to Norway

May 21, 2009 Thursday

In New York, an international team of scientists, led by Jorn Hurum of the Natural History Museum in Oslo on Tuesday unveiled a well preserved fossil of what they claim to be "the Missing Link".

The beautifully preserved remains of a 47-million-year-old, lemur-like creature was unveiled at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, by the city's mayor. It has been named Ida, after Jorn Hurum's daughter.

Ida was discovered in the 1980s in a fossil treasure-trove called Messel Pit, near Darmstadt in Germany. For much of the intervening period, it has been in a private collection.

The investigation of the fossil's significance was led by Jorn Hurum, who said to BBC that the fossil creature was "the closest thing we can get to a direct ancestor" and described the discovery as "a dream come true".

He said the team concluded that she was not simply another lemur, but a new species. They have called her Darwinius masillae, to celebrate her place of origin and the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin...

But Dr Hurum believes that the missing link is exactly what Ida is.

He told BBC News that the key to proving this lay in the detail of the foot. The shape of a bone in the foot called the talus looks "almost anthropoid".

The fossil will now be put on display at the Natural History Museum in Oslo. NOK 2.2 million has been granted to upgrade security at the museum, NRK reports.

(NRK/BBC)
Rolleiv Solholm

Read more of this article at... http://www.norwaypost.no/

Read more about the UNESCO world heritage site of Germany's "Grube Messel" or Messel Pit at... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messel_Pit

Note: Anyone read "Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body" by Neil Shubin? Then you'd really have perked up at not just the mention of "missing link" but also the detail of the "foot" on this fossil in particular...if you're in the Yahoo Book Group in Stavanger then you would of read this book for the 200th Anniv. of Darwin's birth & about 150 yrs since the publication of his famous theory & you'd understand more about the why & how fossils tell us so much more about ourselves than you'd ever imagine...even better this one is in our own backyard nearly, to Stavanger, just over in Oslo--Road Trip?!