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	Oulu Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Province of Oulu is a province of Finland.
		The State Provincial Office is a joint regional authority of seven different ministries.
		The regions in Oulu Province are divided on 51 municipalities, including the city of Oulu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oulu_Province (198 words)

	Ministry of the Interior - State Provincial Offices
		A State Provincial Office is a State regional authority directed by seven ministries.
		A State Provincial Office promotes, evaluates and supervises the living conditions and security in the province, the well-being of residents, and the implementation of fundamental rights.
		A State Provincial Office is headed by a Governor, who is appointed to the office by the President of the Republic for a maximum of eight years.
	www.intermin.fi /intermin/home.nsf/0/DE2CBA46E607287FC2256FAF002E619E?opendocument (116 words)

	Oulu Regional Business Agency
		The State Provincial Office maintains a register of the private service providers and their branches acting in its area, and is in charge of foodstuff supervision, granting the licences for serving and retail sales of class III beer.
		The State Provincial Office handles licence issues relating to C licences (maximum 4.7 vol%), and to extended licensing hours of restaurants serving alcoholic beverages under A (all alcoholic beverages) and B (maximum 22 vol %) licences in the provincial area.
		Provincial Police Commands and the District Police are responsible for the control of persons responsible for private security services and security companies, guards, and security officers in their area of jurisdiction.
	www.oulu.ouka.fi /ouluseutu/yrityspalvelut/howtosetup/licenses.htm (3958 words)

	C
		provincial, island and municipal flags (canary islands, spain)
		alawite state / sanjak of latakia 1920-1936 (syria)
		associate state of staint christopher, nevis and anguilla (1967-1969)
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/images/h/0122keys/keywordc.html (1450 words)

	Things to see in Oulu
		Built in 1590, the castle of Oulu was destroyed by lightning in 1793.
		There is an exhibition on the history of the castle on the site, and the observation tower built in 1875 for teaching astronomy now serves as a summertime cafe.
		Oulu Cathedral was 225 years old in December 2002.
	oulu.ouka.fi /city/english/nahtavaa.htm (320 words)

	Veikko Törmänen Introduction
		His exhibition in Oulu City Art Museum is focused on the artist’s production from the 1990’s, but the earliest works are from the beginning of the 1980’s.
		Designing the guest room of Oulu Provincial State Office was an exceptional project: in addition to the collage work of art placed on the wall of the guest room, Törmänen composed the total visual outlook of the interior with the furniture.
		In addition to that, the wall painting in the chancel of Oulu Cathedral was completed in the beginning of 1997.
	arthouse.oulu.net /ots/veto/veikkointro.htm (510 words)

	United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - State Party Report - Finland
		The Aliens' Act states that in matters concerning asylum, a residence permit issued to an asylum seeker for reasons of protection and abrogation of refugee status, the body for appeals is the Asylum Appeals Board.
		The office of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health that used to handle refugee affairs and the unit of the Ministry of Labour formerly responsible for migration affairs were joined in the beginning of March 1997 into a new Department of the Ministry of Labour.
		It states that a fixed-term residence permit may be granted to a person of Finnish descent arriving from the former Soviet Union if the applicant himself/herself, one of his/her parents or at least two of his/her grandparents are or were registered as Finns.
	www.unhchr.ch /tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/006683cb03799f968025671c0040fcd7?Opendocument (17952 words)

	Index Ha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He kept the office until 1974, but when Margaret Thatcher took power in 1979 she made him again lord chancellor and he served in the post a total of 12 years.
		She told him "you have graced every office that you have held with supreme distinction and style." But he remained an active and colourful member of the House of Lords, and was reprimanded for "intervening from a sedentary position in a loud and boisterous way" during a 1993 debate.
		In 2002 he proclaimed himself king and his state a constitutional monarchy, and called for legislative elections, the first since the parliament was dissolved in 1975; women would be allowed to vote and run for office.
	www.manic-raven.com /rulers/indexh1.html (19548 words)

	Meet Oulu Hitech
		The city of Oulu was founded in 1605, and during the centuries it developed into a centre of salmon, tar, commerce and shipping.
		Oulu is the sixth biggest town in Finland, the population is almost 130000.
		The Oulu Chamber of Commerce operates in the Northern Ostrobothnia and Kainuu regions.
	www.congressoulu.fi /meetouluhitech/english/meetorganisaatiot.html (827 words)

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		Main article: Oulu State Provincial Office The State Provincial Office is a joint regional authority of seven different ministries.
		Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
		Main article: Western Finland State Provincial Office The Western Finland State Provincial Office is a joint regional administrative authority of seven ministries.
	vasa.county.en.wikivx.com (2082 words)

	Oulun yliopisto \| TOL \| Opiskelijoille \| Erillisvalinnat \| Tietoturvan maisteriohjelma \| In English
		The newest educational technology will be used in a number of ways in the programme, with the aim of implementing real-time portions teaching sessions in a ”virtual space” by making use of the distance education technology already available to the implementers of the programme.
		The total number of students is 55, with 30 students in Oulu and 25 students in Raahe.
		The Department of Information Processing Science is contributing to the projects of the University of Oulu to develop the university strategy and teaching in tight cooperation with the regional units and partners of the university.
	www.tol.oulu.fi /opiskelijoille/muuntokoulutus/tietoturva/english.html (1280 words)

	LÄÄNINTAITEILIJA ILMOITUS
		However, the members of the regional arts councils are nominated by the Provincial Council for a period of three years.
		Arts Council of Oulu Province is one of the 13 regional bodies of its kind in the country.
		The Council consists of maximum 11 members, who are professional artist and other specialists in some art fields of provincial cultural policies and they are appointed for a period of three years.
	www.maistraatti.fi /oulunlaanintaide/artscouncilenglish.htm (632 words)

	Wikinfo \| Provinces of Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The State of Finland is since the late 19th century bilingual.
		Its governmental offices and agencies use both domestic languages in contacts with the public.
		Each State Provincial Office authority is lead by a Governor (Maaherra/Landshövding) who is appointed by the president after a proposal by the cabinet.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Provinces_of_Finland (235 words)

	National Minorities of Finland, The Sámi — Virtual Finland
		Local and state authorities are also under a general obligation to enhance the use of the Sámi language in their work and to ensure proactively the implementation of the linguistic rights of the Sámi.
		Together with these legislative reforms, the system of state subsidies was changed and municipalities in the Sámi Homeland now get 100 % of their costs for teaching of and in Sámi paid from the national budget.
		These communities are financed by the Sámi Parliament, the municipalities, the State Provincial Office of Lapland and the European Union.
	virtual.finland.fi /netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26473&LAN=E (3530 words)

	CUPP project - Administration
		[University of Oulu] > [Oulun Eteläisen instituutti (in finnish)] > [CUPP] >
		The CUPP project belongs formally to the Oulu Southern Institute which in turn is part of the University of Oulu.
		Eelis Kokko, Director of Oulu Southern Institute, University of Oulu
	cupp.oulu.fi /administration.php (81 words)

	References
		Oulu City Council (1989) Oulun ilmanlaatu, Neulasten rikkipitoisuus- ja vauriokartoitus 1989.Oulun kaupunki, Ympäristönsuojelutoimisto, Julkaisu 6/1989.
		Provincial State Office of Lapland (1992) Lapin läänin ja Muurmanskin alueen sekä Pohjois-Norjan ja Pohjois-Ruotsin ilmansuojelu vuonna 1990.
		Yarmishko VT (1993) The analysis of morphological structure and crown state of Pinus sylvestris L. under different levels of air pollution in the Kola peninsula.
	herkules.oulu.fi /isbn9514268822/html/b424.html (2045 words)

	VTT
		Bioforum Oulu is a member of the Oulu Region Centre of Expertise program.
		Cooperation within Bioforum Oulu is voluntary, and openness is one of the forum's core values.
		BioOulu is funded by the European Regional Development Fund, the Provincial State Office of Oulu, and the City of Oulu.
	www.vtt.fi /services/cluster1/topic1_6/electcomp_printed_t4_BIOOULU.jsp?lang=en (311 words)

	Finland for Thought » Finland mothers ranked 3rd in world, United States 11th \| Politics, current events, culture ...
		Finance Minister Eero Heinäluoma says the state must compensate part of the cost when people look for work and move home to take up employment in another area.
		It cites tests carried out in the United States showing data could be procured from a distance of up to 20 metres.
		"The case Rusi is bringing against the State is for damages following a widely-publicised investigation three years ago into allegations that he had engaged in espionage on behalf of the Stasi, the intelligence service of the former East Germany.
	www.finlandforthought.net /2005/05/20/finland-mothers-ranked-3rd-in-world-united-states-11th (2426 words)

	- View and Submit Events - IEW 2005
		The Pôles - public interest groups under the aegis of the French Ministry of Education and Research - in Bordeaux, Lille, Rennes, Strasbourg, and Toulouse are organizing and publicizing the adviser s two-hour conferences Etudier aux Etats-Unis in their cities.
		In Lyon and Marseille the conference is being organized and publicized by the International Relations Offices of local universities.
		Samer is currently examining and analyzing the progress of the U.S.-Jordanian official state relations and the discourse of democracy promotion in Jordan.
	iew.state.gov /events/fulbright.htm (3978 words)

	Provinces of Finland - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The provincial authority is part of the central government's executive branch.
		The governor is the head of the State Provincial Office (lääninhallitus, länsstyrelse) which act as the joint regional authority for seven ministries in the following domains:
		The official administrative subentities under the Provincial Office authorities are the Registry Offices (Finnish maistraatti, Swedish magistrat), and State Local Districts (Finnish kihlakunta, Swedish härad), which are districts for police, assessment and attorney services.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Provinces_of_Finland (291 words)

	ALLOCATION OF FISHERY RESOURCES
		The catch obtained from the Baltic Sea was high at the end of the 19th Century, low during the period 1900–1945, high in 1945–1950, and low again thereafter, with the years of good catches being those in which the winters were exceptionally cold during the river phase of the young.
		It has been stated previously that Coregonus albula shows a positive correlation between duration of age-class predominance and intensity of water color (Lind 1976), with the years of good salmon catches being those in which the winters were exceptionally cold during the river phase of the young (Fig.
		The dots represent the recapture points in September-December 1961 of 2-year-old salmon smolt tagged and released in the mouth of Oulu River in June 1960, according to Strandman (1969).
	www.fao.org /docrep/005/ac743e/AC743E12.htm (12711 words)

	SET Bulletin, January 2000, Vol. 1, No. 1- Section on Education and Training
		Thus especially in the current climate of university rationalisation, it is imperative that an integrated approach be investigated from the broadest perspective in order to avoid pre-emptive fragmentation and overspecialisation among a multitude of disciplines.
		In conclusion it can be stated that the information age has led to a complex social and institutional structure in modern society.
		At the conclusion of the course, students take a "state examination" (this is a comprehensive examination required in Hungary in all types of higher education) and defend their theses.
	www.ifla.org /VII/s23/bulletin/vol1-1.htm (7482 words)

	Emissions and deposition
		The annual emissions and deposition (Tables 1 and 2) were rather stable during the study period.
		In Oulu, the emissions of sulphur and sulphur deposition have decreased considerably from the 1980’s to the 1990’s.
		The annual SO dust, Ni and Cu emissions (tons) in Monchegorsk 1991–96, Kostomuksha 1986–92, and Oulu 1991–96 and 1969–88 (Provincial State Office of Lapland 1992, Kryuchkov 1993, Baklanov and Rodjushkina 1993, Poikolainen and Lippo 1995, Lumme et al.
	herkules.oulu.fi /isbn9514268822/html/i251535.html (132 words)

	Other studies in northern and environmental issues, Thule Institute
		The programme is funded by the State Provincial Office of Oulu, the European Social Fund (ESF) and the City of Oulu.
		Its key objective is to develop education, research and cooperation in the environmental field between enterprises, local authorities, public organisations responsible for developing industry and business opportunities, and environmental administration.
		EnviroMaP is a pilot project contributing to new practices in the education of environmental experts.
	thule.oulu.fi /englanti/studies/otherstudies.html (314 words)

	FREE In-depth report - Provincial Administration - Finland
		The country's provincial government is less extensive than that of many other countries because local government manages many tasks done elsewhere on the provincial level.
		The responsibilities of provincial administration include police work, civil defense, regional planning, price and rent control, direction of social and health services, oversight of local governments' adherence to environmental and other state regulations, and collection of taxes, fees and revenues owed to local and to national government.
		The provincial government is also involved in the functioning of the county administrative courts, and, with authority granted to it by the Ministry of Justice, supervises elections.
	www.exploitz.com /Finland-Provincial-Administration-cg.php (339 words)

	Finnish Flags and Emblems - English Summary
		Usage: As a state flag and ensign by the parliament, government and its ministeries, Supreme Court,
		Frontier and Coast Guard vessels use a rectangular state flag as an ensign.
		Police vessels use a rectangular state flag as an ensign.
	www.student.oulu.fi /~oraivio/flags_en.html (565 words)

	Finland for Thought » The welfare state hurts immigrants the hardest \| Politics, current events, culture - In ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Why are immigrants in the United States succeeding much greater than the immigrants in the welfare state countries?
		That de facto minimum wage for workers in Sweden is equal to about 66 percent of the median wage in the manufacturing sector, compared to 32 percent in the United States.
		The department of foreign affairs (of UVI) states that there has been a regrettable mistake in the handling of the application (for asylym).
	www.finlandforthought.net /2006/06/19/the-welfare-state-hurts-immigrants-the-hardest (5223 words)

	DISHWASHERS PRICES AND QUALITY EXAMINED (The Finnish Consumer Agency) - STT Pressi.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Southern Finland Provincial State Office, Senior Inspector Helena Sundberg,
		Western Finland Provincial State Office, Inspector Eija Saha, tel: +358 2051 76166
		Eastern Finland Provincial State Office, Inspector Esko Koistinen, tel: +358 2051 67093
	www.pressi.com /fi/julkaisu/5483.html (395 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Finland: Language in everyday life
		All the laws on the national level are published in the both languages so that they may be used in the courts and the State Administrative offices.
		The Sami Language Office, set up by the Sami Parliament, ensures that public buildings and road signs are bilingual Finnish/Sami in addition to various announcements by the authorities and notices in newspapers.
		At the beginning of 2004 the Culture Department of the State Provincial Office of Lappi allocated a sum of EUR 186,000 to establish the Film Center for Indigenous People in Inari.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=60&TID=6 (5446 words)

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