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• Protesters return to Reykjavik streets

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  Several hundred people gathered outside the Icelandic parliament on Austurvollur Square in Reykjavik yesterday to protest on behalf of struggling householders. The three speakers were very well received by the crowd as they called, among other things, for continued payment strikes. The protest speakers were Olafur ...
  1 day ago

• Reykjavik welfare system not to be cut, despite cuts

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  The feared cutbacks in Reykjavik City’s welfare provision will not happen, despite the welfare department’s budget cuts next year. The department is due to cut back by ISK 175 million next year; but despite this, department head Jorunn Frimannsdottir says the savings must and will be made in optimisation and ...
  3 days ago

• Icelandic teen football player dies suddenly

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  Members and friends of the Ithrottafelag Reykjavikur (IR) sports club and students at Verslunarskoli school are in mourning after an 18 year-old footballer (soccer player) collapsed during practice and died. A memorial service was held yesterday evening. The teenager collapsed during practice on Wednesday night and ...
  3 days ago

• Iceland provides perfect surroundings for stress-free Christmas break

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  Christmas is known as everyone’s favourite time of year, but according to a recent poll by MORI, four out of five adults find the festive period stressful. So why not be the one of five who enjoys a stress-free Christmas this winter and visit Iceland. In the capital city every year, families gather together on ...
  5 days ago

• Iceland provides perfect Northern Lights Christmas experience

  
  eNewsWire — Authority: 132
  According to a recent survey by MORI, four out of five adults consider the Christmas period to be stressful. So why not be the one of five who relax during this joyful time of year and discover Iceland’s unique traditions. For more than half a century, the City of Oslo, Norway, has presented Reykjavik with a ...
  1 week ago

• Declare independence

  
  Corrente — Authority: 626
  Violet finds an amazing article in the Guardian; turns out men broke everything and now women are taking the lead in fixing it all ( haw ; and haw ) Im going to cut to the chase on values, and then give the background. On values, green venture capitalist Halla Tómasdóttir: "We have five core feminine values. ...
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• European Investment Bank injects megabucks in Icelandic megawatts

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  It was announced yesterday evening that Reykjavik Energy has signed a loan deal with the European Investment Bank for around ISK 30 billion (EUR 170 million). The loan deal was signed in a ceremony at the Hellisheidavirkjun geothermal power station in south Iceland. The money will be used to finance development of ...
  1 week ago

• European Stocks Decline Broadly On Autos, Banks

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 506
  Melvin Baker - AHN Reporter London, UK (AHN) - Stock prices receded broadly in European markets on Tuesday. Both autos and banks lost ground. Except for Iceland, all 18 western European benchmark indices declined.
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• Reykjavik city councillors paid well

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  The basic salary of a Reykjavik city councillor with the addition of various extras can be close to ISK 1 million a month (USD 8,020 at today’s rate but closer to 12,000 before the banking crisis) a month. In addition, the city pays each and every council member ISK 300,000 per year for phone bills. The mayor earns ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wheelchair accessible hotel in Reykjavik accommodates world record-breaking swimmers

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  The Grand Hotel Reykjavik provided their award winning service to this year’s record-breaking paralympic athletes at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships held between 18th-24th October. Collectively, 24 world records and 73 European records were smashed over the course of the seven-day event. This has not ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reykjavik Energy searching for domestic funding

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  Reykjavik Energy is in the midst of huge reorganisation and future planning. The projects underway are expensive and it is expected that ISK 17 billion (USD 135.5 million) will be needed in financing this year. Eirikur Hjalmarsson, Reykjavik Energy Public Relations officer, told RUV that the loans are necessary ...
  3 weeks ago

• World record breakers stay at wheelchair accessible hotel in Reykjavik

  
  eNewsWire — Authority: 132
  The Grand Hotel Reykjavik triumphed this year by accommodating the World record-breaking paralympic athletes of the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships. A winning performance was provided by the Grand Hotel Reykjavik for this year’s record-breaking paralympic athletes throughout the 2009 IPC Swimming ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Reykjavik hospital construction announced

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  Building work on Reykjavik’s new Landspitali Hospital will likely start in the latter half of 2011 and continue until 2016, according to a statement of intent signed yesterday by representatives of the pension funds and the Icelandic government. The statement calls for the construction to be financed by the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Iceland Express will offer low-cost flights from Newark to Reykjavik

  
  Gadling — Authority: 701
  Filed under: Europe , North America , Iceland , United States Im kind of obsessed with Iceland . Ask me about the country and get ready to endure my lengthy soliloquy on why I love it so much. Its one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen, and Id feel pretty comfortable saying that even as I travel ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Daily Habit: Food

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 141
  Icelanders Say Bye Bye  Big Mac http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Iceland-says-goodbye-to-the-apf-2609404079.html?x=0&.v=6
  3 weeks ago

• The list of things to do in Iceland is as long as the road to Egilsstaðakirkjugarðurinn

  
  eNewsWire — Authority: 132
  Iceland is a land famed for its utterly unique landscape, its volcanoes, glaciers, hot springs and towering mountains. There are those who visit to bathe, to hike, or simply for sightseeing; but Iceland has much more on offer than you might imagine. Iceland has a fascinating history – home to the writers of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Icelanders Now Totally Bereft Of McDonalds, Americans Still Not So Much

  
  Vagabondish — Authority: 542
  © Hinrik Icelanders this week are waking up to a bleak McDonald’s-less dystopia. The ubiquitous global chain no longer exists in the increasingly impoverished nation, where a near-total economic collapse has made it too expensive to import McDonald’s products. The island’s three Reykjavik branches, the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Giant hotel planned for Reykjavik shoreline

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  The development company Thyrping has applied for permission to turn one of the unfinished luxury apartment towers on Reykjavik’s northern shore into a 160-room hotel. The head of the company says that the people who will have to decide on the application are the same people who previously wanted to build a 400-room ...
  4 weeks ago

• Bringing Oppenheimer Back To Life: An Interview With Richard Rhodes

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  Way back when I was in college, someone gave me a book that they thought I should read. "Youve been working with plutonium, and you have an interest in nuclear weapons. You really ought to read this book." The book was The Making of the Atomic Bomb , by Richard Rhodes . He was awarded the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Iceland is now open for business once more

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 654
  Filed under: Economic data , Recession , Financial Crisis Youre now free to invest in Iceland ... should you be so inclined. On Sunday, the country will begin lifting its post-financial disaster capital controls, giving investors a bit more elbow room. Foreign currency investments coming in wont be subject to ...
  4 weeks ago

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