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Rock on the Streets (Free subscription) | yesterday
The 2010 SXSW Music Festival is fast approaching with only about four months to go. The week-long festival is once again retuning to Austin, Texas next year from March 17-21. To get attendees pumped up for next years event organizers have revealed the first couple hundred acts to play the fest. Among the acts announced are The Boxer Rebellion , The View , Riverboat Gamblers , and We Are Scientists...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Reykjavik - Iceland's central bank Thursday lowered its key interest rate by 1 percentage point to 11 per cent. Announcing its decision, the Monetary Policy Committee said the currency has remained broadly stable since late summer, although at a low...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Reykjavik - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recommended Iceland maintain currency controls for the time being in order to ensure a stable currency, according to a report released Tuesday. The Icelandic central bank published the 98-page rep...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Reykjavik - Iceland has picked its chief negotiator to begin talks on joining the 27-member European Union, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. Iceland reversed its a decades-long policy of independence from the EU in July, when it handed in its appli...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Icelanders will be saying “vertu blessaður” to any future cravings for a Big Mac or Chicken McNuggets. The three McDonald’s (MCD) restaurants in Iceland closed at midnight on October 31 because of surging costs as a result of the country’s economic collapse over the past year. All three stores are in the country’s capital, Reykjavik. ...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Noisy crowds, long queues, and traffic jams plunged McDonald's restaurants in Iceland into a state of siege Saturday, as the chain served its final burgers on the island. Icelanders flooded the three branches of the US fast-food restaurant in Reykjavik several hours before the outlets shut for the last time, forced to close after the island's economic collapse caused running costs to soar. Extra staff...
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Joel Oleson's SharePoint Land (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
During the SharePoint Conference, I shared a new presentation to a few hundred people on the cool and new features in SharePoint 2010 with a taste of the new life of the SharePoint Administrator. We had a great showing and a great discussion about the new features. You can see my Top 10 SharePoint 2010 favorites in my last post. Who: Quest Software, Inc. What: “ The New World of SharePoint Administration...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
McDonald's is pulling out of Iceland next week, in a fresh blow to the island nation a year on from a financial crash that nearly left it bankrupt. The closure of the fast-food giant's three restaurants on Monday means Iceland will become one of the few European countries, including Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina, without a McDonald's. Jon Ogmundsson, managing director of Lyst, holder of the McDonald's...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
REYKJAVIK, Iceland ? All three of Iceland's McDonald's restaurants in the capital Reykjavik will close next weekend, as the franchise owner gives in to falling profits caused by the collapse in the Icelandic krona."The economic...
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Caymanian Compass (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Big Mac, long a symbol of globalization, has become the latest victim of this tiny island nation's overexposure to the world financial crisis.
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Fleetwood Birder (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
I am a member of Bird Studies Canada and the article below was in an e-bulletin I received on 9 th October. I thought that it was so interesting that I thought you would like to read it your selves. "The Northern Wheatear undertakes one of the most remarkable migrations of any songbird. It is the only songbird that breeds in North America and winters in Africa. Alaskan and Yukon breeders migrate...
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CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Today's guest: Jon McKiel live in studio. There’s something quite special about being on the road as a traveling musician. You feel as if you live this heightened reality, like you’re cramming three weeks of living into one. Whatever happened on Monday morning seems so far away come Friday night. It’s challenging of course too, hard on the body and the mind sometimes, but it’s...
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Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Walrus Magazine 's Eliza Reid reports on how some Icelanders are dealing with their post-crash economy through unusual forms of emigration. In October 2008, Iceland became the first country to succumb to the global financial crisis. In a few short months, its banks collapsed, its government fell, and unemployment more than tripled. More or less flat broke, the tiny nation of 320,000 had to go begging...
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CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Well it’s day 2 back in Canada and my jet lag is starting to settle down. I was super beat by about 9pm last night and had to crash out immediately – that’s about 6am Reykjavik time which is where I was all last week. I was playing the Iceland Airwaves Music Festival . So, this week, my shows are all going to tie into that whole experience in one way or another. Today, I want to...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
REYKJAVIK - Iceland has agreed to repay Britain and the Netherlands US$5.7 billion ($7.65 billion) it borrowed to compensate savers who lost funds in the collapse of an Icelandic internet bank, the Government said.Prime Minister...
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