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Geothermal power in Iceland is big business. Just five plants generate 3 TWh a year – more than the annual output from all the UK’s wind turbines combined (Orkustofnun 2005; BERR 2006). Geothermal power ... provides at least 85 per cent of Iceland’s homes with heat and hot water. This abundance of cheap, largely CO2-free energy has attracted energy-hungry industries to the country like sharks to a carcass. Of these, by far the most energy intensive is the aluminium industry (Krater 2007; Saving Iceland 2007).
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- deCODE geneticsNet loss for the quarter ending September 30, 2007 was $24.2 million, compared to $23.6 million for the third quarter 2006. Net loss for the first nine months of 2007 was $63.1 million, compared to $62.2 million for the first nine months of last year. Basic and diluted net loss per share was $0.40 for the third quarter 2007, unchanged from the same period last year. For the first nine months of 2007, basic and diluted net loss per share was $1.03, compared to $1.11 for the first nine months of last year. At the close of the third quarter 2007, the company had approximately 61.7 million shares outstanding.Revenue for the third quarter this year was $10.9 million, compared to $8.6 million for the same period a year ago. For the first nine months of 2007, revenue was $27.1 million, compared to $29.1 million for the same period last year.
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Iceland's deCode Genetics has suspended a late-stage trial of the heart attack prevention drug veliflapon after determining that the tablets being used weren't dissolving properly. Researchers were concerned that the faulty tablets would have skewed the data on the drug. The developer announced that it had notified the FDA and was looking at alternative manufacturing sources to resolve the issue. Veliflapon is directed …
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Iceland has a long history, and in particular a long history of a democratic society, the longest in the world. They developed a government entity called the Þing (Thing) in the 9th. The Þings were assemblies of representatives of all groups in Iceland. They convened once per year and dealt with government issues and with disputes and feuds between different groups or individuals. The first Þings were held in the 9th century at Helgafell. This mountain was the holy mountain of the Norse God Þor (Thor).
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Human inhabitation of Iceland first began during the War of the Roses in England when King Henry VIII decreed: "Anyone whosoever doeth slander the high name of the Kingly Throne shalt be sentenced to exile on that crappy northern island"(e.g. q.e.d 1345'34.5). And so all slanderers of the throne first were branded with a mark "I slander" on their foreheads and then banished to the new penal colony. Soon there was a sizeable colony in Iceland since all 1,009,348 wives of Henry VIII were ... banished. The penguins fought against the oppressive king on the side of the Tudors, and so Mary Queen of Scots ascended the throne after the slaughter of Henry. Mary, an escapee from "that crappy northern island," recreated parliment with her penguin allies and this tradition holds today.
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In 1944 an overwhelming majority of Icelanders voted to terminate the union with Denmark; the kingdom of Iceland was proclaimed an independent republic on June 17, 1944. Sveinn Björrnsson was the first president. Iceland was admitted to the United Nations in 1946; it joined in the Marshall Plan and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In 1946, Iceland granted the United States the right to use the American-built airport at KeflavÃk for military as well as commercial planes. Under a 1951 defense pact, U.S. forces were stationed there (the base was closed in 2006). Björnsson was succeeded by Ãsgeir Ãsgeirsson.
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