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Thursday May 17, 2012
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  • US Television Crew in Search of Iceland Monster - Iceland Review (Saturday, 28 April) - A television crew from the American show Fact or Faked, Paranormal Files were in east Iceland this week, allegedly to search for the infamous river worm monster Lagarfljótsormurinn, which may have been caught on video in February....
  • Stalemate in the Blame Game (AS) - Iceland Review (Saturday, 28 April) - Considering how long the process of holding people (someone?!) accountable for the Icelandic banking collapse is taking, it seems that the Geir Haarde trial was a mock trial....
  • Páll Óskar to Perform at Living Art Museum - Iceland Review (Saturday, 28 April) - Pop singer Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson will perform at the Living Art Museum (Nýlistasafnið) today at 3 pm in connection with the exhibition “Fjölskylduskemmtun” (“Family Fun”) by Curver Thoroddsen, which ends tomorrow, April 29....
  • Sixteen Year Murder Sentence Confirmed - Iceland Review (Friday, 27 April) - The Supreme Court of Iceland has confirmed Reykjavík District Court’s verdict of a 16-year prison sentence over Redouane Naoui, a 40-year-old man, for manslaughter. He stabbed a man with a knife in the throat at a Reykjavík nightclub in July 2011....
  • Polar Bear Returns to Iceland’s West Fjords - Iceland Review (Friday, 27 April) - “I was just measuring [the width of] the doorways in the building; I hope it gets in,” said Ester Rut Unnsteinsdóttir, managing director of the Arctic Fox Center in Súðavík, the West Fjords, on the taxidermied polar bear which will be exhibited there, the one that was shot and killed...
  • Holtaskóli Wins Gold in School Fitness Competition - Iceland Review (Friday, 27 April) - The students of Holtaskóli in Reykjanesbær, southwest Iceland, are officially the country’s fittest teens as they demonstrated by winning Skólahreysti, an annual nationwide fitness competition between schools, yesterday....
  • Re: Pinpointing Icelanders - Iceland Review (Friday, 27 April) -
  • Þóra Arnórsdóttir Leads Iceland Presidential Race - Iceland Review (Friday, 27 April) - Journalist Þóra Arnórsdóttir is the favorite candidate for the 2012 presidential election in Iceland, according to a survey conducted by the University of Iceland Institute of Social Sciences April 24-26 with 49 percent of respondents declaring support for her....
  • Shameless (ESA) - Iceland Review (Friday, 27 April) - There is something tragically funny about dysfunctional families—and administrations. But is anyone really bursting out laughing at the High Court’s verdict?...
  • Brothers Lose Ownership of Iceland’s Largest Company - Iceland Review (Friday, 27 April) - Icelandic entrepreneur brothers Lýður and Ágúst Guðmundsson were set to acquire up to 25 percent of shares in food processing company Bakkavör, which they founded, provided they repaid their claimants by mid-2014. However, now it is clear that they will lose their entire stake in Bakkavör Group....