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Top Icelandic retailer, Nordic Store is now offering a series of historical maps of Iceland through its online store.

The series, containing eight maps, specialises on the historical and heritage of Iceland through text and illustration, ideal for historians and geologists. Each map focuses on a different area of Iceland including the Southwest, the West Fjords, the East and also one map covering Iceland as a whole.

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Two Leading Local Businesses are backing Gidea Park and Romford Cricket Club in sponsorship deals worth several thousands of pounds. Leading Upminster based James Read Opticians and Click Hearing the independent supplier of Digital hearing aids technologies with branches across the South East have signed deals with the Club which will see both companies supporting the club through to 2013 .

Benjamin Mann Founder of Click Hearing said: “Sponsoring Gidea Park and Romford CC enables us to support the development of the sport in the community and we are looking forward to a long and productive relationship with the club.

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It has recently been announced by the Keilir Aviation Academy that the ‘Atlantic Conference on Eyjafjallajokull and Aviation’ is to be held at Keflavik International Airport in Iceland on the 15th and 16th September 2010.

The international conference on how the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption in Iceland affected aviation, is set to address the concerns and answer questions regarding the air transportation industry and its actions during the global flight disruptions. President of Iceland and Patron of the Conference, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, has specified that it is “to discuss the lessons learned and how technology, rules, regulations and aviation training must be improved.”

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daGeek, a social networking and recommendations website, is set to change how people recommend particular passions and interests through the Internet by clever user interaction.

Networking site daGeek, formerly known as TellmeTwin, doesn’t use machine-based algorithms but rather filters users by establishing their interests. This feature can go even deeper for the user by filtering out and finding people who have only similar or exact interests.

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Astonishingly, Spain has never progressed beyond the quarter final stage of the World Cup since they finished fourth in 1950.  Despite the strength of their domestic league and European triumphs for Real Madrid and Barcelona, Spain are one of international football’s perennial underachievers and couldn’t even mount a challenge at their own World Cup in 1982.

However, this time round, things look different.  They are reigning European champions, top of the FIFA rankings and are on a run of form that is the envy of every other nation in the world.

Could this finally be Spain’s year?  The bookmakers think so.  According to Paddy Power who offer a range of World Cup odds Spain are the 4/1 favourites to lift the World Cup in Johannesburg on July 11^th. Read more…

Carlsberg creates probably the best team talk in the world to inspire England to victory in South Africa this summer. The Carlsberg Team Talk TV Ad features a range of celebrities from polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, to Kasabian, through to Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor who are trying to deliver an England Team Talk that will inspire the team to victory in this Summer’s World Cup.

Carlsberg, the official beer of the England football team, has launched its new Carlsberg Team Talk TV advert as the build-up to this year’s World Cup reaches its peak. The 90 second film features a cast list that reads like a who’s who of English sporting greats. They all combine to deliver “Probably the best team talk in the world…” to the England football team.

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When Carlsberg launched the England Team Talk challenge, they didn’t expect so many celebrities to take part.  As the official beer of the England football team, Carlsberg is giving fans the chance to really get behind the team by recording a rousing team talk – with the chance to meet stars of the England squad.

As well as thousands of England football fans, celebrities such as Darren Gough, Trevor Nelson and Kyran Bracken have recorded their motivational team talks.

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Wednesday 28 April 2010 at the The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester

Delegate tickets £195 + VAT Manchester Digital & SEMP Members / £225 + VAT Non Members for bookings before 22 March £250 + Vat / £275 + Vat thereafter

The UK e-Commerce market will be worth £48 Billion pounds during 2010, with online sales now representing 10% of total UK retail sales. Businesses need to be seriously engaging both in the B2B and B2C arena to gain competitive advantage. Read more…

The perfect Valentine’s gift for the freshly – or terminally – single

As the rallying cry of ‘I hate Valentine’s Day’ gets louder, singles now have a book to comfort them through February 14 and beyond: The Dating Detox by Gemma Burgess.

Compared to High Fidelity and Bridget Jones by Vanity Fair (VF Daily, January 2010), The Dating Detox is the ultimate anti-romantic gift for any singleton this Valentine’s Day. Read more…

New ‘anti-romantic novel’ chicklit author is interviewed by Vanity Fair on VF Daily. In an exclusive Q&A for Vanity Fair’s VF Daily blog, Gemma Burgess talks about the importance of comedy and her new post-recession heroine.

“For those waiting to option the next Bridget Jones, Gemma Burgess answers back with her anti-romantic novel The Dating Detox (HarperCollins UK). Burgess’s heroine, 28-year-old Sass, is no chain-smoking, binge-eating fashion victim like Bridget. Although Sass does suffer severe hangovers, she cleans up well—shaves both legs simultaneously, dresses like one of Rachel Zoe’s girls, and woos her advertising-agency comrades while she’s still drunk from the night before.” (c) VF Daily, Lauren Sozio
The Dating Detox is the first chicklit book to recognise that for the post-Bridget Jones, post-Carrie Bradshaw, post-credit crunch generation of singles, life isn’t a beautiful, a bitch or a beach. It’s a party. Read more…