ICEX or variant, may refer to:
The OMX Iceland 15 (formerly the ICEX15) is a defunct stock market index which consisted of a maximum of 15 companies listed on the OMX Iceland Stock Exchange with the highest market capitalization. At the final official review of the index effective in January 2009, 12 companies made up the index, four of which were Faroese. Calculated daily since 1998 and starting at 1,000 points, it was a market value-weighted index and the constituent companies were reviewed twice a year.
Over the year 2008 and over the entire decade 1998-2008 the OMX Iceland 15 was the worst performing stock index in the world, being heavily affected by the 2008 Icelandic financial crisis which saw a number of index constituents become insolvent, be nationalised or opt to delist from the exchange. The index was discontinued in July 2009 and replaced by the OMX Iceland 6 as the exchange's benchmark stock index, which had run concurrently for the previous six months.
OMX Iceland 15 suffered a great loss during the financial crisis in 2008. Trading in the stock market was suspended for three successive trading days, October 9, October 10, and October 13. Trading was resumed on October 14, 2008, and OMX Iceland 15 closed at 678.4, which corresponds to a fall of about 77% compared with its close at 3,004.6 on October 8, 2008. This reflected the fact that the value of the three big banks (Glitnir, Kaupthing Bank and Landsbanki Íslands) which formed 73.2 percent of the value of the OMX Iceland 15, had been set to zero.
Ice Exercise 2009 (ICEX) was a two-week US naval military exercise that took place in March 2009. Its aim was to test submarine operability and war-fighting capability in Arctic conditions. The polar region has lately become the subject of increased attention on the part of the Arctic Circle countries because of potential competition for its natural resources.
Two US Atlantic Fleet Los Angeles-class attack submarines, USS Helena and USS Annapolis, took part in the exercise.
The Russian Pacific Ocean Fleet has said it would be closely monitoring the exercise. "Any action by foreign submarines in the vicinity of Russia's maritime borders naturally demands heightened scrutiny on our part, especially in the light of an accident involving a British submarine during a previous exercise," an official from the fleet said. He also said that the Pacific Fleet would use all its reconnaissance capability deployed on the Kamchatka Peninsula to track the activities of the U.S. exercise.
Irgendwo aus England, aus 'nem finsteren Labor,
drang vor kurzem eine krasse Neuigkeit hervor.
Da ham'se wohl aus Lust und Laune experimentiert
und mit ein paar Genen so herummanipuliert.
Heraus kam ein süßes kleines Schaf,
und das bringt jetzt die Menschheit um den Schlaf!
Wie aus einem Munde fingen alle an zu schrei'n:
"Wenn man das mit Menschen macht! Das kann und darf nicht sein."
Man fordert jetzt Gesetze, die das Klonen sehr erschwer'n,
"Wo kommen wir dahin, wenn wir uns im Labor vermehr'n!"
Die Leute sagen, das wär nicht moralisch,
ich sehe das nicht ganz so theatralisch.
Denn meine Julia, die würd' ich gerne viermal klonen,
von mir aus könnten dann auch alle fünfe bei mir wohnen.
Ich finde diese Gen-Geschichte wirklich ziemlich nett,
denn bald hab' ich noch viel mehr Spaß im Bett.