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(Periodicals postage paid at Seattle, WA) TIME DATED MATERIAL — DO NOT DELAY This week on Norway.com This week in the paper Crossing Gratulerer med Greenland for Glede drar glede med seg. dagen! the Stine Sofie -Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Foundation 17th of May Read more at blog.norway.com Special Issue Norwegian American Weekly Vol. 121, No. 18, May 7, 2010 7301 Fifth Avenue NE Suite A, Seattle, WA 98115 Tel (800) 305-0217 • www.norway.com $1.50 per copy Online News Dateline Oslo Norway is the best place to be Gratulerer med dagen! a mother Each year on May Save the Children released this week their 11th annual Mothers’ 17, Norwegians Index, which ranks the best and and Norwegian- worst places to be a mother. The Mothers’ Index is highlighted in Americans fill Save the Children’s State of the the streets with World’s Mothers 2010 report, which examines the many ways cheers and flags women working on the front lines of health care are help- in celebration ing to save the lives of mothers, of Norway’s newborns and young children. Norway ranked first in the list- constitution ing, followed by Australia. The United States is ranked 28, and RO YAL NO RWEGIAN EMBASSY Afghanistan ranked last. (McClatchy Newspapers) The May 17 celebrations vary from place to place, but usually Norwegian krone to rally on follow a traditional pattern that tight rate rise makes this the highlight of the Policymakers will raise rates year for most Norwegian children. a quarter percentage point to 2 A must in the celebrations are the Photo: Pbase.com percent this week, sparking a Norwegian Constitution Day barnetog (children’s parade) in Trondheim, Norway. CONTINUES PAGE 6 rally in the krone to 7.7 per euro within days of the decision, said Erik Bruce, an economist in Oslo Norway and Russia reach Ansten Samuelstuen enters U.S. at Nordea Bank. Half of the 16 Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame economists in a Bloomberg sur- maritime agreement vey predict the bank will raise Norwegian-American was an rates to 2 percent while the other “A historic day,” said Stoltenberg half forecast rates will remain outstanding ski jumper with victories in on 1.75 percent. “The weaker Norway, Canada, and the United States economic data we’ve seen lately and the stronger krone won’t pre- vent the bank from hiking rates, although it’s a close call. A rate hike will only strengthen the flight to quality into the krone as Norway’s economy is considered to be only marginally influenced by what’s going on the in the euro-zone.” (BusinessWeek) What’s inside? News 3 Op-Ed 4-5 Photo: Office of the Prime Minister Business 6 President Medvedev and Prime Minister Stoltenberg at the joint signing ceremony Photo courtesy of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame at Akershus April 27. Samuelstuen in competition in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Sports 7 the Russian Federation. It is based SP ECIAL RELEASE time national champion and a four- 17th of May Special OFFICE O F THE PRIME MINISTER 8-14 on the joint declaration, signed by U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame time North American champion. Prime Minister Stoltenberg and He competed on two U.S. Olympic Faith & Religion 15 “This is a historic day. We Ansten Samuelstuen was in- President Medvedev. teams being the nation’s top ski have reached a breakthrough in the ducted into the United States Ski Taste of Norway 16 The issue of the maritime de- jumper at the Squaw Valley Olym- most important outstanding issue and Snowboard Hall of Fame April limitation between Norway and the pic Games. Arts & Entertainment 17 between Norway and the Russian 9 during ceremonies held at Bea- Russian Federation in the Barents During his career he collected Federation,” said Prime Minister ver Creek, Colo. Calendar of Events 18 Sea and the Arctic Ocean has been 300 prizes and trophies in junior, Jens Stoltenberg. Samuelstuen was an outstand- the object of extensive negotiations national and international compe- The agreement was announced ing ski jumper with many victories over the last 40 years. The nego- tition. In 1956, he won two FIS $1 = NOK 5.9356 April 27 in a joint statement by the in Norway prior to immigrating to updated 5/3/10 Foreign Ministers of Norway and sanctioned events in Lillestrom CONTINUES PAGE 8 the United States. He was a three- CONTINUES PAGE 7 We don’t just take you to Alaska. We bring more of Alaska to you. For more than 60 years, Holland America Line has oered the nest selection of vacations to Alaska and the Yukon. 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Ships’ Registry: The Netherlands. 17TH OF MAY 3 Fewer voters changed Train crash due to safety failure This week on Norway.com political party Immigrants from 216 countries Investigators say a lack of safety precautions was There were 459,300 immigrants and Thirty percent of those who the cause of a train crash at an Oslo industrial port 93,000 Norwegian-born to immigrant par- voted in 2005 switched to ents in Norway at the beginning of 2010. another party in 2009, which that killed three dock workers March 24 The immigrants come from 216 different is significantly lower than countries and independent regions. The in- crease in the number of immigrants during previous elections AFTEN po STEN 2009 is mostly a result of immigration from Europe. The population growth among im- STATISTICS NO RWAY On May 3, the Nor- migrants from Europe constituted 21,800 out of a total population growth among im- According to a new Storting electoral wegian Accident Investi- gation Board presented its migrants of 36,700 persons. The number of survey, the tendency of increasing party- immigrants from Asia and Africa increased switch is broken. Most switching goes be- preliminary report on the train accident at Sjursøya. by 9,500 and 4,400 respectively. tween parties that are ideologically close to (Statistics Norway) each other. These are some of the findings According to the re- port, human error in the published from the Electoral Study today. Couple charged with au pair abuse The study was conducted by Statistics Nor- freight terminal was the A Norwegian couple living on Oslo’s af- way and the Institute for Social Research. main cause of the accident. fluent west side has been charged with ex- Party-switching increased in every elec- More specifically, it was a Photo: Merete Gamst/VGTV ploiting and sexually abusing two young tion from 1985, and reached a peak in 2005. “confusion between the women from the Philippines, who came Thirty-nine percent of voters switched party shift leader and engineer” not have this safety tool: the two outermost to Norway on au pair contracts. The case from 2001 to 2005. In 2009, party-switching that led to the cars to roll. tracks G4 and G5, which were built in the points up the lack of protection many au dropped significantly to 31 percent. We need Exactly what was said between the two 1990s. pairs can face in Norway. Both of the wom- to go back 20 years to find equally low num- is not clear, but it is clear that the engineer re- “After the cars left Alnabru, there were en are in their 20s and said they sent all of bers for party-switching in Norway. leased the train’s brakes. The reason for this no barriers that could stop them,” the report their earnings home to their impoverished As the parties have different strengths, was that he believed the cars were connected said. families in the Philippines. They said they we do not comment on figures for specific to the switch engine, which is used to extract “We present a preliminary report. It is didn’t dare deny the Norwegian couple’s parties. However, we note that only 4 percent and stop vehicles on the tracks.