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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 Genetic secrets The Annual of cod If the only prayer you said in your whole life Christmas revealed was, “thank you,” that would suffice. Gift Guide - Meister Eckhart Read more Read more at www.blog.norway.com on page 8 Norwegian American Weekly Vol. 120, No. 42 November 20, 2009 7301 Fifth Avenue NE Suite A, Seattle, WA 98115 Tel (800) 305-0217 • www.norway.com $1.50 per copy Online News Dateline Oslo Carlsen best in the world Cisco boosts bid for Norway’s chess ace Tandberg to $3.41 billion Magnus Carlsen (19) now tops the world Cisco Systems has bumped up ranking list, after he its buyout offer to $3.41 billion beat Hungarian former for video conferencing compa- world champion Peter Leko in the last match of ny Tandberg. The new bid ex- the Tal Memorial chess pires December 1. Cisco said tournament in Moscow that if the bid isn’t accepted by Nov. 14 that deadline, it will withdraw SPE C IAL RELEASE the bid and look at other ways Norwegian American Weekly Staff to expand its reach in the video conferencing market. For the second time in his chess career, Magnus Carlsen has (CNET) reached the number one spot in the rankings. The last time he achieved this was in September 2008 during Trade balance up the tournament in Bilbao, after round four. Exports of goods reached Photo: Chessbase.com CONTINUES PAGE 22 Carlsen finished the event in Russia as the top ranked player in the world. NOK 65 billion in October, Tschudi inducted into hall of fame while imports came to NOK Engaging in dialogue 37.5 billion. Both exports and Norwegian ski legend Leaders of the Norwegian-American community Otto Tschudi inducted imports increased compared come together for the annual U.S.-Norway Forum into the Colorado Ski to the previous months, and and Snowboard Hall the trade balance reached the of Fame Nov. 7 highest value since July at SPE C IAL RELEASE NOK 27.4 billion. University of Denver (Statistics Norway) Three-year-old Otto Tschudi (BSBA ’75) had been skiing well What’s inside? over a year when the 1952 Winter Olympics arrived outside his door News 2-3 in Norefjell, Norway. His parents Business 4 owned a hotel on the edge of the Sports 5 CONTINUES PAGE 5 Photo: Yvonne Tschudi Op-Ed 6-7 Looking for a great gift? Roots & Connections 8 Faith & Religion 9 We’ve got plenty Travels to Norway 10 of ideas on how to The Taste of Norway 11 bring Norway home Christmas Gift Guide 12-19 Photo: Christy Olsen Field for the holidays in Inger Tallaksen, General Manager of the Norwegian American Chamber of our annual Christmas In Your Neighborhood 20 Commerce, is the recipient of the 2009 Ambassador’s Award, given by Johan C. Vibe, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Royal Norwegian Embassy. gift guide! Arts and Entertainment 21 Calendar of Events 22 CHRIST OLSEN FIELD the annual U.S.-Norway Forum. The fun starts on Copy Editor Founded in 1997, the U.S.- Norway Forum brings together the page 12. $1 = NOK 5.56 On Nov. 12, leaders from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Norwegian-American community Affairs, Norwegian-American updated 11/16/09 Photo: Thomas Skyum/Innovation 10/23/09 $1=NOK 5.56 convened in Seattle, Wash. for CONTINUES PAGE 23 Norway 2 NORGE - UKE N SOM GIKK Kidnappet av amatører -De lot meg få snakke med UD på norsk på min egen mobiltelefon, forteller Pål Refsdal som et av eksemplene på at kidnapperne var amatører Pål Refsdal mener kidnapperne var am- «Den annen side», som skulle handle om atører og at frykten for å bli refset av egne hverdagslivet hos Taliban. sjefer gjorde at nordmannen og tolken ble Pål Refsdal kom til Norge 15. novem- satt fri. ber, og var ifølge ham selv uforberedt på den Han mener det at de var uerfarne var til store medie-interessen rundt kidnappingen. stor hjelp for at han ble satt fri uten at det ble Han satt for å svare på spørsmål, og betalt hverken løsepenger, frigitt fanger eller håper å slippe medietrykket etter det. 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If not, President Afghanistan Karzai’s new administration A Norwegian freelance journalist, Pål Ref- may risk losing support sdal, kidnapped a week ago in eastern Af- Photo: UN Photo/ Eric Kanalstein ghanistan has been released along with his Officers of Afghanistan National Police take cover Afghan interpreter, the Foreign Ministry SPE C IAL REP O RT as they guard the office of Governor of Bamiyan said Nov.12.