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Unusual Winter for Norway (Periodicals postage paid in Seattle, WA) TIME-DATED MATERIAL — DO NOT DELAY Travel Opinion A northern Thoughts on « Det finnes ikke en eneste border church ubetydelig dag i ditt liv. » Ola og Per Read more on page 9 – Alexander Humphreys Woollcott Read more on page 6 Norwegian American Weekly Vol. 125 No. 9 March 7, 2014 Established May 17, 1889 • Formerly Western Viking and Nordisk Tidende $2.00 per copy News in brief Unusual winter for Norway International The Russian military activity This winter’s weather has set on the Crimean Peninsula is in various conflicting records breach of international law, says Norwegian Foreign Minis- throughout the country ter Børge Brende. Brende is of the opinion that Russian author- NRK / NORWAY POST ities must immediately meet the Ukranian request for a dialogue The weather in Norway this winter has been most in order to solve the crisis with- unusual, with record rainfall, record drought, and re- out the use of violence. “The cord temperatures, depending on where the reports Russian authorities must im- come from. mediately accept Ukraine’s re- The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard is usually quest for dialogue with a view Norway’s coldest place, but this winter the average to resolving the crisis without temperature for the three winter months has been 10.4 the use of violence,” the Nor- degrees above the normal, with an average of -4.6 de- wegian Foreign Minister says. grees Celsius. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) In Norway’s west coast city of Bergen, it has been the mildest winter in 153 years, with an average tem- Business perature of 4.9 degrees, 3.2 degrees above the normal! Norwegian aluminum producer The Met Office in Oslo has registered 604.5 mm Hydro will invest in a new pro- of precipitation in the winter months, 269.9 per cent duction line at its rolled prod- of the normal. ucts plant in Grevenbroich, In many places in Northern Norway, meanwhile, Photo: Ingolf Kristiansen / Strangesounds.org While most of the country has had above-average temperatures this winter, temperatures have occasion- Germany. The new line will people have never experienced a drier winter. increase annual capacity for ally plummeted fast enough to freeze fish solid in the shallow water near shore. These herring in the bay of And yes, more people than usual have had to head Lovund were probably chased ashore by cormorants or other predators and were not fast enough to escape aluminum car body sheet to for the mountains in order to use their beloved skis! out of the bay as an east wind chilled it this January. 200,000 metric tons. “In the search for light-weighting ve- hicles and reducing CO2 emis- sions, automotive customers are The road to Eurovision looking for innovative solutions New treasures in aluminum. We are therefore A look at the ins and outs of Arctic Seed Vault in Svalbard receives over increasing our production ca- pacity of state-of-the-art auto- Norway’s Melodi Grand Prix 2014 20,000 new crop strains from around the world motive body sheet,” says Ex- ecutive Vice President Oliver NORWAY POST protecting agricultural systems Bell, head of Hydro’s Rolled worldwide from disasters natural Products business area. Over 20,000 crops originating or manmade—means there are (Aftenposten / Norway Post) from over 100 countries will arrive now 820,619 samples or “acces- this week at the Svalbard Global sions” of food crops and their wild Seed Vault (SGSV), in time for the relatives stored deep in an Arctic What’s inside? vault’s sixth birthday. mountain on Norway’s remote News 2 – 3 The addition of these new Svalbard archipelago. Business 4 crops to the “Doomsday Seed Vault”—so called because it is See > VAULT, page 3 Sports 5 Opinion 6 – 7 Taste of Norway 8 Travel 9 Best male athlete Roots & Connections 10 Bjørndalen voted Obituaries & Religion 11 Photo: Henriksen Sollerman / El-cuero.com El Cuero is one of 15 Norwegian acts that will compete this weekend to represent best in Sochi In Your Neighborhood 12-13 Norway at Eurovision’s semifinals. Norwegian Heritage 14 STAFF COMPILATION the same stage. Arts & Entertainment 15 DENISE LELAND Norwegian American Weekly Each competing country has Norway’s gold medalist Ole Back Page 16 their own national contests to find Einar Bjørndalen has been voted Every year nations all across the representative to send to Eu- best male athlete of the Sochi $1 = NOK 6.0491 Europe come together to compete rovision. Norway’s qualification Olympic Winter Games by a panel updated 03/03/2014 in the widely popular singing com- competition is the Melodi Grand of sports journalists from 20 differ- In comparison petition called Eurovision. This Prix which is organized by NRK. ent countries. year the event will be held in Co- This year there are 15 compet- In Sochi, Bjørndalen won two 02/03/2014 6.2935 penhagen, Denmark where some ing acts in the Grand Prix. Three gold medals in Biathlon for the 10 09/03/2013 6.0757 37 nations will have their represen- Photo: Vow / Wikimedia Commons 03/03/2013 5.7552 tatives belting and battling it out on See > EUROVISION, page 6 See > ATHLETE, page 5 Ole Einar Bjørndalen. 2 • March 7, 2014 norwegian aMerican weekly NyhETEr Fra NorgE Nyheter Vil bygge ny by i oslo Skuffelsen E-røyk med nikotin blir tillatt EU har vedtatt et nytt tobakksdirektiv. Plan- og bygningsetaten i Oslo vil bygge en — Dermed blir e-sigaretter med niko- med Norge tin etter alt å dømme tillatt i Norge, helt ny, liten by i utkanten av hovedstaden sier forskningsleder Karl Erik Lund Hege Storhaug mener i Statens institutt for rusmiddelfor- skning.Elektroniske sigaretter er blitt innvandringsavtalen er svært populære på få år. 50.000 nord- så dårlig at Frp bør gå menn røyker nå elektronisk, og fagfolk regner med at etterspørselen blir tredo- ut av Regjeringen blet hvert år framover. Men norske e- røykere må kjøpe nikotinen sin på net- AFTENPOSTEN tet, fordi salg over disk er forbudt her i landet. Butikker kan bare selge selve For Human Rights Service er avtalen om apparatet. Nå tyder mye på at forbu- innvandringspolitikken en enorm skuffelse det står for fall. EU-parlamentet har på vegne av Norge. Avtalen er så svak at Frp vedtatt et nytt direktiv som regulerer bør gå ut av Regjeringen, sier informasjon- produksjonen og markedsføringen sleder Hege Storhaug til Aftenposten. av tobakk. For første gang stiller eu- Etter at Frp kom i Regjering valgte ropeiske myndigheter krav til e-siga- barne-, likestillings- og inkluderingsminister rettenes kvalitet og sikkerhet. Med det Foto: NRK Solveig Horne (Frp) å øke den økonomiske nye direktivet, som også gjelder for Den nye byen vil huse ca 20 000 mennesker. støtten til den innvandringskritiske organ- Norge, godkjenner EU fritt salg av e- isasjonen Human Rights Service (HRS) med røyk som ikke inneholder mer enn 20 NRK så det. Butikker og bibliotek, kirke og kul- 80 prosent. milligram nikotin per milliliter væske. turhus, barnehager og fem skoler, svømme- I et blogginnlegg på nettsiden til HRS (NRK) Mandag blir planene for en helt ny by hall og to idrettshaller, fotballbaner, parker skriver Storhaug: “Hadde jeg vært i Frps le- på det som fortsatt er jomfruelig mark på og torg. Og en ny T-bane med to underjord- delse, hadde jeg takket nei til å føre den nye Svendsen stjernen grensen til Ski offentliggjort. De første 4500 iske stasjoner. politikken og ruslet tilbake til Stortinget.” Det norske G17-landslaget leverte boligene på Gjersrud-Stensrud kan bygges Alt dette og mer til skal etter hvert på — Avtalen er ikke til å leve med for Frp, varene fredag og vant kampen mot uten at T-banen er forlenget fra Mortensrud. plass der det i dag er skog, vann og åkre, sier Storhaug. Island 2-1. Sander Svendsen doblet En splitter ny by i utkanten av Oslo er noen gårdsbruk og et pukkverk. Avtalen om innvandringspolitikken de ledelsen fra straffemerket i andreom- ikke hverdagskost. Det er det Plan- og byg- Men i Oslos nye kommuneplan, som pe- neste fire årene mellom Regjeringen og Ven- gang. — Fremgangen har vært stor ningsetaten foreslår når de i dag sender den ker på hvor byens boliger skal bygges fram stre/KrF ble lagt frem på en pressekonferan- helt siden Kypros-samlingen i fjor. I såkalte områdereguleringen for Gjersrud- til 2030, ble den store Gjersrud-Stensrud- sen fredag formiddag. dag nådde vi et nytt nivå, og prestasjo- Stensrud ut på høring, sier avdelingsdirektør utbyggingen langt på vei skrinlagt. Storhaug understreket at hun er spesielt nene var veldig gledelig. Det var posi- Morten Wasstøl. – Skal man ha en tyngre utvikling, så skuffet over Høyre, som ikke var villige til å tivt både defensivt og offensivt, sier — Når vi nå skal ta i bruk denne areal- ligger en utvikling av dette området gan- godta innføring av et såkalt tilknytningskrav landslagstrener Øivind Nilsen. Land- reserven, så har vi ønsket å bygge et spen- ske langt ut i tid fordi man trenger da skin- i forbindelse med familiegjenforeningssaker slagstreneren hadde store ord om laget nende bymiljø. Det vil si ikke bare et ensidig negående kollektivtrafikk, sa byutviklings- — det vil si et krav om at ektefeller skal ha etter fredagens kamp, men trekker spe- bomiljø, men et sted hvor du finner alle typer byråd Bård Folke Fredriksen til NRK. større samlet tilknytning til Norge enn annet land for å få opphold. sielt Molde-talentet Sander Svendsen. boliger og alle typer funksjoner. En liten by English Synopsis: The Planning and Building Ser- Nilsen ser tydelig utvikling til tross sør i Oslo, sier Wasstøl.
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