Celebrating Nansen-Amundsen Year
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(Periodicals postage paid in Seattle, WA) TIME-DATED MATERIAL — DO NOT DELAY Summer Break Special Issue Don’t forget about our Welcome to the Norwegian Explorers summer break: Den viktigste livsvisdom må July 8 – August 5 vi oppdage med våre egne øyne. Special Issue See you on August 12! – Fridtjof Nansen Read more on pages 8 – 19 Norwegian American Weekly Vol. 122 No. 27 July 8, 2011 Established May 17, 1889 • Formerly Western Viking and Nordisk Tidene $1.50 per copy Norway.com News Find more at Celebrating Nansen-Amundsen Year www.norway.com News Jubilee year Starting July 1, Norwegian honors polar consumers will pay more for a number of food products, said explorers Fridtjof to be mainly due to the latest Nansen and Roald agreement on farm subsidies. Prices on flour, sugar and cook- Amundsen ing oil has also increased on the world market. The price of VISIT NORWAY sugar has increased by up to 20 www.visitnorway.com percent, NRK reports. The price increase on most food products in Norway will be around five This year’s jubilee will com- percent. memorate the life and achieve- (blog.norway.com/category/ ments of two of Norway’s most news) famous sons: Fridtjof Nansen, who was born 150 years ago this year, Business and Roald Amundsen, who, ac- The price of salmon has seen a companied by four of his men, was drastic decline in the past few the first to reach the South Pole 100 months, rocking the boat for years ago. Where in Norway can the Norwegian fishing industry you learn more about Nansen and and salmon farmers who have Amundsen? Here are a few sugges- enjoyed several years of record tions. profits. Top of your list should be the Photo: The Nansen-Amundsen-Year 2011 (blog.norway.com/category/ In 2011 two anniversaries with great significance for Norway coincide. It is 150 years since the birth of Fridtjof Nansen and business) CONTINUES PAGE 6 100 years since Roald Amundsen, accompanied by four of his men, arrived as the first at the South Pole. Sports Emilie Haavi’s late goal six Norwegian Explorers From oil and gas to wind minutes from time earned Nor- way an opening FIFA Women’s Special issue dedicated to Norway’s Statoil sharpens World Cup group stage victory courageous and pioneering explorers against Equatorial Guinea in its renewable Augsburg, Germany. (blog.norway.com/category/ energy efforts sports) STATOIL Royal Family TRH The Crown Prince and Statoil has signed two agree- Crown Princess arrived in Mo- ments for the sale of the major part naco July 1 to attend the wed- of Statoil’s onshore wind power ding between Prince Albert activities in Norway, enabling the II of Monaco and Charlene group to focus more of its efforts Wittstock. on offshore wind projects. (blog.norway.com/category/ Photo: Hild Bjelland Vik/Statoil CONTINUES PAGE 16 norways-royal-family) What’s inside? Thorkildsen back on top News 3 Business 4 Resilient javelin Research & Education 5 star wins after Opinion 6-7 battling with injury Norwegian Explorers 8-19 NORWAY POST Arts & Style 20 Photo courtesy of the National Library In Your Neighborhood 21 Fridtjof Nansen and his crew celebrated Norwegian Constitution Day on May 17, Norway's Andreas Thorkild- 1895, with flags and banners during their expedition on the Arctic Ocean. Norwegian Heritage 22 sen won the javelin competition We welcome you to our Nor- This year honors polar explorers at the Diamond League meet in $1 = NOK 5.3685 wegian Explorers special issue! Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amund- Lausanne, Switzerland, on June 30 updated 7/1/2011 With more than 40 percent sen, and the Fram Museum is cel- with a throw of 88.19m, achieved in the first round. In comparison of its territory north of the Arctic ebrating its 75th anniversary. Learn Russia's Sergey Makarov 6/1/2011 5.4445 Circle, Norway is an Arctic coun- more about the people and ships try. Norwegians have participated of these expeditions and the mark placed second with 87.12m in his 1/1/2011 5.8237 on many important expeditions to they left on the history books, start- 5th try, and Germany's Matthias de 7/1/2010 6.4185 both the Arctic and the Antarctic. ing on page 8. CONTINUES PAGE 23 Photo: andreasthorkildsen.com Does retirement feel like a distant dream? Now is the time to maximize your retirement savings with a Traditional or Roth IRA at Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. To learn more: Log on to Thrivent.com/readyforsteady Call our Financial Advice Center at 888-834-7428 Contact your fi nancial representative Find a workshop near you at Thrivent.com/fi ndaworkshop Insurance products issued or offered by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Appleton, WI. 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Quality • Reputation • Location 5311 phinney Avenue north • Seattle, WA 98103 206-781-7400 • www.norsehome.org NorwegiaN americaN weekly Online: blog.norway.com/category/news July 8, 2011 • 3 NEWs Courageous life This week on Norway.com Fridtjof Nansen honored Injured in Afghanistan The American-Scandinavian Foundation sponsors Norwegian folkart instructors on World Refugee Day Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum has received an award from the American- Scandinavian Foundation’s Andrew E. and G. Norman Wigeland Fund, New York, to help bring Norwegian folk artists to the mu- seum to teach and lecture in 2011. “We are very grateful to the American-Scandinavian Foundation for supporting our program,” Steve Johnson, Vesterheim’s Executive Di- rector, said. “The process of bringing Nor- wegian instructors to Vesterheim – with travel visas, expenses, and supplies – is complicated, and we want to be able to offer affordable classes for our students.” (Vesterheim) Photo: Emma K. Lydersen/Norway’s UN Mission To mark World Refugee Day 2011, U.N. Secretary- Train disruption starts smoothly General Ban Ki-moon and his wife attended the Nansen Lecture, which was presented by former Photo: Forsvaret Locals and tourists alike have been brac- U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Jan Egeland. Minister of Defense Grete Faremo and Chief of Defense Harald Sunde talks to the press when a new ing themselves for commuter chaos, as the report about wounded in Afghanistan is being handed over during a press conference. scheduled halt of all trains through Oslo be- gan June 27. Scheduled to last for six weeks, NORWAY ’S MISSIO N TO THE UN ITED NATIO N S AFTE np OSTE N the disruption in train traffic is due to nec- essary maintenance and improvements. The The 150th anniversary of the birth of the On July 1, the Norwegian government Of these, 26 were traumatic injuries, 20 of comprehensive renewal program for signals, great Norwegian polar explorer, scientist and released a report “Skadde i Afghanistan 2001 which were a result of hostile action. Nine switches, tracks and other rail infrastructure humanitarian, Fridtjof Nansen, was honored – 2010).” The report showed 839 Norwegians Norwegian soldier have died. The report is is meant to lead to far more reliability of a train system that has developed a terrible in New York with the U.N. Secretary-Gen- have been injured in Afghanistan since 2001. CONTINUES PAGE 19 eral Ban Ki-moon as guest of honor and the reputation of being late. “All things consid- ered, this has gone fairly well,” press officer former U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Bjørn Stuedal of NSB told Aftenposten. Jan Egeland as keynote speaker. (Views and News from Norway) Ban Ki-moon held the opening speech The spirit of adventure where he thanked Norway for its leading Monument to witchcraft trial victims role in the humanitarian field. He also said Exclusive cognac HM Queen Sonja officially opened the Steil- that his desire to help refugees and internally honors polar explorers neset memorial on Midsummer’s Eve. The displaced people was in part due to his own memorial is part of the National Tourist experience: as a six-year old during the Ko- ART PRO Routes project, and is a memorial to the 91 rean War he was forced to flee with his fam- people convicted of witchcraft and executed ily when his home was set on fire. in Finnmark County the 1600s. The monu- The setting was worthy of the great ex- This year marks the 100th anniversary ment consists of two buildings – a glass con- plorer and humanitarian – the Harvard Hall of Roald Amundsen and his crew reaching struction, which houses the work by Louise on Manhattan. The hall is not unlike the ones the South Pole. They sailed the Fram from Bourgeois, and a 125-meter-long memorial that Nansen himself visited during his lecture Oslo on June 7, 1910, and among the sup- hall with a window for each of the victims. tour about Russian refugees after World War plies were 96 bottles of cognac. (Kongehuset) I. Nansen was the world’s first High Com- The Amundsen edition is the first of five missioner for Refugees, having been ap- exclusive cognac launches, one for each of New supercomputer for NTNU pointed by the League of Nations in 1920.