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A Century of Gjøa Not Easy Being a Swede in Norway (Periodicals postage paid in Seattle, WA) TIME-DATED MATERIAL — DO NOT DELAY Norwegian Heritage Travel Interview with children’s author and Det er viktig for den oppdagelsereisende at han er villig illustrator Kari Stai til å bli ledet på villspor. Pack your bags! Annual Travel Issue Read more on page 18 – Roger van Oech Read more on pages 9 – 14 Norwegian American Weekly Vol. 122 No. 11 March 18, 2011 Established May 17, 1889 • Formerly Western Viking and Nordisk Tidene $1.50 per copy Norway.com News Find more at Not easy being a Swede in Norway www.norway.com News of Norway Swedes put Prime Minister Jens Stolten- berg sent his condolences to his up with a lot in Japanese colleague Naoto Kan, Norway, and not following the major earthquake that struck Japan. “Our thoughts just on the ski trails are with all those who have lost their loved ones and those who are injured,” Stoltenberg wrote. NI N A BERGLU N D Underlining the close relations Views and News from Norway between Norway and Japan, Stoltenberg said Norway stands Northug angered a lot of ready to assist Japanese authori- ties in any way. Swedes and quite a few Norwe- (blog.norway.com/category/ gians as well, when he sashayed news) over the finish line in the men’s relay during the world champion- News of Norway ships, and seemed to try to block Norwegian Prime Minister Jens it for his Swedish rival coming up Stoltenberg and Special Adviser fast behind him, Marcus Hellner. Tore Godal from the Ministry A few days later, Northug won of Foreign Affairs have been in- the men’s 50-kilometer endurance cluded on a list of the 100 most contest, badly beating Hellner inspiring people with regard to again. His relentless teasing of the U.N. Millennium Development Swedes continued. Photo: Stian Broch/Oslo 2011 Goal 5 of improving maternal When Norwegian skiing star Petter Northug tried to humiliate his Swedish arch rival Marcus Hellner (pictured above) at the health. CONTINUES PAGE 6 world championships, it was just the latest in a long list of recent jabs against Norway’s neighbors. (blog.norway.com/category/ news) Sports Get lost in Norway A century of Gjøa Norway’s Håvard Bøkko won Travel writer and guide Dave Fox talks gold on the men’s 1500m event Venerable soccer at the World Speed Skating about his favorite Norwegian places club in Brooklyn, Championship at Inzell, Ger- many on March 10, ahead of N.Y., honors 100 U.S.’s Shani Davis, the defend- years this year ing champion. Bøkko clipped Davis by 0.05 seconds. Lucas CHRISTY OLSE N FIELD Makowsky of Canada came Managing Editor third. This was Bøkko’s first in- dividual speed skating gold. This is certainly a year for (blog.norway.com/category/ celebration: Norwegian explorer sports) Roald Amundsen is recognized this year for reaching the South Pole the Atlantic to the Pacific through What’s inside? 100 years ago. But his initial fame the Northwest Passage, a goal that News 2-3 came in 1906, when he and his had eluded explorers for centuries. Business 4 crew became the first to sail from CONTINUES PAGE 17 Research & Education 5 Opinion 6-7 Art of layers and lines Roots & Connections 8 Artist Eva Isaksen at Special Travel Section 9 -14 Duane Reed Gallery Obituaries & Religion 15 Photo courtesy of Dave Fox Dave Fox is an award-winning travel writer, and he spends several months in Eu- in St. Louis, Mo. Arts & Style 16 rope each year as a tour guide for Rick Steves’ Europe Through the Back Door. In Your Neighborhood 17 SPE C IAL RELEASE Norwegian Heritage 18 GLE nn ERIKSE N Mill Creek, Wash. The Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis, Mo., presents the latest $1 = NOK 5.6038 There was something different but it didn’t look like anything he’d work of Norwegian artist Eva Isak- updated 3/14/2011 about the meat. seen before. Since he and his group sen. The solo exhibition opened In comparison “It was the most tender meat were dining at Elvesæter, a moun- March 11 and runs through April 2/14/2011 5.8182 I’d ever tasted,” says Dave Fox, tain lodge in Norway, he figured it 23, 2011. 9/14/2010 6.2315 veteran tour guide for Rick Steves’ had to be local game of some sort. Eva Isaksen is a visual artist, 3/14/2010 5.9209 Europe Through the Back Door, CONTINUES PAGE 14 CONTINUES PAGE 16 Photo courtesy of Duane Reed Gallery 2 • March 18, 2011 norwegian aMerican weekly ANNuAl Travel iSSuE STOPOVER IN ICELAND AT NO ADDITIONAL AIRFARE SEATTLE HELSINKI TRONDHEIM STOCKHOLM OSLO BERGEN GOTHENBURG ICELAND COPENHAGEN STAVANGER BERLIN BILLUND HAMBURG FRANKFURT REYKJAVIK AMSTERDAM GLASGOW MUNICH MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL MANCHESTER BRUSSELSMILAN LONDON PARIS BARCELONA TORONTO ALICANTE MADRID NORDIC ROUTES NEW YORK BOSTON HALIFAX WASHINGTON D.C. WITH NORDIC ROOTS ORLANDO BERGEN I BILLUND I COPENHAGEN I GOTHENBURG I HELSINKI OSLO I STAVANGER I STOCKHOLM I TRONDHEIM I REYKJAVIK + Icelandair's 2011 summer schedule will feature more departures from North America and more destinations in Scandinavia. To book, contact your travel agent, call (800)223-5500 or visit www.icelandair.us WWW.ICELANDAIR.US norwegian aMerican weekly Online: blog.norway.com/category/news March 18, 2011 • 3 NEWS Most punctual Gasoline prices hit all-time high This week on Norway.com New Taxation for Development program airport in Europe Rising oil prices and On March 11, State Secretary Ingrid Fiskaa a strong Norwegian launched the new Taxation for Develop- ment program, which is aimed at helping krone costs drivers at poor countries to increase their own tax rev- enues. “Increased tax revenues will better the pump enable poor countries to finance their own development and make them less dependent on external assistance. The intention has NI N A BERGLU N D Views and News from Norway never been that taxes in recipient countries should be replaced by aid,” said Ms. Fiskaa. The new program focuses on helping part- Even though Norway is an oil-producing ner countries to devise better systems for nation, it’s always had high prices for gaso- collecting taxes from citizens, carrying out line (petrol) because of heavy taxes to dis- research on taxation and capital flight and courage use of private cars. Now the prices sharing the findings with poor countries, and are higher than ever before, because of ris- encouraging public debate and interest in ing oil prices and the strong Norwegian cur- issues related to taxation and capital flight. rency. The violence in Libya, meanwhile, is Zambia, Mozambique and Tanzania are the fueling the high oil prices and Norway wants first three countries Norway is cooperating with in this field. to stay out of it unless there’s U.N. support Photo: Yngve Ask/Innovation Norway Photo: Jarle Nyttingnes / Oslo Lufthavn AS (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) for any NATO involvement. For the first time ever, gas prices in Norway sur- When converted to U.S. dollars, Nor- passed NOK 14 per liter (USD 2.50). VISIT OSL O “Happy, Happy” joins MoMa’s New wegians are now paying more than USD 10 week, meaning it costs motorists as much as Directors, New Films a gallon for the standard grade of unleaded FlightStats named Oslo Airport Garder- NOK 600 (USD 107) or more now to fill up gasoline (called 95 blyfri). Newspaper Da- Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky’s fea- moen (OSL) the most punctual major airport their tanks. ture debut, “Happy, Happy” (Sykt lykkelig), gens Næringsliv (DN) reports that posted in Europe at the 2010 On-Time Performance State oil company Statoil was charging which won the World Cinema Grand Jury prices at Shell stations in Norway, for exam- Service Awards. even more, with its list price for unleaded at Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, has ple, hit NOK 14.12 per liter for unleaded this CONTINUES PAGE 16 CONTINUES PAGE 15 been selected for the 40th edition of New York’s New Directors, New Films, which runs March 23 – April 3. Organized by the Pioneer in osmotic power Tea parties aim Museum of Modern Art and the Film Soci- ety Lincoln Center, the program of 28 films Norway at the forefront introduces New York audiences to the work to integrate emerging directors from around the world. of osmotic power, which (Norwegian Film Institute) STA ff CO MPILATI on could power half of Views and News from Norway Tarjei Bø named world champion Europe’s energy needs The 22-year-old biathlon star from Stryn More than a thousand residents of Oslo became Norway’s latest world champion participated in unusual “tea parties,” spon- VALERIA CRIS C I on E on March 8 with a gold medal in the 20 km Nortrade sored by a local organization dedicated to race. Bø started his winning streak with a tackling racism. Muslim families and immi- gold medal as a member of the Norwegian grants from Africa, for example, were open- team of two women and two men who won Statkraft currently generates enough os- ing their homes to ethnic Norwegians and gold in the mixed relay. Then Bø went on to motic power at its prototype power plant in simply inviting them in for tea. win two more bronze medals before winning Tofte, the world’s first, to barely run an elec- “At our home, we always have room for gold again in what’s considered one of the tric kettle. The estimated technical potential more,” Karim Fariss told newspaper Aften- most important biathlon events at the world of osmotic power globally is similar to half posten as the scent of newly baked muffins championships.
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