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LÖGBERG HEIMSKRINGLA The Icelandic Community Newspaper • 1 August 2013 • Number 15 / Númer 15 • 1. ágúst 2013 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40012014 INSIDE 2013 Festivals INL OF NA CALENDAR PHOTO BY MATS WIBE LUND Calendar, movie, common theme INL of NA calendar and Donald K Johnson Icelandic Hecla Film Series both feature volcanoes / page 9 Mountain PHOTO: SHIRLEY J. OLGEIRSON August the Deuce Icelandic history, heritage, culture and people blend with a tractor and pick up pulling Iceland contest / page 12 PHOTOS COURTESY OF INIBORG SIGURDSON PHINNEY Hafstein and Ingibörg Smallpox epidemics, Louis Riel, a gift of apples – remembering cherished relatives / page 20 Gimli Mountain HECLA The parade is the highlight of the Hecla August 2 celebrations. Or, perhaps, in Hecla, the planning and the preparing of the floats, and keeping the subject of finished entries a secret until parade time might be the most fun. Families make their own floats, and, in Hecla, all entries are considered equal. There are no prizes. PHOTO COURTESY OF MAXINE INGALLS VIKING FESTIVAL IN ICELAND Master carver Jón Adolf Steinólfsson (pictured at right with Bernharður Filip Bernharð) is living proof that Vikings were fine craftsmen as well as fine fighters. Jón demonstrated his talents during theR eykjavík Viking Festival. While the craftsmanship is authentic, the demonstrations of strength and skill just might not be as serious as they were in the days of the sagas. PHOTO: Roman GERASYMENKO PhotoGRaphY © (ImaGE CopYRIGhtED anD maY not to BE DOWNLOADED, SHARED OR REPRODUCED) FESTIVAL OF MANITOBA IN GIMLI Where there be Vikings, there be fighting. At least that's how the rest of the world understands the Viking world. However, at the Gimli Viking Village where Viking reenactors are celebrating their 10th anniversary of encampment during the Icelandic Festival of Manitoba, Íslendingadagurinn, Vikings can also be found cooking, weaving, repairing equipment, entertaining their children, talking to visitors, or out sailing in their square-sailed ship. PhotoS: LINDA GooDman © (ImaGES ARE COPYRIGHTED AND ARE NOT TO BE DOWNLOADED, SHARED OR REPRODUCED) MOUNTAIN Music is a traditional part of any August 2 celebration, and a major part of that tradition is the performances by visiting troupes from Iceland. The Vefarinn Dance Group, Dansfélagið Vefarinn from Akureyri entertained in Mountain, ND at The Deuce of August. Mountain and The Deuce is the official site of the North Dakota State Tractor and Pickup Pulling Contest , but this tractor, driven by David Hillman pulls a wagon with members of the INL of NA in the Mountain parade. PHOTOS: SHIRLEY J OLGEIRSON. Visit us on the web at http://www.lh-inc.ca 2 • Lögberg-Heimskringla • August 1 2013 Kate Einarson winner of the People's Choice Award for her three-minute thesis PHOTOS COURTESY OF KATE EINARSON Kate Einarson, shown above during her award-winning thesis presentation Katherine Cheater Neuroscience and Behaviour at by Kate's thesis advisor, award- and cognitive, emotional, motor, music exposure on infants Winnipeg, MB McMaster University. The day winning professor Dr. Laurel and social skills." To begin, over a period of six months. after this announcement, my Trainor. Called the LIVE Lab, she tests infants and children "Active listening involved a he bulletin on McMaster interview with Kate revealed and dedicated to the scientific with no musical training and parent clapping, moving, or University website an atmosphere of supreme study of music, this 96-seat then compares them to other singing while holding an infant Tread, "The people have enthusiasm in her research interactive concert venue groups, like children with and making music. Passive spoken! The winner of the first- group, which supports three will have 30 seats fitted with musical training, children listening involved a parent ever People's Choice Award for dynamic labs. scientific instruments capable with developmental delays, or playing with the infant while 3MT is Kate Einarson, whose While I reviewed Kate's of measuring every physical children of different ages. Her listening to recorded music. three-minute thesis, Finding current work in the separate response and brain response in investigation involves basic Interestingly, participation the Beat in Music: The Role labs of neuroscience and stage performers and audience questions around auditory in active music-making led of Culture, Cognitive Abilities behaviour, I also stepped alike. A 21st-century Yamaha processing, that is, how good to increased communicative and Motor Skills, struck a carefully over and around version of the player piano, are subjects at “finding the behaviour in infants: more note with online viewers.” work being done on a facility designed to measure timing, beat”. gesturing, pointing, smiling, Kate is a PhD candidate in the unlike any other on the planet, weight and sequence of every As for applying her laughing, vocalization; and Department of Psychology, initiated and brought to fruition key-strike, will sit onstage. work to deficits in cognitive, more attentiveness to the tonal Imagining possible research emotional, and social skills, centre of the music." outcomes provides a glimpse Kate acknowledges that Kate delights in of the wild excitement both until standards for typical communicating such research defining and surrounding this development are established, findings to many various department. it cannot be decided whose community groups in the BLAIR HOLM While much anecdotal skills are atypical. To this end, Hamilton area and beyond. evidence exists for the she appreciates the "huge She has recently made relationship between music array of people involved in presentations to music teachers, education and higher degrees of every branch of our research”, parent groups, and classes of functioning, Kate emphasizes because the McMaster Institute university undergraduate and that this relationship is not for Music and the Mind has graduate students. To watch yet well understood. She collaborators at universities all her award-winning 3MT is therefore interested in over Canada in departments of talk, visit www.youtube.com/ measuring how musical Engineering, Kinesiology and atch?v=87ES37yTWjo Sutton Group Kilkenny Real Estate knowledge relates to others Music Therapy. In this vein, What's next? Within a year or skills, "not necessarily to Kate cites a study recently so, Kate will defend her doctoral produce a math genius or to win completed by her research group thesis, at which point she will a Nobel Prize, but to understand that measured the comparative begin a post-doctoral research the relationship between music effect of active or passive fellowship...unless she finds a Winnipeg Homes job, “working with children, teaching, and communicating and Condos about research”, that can satisfy her heart's desire. Gimli Auto Ltd. is a family owned Born in Brandon, and operated business for over 25 Manitoba, Kate spent most of her childhood in Selkirk. After years! We also believe that buying graduating with Distinction in a vehicle is a major purchase that linguistics and psychology from should be enjoyable! Come to a the University of Manitoba non-pressured dealership for your she began pursuing a PhD in next vehicle. A place where : developmental psychology and “The Friendship Begins” music cognition at McMaster University in Hamilton, 204.475.9130 Ontario. She has also been a Box 1980 Gimli, Manitoba R0C 1B0 PHONE: (204) 642-5137 TOLL FREE:1-888-424-4654 music instructor and continues blairholm.ca Russell Einarson Sales Manager FAX: (204-642-7482 to teach violin, piano, and early childhood music while working www.gimliford.com on her doctorate. Visit us on the web at http://www.lh-inc.ca Lögberg-Heimskringla • 1 ágúst 2013 • 3 INL of NA Hecla Parade planned for Fjallkona or Fiskikona Executive meeting highlights optimum fun Compiled by Rob Olason Bellingham, WA t the Seattle convention, participants agreed that AINL executive meeting highlights should be provided to L-H and other outlets as a way to keep the membership informed about activities, pro- grams, events and future plans. This information can be shared freely via newsletter, email, dis- cussion, or on Club websites. 2014 INL of NA Convention in Winnipeg The INL of NA 2014 Winnipeg Convention Update: The planning committee is laying the convention groundwork, establishing work groups and developing fund-raising events. The groups will get very busy in TOP PHOTO COURTESY OF MAXINE INGALLS the fall, applying final touches PHOTO (R): KENDRA JÓNASSON to the convention plans. Maxine Ingalls Hecla parade entries are Hecla, MB Exploring On-Line kept secret until The Day Convention Registration he Fjallkona has been an On-line convention regis- honoured position in Canada since 1924. She is the symbolic tration is being explored for PHOTO: MAXINE INGALLS Trepresentative of Mother Iceland and her children being future INL of NA conventions. Maxine Ingalls those of Icelandic descent. BUT a mother looks after the needs of A recommendation will be Hecla, MB her children so her responsibilities include cooking, cleaning and made at the September INL keeping her family well fed. So don't be surprised when you see of NA meeting. The Winnipeg ach August long weekend on Sunday afternoon at one that the Fjallkona is just as ordinary as anyone else once she takes convention may be the first p.m., there is an annual Parade held in the Hecla Village off the regal attire. You never know what you may find at Hecla to take advantage of this new Eon Hecla Island. Everyone is invited and encouraged when you come to visit Maxine – she could be making kleinur for registration process. to participate whether with a float, decorated lawn tractor, or the Fishermen's service, pönnukökur for the afternoon or doing up bicycle. It is great fun for families to get together and be creative. pickerel cheeks during the fishing season. It's all in a day's work.

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