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! SONS OF NORWAY FAGERNES LODGE 5-616! JULY-AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2015 Skål to Aquavit Made in the pairings options. Infused with fresh dill, caraway seed and juniper berry USA this aquavit is sure to catch you by pleasant surprise. Learn more at When you think of aquavit you Upcoming Events www.gamleode.com probably think of Norway’s Linie July 29, 2015 Aquavit, the most widely available in Aquavit – Private Reserve – the US, right? Well did you know Distilled by North Shore Distillery, 1:00 p.m. there are several aquavits on the just north of Chicago, Illinois, this market that are distilled right here in private reserve aquavit is spicy and Trip to Norskedalen - the United States? Derived from the savory all at once. With a hint of the see page 5 words aqua vitae, Latin for water of oak barrel it ages in, the yellowish life, aquavit is a popular spirit has been described as August 22, 2015 Scandinavian liquor and Norway’s “Incredibly smooth and seductively national drink. Typically yellowish in aromatic” and “Rich, full-bodied and noon - potluck tint and distilled with grain or complex.” Read more at potatoes, the liquor is spiced with a www.northshoredistillery.com. Picnic in the Blair Park variety of herbs including caraway, cardamom, cumin, anise, fennel, and Krogstad Aquavit – Distilled by Sing-a-long citrus peel. Here are four of the more House Spirits Distillery in Portland, September 26, prominent American made Aquavits: Oregon’s famous Distillery Row, 2015 Krogstad Aquavit is crafted with Vikre Øvrevann – Based in Duluth, ethically sourced ingredients. House 1:00 p.m. Minnesota, Vikre Distillery creates Spirits Distillery crafts Krogstad so it their liquor with local grains and can be enjoyed on its own, with ice, some Northwood’s love. Literally Cultural Program by or in a cocktail. 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He’d be Save your printer cartridges (Norwegian for old ode) most popular happy to talk to you! and bring them to LaVonne. aquavit because of its unique We get $2.00 credit for refreshing flavor and versatile each cartridge to use toward ! new cartridges and paper! July-Aug-Sept 2015 "1 Fagernes Lodge 5-616 ! a little in English… Saunas are Good has similar effects as exercising. But it can also be that the sauna is good because those men can easily relax in for the Heart the heat, often in good company, comments the editor of the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, Rita F. Redberg. Hot, relaxing, sweaty and communal. The sauna is an essential part of the Finnish culture. So it is maybe not The researchers have not investigated the mental health so surprising that Finnish scientists are taking the time of the participants, and there are many other to study the effects of the sauna on people. A new study characteristics of the participants that were not taken investigates whether saunas have an effect on male into account. Perhaps there is something inherently mortality. All of the men in the study were regular sauna unique about those who choose to sauna frequently. users. Researchers wanted to find out whether there was More research is definitely needed to find out what it is a difference between those who spent a lot of time in that links men who sauna with living longer. saunas and those who were more infrequent users. litt på norsk...Badstue bra for hjertet In the 1980s they asked a random selection of 2,315 middle aged men from Eastern Finland about their Varme, avslapning, svetting og fellesskap. Badstue er en sauna habits. Afterwards, they checked in on those were del av finsk kultur. Da er det kanskje ikke så rart at det still alive 21 years later. It turned out that there was a nettopp er finske forskere som bruker tid på å undersøke higher mortality rate among those who took a sauna hva badstua gjør med folk. En ny studie går grundig til once a week than those who warmed themselves two to verks for å se om den har noe å si for dødsfall blant three times a week. Those who went four to seven times menn. Alle mennene i studien brukte badstue. Forskerne a week ran even lower risks of death. And those risks ville finne ut om det var en forskjell blant dem som didn’t just resonate with those who died of heart failure tilbrakte mye tid der og dem som stakk sjeldnere innom. and cardiovascular diseases. It also resonated with those På 1980-tallet spurte de et tilfeldig utvalg på 2315 who died of other causes. middelaldrende, østfinske menn om badstuevanene deres. Deretter så de hvem som levde 21 år seinere. The duration of the sauna visit was also significant. The men who spend more than 19 minutes in the sauna each Det viste seg at det var høyere dødelighet blant dem time ran only half the risk of dying from heart failure som tok badstue én gang i uka enn blant dem som than those who were in less than 11 minutes each time. varmet seg to-tre ganger per uke. De som var i innom The amount of time spent in the sauna, however, had no fire til sju ganger i uka, hadde enda lavere risiko for å direct impact on general mortality rates. Those who dø. Og det gjaldt ikke bare dem som døde av hjertestans were more frequent sauna visitors chose to use them at og karsykdommer. Det gjaldt også dem som døde av lower temperatures. The average sauna temperature andre årsaker. during this test was 80 degrees Fahrenheit. So those who took a trip to the sauna at least four times a week Varigheten på badstubesøket hadde også betydning. kept the heat down to 77 degrees Fahrenheit. Mennene som tilbrakte mer enn 19 minutter i badstua hver gang, hadde bare halvparten så stor risiko for å dø Researchers have taken a number of different factors av hjertestans som de som var der mindre enn 11 into account that may influence mortality, such as minutter av gangen. smoking, alcohol use, body mass index (BMI), diabetes, exercising, household income and education. Yet, those Tid i badstua hadde imidlertid ingenting å si for men who spent more time in the sauna had a greater dødelighet generelt. De som var oftest innom, valgte chance of living longer. badstuer med noe lavere temperatur. I snitt holdt badstuene nærmere 80 varmegrader, mens de som tok The researchers believe that one explanation could be turen minst fire ganger i uka, nøyde seg med 77 grader. that the temperature causes a higher pulse rate which in turn improves blood pressure. This has been specifically shown in other studies. Within this context, the sauna ! July-Aug-Sept 2015 "2 Fagernes Lodge 5-616 ! litt på norsk...Badstue bra for hjertet, Forskerne tror at det blant annet kan skyldes at temperaturen gir høyere hjertefrekvens og dermed (continued) bedringer i blodtrykket. Det har nemlig andre forskere vist. På dette området kan badstua ha lignende effekter Forskerne har tatt hensyn til en rekke andre forhold som det trening har. Men det kan også være at badstue som kan påvirke dødeligheten, som røyking, er bra fordi de slapper så godt av der inne i varmen, alkoholbruk, kroppsmasseindeks (BMI), diabetes, ofte i godt lag, kommenterer redaktøren av tidsskriftet trening, økonomi og utdanning. Likevel hadde JAMA Internal Medicine, Rita F. Redberg. mennene som var ofte i badstua, større sjanse for å overleve. Stave Church Returns to Norway There are those who leave their home country for a new life, get comfortable in their new surroundings and eventually put down roots. On occasion they decide to move back home in their retirement. This is sometimes the case with people, but not usually with buildings—until now. In 1892, a stavkirke (stave church) was constructed in Orkanger, west of Trondheim, then dismantled and shipped in pieces to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. The medieval-style church was on display for six months, after which it moved to the Wrigley family property along Lake Geneva, WI. It wasn’t until 1935 that the church had another bout of wanderlust and packed up again. Isak Dahle purchased the church and had it moved to his land near Blue Mounds, Wisconsin. The structure is known as Thams pavilion, named for its builder, Norwegian industrialist Christian Thams, and it became part of an open-air museum called Little Norway, where tourists came to experience Norwegian architecture, culture and folk art for 80 years. In 2012, the museum closed its doors due to flagging attendance and since then, the owner, Scott Winner has been selling off and donating Little Norway’s 7,000 artifacts, including all of the structures.