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For the electronic newsletter, please send your email and contact info to: circlecityson@gmail.com NANCY ANDERSEN If you would like to receive a printed version of the newsletter, please send your contact info to: burtonbittner@att.net BURT BITTNER SYTTENDE MAI ON THE 11TH OF MAY

Join us on May 11th to celebrate Syttende Mai at King of Glory Lutheran Church: 2201 E 106th St. Carmel, IN 46032

V.27 ISSUE 3 MAY/JUNE 2018

VIKING FEST APRIL 21

Jenna Watson/Indianapolis Star

METAL AND MEAT: BEST VIKING MOMENTS FROM WHITESTOWN The war horns sounded. Chain-mail-wearing combatants carried swords and shields to charge at each other for a good, very old-fashioned fight. Three separate reenactment groups were tasked with doing the job. Multiple battles were scheduled for each day of the festival. Vikings seized Whitestown last weekend as the town’s newest park hosted Viking Fest, a three-day celebration of the seafaring people that dominated western Europe from the eighth until the eleventh century.

The festival—a collaboration between Noble Order Brewing, J&J Winery and Whitestown Parks and Recreation—served as a sneak-peek of 15-acre Anson Park, which the town acquired in January and has yet to develop. Though this is the fifth year Noble Order and J&J hosted the event, it was in Whitestown for the first time. It featured an immersive Viking village, a plethora of combat reenactors, traditional games, live music and more. (Pictured, Matt Daugherty and Jerry Johnson have a live battle during Viking Fest. The three-day festival featured Viking culture through demonstrations, performances and cuisine.) If you have any photos from the event, please share with our editor.

from the President

Hilsen fra presidenten,

Spring will soon be upon us and I don’t know about you but I’m already feeling far behind with getting the yard ready. We have had such a strange entry into Spring that I fear we will go straight to Summer.

THE LUREN / V27 ISSUE THREE / PAGE 2

The 17th of May (Syttende Mai) is Norway’s Constitution Day, a wonderful spring holiday celebrated with red, white and blue ribbons and flags, national costumes and big smiles as Norwegians everywhere mark the historic signing of their Constitution (Grunnloven) in 1814. That year marked the beginning of Norway’s gaining her independence from Sweden, fully realized in 1905.

The 17th of May evolved over the years in Norway as a day for people to rally for political change or to stand unified during the German occupation (1940-45), when open celebration of the holiday was strictly forbidden. Today, thousands march in children’s and people’s parades all over the country and wherever Norwegians are found–expressing their cultural pride, joy in springtime and honoring those citizens who created Norway’s constitutional government, founding her independence.

The Syttende Mai parades are not military but of Norway’s citizens, marching to the bright music of community and school bands. Decorations of leafy birch branches–in celebration of winter’s end–and Norway’s flag of red, white and blue make for a festive atmosphere. Especially popular is the Children’s Procession that brings every child out in his best clothes or national costume–marching with his school’s band, classmates and teachers. Young and old enjoy hot dogs and ice cream.

There are 17th of May celebrations all over North America. In Minnesota, where the largest population of Norwegian-Americans is found, the Syttende Mai Minnesota organization–in cooperation with the Sons of Norway–plans events every year at this time. Celebrate Norway’s Constitution Day next May! Gather family and friends to celebrate this happy holiday with festive music and special food. (from Ingebretsen’s Nordic Marketplace)

If you are unable to join us I hope you are able to Celebrate Syttende Mai on your own with family and friends.

We have several upcoming activities this summer one of which is the Midsommer Festival on June 9th at the Latvian center. Circle City will be sponsoring 2 booths one for cultural information and sale of Rosemaling items donated by Alma Lathrup and Sally Hurst. Our second booth will be for Food! We will be making waffles again and selling Norwegian cookies. We need volunteers to man the booths and to make plates of Norwegian cookies ahead of time. Please contact Dagrun Bennett for booth sign up and for cookie baking.

Thank you to everyone that filled out the survey and for your suggestions to improve the club.

We will be incorporating your suggestions into future meetings.

Hope to see you soon!

Nancy Andersen

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NEWSLETTER PHOTOS Do you have great photos from our meetings or from your travels? Your images could be the art we need for our next newsletter. We’d love to feature you—especially if you.

Please send those photos to: jlrud@cinergymetro.net or lindsayhadley23@mac.com. Else, the newsletter will be filled with pictures of Milo.

FROM BEST-SELLING MYSTERY AUTHOR JO NESBO

Please, join us!

WE’D LOVE TO SEE YOU.

05 MAY

Sammenkomst

is typically the SECOND FRIDAY NIGHT or the SECOND SATURDAY AFTERNOON of the month.

Member lunch

is the THIRD WEDNESDAY of the month.

Board Meetings

are the FOURTH SATURDAY of the month at 9:30 a.m.

SAMMENKOMST

Occupied

NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX: A FANTASTIC POLITICAL THRILLER ON CLIMATE CHANGE Two seasons of a Norwegian TV political thriller, is now available in the United States on Netflix. Okkupert (“Occupied”), the most expensive Norwegian television show in history, never mentions the word “quisling.” And yet its premise — a Russian occupation of Norway — evokes Vidkun Quisling’s Nazi collaborationist government and is permeated with the still unshakable trauma of that era.

Between 1942 and 1945, Quisling’s puppet regime revoked the authority of the Norwegian King (exiled to Great Britain after refusing German demands to abdicate), banned the entry of Jews fleeing Nazi terror, and fruitlessly committed Norwegian soldiers to the Eastern Front. At the end of the war, Quisling was executed and his name now dubiously lives on as an eponym for “traitor.”

Fri. May 11, 6:30 MEAL $15 for adults, kids eat free. RSVP to Burt PROGRAM Syttende Mai celebration Sat., June 9 MIDSOMMER FESTIVAL PROGRAM Volunteer

for our booths at the Latvian Center!

VASA!

Sun. May 6 LOCATION Latvian Community Center 1008 West 64th St., Indianapolis, Indiana 3 p.m. Program “My Journey into Rosemaling” presented

by Jan Boettcher.

4 p.m. Refreshments

MEMBER LUNCHES TBA

BOARD MEETINGS

MCL Cafeteria at 86th and Township Line Rd

06 JUNE

Charging Ahead

THE NEXT FERRY YOU BOARD MIGHT RUN ON BATTERIES

By Mikael Holter and Jeremy Hodges

The MF Ampere sails along the Sognefjord.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CARINA JOHANSEN/BLOOMBERG

IT’S THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS CLEANING UP THE WORLD’S FUEL-GUZZLING SHIPPING FLEETS.

THE LUREN / V27 ISSUE THREE / PAGE 4

Not far from Norway’s North Sea oil rigs, shipbuilders are assembling some of the first ferry boats ever to be powered entirely by batteries.

For years, the yard, nestled against the deep-blue sea waters and snow-clad mountains of the country’s deepest fjord, mostly made fuel-guzzling boats for the oil industry. But orders vanished as crude slumped in recent years. Now, like other Norwegian industries, its future prosperity depends on going green.

“If you look at the next five years, this is what we’ll be doing,” said Erlend Hatleberg, a project manager at Havyard Group ASA, which runs the Sognefjord shipyard that’s switched to specializing in boats with battery technology similar to plug-in cars. “We were in a really deep trough. But activity is back.”

While progress in electrifying the world’s excessively polluting shipping fleets is miles behind advances in automobiles, Europe is making initial strides as Paris Climate Accord goals to cut carbon dioxide emissions loom large. Dozens of battery-powered boats that can move through inland waterways in Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands are about to make their first voyages, including some able to run fully automatically without a crew.

A worker uses a power tool on a boat being built that will use battery technology in the Sognefjord shipyard.

CARINA JOHANSEN/BLOOMBERG

NOWHERE IS THIS PUSH MORE PREVALENT THAN NORWAY, a country where almost all electricity produced is hydropower, the state oil company is expanding into offshore wind farming and people drive more electric cars, per capita, than any country in the world.

Next up, Norway wants two-thirds of all boats carrying both passengers and cars along its jagged and windy Atlantic coastline to be electrified by 2030. Havyard is filling 13 orders for zero-emission ferries received since 2016.

Zooming out, though, the progress may be a drop in the bucket.

To really slash maritime pollution would require the 50,000 tankers, freighters and carriers traversing the oceans to switch to renewable energy. The largest use diesel engines as big as a four-story house, with emissions comparable to 64,000 passenger cars.

Without big changes, the International Council on Clean Transportation warns sea transport could be responsible for 17 percent of CO2 emissions by 2050, up from 2-3 percent now. But shipping was omitted from the Paris deal and battery technologies haven’t evolved enough for long ocean voyages, according to the International Maritime Organization, which is set to reveal in April an initial set of guidelines for cutting greenhouse gases.

POWER UP Battery powered vessels either in operation or under construction around the world in 2018

Source Maritime Battery Forum, DNV GL Electric, plug-in hybrid, and hybrid vessels

Read more at www.bloomberg.com

Teenage Girls Leave Norway to Fight With ISIS On an unremarkable October morning in 2013, two Norwegian teenagers of Somalian descent — Ayan Juma, 19, and her sister, Leila, 16 — woke up early, dressed and, without telling a soul, boarded a flight to join ISIS fighters in Syria.

“We love you both sooo much,” they later wrote to their parents in an email festooned with heart emojis. “Inshallah this decision will help us all on the day of judgment.”

They had been planning the secret journey for a year.

Their goal, according to Ayan, was to flee home, marry and die. Their father set off after them, tracking them across ISIS territory — razed towns rank with rotting corpses. He was captured and brutally tortured.

“Two Sisters,” a new book by the Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad and translated by Sean Kinsella, begins in the aftermath of the girls’ departure, which stunned their family and tightknit Somali immigrant community: What had gotten into their girls — so educated, so adored?

When Sara and Sadiq Juma arrived in Norway, Ayan was six and Leila three (the family also had three sons).

Sara and Sadiq saw their daughters “dabble in fundamentalism,” as Seierstad puts it. They were taking Quran classes with a militant new teacher and begged to be allowed to wear niqabs. (“You both look like devils,” their father said, forbidding them.) But they were otherwise tractable, polite — never in danger of becoming too Norwegian, Sara thought with satisfaction. Not that there was ever much risk of Norway embracing the girls that closely; their classmates either ignored or taunted them. Leila passed through school without making a single friend.

“For me, the most important question was: How could this happen?,” she writes. But then, she demurs: “I offer no explanation, neither of what attracted them to Islamic radicalism nor what propelled them out of Norway. I relate my findings. It is up to each reader to draw his or her own conclusions.”

BY PARUL SEHGAL

Norway IN THE NEWS

The world’s first “energy positive” hotel is set to be built at the base of the Almlifjellet mountain in northern Norway; Svart, which takes its name from the nearby Svartisen glacier, will use 85 per cent less energy than a modern hotel in addition to producing its own energy. MEGAN TOWNSEND

ANOTHER FIRST FOR NORWAY The hotel, located in Norway’s arctic region, will produce more energy than it consumes.

THE LUREN / V27 ISSUE THREE / PAGE 6

The world’s first “energy positive” hotel is set to be built at the base of the Almlifjellet mountain in northern Norway; Svart, which takes its name from the nearby Svartisen glacier, will use 85 per cent less energy than a modern hotel in addition to producing its own energy.

Designed by Oslo-based Snohetta architects and commissioned by tourism company Arctic Adventure of Norway, the circular hotel will provide 360 degree views of the nearby fjords.

The hotel will be suspended above the water on V-shaped stilts to reduce its environmental impact. The poles, which reach metres into the fjord below, will be made from weather-resistant wood and will provide a walkway for visitors to use in the summer.

The firm conducted numerous studies into energy optimisation as part of research for the project, such as extensive mapping of how solar radiation behaves in relation to mountainous areas to optimise how Svart can harvest such energy.

The interior of the hotel is purposefully laid out to concentrate the sun’s energy to the areas that typically use more power, such as the restaurants and bars.

The designers have taken cues from local structures to ensure the hotel can withstand the harsh and unpredictable weather of Norway’s arctic region – inspired by “hjell” (wooden structure for drying fish) and “rorbu” cabins (seasonal homes used by fishermen) characteristic of the area, the hotel is built at an angle to deflect harmful winds, while still being close enough to water to retain its heat.

“Building in such a precious environment comes with some clear obligations in terms of preserving the natural beauty and the fauna and flora of the site,” says Snohetta founding partner Kjetil Traedal Thorsen. The hotel is set to be complete by 2021 and will be accessed by an energy neutral shuttle service from the nearby city of Bodo.

THE LANGUAGE COLUMN

SNAKKER NORSK SEVENTEENTH OF MAY IN OSLO Phrase Syttende mai er Norges grunnlovsdag, nasjonaldagen fremfor noen annen.

Pronunciation sut-tehn-eh ma-ee aer noor-gehs grewnlohvs-dahg frehm-fohr noo-ehn ahn-nehn English Seventeenth of May is Norway’s constitution day, the national holiday above any other.

Phrase Barna jublet og vinket tilbake med flaggene sine. bahr-nah joob-leht oh Pronunciation veen-keht teell- bah-keh meh flahg-eh-neh see-neh English The children cheered and waved back with their flags.

Phrase Det var en utrolig flott festdag for alle.

Pronunciation deh vahr ehn oo-troo-lee flohtt fehst-dahg fohr ahl-leh English It was an incredibly nice celebration for all.

From Sheryl Schneider: These are two online tools that I use to translate from Nynorsk to Bokmål. Google Translate can usually eek out a close translation from Bokmål to English: http://aplica.prompsit.com/en/ https://www.apertium.org

OFFICERS OF THE CIRCLE CITY LODGE President NANCY ANDERSEN 317-626-5237 nanders9349@aol.com

Vice President TERRY BURNS 317-437-7867 niuprez@sbcglobal.net

Secretary/Membership WILLIAM STANLEY PEDERSON 317-255-8718 wspederson@sbcglobal.net

Treasurer BURT BITTNER 317-842-4042 burtonbittner@att.net

Newsletter Editor LINDSAY HADLEY 317-341-2897 lindsayhadley23@mac.com

JEROME RUD 765-653-3636 jlrud@cinergymetro.net CULTURAL DIRECTOR: Chelsea Courtney

219-218-9615 cyellow@yahoo.com

FOUNDATION DIRECTOR: Robert Sorensen

sorensenwl@comcast.net

SPORTS/REC DIRECTOR: Susan Alden 317-769-0236 GWPSMA@aol.com NATIONALITIES COUNCIL OF INDIANA: Dagrun Bennett

317-736-5025 dbennett@franklincollege.edu

WE SURE WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU!

RSVP SYTTENDE MAI Our festive celebration will be held on Friday, May 11, 2018 6:30 PM Please respond with the number of folks attending.

Adults: $15 each

Children under 16: Free

Total in your party:

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