About the State of the Union address:
Apart from not being able to pronounce "nuclear", is seems like Bush has woken up and smelled the fumes when it comes to polution. I want to belive that this is more than words:
"America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world.
The best way to break this addiction is through technology.
To change how we power our homes and offices, we will invest more in zero-emission coal-fired plants; revolutionary solar and wind technologies; and clean, safe nuclear energy.
We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric cars, and in pollution-free cars that run on hydrogen. We will also fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips, stalks, or switch grass.
Breakthroughs on this and other new technologies will help us reach another great goal: to replace more than 75% of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025."
I want this to be true, but knowing Bush, I won't belive it until I see it.
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This year Norwegians celebrate the death of Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen, as a playwright, is second only to Shakespeare. Allthough you will find Norwegians who claim it's the other way around.
Celebrating death is a typically Norwegian thing to do; At my paternal Grandmothers wake we, her grandsons, had an eating competition. Some may find this tasteless, but it was true to her spirit, always urging us to eat more.
Well, back to Ibsen. His plays are constantly being played all over the world. In Mali, West Africa, there is a womens rights group, constantly touring the country with Ibsens "A Dolls House". And the Chineese love his Peer Gynt. Just to name a few.
So in the following days I will write a bit about Ibsen here in my journal.
Henrik Ibsen - Childhood and pills
As I said: Everywhere where theatre is played around our Globe, Ibsen is a houshold name. And many know his imortal lines like: "Troll, be self suficcient!", "Such things are not done" and "Look! The crutch! It floats!" (That last part is the inspiration for the famous game on Letterman.)
William Shakespeare, as mentioned, is without a doubt the worlds greatest dramatic. To us Norwegians it is equally obvious that Ibsen is a good number two. Nobody has like him pointed out that in familys there can be many strange things going on. He was also the first who wrote plays that could not be preformed on stage. The plays of Ibsen are full of shipwrecks and avalanches. If he had lived today, he would have written plays about planecrashes and the hole in the ozon layer.
Henrik Ibsen was born in Skien in 1826. The young Henrik grew up outside the town, at the Venstp farm.
As a fourteen year old, Ibsen was sendt to Grimstad to become a pharmasist. In pharmasist Reimanns old house, there is now an Ibsen Museum, where people can study his early texts. Of special interest is this one:
Ole Kalhovd
1 pill in the morning
1 pill in the evening
To be swallowed whole
Here we see the fresh shoot of an author. And perhaps a certain influence from Japaneese Haiku-poems?
Ibsen spent much of his spare time on fornication, but what was left he spendt on poetry. His poems often were about how Norway and Sweden should to a larger degree participate in the wars on the continent. He himself was no fighter, but he was in princip in favour of others doing it.
It was in Grimstad he wrote his first play. It is set in the Roman era, and is called Catalina. It is about how a young legionary is bitter with his parents because they won't give him an expencive jacket, such as everybody else has.
A young Ibsen.
The response Henrik Ibsen got from his friends in Grimstad convinced him that the future did not lie in fever reducing medicines. He let his beard grow, moved to Kristiania (Oslo) and became a satiric. He started as a free-lancer in Brodden (an early Norwegian equvalent of Mad Magazine), and worked his way up to editor in an hour and a half. This speedy career had two reasons:
Firstly: Ibsen had a sharp penn.
Secondly: The editor of Brodden was regularly arrested, chained and kicked in the kidneys by Swedish Husars. (Norway was Swedish dominion at the time. We didn't get our freedom until 1905.)
In 1849 Brodden came out with a special edition all about the similarity between the head of the Swedish King Oscar and a turnip. Things looked bleak for Ibsen. But when the Husars came, he managed to convince them that he was somebody else.
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NAA no 12: Hjalmar "Hjallis" Andersen - Olympic Gold 10 000 metres ice skating
As mentioned, this is a Dutch sport, and the rest of us are only glad they let us participate.
What: During the Oslo 1952 Olympics Hjallis hit a full knockout on his competitors on the ten kilometre long distance. And this was his third gold in that Olympic.
Where: Bislett, Oslo, Norway.
Why: After setting the world record in 10 000 metres just before the Olympics, and winning fifty 5000 metres in a row, this gold was no big suprise. But you can't let out this guy when you talk about Norways greatest athletics achivements. The fact that he beat the second best by 25 seconds tells you all about the level he was on.
Apart from not being able to pronounce "nuclear", is seems like Bush has woken up and smelled the fumes when it comes to polution. I want to belive that this is more than words:
"America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world.
The best way to break this addiction is through technology.
To change how we power our homes and offices, we will invest more in zero-emission coal-fired plants; revolutionary solar and wind technologies; and clean, safe nuclear energy.
We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric cars, and in pollution-free cars that run on hydrogen. We will also fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips, stalks, or switch grass.
Breakthroughs on this and other new technologies will help us reach another great goal: to replace more than 75% of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025."
I want this to be true, but knowing Bush, I won't belive it until I see it.
...
This year Norwegians celebrate the death of Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen, as a playwright, is second only to Shakespeare. Allthough you will find Norwegians who claim it's the other way around.
Celebrating death is a typically Norwegian thing to do; At my paternal Grandmothers wake we, her grandsons, had an eating competition. Some may find this tasteless, but it was true to her spirit, always urging us to eat more.
Well, back to Ibsen. His plays are constantly being played all over the world. In Mali, West Africa, there is a womens rights group, constantly touring the country with Ibsens "A Dolls House". And the Chineese love his Peer Gynt. Just to name a few.
So in the following days I will write a bit about Ibsen here in my journal.
Henrik Ibsen - Childhood and pills
As I said: Everywhere where theatre is played around our Globe, Ibsen is a houshold name. And many know his imortal lines like: "Troll, be self suficcient!", "Such things are not done" and "Look! The crutch! It floats!" (That last part is the inspiration for the famous game on Letterman.)
William Shakespeare, as mentioned, is without a doubt the worlds greatest dramatic. To us Norwegians it is equally obvious that Ibsen is a good number two. Nobody has like him pointed out that in familys there can be many strange things going on. He was also the first who wrote plays that could not be preformed on stage. The plays of Ibsen are full of shipwrecks and avalanches. If he had lived today, he would have written plays about planecrashes and the hole in the ozon layer.
Henrik Ibsen was born in Skien in 1826. The young Henrik grew up outside the town, at the Venstp farm.
As a fourteen year old, Ibsen was sendt to Grimstad to become a pharmasist. In pharmasist Reimanns old house, there is now an Ibsen Museum, where people can study his early texts. Of special interest is this one:
Ole Kalhovd
1 pill in the morning
1 pill in the evening
To be swallowed whole
Here we see the fresh shoot of an author. And perhaps a certain influence from Japaneese Haiku-poems?
Ibsen spent much of his spare time on fornication, but what was left he spendt on poetry. His poems often were about how Norway and Sweden should to a larger degree participate in the wars on the continent. He himself was no fighter, but he was in princip in favour of others doing it.
It was in Grimstad he wrote his first play. It is set in the Roman era, and is called Catalina. It is about how a young legionary is bitter with his parents because they won't give him an expencive jacket, such as everybody else has.
A young Ibsen.
The response Henrik Ibsen got from his friends in Grimstad convinced him that the future did not lie in fever reducing medicines. He let his beard grow, moved to Kristiania (Oslo) and became a satiric. He started as a free-lancer in Brodden (an early Norwegian equvalent of Mad Magazine), and worked his way up to editor in an hour and a half. This speedy career had two reasons:
Firstly: Ibsen had a sharp penn.
Secondly: The editor of Brodden was regularly arrested, chained and kicked in the kidneys by Swedish Husars. (Norway was Swedish dominion at the time. We didn't get our freedom until 1905.)
In 1849 Brodden came out with a special edition all about the similarity between the head of the Swedish King Oscar and a turnip. Things looked bleak for Ibsen. But when the Husars came, he managed to convince them that he was somebody else.
...
NAA no 12: Hjalmar "Hjallis" Andersen - Olympic Gold 10 000 metres ice skating
As mentioned, this is a Dutch sport, and the rest of us are only glad they let us participate.
What: During the Oslo 1952 Olympics Hjallis hit a full knockout on his competitors on the ten kilometre long distance. And this was his third gold in that Olympic.
Where: Bislett, Oslo, Norway.
Why: After setting the world record in 10 000 metres just before the Olympics, and winning fifty 5000 metres in a row, this gold was no big suprise. But you can't let out this guy when you talk about Norways greatest athletics achivements. The fact that he beat the second best by 25 seconds tells you all about the level he was on.
And No i wasn't at your tour because i would have been about 3 years old.