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Dear Claes Fredriksson, It is indeed a pleasure to renew my subscription to your fabulous publication. I am a 2nd generation Swedish lady. Raised with all the food, manners, humour, music etc. My parents met here in Alberta from Västerbotten (papa) and Ångermanland (mama). I was born in Alberta in the home that Dad built (1942) – a perfect set of logs. The house is still there! It’s great to be a Swede – I am well travelled – to visit

my cousins in Stockholm, Karlstad, Göteborg etc., I have a map of the country with a flag of the yellow and blue. Lots of love for my heritage-family. I am in the process of writing my book about the Gustave – Haren Bergström family who arrived here in Canada in 1922. The homestead for the 9 children. Tack så mycket!! You are doing a good job! Linda (Bergström) Allen Richmond, British Columbia

Svenska kyrkan i Toronto Under september har vi besök av Katrine Bråtane från Norge. Hon är präst i Norska lutherska kyrkan och den första kvinnan som prästvigdes för detta samfund. Hon arbetar som sjukhuspräst i Oslo på avdelningen för ryggmärgskadade (hon lever själv med en sådan skada). Katrine och jag kommer att fira gudstjänster tillsammans med norrmännen i Toronto, Ottawa och Montreal. Toronto: 8 september: terminens första gudstjänst kl. 16.00 i Svenska kyrkan. 22 september: Pilgrimsvandring och friluftsgudstjänst med temat Dag Hammarskjöld. Gudstjäsnten börjar kl. 14.00. Kontakta kyrkans kansli för information om pilgrimsvandringen. 29 september: Norsk-Svensk gudstjänst tillsammans med Katrine Bråtane och Anna Runesson Calgary: 14 september (lördag): Öppen inbjudan till Scandinavian Centre kl. 14-17 för samtal om sommarens översvämning. Hur har detta påverkat oss och hur känner vi nu när krisen är över? Dagen avslutas med en andakt. För mer

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Dear readers, Hope you have had a wonderful summer – in BC we have been very lucky and had the best summer weather ever recorded. With fall almost upon us it is a good time to revisit our plans and make adjustments for the balance of the year – so too with Swedish Press. First off – I am very pleased to let you know that Tatty Maclay will take over from me as Editor-in-Chief as of the October issue. Tatty has already been writing for Swedish Press since January so you know her quite well by now. Another change is that Pia Hilton – known to many Swedes in the Pacific Northwest, will pick up the role as Subscriptions Manager. We are very pleased that Tatty and Pia have decided to join the growing Swedish Press team. As for me, I recently accepted a very interesting job opportunity in Sweden and will assume my new role as a promoter of Swedish industry and culture in early September. Joan will continue to run the magazine with the new team and produce the same high quality product as today. To complete our adjustments for the year, we are now searching for a driven, hardworking and highly productive advertising sales person. If this is you or you know someone who could fit that description – then please let us know. It is important that we continue to generate advertising revenue in order to keep the magazine healthy. With regards to content we are please to introduce to you “Barn Sidan” for the younger ones and “Lär dig Svenska” – for everyone who wants to learn Swedish. We are also considering a crossword page, however will hold with that until we have more advertisers and therefore more pages in the magazine. It’s been a pleasure producing the first six issues of the full colour Swedish Press and I wish the new team all the best as they continue to improve the magazine and serve you, our readers, a fantastic reading experience. Claes Fredriksson Editor-in-Chief

This is me – in the middle – just before I swam 7km across Likstammen, a beautiful lake in Sörmland, to raise money for charity! Go to www.justgiving. com/kathryn-good for more info.

Hej! As those of you who have been following my adventures in ‘Maclayhem’ for the past few months will know, I moved with my family from the UK to Sweden just over a year ago. As a half-Swede, I’m fascinated by all things Swedish, not least the emigrant/immigrant experience that so many of our readers share. I’m thrilled to now be taking over the helm from Claes as Editorin-Chief and, together with the rest of the Swedish Press team, look forward to continuing his great work in giving the magazine a fresh new feel and unique, relevant content. I’d love to hear what you think about our new pages – ‘Barn Sidan’ and ‘Lär dig Svenska’ – or indeed your thoughts on any aspect of the magazine. Please don’t hesitate to drop me a line at Tatty@Swedishpress.com. Tatty Maclay

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espite the global economic slowdown, more foreign visitors are visiting Sweden than ever before. According to the latest figures, tourist numbers have increased from 8.9 million in 2008 to 10.9 million in 2012. And it’s not just the bright lights of the big cities, but the northern lights and open spaces that are attracting tourists in ever greater numbers. Sweden’s 15 UNESCO World Heritage Sites (including Visby, Gotland’s medieval capital, and Drottningholm Palace) and the Ice Hotel in northern Sweden (see News at a Glance story, p. 7)are popular destinations. Foreign visitors’ consumption in Sweden, increased by 9.3% to 9.8 bil-

opening new trade and investment opportunities through the U.S.-E.U. trans-Atlantic trade and investment partnership, advancing clean technologies and promoting environmental sustainability.” Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is eagerly anticipating the historic visit stating, “This will be a good opportunity to discuss political and economic developments in the world directly with President Obama, and an opportunity to present Sweden’s views.” The first and last time a US president visited Sweden was back in 2001 when George W. Bush was in Gothenburg for a summit with EU leaders which became notorious for its rampant rioting.

[Business] News lion SEK in 2011 – almost 45% more than iron and steel exports and more than double the value of Swedish car exports. Sweden earns more from international tourism than Japan, the Netherlands and Portugal and recently climbed from 21st to 19th place in the world ranking of tourist destinations. Record numbers of tourists are visiting from the USA – a 26% increase from 2009. ‘We’re seeing a positive development from the USA’, says Thomas Brühl, VisitSweden’s CEO, partly fueled by a new flight

or the first time in history, an incumbent US president will be in Sweden for a bilateral visit. President Barack Obama, will touch down in Stockholm on Wednesday, September 4th and will spend the night in the capital before leaving for the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg, early the next morning.

The visit comes off the back of a cancelled bilateral meeting between President Obama and Russian President, Vladimir Putin due to escalating tensions between the two countries and aggravated by Moscow’s recent decision to grant asylum to whistleblower, Edward Snowden. Sweden, which is only an hour’s flight from St. Petersburg is a natural alternative for Obama. White House press secretary, Jay Carney, said the administration had “been considering a trip [to Sweden] for quite some time.” In a packed press conference on Thursday, August 8th, Carney continued by saying, “Sweden is a close friend and partner to the United States and plays a key leadership role on the international stage, including

route from San Francisco to Copenhagen (which also serves southern Sweden) and the Kennedy Center’s recent Nordic Cool 2013 cultural festival. A recent study by VisitSweden showed that food is becoming an increasingly important reason to visit Sweden – particularly for American tourists, 60% of whom regard food experiences as their top priority, with ‘fika’, Småland cheese cake, West Coast crayfish and world-class restaurants on the ‘must try’ list. The most popular time to visit Sweden is during the summer months, but special events can lure visitors over at other times of the year. The recent Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, gave southern Sweden a huge economic boost , with 31,000 people visiting the city for the event and providing tourism-related revenues of 160 million kronor ($23.5 million).

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News at a Glance Stolen Matisse returns home A stolen Matisse painting valued at $1M has recently been returned home to the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, 25 years after it was stolen. ‘Le Jardin’ was taken on May 11th, 1987, by an unknown thief or thieves, and its whereabouts since then are not known. The oil painting turned up in London when an art dealer ran it through a global database of stolen art, prior to selling it on behalf of an unnamed Polish man. Since the statute of limitations on art thefts in Sweden is 10 years, there will be no police investigation. And since the painting was stolen, the hapless Polish ‘owner’ won’t get a dime back from the painting he bought ‘in good faith’ and ‘for a substantial sum’.

Home win at Stena Match Cup

Björn Hansen and Phil Robertson fight it out at the Stena Match Cup finals. Photo: Brian Carlin/ Alpari World Match Racing Tour

Congratulations to Swede Björn Hansen and his eWork sailing team who recently won the Stena Match Cup Sweden in Marstrand for the second year running. The event, the third leg on the 2013 Alpari World Match Racing Tour, is the most popular on the Swedish sailing calendar and this year attracted crowds of over 100,000.

Ice Hotel designs revealed While the summer heat continues, up in Swedish Lapland plans for the 24th ICEHOTEL have been revealed. Designs for this winter’s incarnation of the famous hotel, which will begin construction in November for opening in December, will include a London Underground platform (to celebrate its 150 year anniversary), a Frankenstein science lab and pole dancing polar bears. 20 artists were chosen from 200 submissions and will each be responsible for carving the hotel’s 11 individual art suites out of snow and ice.

Turning sweat into drinking water

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One jailed after Stockholm riots The recent unrest in Stockholm’s suburbs has resulted in one participant being sentenced, as more than 90 per cent of police reports made during the Husby riots have now been closed. 400 cases were reported to police following the May troubles, in which 32 police officers were hurt and multiple cars burned. But just one man has been sentenced for burning two cars, while another two men have been fined for weapon and drug crimes. According to Husby police officer Daniel Ångman, “Much of it now is impossible to solve… There are no witnesses, no one has seen anything.”

Swedish UNICEF workers revealed a device that turns human perspiration into drinkable water at the recent international youth Gothia Cup soccer tournament in Göteborg. The machine, which was developed by engineer Andreas Hammar to raise awareness of the lack of clean drinking water around the world, used the soccer players’ sweat-drenched shirts to produce around 10ml of clean drinking water each. There are currently no plans to mass produce the machine as water purification pills are still cheaper – and more palatable.

Mind The Gap, one of the designs for the 24th ICEHOTEL. Artist: Marcus Dillistone

Taking women’s soccer seriously Swedish women’s soccer hit the national headlines recently, after their disappointing Euro 2013 semi-final result against Germany. The sport is the second most popular in Sweden in terms of active players nationwide, but receives relatively little, and sometimes even negative, media coverage. Following a wave of sexist comments on Twitter, Sweden’s Equality Minister, Maria Arnholm, entered the debate, stating on Thelocal.se that Swedes should take women’s soccer seriously and adding that national football coach Pia Sundhage (who previously coached the US team to an Olympic gold) “is such a fantastic idol and role model that she almost pushes Hillary Clinton off my personal first-place spot.”

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[Swedes] in the News Moodysson film picked for Toronto Film Festival

Sweden’s Military Chief visits Afghanistan

A new movie by lauded Swedish director Lukas Moodysson will be shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, which takes place September 5-15. ‘Vi är bast!’ (‘We’re the best!’), based on a graphic novel by Coco Moodysson, the Photo ©: Niclas Gustavsson, Combat Camera, Försvarsmakten.

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director’s wife, is set in 1982 and is about three 13-yearold girls, Bobo, Klara and Hedvig, who start a punk band - with no instruments. According to Steve Gravestock, Nordic films programmer for the festival, the movie is one of Moodysson’s most charming and compassionate yet.

Chief of the Royal Swedish Navy, Rear Admiral Jan Thörnqvist, recently visited Afghanistan and met Swedish Forces stationed in the northern city of Mazari-Sharif, as well as the ISAF headquarters in Kabul. “It has been a great honour for Sweden to join with other NATO and coalition forces to help the Afghans restore their country, take control of their own security, and keep Afghanistan from becoming a terrorist base again,” he said, adding “Sweden remains committed to the NATO mission for the ‘decade of transformation.’”

Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin och Liv LeMoyne in the film “Vi är bäst”. Photo © Per-Anders Jörgensen

Hockey star Nicklas Kronwell takes on NASCAR National Hockey League defense man, Niklas Kronwell, from Stockholm, recently had the honour of being the Grand Marshall of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway. He drove the pace-car at the start of the race and got to deliver the legendary words: ‘Drivers, start your engines!’ “It was a wonderful experience to be part of this race,” he said. “It’s amazing to witness the speed they race at as they go over 200 miles per hour on the highbanked ovals.”

tracked down in Louisiana, but had had no contact with her brother for years. Internet users who recognized pictures of the U.S Navy veteran confirmed that he had spent time in Sweden in the Eighties, where he learnt to speak Swedish, fell in love with a Swedish woman and was involved with a Medieval jousting association. Boatwright, who has a son and two ex-wives, has been diagnosed with Transient Global Amnesia and describes his state as ‘the nightmare of a lifetime’.

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Train crash cleaner to train as driver Photo ©:www.hockeymedmariehallman.se

He’s not Swedish – but he thinks he is The strange case of an American man who woke from a coma speaking only Swedish has made news around the world. 61-yearold Michael Boatwright was found unconscious in a Palm Springs motel room four months ago and woke with no memory at all of his previous life and answering only to the name Johan Ek. His sister was recently

The 20-year-old cleaner who was onboard the runaway train that crashed into a house in the Stockholm suburb of Saltsjöbaden in January of this year is set to become a train driver. The cleaner, Sara, whose injuries after the crash have taken months to heal, was initially blamed for having stolen the train. To make amends for this false accusation, her employer Arriva has guaranteed her lifetime employment and will assist with her train driver education.

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Company File Att göra naturen tillgänglig för fler människor har varit Fjällrävens devis sedan starten 1960. Med en hemmasnickrad träram och ett brinnande intresse för friluftsliv startade grundaren Åke Nordin ett företag som skulle komma att revolutionera friluftsbranschen.

et sägs att nöden är uppfinningens moder och för Åke Nordin, grundare av friluftsföretaget Fjällräven, kunde det inte stämma bättre. Åke Nordin växte upp i norrländska Örnsköldsvik med ett brinnande natur- och friluftsintresse. Redan i en tidig ålder insåg han att de ryggsäckar som fanns på marknaden inte höll måttet, och vid fjorton års ålder uppfann han sin första hemmasnickrade produkt - en träram med en löstagbar ryggsäck som gjorde det skönare och lättare att bära med sig den utrustning som behövdes för de fjällvandringar som han regelbundet gav sig ut på. Åkes träram fick stor uppmärksamhet bland de lokala samerna och beställningarna på träramen började trilla in. 1960, tio år efter att Åke snickrat ihop sin första träram, startade han företaget Fjällräven med huvudkontor i hemstaden Örnsköldsvik. Fjällrävens princip har sedan starten varit att förbättra och utveckla friluftsutrustning såsom ryggsäckar, sovsäckar och friluftskläder, för att göra naturen mer lättillgänglig för människor. Den första produkten som Fjällräven lanserade 1960 var en ryggsäcksram gjord av aluminium; en produkt inte helt olik Åkes

ursprungliga träram. Exempelvis så tog Fjällräven fram G-1000 väven, som anses vara en utav världens mest stryktåliga och anpassningsbara material, och som bland annat används för att tillverka Fjällrävens klassiska Grönlandsjacka. 1978 lanserade företaget en av de produkter som kanske mest har kommit att bli synonym med varumärket Fjällräven. Ryggsäcken Kånken skapades för att skona skolbarns ryggar, och har sedan dess blivit en klassiker som används både av stora och små. 2008 blev Kånken världens första klimatkompenserade ryggsäck och idag säljs mer än 200 000 Kånkenryggsäckar om året. Det är inte bara Fjällrävens innovativa produkter som har bidragit till att starta en folkrörelse inom friluftsliv. Redan på 1970talet startade Fjällräven-veckorna vid Riksgränsen i Sverige, där Fjällräven tog med sig nybörjare ut i fjällvärlden för att ge dem möjligheten att upptäcka friluftsliv och ge dem unika naturupplevelser. 2005 introducerades Fjällräven Classic, ett elva mil långt vandringslopp som ger både nybörjare och mer erfarna vandrare möjligheten att upptäcka den svenska fjällvärlden till fots. Fjällräven själva beskriver loppet som en kombination mellan fjällvandring och folkfest. Idén för det utmanade hundspannsloppet Fjällräven Polar kläcktes i början av 1990-talet av Kenth Fjellborg, en av Sveriges ledande hundspannsförare, när han träffade Fjällrävens grundare Åke Nordin. Tillsammans skapade de det 300 kilometer långa loppet som

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löper över Nordkalotten. Mellan 1997 och 2006 togs tusentals ansökningar emot från personer från hela världen som ville deltaga i den stora utmaningen. Efter en tuff urvalsprocess kommer deltagare från över 10 länder att ta sig an loppet år 2013. Fjällräven har sedan starten 1960 fortsatt att växa internationellt och bolaget börsnoterades 1983 vid Stockholmsbörsen. Idag ingår bolaget i Fenix Outdoor koncernen, men största ägare är fortfarande familjen Nordin, och Åke Nordins son, Martin, är numera VD för företaget. Fjällrävens produkter uppskattas idag inte bara av personer med ett stort natur- och friluftsintresse, utan återfinns även bland trendmedvetna storstadsbor i städer såsom London och Stockholm. Åke Nordins grundläggande idé om att göra friluftslivet mer lättillgängligt har inte bara varit med om att skapa en folkrörelse, utan har lyckats korsa gränsen mellan funktionalitet och mode. Kanske kan Fjällräven och Åke Nordin ses som friluftsbranschens motsvarighet till Ikea och Ingvar Kamprad.

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Swedes at Wimbledon By Tom Freeman

A great player stuns a record TV audience by claiming the Wimbledon crown in dramatic fashion. Does this sound familiar? Top: Stefan Edberg won the Wimbledon singles championship in 1988 and 1990. Photo: Bob Martin/AllSport Right: Björn Borg reacts after defeating John McEnroe to win his fifth consecutive Wimbledon singles championship, July 5, 1980. Photo: AP Photo/Adam Stoltman

he Swedes understand this feeling, but for the host nation this summer was a rare thrill as Andy Murray claimed the U.K.’s first men’s Wimbledon title in 77 years. A staggering 17.2 million people tuned in to watch Murray win but even this excitement is eclipsed by what is surely the most dramatic final of all time in 1980: when Sweden’s own Björn Borg famously triumphed over temperamental young American John McEnroe in a five set thriller. Unlike the U.K., Sweden didn’t have to wait for 77 years – it was Borg’s fifth Wimbledon title in a row! His place as an all-time Swedish icon was secured.

The 1980 final was memorable in many ways: The outrageously high stakes, the characteristically long hair fixed up with sweatbands on both players, the hot-headed demeanor of McEnroe against the icy Borg, and most importantly that tie break. At the end of the fourth set McEnroe dramatically levelled the game after a 34-point tie breaker. Borg admitted later that it was the first time he felt the fear of losing. But he kept his famous cool and went on to claim the crown in the fifth set. People now remember McEnroe as a loveable character, and he won the crowds round in his later career, but on July 5th, 1980 he was booed onto the court. The petulance he had shown to officials in the semi-final against Jimmy Connors meant that everyone was rooting for the Swede. Arthur Ashe told Sports Illustrated, “I think Björn could have won the U.S. Open. But by the time he left, the historical challenge didn’t mean anything. He was bigger than the game. He was like Elvis or Liz Taylor...”

Borg is certainly a colourful character. He got into so much financial difficulty he put all his racquets and memorabilia up for auction in 2006. Only several desperate phone calls from McEnroe changed his mind. From his money problems to his controversial fashion label to his comeback tour in the 90s, one thing is for certain – he was the king of Wimbledon.

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But at the oldest and most prestigious tennis tournament in the world, the Swedes haven’t had to rely on basking in the glory of one man. There have been many dramatic Swedish Wimbledon moments. 1968 was the first year professionals were allowed to compete at Wimbledon. The winner of the Men’s Singles won £2,000 and the winner of the Ladies’ Singles won £750. Not that Christina Sandberg saw a penny of that money. She was the first Swede to win the Swedish Open in 1965 and 1966 but she only reached the third round of Wimbledon. That said, she will be remembered for knocking out Virginia Wade in the first round. Wade was full of confidence. She had just won an Open championship in Bournemouth and refused the prize money because it was lower than the men’s. But after three days of solid rain she lost to Sandberg in straight sets. Wade wrote in her book: “it was more like a duck pond. As I skidded around in an ever-increasing spiral of bewilderment, Christina had merely to keep the ball in court to beat me.” If it sounds like she didn’t give the Swede much credit, she made up for it by going on to beat Billie Jean King in the first US Open final.

A decade on from McEnroe and Borg, a Swede was to serve up another memorable final at Wimbledon. This too, was a great rivalry – between the precision serve of Boris Becker and probably the greatest serveand-volley player of all time, Stefan Edberg. It was another five set thriller as the man from Västervik fended off a Becker rally to win his second Wimbledon title. He went on to collect the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal for this achievement, and married Annette Hjort Olsen, onetime girlfriend of Mats Wilander. Incredibly, Wilander never won a Wimbledon singles title, despite being the only player alongside Rafael Nadal in tennis history to win two Grand Slam singles titles on every surface. At the time, the Australian Open was also played on grass. But Wilander had terrible luck at Wimbledon, losing to his nemesis Pat Cash in the 1987 quarter-final. His only success had come a year earlier, when he won the men’s doubles alongside Joakim “Jocke” Nyström. It was Wilander’s only Wimbledon title, but it was an even bigger deal for Skellefteå-born Nyström, as it was his only career grand slam title. The pair beat Americans Gary Donnelly and Peter Fleming in straight sets. More doubles success followed with Anders Järryd in 1991. He and regular partner, John Fitzgerald from

Australia, won their second Wimbledon doubles title in four sets against Argentina’s Frana and Mexico’s Lavalle. Järryd was a doubles specialist. His greatest singles showing was also at a Wimbledon, when he lost to Boris Becker in the 1985 semi final. 2001 saw Thomas Enqvist reach the semi-finals in London, but he was to lose to likeable Australian Pat Rafter, who went on to the final against wild card Goran Ivanišević. Enqvist had always had the weight of Swedish expectation on his shoulders, having been compared as the next Borg or Edberg. He has always maintained that Borg was his biggest influence, and had had the biggest effect on the sport in Sweden, saying that Borg ‘enabled Swedish tennis to improve’.

Most recently Robin Söderling has shouldered the weight of Swedish hopes. At Wimbledon in 2011, he was seeded fifth, and after a promising first round victory he faced former Wimbledon champion Lleyton Hewitt in the second. The Australian looked in control for the first two sets, but the Swede fought back, grabbing a couple of service breaks early in the third going on to take the match. Unfortunately, illness prevented the boy from Tibro from progressing, and continues to mar Söderling’s game to this day. If the shadow of Borg’s success has fallen over Swedish tennis, it has also inspired generations to take up the sport. Might we see a similar effect on British tennis now? What advice would the Iceman give to Britain’s Andy Murray? Probably simply ‘look after your money’. Borg won £20,000 in prize money in 1980. This summer, Murray walked away with £1.6 million.

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INTERVIEW WITH ANJA PÄRSON – OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALLIST – ALPINE SKIING WORLD CHAMPION

Looking back over a long and incredibly successful career, what are the highlights? It’s hard to give just one, but for lots of reasons, Vancouver 2010 [where Anja suffered a serious fall, but went on to win the bronze the following day] was a great achievement from an athlete’s point of view. It really showed what kind of an athlete I am – a real fighter! Winning three gold medals on home ground at the 2007 Åre World Championships was also something I will never forget. Where do you think your drive to succeed comes from? I think it’s partly something you’re born with, but also Tärnaby where I grew up is a tough mountain town. It’s not an easy place to grow up, so you learn to work hard. I’ve always been curious about how far I can push myself – the win itself was not always the biggest achievement for me. For a relatively small country, Sweden has produced a large number of top athletes. Why do you think this is? I think we just love sport and we’re very proud of our athletes – people like Björn Borg, Ingemar Stenmark and now Zlatan Ibrahimovic are very close to our

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A Winner’s Spirit

hearts. There is a tradition of hard work and training, but actually over the last few years, it’s getting harder to get kids involved in sports, sadly. How do you think we can prevent this trend towards kids becoming less active and involved in sports? At the moment I’m Chairman of the Olympic Athletes Commission and right now our biggest agenda is schools and making sure the government supports kids who want to keep being involved in sports. It’s hard in Sweden to keep going with sports if you’re not in the national team once you’re you’re 20/21 years old.

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Olympic gold medallist, seven-time gold medalist at the World Championships and two-time overall Alpine Skiing World Cup Champion, Anja Pärson is one of Sweden’s most successful athletes of all time. Born in Tärnaby in 1981, at 17 Anja became the youngest skier ever to win a World Cup race. After many years abroad, Anja has now retired from professional sport and is living back home in Umeå, Sweden, where Swedish Press caught up with her recently.

Have you experienced ‘Jantelagen’ during your career at all? It’s interesting when you’ve been abroad for a long time, you start to see Sweden in a different light. When I started, it was very hard for people to accept the idea of a 16-year-old girl saying she was going to win a gold medal. In Sweden, we’re not supposed to be any more than anyone else. I think that’s slowly changing, but I still think we can learn a lot from the US and other countries in that respect and be more aggressive and proud of our achievements.

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How has the transition from professional sports to ‘normal life’ been? When I was three years old, I told my mom I was going to be a world alpine champion and I recently found my diaries from when I was 14/15 years old, in which friends wrote ‘Don’t forget us when you’re world champion!’ It’s been my whole life for the last 30 years, so it’s been really difficult stepping off. It’s taken over a year to settle down and get into a rhythm. Anja Pärson competing at the 2011 World Championships. Photo: Alessandro Trovati / Scanpix

Photo © Anja Pärson

What are your plans and goals now? I just started to work out in the gym again for the first time! I’m doing some commentating work for Swedish TV and I try to find jobs for short periods of time so I can be at home with my family a lot. I also do a lot of motivational public speaking, helping people find their goals and think positively. Every night, I think about something positive I did that day and give myself a pat on the shoulder!

How much were the financial rewards of being an elite athlete a driving factor? If I’d gone into sport for that reason, I would have chosen tennis or golf! Actually, any time I did think about money when I was racing, I always lost. For me, it’s about the experience, not the money, so I always had only a few sponsors and I only chose sponsors I felt had a positive, healthy image. For that reason, I turned down Red Bull and gaming sponsors, because they didn’t fit in with my position as a good role model for kids. Do you feel the sponsorship aspect of sports is getting out of hand? It worries me a bit. The market is so much tougher now – you have some athletes taking private jets and helicopters and others who can’t afford somewhere

to live. The German alpine Olympic team’s budget for two weeks was the same as the Swedish budget for a whole year! I think everyone needs to take responsibility for trying to maintain the purity of the game. And how much does personality determine your success as a sports star? It’s a stressful environment these days because you can’t just focus on the sport – your public profile is just as important and you have to find a way to stand out.

It’s a good thing is a way, because social networking means you can follow what athletes are doing and it’s interesting for sport to have some big personalities out there, but it also takes a lot of time – updating your blog, Twitter account, Facebook page etc – which is time away from the sport. How has your time as a professional athlete allowed you to go forward in your life now and pursue your goals? I feel very blessed that money is not a stress and I’m able to stay home with my kids without financial worries. Right now I’m getting involved in projects helping disabled people try skiing. I’m a working person, so I like to be busy and it’s great to finally have the freedom and time to find charitable projects I’m passionate about.

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HE RITAG E

A Move to America in 1868 In so many ways, The United States of America of 1868 was the very opposite of Sweden: There was plenty of farmland available; economic growth and better-paying jobs; separation of church and state; religious freedom; equality for all (no king, no aristocracy); and there was neither income tax nor mandatory military service.

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Diary Kept on the Journey to America in 1868 by Samuel Magnus Hill Introduction and translation by Lars Nordström [Wednesday] May 13th We drank our coffee and walked down to the station 8 o’clock in the morning, and then [traveled] on the railroad from Hull to Liverpool. We arrived there at 3 PM and walked directly from the train down to the ship, which was named City of Limerick1 . We were served ship biscuits and butter, which tasted very good, because we had not had any dinner. Our supper consisted of tea and butter and bread. We used the rest of the day to arrange our accommodations in this new home of ours. Our spot was on top of some boards, placed this way and that way. Bedding we had to provide ourselves. [Thursday] May 14th The ship left the dock at 1 o’clock at night, and we started rocking on the Atlantic. The dining menu was as follows: Breakfast: coffee and bread and butter; dinner: meat soup and meat, potatoes and bread; supper: tea and butter and bread. Fridays and Sundays we were served rice pudding. In the morning the wind started blowing and seasickness came. I was in bed all day and August also had to lie down, because he started feeling weak as a result of overexertion and not being able to rest. [Friday] May 15th The ship rocked a great deal and faced a headwind. I could not eat anything all day and had to leave the pudding we were served for dinner untouched, because when you were seasick your appetite was gone. [Saturday] May 16th Mother was allowed to move to a cubbyhole near the bow, which was located in steerage in a corner that was rather unsanitary. The reason was so that the doctor could more easily visit her, because that was one flight of stairs less for him to walk. [Rogation2 Sunday] May 17th Nothing but sickness and filth in every corner and a strong headwind all day. I did not eat anything all day and eventually I felt weak. August did not suffer as much from seasickness, and we started thinking that the sea voyage would restore his health completely.

1 S/S City of Limerick, built in 1855 in Glasgow by Smith & Roger. The ship’s original name was “The African”, but was operated by the Inman Line 1863 – 1873 as S/S City of Limerick. The ship disappeared at sea January 8, 1882, on a journey from New York to Liverpool. | 2 One of the three days of prayer preceding Ascension Day.

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A move to Sweden in 2012 Tatty and her family recently moved from Scotland to Sweden. Half-Swedish and half-English, Tatty grew up in the UK and works as a journalist. This is a journal of her first year in Sweden with her Scottish husband and four young children.

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hen you move to a new country, and are crazy/careless enough to have four children, schooling and education come fairly high on the list of priorities. We are lucky enough to have ended up near a wonderful Waldorf (Steiner) school in an old wooden Villa Villakulla house overlooking a lake, which, after a long and blissfully sunny Swedish summer, the kids are now desperate to get back to. For some, a school which has knives freely available at playtime for the children to whittle wood with, and where computers aren’t used or accessible until pupils are in their teens, may sound a little extreme, but it certainly beats the school they attended back in Scotland – a vast, concrete block with no playground, huge class sizes and microwaved junkfood for lunch. What’s really struck me about the younger children’s nursery school – and I think this is true of most Swedish schools – is how much the children are outdoors. Nursery school teachers live by the motto ‘there is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing’, which I’m all for, although ensuring all children have the right gear for any given weather condition is practically a full-time job. The other thing I’ve noticed is how equally boys and girls are treated, with no gender stereotyping in the playground or elsewhere. Little boys and girls dig and play house and try on dresses and fight with swords and draw and bake, with no divisions or judgements. And while dagis classes can sometimes resemble a Polarn och Pyret advert, at least Sweden seems so far to have resisted the relentless frosting of everything for little girls in pink and glitter and sequins. While I welcome this conscious effort to foster sexual equality from an early age, and am pleased my daughter, Freya, is growing up in a country in which 45% of the places in parliament are held by women, I’m not so sure about the creeping progression here from gender equality to ‘gender neutrality’. At the forefront of this is Sweden’s first gender-neutral pre-school, Egalia, in Stockholm, where staff avoid using gender-specific pronouns and children are referred to as ‘friends’, rather than boys and girls. The school has only been open since 2010, so it remains to be seen what effect this educational experiment has on its pupils in the future, but I can’t help feeling that it’s an unnecessary, slightly hysterical, step too far. Equality: yes, please, but being different and equal are not mutually incompatible, so the fact that boys and girls are different should be something to celebrate, rather than hide or suppress. Besides, as the mother of a girl surrounded by the guns, footballs, trucks and trains of her three older brothers, in my experience, you can take the girl out of the metaphorical pink dress, but you can’t take the pink dress out of the girl.

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Lifestyle

25,000

– that’s how many items of memorabilia will be going under the hammer on August 10-11, in the biggest sale of ABBA-related objects ever. The auction, held at Stockholms Auktionsverk, will include rare items such as two unreleased singles, original posters, dolls and even ABBA clogs made exclusively for the American market, and is expected to fetch around $123,000. www.auktionsverket.se

Top Fem it off,” said Blixt. “I can’t believe it. I’m just really happy.”

Jonas Blixt foght off four close rivals to win the PGA Greenbrier Classic title. Photo © AP Photo/ Steve Helber

150

years is how long the legendary Stockholm hotel, club and restaurant, Berns, has been open.

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million is how much prize money Swedish golfer Jonas Blixt will be pocketing after fighting off four close rivals to win the PGA Greenbrier Classic title. Under challenging weather conditions including a thunderstorm and near darkness, 29 year old Blixt won the West Virginia tournament by two strokes for his second US PGA Tour title. “It has been a bad year for me but I just pulled

Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker and Marlene Dietrich through its doors and its anniversary year sees the opening of further restaurants and rooms at Berns’ new townhouse property on Norrlandsgatan. www.berns.se.

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best in the world. That’s the position Sweden’s reputation currently holds internationally, according to a study by the US-based Reputation Institute. The ranking is based on economic, social, political and cultural factors and anyone disappointed that Sweden didn’t make the top spot will be glad to learn that Canada was awarded that honor for the third successive year! Sweden moved up from third place last year,

while the bottom four places were filled by Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and Nigeria.

2016

is the year the new Titanic will be setting sail, with interiors designed by a team of Swedes. A full-scale replica of the famously ill-fated liner has been commissioned by Australian billionaire Clive Palmer and will be decked out by Tillberg Design of Höganäs. Modern tweaks will include bigger beds, more bathrooms – and a lot more lifeboats.

Berns Hotel in Stockholm celebrates its 150-year anniversary. Photo: Berns Hotel

Since it opened in 1863, the Berzelii Park landmark has had everyone from August Strindberg (who set his novel ‘The Red Room’ in Berns’ dining room) to

Artistic rendering of Titanic II. Photo: Blue Star Line

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Art

Man Ray på Mjellby konstmuseum Den moderna konstens gigant

By Sthig Jonasson en som är konstintresserad och befinner sig på västkusten i sommar kan med fördel bege sig till Mjellby konstmuseum, utanför Halmstad. Där visas en stor utställning med den amerikanske konstnären Man Ray (1870– 1976). Mest känd är Man Ray för sina experimentella svartvita fotografier där han förstod att maximalt utnyttja samtidens fototeknik. Men fotografi var bara ett av många uttryckssätt. Man Ray, som föddes som Emmanuel Rudzitsky, är en av 1900-talets mest mångsidiga och uppfinningsrika konstnärer och en viktig inspiratör för både dadaismen och surrealismen. Han befann sig alltid i fronten, rörde sig obehindrat mellan modernismens alla riktningar och verkade i både Europa och USA.

Utställningen, som försöker ge en totalbild av Man Rays konstnärskap, består av över hundra verk: fotografi, film, teckning, objekt, måleri, grafik och skulptur. Man Rays konst bildar ett eget universum med symboler och tecken som återkommer över tid och i olika former. Hans betydelse för den moderna konsten kan knappast överskattas. Med gränslösa idéer och experimenterande banade han väg för ett nytt sätt att se och uppleva konst. Utställningen på Mjellby Konstmuseum pågår till 15 september för att därefter flytta till Öregaard Museum i Danmark innan den avslutas på Millesgården i Stockholm.

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Anywhere

is fair game Tobacco satisfaction was meant to be enjoyed in life’s moments — not around them. Reach for the original Swedish snus and there’s no need to meet anyone halfway.

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Sport

How Three Nations Came to Dominate Hockey (Sorry Russia…)

By Walter V. Cicha, Ph.D. s the third indicator, a similar “medal points” analysis of the hockey results from the past six Winter Olympics – shown in Figure 2 – strongly supports the ascent of the U.S. into a major hockey power during the past decade or so, while indicating that Russia has fallen into a 5th place tie with the previously briefly dominating (1990s) Czechs, at least based on these Olympics results. Along with Finland, Sweden has remained part of the dominant group during the most recent Games, led by Canada and the U.S. Three most recent Olympics 1990s Olympics 0%

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Figure 2. Distribution amongst leading hockey nations of total medal points (3 for gold, 2 for silver, 1 for bronze) at past six Winter Olympic Games (1992/94/98 and 2002/06/10 Games grouped together).

As the final indicator, it is instructive to consider recent and overall trends from the annual “Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament,” formed in 1991 and known as the “Under 18 Junior World Cup” prior to its name change in 2007. This tourney features the world’s best teenage hockey players, and in some sense of the four indicators used here it best highlights the role of early coaching in a nation’s hockey program. The “medal points” for the top 5 nations across the tourney’s entire 22-year history are shown in Table II, alongside the percentage of these points won by each nation during the past six tourneys. Sweden has accumulated an amazing 90 % of its 10 total points only during the past six tourneys, placing it second only to Canada (9 vs. 15 pts) during this period; in fact, it is the only nation to have medaled each of these years. This suggests that Sweden’s quite recent hockey ascent likely has excellent high school level coaching at its roots. Conversely, the U.S. has done quite poorly at this tourney during

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the past six years, maybe because its best coaches are at the college/university level, which in fact is from where most top U.S. players originate. Table II: Overall medal points and recent share for leading nations at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament (Under 18) U-18 Hlinka Medal Points 2007-2012 Share Tourney (22-year total) (%) Canada 27 56 Russia 26 23 US 11 19 Sweden 90 10 Czech Republic 0 15

So, what nations dominate men’s hockey today? Based on the preceding 4-indicator analysis, it would seem that Canada’s traditional place at the top remains secure, but Russia has been replaced by the U.S. and Sweden. And, not too surprisingly, it also appears that a special coach – such as was Ivan Hlinka – and/or coaching system can be the difference between excellence and dominance at the national team level. According to Frank Musil, “Czech hockey players will continue to shine individually in the NHL, in spite of the once highly effective Czech coaching system being a thing of the past.” A nation’s pride in its hockey tradition definitely has its limits, in the absence of a world-class system. Only Sweden has won gold at the World Hockey Championships and at the Olympic Hockey Tourney in the same year (2006), which just might mark the beginning of the nation’s recent ascent to hockey dominance. Perhaps Tre Kronor’s “golden double” inspired a domestic hockey mania, which in turn led to better coaching of a greater number of gifted young athletes. Looking at the recent 2013 World Hockey Championships, only one nation was unbeaten after its first three games: Switzerland. And it beat both Sweden and Canada to accomplish this! The prime reason here almost certainly is the goaltender Martin Gerber, who in 2006 (coincidentally) won a Stanley Cup for his NHL team. Will Gerber become a “Swiss Hlinka,” ultimately triggering a “golden double” style ascent of Swiss hockey to world dominance? In sports, stranger things have been known to happen...

Dr. Walter Cicha was born in Prague when it was the epicenter of Czechoslovakia. He grew up in Canada and spent almost half of his adult life to date in the U.S, before returning to Canada. Walter is an accomplished scientist and energy innovation advisor who loves sports and music. He has played organized hockey since age 9, and continues to do so into the second half-century of his life, when time, family and lower back allow.

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A Promising Future for Women’s Sport: Inside the World Village of Women Sports

scale successfully reduces the visual impact to the adjacent neighbourhood, bringing the village to proportional harmony with its surroundings despite its magnificence when viewed from afar. Bjarke Ingels, the firm’s founding partner, says of the design, “special attention has been given, to provide the sports village with a feeling of intimacy and wellbeing often lacking in the more masculine industrialstyle sports complexes that are more like factories for physical exercise, than temples for body and mind.” The village’s centrally located main hall will accommodate football matches, conferences, concerts, exhibitions, and markets. With an aim to create a friendly public space visible from all of the surrounding streets, and offering village life to passersby, a well planned pedestrian network of alleyways and corridors links the main area to the surrounding buildings and streets. What makes the World Village of Women Sports so inclusive is that aside from the sporting aspects of the village it has also a vast array of park space, relaxing outdoor environments, boutiques, restaurants, offices, and housing – consisting of hundreds of apartments (some with their own green space) designed to take in the maximum amount of sunlight with clear views of the area. By providing support and opportunity to those who learn, train, and reside there, the village will be an ecosystem of healthy living that pushes women’s sport to the next level.

By Kristi Robinson

ender-egalitarian and a sport-loving nation, it’s no wonder that Sweden is the future home of the World Village of Women Sports. Conceived as a town within a town, this 100,000 m2 village is designed for the advancement of training, education, and research of women’s sport with the aim of providing female athletes from all over the world with the same opportunities as male athletes. Danish architects BIG, in collaboration with New York based architects AKT, Tyréns- a Stockholm-based urban planning consultancy, and multinational climate engineering firm Transsolar won the juried competition with their holistic approach by creating an open and

welcoming space to be built in the Kronprinsen area of Malmö. With plans drawn up, the concept for the village continues to move towards realization, following approval by Malmö city council. BIG architects are known for projects that create continuity and meaning in urban environments, with the goal of helping citizens lead a better life and World Village of Women Sports is certainly in line with this ethos. The village is designed with a series of sloped building roofs that alternate with open spaces. This clever interchange of slope and

Artist rendering of the World Village for Women Sports. Photo © womensportvillage.com

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[Treats] I

à la Bennett

was born in the UK in 1943 and emigrated to Canada in 1965, first to do a Master’s Degree in Engineering and then become a Chartered Accountant. My main “addiction” since 1966 has been skydiving and I also fly my own aeroplane, a Cessna 182, and play golf, serving as a Director of the Sunshine Coast Club. My wife Lena, is Swedish and very active in SWEA, and I find that living with a Swede in Canada is almost the same as living with a Swede in Sweden – one is surrounded by IKEA products of all kinds, with a Volvo in the garage and pictures of Gamla Stan on the walls. Then there is pickled herring, meatballs, tosca torte, pea soup on Thursdays and strong coffee with cinnamon buns and/or pepparkakor almost every day. Swedish curling teams and Swedish hockey players are the best in the world and beating Canada in both sports brings joy to the household. One must be very careful not to express a realistic or negative opinion on such things as that can be interpreted as criticism, which is strictly frowned upon! Although Santa Lucia has heathen origins, the celebration of a young maiden with burning candles on her head, attended by star boys, is viewed by many as a Swedish religious oddity, causing some amusement among the uninitiated. The best thing about it is that it is followed shortly by Julafton, one of the finest events in the calendar and a wonderful opportunity for family and friends to have some glögg, dig into the smörgåsbord, drink plenty

of akvavit (while observing the proper strict protocol) and sing various songs, whose words tend to be mangled by everyone other than the serious student of Swedish drinking culture. In the almost 35 years since we were married in Seglora Kyrka, Lena and I have spent a great deal of time in Sweden and it has been a joy exploring the country. Where to start? The Stockholm Archipelago, Gamla Stan, the Vasa museum, the Royal Castle, Drottningholm, the Göta Canal, Kiruna, the Ice Hotel and so

Parmesangratinerad Ingredienser: 4 kycklingfiléer salt och peppar 1 msk färsk salvia, hackad 4 skivor prosciutto 1 msk flytande margarin 2 tomater 4 msk parmesan ost

many other wonderful things to do and see. I do gently rib my dear wife from time to time by referring to Sweden’s naval history, specifically the selfinflicted disasters of the Vasa in 1628 and Krona in 1676, and the ‘Whiskey on the Rocks’ incident off the coast of Karlskrona in 1981. However, living with a Swede has brought much joy and I would not change a thing – Lena, tack så mycket för allt i medgång o motgång. By Buzz Bennett

METOD 4 portioner Krydda filéerna med salt, peppar och salvia. Rulla en skiva prosciutto runt varje. Bryn kycklingen i margarin. Lägg i en form, skiva tomaterna och lägg ovanpå. Strö parmesan över. Tillaga i 225 °C ca 15 min. Servera med ugnrostade grönsaker och potatishalvor.

Kerstin’s Kolakakor Ingredienser: 200 gr smör 2 dl socker 2 msk vaniljsocker 2 msk sirap 2 tsk bakpulver 4.5 dl vetemjöl

METOD Blanda allt i en mixer. Låt degen vila kallt en timma i kylskåp. Rulla ut längden som plattas till på plåten. Grädda ca 15-20 min, 200 °C. Skär medan de är varma i sneda bitar.

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LÃ&#x201E;R DIG SVENSKA

I have often heard that the Swedish language is one of the most difficult languages to learn. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t agree, but it may help to know that there are some tricky differences between English and Swedish. The grammar is quite different in Swedish, and in coming numbers of Swedish Press, I will give you some examples. Another reason many people think Swedish is so hard is the pronunciation of our words. This cannot be taught well on paper, but you can always listen to Swedish on the language page of Swedish Press webpage and try. In our first lesson, we will practice greetings in Swedish. Good luck learning Swedish! Ã&#x2026;sa Bouck

ORD OCH FRASER (WORDS AND PHRASES) Hej! God dag!

Hello! Hello (this is a very old fashioned way of saying hello) Hejsan! Hi! Hej dÃ¥! Good bye AdjÃ¶! Good bye (this is a very old fashioned way of saying good bye) Jag heter Ã&#x2026;sa My name is Ã&#x2026;sa Vad heter du? What is your name? Jag kommer frÃ¥n Sverige. I come from Sweden. VarifrÃ¥n kommer du? Where do you come from? Jag bor i Kanada. I live in Canada. Var bor du? Where do you live? Hur mÃ¥r du? How are you? (mÃ¥r = feel) Hur Ã¤r det? How are you? (How is it? This is more casual than the previous phrase) Hur stÃ¥r det till? How are you? (This is an old fashioned way of asking.) Jag mÃ¥r bra. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m fine. Det Ã¤r bra. It is good. Tack! Thank you! VarsÃ¥god! You are welcome. (Welcome and vÃ¤lkommen are similar in meaning and appearance, but vÃ¤lkommen is not used in this situation, but only to welcome someone to your home.) Practice these phrases. When you feel confident, take the quiz and test yourself! Correct answers can be found in the next issue of Swedish Press, or right now on the Swedish Press web page. Lycka till! (=Good luck)

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B A R N SIDAN Emil fyller 50! Emil i Lönneberga av Astrid Lindgren

mil är en liten blond buspojke som bor på gården Katthult i Småland tillsammans med sina föräldrar, lillasystern Ida samt pigan Alma och drängen Alfred. Han hittar ständigt på nya hyss som försätter honom i olika knipor, som bland annat att hissa upp sin lillasyster i en flaggstång eller att fastna med en soppskål över huvudet. När han blir påkommen med sina hyss jagar hans pappa honom runt gården tills han låser in sig själv i sin snickarboa där han sitter och täljer träfigurer tills allt har lugnat ner sig. Emil har roat och inspirerat läsare världen över och är översatt till 52 språk. I år firar Emil i Lönneberga 50 år och det firas stort med bland annat ett födelsedagsfirande på Skansen, en ny Emil i Lönneberga film som kommer på bio i jul och invigning av ett nytt Katthult i Astrid Lindgrens värld i Vimmerby. Av: Marie Skoog

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STOCKHOLM I tre år har 570 klockor på Karolinska universitetssjukhuset i Huddinge stått stilla. Anledningen är att centraluret är av en äldre typ och alldeles för dyrt att renovera. På en del sjukhusavdelningar har personalen löst problemet genom att hänga upp en ny klocka i bandage under den trasiga. – Jag skäms lite grann då patienterna frågar vad som har hänt och jag ska förklara varför det hänger en massa klockor i bandage, säger sjuksköterskan Esmeralda Hasanic. GOTLAND

Den omstridda kalkbrytningen i Bunge måste prövas på nytt, sedan Högsta domstolen undanröjt Nordkalks tillstånd för brytning. Det innebär att motståndarna till brytningen har vunnit striden om kalkbrottet – åtminstone tillfälligt. För ett år sedan 8

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Montessoriskolan Casa dei Bambini anklagas för att ha struntat i mobbning i över tio år. Nu kräver fyra familjer drygt en miljon kronor i skadestånd. Familjerna hävdar att barnen länge utsatts för kränkningar, utan att skolan reagerat. Både elever och föräldrar ska också ha känt sig direkt motarbetade av ledningen. Normalt sett brukar rättsliga mobbningsärenden vara en tvist mellan Barn- och elevombudsmannen, Beo, och skolans huvudman. Två av ärendena har redan undersökts av Beo, som valde att inte driva dem vidare, och de andra två fallen är för gamla. Familjerna har därför beslutat sig för att pröva fallen privat.

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fick polis sättas in för att föra bort demonstranter som ville stoppa brytningen. Ända sedan 2005 har en juridisk strid rasat om huruvida kalkbrytningen förstör områdets värden och alla beslut som fattats har överklagats. HD kritiserar – indirekt – den tidigare rättsliga hanteringen av ärendet där en domstol, Mark- och miljööverdomstolen, gav Nordkalk tillstånd till brytning medan den regionala miljödomstolen sade nej. I första hand är det Mark- och miljööverdomstolen som kritiseras. Hanteringen ledde till att det blev en uppdelning i en dom om tillåtlighet och en dom om tillstånd, utan att någon sammanhållen miljöprövning gjordes. Genom sin kritik ger HD även Naturvårdsverket och Naturskyddsföreningen rätt i deras kritik av hur ärendet skötts. Nu kräver HD att det görs en sammanhållen tillståndsprövning av alla effekter som brytningen kan få på naturen i området. Landskapet har bedömts som ett av Sveriges viktigaste naturområden. HALLAND En man som hittades död i sin lägenhet i Kungsbacka tros ha legat där i flera månader. Det var grannar som reagerade på att de inte sett mannen på länge och kontaktade därför kommunens socialförvaltning varvid personal besökte lägenheten. Mannen var i 50-årsåldern och beskrivs som en enstöring. Han ska inte haft någon kontakt med vare sig vänner, släkt eller de sociala myndigheterna. Dödsorsaken är oklar men polisen har ingen misstanke om brott. 18

JÄMTLAND

Hundra kvinnor fick besked om att de var friska fast de hade cellförändringar. Nitton av dem hade allvarliga förstadier till cancer och har nu fått genomgå kirurgiska ingrepp. Vissa fick knipsa av livmoderhalsen och andra kvinnor har fått operera bort hela livmodern. Det var när 10 000 gynekologiska cellprover från kvinnor i Jämtland analyserades om vid laboratoriet i Umeå som upptäckten gjordes. – Hade man inte gjort den här extra granskningen, så hade de här kvinnorna kanske fått cancer, säger Mattias Schindele, chefsläkare vid Östersunds sjukhus. Det är landstinget i Västerbotten som är huvudman för analysenheten i Östersund eftersom Jämtlands landsting har köpt tjänsten av Västerbotten. En av förklaringarna till att runt 100 kvinnor fick felaktiga besked från analysenheten i Östersund är att Västerbottens landsting har inte haft samma kompetentskrav på personalen som anställdes på filialen i Östersund som de har på sina övriga analysenheter. Östersunds sjukhus har anmält sig själva till Socialstyrelsen efter de felaktiga resultaten. Men det är ännu oklart om det kommer göras någon anmälan från huvudmannen Västerbottens läns landsting. NORRBOTTEN För 42 år sedan hittades ett nyfött gossebarn i en trappuppgång i Piteå. Efter alla dessa år har nu mamman trätt fram. — Jag hoppas att pojken kan förlåta mig, säger den nu nästan 80-åriga kvinnan till Piteå-Tidningen. 30

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Hittebarnet var under några månader 1972 Sveriges mest uppmärksammade bebis. Polis kopplades in för att hitta modern, men mysteriet förblev olöst. Mamman säger till tidningen att hon inte längre orkar bära på sin hemlighet och hoppas av hela sitt hjärta få träffa sonen innan hon dör. SKÅNE Spottande och sparkande lamadjur kan bli det nya vapnet mot vargar som härjar i skånska fårflockar. Länsstyrelsen vill göra försök med lamor i två stora fårbesättningar, som båda utsatts för vargangrepp. Rovdjur är rädda att skada sig och erfarenheter från USA tyder på att lamor har god effekt mot prärievargar och pumor. Hur pass bra de är mot vanlig varg har ingen studerat ordentligt ännu. – Vi förväntar oss inget totalt skydd, men färre attacker och färre djur rivna vid varje attack, säger rovdjurshandläggaren Nils Carlsson till TT. 40

Selma, nio månader, låg och sov i sin vagn utanför familjens hus i Hultsfred när en förrymd tam-iller hoppade upp i vagnen och attackerade henne. Hon fick ett 70-tal rivmärken i hela ansiktet och fördes akut till sjukhuset i Västervik. Där tillbringade hon nästan fyra dygn. Hon sövdes ner för att läkarna skulle kunna göra rent såren i hennes ansikte. Några djupare bitmärken fick sys. Läkarna tror inte att Selma ska få några psykiska men av det som hände med illern. Selmas pappa fick död på djuret med hjälp av en spade och ringde därefter till miljökontoret vid Hultsfreds kommun. Det visade sig att illern hade slitit sig ur kopplet och rymt under en promenad för ett tag sedan.

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Scandinavians invited to annual Illinois festival

Canada & US update

Local Community News in Swedish North America

Chicago

The 34th annual five-nation Scandinavian Day Festival will take place from 9 am to 6 pm Sunday Sept 8, rain or shine, in the 25-acre Vasa Park on Route 31, South Elgin, Illinois. Admission is $10 for adults; children 12 and under are free. The cultural festival includes Scandinavian food, crafts, games, gifts and entertainment, including a tribute to ABBA. Performers are the Swedish American Children’s Choir, Nordic Folk Dancers, Leikarringen Heimhug Norwegian Folk Dancers and Bjornson Male Chorus. Among participating organizations are the Swedish-American Historical Society, Chicago’s Swedish American Museum, Friends of the Viking Ship, Norwegian National League and Norsk Museum. For more information visit www.scandinaviandayil.com. Norwegian Tall Ship sails Great Lakes An 86-year-old Norwegian ship, the SS Sørlandet, is sailing the Great Lakes as the largest participant in the summer Tall Ships Challenge. A merchant marine school ship, it is presently on hire to Class Afloat, a Canadian sail training institution. The Tall Ships Challenge fleet of 15 ships started June 4 in Nova Scotia and will conclude September 15 in Montreal. During the three-month journey, they docked 8

in all five Great Lakes at ports such as Toronto, Cleveland, Sault Ste. Marie, Duluth, Green Bay and Chicago. September visits are scheduled September 2 at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, where the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie will be commemorated, and September 6 to 8 at Erie, Pennsylvania. Built in 1927, and personally inspected by King Haakon VII, the Sørlandet is the oldest fullrigged ship still in operation. It first crossed the Atlantic in 1933 to represent Norway during Chicago’s Century of Progress Exposition, and later took part in the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty in 1986 in New York City. To learn more, access www. sorlandet.org.

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businesses and professional firms creating a “Viking” legacy in the city’s history. Saturday, September 21, 2013, the “Dead Viking Tour IV“will explore many of the sites designed and built by these exceptional Scandinavians. Send $25.00 check per each reservation to SWS/ Deloris Craig 6319 Alden, Shawnee, Kansas 66216 by September 12th. The bus leaves at 10:00 AM from First Lutheran, Tomahawk and State Line and will return at 3:00 PM. This tour is sponsored by the Scandinavian Women’s Society. Thanks to the members of the SWS, Facklan, The Danish Brotherhood, and The Sons of Norway who helped with this project. Questions: call Carla Hanson after 3:30 pm at 913-322 6999.

Toronto

Two barbershop groups from Sweden recently took part in the International Barbershop Championships in Toronto. The Swedish Champions from 2012, “Ringmaster” and “Lemon Squeezy” were in Toronto to defend their titles, from Portland last year. The Canada Day event held in Scarborough, Toronto was well attended and the enthusiasm for this year’s contest was high. It’s great to see that Barbershop is gaining ground with the younger generation. 28

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Calendar & Events

Guide to interesting and fun events in Swedish North America 66

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Swedish American Museum 5211 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60640 Tel: 773-728 8111 | info@samac.org www.swedishamericanmuseum.org Sept 5 – Thursday 1 and 7 pm: Free screening of the Swedish movie, “Annika Bengtzon – Crime Reporter.” Sept 8 – Sunday 9 am to 6 pm: The Museum will participate in the 34th annual Scandinavian Day Festival at Vasa Park in South Elgin. Sept 13 – Friday 6 to 8 pm: Opening reception for the new exhibit, “A Swedish Painter – Michael Söderlundh,” followed by Gallery Walk with the artist at 11 am Saturday, Sept 14. Sept 18 – Wednesday 7:30 to 10 am: Start with Art program related to the new art exhibit. Sept 18 – Wednesday 3 to 7 pm: The Museum will have a booth during the Andersonville Farmer’s Market. Sept 20 – Friday 4 to 7 pm: Family Night activities related to the new art exhibit. Sept 21 – Saturday 11 am: Guided tour of the permanent exhibit, “A Dream of America – Swedish Immigration to Chicago,” by curator Veronica Robinson. Sept 26 – Thursday 1 pm: A walking tour of Andersonville begins at the Museum, either guided or with tour books available in the Museum. Sept 28 – Saturday 10 am to 12 noon: Nordic Family Genealogy Center session, “The Most Helpful Genealogical Tools You’ve Never Used,” with Marsha Peterson-Maass. The center is open each Wednesday afternoon for research, by appointment.

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American Swedish Institute 2600 Park Ave Minneapolis MN 55407 Tel: 612-871 4907 | info@ASImn.org www.asimn.org Sept 12 – Thursday 6:30 to 8 pm: Curator Champagne Tour – Spend an intimate evening exploring the spellbinding new glass exhibit Pull, Twist, Blow – Transforming the Kingdom of Crystal on this exclusive tour with ASI Curator Curt

Pederson. Explore the art and the stories of the artists who created these transformative glass pieces as you enjoy three unique champagnes hand-selected by ASI sommelier Brie Roland. Space is limited for this event and it will sell out quickly, so reserve your spot today at 612-871 4907. Sept 21 – Saturday 10 am to 5 pm: Minnesota Tile Festival – an event hosted by the American Swedish Institute and organized by the Handmade Tile Association. Discover the beauty of handmade tile, meet tile artists and makers, and see how handmade tile can transform your kitchen, bathroom and fireplace. Attend the fashion show to see how designers integrate this beautiful medium in unexpected ways. Admission to the Minnesota Tile Festival is included with ASI museum admission (free for ASI members). Sept 28 – Saturday 10 am to 5 pm: Museum Day Live – an annual event hosted by Smithsonian magazine in which participating museums across the country offer free admission to those with a Museum Day Ticket.

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American Swedish Historical Museum 1900 Pattison Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19145 | Tel: 215-389 1776 info@americanswedish.org Continuing through Aug 25 – Art by Sigelle – an exhibition of multimedia artworks by Sigelle Oldenburg. Sept 22 –Sunday 3 pm: Opening of Enduring Designs by Josef Frank Exhibition – focusing on work of furniture designer Josef Frank, who worked for Svenskt Tenn. Sept 28 –Saturday 9 pm to 5 pm: Drums Along the Delaware Powwow – Join the colorful and lively pow-wow with performers from the Southern Drum “Red Blanket Singers”, the Northern Drum “Medicine Horse Singers”, and head dancers from the Ira Jaire Eagle Tail. Drum call starts at 11am and grand entry 11:30am. Visitors will also be able to enjoy native crafts and food vendors. This event is part of the 375th Anniversary of the New Sweden Colony and presented by the Musuem’s Auxiliary Club.

SEATTLE

Swedish Cultural Center 1920 Dexter Ave N Seattle, WA 98109 Tel: 206-283 1090 info@swedishculturalcenter.org Sept 8 – Sunday 8 am to 1:30 pm: Swedish Pancakes – The famous pancake breakfast returns from its summer break to meet the nutritional needs of hungry Swedes.Live Music, folk dancing, lingonberries, and all the rest. Oct 1 – Monday: Fall Language Classes Begin – beginning, intermediate, advanced and conversational Swedish. Schedules available by visiting www.swedishclubnw. org.

SAN FRANCISCO

SACC-San Francisco 452 Tehama Street San Francisco, CA 94103-4141 Tel: 415-781 4188 | www.sacc-sf.org info@sacc-sf.org Sept 6 – Friday 6 to 11 pm: Crayfish Party – Come celebrate a traditional Crayfish party with the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce at The Norwegian Club. Experience this Swedish tradition and enjoy the delicious Swedish-style crayfish followed by singing of “snapsvisor” and dancing throughout the night. Sept 30 – Monday 5:30 to 7:30 pm: The Sticky Story – striving to clean up in the digital wasteland. Save your seat to listen to the Sticky Story of a Swedish high-tech start-up that spun off from Tobii Technology, Intel-backed world leader in eye tracking and gaze interaction.

VANCOUVER

Scandinavian Community Centre 6540 Thomas Street, Burnaby, BC V5B 4P9 Tel: 604-294 2777 | www. scandinaviancentre.org | info@scandinaviancentre.org Sept 27 – Friday 7 pm: The Annual Crayfish Party Fundraiser – SWEA and Swedish Cultural Society are hosting the saltiest event of the year. Purchase the tickets before September 20th by contacting Lena N-Y at 604-838 5362. For more information visit sweavancouver.wordpress.com. All proceeds go to the SWEA UBC Scholarship.

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he Swedish School in Calgary is a great place for kids to learn Swedish and Swedish culture. Like so many other Swedish schools around North America, kids are getting together once a week for a few hours of fun and learning. They learn the Swedish language as well as traditions, history, and current events. The Swedish School in Calgary started in 1975 with nine preschoolers. Margareta Malik was one of the founders of the school. “In order to keep the older students in the school, I wrote the curriculum for a high school credited program,” she says. “It had to be approved by Alberta Education. Ursula Brown, who was the Swedish Consul at the time as well as a parent and teacher at the school, also helped me start the program,” she continues. The three-year credited course was approved in 1987. The students already have a basic knowledge of the Swedish language but keep polishing their grammar, spelling,

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