Norway: The Worlds Best Country Again

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Norway The WorldsBest Country (Again)
Hilsen!
2004
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The Worlds Best Country?

• Most and Least Livable Countries UN Human
  Development Index, 2004
• The Human Development Index (HDI), published
  annually by the UN, ranks nations according to
  their citizens' quality of life rather than
  strictly by a nation's traditional economic
  figures. The criteria for calculating rankings
  include life expectancy, educational attainment,
  and adjusted real income.

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Rotary Club District 6760, USA - District 2260,
Norway
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Midnight Sun or Noon Moon
2004 Dec 1 1304 UTC
60N (Oslos latitude)
60S
http//www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action
?opt-p
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Economic Overview

• The Norwegian economy is a prosperous bastion of
  welfare capitalism, featuring a combination of
  free market activity and government intervention.
  The government controls key areas, such as the
  vital petroleum sector (through large-scale state
  enterprises). The country is richly endowed with
  natural resources -- petroleum, hydropower, fish,
  forests, and minerals -- and is highly dependent
  on its oil production and international oil
  prices, with oil and gas accounting for one-third
  of exports.

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Petroleum
Source Energy Information Administration
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North Sea Oil
Norwegians worry about the time in the next two
decades when the oil and gas begin to run out.
Accordingly, Norway has been saving its
oil-boosted budget surpluses in a Government
Petroleum Fund, which is invested abroad and now
is valued at more than 43 billion.
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HydroelectricDams
Rånåsfoss Dam, Sörum
Norway produces virtually all of its energy
through hydro power, saving millions in energy
costs and air pollution with regard to coal-fired
plants.
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Forestry
lt Forest thinning, not Healthy Forests
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Torget Fish Market, Bergen
Exports (2003)
Yummy Monk fish! gt
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Glomma River, Fredrikstad
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Shipping Port Facilities
Bergen shipping terminal
Oslo shipping terminal
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Crop Specialization

• Billberries (Vaccinium myrtillus)
• The European species is known as bilberry,
  whereas the North American variety is known as
  blueberry. Bilberry grows in pine and fir woods
  on level semi-shaded areas and on heathland. The
  unique 'bilberry flavor' is only found in the
  wild bilberry.

Anti-oxidant bilberries are grown on Norways 3
arable land Global Warming is welcome gt
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Smart Automobiles
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Socialized Health Care
Definition Total health expenditure is the sum
of Public Health Expenditure (PHE) and Private
Health Expenditure (PvtHE).
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Education
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Public Schools

• Grunnskole 1-10 grades this is the compulsory
  primary/secondary school
• Barneskole 1-7 grades the elementary section

• Ungdomsskole 8-10 grades the junior high
  section
• Videregåendeskole literally the junior
  college this is actually the high school but
  they also give training in certain skill areas,
  like restaurant cooking

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Slottet, the Royal Palace

• King Haakon VII
• King Olaf V
• King Harald V

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Parliament Stortings Hall
45 of pop.
One man, one vote?
19 counties with 434 municipalities (243 have
less than 5,000 inhabitants 10 have over 50,000)
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European Union Member?
Norway opted to stay out of the EU during a
referendum in November 1994, but chose to
implement many EU policies.
Norway?
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Art Culture Overview

• May 17 Norwegian Cuisine
• Stone Age Petroglyphs
• Christianity Viking Culture
• Landscape Change
• Landuse Change
• Kultur Senter
• Futbol
• Vigeland Munch

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Independence(or Constitution) Day17 May
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NorwegianCuisine
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RømmegrøtSour Cream Porridge

• Rømmegrøt recipe
• 4 dl (1 2/3 cups) 35 percent fat sour cream
• about 3 dl (1 1/4 cups) flour
• about 1 1/4 liters (5 cups) full fat milk
• 3/4 teaspoon salt

Sour cream porridge with dried meats was festive
food in the olden days and is still used today.
(http//odin.dep.no/ud/html/brosjyrer/x-mas/engels
k/dinner.html)
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Røkfisk Bamsrudlåven
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Stone Age Rock Art
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Borgund Stavekirke
With the establishment of Christianity in Norway
one thousand years ago, the culture of
continental Europe gained a first foothold in the
country. The meeting between the new culture and
the old gave rise to impulses which made a
considerable impression on Norwegian society.
The largest and most ornately designed stave
church in Norway is Borgund church.
Based on Viking longship design
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Viking Ship Museum - Oslo
Circa A.D. 800
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Norwegian Landscapes
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Traditional Norway
lt Hyutter
Snekker gt
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Granary
lt Converted guest house
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Sognefjorden
Sogne Fjord is the worlds deepest fjord. I can
attest that its probably the coldest, too.
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Gliding Norway Sweden
Eivind Fauske
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Lørenskog Kultursenter
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Fredrikstad Futbol
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Bryggen World Heritage Site

• Bryggen, the old wharf of Bergen, is a reminder
  of the town's importance as part of the Hanseatic
  League's trading empire from the 14th to the
  mid-16th century. Many fires, the last in 1955,
  have ravaged the beautiful wooden houses of
  Bryggen but its main structure has been
  preserved. Many of the remaining 58 buildings are
  now used as artists' studios.

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Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intense,
evocative treatment of psychological and
emotional themes was a major influence on the
development of German Expressionism in the early
20th century.
The Scream
The Madonna
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Vigelands Sculpture Park
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