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I CAN SEE, I CAN HEAR, I CAN SPEAKComenius April 2013

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CONTENTEditorialWindsurfingWhat you thought you knewOur languageTourism in the Ardennes and music festivalsWelcome to TrondheimThe luxury industry in FranceUnsolved mysteriesThe carnivalImportance of economy World politicsTrolls of Norway Science and technologyKids with guns Fast changesFestivals in TrondheimWorlds most interesting festivalsThe canary islands music festivalChampagne Fast changesEconomy in the Ardennes Relocation of electrolux factory

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As a part of the Comenius pro-ject, the media class of the Ca-thedral School of Trondheim has made a magazine featuring many things about our town, and Norway’s culture. We have been working on this magazine together with students from Slovakia, Turkey, France and Spain, and together with their content we have produced a magazine full of information about all of our countries and their culture, that you will sure-ly enjoy reading through. Some of our students will meet them in the Comenius exchange pro-gram in a couple of weeks, and they will present the magazine and its content there. We hope that you enjoy what we have to present, and we’ll see you!

EDITOR’S NOTE

Kristian Arne Iversen

EDITORIAL

Kristian Arne Iversen

Editor

Inger Lise Stensheim Sara Rye Martinsen

Emilie Davidsen Malene Andersen

Julie Røkke Osen

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Photography

Christina Rygvik

Lise Nielsen

Lena Pedersen

Malin Albertsen Gjørv

Torun Edvardsen

EDITORIAL


WINDSURFINGWater sports in the Canary Islands

windsurfing and kitesurfing

Like every year in the Canary Is-lands hundreds of windsurfers and kitesurfers meet on the coasts of Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Tenerife to compete in the different disciplines of the World Windsurfing and Kitesurfing Championships. Pozo Izquierdo in Gran Canaria, El Médano in Tenerife and Playa de Sotavento in Fuerteventura share several reasons for their success in these events.

The most important fact is that these areas have got the wind, the sun and all the right wind and wave conditions their participants need to do the spectacular and fast manoeuvres together with the extreme jumps we can admire in their performances. During the couple of weeks the championship lasts, the show is guaranteed.

Besides the sports we can enjoy there quite a lot of activities dur-ing the day and the night: live

music, shows, food stands (typi-cal food from all over the world, and of course, from the Canary Islands), activities for kids, and much more. At night, you can also attend concerts with gigs, DJ’s, and of course, a big party on the beach. All in the best summer style!

But, what is windsurfing really? It is a surface water sport which combines elements of surfing and sailing. It has a board which is usually two or three metres long. The board has a rig connected to it where we also find a mast and a sail which varies depending on the conditions, the skill of the wind-surfers and the discipline they take part in.

What about kitesurfing? It is also a surface water sport but it com-bines aspects of windsurfing, surf-ing, paragliding and gymnastics into one extreme sport. We can call this sport kitesurfing or kite-

boarding. The kitesurfer harnesses the power of the wind with a huge kite which is propelled across the water, sometimes with foot-straps, sometimes without. There are dif-ferent styles of kitesurfing includ-ing freestyle, freeride, jumping or wave-riding among them.

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In 1985, René Egli (owner of a surf, kitesurf and windsurf school in the south of Fuerteventura) spoke about the excellent wind-surf conditions Sotavento beaches offered. In 1986 the first event was held there and since then, for 27 years, the Fuerteventura Tourist Board, The City Council of Pájara and René Egli as the local organ-izer celebrate in July and August three different disciplines as part of the World Championship. In Playa de Sotavento we have three categories: Slalom Grand Slam, FreeStyle Grand Slam and Speed Slam for male and female com-petitors. In 2012 the Air Style

Show started for the first time in Fuerteventura.

Pozo Izquierdo, in Gran Canaria, welcomes every year the PWA World Tour (Professional Wind-surfers Association). For the last 24 years this is one of the major events on the professional circuit calendar. The same situation is re-peated in El Médano in the south of Tenerife in summer.

Among the different participants in these competitions we find wind and kitesurfers from different na-tionalities all over the world but, Gisela Pulido, the Spanish kite-

surfer, draws our attention for be-ing the youngest world champion in kitesurfing. She won her first ti-tle at the age of ten and nowadays, being 19, she is one of the best kitesurfers in the world holding, among other, seven freestyle world titles.

Would you like to enjoy the expe-rience of extreme water sports? Would you like to learn and feel the thrill of these risk activities? Come to the Canary Islands and let’s see what kind of adventurer you are!

By Ana Santana and Daniel Rodríguez

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WHAT YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW

If you have never been to Norway and seen what it actually is like, I assume you already have made a picture in your mind where there are either nothing but fjords and mountains or arctic like the North Pole with polar bears and igloos. If you believe we have fjords and mountains, you are the most cor-rect assumption of the two. On the Norwegian mainland there are mountains, forests and fjords all over the place. If you believe Nor-

way is an arctic country where we pet polar bears and live in igloos, I hate to break it to you, but you are wrong. However, a small part of Norway, a group of islands called Svalbard located almost next to the North Pole, and therefore, the climate there is relatively similar. And there are also polar bears there, so you are not completely wrong if you assumed so either.

Norway the Norwegian wayA common myth that is not too far from reality is that we are good skiers. As a matter of fact, skiing is a proud part of Norwegian his-tory and culture. People in Nor-way have been skiing at least since the Vikings, and even today, hun-dred-thousands of Norwegians still go skiing in the forest or on a mountain every weekend. It is a

great way to experience Norway the Norwegian way!More mooses than polar bearsNow, I hope Norway doesn’t seem boring to you since I have invali-dated some of the myths you may have had which made you want to go here in the first place. But don’t worry, we are still a friendly peo-ple and we have a rich wildlife and a majestic landscape, so Norway is still worth a visit! Yes, there are people who believe in all myths mentioned in this article. I have checked.

Almost arctic: Not exactly arctic, but this is a typical Norwegian forest-landscape during the winter.

Even though you have never been to Norway, you probably have made yourself a picture of what Norway is like based on movies and pictures and other things you have seen or heard. This article tells you why you are probably wrong.

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OUR LANGUAGEDo you think that nor-wegian is a hard lan-guage to understand? I’m not surprised. In some cases even we norwe-gians can’t understand each other.

In Norway we have a lot of dif-ferent dialects, and dialects inside the dialects. It have become like this through all the years we have had our own language. Where did it all start? Well, I’m going back to around year 200. Then we had something called runes. Runes are symbols that you could find on stones, weapons and all sort of things. It had 24 letters, and every symbol had its own name.

Back then it was easy, everyone in Norway had the same language and they understood each other. Now it’s not so easy any more. They think that the reason that we have so big difference between our dialects is that it was big geo-graphic distance, and also because the mountains reduced the contact between people.

Our main language is called bok-mål. But in spite of that we have a main language, very few of us do speak bokmål, because it is dia-lects inside bokmål also. In Trond-heim we speak a dialect called Trøndersk. We overdo the use of the letters J and I in many words, and if I think about it, our dialect is kind of ugly.

For example: Hainnhoinn I hoinnbainn i eine hainna, og hohoinn i hoinnbainn i ainner hainna.

It actually say: male dog in leash in one hand, and female dog in leash in the other hand.

If you ever meet a Norwegian who lives in Trondheim, ask if the per-son can say that to you. And I’m sure you will laugh.

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NORWEGIAN:

Hei or hallo

Hade

Mitt navn er

Hvor er

Jeg er sulten

Tusen takk

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Sara

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Hello

Goodbye

My name is

Where is

I am hungry

Thank you

Fish

Ice cream

Internet

Christmas

Happy easter

Sara

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Now you have the chance to learn norwegian words and say-ings that is good to know

By Anne Karin Berg


TOURISM IN THE ARDENNES AND MUSIC FESTIVALS

AYMON FOLK FESTIVAL:The Aymon Folk Festival Bogny-sur-Meuse in the Ardennes de-partment takes place in August on the four Aymon Sons site. Created in 1998, it is a festival open to dif-ferent types of traditional music, but mostly Celtic music... It takes

place on a magnificent natural site 2010. There are about 4000tick-ets sold every year and it attracts people from Belgium and other French regions.

LE CABARET VERT :Le Cabaret Vert Festival is a rock

music festival, taking place in Charleville and gathering, in addi-tion to music concerts, village as-sociations, various art workshops including the broadcast of short films, art exhibitions, workshops, juggling and street theater, the creation of graffiti or comic strips, etc.. Its name is the title of a poem by Arthur Rimbaud the famous poet who was born in Charleville-Mezieres. Last year, more than seven thousand people attended the festival.

Our region was in the past a very industrial region special-ized in metal work. As the importance of industry declined, people in the Ardennes had to find new sources of rev-enue and turned to tourism. This is the reason why, the Ardennes have witnessed the creation of several music festivals which were very limited at first but which become more and more famous every year.

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LA CASSINE :La Cassine is a sound and light show in the Ardennes, with a unique con-cept in Europe: mobile steps. In this festival, there are also concerts, street art performances and farmers’ mar-kets The festival has grown from 4,500 visitors in 2008 to 6200 in 2012.

Festivals and celebrations in our region receive more than 15 000 people per year and the number of tickets sold increases every year, despite the economic crisis in our region .

BY: Laurie

WELCOME TO TRONDHEIMOCTOBER 2013


THE LUXURY INDUSTRY IN FRANCEIn France, the luxury industry is booming, in contrast to other indus-tries like cars for example. There are a lot of different luxury compa-

nies in France, and one of them Hermès for example, has a factory in the Ardennes, at Bogny-Sur-Meuse near our high school.

Théo Maillard, Estelle Dupuis

Hermès is a worldwide known French company which makes and sells different products like bags, clothes, perfumes and watches. The Hermès factory in Bogny-Sur-Meuse was created in 2005. With around 200 employees of whom 85% are women.The factory is making famous bags like the Birkin, the Lindy, the Shoulder and the new one, the So’Kelly. Bogny’s factory was cho-sen to create this new bag, it shows the gratitude of this major group for the skill of its employees.

The factory has decided to recruit more people in the next years. They’re collaborating with the high school Armand Malaise in

our region which has been chosen to create a special class in leather work. Students who graduate will have the opportunity to work here.This factory gives hope to the workers from the Ardennes be-cause it creates jobs here, where the crisis has affected a lot of fac-tories.

Estelle asked some questions to an employee of the Hermès factory.She said that she likes to work in this factory because, it’s an inter-esting job and she likes the man-ual work. She makes 2 bags at the same time and a bag is made by the same person from the begin-ning to the end. All the bags made were already ordered by the cus-

tomer who decided of its shape, size, color and leather.

The prices vary according to the color, the leather and the shape. Employees have a set time to make a bag and their work must be fault-less. The bags once finished are carefully inspected before being delivered to the customer. Em-ployees’ performances are care-fully controlled.A bag can be really, really expen-sive, sometimes more than 150 000 But there are still people buying them. Hermes gives the Ardennes the opportunity to show that they have always had excellent crafts-men and women.


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UNSOLVED MYSTERIES? PARANORMAL PHENOMENA?

First, in the Lercaro Palace (from the XVth century) in La Laguna, today History Museum of Tener-ife, many workers have claimed to have seen the ghost of Catherine walking around the museum. She was the daughter of Antonio Ler-caro and she was forced to marry an older man she didn’t love. Des-perate, the day of the wedding she commited suicide by jump-ing in the well which still exists in the courtyard of the building. The legend says she was buried in one of the rooms of the palace because the Church refused to give

her a Christian burial. The family ashamed by these events moved to another place and since then the tormented soul of Catherine re-minds us of her tragic fate.Something else... what does a strange lizard do in Nuestra Se-ñora de las Angustias Chapel, in Icod de los Vinos? A stuffed giant alligator in a crystal urn at the en-trance of the temple! The legend tells of a shepherd, taking care of his goats, saw a little lizard on a rock. He gave it a piece of cheese and the lizard ate it. Day after day the animal came and ate cheese

and drank milk but, as time went by, the lizard grew and wanted to eat the animals. The shepherd had to kill one animal every day to feed the lizard. He couldn’t keep this situation up and decided to kill the animal. He went into the cave where the lizard lived and tried to kill it but, during the fight the shepherd realizing that he was go-ing to die, asked Nuestra Señora de las Angustias for help and sud-denly, a miracle happened and he shook the lizard off and killed the animal with his spear. He was so happy that he offered the body of the animal to the Virgin tak-ing it to the chapel where we can still see it today. Many people visit the “Lizard of Las Angustias” and wonder about this story…

Tenerife can be a warm and sunny place to spend your holidays but, for the bravest visitors, it can be also a dis-turbing site to discover unexplained events. Let’s talk about some of the most famous mysteries you can find.

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Everybody knows there are seven Canary Islands but since the Vth century we have to add the ghost island of San Borondón. Appar-ently in 480, some Irish travellers lived in an island full of vegeta-tion which moved around. They believed it was really a giant whale and called it San Borondón (the Canarian name of Brendan of Clonfert, the Irish monk who led that expedition). Since the XVth century there are stories from sail-ors, explorers and scientists who talk about this island (480 km long and 155 km wide) and locate it to the West of the archipelago close to La Gomera, El Hierro and La Palma. Whenever it has been seen it appears surrounded by a strange fog but nobody has seen it twice. In 1950, a photographer took

some images of this ghost island still an unsolved mystery though did appear in XVth and XVIth century maps.In the XXth century the devel-opment of a new pseudoscience, Ufology, turns Tenerife into one of the most popular places men-tioned as scenario of encounters or sightings of extraterrestrial spaceships popularly known as UFOs.The unusual landscapes of the Teide National Park have attract-ed professional and amateurs to possible sightings of disk-like ob-jects flying over the volcano. Many stories from people who report strange events happening at the same time in different islands are included in several ufologist files. Manipulation, interferences, real

extraterrestrial objects? Endless stories to investigate…Don’t waste your time! If you are interested in unexplained events Tenerife can be an amazing des-tination for you! Enjoy our island and your hobby at the same time!

Teide is the highest ppint in Spain, and is found in Tenerife, and people have reported seeing disc-like objects flying over the volcano.

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BY: Miguel Rodríguez, Javier Navarro, Laura H. Alonso, Clau-dia Carrillo, Yaiza Suárez, Carla Grau, Roraima Yánez, Erin Ama-dor, Violeta Expósito, Sara So-cas, Marina Rodríguez, Diana Hernández and Dácil Castel-lano


THE CARNIVAL

It is considered the second most popular and best-known carnival, after the one held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Basically for this reason, the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is twinned with the city of Rio de Janeiro.

In 1980, it was declared a Tourist Festival of International Interest by the Secretary of State of Tour-ism. The Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife aspires to become a

World Heritage Site. People think that a declaration of its status as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO would promote the festival inter-nationally.

In 1987, singer Celia Cruz came to the Carnival “Chicharrero” (a nick name for the inhabitants of the capital city) with Billo’s Caracas Boys. They gave a concert which was attended by 250,000 people. The concert was registered in the

Guinness Book of Records as the largest gathering of people in an outdoor square to attend a concert.

The festivities on the streets of Santa Cruz de Tenerife start on the Friday before Carnival with an opening parade, which reaches its height during the night when thousands of people in fancy dresses dance until the early hours of the next day. The party con-tinues night after night until Ash

The Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife takes place around February (depending on Easter) in Santa Cruz de Tenerife,

the capital of the largest of the Canary Islands, and at-tracts people from all over the world.

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Wednesday. That day, people of Santa Cruz de Tenerife celebrate the “entierro de la sardina” (bur-ial of the sardine), and with this event the carnival is officially over. However, the party starts up again the following weekend, known as the weekend of the piñata.

The carnival has two parts: the official Carnival, and the Carni-val on the street. The official car-nival has more than a hundred groups, including murgas, com-parsas, rondallas and other musi-cal groups. The street carnival is more loosely organized, and peo-ple spend long hours celebrat-ing it on the streets. Thousands of people come each day to the streets to enjoy and take part of it and most of them wear a dis-guise in accordance with Carni-val tradition.

The Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has been celebrated since the time of the earliest European settlement, and possi-bly earlier. In 1605 Gaspar Luis Hidalgo alluded to the habit of reversing the sexes in dress. Early written references date from the end of the 18th cen-tury, in the writings of visitors. The journal of Lope Antonio de la Guerra Peña in 1778 includes a dance held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where he then talked about comparsas (bands play-ing conga music). In 1783, the Corregidor reported the use of masks “being banned by royal instructions”. In practice the ban was not carried out, and a car-nival feature was the mixing of the masked upper class with the common people. During the dic-

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tatorships of Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923–1935), and General Franco (1940–1960), the Carnival was known as “winter holiday” as a way to avoid the ban that had been enacted against it. Despite the ban, the festival continued to take place in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Cádiz, Spain.


THE IMPORTANCE OF ECONOMY

Let’s look at Turkey’s neighbour Greece. They are in a big financial crisis. Their economy is in a very bad condition. As a result of that, their politics are also bad. People are rioting in Greece. Their ex prime minister quitted because of the economy. So we can say that economy affects everything. It is very critical. Politicians must work to keep the economy high. Also Spain is in an economical crisis. They are in a very bad con-dition as well. Madrid airport is

on an industrial action. So it also affects people very bad. Because no planes are working. I wish the best for both Greece and Spain. I hope they will survive from these crises.As you know, Barack Obama has been elected again for US Presi-dency. This is his last term be-cause US presidents can only work as a president for two terms. Each term is four years. On the 8th March 2012 Barack Obama gave support to women in the USA. He enlarged the law that prevents women from having violence from someone else. That was very good of him, because some women in the world still have violent attacks from their husbands and they really need some support.

Unfortunately Venezuela’s presi-dent Hugo Chavez passed away recently. Venezuela is crying and mourning for him. His funeral was so crowded so this shows how much his people love him. He was the president of Venezuela be-tween 1998-2013. He was treated in Cuba but it didn’t work. We lost him on 5th March 2013. He was a great leader for his country. He tried to fight with poverty, hunger, and bad life conditions. He had lots of friends on the other hand he had lots of enemies. He was always on the side of the oppressed. To sum, up he was a great leader. We will miss him. Rest In Peace.

I think one of the most im-portant things for a country and for its politics is econ-omy. A country cannot do anything useful if their econ-omy is bad.

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WORLD POLITICS

Today politics has come to such a state that an event occurring in any country interests and also affects all other countries. Now consider the main elements con-stituting the politics. First one is economics.

Nowadays, economics has become such an important element that a state of which economy is weak cannot be considered as strong and standing. Economics is an im-portant element in social peace, development of country and inter-national trade. When we consider the past, we see that most of the wars were made for each country’s own economic interests. United States of America and China that are considered as developed coun-

tries of today owe this power to their economies. In addition to these countries, Germany which came out of two world wars and defeated in both of them owes its power to have a voice in world politics to its fast growing economy.

Another important element of world politics is politics. Today, countries raising qualified politi-cians have always important place in world politics. Atatürk is a good example for this. He made this state which lost the World War I a modern state from nothing and founded The Republic of Turkey. We mentioned about the impor-tance of politics and politicians. Now we can mention about politics and theories about it. Some of the theories are conservatism, com-munism, liberalism, anarchism and fascism. If we look at history, we can see countries that apply and have still been applying these the-ories. No matter how strong their

economies are, countries can col-lapse due to weak politicians and wrong political perception. The most important example of this is Syria under the dictatorship of Esad. Dictators trying to take the lead of their countries with spill-ing blood of his own people should be stopped by other countries and citizens of them. Another element constituting politics is interna-tional relations and diplomacy.

There are many countries on earth and they are in relation with each other. These relations between states can be economic, social and cultural. Countries having experi-enced and qualified diplomats can have the edge over other countries by protecting interests of their own countries as it is the case in the past. In this paper, I tried to define and explain politics in my opinion. Finally, I wish that all states in the world would live to-gether and in peace.

What do you think politics is? I think politics is a competi-tion area where international relations and diplomacy, eco-nomics, politics and social in-terest come together.

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TROLLS OF NORWAY

Since the trolls are a big part of Norwegian culture, we also have

books about them, telling different stories about a troll family. We fol-low this family as they learn more about living, and especially the kids’ personalities grow through-out the books. Normally trolls are dangerous and quite ugly, but this troll family is not. They are kind, and they almost look like peo-ple, except they have tails. These books are written by Rolf Lid-berg, and can be found in a num-

ber of different languages. The books about this troll family are something all Norwegians are familiar with, and most of us have read them as well. These books can be found everywhere, in all kinds of stores from average book stores to stores near tourist attractions. They are especially very popular amongst tourists, as they can see how normal, nice, troll family live!

AskeladdenOnce upon a time there was a farmer who had three sons, Per, Pål and little Espen Askeladden. Next to the farm there was a big forest where the father sent the boys to go chop some wood. Per and Pål went first. They found a big tree and started chopping in it with their axes. Suddenly a great,

Troll are human-like creatures that live in the mountains and forests, they live in caves far away from people and turn into stone if the sunlight hits them if we are going to believe the Norwegian fairytales. This is why not many people have seen the trolls, because they are only out when its dark outside. Troll is known to be big and ugly, but if you meet the right ones they can be incredibly kind. All the children in Norway knows what trolls are because of the Norwegian folk tales.

Screenshot from Ivo Caprinos Askeladden

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hideous troll appeared. “If you chop trees in my forest I will kill you!” it roared, and the boys, petri-fied, ran home as fast as their legs could take them. When they got home their father scoffed and said that the trolls had never scared him when he was young, and so he sent his youngest son, Askeladden, out to the forest. Askeladden hurried out into the woods where he found a tall, beau-tiful tree. He started chopping and once again the nasty troll ap-peared. “If you chop trees in my forest I will kill you!” it bellowed, but Askeladden was not scared. He took a white cheese out of his pocket, squeezed it till it was crumbled to dough and said, “If you don’t leave me alone I will squeeze you like I squeezed this rock!” That made the troll really scared and so he made friends with Askeladden and invited him to his home for dinner.

Good-Luck trollsGood-Luck trolls were original-ly made in Denmark in the late 50’s. The dolls became popular in several European countries dur-ing the early 1960s, shortly be-fore they were introduced in the United States where they soon came to be a hit. Since Scandina-via is well known by their trolls, the good-luck troll has been some-thing we’ve all grown up with. We have this really weird tradition that when you’re done at the den-tists, you got to pick out a troll in

whatever color of hair you’d like. That’s why the good-luck troll don’t make us think of the amaz-ing creatures in the woods, but the rather the dentist and his drills.

The TrollhunterThe Trollhunter is a movie/docu-mentary that was made in 2010 by the Norwegian director and writer André Øverland. It shows the life of a Norwegian trollhunter in his eve-ryday life as he travels through the Norwegian woods and mountains to protect the unknowing Norwe-gian population from our countries violent trolls.The plot is based on some tapes that were found in the Norwegian Trollheim. The tapes are made by three university college students

who have decided to make a docu-mentary about the strange guy who lives in a caravan with blitz on the roof and solarium lights inside. The walls of the caravan are ripped and bulky.As the man refuses to tell what it is he is doing every night as he drives away with his caravan, the students decides to follow him up in the woods. That night is the first night they see a troll, and after the troll-hunter saves them from the troll, he says they can come with him and film his profession, so he can use it to get better paid and show the authorities the high risks he is exposing himself to at his job.

Poster from The Trollhunter

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TOWERS AT WILKESBARRE


Slovakia is a small country in the center of Europe with not so long existence but with rich history full of events. There were also many important people who changed not only the history of our

country but the history of inventions and who changed the world of science and technology. Slovak inventors belong among important people who have done something for development in world-

wide meaning. They were: Jozef Karol Hell, Jozef Murgaš, Samuel Mikovíny, Johann Gregor Mendel, etc. This is important information about them

Jozef Karol Hell

He was a famous inventor and con-structor of mining and pumping machines.He was born in Banská Štiavnica where he learned all the basics about machines and their mecha-nism from his father. At the age of 24, he went to study hydraulics and engineering. His mentor was Samuel Mikovini. One year later he became his father´s helper and in 1744 after his father´s death he became the head engineer in Ban-ská Štiavnica.He invented and designed 4 pump-ing machines and also a machine that clears the air in mines. His machines and ideas had improved the world of mining and people started to use his machines all over the world.

Jozef Murgaš

He was born in Tajov, Slovakia, 1864. He studied theology and then he became a priest in Dubová. His fate was similar to some other famous men- not being appreci-ated in his homeland. This forced him to leave the country. He set-tled in Wilkesbarre, Pensylvania.His beginning there was very hard. He was kept busy establish-ing a one-class Slovak- English school, building a church, organ-izing cultural and national life. He was deeply interested in his hobby- making experiments in his laboratory. The Universal Ether Telegraph Company bought his invention of wireless telegraph-ing. His broadcasts were heard 200 km away. Jozef Murgaš and company started building serial poles, broadcasting and receiving stations.A windstorm damaged everything and thus the company was liqui-dated. Then he carried on with his inventions. Twelve patents of his were accepted within a period of seven years, all of them connected with his wireless telegraph. He died in 1929, Wilkesbarre.

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Samuel Mikovíny

Samuel Mikovíny was a mathema-tician, engineer, map maker, and professor. He is best- known as an architect of artificial lake system near Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia. These lakes are known as tajchy and twoday they are the part of UNESCO. He is also known for his cooperation with a geographer and historian Matthias Bel. Mikovíny was probably born in Cinobaňa, Slovakia in 1686 or in Ábelová in 1700. Mikovíny engraved a map of Demänovská Cave, which is situated in Slovakia, and several illustrations for Bel’s book, pub-lished in 1723 in Nuremberg. In 1735, Mikovíny became the first professor of mining school in Ban-ská Štiavnica, which later became the first Technical University in Europe. During the Silesian Wars, the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria employed him as a mili-tary engineer. During the works, he became ill and died on 23rd March 1750 at an unknown place, somewhere on the road between Trenín and Banská Štiavnica.

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„Tajch“ - an artificial lake

Mikovíny´s drawingJohann Gregor

Mendela.k.a the father of modern genet-ics was born on July 20th 1822 in Hynice to the peasant Ger-man family. Growing up on a farm helped Mendel develope his love for nature and curiosity for learning. He attended the Olmutz Philosofical Institute but couldn´t finish school because of the lack of money. In 1843, Mendel de-cided to become an Augustinian monk and continued his educa-

tion. Two years later Mendel left the monastery and enrolled in the University of Vienna.During his time in Vienna Mendel began experimenting with hybrid-ization of pea plants (Pisum sati-vum). His experiments lasted for 7 years and included 34 different varieties of garden peas. By ana-lyzing his pea plant numbers care-fully, he discovered three laws of inheritance:1.) The Law of Dominance – „In a cross of parents that arehomozygous for contrasting traits

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(AAxaa), only one form of thetrait will appear in the next gen-eration (Aa).”2.) The Law of Segregation – „In a cross of parents that areheterozygous for a trait (AaxAa), offspring phenotypes aresegregated in a constant ratio – phenotypes 3:1(dominant:recessive), genotypes 1:2:1 (AA:Aa:aa).”3.) The Law of Independent As-sortment – „Alleles for different traitsare inherited independently.” This law includes the “dihybridcross” (AaBbxAaBb)These laws are generally relevant; they refer to organisms, plants, animals and also humans.Mendel described the basic pat-terns of inheritance before the mechanism for inheritance (genes) was even discovered – that´s what makes his contributions so impres-sive.


KIDS WITH GUNS

This problem is universal problem. For instance, there have been such incidents in Britain, China and Norway. Most recently, it accrued in Sandy Hook Elementary School in United States. Here, there are more than hundred innocent chil-dren have been murdered and their families have effected in a tragic manner. Hence, this problem is a social problem and it has to be solved as soon as possible.

When will the Americans realize that their society is an unaccepta-bly violent one, that this is how the rest of the world sees them, and

that much of that violence is as-sociated with guns? Will it be the massacre at Sandy Hook Elemen-tary School?In Colorado, there is a debate on Friday to ban guns on college campuses and to hold owners of assault weapons liable for dam-age caused by their guns. Accord-ing to the New York Times, John P. Morse, a Democrat and the president of the State Senate have claimed that it can be done only by more restrictions. He also says, “Cleansing a sickness from our souls doesn’t come easy. It’s grue-some.”

These debates, to stop the gun violence in America, is apposi-tive and important thought for future. However, America have tried to protect their children for gun violence on the contrary, they have continued to do arms trade in Middle East Region. For the Americans, are the children who have lived in Middle East Region, less valuable than the children who have lived in United States?

WILL THIS SCHOOL BE A BETTER PLACE IF WE GIVE THEM GUNS

Today one of the main problem that is relevant with guns is school massacre. In these days, this school massacres have been increased rapidly. That’s why a lot of

children have been murdered in their young age.

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FAST CHANGES

It is necessary that international dynamics should be analyzed cor-rectly. The area we are in now demands a country must aim at bringing more peace and produc-ing safety to his people. Relation-ships between countries are rela-tive. They cannot remain friends forever. Someone who we say our

friend can be our enemy tomorrow. So considerations should be updat-ed as regional. But in this subject we have a big example. The great-est Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded a new and fresh country from the remnants of the Ottoman Empire. The policy he followed was admired by so many

The era we are living in now is an era of fast changes. As a result of that politics became mixed. Our first duty is to keep up the changes in the world, decide in

time and take an action.

kings and presidents. If we are strong in economical and political way, the so-called enemies can be our friends as well. This is his fa-mous saying: “Peace at home, peace in the world.” With this quote for the peace he tendered a map to everyone.

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If you are ever interested in travelling to Norway, it might be a good idea to attend some of the local festivals. In this article I have gathered some

festivals you might enjoy if you are ever going to the Norwegian city Trondheim.

FESTIVALS IN TRONDHEIM

A festival is an event, usually arranged by a local community or group, with interests in a certain area. This is a happening where people with common interests for one special theme, can gather for shows, courses, concerts, lectures and so on. As you can imagine, there are no limits on what people across the world will gather to celebtrate. Here i have listed a few types of festivals that will happen during 2013.

Pstereo music festival 16.-17. AugustA new pop/rock festival arranged in a park in the city centre. A good place to check out cool new local, or even international artists. The park consists of four stages spread around, where one of them is reserved for new, up and coming artists. On the second (and last) day of the festival, there is also a large picnic in the park, which is free – and open for everyone! The festival can also brag about hosting international artists like Mew, The XX, Death from above 1979, Lissie and Santigold, just to mention some.

Olavfestdagene july/augustOlavfestdagene (The St.Olav festival) is the largest and most versatile festival in Trondheim, celebrating our own large catheadral (Nidarosdomen) and St. Olav himself. There will be concerts, exhibitions, theatre shows, lectures and lots of activities for the whole family to participate in.

Nidaros Blues Festival 24.–27. AprilTrondheim’s own blues festival, arranged at a large hotel in the middle of the city centre. A great place to discover new or old favourites in the blues genre, and to meet other with the same interests. The festival has got a wide range of both national and international artists, suited for all ages.

Kosmorama 15.-21. AprilA week long film festival, that will surprise, engage and thrill the audience. The festival is meant to strengthen the film environment in Norway, as well as gathering film interested people and groups around

the region. There will be shown 90 films in total on the movie theatres around the city.

The Latin festival 8.–9. FebruarySadly, the Latin Festival is already over for this year, but that shouldn’t be an obstacle not to go next year, to this annual festival celebrating the Latin music and culture. It is arranged at the Royal Garden Hotel, where there will be two straight days with workshops, shows, concerts, international guest stars and more. It is suitable for all people and ages who fancy the Spanish rhythms.

Trondheim Food Festival 1.-3. AugustThe Trondheim Food Festival is the largest arena for Norwegian local food and specialities. During this festival you can walk through a large market with a wide range of local food, have a try of some Norwegian specialities or even attend a wine or cooking course with inspirational instructors. The festival is a great opportunity to get to know Norway’s culture a little better, as well as trying out food you’ve never even knew existed.


If you are more interested in traveling far away from home, for not only a cultural difference, but also possibly an extremely eventful experience, it might be a god idea to check out some strange festivals that are happening all around the world.

There are all kinds of interesting festivals, from the carnival in Rio de Janeiro to the battle of the oranges in Italy.

Just in Europe it can be an interesting idea to check out the La Tomantina festival in spain, where people gather around their town square and for exactly one hour throw crushed tomatoes at

each other, or the Battle of the oranges in Italy, where they basically do the same - only with oranges. The cooper’s hill cheese rolling festival in England is also an alternative if you fancy rolling a large piece of aged cheese down a hill, and try to run after it afterwards. You can also go celebrate st.Patrick’s day in Ireland, or visit the Glastonbury music festival - which, by the way, is the largest open air festival in the world.

If you however want to attend some festivals a bit further away from home, there are plenty to pick from. You can for example go to the Harbin ice and snow festival in China, to see amazing things being built out of snow, or to

the famous carnival in Rio de Janeiro, to see fantastic parades and costumes. At the Henley-on-todd regatta in Australia you can see the worlds only boat race that is held on land, and at the Boryeong Mud Festival in South Korea, you can attend a “mud experience land” and soak, wrestle or slide in mud. At the Pushkar Camel Festival in India there will be music, events and ofcourse a huge amount of camels. And to finish of your festival tour, why not try som unfimiliar exotic food at the Hokitika Wild Food festival in New Zealand?

WORLDS MOST INTERESTING FESTIVALS

By Idun Kilaas

SOME PEOPLE LIKE TO KEEP THEIR BRACELETS ON FOR MONTHS AFTER THE FESTIVAL


THE CANARY ISLANDS MUSIC FESTIVAL

The two primary goals were, first, to enrich the cultural life of a re-gion that has a secular tradition in terms of the music, from the early nineteenth century, when Europe-an opera companies calling at Ca-narias en route to South America, taking advantage of the stay to give a series of performances that were creating an important musi-cal tradition.The second objective was the name of international prestige Ca-

nary cliché beyond traditional ‘sun and beach’, favoring the third goal, promote the inflow to the Islands of cultural tourism to a higher level than usual.

Almost all of the leading figures of the musical firmament have passed through this Festival. As an example we can mention the names of directors as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim. The list of soloists who have par-

ticipated in the Festival is equally impressive. Examples are Alfredo Kraus, Plácido Domingo, José Car-reras.

The Festival takes place during the months of January and February, mainly in the two capitals of the Archipelago, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tener-ife, along with a series of concerts that take place on the other islands as well..

The “Canary Islands Music Festival”, an old aspiration of various sectors of the island society, held its first edition in January 1985, declared ‘European Year of

Music’ in commemoration of the tercentenary of Bach, Handel and Scarlatti - by initiative of the President of

the Canary Islands, Jerónimo Saavedra.

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The success of this Festival en-couraged the authorities of the islands to build a magnificent au-ditorium in Tenerife.The Auditorio de Tenerife “Adán Martín” was designed by archi-tect Santiago Calatrava Valls. Its construction began in 1997 and was completed in 2003. The au-ditorium was inaugurated on 26 September of that year with the presence of Felipe de Borbón, Prince of Asturias, and was later visited by former U.S. President Bill Clinton. The majestic profile of the auditorium has become an architectural symbol of the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the is-land of Tenerife and the Canary Islands. It is one of the major at-tractions of Tenerife and home to the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife (Tenerife Symphony Orchestra).

The building stands on a plot of 23,000 m² of which the audito-rium occupies 6471 m², divided into two chambers. The main hall or Symphony, crowned by a dome, has 1,616 available seats in an amphitheater and a stage with an opening of 16.5 meters and a depth of 14 meters. Organ pipes emerge from both sides of the pit. The auditorium differs from traditional designs, attempting to surround the listener with sound sources.

The chamber hall, with 422 seats, reproduces the symphony hall amphitheater on a smaller scale. In the lobby, accessible from two sides of the building, are the press room, a shop and cafe. The build-ing also has a dozen individual dressing rooms, as well as rooms for hairdressing, makeup, cos-

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tumes, etc. The exterior has two terraces overlooking the sea.The building is famous for its great “arc”, this element marked a before and after in the history of architecture, it is the only large arch supported by only two points of support, while the tip appears suspended gravity defying.

Music lovers from around the world are invited, in January and February, to discover a wide and complete music programme of unique and special performances in the canary archipelago. Come and experience the music in the new edition of the Canary Islands music festival.

BY: Pable Palomar Concepciòn, Raùl Vinas Abadìa, Nèstor Rodrìguez De Leòn and Edgar Cedrès Herndez


The famous Champagne is only produced in the region with the same name, in France. It’s where our high school Jean Moulin is lo-cated. Today, every competition has a bottle of Champagne for the winner. But it was not always like this. The first drink named Cham-pagne dates from the Middle-Ages. It was not as well-known as today, but thanks to the French King Henri IV, its reputation spread quickly. It keeps the economy of the region at an honorable level.After this little recap, let’s talk about our main subject. Roger Flores, the head of a well-known Champagne company, once told his friends: “what if we put the Moon in our Champagne Bottles?”It was how the project started. But the first time it succeeded was in 2012, with the society Eranova. They found a way to make meteors soluble in Champagne. Then, with this knowl-edge, they created 60 bottles with Moon mete-ors, and 60 others with Mars pieces. If you’re interested and dreaming about a space trip, these contain 3 liters, but their cost is truly ex-pensive, it’s so much that the company doesn’t want to tell the public!See you !

DO YOU WANT SOME MOON WITH YOUR CHAMPAGNE?

FAST CHANGES!

The era we are living in now is an era of fast changes. As a result of that politics became mixed. Our first duty is to keep up the chang-es in the world, decide in time and take an action.

It is necessary that international dynamics should be analyzed correctly. The area we are in now demands a country must aim at bring-ing more peace and producing safety to his people. Relationships between countries are relative. They cannot remain friends forever. Someone who we say our friend can be our enemy tomorrow. So considerations should be updated as regional. But in this subject we have a big example. The greatest Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded a new and fresh country from the remnants of the Ottoman Empire. The policy he followed was admired by so many kings and presidents. If we are strong in economical and political way, the so-called enemies can be our friends as well. This is his famous saying: “Peace at home, peace in the world.” With this quote for the peace he tendered a map to everyone.

Gautier Chauffert, Pierre Grangaud Ersen Taskin


After having relied on agricul-ture, the economy in the Ardennes is now based on industry. In the early 19th century The Ardennes was the first department in France for metalworking. Some years lat-er, metallurgy boomed. It helped build railways and was essential in the development of the car in-dustry. But since the 70s the de-partement has been experienc-ing a crisis. Several factories have closed and many workers were dismissed.. Recently in my town, some factories closed r were out-sourced.

The most important factory was called Porcher a.k.a, an Ideal Standard subsidiary, a French company that was bought by the American group Ideal Standard.

Porcher was built in 1886, the factory produced washbasins and toilets,In spite of strikes and ef-forts from the politicians, trade unions, Porcher was closed at the end of end 2011.

Let’s talk about the Ardennes, The Ardennes is a little department in Cham-pagne-Ardennes, in the North East of France, its number is (08). The department is consti-tuted of lot of forests, when winter arrives, it snows and rains a lot and when summer arrives, it’s hot, but not like at Tenerife.

I’m a bit scared about what you will imagine about the Ardennes because in the Ardennes the biggest city is called “Charleville-Mezieres”, Charlestown for the famous poet Rimbaud. But the Ardennes are also a nice place to visit and we are looking forward to seeing you.

ECONOMY IN THE ARDENNES

The Ardennes is located in the north of France.

Area 5229 km² 20.4% of the Champagne- Ardennes region Population 282 096 21.1 % of the Champagne- Ardennes total populationDensity 54 inhabitants per Km ²Industry 11.4 %Agriculture 4.2 %Active Population 46.6 % work in companies employing less than 10 workersUnemployment rate 12 %

MAJOR COMPANIES IN THE ARDENNES

Psa Peugeot Citroën Car industryEDF Energy ElectricityVisteon Car industryTarkett CarpetsElectrolux Washing machinesHermes Luxury bags

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RELOCATION OF ELECTROLUX FACTORY

The economic crisis hasn’t spared the Ardennes.The factories are closing or are relocating oneby one ,with the example of Electrolux.In Octo-ber 2012 that four hundred workers at ElectroluxRevin learnt the bad news the Swedish Electrolux company has decided to relocate their factory inRevin in the Ardennes department to Poland. It is with a lack of understanding rage and sadnessthat the workers learnt this news .. The closing of the Electrolux factory in Revin is set for 2014where it is going to move to Olawa (Poland). The workers are in discussion with the managementin order to alter this decison , They are going to fight save their jobs Let’s hope they will succed!

L’Ardennais: Electrolux is going to close: Death of Revin?

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