Den Danske Forening Heimdal June 2012 Post office on the NSW N Coast Strangler Fig Tree in N NSW Birds at Beach in Ocean shores Hansen Girls in San Jose backyard Medlemsblad Newsletter for the Danish Association ‘Heimdal’ – Established 1872 THE DANISH ASSOCIATION “HEIMDAL” INC 36 AUSTIN STREET NEWSTEAD QLD 4006 Contact details: 0437 612 913 www.danishclubbrisbane.org Contributions We would love to share your news and stories. You are welcome to send emails and other material to the editor for publication. The closing date for the July issue is 20 June 2012. We endeavour to publish all material submitted but reserve the right to edit or not publish your contribution. Any material published does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Danish Club or the Editor. Editor: Lone Schmidt Phone: 0437 612 913 Email: [email protected] Webmaster: Peter Wagner Hansen Phone: 0423 756394 Skype: pete.at.thebathouse Email: [email protected] From the Editor arranging her funeral when the local minister, at some point refused to officiate due to the fact of the women being lesbian, I take it as yet another sign of how the times have moved on but the the institutions strugle to follow and stay relevant and engage with a new and challenging reality. Along the way the priest changed his mind and will now do what he didn’t think he should or could. Locally our Association Heimdal also has faced challenges over many decades and it’s volunteer committee has been and is still working hard to keep ahead of the game. Please enjoy this edition of the newsletter. peter w hansen. Byron Bay main beach Lone and Søren are taking a break and I will be stand-in editor for the June issue, please bear with me with typos and layout problems, I will endeavour to produce an exiting edition. We usually read Danish online news to keep up with trends and pass on to you the members (knowing full well that you probably also read the same online news). One story is from Aalborg in Northern Jylland and of the family of a women having difficulties Fødselsdage og Mærkedage 26 May – Kronprins Frederik 5 juni – Grundlovsdag 7 juni – Prins Joachim 11 juni – Prins Henrik af Danmark 15 juni – Waldemarsdag What’s on at the Danish Club? Café Danmark 25 May 2012 from 6 pm Come visit the club and catch up with new and old friends. Try our tasty ‘smørrebrød’: the menu varies from time to time, but you’ll usually find ‘rullepølse’ (spicy rolled pork), smoked salmon, roast beef, pate, roast pork and ‘Esrom’ cheese on the menu. And hot dogs. The bar is stocked with Tuborg and Carlsberg beer varieties imported from Denmark just for us as well as your favourite Australian brews. If you like a glass of wine with your food, we have a good variety of whites, reds and sparkling on offer. It’s also an opportunity to buy delicious Danish pastries, rye bread and other specialty breads and organic biscuits direct from Britt’s Danish Delights. Tea offers smallgoods and quality meats from Flemming, the Danish butcher at Woolloongabba, as well as her own goodies including remoulade. It’s a good idea to order in advance and pick up at the café. Kafe Svea 8 June 2012 from 6 pm We will be celebrating our national day....and lots of nice goodies Updates on www.facebook.com/kafesvea Legestue / Play Group Every Friday 9.30-11.30 Bamse’s fødselsdag 9 June 2012 Cafe Danmark 22 June 2012 Midsummer with Saga Vikings in Petrie Skt Hans bål 23 June 2012 A ROYAL AFFAIR / En kongelig affære 1 July 2012 This is a birthday party for all the kids to attend, read details inside this edition. This is being put on by the Saga Vikings and can be warmly recommended, some catering is available and so is on-site camping for a brisk tent experience, my wife and I did last year and will again this time. 2 pm Danish movie in Brisbane See details in this newsletter 3 Do you need any beer, snaps or other Danish or Scandinavian classics for Easter? We can help you source it. Price list Beer Tuborg Classic 24x33cl (cans) Tuborg Gold 24x33cl (cans) Carlsberg Black Gold 24x33 cl (cans) $ 50 $ 60 $ 60 Snaps Jubilæum 100 cl Jubilæum 70 cl Taffel (Rød Aalborg) 100 cl Aalborg Porse 70 cl Aalborg Export 70 cl Brøndum 100 cl Brøndum 70 cl Lysholm Linie Akvavit 100 cl O P Anderson Akvavit 100 cl $ 70 $ 55 $ 70 $ 50 $ 50 $ 65 $ 50 $ 75 $ 65 Bitters Gammel Dansk 100 cl En Enkelt Bitter 100 cl Dr Nielsens Bitter 70 cl $ 65 $ 70 $ 50 How to order and pay: By email [email protected] By phone 0437 612 913 Payment by EFT to Heimdal’s account at Suncorp BSB 484-799 Account 02495 1468 ONLY AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS OF THE DANISH ASSOCIATION HEIMDAL INC Now we have also sourced pickled herring, cod roe, fiskeboller, Danish lumpfish caviar and other goodies for our members – buy them at the next cafe. Look out for ‘Poletter’, ‘Blue Jeans’, ’Skiltelakrids’, ‘Familie Guf’, Evers Schweizerdrops and Evers Kongen af Danmark bolsjer. 4 SAGA VIKINGS GROUP INC PO Box 136, LAWNTON QLD 4501 www.sagavikings.org.au Email: [email protected] SAGA VIKINGS HOLDER IGEN I ÅR SKT HANS FOR HEIMDAL’S MEDLEMMER OG VENNER LØRDAG DEN 23 JUNI, 2012 - KL 15.30 “Black Forrest” 110 (149) Byrnes Road North, Joyner 4501 I er igen i år inviteret til at fejre Skt Hans hos Saga Vikingerne med stort bål på vikingelandet i Joyner. Bålet bliver tændt ca kl 17.30 så medbring venligst jeres egne stole da siddepladser er lidt sparse samt en lommelygte til personlig brug. I løbet af eftermiddagen vil der være mulighed for at købe diverse forfriskninger som: Kaffe, Tea og andre varme drikke Hotdogs, Pølser m/kartoffelsalat Soft Drinks og andre drikkevarer Alt sammen til rimelige priser. Gratis Entre - men donations vil blive modtaget med taknemmelighed Husker i sidste år hvor vi med de donerede gulve fra Heimdal havde bygget både køkken og toiletter. Vi har nu takket være meget generøse donations og ihærdig arbejde fra vikingerne fået bygget et langhus, det er i skrivende stund ikke helt færdigt, men vi håber at være næsten ved målet til Skt Hans hvor vi skulle være i fuld gang med indretningen så kom og se hvor langt vi er nået. Vi appelerer derfor til alle “Heimdal’s medlemmer samt jeres venner og bekendte om opbakning for denne hyggelige sammenkomst hvor I får mulighed for at opleve Skt Hans aften med rigtigt bål og en god Vikinge sammenkomst. Husk menneskets bedste ven – HUNDEN er velkommen så længe den kan kontrollere ejeren. Der er igen i år mulighed for at overnatte, campere i Saga Viking Village i egne telte, camper trailers eller små caravan’s men det er nødvendigt at medbringe jeres egne fornødenheder til overnatningen. Tilmelding er ikke nødvendig men modtages gerne på nedenstående numre: [email protected] Arild & Ann 07 3204 8204 eller 5 Flemming Brinkmann 04 0706 4825 SAGA VIKINGS CAMP PICTURES 2011 Sct Hans bål 6 7 Bamse har fødselsdag, og det skal holdes i stor stil med hjemmebagte boller og kagemand. Kom og vær med til en rigtig dansk børnefødsels¬dag. Tag din bedste bamse med og vær med i sjove lege. KUPALEJA spiller op til sang og dans. Tag vennerne med. Come and participate in a real Danish birthday party for children. It’s Teddy Bear’s Birthday Party so bring your favourite bear and try some home baked birthday buns and the yummy birthday cake. There will also be lots of party games. KUPALEJA will provide the musical entertainment. Bring all your friends. When:Saturday 9 June 2012 Time: 2 – 4 pm Cost: $5 (pay at door) Rsvp: By Thursday 7 June 2012 to Iben mob: 0434 933 953 / [email protected] 2010 Birthday party. 8 Newsflash! by Jytte (Kronborg Pedersen) We have been busy since the year started with our 70th and 80th ‘birthday bash’ held at the Danish Club on 4th of February 2012. The Club was filled to capacity with happy dancers, their invited guests and lots of great food and entertainment. It was a fantastic start to our folkdance year and no sooner were we finished and the last things cleared away before Hervey Bay was calling us, as the Fraser Coast Cultural Festival 2012 was to be held on 24 & 25 March. Lis, our dance leader, called us to order and extra training dance nights were organised as we were running out of our normal Friday dance nights. We were invited to dance no less than three times and the first performance being at the Brolga Theatre in Maryborough as part of the whole Festival week. After much training under our leader’s critical eye, we were let loose on the Fraser Coast and what a wonderful time we had in front of us. The Gala Performance program started at 7pm at the Brolga Theatre and was quite overwhelming – imagine us in our own dressing room – we had never tried that before. Waiting for the bell to summon us to the stage before and after the performance was hard – we wanted to explore! We were of course one of many, many groups performing in the theatre and also the next day on two stages around on the Festival site in Hervey Bay. We were certainly also the most senior group, but young and old mingled in the corridors of the theatre and on the stage, first separate in our groups performing and later all together in a final with the entertainer James Corona, ‘The Tall Tenor’. Attending this Gala Performance were local officials, sponsors, families of performers and other paying guests. The band Kupaleja, consisting of 4 of our folkdancers, Kurt, Pat, Jan and Lennart also performed both at the Brolga Theatre and on the Festival ground stages during the event and their happy music got many hands clapping and equally many feet tapping. Impressive Festival grounds were set up for Sunday, March 25th with activities again for young and old, even a separate childrens stage had been erected plus the two main stages, where all performers entertained throughout the day. All performers marched into the Festival grounds at 10am as part of the opening of the Festival, in a wonderful kaleidoscope of colour, each group bearing a sign of country of origin. Food from many nations was available from stalls and equally as many stalls displayed all kinds of interesting things to purchase or just enjoy. We were told the total attendance to the yearly Festival was around 10,000 this year, a very well visited event indeed and we were so happy to have been part of this. We were accommodated by the Festival Management Committee and was given a very luxurious resort to rest our weary bones in at the end of the day,. So all in all, who would not go to the Fraser Coast for another festival if the call came out? We would hear it a long way off and be on our way quick smart, after the appropriate training of course Lis! 9 Get all your Danish Baked Goodies from Britt’s Bakery at Café DANMARK 4th Friday of each month Authentic Danish Pastry & Organic Bread Products Kringler, Smørtærter, Kanelstænger, Birkes, Rundstykker, Fuldkornsrugbrød, Kransekagekonfekt, Småkager, Knækbrød og bagerens dårlige øje. For information, order forms and delivery details, go to our website: www.brittsdanishdelight.com.au Unit 5/10 Energy Crescent, Molendinar QLD 4214 Ph: 07 5571 6881 Fax: 07 5571 6947 Email: [email protected] 10 www.danishclubbrisbane.org to see it in colour. Kafe Svea. Is back again in it’s normal format on the second Friday of June with lots of Swedish specialities from Swedish Goodies available from their stall and there are home-baked pastries, hot dogs and smorgastorta (Swedish sandwich cake) available. Each month features a theme, after the Melodifestival in May I am not sure what is on for June, but look them up closer to the date on their facebook page http://www.facebook.com/kafesvea Starts at 6 pm. Hornbjerggaards Billedgalleri: Eva Lundberg Ambassador Susanne Shine will be leaving Canberra later this year to take up her new posting in Washington DC. Børge Petersen, Denmark’s current ambassador to Indonesia, will become the new ambassador to Australia. Club Centenary 1972 Preben and Eilan Nielsen have typed up the history of the Club written for its centenary in 1972 and you can now browse through it at on our website. Danes Worldwide Steen Selmer is the local representative for Danes Worldwide – contact him via [email protected] Contact details for the Royal Danish Consulate in Brisbane St Andrews (St Andreas) Lutheran Church in Wickham Terrace celebrates its 140th anniversary on Sunday 24 June with a special service where Norwegian and Danish hymns will be sung. The church has a beautiful organ made by Knud Smenge of Melbourne. Suite 525, Level 5 Toowong Tower 9 Sherwood Road Toowong QLD 4066 Honorary Consul Lars Kirk 07 3374 3062 [email protected] Computer Crash – Lone’s email files and contact list have been partly recovered now I am confident that all will be recovered when we return to the task after their holiday trip. If you’re still waiting for a reply to a message sent to the club or are no longer receiving emails from Lone, just to make sure, you should email to [email protected] again with your details. Play Handball with the Northern Panthers. The Northern Panthers are based out of Brisbane Grammar Sports Centre and meet on Tuesdays 7.30-9.30 pm (seniors) and Fridays 7-9 pm (juniors). All sessions are $10 and include court hire, insurance, registration and coaching etc. Everybody is welcome. See more at their website www.northernpanthers.org. Black & White are the only colours in your newsletter this time. Go to our website at 11 A ROYAL AFFAIR / En kongelig affære directed by Nikolaj Arcel, starring Mads Mikkelsen, Alicia Vikander and Mikkel Følsgaard. Winner of the Best Actor and Best Screenplay awards at the Berlin Film Festival, and starring internationally acclaimed Mads Mikkelsen (CASINO ROYALE, COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY), A ROYAL AFFAIR is an epic tale of a passionate and forbidden romance that changed an entire nation. Denmark, 1766, and Caroline Mathilde is married to the mad and politically ineffectual King Christian VII. Ignored by the wild King who chooses to live scandalously, Caroline grows accustomed to a quiet existence in oppressed Copenhagen. When the King returns from a tour of Europe accompanied by Struensee, his new personal physician, Queen Caroline finds an unexpected ally within the kingdom. The attraction between the two is initially one of shared ideals and philosophy, but it soon turns into a passionate and clandestine affair. Committed to the ideals of the Enlightenment that are banned in Denmark, Struensee convinces the King to assert his previously untapped power to remove the conservative political council and implement drastic changes to Danish society. As the Court plot their return to power and the downfall of the Queen and Struensee, the consequences of their affair are made clear and the entire nation will be changed forever. Join a Heimdal Group Booking for 1 July – Pay before June 13, 2012 Heimdal is in contact with the local cinema for a Contact the committee for tickets via group booking. [email protected] and deposit payments directly with your name in the This is expected to be Palace at The Barracks note along with “ROYAL” to our account at 2pm on Sunday 1 July, 2012. Ticket price Suncorp BSB No: 484-799 Account No: 02495 $12/person. 1468. Due to the short notice we have been given this is a “show only” offer no drinks will be arranged, and we will expect to share the cinema with other regular cinema patrons. In order for this to happen we will need a minimum 21 guests to book. 12 [email protected] │ 37 Dora Street, Moorooka │ 0411 297 236 │ www.danskvintage.com.au W E B S I T E L A U N C H !! Shop 37, Woolloongabba Antique Centre, 22 Wellington Rd, Woolloongabba (OPEN 9am–5pm EVERYDAY). Shop 38, Paddington Antique Centre, 167 Latrobe Tce, Paddington (OPEN 10am–5pm EVERYDAY) Warehouse OPEN ANYTIME by appointment. Guest exhibitor at the Queensland Antique Dealers Association Fair RNA Showgrounds, Gregory Tce, Fortitude Valley. Thurs 24 May 6:30-9:30pm, Fri 25 and Sat 26 May 10am-8pm, Sun 27 May 10am-4pm Tickets are $15 on opening night and $10 for the rest of the fair. Children under 15 free. 13 The next committe meeting will be held in June after Lone and Søren returns from “ferie” in Denmark. Property services Gardening / Mowing Rubish removeal, Outdoor cleaning Services Sunshine Coast to Brisbane Henning Jorgensen handyman Ph: 0403 988 103 [email protected] Online or paper! If you are reading our newsletter i paper format then you should know that it is also available free as a download from our web-site www.danishclubbrisbane.org Our web-site also contains content which is not included in the newsletter such as some job adds, and a copy of the Heimdal Association’s first 100 years of history, we also have an archive of pictures from some of our functions over the years. Try it out and if you like the experience, you could save the editor a bit of licking stamps and folding paper by changing your newsletter subscription to the electronic version. 14 Who am I? My name is Peter Wagner Hansen and I am doing the newsletter this month while Søren and Lone takes a well deserved break back home. My wife Sigrid and I came to Australia in 1988, it was a hot and for us a quite humid September morning in the old Kingsford Smith Airport in Sydney, besides 6 pieces of luggage we also had our daughter Josephine born just 10 month before and my parents first and only grandchild. Well we found a taxi big enough to hold us all and the 5 suitcases which had actually made it with us (one came 2 days later) our destination was Harbord at Freshwater beach just north of Manly, a former work mate in Denmark had immigrated a little while before us and set up pad in a one bedroom flat there, we moved in! In Denmark Sigrid had worked as “correspondent” sort of secretary with German and English translation and I had been four years at Bruel & Kjær in Nærum north of Copenhagen near Lyngby. Sigrid had stopped work the year before, when she was pregnant with Josephine and was now a full time mother. It took till December before I found work, in Lane Cove industrial estate with Telectronics Pacing Systems, I were quite happy and after a while we decided to move to Ettalong on the NSW Central Coast, this gave us some more room while I commuted back to Lane Cove 90 minutes each way. In 1995 Telectronics had to lay-off a group of people, and I were among these lucky 30 odd people which as it turned out would be the first of several rounds, before the company was closed down. With the severance pay in hand and now two daughters we decided to take a trip back home to the family in Denmark, maybe a bit risky with no forward income to expect. Anyway we had a good trip and after 3 month returned to Ettalong and all our stuff, which we had in storage, it was now going to be shipped to San Jose in California, where I had been offered a job while we were holidaying how handy was that? Both girls would soon be attending schools in San Jose, Madeleine had to wait for kindergarten till after summer holidays while Josephine jumped straight in, and Sigrid were busy running the home front and finding a new network of friends. My job with Integrated Circuit Systems was very interesting and it was a fast paced place with some quite nice people, the pay was nice and even thou I soon found that I missed Australia a lot, we stuck it out for 8 years. I quit in 2003 and we went back to Australia and a new uncertain life. We moved to Ocean Shores near Byron Bay, NSW and I have for the last few years now had a small garden service business with mostly lawn mowing, both girls have moved out, one is still at QUT in Brisbane the other finished at UQ and and is pt in Mexico, the wife is still here. Peter, Ocean Shores May 2012 15 Heimdal’s history We are still in need of more photos and stories for the Heimdal 140 year anniversary book. Have a look through your files and help us with photos and stories from  Events at the Stones Corner club house (pre 1997)  Danish club participation in Warana parades  Dronning Margrethe’s visit to Brisbane  Events at Norwegian club during 1997 and 1998  Fitting out of the Austin St club house  Official opening of Austin St club house (August 1998)  Changes done to the Austin St club house  Events at Austin St  Eddie Scholler, ShuBiDua and Bent Fabri concerts Please forward information to Preben or Pia via [email protected] 16 Dansk legegruppe for medlemmer af Heimdal Fredag 9.30-11.30 i Heimdals lokaler, 36 Austin St, Newstead QLD 4006 Vi er en gruppe forældre, der taler dansk med vores børn – vi ved, at de lærer dansk fra os, men hvad de lærer gennem leg med andre danske børn er en anden ting, hvilket er grunden til, at vi startede den danske legestue. Gruppen er for børn i alderen 0 til skolealderen og det koster $2 pr familie pr gang (pengene går til udgifter i forbindelse med afholdelse af gruppen). Hvis du er på Facebook, kan du også finde os under gruppen: Heimdal Brisbane Families w/kids Hvis du er interesseret eller mangler oplysninger, så kontakt: Tea Tlf: 3379 1667 / 0419 659 837 E-mail: [email protected] Tina Tlf: 3191 0411 / 0403 838 663 E-mail: [email protected] Iben Mob. 0434 933 953 E-mail: [email protected] ooOoo The Lyceum Club – an invitation The Lyceum Club of Brisbane is a club for women (general age group being over forty-fifty). We have a central aim of fostering life long learning through regular guest lectures from experts on a broad range of topics and other weekly events such as book clubs, theatre visits, a cinema group and so on. We would like to raise awareness of our club and its benefits amongst Brisbane women who have lived here for some time and those who are new arrivals to the city. We also feel we do not have enough members whose first language is not English. We wonder if there might be any of your members who would like to be advised of our club. Whilst Membership is by invitation only, for our part we would be pleased to host interested non-members to as many as six functions to see if our activities suit their interests and decide whether the club is for them. If one or more of your members would like to attend, please could they contact me and I will be able to organise it and answer any queries they may have. If you felt it would be useful we would very much like as well to meet with you, to explain the benefits of our club. Whatever the case, we would like you to know of our activities and look forward to hearing from you. Further information can be found on our website – http://www.lyceumbrisbane.org.au/ Please contact Margaret Maynard on phone 07 33797640, if you would like to know more. 17 The Danish Association Heimdal Inc. Est 1872 36 Austin Street, Newstead QLD 4006 Phone 0437 612 913 www.danishclubbrisbane.org Celebrating and fostering the Danish language, culture and traditions MEMBERSHIP FORM 1 July 2012 - 30 June 2013 Membership Number: Occupation Name Partner’s Name Date of Birth Date of Birth Address Phone (Home) Suburb & State Postcode E-mail / / / / / / / / Phone (Work) Phone (Mobile) Date of Birth Date of Birth Date of Birth Children: (Under 18 years of age) / / Please send the newsletter via e-mail ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP FEES Ordinary*) Member/Family Ordinary*) Member/Single $60.00 $40.00 Associate Member/Family Associate Member/Single Cheque or money order enclosed Paid by EFT Signature Date / $60.00 $40.00 $ / *) Ordinary member: Danish born/descendant of a person whose father, mother, grandfather or grandmother was born in Denmark or was a Danish citizen at the time of that person's birth The membership fee may be paid by EFT to Heimdal’s account with Suncorp BSB No: 484-799 Account No: 02495 1468 using your membership number and name as reference. Please send the form to Birte Schmidt if there are any changes in your details. If paying by cheque, please make it payable to “The Danish Association Heimdal” and post it to the Membership officer: Birte Schmidt 35/192 Hargreaves Road MANLY WEST QLD 4179 Phone 07 3348 4979 Email [email protected] 18 4 May, Cimber Sterling er gået konkurs fra DR.DK Det Danske luftfarts selskab Cimber Air startet i skyggen af Danfoss på Als i 1958 har ført en omflakket tilværelse i de seneste mange år, jeg må gætte på at de moderne lyntog med hurtig service til og fra alle landsdele har harft lidt med det at gøre. Cimber fusionerede eller købte i 2008 Sterling Air (del af konkurs bo), men kun i 2011 blev der problemer og flere rejseselskaber ville ikke sælge Cimber billeter under de usikker omstændiheder, der har været en tid siden midt i 2011 hvor selskabet har været ejet af en rigmand i Ukrain via et investeringsselskab men nu er dette også kørt til ende. Der var en del pasaserer bl. a. På Bornholm som kom lidt i knibe da Cimber Sterling var eneste flyselskab på ruten til København. Helligdage: Skal 2. pinsedag også fjernes? Fra DR.DK Den Danske regering kigger efter at spare 4 milliarder ved blandt andet at sløjfe 2 helligdage, og Store Bededag der jo er et levn fra en tidliger rationalisering af heligdagende og står nok først på listen, der næst kan måske 2 Pinsedag eller Skærtorsdag måske falde i samme omgang. Om der er blevet regnet på hvad det vil koste at holde børne haver og skolerne åbne de to extra dage kan ikke siges. Danske bygger verdens største mælkepulverfabrik i New Zealand fra avisen ingeniøren GEA Process Engineering i Søborg skal hjælpe med at omdanne New Zealands kraftigt voksende mælkeproduktion til tørmælk til det asiatiske marked. Dette kommer samtidigt med at der er en pt er en kraftig over produktion af mælke produkter på verdens markedet. Alkolåse hitter i virksomhederne fra avisen ingeniøren Mens politiet og politikerne ikke kan få alkolås-lovgivningen til at fungere, har virksomheder og private købt og installeret alkolåse i 2.000-3.000 køretøjer. Myndigheder nøler med alkolåse - over 100 døde i spritulykker Når flere og flere lastbil- og buschauffører starter dagen med en dyb indånding, skyldes det ikke udsigten til timelang køkørsel, men at der bliver installeret alkolås i stadigt flere danske køretøjer. Ifølge importørene af alkolåse har de siden 2009 installeret låsene i 2.000-3.000 danske køretøjer. »Der er så absolut en stigende interesse for alkolåse: Nogle gør det, fordi det bliver et krav i overenskomsten, at alle skal have alkolås. Andre gør det, fordi de gerne vil hjælpe en medarbejder, som har et alkoholproblem. Og så er der en forventning om, at alkolåse kan blive et krav i forbindelse med kontrakter, som man har set det i Sverige,« siger direktør Jan Bülow-Jakobsen fra importørfirmaet F. Bülow & Co. Abdulhadi al-Khawajas sultestrejke af Anne Kipp Frihed eller død. Det har i 85 dage (d. 2. maj) været de ufravigelige mål for den dansk-bahrainske, fængslede menneskerettighedsforkæmper Abdulhadi al-Khawajas sultestrejke. Da Abdulhadi al-Khawaja i maj sidste år blev idømt livstid for at demonstrere imod styret i Bahrain, foregik hans retssag ved en militærdomstol, hvilket er blevet kritiseret af både Vesten og talrige menneskerettighedsorganisationer. Nu skal hans sag for en civil domstol i Bahrain, oplyser hans ene advokat, Faten Haddad. Ifølge hans familie agter han derfor at fortsætte strejken på trods af, at en domstol i Bahrain mandag fastslog, at sagerne mod alKhawaja og 20 andre ledende oppositionsfolk, som alle sidder fængslet, skal gå om. I den forgangne uge havde myndighederne lukket af for al kontakt med al-Khawaja, og hverken familie, advokater eller den danske ambassadør i Saudi-Arabien fik lov til at tilse ham. Som det første medie fik den britiske TV-station tirsdag adgang til den prominente menneskerettighedsforkæmper på det militærhospital i Bahrain, hvor han er indlagt, og ifølge BBCs journalist var han »tynd, men klar i hovedet.« Se mere her: http://politiken.dk/udland/ECE1612247/britisk-journalist-fik-fem-minutters-samtale-med-al-khawaja/ Verdenspremiere på Efterklangs nye album i operahuset i Sydney af Anne Kipp Det danske band Efterklang får d. 26. maj australsk koncertdebut. Sammen med the Sydney Symphony, vil den populære gruppe præsentere deres nye album Piramida i Operahuset i Sydney. Efterklang har eksisteret siden 2000, og har siden da udgivet tre albums, spillet koncerter over hele verden, og ikke mindst produceret en anmelderrost film om deres hjemstavn, den sønderjyske ø, Als. Filmen ”An Island” havde premiere sidste år, og har høstet et utal af varme anmeldelser i ind- og udland. Nu er Efterklang klar med det nyeste skud på stammen, og har valgt at markere denne nye begyndelse i Jørn Utzons smukke bygning. For yderligere info og billetbestilling, se: http://vividlive.sydneyoperahouse.com/#efterklang An Island anmeldt i The Guardian: ”The film An Island is a heartwarmingly soulful portrait of the band in their natural habitat on the small Baltic island of Als" http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/25/efterklang-live-review Filmen kan ses her: http://anisland.cc/ 19 DSB lover godt og gratis internet til pendlere fra Politiken.dk Fra efteråret får 50.000 pendlere på strækningen mellem København og Aalborg frit internet i toget. Samtidigt bliver kvaliteten af forbindelsen bedre, lover DSB. Fra efteråret behøver du ikke længere fiske visakortet op af lommen for at komme på nettet, når du tager toget mellem København og Jylland. DSB og TDC har nemlig indgået en aftale om at opgradere internetforbindelse i togene, og samtidig bliver det gratis at benytte det trådløse netværk i togene fra efteråret, skriver Politiken. I takt med udbredelsen af smartphones, iPads og andet bærbart udstyr efterspørger stadig flere kunder en stabil internetforbindelse på rejsen. Borer historisk dybt fra avisen ingeniøren Danske olie felter i Nordsøen går nu kraftigt i dybden, helt ned til 5000 meter under havbunden, trykket øges betyeligt i dybder som der nu skal arbejdes i, op til over 600 bar ved 140 C mod de can 60-110 C og ”kun” op til 344 bar i de nuværende boringer. Production fra de nye felter skulle være i tanken i 2015 fra Dong Energys Hejre-felt, dette felt forventes at have olie og gas svarende til 2 års produktion fra samtlige nuværende Danske felter. Mary og Fred i Syd Korea. Kronprinsparret er på handels fremstød i Korea sammen med en delegation af Danske forretnings folk. Programmet indeholder bl. a. besøg ved den Australske EXPO 2012 pavillon, udover besøg på skibsværfter og en tur til den de-militariserede zone på grænsen til Nord Korea og en række lokale Danske virksomheder. Fredag d 11 Maj var Kronprinsparret og erhvervs – og vækstministeren budt til frokost af præsident Lee Myung-bak og præsidentfruen, Lady Kim Yoon-ok. Præsidentparret har tidligere mødt Kronprinsparret under det sydkoreanske statsbesøg i Danmark i maj 2011. Tirsdag den 15 maj er det Dansk mad det drejer sig om idet Kronprinsparret åbner de nye danske ”pop-up”-madbutikker i Shinsegae stormagasin, dette er også ifølge www.kongehuset.dk det sidste officielle arrangement der. Det lignede noget fra en film fra DR.DK Folk jublede og klappede, da de to højhuse i Rødovre styrtede til jorden. Posten har ikke harft sin gang på adrassen der i nogen tid, og nu er huset ogå helt væk, Der blev brugt omkring 34 Kg sprængstof af Engelske experter også var der kun en vej for de to højhuse i Rødover og det var ned. Det hele startede i en kraftig storm for nogle år siden beboerne raporterede om at huset svingede i takt med vindstødene, husene blev evakueret under stormen, og efter års undersøgelser og en anslået reparations regning på over 300 millioner kroner, ja så fandt man anden husly til beboerne og sprængte sig fra det hele. DR.DK skrev: 28 etager fordelt på to højhuse bliver søndag jævnet med jorden i Rødovre, når højhusene Ruskær og Agerkær må lade livet. De er ikke længere sikre nok til at huse beboere. På kun få sekunder sprænges de to betonblokke, der blev bygget i midten af 50'erne, i luften - og med dem følger en masse minder. Nye toner i Danmark af Anne Kipp Mange nye bands toner frem i Danmark netop nu. Og flere af dem lader til at have længerevarende potentiale med folkelige ørehængere. Heimdals nyhedsredaktion har fundet et par eksempler på den nye musik i Danmark. Ulige numre var for et halvt år siden totalt ukendte, også i Danmark. Siden har singlen "København" råhittet, og kvartetten er nu i gang med deres første album. ”København” kan høres her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSaUWDOexXU Skænket direkte fra ungdommens kilde, berusende og med glubsk appetit på alt, der venter forude. Der er romantik i hvert eneste hjerteslag, som banker af varme og poesi og rammer ungdommen i os alle. When Saints Go Machine Det blev den eksperimenterende elektropopgruppe When Saints Go Machine, der vandt P3 Prisen og dermed æren og 100.000 kroner ved Danmarks Radios P3 Guld-arrangement i DR Koncerthuset d. 6. april. Juryen valgte When Saints Go Machine med følgende begrundelse: "When Saints Go Machine har over de sidste år vist viljen til og talentet for at hæve overliggeren for dansk populærmusik. Ambitionerne er store og langt højere end hits og uendelig folkelig gennemslagskraft. Det er en rørende, melankolsk varme, som åbner sig for de tålmodige, der lægger konkylien til øret og giver det tid og plads til at virke. Vi er stolte over at give P3 Prisen til et originalt, nyskabende dansk band, som virkelig fortjener at blive hørt og elsket af endnu flere." Christian Hjelm For to måneders tid siden blev det annonceret i den danske presse, at Christian Hjelm – en af Danmarks fornemmeste vokalister – holdt et musikalsk frikvarter i form af et soloalbum uden bandet Figurines. Den guitarspillende, harmoniglade nordjyde med den specielle vokal og de fantastiske, varme melodier, har høje forventninger at leve op til. Den første smagsprøve på det nye album er allerede blevet lækket med nummeret ”scenen skifter nu”. Et nummer, der har fået begejstrede lyttere til at sammenligne Christian Hjelm med både Steffen Brandt og Kim Larsen. Albummet bærer arbejdstitlen Før Vi Blev Lette og udkommer i begyndelsen af efteråret. Scenen skifter nu kan høres her: http://www.regnsky.dk/2012/04/christian-hjelm-scenen-skifter-nu/ 20