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A news page for Abovoenterprises. Quotes from this page may be used freely with reference to the source. If you wish to speak your own piece on this page, you're welcome to us (in english) with your comments in a signed attachment. 280205 The other day I wrote an appendix. (See Noe aa slekte paa if you read Norwegian.) Some may be pleased to think that the author does not know the difference between appendicitis and an appendix, nor between genetical and congenital. It's not that simple. The appendix briefly mention Hashimoto's thyreoditis, a disease often genetically related to people suffering from Down's syndrom. Now I've heard medical experts state that there is nothing genetical about Down's. Down's is a congenital failure of the 21st chromosome, a ransom occurance, most often, but not always, when older women give birth. How come those with Down's syndrom are genetically disposed to Hashimoto's? There are countless possibilities within the DNA chains. Some fetal anomalies cannot be detected until after 12 weeks of pregnancy. Still politicized doctors, medicalizensationing politicians and clergy in Norway and elsewhere deny women under a certain age the right to have fetuses diagnosed in the womb. Or, as both Mr. G.W. Bush and the Norwegian Prime Minister, Kjell Bondevik try to advocate, like an echo of the ailing pater primas of the catholics: No to abortions. In our present day world some thirty thousand children die each day from starvation and neglect - and as vitctims of wars. Some of those could have had a life, given the care, loving and resources spent on congenitally handicapped babies of the rich world. Mona Lyngar 250205 The no. 1 president, a Mr. Bush, declared before he took off to make peace with his Euopean opponents, that the United States has reached its peak: ‘We’re an empire now,’ was his words. My spouse thinks my hearing must be off limits, that I’m getting senile: ‘Sane politicians are not correspondingly oblivious of the history of all empires and the fate of self-elected emperors,’ he warned. He is of course right. More on Mr. Bush, see The New Enlightenment. Have a great week-end! Mona Lyngar 240205 The Norwegian Police Force yearn to use expanding ammunition in armed operations. The argument is to stop bullets penetrating the person behind targets. The bystanders are not considered. The Force also wants permits to be carry guns on all missions. Last year the Elverum Police, armed to the hilt, rashly caught an armed criminal inside a roadside cafeteria. Waiting for him to come out after his dinner was no alternative for the brave hunters. I have seen members of the Norwegian Police Force acting irrationally on mere hearsay, and hesitate to imagine what may be the results if our local country police should brandish such permits and weapons loaded to match their whims. Knowing how game flesh and bones are maltreated by expanding ammo, one might wonder what the Police Force is aiming at. The proposed expanded care for public and their own safety may get anyone shook up. Mona Lyngar 230205 Most authors work, live and die in obscurity. Seeing the way Knut Hamsun is exploited by scandal mongering biographers, it may be just as well. However, it’s sad to know that some, like the furtively smiling Gunnar Lunde who all of a sudden was no longer with us, never reach a larger audience. A dead author is 20% more worth than a living one. It’s not always the case. Some best selling ones may be worth considerably less dead than alive. Mona Lyngar 220205 The Norwegian Government Cultural Council recently appointed a new member, Knut Haavik, founder of the gossip mongering Se & Hoer magazine. He now uses this position to drag the Cultural Councils decisions throgh the mud, abusing on TV the works of art bought by the Council. Mona Lyngar 210205 If you appreciate springy journalism and correct use of the Norwegian language, the Saturday edition of Dagens Naeringsliv is the obivous choice. To-day few Norwegian journalists and writers know the difference between them and they, he and him, not to mention the variety of prepositions at hand. Proofreading data programs cannot replace the grip of an experienced, human language hawk. Being a financial paper, though, DN seems to be a bit mixed up on the cultural bit. This Saturday they presented eight best selling authors as Norways greatest. Three of those greatest write crime. Two of them certainly are excellent writers, Karin Fossum and Unni Lindell. The biggest earner though, has a background including years as a television journalist. Then she acquired a law degree, followed by a brief appearance in national politics as a member of the Norwegian Government. Whereupon, as a much publicized out of the closet lesbian, she "parented" the baby of her wife, an editor at her publishers. In DN she confides to the journalist that her publishing company Cappelen, which she noisily left last year, taking her editor wife with her, always worked meticulously with all her manuscripts. In her case Cappelen might have had no option. Mona Lyngar 190205 The responsibilty of providing the family's daily bread is a touchy matter. Living in Norway, this land of the attempted monopolized Tine milk, and Statoil's lubrictating honeyed oil, you'd expect ready made bread to fly into the mouths of all and sundry. Affluance of that kind is yet not bestowed on our underdeveloped and sparsely populated region of the rich man's world. It takes a couple of hours to reach the supermarket shelves stuffed with imported loaves and get the staples back to the house. With a petrol price adamantly sky high and no public transport, there is no option but rolling up your sleeves and kneed your own dough. The family chasm developed when the female involved declared she'd had enough of giving birth and being both co-bread winner and baker, and why could'nt the male family members get friendly with flour and yeast? They were aghast by the idea of using muscles in the kitchen, though. Luckily The Observer brought an article about the then latest fad among the Oxford male students, they were all into kneeding - bread dough being their priority. This caught on. Who'd want to be less adept than a mere student? That students in Britain also made dough off quick delivery of needed material for private self fertilization by spoon, was never mentioned in our bread debate. Just in case. What people do when hard up is always at stake. Recently the economist Carsten O. Five called upon Norwegian farmers to find another livelyhood. Living off the land should be reserved for the inhabitants of the Third World. Smart geezer. His colleague, Trygve Hegnar, is similarly disposed: 'If the State pampers farmers into producing enough food for Norwegian self-sufficiency and restrict import, where shall we grow the bananas?' How come he asked? The Oslo hothouse is already overproducing bananas. The problem is how to export them. Mona Lyngar 180205 Anders has arranged for 340 pregnancies in the past few months, which explains his worrying about the plight of fathering. Like other ladies of modern stock it's all the same to his flock of lady sheep whether they share a few males between them or get pregnant by proxy. Sheep fathers have noe say, and sheep family bonding is uninteresting to the involved parties. Thus all sheep family responsibility on this farm is left to the one shepherd. Might housetraining and moral indoctrination of sheep be the next step for the Goverment Food Supervision? GFS, Mattilsynet, is the special baby of Lars Sponheim, the Norwegian Mininster for Agriculture. Sponheim's aim is to be the dux of the EU class, albeit refusing membership in the Union. The Norwegian government recently suggested obligatory bunk beds for sheep to sleep in. As this idea is somewhat original, sheep didn't take to it. Sheep farmers all over Norway are now awaiting Lars Sponheims new educational program for sheep. Surely it pops up soon: Any government may suddenly be short of other presentable friends. Mona Lyngar 170205 To-day's puzzle is the many hats worn by members of the medical profession. They appear as philosophers, politicians, retailers and profitmakers and now even guardians of private spending. Maybe they really are, as one doctor put it, specialists in omnipotence? Rikshospitalet's doctors don't want competition from private firms advertizing services Rikshospitalet has been known to deny many patients suffering from leukemia. Nucleus cell transplantations and designer babies must, according to the guardians Thorstein Egeland and Thomas Abyholm, be heavily controled by legislation in order to stop spendthrift new parents paying for an insurance Rikshospitalet only gives to their chosen few. People, and in particular mothers, are too stupid to recoginze a sound investment or detect advertizing blurb. In our family the policy is to keep our offspring heavily insured. By fluke it's been flinging money out of the window, they're fit as fiddles all the time. By this squandering of money we however fund the insurance company's ability to help those who need it. The gist of the puzzle is how those omnipotent medicals state that procuring and freezing nuclear cells from placenta blood is of no value - except when the Norwegian National Health Service employ this transplantation technique themselves. Mona Lyngar 160205 The other day VG described the traumas suffered by women forced to take abortions. Reluctant fathers to-be are the scapegoats. It's beyond me why in these days men's feelings seldom is focused upon. Making babies ought to be by mutual consent. Anders Landet 150205 In Aftenposten to-day Solveig Oestrem, theologist, wants an ethical debate on restricting novelists' freedom of expression. She claims that the author Hanne Oerstavik has spilled the secret beans from their friendship, and seems to be offended that her alleged presence in one of Oerstaviks novels is degrading her to a one dimensional character. On the other hand Oestrem states that worst of all is that when reading the books by her earlier friend, little of the content is recognizable. How can she then be sure of being portrayed? One of my readers once exclaimed: 'How come you knew how I feel?' He seemed to be pleased, as opposed to some of the characters in my books; they complain of being reduced to minor entities. Sure I understand them. Like other people they would appreciate to be the main characters in their own lives. As yet I have never experienced anyone stepping out of a literary context to fret in public. Mona Lyngar
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