Amerikanska

Overseas Absentee Voting

Embassy of the United States of America
Stockholm

Warden Message: Overseas Absentee Voting

The General Election is on November 4, 2008.

Act now to register to vote and request an absentee ballot for the 2008 presidential and general elections!

From the U.S. Embassy - Warden Message

The U.S. Embassy in Stockholm alerts American citizens residing in and traveling to Sweden that the Iraq Compact Annual Review Conference will take place in Stockholm from May 28 to 30, 2008. According to the official website (www.icistockholm.se ), the conference is an intergovernmental conference at the ministerial level. Invitations to all Member States of the UN have been issued by Iraq and the UN. A number of international and regional intergovernmental organizations have also been invited. During this period, expect some street closures and traffic restrictions around major hotels.

Site Upgrade - PHP Nuke 8.1

Looks like we will be upgrading to the paid version of PHP Nuke (the content management code that runs Amerikanska). One of our faithful members, TimK, stumbled upon a "bug" (it's actually a security code in the current version of PHP Nuke) that will hopefully be fixed in the newer version.

So, look for an announcement soon, after we have run the new version through the rigors of our testing environment, that the site will be taken down to implement the upgrade.

The 2008 Amerikanska Donation Drive - CLOSED!

Current: 1500 SEK
Goal: 1500 SEK

Yay! We have reached our goal with the help of eight anonymous donors. Thanks so much!

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Those who've been here a while know what this is. It's an annual thing this time of year, started by the founder of the site, Flame. I am continuing on in that tradition, since Amerikanska is really your site.

Amerikanska is a non-profit and ad-free site. All work on the site is done voluntarily.

However, hosting a website costs money.

Currently, it's 1500 SEK per year. That includes costs for hosting the site and the domain, which comes due again in September. We had been talking about moving the website to another host, but decided that the excellent service provided by Datakultur could not be rivaled.

If you're able, please help keep Amerikanska going with a donation to help cover these costs. All donations go to the cost of hosting only, no one is paid to maintain it, not even myself. Only a maximum of 1500:- in donations will be accepted. In the event it happens to go over that, additional donations will be held to pay for the domain name and/or held for next year's costs.

Donations are voluntary, helping to keep the site both ad-free and free to use, which it has been since 2001.

Read on for details on how to help out...

U.S. Embassy Consular trip to Gothenburg postponed

Consular trip to Gothenburg is postponed until Fall 2008 Due to budget constraints, the U.S. Embassy regrets that there will be no consular trip to provide American citizen services in Gothenburg during Spring of 2008. We expect to return to western Sweden in the fall of 2008 and will announce details when information becomes available.

Warden Message from the U.S. Embassy

Date: Fri 02/29/08 11:31 AM

The recent declaration of independence of Kosovo and the formal U.S. recognition of this action brings with it the possibility of public demonstrations, which may turn violent and anti-American in nature.

In Stockholm, an authorized demonstration/march by the group Serbiska Ungdomsorganisationen - The Serbian Youth Organization -- will begin at Mynttorget, Gamla Stan, Stockholm on Saturday, March 1, 2008, at 12:30.

WORLDWIDE CAUTION January 2008

1. This Worldwide Caution updates information on the continuing threat of terrorist actions and violence against Americans and interests throughout the world. American citizens are reminded to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness. This supersedes the Worldwide Caution dated October 9, 2007.

Getting A Swedish Driver's License

Here are the basic steps:

Posted originally by Kalifornien

Körkortstillstånd
220 kr
Here is the application to begin the process to your länsstyrelsen.

Antikskolan (Antique School)

Swedish Art and Cultural History From The 18th Century To The Present Day (in English)

This course covers Swedish Art and Master Craftsmanship over the past three centuries, starting with the 18th century. This is a particularly interesting period of time and will give students the opportunity to learn about such well known Swedish styles as Gustavian, Northern Light and Swedish Grace. The course consists of six theory lessons, together with study tours of both the National Museum and the Auktionsverket's Modern Arts and Crafts viewing.

Site Code Changes

Due to bandwidth and astetic reasons (the inability to limit the size, creating unusually large signature lines, among other reasons), the ability to post pictures in forum signatures has been removed. (image) will show in a signature that currently contains a link to an image.