Sunset on the Ofoten Fjord
Taken last night:
Panorama from the Ofoten Fjord 16. July 2011 (Click for full image)
Try landing on the Moon!
If you’re a history-buff, love space exploration like me and love flying – you’ll have to try this game!!! Moonlander by PlanetInAction.com I have only tried it in Google Chrome and it requires Google Earth plugin. If you’ve got the latest version of Google Earth and Chrome installed on your system, you have already got the plugin.
Steering the landing-craft of Apollo 11 – the first landing-craft to put man on the Moon – (at 02:39 UTC on Monday July 21 (10:39pm EDT, Sunday July 20), 1969) – is quite easy!
Use the left ← and right → arrow keys on your keyboard to control the pitch of The Eagle. Fire your engine in bursts by pressing the space-bar button on your keyboard. You can try a landing with unlimited fuel, but that is cheating ;o)
Keep an eye on the fuel gauge top right side, and keep the speed in the green area!
First you’ll need to break the orbital insertion velocity. Then pitch the craft upright when you’re over the (red) target landing area. Keep the speed in the green zone! Nice and smooth: touchdown! When you succeed, you’ll hear the actual recording from the landing from Mission Control Houston.
I prefer a full screen to get the most details.
Touchdown! Limited fuel-landing - smooth as a baby's bottom
Panorama from the bell tower of the City Hall in Aarhus, Denmark
Panorama View from the bell tower of the Municipal Hall in Aarhus, Denmark
Took this picture when visiting the Municipal Hall with my Lions-friends from Norway in Aarhus – Denmark.
Help Japan!
Japan earthquake/Miyagi - Photo: courtesy of Lions Clubs International
As much as 100.000 people may have been killed after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The suffering is further increased by the following nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Nuclear Powerplant. Japan is the 3rd biggest economy in the world. So helping Japan is really helping – an already strained World Economy – survive, and subsequently – helping Japan is very much helping yourself!
How can I help?
Lions Clubs International was one of the very first to bring help in to the disaster areas. Why? Well, Lions Members – ordinary citizens with extraordinary brave Lions-Hearts – are present in most parts of the world. Those Lions in Japan who survived the disaster immediately mobilized and started the relief effort. 107.000 Japanese Lions Members are working hard at helping in the disaster area.
Since all this is volunteer work, and Lions don’t use the money they earn on any thing but 100% pure help, you have a guarantee that what you donate will reach the people in need.
Norway
- Send SMS med teksten “Katastrofe” til 2434
- Du mottar en kvitteringsmelding om at du har støttet vårt arbeid med 200,- kroner.
- Beløpet faktureres på din telefonregning.
Denmark
Sådan kan du donere til katastrofen
STØT VIA SMS
Send LIONS 100 til 1999 eller Send LIONS 150 til 1999
Det koster 100 eller 150 kr. + alm. SMS takst.
STØT VIA BANKINDBETALING
Du kan indsætte et beløb på følgende bankkonto i Danske Bank
3543 – 3543435031 og mrk. Stillehavet.
Ønskes der fradrag som gave i henhold til ligningslovens § 8A
skal CPR eller CVR nr. opgives.
USA and others
- Donate online at www.lcif.org/donate. Select Disaster and include the name of the disaster (Japan or New Zealand) in the comments section.
- Make a credit card donation with a MasterCard, Visa or American Express. Fax the following information to LCIF: name, address, phone number, credit card type, credit card number, expiration date, and amount of the donation. If you are a Lions member, please provide your clubs information. LCIF’s fax number is (630) 571-5735.
- Mail LCIF a U.S. dollar check drawn on a U.S. financial institution. Make the check payable to Lions Clubs International Foundation, noting the name of the disaster (Japan or New Zealand) in the memo. Please send the check to Lions Clubs International Foundation, Department 4547, Carol Stream, Illinois 60122-4547 USA
- Make a direct deposit of local currency into an existing LCI account. Send a copy to LCIF via fax to (630) 571-5735.
- Do a direct wire transfer. For assistance with this option please contact LCIF Donor Assistance at donations@lionsclubs.org.
- Complete the single or multiple donor disaster donation form and mail or fax to LCIF.
Read more:
Lions Clubs International Foundation – How to donate
Read the stories from Lions working in the disaster areas in Japan
See map of Lions Clubs in affected areas – a chocking picture of the magnitude of the Earthquake and Tsunami disaster
Monster Storms
Northern Norway has been hit by a monster blizzard. Early this morning more than 100 roads were closed. It has been the worst hurricane in decades.
My frien Jack took this picture today when he was traveling to Hovden out in the Vesterålen islands.
Onthe way to Hovden in the blizzard - Photo Jack Lihaug
Helping Japan – my favourite things in life all come together to help
Emil Hegle Svendsen - one of the Norwegian Gold Medalists who donated their price money to Japan (CC-Creative Commons, Photo: Njaelkies lea (Lars Falkdalen Lindahl))
This week has been great with a big medal harvest in my No. 1 sport – Biathlon. The Norwegian biathletes Emil Hegle Svensen, Alexander Os and Ole Einar Bjørndalen won 4 x 7.5 km Relay Men on Friday but cancelled their victory celebration and donated their price money to the relief effort following the earthquake and tsunami catastrophy in Japan.
The fantastic thing about Lions is that we are all volunteers. And we are present around the world, so Lions-members in Japan – with intimate local knowledge. That means that the money can be put to a more precise use.
The fine, thin line of life
Life is so fragile. We are all walking this thin, invisible line from birth through life to death. And the line is invisible, so it’s almost impossible to know when we reach the end.
There are so many things in life blown out of proportions and often times the most important things in life is pushed aside. How much extra does it cost you to tell someone you love them? To give a hug or a kiss? To lend a helping hand? The answer: it costs no more than a little cellular energy, but it touches another human being and could very well be exactly what he or she needed to get that silver lining on all the dark clouds in the sky.
Show your fellow human beings that you care – the sooner the better!
Life or Death (Photo: Dimmed)
Another issue of INARVIK out on the street tomorrow
Yet another brilliant issue of the magazine INARVIK hits the streets tomorrow. As usual it is a brilliant magazine the small – but highly talented staff has put together – made with love and passion for “happy journalism”! That is their trademark. You actually feel happy after having browsed through this magazine!
Enjoy by clicking on the front cover! The text is in Norwegian – but there are plenty of photos there to please your eyes!
Front cover of I NARVIK 03 2011 (Please, Click the front cover to read the magazine)
Aesthetics of a tower
Control Tower at the Oslo Airport - Gardermoen
I love flying! There is something magical about flying in an aircraft. Yes, I know all the physics like Bernoulli’s principle and all that – but still if the physics is such and such – and my brain understands how an airflow works on an airplane wing, meteorology, procedures during the flight etc., the process of flying is nevertheless wonderfully magical.
I regard the crew on the ground with just as much respect as the men and women that take us on the journey along the airways. Thus I find airport control towers fascinating. The picture here shows the tower at the main airport in Norway – Gardermoen just North of Oslo – taken a couple of weeks ago. I guess what I find appealing about airport control towers is that they often combine aesthetics with functionality.
Bernoulli’s principle
Northern Lights and a moonlit Night
Romantic scenery panorama
Please CLICK on the picture to see it in full resolution. Northern light (aurora borrealis) with moon shining on the mountains in the background
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