Utopia

When I search Utopia on google.no I got 67 700 000 results. I found two links that caught my attention, one about a music festival called Utopia, and one about a hotel called Utopia World Hotel.

Utopia Music Festival is a festival placed in Hawrelak Park in Edmonton, Canada. It is an annual music festival in the summertime. Last year it was in the middle of June, but the information for 2012 hasn't come out jet. The festival have some known and some unknown artists playing, such as Ani DiFranco, LIGHTS, David Usher and Suzie McNeil. The range of music genres a wide, with folk, reggae, electronic and acoustic pop. Utopia is open for all ages, and to addition to music you will also find gourmet cuisine, The Utopian Village and market to find earth, animal and friendly items. There is something for everybody at Utopia who's focus in unity, diversity and love.

This is a festival I would love to attend, especially last year when LIGHTS was there. I like what I read, and want to experience as many festivals I can, and Utopia is now on my list.

Utopia World Hotel is a five star hotel in Syedra, Turkey. The hotel contains 559 rooms in total, and 1118 beds. Utopia offers a aquapark and spa, the aquapark contains many pools, one with 300 meters of length and countless water slides. The spa is there for you and offers a fitness center with a sea view, jacuzzi, a indoor pool, Turkish bath, a sauna, steam room, masseurs, and much more. If you can't get your relaxation on this trip, it's not the hotels fault. The hotel don't only provide for relaxation, if you feel a little restless, they have a big range of activities you can do.

They have a tennis court, mini football,volleyball field, mini basketball, table tennis, water polo, aerobics, billiards, motorized water sports and non-motorized sports.

They also have offers for night activities, live music one night a week and special night parties.

Utopia World Hotel looks like a very nice hotel, with a lot of stuff to do. I would love to go there once.

My home, Lørenskog

I come from a town called Lørenskog, 20 minutes with train from Norway's capital, Oslo. I've lived there since I was four, and I don't remember that much from that time, but what I remember is that there were old buildings, not that many of them, and a lot of family houses. A lot have changed in Lørenskog since that time.

Lørenskog don't have a city status, something that the mayor desperately want. Lørenskog is getting bigger every year, with extended malls, upgraded and new schools, a new culture house, new buss terminal, a new public park, a new hospital, and this only in a few years. It is getting discussed if we are getting the metro from Oslo all the way out to Lørenskog too. In addition to all of this, it has also been build a lot of new houses, residential areas and a lot of people are rebuilding their houses to big "Hollywood" houses.

The people has also changed a lot, when my family moved to Lørenskog, we were three families with children in the street. A lot of the older people have moved to smaller apartments and sold their houses to new families with children. My family is one of the old ones in the street now. I live in a perfect place to race children, ten minutes walking distance to the primary school, lower secondary school, and one of many upper secondary schools. We live in between the train station and the center of Lørenskog, with the malls and buss terminal. We also have a big forest on the edge, it's a nice place to take a bike trip, and in the winter we get ski tracks.

I like to live in Lørenskog, I'm not the biggest fan of all the building, but it makes it easier to get around.

Here are the view from my bedroom - you can also see one of the big new houses to the left

The Lives They Lived

Miracle on Ice
You can read the article here

1. Who is the main subject about?
     Them person that is the main subject in this artical is Robert Ettinger. lie-lay-laid. lay-laid-laid

2. What details, anecdotes and accounts from other people illustrate the subject's personality?
     Robert was a very brave person who listened more to his head and heart than what he was told. His son tells about him during the war, when he didn't lie down when he was told. A lot of people that lay down were killed, but he was not. He liked the thought about extending life, and was very determined to get an answer to make it happen, his hope is to be woken up one day and live longer.

3. What overall impression do you have of the person from the article? What gives you that impression?
     Robert seemed like a very kind and fair person. He fought for his country and risked his life, as an answer to this, he went in to study and research cryonics.

4. Why do you think this article was published in The New York Times?
     I think this story about Robert was pubklished in The New York Times because he desided to be frozen after death.
5. If you were to write more in-depth profile or obituary for the person which details from this article would you include? What additional information would you need to find out? Which people do you think you would interview to get this information?

The movie that changed my life

We all had to write a true story about something that made an impact in our life, I chose to write about the time I watched a scary movie. I got an A- on it.

The movie that changed my life


When I was around seven years old, my life turned up side down. One of my friends at that time showed me a movie that would scar me. I really regret my decision not to walk away the minute we started watching the movie. It was one of the scariest movie ever made, and it is called The Exorcist, and is rated R.

What was I thinking to see that movie? And the weird thing is that my friend's mom bought the movie for her daughter, and it was one of her favorite movies at the time even though she was only seven years old! She thought the movie was funny. I don't get it.

When I walked for dinner after seeing the movie, I was terrified, even in the perfect day light. I was shacking. It must have been one of the longest days ever, I was really dreading nighttime. I eventually told my parents about the movie, I was crying so hard. My parents said that I could sleep in their bed for the night, I was so relived. I thought it would be okay, I struggled a lot with nightmares already, and it always helped to sleep in their bed. But I couldn't be more wrong.

The dream I had that night wouldn't seem scary if I described it, but it was the worst dream I ever have had. I woke up a lot that night, sweating and crying. I imagined that demons would crawl over me and jump over me and always watching over my shoulder.

I didn't sleep in my own bed for over three months, and I dreaded for the nights to come. I now get scared of the smallest and weirdest things, and I will never be able to see a scary movie ever again.

April 25-28, 2011 Tornado outbreak

We have to write a blog about a natural distaster that is even going on now, or very reasently. So I chose the extreme weather here in US this April.


April 25-28, 2011 Tornado outbreack


Starting on April 19, the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center began to discuss this storm system, and the possibility of an outbreak of strong thunderstorms. A large area of possible severe storms for April 25–27 was forecast as the Storm Prodiction Center, a division of the National Weather Service, issued a moderate risk of severe weather for three consecutive days, centered over Arkansas through Tennessee.


April 25, 2011
By the late-afternoon hours of April 25, several tornadoes had been reported across a few states, including two which caused significant damage in Oklahoma and Texas. The Storm Protiction Center issued a particularly dengerous situation tornado watch for much of Arkansas and parts of Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. Tornadoes were scattered that day until early evening, when an intense tornadic cell tracked near the Little Rock metropolitan area and a tornado emergency was declared for Vilonia, Arkensas. Tge tornado caused significant damage in the town. Reports says four people were killed. A strong EF3 tornado struck Hot Springs Village that evening as well, causing severe damage and 1 death. Another tornado caused extensive damage to Little Rock Air Force Base. Severe flooding continued across a large area from the Red River valley to the Great Lakers.


April 26, 2011

A high risk of severe weather was issued for April 26 for portions of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. A large particularly dangerous situation tornado watch with very high tornado probabilities was issued that afternoon for that same area. Widespread tornado warnings were issued in that area later that evening, and tornadoes caused damage.

Tornado watches were also issued for the Lower Great Lakes in the afternoon, and supercells began to track across southern Michigan in the early evening. Several counties in Michigan were placed under tornado warnings, including Kent, Montcalm, Ionia, Kalamazoo, Cahoun, Barry, Eaton, Midland and Bay counties. A tornado was later confirmed in Allegan County. A possible funnel was spotted in Kalamazoo County, and seven people were injured by a lightning strike in Portage. Further east, severe thunderstorms caused scattered wind damage and large hail across Pennsylvania and New York. Two-inch-diameter hail was reported in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. An isolated supercell moved across Central New York throughout much of the afternoon, producing golf ball-sized hail in Syracuse, and spawned a very brief EF1 tornado in Verona Mills, causing primarily tree damage.

April 27, 2011

For the second day in a row, it was a high risk of severe weather for the Southern United States, and late that morning the Storm Predicting Center increased the probability for tornadoes to 45% around Meridian, Mississippi to Huntsville, Alabama. During the afternoon, a tornado emergency was declared for Neshoba County, Mississippi as a large tornado was reported on the ground by storm spotters. This powerful EF5 tornado caused incredible damage near Philadelphia, Mississippi where homes were swept away, vehicles were thrown, and the ground was scoured out to a depth of 2 feet by the tornado. 3 people died in this tornado when a mobile home was picked up, thrown into a wooded area. A widespread complex of supercell storms overspread the states of Mississippi and Alabama and violent tornadoes began rapidly touching down as the evening progressed. Four tornadoes were officially rated as EF5 that day. These tornadoes impacted several counties in the states of Mississippi and Alabama, especially the towns of Smithville, Mississippi; Hackleburg and Phil Campbell, Alabama; Philadelphia, Mississippi; and Rainsville, Alabama. This marks only the second day in history (the other being the April 3, 1974 Super Outbreak) that there were three or more EF5 or F5 tornadoes.

A separate complex of storms occurred earlier that morning and caused communication and warning problems due to power outages, so people didn't get any warning of approaching tornadoes later that day. A squall line of severe thunderstorms packing strong straight-line winds and numerous embedded tornadoes impacted North and Central Alabama and parts of Middle and East Tennessee in the early morning hours. These storms knocked out power and telephone lines in a few areas, these outages would become much more widespread as the day continued.

The SPC shows 260 tornadoes were reported in the preceding 24 hours. It also broke the record for most tornadoes in 24 hours with 188 (53 of which were in Alabama), breaking the record of 148 set by the 1974 Super Outbreak.

April 28, 2011

Tornado watches were issued for the Atlantic Seaboard from Pennsylvania to Florida, but tornadoes were predicted to weaken and become more isolated. Even so, several people were killed across the region and tornadoes were reported in Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Maryland. In the wake of the tornadoes and severe thunderstorms, widespread flooding hit the Midwest, South, and Eastern Seaboard, with extensive flood and flash flood warnings issued. The last tornadoes of the outbreak touched down that afternoon in eastern North Carolina, but they were all weak.


Confirmed tornadoes

Confirmed Total	Confirmed EF0	Confirmed EF1	Confirmed EF2	Confirmed EF3	Confirmed EF4	Confirmed EF5
336	119	146	50	23	11	4

From: Wikipedia

Art by Maria Björnbom-Öberg

Maria Björnbom-Öberg was born in 1985 in Sweden. She works as a tattooartist in Sweden, she has a long education with art, and work as a freelance artist on the side of her tattoo job.

She uses Trimarker and Promakes to draw potraits, but feel also comforable using aquarelle. In the last year she has been drawing potraits of blogers, and sent the pictures to them afterwards. She films under the prosses of a picture, speed it up and puts it out on youtube, it's so much fun to watch the making of a great picture.

The pictures are downloaded from her website, and the movies are from her youtube-profile
Promarkers

Aquarelle

Animal Farm Essay

Here is my essay about Animal Farm. I'm very happy about the grade I got on it, A+.

Animal Farm Essay

The two pigs, Napoleon an Snowball, play big parts in the book about Animal Farm. They both wanted to have the leader role at the farm, but they both realize that there is only room for one leader and that one of them has to step down. Napoleon and Snowball argue a lot, and Orwell wrote this about it, “Snowball and Napoleon were by far the most active in the debates. But it was noticed that these two were never in agreement: whatever suggestion either of them made, the other could be counted to oppose it.” Later the arguing gets more intense, “These two disagree at every point disagreement was possible.”

After Snowball has led a successful harvest, he wins the trust from all of the animals. Snowball works to improve the farm and only want what's good for the farm. He has a lot of good ideas for the farm, and his windmill becomes a huge problem for Napoleon, and he tries to turn the whole farm against Snowball. Snowball wants all the animals to build a windmill together so their work would be easier. All the animals are voting if they want to build the windmill or not, Napoleon means that the windmill is pointless and advises the animals not to vote for the windmill.

Earlier in the book, one of the dogs gives birth to a litter of puppies, but dies right after. Napoleon then take the puppies to educate them and make them his own guards. After a while all of the animals forget about the puppies, sensing they never were seen after the birth. When it becomes obvious for Napoleon that the animals will vote for Snowballs windmill, he becomes jealous and angry. The puppies come in to the meeting and attacks Snowball under the meeting, casting him away from the farm, and Napoleon uses them to take over the leadership.

When the windmill they have built is destroyed for the first time, Napoleon has no trouble blaming Snowball, “do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has com in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!” Napoleon only talks Snowball down, so he seems like a better animal and the leader, and all of the other animals believe him.

Napoleon is very self-centered, and sees him self almost as a God, in his head he was so much more important then the other animals. No one referred to him only as “Napoleon” after he became the leader, he was always referred to as “our Leader, Comrade Napoleon”, The other pigs also give him different titles such as, Father of All Animals, Terror of Mankind, Protector of the Sheep-fold, and Ducklings' friend. He always ate alone with the dogs guarding him, and made them taste the food in case someone tried to poison him. Napoleon also changes the commandments, so they work better for himself. For an example, he makes it acceptable for the pigs to sleep in the human beds. He means that it is not a violation of the old commandments since they do not have the sheets on the beds.

Snowball comes back to the farm, and a discussion starts about whether he was a traitor or not. Squealer, Napoleon's right hand, tries very hard to keep everyone against Snowball, and tries to convince them that Snowball worked for the humans all the time. Boxer argues against it, saying that Snowball was fighting too bravely in the battle to be a traitor. The other animals want to think good about Snowball, something Napoleon does not like at all. Napoleon tries so hard to get the other animals angry at Snowball, and tells them that Snowball poisened his food.

I think that Snowball only thought about the animals good and wanted the farm to succeed in the best way. It seems like Napoleon cares more about being the king, and keeping the farm as his kingdom. He brainwashes the other animals in a way, and uses Squealer to make it happen. Napoleon is more self-centered then Snowball. They have a huge disagreement, and are fighting hard for the spot as leader of the farm. Napoleon uses more violence than Snowball to get what he want, and he lies to the other animals for his own fortune. Although Snowball and Napoleon had a lot of differences, they also had a lot in common. They both wanted to be leaders so badly that they both were very opinionated and stubborn. They both refused to fail in their mission, and yet Snowball did 'fail', as he was cast out by Napoleon.