Volvo Ocean Race

Photo: Richardsoasis

During the nine months of the 2008-09 Volvo, which starts in Alicante, Spain in October 2008 and concludes in St Petersburg, Russia, during late June 2009, the teams will sail over 37,000 nautical miles of the world’s most treacherous seas via Cape Town, Kochi, Singapore, Qingdao, around Cape Horn to Rio de Janeiro, Boston, Galway, Goteborg and Stockholm.
Today I went in to Stockholm in order to see the Volvo Ocean Race boat's and that was very nice. A lot of people walked around and took images of the boat's. It was a big day for Stockholm and Volvo Ocean Race.
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LRO On track for Lunar Rendezvous

3, 2, 1, Liftoff!
Image above: NASA's LRO and LCROSS spacecraft on top of the Atlas V rocket launch from Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Following a successful launch and separation on June 18, the Lunar
Reconnaissance Orbiter is on schedule to reach the moon on June 23 at 5:43 a.m. EDT.
Photo: United Launch Alliance/Pat Corkery

Midsummer in Sweden

In modern Sweden, Midsummer's Eve and Midsummer's Day (Midsommarafton and Midsommardagen) were formerly celebrated on June 23th and 24th, but since the 1950's on the Friday between June 19th and June 25th and the following Saturday. It is arguably the most important holiday of the year, and one of the most uniquely Swedish in the way it is celebrated, even if it has been influenced by other countries long ago. The main celebrations take place on the Friday, and the traditional events include raising and dancing around a huge maypole. One typical dance is the frog dance. Before the maypole is raised, greens and flowers are collected and used to cover the entire pole. Konungariket Sverige is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the Öresund Bridge in the south.
At 450,000 km2 (173,746 sq mi), Sweden is the third largest country in the European Union in terms of area, and it has a total population of over 9.2 million. Sweden has a low population density of 21 people per km² (53 per square mile), but with a considerably higher density in the southern half of the country. About 85% of the population live in urban areas, and it is expected that these numbers will gradually rise as a part of the ongoing urbanization.
Sweden's capital is Stockholm, which is also the largest city in the country (population of 1.3 million in the urban area and with 2 million in the metropolitan area).
Sweden is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of government and a highly developed economy. It ranks first in the world in The Economist's Democracy Index and 7th in the United Nation's Human Development Index. Sweden has been a member of the European Union since 1 January 1995 and is a member of the OECD.

Endeavour, STS-127 Crew Less than a Day from Launch

At 1:15 p.m. EDT today, clocks at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will begin counting back from T-11 hours toward the liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour. Launch is scheduled for 5:40 a.m. EDT Wednesday, June 17.

The mission management team is scheduled to meet at 7:30 p.m. to give the "go/no-go" to begin loading Endeavour's external fuel tank with liquid propellants. With managers' approval, fueling will begin at 8:15 p.m.

Launch weather looks good, with an 80 percent chance of favorable conditions forecast for the final hours of the countdown.

McDonalds LPGA Championship

On June 14 Anna Nordqvist Sweden won the tournament in Havre de Grace, Maryland with 4 strokes. "I think I haven't realized I won a major yet. I mean, I just tried to focus on what I can do," said Nordqvist, just days after celebrating her 22nd birthday. I really can't do anything about what the other players are doing on the course.
Anna Nordqvist, 66-70-69-68=273 (-15)
Hole 1, 358-yard par 4: birdie - pitching wedge to two feet
Hole 6, 387-yard par 4: birdie - 8-iron to 15 feet
Hole 13, 415-yard par 4: bogey - 5-wood to 36 feet, three putt
Hole 14, 372-yard par 4: birdie - 8-iron to 12 feet
Hole 15, 493-yard par 5: birdie - 40-degree wedge to 30 feet
Hole 18, 422-yard par 4: birdie - 21-degree hybrid to three feet
Congratulations for winning.
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Sunday Jazz picnic

Today It's a rainy day, but I hope it will clear up to the afternoon because I am going to attend an outdoor Jazz concert. I love this kind of music.That is a local band and they play well.

Mr. George Bush Senior's parachute jump

Former President George HW Bush has marked his 85th birthday with a tandem parachute jump near his home in Maine.
He told reporters that he jumped for two reasons: to experience the exhilaration of free-falling and to show that the elderly can remain active and do fun things.
He also said he enjoyed it so much that he planned to do it again when he turned 90.
This was Mr Bush's seventh parachute jump - his first came when his plane was shot
Mr. Bush parashute

A 92-year-old World War II veteran makes a parachute jump to raise funds for injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan
A 92-year-old makes a parachute jump
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