Man har svårt att hålla räkningen. Är det åtta dödsskjutna i Malmö sedan maj månad 2011? Myndigheterna står handfallna inför importen av grovt kriminella till Malmö.
Jag har själv bott i Malmö, det var decennier sedan. Då en helt underbar stad.
I dag en förfallen stad pga alla grova, ständigt återkommande brott. Jag lider med de äldre, genuina Malmöborna vars gamla stad värmde hjärtat; ett hjärta som idag nog torde gråta ständigt av hård, kall köld
tisdag, januari 31, 2012
FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 27, 2012
Washington, D.C.
January 27, 2012 FBI National Press Office
1. Denver: Man Arrested for Providing Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization
Jamshid Muhtorov was arrested by members of the FBI’s Denver and Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Forces on a charge of providing and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic Jihad Union, a Pakistan-based designated foreign terrorist organization.
2. Washington Field: Former CIA Officer Charged with Disclosing Classified Information to Journalists
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou was charged with repeatedly disclosing classified information to journalists, including the name of a covert CIA officer and information revealing the role of another CIA employee in classified activities.
3. Baltimore: Man Pleads Guilty to Attempted Use of a Weapon of Mass Destruction in Plot to Attack Armed Forces Recruiting Center
U.S. citizen Antonio Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain, pled guilty to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against federal property in connection with a scheme to attack an armed forces recruiting station in Catonsville, Maryland.
4. San Diego: 119 Individuals with Ties to Mexican Mafia Charged
Two Mexican Mafia members and 117 street gang members and associates with ties to the Mexican Mafia were charged with racketeering conspiracy, drug trafficking violations, and firearms offenses in three countywide law enforcement operations.
5. Los Angeles: Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Role in International Child Pornography Ring
A Michigan man was sentenced to 25 years in prison and lifetime supervised release for participating in a child exploitation enterprise and producing child pornography.
6. New York: Four Connecticut Police Officers Charged with Civil Rights Offenses
A federal grand jury in Bridgeport, Connecticut indicted four East Haven police officers on charges of conspiring to violate and violating the civil rights of members of the East Haven community.
7. Washington Field: Man Pleads Guilty to Shootings at Pentagon, Other Military Buildings
Yonathan Melaku, of Alexandria, Virginia, pled guilty to damaging property and to firearms violations involving five separate shootings at military installations in northern Virginia between October and November 2010, and to attempting to damage veterans’ memorials at Arlington National Cemetery.
8. Anchorage: Three Men Charged in Superseding Indictment in Conspiracy to Kill Federal Officers
Three Fairbanks-area residents were charged with additional federal offenses, including conspiracy to kill federal officers and employees.
9. Miami: Nurse Pleads Guilty to Role in $25 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
Jorge Pineiro admitted to his role in the operation of two home health care companies with the purpose of billing Medicare for expensive services that were not medically necessary and/or were never provided.
10. Charlotte: FBI Offers $20,000 for Information in Armored Car Robbery and Shooting
The FBI Charlotte Division is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the identification and successful prosecution of the person responsible for robbing an armored car and shooting a Loomis employee outside an ATM in Charlotte, North Carolina on January 23.
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| Godín, Atlético. Han är från Uruguay och kom till Madridklubben från Villarreal. Chelsea har varit (är?) intresserad av honom. |
Omgång 21. Sista matchen spelades i går.
Osasuna - Atlético 0-1. Målet: Godín i 29e minuten.
Bäst på plan lär ha varit belgaren Courtois, målvakt i Atlético.
Can You Become Addicted to Chocolate?
January 26, 2012
By Michael Craig Miller, M.D., Harvard Medical School
Chocolate and the Brain
Comparing Food Addiction to Other Addictions
How To Enjoy and Resist Chocolate
Do you love chocolate so much that you're afraid you might be addicted to it? With so many Americans overweight or obese, public health experts are also asking this question.
Preliminary evidence shows that people can exhibit the three components of addiction when it comes to food:
- Intense craving
- Loss of control over the object of that craving
- Continued use or engagement despite bad consequences
Environmental cues — such as a neighborhood bar for drinkers or the smoking area at work for those trying to quit cigarettes — can trigger craving for people addicted to various substances. Similarly, many people find that seeing or smelling food can trigger their appetite, even if they have just eaten a satisfying meal. But there are also significant differences between food and addictive drugs.
Chocolate and the Brain
When people joke about being a "chocoholic," it reminds us that not all foods induce cravings. The midnight run for a pint of ice cream is familiar, but I’ve never heard of anyone trolling for celery at that hour.
This observation is consistent with research that shows what we might expect if food were addicting — high-fat and high-carbohydrate foods trigger reward pathways in animal brains. Restricting these foods induced a stress-like response in some of the animals studied.
Chocolate, which contains both sugar and fat, is often used in studies of food addiction. In a study published in Archives of General Psychiatry, for example, researchers at Yale University asked volunteers to fill out questionnaires to assess addictive behavior. The volunteers then underwent brain imaging while being able to see and smell, and then finally drink, a chocolate milkshake. Participants who scored higher on the food addiction scale experienced a surge of activity in the part of the brain that regulates cravings and rewards when presented with the chocolate milkshake. Once they started drinking it, they showed markedly reduced activity in areas of the brain that we use to control the impulse to seek rewards. A similar pattern of brain activity is found in people addicted to drugs.
In another study that used candy, researchers at Drexel University concluded that people experienced psychological reactions while eating chocolate, such as intense pleasure and craving for more, that were similar to those experienced on drugs.
How To Enjoy and Resist Chocolate
Whether "chocoholism" exists or not, most of us are stuck with the simple, if often frustrating, advice to eat in moderation.
Health doesn't depend on whether we call it chocolate addiction or not. Good health comes from paying attention to the dozens or hundreds of small but important choices we have to make about food every day.
The next time you feel the pull of chocolate, try paying attention to it. Don't automatically reach for your preferred candy bar. Train yourself to actively decide whether or not to indulge the desire. If you do decide to have chocolate, focus on each bite, slowly, to extend the pleasure in it. Should you choose to wait, enjoy the notion that you're taking good care of yourself.
Do this enough days and you may find you're living a healthier life. One with chocolate, but with many other pleasures, too.
Michael Craig Miller, M.D., is editor-in-chief of the Harvard Mental Health Letter and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Miller has an active clinical practice and has been on staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for more than 25 years.
January 26, 2012
By Michael Craig Miller, M.D., Harvard Medical School
Chocolate and the Brain
Comparing Food Addiction to Other Addictions
How To Enjoy and Resist Chocolate
Do you love chocolate so much that you're afraid you might be addicted to it? With so many Americans overweight or obese, public health experts are also asking this question.
Preliminary evidence shows that people can exhibit the three components of addiction when it comes to food:
- Intense craving
- Loss of control over the object of that craving
- Continued use or engagement despite bad consequences
Environmental cues — such as a neighborhood bar for drinkers or the smoking area at work for those trying to quit cigarettes — can trigger craving for people addicted to various substances. Similarly, many people find that seeing or smelling food can trigger their appetite, even if they have just eaten a satisfying meal. But there are also significant differences between food and addictive drugs.
Chocolate and the Brain
When people joke about being a "chocoholic," it reminds us that not all foods induce cravings. The midnight run for a pint of ice cream is familiar, but I’ve never heard of anyone trolling for celery at that hour.
This observation is consistent with research that shows what we might expect if food were addicting — high-fat and high-carbohydrate foods trigger reward pathways in animal brains. Restricting these foods induced a stress-like response in some of the animals studied.
Chocolate, which contains both sugar and fat, is often used in studies of food addiction. In a study published in Archives of General Psychiatry, for example, researchers at Yale University asked volunteers to fill out questionnaires to assess addictive behavior. The volunteers then underwent brain imaging while being able to see and smell, and then finally drink, a chocolate milkshake. Participants who scored higher on the food addiction scale experienced a surge of activity in the part of the brain that regulates cravings and rewards when presented with the chocolate milkshake. Once they started drinking it, they showed markedly reduced activity in areas of the brain that we use to control the impulse to seek rewards. A similar pattern of brain activity is found in people addicted to drugs.
In another study that used candy, researchers at Drexel University concluded that people experienced psychological reactions while eating chocolate, such as intense pleasure and craving for more, that were similar to those experienced on drugs.
How To Enjoy and Resist Chocolate
Whether "chocoholism" exists or not, most of us are stuck with the simple, if often frustrating, advice to eat in moderation.
Health doesn't depend on whether we call it chocolate addiction or not. Good health comes from paying attention to the dozens or hundreds of small but important choices we have to make about food every day.
The next time you feel the pull of chocolate, try paying attention to it. Don't automatically reach for your preferred candy bar. Train yourself to actively decide whether or not to indulge the desire. If you do decide to have chocolate, focus on each bite, slowly, to extend the pleasure in it. Should you choose to wait, enjoy the notion that you're taking good care of yourself.
Do this enough days and you may find you're living a healthier life. One with chocolate, but with many other pleasures, too.
Michael Craig Miller, M.D., is editor-in-chief of the Harvard Mental Health Letter and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Miller has an active clinical practice and has been on staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for more than 25 years.
The U.S.: Statement on Major Budget Decisions
Statement on Major Budget Decisions
As Delivered by Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, Pentagon Briefing Room, Thursday, January 26, 2012
Good afternoon, everybody.
As all of you know, this department has undertaken a very fundamental review of its defense strategy and of our spending priorities.
The reasons for the review are clear. First of all, we are at a strategic turning point after a decade of war and after a very substantial growth in the defense budget. And second, the Congress of the United States, through the passage of the Budget Control Act, has required that the defense budget be reduced by $487 billion over 10 years.
To accomplish this effort, we decided that it was important to make this an opportunity to develop a new defense strategy for the United States and for the U.S. military force that we wanted for the future.
That strategy has guided us in making a series of tough budget choices and establishing a new set of defense priorities.
The ongoing process reached an important milestone earlier this month with the release of the new strategic guidance and the priorities for a 21st century defense. And it will be reflected in the decisions that have been made and will be presented in the President's budget.
When I announced the new guidance, I highlighted five key elements of the strategy and five key elements of the vision that we have for a military force of the future. And let me just summarize each of those.
First, the military will be smaller and leaner, but it will be agile, flexible, rapidly deployable and technologically advanced. It will be a cutting-edge force.
Second, we will rebalance our global posture and presence to emphasize where we think the potential problems will be in the world. And that means emphasizing Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
Third, we will maintain our presence elsewhere in the world and will do that by building innovative partnerships and strengthening our key alliances and develop new partnerships elsewhere in the world: in Europe, in Africa and Latin America and elsewhere.
Fourth, we will ensure that we can quickly confront and defeat aggression from any adversary anytime, anyplace.
And fifth, we will protect and prioritize some very important and key investments in technology and new capabilities as well as our capacity to grow, adapt, to mobilize, to surge as needed.
Given the significant fiscal constraints that have been imposed on the department, our approach was to develop this force for the future with some pretty important guidelines. We wanted to maintain the strongest military in the world. We committed ourselves not to hollow out the force, as has been done in the past in these kinds of drawdowns, to take a balanced approach to our budget by putting everything on the table and to not break faith with the troops and their families.
I want to thank the entire leadership of this department, military and civilian alike, for their participation and support in this effort. This has truly been a team effort, and I am deeply appreciative for their cooperation.
And we are united in the belief that this strategy and the resulting budget decisions followed the right approach to meet the country's most pressing security challenges and to preserve the strongest military in the world and at the same time meet our fiscal responsibilities.
Today I'd like to offer a preview of the decisions that we made to help build the department's budget request for fiscal year 2013 and the future years' defense plan.
Consistent with the Budget Control Act, this plan reduces spending over the 10 years, obviously, by $487 billion. But in the five-year budget that will be presented by the President, we reduce the defense budget by 259 billion [dollars] over the next five years.
Specifically, the department will request for its base budget $525 billion in its base budget for fiscal year FY13. And our -- by the way, that compares to 531 billion [dollars] in fiscal year 2012 -- and our hope and plan here is to try to rise to 567 billion [dollars] by fiscal [year] 2017. I would just point out that the projected growth before we had to do this was to reach about 622 billion [dollars] by that year of 2017.
In fiscal 13, we will also ask for an additional $88.4 billion for overseas contingency operations, so-called OCO funds. That compares to about 115 billion [dollars] that we receive in fiscal year 12, all of that obviously to maintain support for our troops in combat.
Min (Stig) anm.: Med "Overseas Contingency Operations" menas farbror Buchs "War on Terror". Rätta mig om jag har fel.
We believe this is a balanced and complete package that follows the five key elements of the strategy and vision that I've described. You have the specifics in the package you've been provided. And I know that Ash Carter, the deputy, and Sandy Winnefeld, the vice chair, will fill you in on any additional specifics that you're interested in.
But what I wanted to do is to kind of summarize some of the key decisions for you.
First of all, with regards to the area of developing a smaller and leaner but agile and flexible and technologically advanced force, we knew that coming out of the wars and dealing with budget reductions of this magnitude, the military would be smaller. But the key -- as tough as it was to make the decisions with regards to drawing these down -- the key is to fashion an agile and flexible military force that we need in the future.
What that means for the services is that we will have an adaptable and battle-tested Army that is our nation's force for decisive action, capable of defeating any adversary on land. Let me say that again: capable of defeating any adversary on land. We will have a significant land force presence in places like Korea and in the Middle East. But at the same time, we will emphasize special operations forces. And we will also emphasize a rotational presence so that we can establish the kind of partnerships that I discussed and provide training and advice in other parts of the world.
We will have a Navy that maintains a forward presence and is able to penetrate enemy defenses. The Navy essentially has agility built into its force because it can move and deploy anywhere throughout the world.
The Air Force is the same. It will be an Air Force that dominates air and space and provides rapid mobility, global strike and persistent ISR, and it will provide unmanned capabilities through their operators as well.
A Marine Corps that is a middleweight expeditionary force with reinvigorated amphibious capabilities. And a National Guard and Reserve component that is ready and prepared for operations, all of this networked into a highly capable joint force for the future.
To ensure an agile and ready force, we made a conscious choice not to maintain more force structure than we could afford to properly train and equip. The budget also seeks to retain the most flexible, versatile and technologically advanced platforms that we will need for the future. That involves unmanned systems, satellites, submarines, helicopters, aircraft carriers and fifth-generation aircraft. What we're looking at are multi-mission weaponry and technology that can support that kind of agile force.
Striking the right balance between force structure and readiness is critical to our efforts to avoid a hollow force, and we'll continue to focus on this area to ensure that we make the right choices.
In this budget, we plan to gradually resize the active Army to 490,000. That's down from present force level of 562,000. And the active Marine Corps will go to 182,000. That's down from 202,000. That transition will take place over the five years. We won't reach those numbers until 2017.
This plan maintains, as I said, a very significant Army and Marine force. Both services are at larger levels than they were at prior to 9/11.
They will be fundamentally reshaped by a decade of war. They will be far more lethal, battle hardened and ready.
The changes to the size of our ground forces allowed us to examine the Air Force's airlift fleet. Our intensive review determined that we could reduce, streamline and standardize our air fleet with minimal risk. So, as you'll see, we are retiring some aging C-5As and C-130s, but we will maintain a very healthy airlift capability.
We were also able to identify excess capabilities in tactical air forces. We currently have 60 Air Force tactical air squadrons, and the review determined that we could eliminate six of the 60 as well as one training squadron. None of that will impact our ability to dominate the skies.
The Navy is protecting our highest-priority and most flexible ships, such as the Arleigh Burke destroyers and the littoral combat ships. It will retire lower-priority cruisers that have not been upgraded with ballistic missile defense capability or that require significant maintenance as well as some combat logistics and fleet support ships.
As we build this leaner and more agile force, we frankly need to also look at a department that is leaner and more agile as well. And for that reason, this budget seeks to reduce excess overhead, eliminate west -- waste in this department, and improve business practices across the department. We've identified about $60 billion in savings over five years on top of the substantial efficiency efforts that are already under way.
This will involve areas such as aggressive and competitive contracting practices, better use of information technology, streamlining the staff, reductions in contract services and better inventory management.
As a result of all this, we will also need to look at facilities infrastructure, balancing overseas forward presence requirements with basing requirements back home. In this budget environment, we simply cannot -- we simply cannot sustain the infrastructure that is beyond our needs or ability to maintain. Therefore, the President will request the Congress to authorize to use of the base realignment and closure process -- so-called BRAC process -- with the goal of identifying additional savings and implementing them as soon as possible.
The second area: rebalancing our global posture and presence to emphasize the Asia-Pacific and Middle East areas. The budget protects and in some cases increases our investments in these critical areas. That requires an Air Force that is able to penetrate sophisticated enemy defenses and strike over long distances. So we will be funding the next-generation bomber, and we will be sustaining the current bomber fleet. We are also moving ahead with our next-generation aerial refueling tanker.
The strategy also envisions a Navy and Marine Corps that is postured forward, bringing a stabilizing presence and combat power as needed, with an emphasis on these critical regions.
The Marines will sustain their level of presence in the Pacific and the budget supports an enhanced presence and partnering opportunities with Australia and others, such as the Philippines. And in all of these cases, obviously we'll do this in a way that respects the sovereignty of the nations that we will be working with. It also provides the resources to forward station littoral combat ships in Singapore and a patrol craft in Bahrain.
As I announced last weekend, sustaining our ability to project power in these regions will require maintaining the aircraft carrier fleet at 11 ships, with 10 air wings, and maintaining our big-deck amphibious fleet. Modernizing our submarine fleet will also be critical to our efforts to maintain maritime access in these vital regions of the world. In this budget, the Navy will invest in a design that will allow new Virginia class submarines to be modified to carry more cruise missiles and develop an undersea conventional prompt strike option.
Across the force, we will invest in upgraded sensors for aircraft, ships and missiles, and the most advanced electronic warfare and communications capabilities. Meanwhile, the strategy requires the Army to return to a full-spectrum training, developing a versatile mix of capabilities, developing a versatile mix of formations and equipment to succeed on land, including in environments where access will be contested. The Army will maintain its significant force structure in the Pacific, including on the Korean Peninsula, and will maintain an operationally responsive peacetime presence in the Middle East as well.
The third area: in building innovative partnerships and strengthening our alliances throughout the world. This strategy envisions an Army that develops innovative approaches to presence and a partnership development that will ensure our continued engagement with allies and partners across the globe. For example, in Europe, while we're taking down two brigades, we will maintain two brigades and, in addition, align a brigade combat team with each regional [combatant] command, and we will increase our rotational deployments on the continent so that our forces have more opportunities to train and operate with their European counterparts.
More broadly, the United States will continue to invest in our shared capabilities and responsibilities with NATO, responding to the alliance's most critical needs such as increased ISR and ballistic missile defense capabilities.
Elsewhere in the world, the gradual drawdown of the post-9/11 wars will provide more opportunities for special operations forces to assist and advise our partners in other regions, and we prioritize the most important programs for building partnership capacity.
Fourth: we will ensure that we can quickly confront and defeat aggression from any adversary anytime, anywhere. The strategic guidance reaffirmed that the United States must have the capability to fight more than one conflict at the same time. Still, the changing nature of conflict demands greater flexibility to shift and deploy forces to be able to fight and defeat any enemy anywhere.
The strategic guidance recognizes that we're dealing with the changing realities of the world that we live in in the 21st century. We're not just facing conventional threats. We're also facing technological threats. And we have to be prepared to be able to leap ahead technologically in order to be able to confront those kinds of adversaries.
This requires that we have the capability to defeat the enemy across a broad horizon of different conflicts. And the budget leverages, as a result of that, new concepts of operations and advances in space, cyberspace, special operations, long-range precision strike capabilities and other capabilities as well to ensure that we can still confront and defeat multiple adversaries.
The budget also affirms the importance of strategic deterrence and provides for all three legs of the nuclear triad: bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles and ballistic missile submarines. However, our review determined that we could achieve better cost control by delaying the next-generation ballistic missile submarine for two years without harming the survivability of our nuclear deterrent. We are fully committed to a safe, secure and effective deterrent to achieve national security objectives.
And lastly, with regards to the key investments in technology and new capabilities, we have to retain a decisive technological edge.
We have to retain the kind of leverage the lessons of recent conflicts have given us. And we need to stay ahead of the most lethal and disruptive threats that we're going to face in the future.
That meant protecting or increasing investments in cyber capabilities, the ability to project power in denied areas, special operations forces -- the kind that we saw that conducted the bin Laden raid and the hostage rescue operation -- homeland missile defense, and countering weapons of mass destruction. In order to protect vital investments for the future, we protected science and technology programs as well.
At the same time, the strategic guidance recognizes the need to prioritize and distinguish urgent modernization needs from those that can be delayed, particularly in light of schedule and cost problems. We've made reasonable adjustments to a number of programs. Let me briefly mention the change with regards to the Joint Strike Fighter.
It's a program that remains essential for the future of our superiority. We have to develop the next generation fighter, and we will. The department remains committed to the JSF program of record. But in this budget, what we've done is slowed the procurement to be able to complete more testing and allow for developmental changes before we buy in significant quantities. We want to make sure before we go into full production that we are ready.
The force structure shifts I've outlined today entail some risks to be sure. But to manage that risk we will ensure that we can mobilize, surge and adapt our force to meet the requirements of an uncertain future.
To that end, the Army will retain more mid-level, mid-grade officers and NCOs. These are the guys who have the experience. And they will maintain them even as their overall strength decreases to ensure that we have the structure and experienced leaders necessary to re-grow the force quickly if we have to.
Another part of ensuring the ability to mobilize quickly will be retaining a capable, ready and operational Reserve Component, leveraging 10 years of experience in war. Consequently, we are maintaining a strong Army Reserve and National Guard. There will be no reductions in the Marine Corps Reserve. The Air Force will make balanced reductions in the Air National Guard consistent with reductions in both the Active Component and Air Force Reserve.
And finally, the budget recognizes that a critical part of our ability to mobilize is a healthy industrial base. Maintaining the vitality of the industrial base and avoiding imposing unacceptable costs or risks on our critical suppliers will guide many of the decisions that we have made.
Now let me turn to the quality of our All-Volunteer Force. The most fundamental element in our strategy and in our decision-making process is our people. This budget recognizes that they, far more than any weapon system, far more than any technology, are the great strength of the United States military. For that reason, we focus first on every other area of the defense enterprise for savings in order to minimize any impact on the quality of the troops and their families.
As a result, we were able to sustain or enhance critical support programs while reforming and reorganizing others to be more effective and responsive to the needs of their troops and their families.
Yet in order to build the force needed to defend the country under existing budget constraints, the escalating growth in personnel costs must be confronted. This is an area of the budget that has grown by nearly 90 percent since 2001.
The budget will contain a road map to try to address the costs of military pay, health care and retirement in ways that we believe are fair, transparent and consistent with our fundamental commitments to our people. We recognize through this process that we can never repay our service members or their families for all their sacrifices.
On compensation for service members, we've created sufficient room in the budget to allow full pay raises in 2013 and 2014 that keep pace with increases in private-sector pay. In addition, let me make clear: nobody's pay will be cut. Nobody's pay will be cut.
With regards to pay raises, however, in order to achieve cost savings, we will provide more limited pay raises, beginning in 2015. That will give troops and their families fair notice and lead time before these proposed changes go into effect.
On health care, another area of tremendous cost growth in the department, we've avoided changes that negatively impact active-duty troops or their families. We've protected health care services for these troops, for our wounded warriors.
But we decided that to help control the growth of health care costs, which is now almost $50 billion in this department, we are recommending increases in health care fees, co-pays and deductibles for retirees. They'll be phased in over five years. But let me clear that even after these increases, the cost borne by military retirees will remain below levels in most comparable private sector plans, as they should be.
We also feel that the fair way to address military retirement costs is to ask Congress to establish a commission with authority to conduct a comprehensive review of military retirement. But the President and the Department have made clear that the retirement benefits of those who currently serve will be protected by grandfathering their benefits. There will be, for those who serve today, no changes in retirement benefits.
Finally, let me just conclude. Putting together this kind of budget that maintains the quality of an all-volunteer force and implements significant mandated savings has been a difficult undertaking. This has been tough work. And at the same time, we have viewed it as an important opportunity to try to shape the force we need for the future.
I believe we've developed a very complete package aligned to achieve our strategic aims. The bottom line is that there is little room here for a significant modification if we want to preserve the force and the capabilities that we believe we need in order to protect the country and the fully assigned missions that we have to deal with.
Ultimately, we will need the support and the partnership of Congress to implement the vision that we have for a future military, and we look forward to working with the Congress in this effort. After all, it was a bi-partisan Congress that mandated that we reduce the defense budget by 487 billion [dollars] over 10 years. So we look forward to their partnership in this effort.
Make no mistake: the savings that we are proposing will impact on all 50 states and many districts, congressional districts, across America. This will be a test, a test of whether reducing the deficit is about talk or about action.
I understand how tough these kinds of issues can be, and I understand also that this is the beginning and not the end of this process. But my hope is that when members understand the sacrifice involved in reducing the defense budget by almost a half a trillion dollars that it will convince Congress of the important responsibility they have to make sure that we avoid sequestration.
That would be a doubling of the cuts, another $500 billion in additional cuts that would be required to take place through a meat- axe approach, and that we are convinced would hollow out the force and would inflict severe damage to our national defense for generations.
So the leadership of this department, both military and civilian, we are united behind the strategy that we have presented. And we look forward to working closely with the leaders of the Hill to do what the American people expect of all of their leaders: to be fiscally responsible at a time of record deficits and a record national debt; to use this opportunity to develop the force we need for the future, a force that can effectively defend this country, a force that can support our men and women in uniform and their families, and a force that is, and always will be, the strongest military power in the world.
As Delivered by Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, Pentagon Briefing Room, Thursday, January 26, 2012
Good afternoon, everybody.
As all of you know, this department has undertaken a very fundamental review of its defense strategy and of our spending priorities.
The reasons for the review are clear. First of all, we are at a strategic turning point after a decade of war and after a very substantial growth in the defense budget. And second, the Congress of the United States, through the passage of the Budget Control Act, has required that the defense budget be reduced by $487 billion over 10 years.
To accomplish this effort, we decided that it was important to make this an opportunity to develop a new defense strategy for the United States and for the U.S. military force that we wanted for the future.
That strategy has guided us in making a series of tough budget choices and establishing a new set of defense priorities.
The ongoing process reached an important milestone earlier this month with the release of the new strategic guidance and the priorities for a 21st century defense. And it will be reflected in the decisions that have been made and will be presented in the President's budget.
When I announced the new guidance, I highlighted five key elements of the strategy and five key elements of the vision that we have for a military force of the future. And let me just summarize each of those.
First, the military will be smaller and leaner, but it will be agile, flexible, rapidly deployable and technologically advanced. It will be a cutting-edge force.
Second, we will rebalance our global posture and presence to emphasize where we think the potential problems will be in the world. And that means emphasizing Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
Third, we will maintain our presence elsewhere in the world and will do that by building innovative partnerships and strengthening our key alliances and develop new partnerships elsewhere in the world: in Europe, in Africa and Latin America and elsewhere.
Fourth, we will ensure that we can quickly confront and defeat aggression from any adversary anytime, anyplace.
And fifth, we will protect and prioritize some very important and key investments in technology and new capabilities as well as our capacity to grow, adapt, to mobilize, to surge as needed.
Given the significant fiscal constraints that have been imposed on the department, our approach was to develop this force for the future with some pretty important guidelines. We wanted to maintain the strongest military in the world. We committed ourselves not to hollow out the force, as has been done in the past in these kinds of drawdowns, to take a balanced approach to our budget by putting everything on the table and to not break faith with the troops and their families.
I want to thank the entire leadership of this department, military and civilian alike, for their participation and support in this effort. This has truly been a team effort, and I am deeply appreciative for their cooperation.
And we are united in the belief that this strategy and the resulting budget decisions followed the right approach to meet the country's most pressing security challenges and to preserve the strongest military in the world and at the same time meet our fiscal responsibilities.
Today I'd like to offer a preview of the decisions that we made to help build the department's budget request for fiscal year 2013 and the future years' defense plan.
Consistent with the Budget Control Act, this plan reduces spending over the 10 years, obviously, by $487 billion. But in the five-year budget that will be presented by the President, we reduce the defense budget by 259 billion [dollars] over the next five years.
Specifically, the department will request for its base budget $525 billion in its base budget for fiscal year FY13. And our -- by the way, that compares to 531 billion [dollars] in fiscal year 2012 -- and our hope and plan here is to try to rise to 567 billion [dollars] by fiscal [year] 2017. I would just point out that the projected growth before we had to do this was to reach about 622 billion [dollars] by that year of 2017.
In fiscal 13, we will also ask for an additional $88.4 billion for overseas contingency operations, so-called OCO funds. That compares to about 115 billion [dollars] that we receive in fiscal year 12, all of that obviously to maintain support for our troops in combat.
Min (Stig) anm.: Med "Overseas Contingency Operations" menas farbror Buchs "War on Terror". Rätta mig om jag har fel.
We believe this is a balanced and complete package that follows the five key elements of the strategy and vision that I've described. You have the specifics in the package you've been provided. And I know that Ash Carter, the deputy, and Sandy Winnefeld, the vice chair, will fill you in on any additional specifics that you're interested in.
But what I wanted to do is to kind of summarize some of the key decisions for you.
First of all, with regards to the area of developing a smaller and leaner but agile and flexible and technologically advanced force, we knew that coming out of the wars and dealing with budget reductions of this magnitude, the military would be smaller. But the key -- as tough as it was to make the decisions with regards to drawing these down -- the key is to fashion an agile and flexible military force that we need in the future.
What that means for the services is that we will have an adaptable and battle-tested Army that is our nation's force for decisive action, capable of defeating any adversary on land. Let me say that again: capable of defeating any adversary on land. We will have a significant land force presence in places like Korea and in the Middle East. But at the same time, we will emphasize special operations forces. And we will also emphasize a rotational presence so that we can establish the kind of partnerships that I discussed and provide training and advice in other parts of the world.
We will have a Navy that maintains a forward presence and is able to penetrate enemy defenses. The Navy essentially has agility built into its force because it can move and deploy anywhere throughout the world.
The Air Force is the same. It will be an Air Force that dominates air and space and provides rapid mobility, global strike and persistent ISR, and it will provide unmanned capabilities through their operators as well.
A Marine Corps that is a middleweight expeditionary force with reinvigorated amphibious capabilities. And a National Guard and Reserve component that is ready and prepared for operations, all of this networked into a highly capable joint force for the future.
To ensure an agile and ready force, we made a conscious choice not to maintain more force structure than we could afford to properly train and equip. The budget also seeks to retain the most flexible, versatile and technologically advanced platforms that we will need for the future. That involves unmanned systems, satellites, submarines, helicopters, aircraft carriers and fifth-generation aircraft. What we're looking at are multi-mission weaponry and technology that can support that kind of agile force.
Striking the right balance between force structure and readiness is critical to our efforts to avoid a hollow force, and we'll continue to focus on this area to ensure that we make the right choices.
In this budget, we plan to gradually resize the active Army to 490,000. That's down from present force level of 562,000. And the active Marine Corps will go to 182,000. That's down from 202,000. That transition will take place over the five years. We won't reach those numbers until 2017.
This plan maintains, as I said, a very significant Army and Marine force. Both services are at larger levels than they were at prior to 9/11.
They will be fundamentally reshaped by a decade of war. They will be far more lethal, battle hardened and ready.
The changes to the size of our ground forces allowed us to examine the Air Force's airlift fleet. Our intensive review determined that we could reduce, streamline and standardize our air fleet with minimal risk. So, as you'll see, we are retiring some aging C-5As and C-130s, but we will maintain a very healthy airlift capability.
We were also able to identify excess capabilities in tactical air forces. We currently have 60 Air Force tactical air squadrons, and the review determined that we could eliminate six of the 60 as well as one training squadron. None of that will impact our ability to dominate the skies.
The Navy is protecting our highest-priority and most flexible ships, such as the Arleigh Burke destroyers and the littoral combat ships. It will retire lower-priority cruisers that have not been upgraded with ballistic missile defense capability or that require significant maintenance as well as some combat logistics and fleet support ships.
As we build this leaner and more agile force, we frankly need to also look at a department that is leaner and more agile as well. And for that reason, this budget seeks to reduce excess overhead, eliminate west -- waste in this department, and improve business practices across the department. We've identified about $60 billion in savings over five years on top of the substantial efficiency efforts that are already under way.
This will involve areas such as aggressive and competitive contracting practices, better use of information technology, streamlining the staff, reductions in contract services and better inventory management.
As a result of all this, we will also need to look at facilities infrastructure, balancing overseas forward presence requirements with basing requirements back home. In this budget environment, we simply cannot -- we simply cannot sustain the infrastructure that is beyond our needs or ability to maintain. Therefore, the President will request the Congress to authorize to use of the base realignment and closure process -- so-called BRAC process -- with the goal of identifying additional savings and implementing them as soon as possible.
The second area: rebalancing our global posture and presence to emphasize the Asia-Pacific and Middle East areas. The budget protects and in some cases increases our investments in these critical areas. That requires an Air Force that is able to penetrate sophisticated enemy defenses and strike over long distances. So we will be funding the next-generation bomber, and we will be sustaining the current bomber fleet. We are also moving ahead with our next-generation aerial refueling tanker.
The strategy also envisions a Navy and Marine Corps that is postured forward, bringing a stabilizing presence and combat power as needed, with an emphasis on these critical regions.
The Marines will sustain their level of presence in the Pacific and the budget supports an enhanced presence and partnering opportunities with Australia and others, such as the Philippines. And in all of these cases, obviously we'll do this in a way that respects the sovereignty of the nations that we will be working with. It also provides the resources to forward station littoral combat ships in Singapore and a patrol craft in Bahrain.
As I announced last weekend, sustaining our ability to project power in these regions will require maintaining the aircraft carrier fleet at 11 ships, with 10 air wings, and maintaining our big-deck amphibious fleet. Modernizing our submarine fleet will also be critical to our efforts to maintain maritime access in these vital regions of the world. In this budget, the Navy will invest in a design that will allow new Virginia class submarines to be modified to carry more cruise missiles and develop an undersea conventional prompt strike option.
Across the force, we will invest in upgraded sensors for aircraft, ships and missiles, and the most advanced electronic warfare and communications capabilities. Meanwhile, the strategy requires the Army to return to a full-spectrum training, developing a versatile mix of capabilities, developing a versatile mix of formations and equipment to succeed on land, including in environments where access will be contested. The Army will maintain its significant force structure in the Pacific, including on the Korean Peninsula, and will maintain an operationally responsive peacetime presence in the Middle East as well.
The third area: in building innovative partnerships and strengthening our alliances throughout the world. This strategy envisions an Army that develops innovative approaches to presence and a partnership development that will ensure our continued engagement with allies and partners across the globe. For example, in Europe, while we're taking down two brigades, we will maintain two brigades and, in addition, align a brigade combat team with each regional [combatant] command, and we will increase our rotational deployments on the continent so that our forces have more opportunities to train and operate with their European counterparts.
More broadly, the United States will continue to invest in our shared capabilities and responsibilities with NATO, responding to the alliance's most critical needs such as increased ISR and ballistic missile defense capabilities.
Elsewhere in the world, the gradual drawdown of the post-9/11 wars will provide more opportunities for special operations forces to assist and advise our partners in other regions, and we prioritize the most important programs for building partnership capacity.
Fourth: we will ensure that we can quickly confront and defeat aggression from any adversary anytime, anywhere. The strategic guidance reaffirmed that the United States must have the capability to fight more than one conflict at the same time. Still, the changing nature of conflict demands greater flexibility to shift and deploy forces to be able to fight and defeat any enemy anywhere.
The strategic guidance recognizes that we're dealing with the changing realities of the world that we live in in the 21st century. We're not just facing conventional threats. We're also facing technological threats. And we have to be prepared to be able to leap ahead technologically in order to be able to confront those kinds of adversaries.
This requires that we have the capability to defeat the enemy across a broad horizon of different conflicts. And the budget leverages, as a result of that, new concepts of operations and advances in space, cyberspace, special operations, long-range precision strike capabilities and other capabilities as well to ensure that we can still confront and defeat multiple adversaries.
The budget also affirms the importance of strategic deterrence and provides for all three legs of the nuclear triad: bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles and ballistic missile submarines. However, our review determined that we could achieve better cost control by delaying the next-generation ballistic missile submarine for two years without harming the survivability of our nuclear deterrent. We are fully committed to a safe, secure and effective deterrent to achieve national security objectives.
And lastly, with regards to the key investments in technology and new capabilities, we have to retain a decisive technological edge.
We have to retain the kind of leverage the lessons of recent conflicts have given us. And we need to stay ahead of the most lethal and disruptive threats that we're going to face in the future.
That meant protecting or increasing investments in cyber capabilities, the ability to project power in denied areas, special operations forces -- the kind that we saw that conducted the bin Laden raid and the hostage rescue operation -- homeland missile defense, and countering weapons of mass destruction. In order to protect vital investments for the future, we protected science and technology programs as well.
At the same time, the strategic guidance recognizes the need to prioritize and distinguish urgent modernization needs from those that can be delayed, particularly in light of schedule and cost problems. We've made reasonable adjustments to a number of programs. Let me briefly mention the change with regards to the Joint Strike Fighter.
It's a program that remains essential for the future of our superiority. We have to develop the next generation fighter, and we will. The department remains committed to the JSF program of record. But in this budget, what we've done is slowed the procurement to be able to complete more testing and allow for developmental changes before we buy in significant quantities. We want to make sure before we go into full production that we are ready.
The force structure shifts I've outlined today entail some risks to be sure. But to manage that risk we will ensure that we can mobilize, surge and adapt our force to meet the requirements of an uncertain future.
To that end, the Army will retain more mid-level, mid-grade officers and NCOs. These are the guys who have the experience. And they will maintain them even as their overall strength decreases to ensure that we have the structure and experienced leaders necessary to re-grow the force quickly if we have to.
Another part of ensuring the ability to mobilize quickly will be retaining a capable, ready and operational Reserve Component, leveraging 10 years of experience in war. Consequently, we are maintaining a strong Army Reserve and National Guard. There will be no reductions in the Marine Corps Reserve. The Air Force will make balanced reductions in the Air National Guard consistent with reductions in both the Active Component and Air Force Reserve.
And finally, the budget recognizes that a critical part of our ability to mobilize is a healthy industrial base. Maintaining the vitality of the industrial base and avoiding imposing unacceptable costs or risks on our critical suppliers will guide many of the decisions that we have made.
Now let me turn to the quality of our All-Volunteer Force. The most fundamental element in our strategy and in our decision-making process is our people. This budget recognizes that they, far more than any weapon system, far more than any technology, are the great strength of the United States military. For that reason, we focus first on every other area of the defense enterprise for savings in order to minimize any impact on the quality of the troops and their families.
As a result, we were able to sustain or enhance critical support programs while reforming and reorganizing others to be more effective and responsive to the needs of their troops and their families.
Yet in order to build the force needed to defend the country under existing budget constraints, the escalating growth in personnel costs must be confronted. This is an area of the budget that has grown by nearly 90 percent since 2001.
The budget will contain a road map to try to address the costs of military pay, health care and retirement in ways that we believe are fair, transparent and consistent with our fundamental commitments to our people. We recognize through this process that we can never repay our service members or their families for all their sacrifices.
On compensation for service members, we've created sufficient room in the budget to allow full pay raises in 2013 and 2014 that keep pace with increases in private-sector pay. In addition, let me make clear: nobody's pay will be cut. Nobody's pay will be cut.
With regards to pay raises, however, in order to achieve cost savings, we will provide more limited pay raises, beginning in 2015. That will give troops and their families fair notice and lead time before these proposed changes go into effect.
On health care, another area of tremendous cost growth in the department, we've avoided changes that negatively impact active-duty troops or their families. We've protected health care services for these troops, for our wounded warriors.
But we decided that to help control the growth of health care costs, which is now almost $50 billion in this department, we are recommending increases in health care fees, co-pays and deductibles for retirees. They'll be phased in over five years. But let me clear that even after these increases, the cost borne by military retirees will remain below levels in most comparable private sector plans, as they should be.
We also feel that the fair way to address military retirement costs is to ask Congress to establish a commission with authority to conduct a comprehensive review of military retirement. But the President and the Department have made clear that the retirement benefits of those who currently serve will be protected by grandfathering their benefits. There will be, for those who serve today, no changes in retirement benefits.
Finally, let me just conclude. Putting together this kind of budget that maintains the quality of an all-volunteer force and implements significant mandated savings has been a difficult undertaking. This has been tough work. And at the same time, we have viewed it as an important opportunity to try to shape the force we need for the future.
I believe we've developed a very complete package aligned to achieve our strategic aims. The bottom line is that there is little room here for a significant modification if we want to preserve the force and the capabilities that we believe we need in order to protect the country and the fully assigned missions that we have to deal with.
Ultimately, we will need the support and the partnership of Congress to implement the vision that we have for a future military, and we look forward to working with the Congress in this effort. After all, it was a bi-partisan Congress that mandated that we reduce the defense budget by 487 billion [dollars] over 10 years. So we look forward to their partnership in this effort.
Make no mistake: the savings that we are proposing will impact on all 50 states and many districts, congressional districts, across America. This will be a test, a test of whether reducing the deficit is about talk or about action.
I understand how tough these kinds of issues can be, and I understand also that this is the beginning and not the end of this process. But my hope is that when members understand the sacrifice involved in reducing the defense budget by almost a half a trillion dollars that it will convince Congress of the important responsibility they have to make sure that we avoid sequestration.
That would be a doubling of the cuts, another $500 billion in additional cuts that would be required to take place through a meat- axe approach, and that we are convinced would hollow out the force and would inflict severe damage to our national defense for generations.
So the leadership of this department, both military and civilian, we are united behind the strategy that we have presented. And we look forward to working closely with the leaders of the Hill to do what the American people expect of all of their leaders: to be fiscally responsible at a time of record deficits and a record national debt; to use this opportunity to develop the force we need for the future, a force that can effectively defend this country, a force that can support our men and women in uniform and their families, and a force that is, and always will be, the strongest military power in the world.
måndag, januari 30, 2012
Franz Schubert
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| Franz Peter Schubert 1797 - 1828 |
Franz Schubert, föddes i Wien den 31 januari 1797.
Winterreise - "Gute Nacht"
Tyska:
Fremd bin ich eingezogen,
Fremd zieh' ich wieder aus.
Der Mai war mir gewogen
Mit manchem Blumenstrauß.
Das Mädchen sprach von Liebe,
Die Mutter gar von Eh', -
Nun ist die Welt so trübe,
Der Weg gehüllt in Schnee.
Ich kann zu meiner Reisen
Nicht wählen mit der Zeit,
Muß selbst den Weg mir weisen
In dieser Dunkelheit.
Es zieht ein Mondenschatten
Als mein Gefährte mit,
Und auf den weißen Matten
Such' ich des Wildes Tritt.
Was soll ich länger weilen,
Daß man mich trieb hinaus?
Laß irre Hunde heulen
Vor ihres Herren Haus;
Die Liebe liebt das Wandern -
Gott hat sie so gemacht -
Von einem zu dem andern.
Fein Liebchen, gute Nacht!
Will dich im Traum nicht stören,
Wär schad' um deine Ruh',
Sollst meinen Tritt nicht hören -
Sacht, sacht die Türe zu!
Ich schreibe nur im Gehen
An's Tor noch gute Nacht
Damit du mögest sehen,
An dich hab' ich gedacht.
As a stranger I arrived,
As a stranger again I leave.
May was kind to me
With many bunches of flowers.
The girl spoke of love,
Her mother even of marriage, -
Now the world is bleak,
The path covered by snow.
I cannot choose the time
Of my departure;
I must find my own way
In this darkness.
With a shadow cast by the moonlight
As my traveling companion
I'll search for animal tracks
On the white fields.
Why should I linger, waiting
Until I am driven out?
Let stray dogs howl
Outside their master's house;
Love loves to wander
God has made her so
From one to the other.
Dear love, good night!
I will not disturb you in your dreaming,
It would be a pity to disturb your rest;
You shall not hear my footsteps
Softly, softly shut the door!
On my way out I'll write
"Good Night" on the gate,
So that you may see
That I have thought of you
Spanska:
Como un extraño llegué
y como un extraño me marcho.
Mayo me agasajó
con ramos de flores.
La doncella habló de amor
su madre , incluso de matrimonio...
Ahora el mundo rebosa tristeza
Mi camino está cubierto de nieve .
Para mi viaje
no puedo elegir el momento.
Debo hallar mi senda
en la oscuridad.
Una sombra baga a la luz de la luna
Es mi compañera.
Y en los blancos campos
veo huellas de animales salvajes.
¿Por qué habría de quedarme
para que se me echara?
¡Que los perros perdidos aúllen
frente a la casa de su amo!
Al amor le gusta vagabundear...
Dios lo hizo así...
Iré de una a otra.
¡Buenas noches , querida mía!
No alteraré tus sueños .
Sería una lástima que no durmieras.
No sigas mis pasos...
Cierra suavemente la puerta.
Al pasar,
escribiré en tu puerta:
"buenas noches".
Así veras que he pensado en ti.
Roberto Carlos slutar
Roberto Carlos lägger fotbollsskorna på hyllan. Vi tackar konstnären för gången fotbollstid.
Carlos klubbar:
Palmeiras
Inter
Real Madrid 1996-2007
Fenerbahçe
Corinthians
Anzji Machatjkala
(Plus en massa landskamper)
Frankrike-Brasilien 1997. Roberto Carlos lägger frispark. Århundrandets frispark, jag får tårar i ögonen att se den. Wow:
Oj oj oj ...
Franklin Roosevelt was born the 30th of January 1882
Franklin Roosevelt 1/30/1882 - 4/12/1945
America's 32nd President.
President Franklin Roosevelt declares war on Japan 1941:
Adolf Hitler making fun of Franklin Roosevelt:
Franklin Roosevelt. Wikipedia in Swedish >> http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
La Liga
Omgång 21 i helgen (en match återstår, spelas i kväll):
Levante - Getafe 1-2
R. Sociedad - Sporting 5-1
Racing - Valencia 2-2
Málaga - Sevilla 2-1
Rayo - Athletic 2-3
Espanyol - Mallorca 1-0
Real Madrid - Real Zaragoza 3-1
Villarreal - Barcelona 0-0
Betis - Granada 1-2
Osasuna Atlético Ikväll kl 21:00
Tabellens tio främsta innan Osasuna-Atlético
Real Madrid 52 poäng 20 matcher 17 vunna 1 oavgjord 2 förlorade 70 19 i målkvot. Hemmaplan: 27 poäng 10 matcher 9 vunna 0 oavgjord 1 förlorad 41 13 i målkvot. Bortaplan: 25 poäng 10 matcher 8 vunna 1 oavgjord 1 förlorad 29 6 i målkvot.
Barcelona 45 20 13 6 1 59 12 28 10 9 1 0 43 2 17 10 4 5 1 16 10
Valencia 36 20 10 6 4 31 22 20 10 6 2 2 18 12 16 10 4 4 2 13 10
Levante 31 20 9 4 7 26 24 20 10 6 2 2 16 7 11 10 3 2 5 10 17
Espanyol 31 20 9 4 7 22 21 20 10 6 2 2 14 10 11 10 3 2 5 8 11
Athletic 29 20 7 8 5 30 25 16 10 4 4 2 18 11 13 10 3 4 3 12 14
Málaga 28 20 8 4 8 24 29 20 10 6 2 2 16 14 8 10 2 2 6 8 15
Getafe 27 20 7 6 7 22 26 16 9 4 4 1 9 6 11 11 3 2 6 13 20
Osasuna 27 19 6 9 4 22 31 19 10 5 4 1 14 8 8 9 1 5 3 8 23
Atlético 26 19 7 5 7 30 27 21 10 6 3 1 21 7 5 9 1 2 6 9 20
Mest uppseendeväckande: Barcelona har bara släppt in 2 mål under lagets tio hemmamatcher. Näst mest uppseendeväckande: Barcelona har gjort hela 43 mål under lagets tio hemmamatcher = två mer än Real Madrids hemmamål.
Levante - Getafe 1-2
R. Sociedad - Sporting 5-1
Racing - Valencia 2-2
Málaga - Sevilla 2-1
Rayo - Athletic 2-3
Espanyol - Mallorca 1-0
Real Madrid - Real Zaragoza 3-1
Villarreal - Barcelona 0-0
Betis - Granada 1-2
Osasuna Atlético Ikväll kl 21:00
Tabellens tio främsta innan Osasuna-Atlético
Real Madrid 52 poäng 20 matcher 17 vunna 1 oavgjord 2 förlorade 70 19 i målkvot. Hemmaplan: 27 poäng 10 matcher 9 vunna 0 oavgjord 1 förlorad 41 13 i målkvot. Bortaplan: 25 poäng 10 matcher 8 vunna 1 oavgjord 1 förlorad 29 6 i målkvot.
Barcelona 45 20 13 6 1 59 12 28 10 9 1 0 43 2 17 10 4 5 1 16 10
Valencia 36 20 10 6 4 31 22 20 10 6 2 2 18 12 16 10 4 4 2 13 10
Levante 31 20 9 4 7 26 24 20 10 6 2 2 16 7 11 10 3 2 5 10 17
Espanyol 31 20 9 4 7 22 21 20 10 6 2 2 14 10 11 10 3 2 5 8 11
Athletic 29 20 7 8 5 30 25 16 10 4 4 2 18 11 13 10 3 4 3 12 14
Málaga 28 20 8 4 8 24 29 20 10 6 2 2 16 14 8 10 2 2 6 8 15
Getafe 27 20 7 6 7 22 26 16 9 4 4 1 9 6 11 11 3 2 6 13 20
Osasuna 27 19 6 9 4 22 31 19 10 5 4 1 14 8 8 9 1 5 3 8 23
Atlético 26 19 7 5 7 30 27 21 10 6 3 1 21 7 5 9 1 2 6 9 20
Mest uppseendeväckande: Barcelona har bara släppt in 2 mål under lagets tio hemmamatcher. Näst mest uppseendeväckande: Barcelona har gjort hela 43 mål under lagets tio hemmamatcher = två mer än Real Madrids hemmamål.
SAG Awards 2012 winners
Complete coverage >> http://theenvelope.latimes.com/
"The Help" won the top film prize for cast performance at the Screen Actors Guild:
"The Help" won the top film prize for cast performance at the Screen Actors Guild:
söndag, januari 29, 2012
Danmark er europamester i håndbold
Som väntat: en fantastisk EM-final.
Serbien - Danmark 19 - 21 (7-9).
Det danska laget och antal mål: Mikkel Hansen 9 (världens bäste handbollsspleare?), Anders Eggert 3, Rasmus Lauge 2, Nikolaj Markussen 2, Hans Lindberg 2, Bo Spellerberg 1, Kasper Søndergaard 1, Rene Toft Hansen 1.
Diskad: Nikola Manojlovic, Serbien .
Utvisninger: Serbien 4, Danmark 3.
Publik: 19.800.
Serbien - Danmark 19 - 21 (7-9).
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| Mikkel Hansen |
Det danska laget och antal mål: Mikkel Hansen 9 (världens bäste handbollsspleare?), Anders Eggert 3, Rasmus Lauge 2, Nikolaj Markussen 2, Hans Lindberg 2, Bo Spellerberg 1, Kasper Søndergaard 1, Rene Toft Hansen 1.
Diskad: Nikola Manojlovic, Serbien .
Utvisninger: Serbien 4, Danmark 3.
Publik: 19.800.
Carl Bildt faces flak for 'Davos dinner to discuss global hunger' tweet
London, Jan 28 : Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt has sparked ridicule for a tweet saying that he was looking forward to an elite Davos dinner to discuss "global hunger".
"Leaving Stockholm and heading for Davos. Looking forward to World Food Program dinner tonight. Global hunger is an urgent issue! #davos," he tweeted.
Davos is a luxurious Swiss ski resort where the global elite of politics and business meet.
Bildt regularly informs his 90,000 Twitter followers of his jet-setting travels around the world and presence at VIP events.
But his suggestion that talks over the fine food and wines is the right way to fight the hunger faced by the world's poorest countries triggered a harsh response, the Telegraph reported.
"Ironic or ignorant?" asked Stefan De Vries, @stefandevries, a Dutch journalist.
"Then maybe we should change the proverb 'Ignorance is bliss' into 'Ignorance is Bildt'," responded Camilla Fuhr, @CamillaFuhr, a Danish photojournalist.
Ben Hammersley, @benhammersley, the editor at large of Wired, lamented: "Satire is dead MT @carlbildt ...heading for Davos. Looking forward to World Food Program dinner tonight. Global hunger is an urgent issue!"
Despite the ridicule, tens of thousands of retweets and calls for him to explain his comment as either being ironic or serious, Bildt has since maintained a diplomatic silence. (ANI)
New Kerala is an English language daily newspaper publishes from Kerala, India. New Kerala is most widely read newspaper in Kerala and all over India and the newspaper publishes all type of news related to Entertainment, Business, Sports, Weather, Health, Education, Technology, Fashion, Lifestyle, Art & Culture, Stock Market, Real Estates, Political and Commercial Issues
Michel Hazanavicius wins Directors Guild Award for 'The Artist'
Los Angeles Times
Jan. 28, 2012
10:23 p.m.
The Directors Guild of America on Saturday evening named Michel Hazanavicius best film director of 2011 for 'The Artist,' the nostalgic black-and-white, nearly silent movie that harks back to the time of transition in Hollywood from silents to talkies. It is the first guild win for the 44-year-old French filmmaker.
Handbollsfinal kl 17.00
Påminnelse om dagens stora nordiska idrottshändelse .
Danmark-Serbien. Final. Handbolls-EM. Från Serbien.
TV4. Matchstart 17.00
Danmark-Serbien. Final. Handbolls-EM. Från Serbien.
TV4. Matchstart 17.00
Man skjuten i halsen i natt- Gissa i vilken stad.
Myndigheterna i The New Sweden står handfallna. Skandalartad utveckling.
Politikerna bara surrar och tror sig därmed ha gjort rätt för sin goda lön.
Politikerna bara surrar och tror sig därmed ha gjort rätt för sin goda lön.
lördag, januari 28, 2012
Deadline Saturday: Submit Your Questions for President Obama
On Tuesday, President Obama delivered his State of the Union address and laid out his Blueprint for an America that is built to last, a nation where hard work and responsibility are rewarded, where everyone does their fair share, and where everyone is held accountable for their actions. All week, Vice President Biden and over 30 White House officials have been taking your questions on Twitter.
And, on Monday January 30 at 5:30 p.m. ET, President Obama will answer questions that have been submitted by Americans from across the country in the first completely-virtual interview from the White House.
The deadline to submit your questions is midnight on Saturday January 28, so head over to the White House YouTube Channel now to submit a question or vote for your favorite question.
Then don’t forget to tune in at Monday at 5:30 p.m. when the President will join a special Google+ Hangout from the West Wing. He'll be answering several of the most popular questions that have been submitted through YouTube, and some of the people who submitted questions will even be invited to join the President in the Hangout and take part in the live conversation.
Real Madrid drar ifrån
 Weiss, Espanyol.
Lån från Manchester C
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| Fernando Llorente Hat-trick idag |
Espanyol - Mallorca 1-0 Målet: Weiss Min 18.
Rayo - Athletic 2-3 Målen: 1-0 Michu
Min 10, 1-1 Fernando Llorente Min 15, 1-2 Fernando Llorente Min 22, 2-2 Arribas Min 26, 2-3 Fernando Llorente Min 67
R. Madrid - Zaragoza 3-1 Målen: 0-1Lafita Min 10,1-1Kaká Min 31, 2-1Cristiano Ronaldo Min 48, 3-1 Özil Min 55.
I den fjärde matchen Villarreal-Barcelona står det 0-0 i halvtid (matchen skall sluta kl 23.45). PS slutresultat 0-0. Real Madrid drar ifrån.
Paris rapist, immigrant from N. Africa, targets "adolescent" blonde blue-eyed girls
From Eric Dondero:
Read more >> http://www.libertarianrepublican.net/2012/01/paris-rapist-n-african-immigrant.html
M9 solar flare
On January 23 around 0400 UTC a powerful M9 solar flare erupted, and this was right on the threshold of becoming an X-class flare. The CME hit Earth around 1500 UTC on January 24, causing bright aurora.
Watch a lovely video of the event:
Also check this British report: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-01/24/sunspot-explosion and this one from Montreal: http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120124/northern-lights-solar-storm-120124/20120124/?hub=MontrealHo
Arthur Rubinstein
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| Rubinstein |
Den polske pianisten och kompositören Arthur Rubinstein föddes den 28 januari 1887. Här spelar han Chopins Nocturne opus 9 nr 2:
Rubinstein avled 1982.
Dagens viktigaste artikel i min blogg
NEW YORK TIMES
Physical activity makes you healthier. It lowers your risk for cardiovascular disease and reduces bone loss. Physical activity also helps the body use calories more efficiently, which helps you eliminate body fat and lose weight. It also helps you maintain weight loss by increasing your metabolism and reducing your appetite.
--- Studies have shown that regular exercise, particularly walking, helps reduce one's risk for memory loss. Epidemiologic studies have found an association between increased exercise and slower rate of ---
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Physical activity makes you healthier. It lowers your risk for cardiovascular disease and reduces bone loss. Physical activity also helps the body use calories more efficiently, which helps you eliminate body fat and lose weight. It also helps you maintain weight loss by increasing your metabolism and reducing your appetite.
--- Studies have shown that regular exercise, particularly walking, helps reduce one's risk for memory loss. Epidemiologic studies have found an association between increased exercise and slower rate of ---
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EM i Håndbold
Helgens största nordiska sporthändelse
Final
Söndag kl. 17.00
Danmark - Serbien
TV4 sänder matchen som vi "måste" se.
BEOGRAD (ekstrabladet.dk): - Uden Rasmus Lauge havde vi ikke vundet. Sådan lød det fra landstræner Ulrik Wilbek efter fredagens EM-semifinalegyser, hvor den blot 20-årige BSV-playmaker Rasmus Lauge spillede sit livs kamp og med seks mål havde
Final
Söndag kl. 17.00
Danmark - Serbien
TV4 sänder matchen som vi "måste" se.
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| Rasmus Lauge |
BEOGRAD (ekstrabladet.dk): - Uden Rasmus Lauge havde vi ikke vundet. Sådan lød det fra landstræner Ulrik Wilbek efter fredagens EM-semifinalegyser, hvor den blot 20-årige BSV-playmaker Rasmus Lauge spillede sit livs kamp og med seks mål havde
fredag, januari 27, 2012
La Liga
Omgång 21
Espanyol - Mallorca lördag 28/1 kl 18.00
Rayo - Athletic lör 18.00
R. Madrid - Zaragoza lör 20.00
Villarreal - Barcelona lör kl 22.00
Betis - Granada söndag 29/1 kl 12.00
R. Sociedad - Sporting sön kl 16.00
Levante - Getafe sön kl 16.00
Racing - Valencia sön kl 18.00
Málaga - Sevilla sön kl 21.30
Osasuna - Atlético måndag 30/1 kl 21.00
Tabellen
1 R. Madrid 49 poäng
2 Barcelona 44
3 Valencia 35
4 Levante 31
5 Espanyol 28
6 Osasuna 27
7 Athletic 26
8 Atlético 26
9 Sevilla 26
10 Málaga 25
11 Getafe 24
12 Betis 23
13 Rayo 22
14 Mallorca 22
15 R. Sociedad 21
16 Racing 20
17 Villarreal 19
18 Granada 19
19 Sporting 18
20 Zaragoza 12
Villarreal - Barcelona
Domare Texeira Vitienes, J.A.
Väderutsikt: matchstart +9 för att under matchen sjunka nån grad. Vind 10 km/h. Uppehållsväder.
Mitt fräcka tips: 2-2
Villarreals lag (4-4-2): 13 D López född 1981 spanjor - 6 Á Lopez född 1981 spanjor, 2 Gonzalo född 1984 argentinare, 4 Musacchio född 1990 argentinare, 3 J Oriol född 1986 spanjor - 19 M Senna född 1976 spanjor, 21 Bruno född 1984 spanjor, 10 Cani född 1981 spanjor, 20 B Valero född 1985 spanjor - 41 Joselu född 1991 spanjor, 9 M Rubén född 1986 argentinare.
Espanyol - Mallorca lördag 28/1 kl 18.00
Rayo - Athletic lör 18.00
R. Madrid - Zaragoza lör 20.00
Villarreal - Barcelona lör kl 22.00
Betis - Granada söndag 29/1 kl 12.00
R. Sociedad - Sporting sön kl 16.00
Levante - Getafe sön kl 16.00
Racing - Valencia sön kl 18.00
Málaga - Sevilla sön kl 21.30
Osasuna - Atlético måndag 30/1 kl 21.00
Tabellen
1 R. Madrid 49 poäng
2 Barcelona 44
3 Valencia 35
4 Levante 31
5 Espanyol 28
6 Osasuna 27
7 Athletic 26
8 Atlético 26
9 Sevilla 26
10 Málaga 25
11 Getafe 24
12 Betis 23
13 Rayo 22
14 Mallorca 22
15 R. Sociedad 21
16 Racing 20
17 Villarreal 19
18 Granada 19
19 Sporting 18
20 Zaragoza 12
Villarreal - Barcelona
Domare Texeira Vitienes, J.A.
Väderutsikt: matchstart +9 för att under matchen sjunka nån grad. Vind 10 km/h. Uppehållsväder.
Mitt fräcka tips: 2-2
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| Musacchio. River Plate produkt. Född i Rosario (som Messi). Har spelat några ungdomslandskamper. |
Villarreals lag (4-4-2): 13 D López född 1981 spanjor - 6 Á Lopez född 1981 spanjor, 2 Gonzalo född 1984 argentinare, 4 Musacchio född 1990 argentinare, 3 J Oriol född 1986 spanjor - 19 M Senna född 1976 spanjor, 21 Bruno född 1984 spanjor, 10 Cani född 1981 spanjor, 20 B Valero född 1985 spanjor - 41 Joselu född 1991 spanjor, 9 M Rubén född 1986 argentinare.
Apropå ny (s)-ledare. . Jag har alltid varit skeptisk mot fackpampar.
Fackpampens bön,
sägs vara unik:
"Sänk medlemmens lön,
men lämna mig rik"
/SÖ
sägs vara unik:
"Sänk medlemmens lön,
men lämna mig rik"
/SÖ
Bragder inom sporten, bah!
Juryn för Svenska Dagbladets bragdmedalj, tänk om! Det talas om idrottspersoners bragder. Egentligen patetiskt. Möjligen att bilskjutsande föräldrar med t.ex. barn som tränar/tävlar i alpina grenar gör åtminstone något i stil med bragder. Solklara bragder finns dock: de sjukvårdsanställda. Inte minst de på Länssjukhuset i Sundsvall. Trots skamliga personalnedskärningar kämpar man på. Tack för att ni finns! Vi andra: vi kan för helvete inte fortsätta att vara tyst över orättvisorna i det Nya Sverige!
Jerome Kern
The Great Jerome Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945)
Några Jerome Kern-låtar, alla fullpoängare.
(Ava, Filmhistoriens vackraste skådespelerska)
Science Friction (Curling) - The Science of the Olympic Winter Games
Science Friction (Curling)
Curling has been in the Winter Olympics for a while, but it still seems a little strange to most of us. John Shuster, the captain--or "skip"--of the U.S. Curling Team in Vancouver, explains this unusual sport, and NSF-funded scientists Sam Colbeck, a retired scientist from the U.S. Army Cold Regions Lab and physicist George Tuthill of Plymouth State University explain the friction that makes it all work.
Credit: NBC Learn and the National Science Foundation (NSF)
torsdag, januari 26, 2012
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Pentagon Observance
As Delivered by Leon E. Panetta, Pentagon Auditorium, Washington D.C. , Thursday, January 26, 2012
Thank you very much, Mike, and ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for joining us today to recognize memory and lasting impact of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The American people have set aside one day each year to recognize Dr. King's legacy. But very frankly we feel the impact of that legacy every day, because Dr. King's dream was the American dream. As he put it, the dream was about "taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the Founding Fathers."
The simple power of Dr. King's message resonates across generations, and it shaped my own life in public service. And as the son of Italian immigrants, I had my own experience confronting discrimination – enough to know that unless we provide equality to all, regardless of race, color, creed, gender, disability, sexual orientation – unless we provide equality to all, none of us can truly be free.
As many of you know, my own career in public service began at the height of the civil rights movement.
I was a young legislative assistant in the United States Senate working for California Senator Tom Kuchel who was very much involved in drafting civil rights legislation. I had the opportunity to work on some of the landmark Civil Rights legislation at that time, and I also—at a signing ceremony at the White House with then President Lyndon Johnson—had the chance to meet Dr. King.
In the early 1970's, I also had the chance and the opportunity to serve as the Director of the U.S. Office for Civil Rights. It was an office that was responsible for enforcing the civil rights law especially with regards to achieving equal education for all children. As you can imagine, this was a tough time. Moving throughout—largely the South—to see if we could ultimately bring black and white children together. And it was tough politically for me, because I was in an administration that was not that dedicated to strong civil rights enforcement and ultimately it cost me my job. But, it taught me a great deal about where that line is between your conscience and what's right and what sometimes you're told to do by others that may not meet the requirements of your conscience.
Years later, as a member of Congress, I worked on civil rights laws in the Congress, and one of my proudest moments was the opportunity to cast my vote to set aside a day to commemorate Dr. King.
As Chief of Staff to President Clinton, I had the opportunity to continue the fight to preserve the progress that had been made by protecting our national commitment to affirmative action.
And finally, as Director of CIA and now as Secretary of Defense, I have worked and I think it is important to do everything we can to increase diversity at these two institutions of national security. I believe both these institutions and the country are stronger when all who are able and willing to defend America are allowed to do so.
The military has always had a very special place in our country's progress towards equality. From the first battles of the Revolutionary War to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, warriors from all backgrounds have fought and they died for this nation.
As we know, warriors from different backgrounds did not always fight together. After World War II, the integration of the Armed Services united and strengthened our military and very frankly laid down a marker for our nation to follow.
And last year, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell allowed us to get rid of one of the last barriers to allow everyone the opportunity to serve openly in our armed services, and ensured today's military more closely reflects the society that we are obligated to defend. We can now more proudly say 'out of many, we are one.'
So, regardless of background and regardless of perspective, every man and woman at DoD has answered a call to serve. All of us are striving to make a difference, to make a difference in the world, to protect our nation, to give our children a better life.
I've often said that as the son of immigrants, I asked my father, "Why would you come to this country and travel all that distance? No money, no skills, no capabilities, no language ability. Why would you travel all of that distance to come to this country?" Yes, they came from a poor area, but they had the comfort of family. My father said, "The reason was your mother and I believe we could give our children a better life."
That's the American dream. That's what my wife and I want for our three sons. That's hopefully what they would want for their children, and for their children's children. That is the American dream. And in many ways, that is why it is so important for us to gather today to honor someone who had a boundless impact on the effort to give our children a better life in this country.
Martin Luther King Day is a chance to ensure that our children and every generation that follows knows Dr. King's story—of courage, of strength, of dedication—and that all of them can hopefully follow the great example that I think is in many ways the test of life which is whether or not we make a difference.
As we reflect on Dr. King's legacy today, his words, his actions, we are honored to be joined by a true legend of the civil rights movement, Reverend Samuel "Billy" Kyles, who will be our keynote speaker today.
Reverend Kyles was in Memphis with Dr. King on that terrible day and was one of the last people to spend time with him when he was alive. Out of that tragedy that befell Dr. King, Reverend Kyles drew strength and determination to press on with the fight for equality and for justice, and has spent his life furthering that cause.
Though much has been achieved, Dr. King's own words remind us that we can never sit still, that we have to continue to press ahead to fight each day to make sure we achieve that American dream. "It is great that we do have a dream," he once said. "That we have a nation with a dream...to forever challenge us, to forever give us a sense of urgency."
So today, let us all rededicate ourselves to achieving that vision, that dream, of a better country for all our children.
May God bless our nation and may God bless Dr. King's enduring hope for a better future.
Thank you.
Dutch Zoo Fits Elephant With Contact Lens
An elephant at a Dutch zoo has become the first in Europe to be fitted with a contact lens. The pachyderm had injured her eye in a scrap with a fellow elephant, but her caretakers say it will now be able to heal. /Der Spiegel
Iran Set to Turn Off Oil Supply to Europe
Avdelning Mot krig i Iran?
The European Union embargo on Iranian oil will only come into effect in six months, but the leadership in Tehran wants to act first: Exports to Europe are set to be halted immediately. It is a move which could mean added difficulties for struggling economies in southern Europe. /Der Spiegel
The European Union embargo on Iranian oil will only come into effect in six months, but the leadership in Tehran wants to act first: Exports to Europe are set to be halted immediately. It is a move which could mean added difficulties for struggling economies in southern Europe. /Der Spiegel
Bildt slår tillbaka mot Lundin
Lundin Petroleum Ord står mot ord om vad utrikesminister Carl Bildt faktiskt visste om Lundin Petroleums aktiviteter i Etiopien under sin tid som styrelseledamot. Men trots att historien förföljer honom säger han att han har blivit en bättre utrikesminister på grund av den. /Veckans Affärer
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