Stig Östlund

torsdag, februari 28, 2013

Jacob Lew confirmed as Treasury secretary‏

The Senate has confirmed President Obama's choice of Jacob Lew to be Treasury secretary. The Senate voted 71-26 to support the nomination. Lew, 57, had most recently served as Obama's chief of staff. He succeeds Timothy Geithner. USATODAY

"---Widely respected by centrists and liberals alike, Lew won positive reviews of his work as deputy secretary of state under Hillary Rodham Clinton after his role as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the Clinton administration. In July 2010, President Obama tapped him to return to his old White House stomping grounds as the replacement for OMB Director Peter Orszag. He was confirmed that November ---"/Washington Post

Definition of 'Treasury Secretary

The Secretary of the Treasury is a member of the Presidential cabinet. This person is the acting head of the Department of the Treasury, and deals with all financial and monetary matters directly relating to the government. The secretary is the principal economic advisor of the President and plays a major role in formulating economic policy.

 

Investopedia explains 'Treasury Secretary'

The Secretary of the Treasury position is roughly equivalent to the finance minister post found in many foreign governments. In 2003, a number of agencies were split away from the Department of the Treasury and reassigned to the Department of Homeland Security. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Customs Service and the Secret Service were among those sent over.

The Treasury Secretary is fifth in the presidential line of succession

NEJM

This Week at NEJM.org | February 28, 2013
http://www.nejm.org/

Spansk fotboll

Omgång 26
 
Espanyol - Valladolid söndag 17:00
 
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Málaga - Atlético sön 19:00
 
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R. Sociedad - Betis  sön 21:00
 
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Osasuna - Athletic lördag 20:00
 
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Valencia - Levante lör 22:00
 
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Getafe - Zaragoza fredag 21:00
 
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Granada - Mallorca sön 12:00
 
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Sevilla - Celta måndag 21:30
 
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R. Madrid - Barcelona lör 16:00
 
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Deportivo - Rayo lör 18:00
 
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Kan vara kul att titta in i Liga Adelante (" Superettan") emellanåt. Här kommande matcher:

Omgång  28
 
Hércules - Almería lör 20:00
 
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Las Palmas - Barcelona B lör 20:00
 
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Recreativo - Elche lör 21:00
 
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Huesca - Alcorcón sön 12:00
 
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Ponferradina - RM Castilla sön 17:00
 
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Guadalajara - Sabadell sön 17:00
 
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Mirandés - Lugo sön 17:00
 
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Numancia - Racing sön 17:00
 
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Murcia - Xerez sön 17:00
 
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Sporting - Girona sön 20:00
 
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Córdoba - Villarreal sön 21:00
 
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onsdag, februari 27, 2013

Pope Benedict XVI bid farewell

Pope Benedict XVI bid farewell to his followers in St. Peter's Square
on February 27 after his historic resignation earlier in the month./Der Spiegel

Lista: Här är Europas mest sålda bilar

 

Bilköparna i Europa har fortfarande en favorit som inte släpper förstaplatsen – här är tio bilar som toppar bästsäljarlistan


1. Volkswagen Antal sålda bilar: 1.674.572 Förändring: –4%
2. Ford
Sålda bilar: 997.165 Förändring: –13%
3. Renault
Sålda bilar: 886.510 Förändring: –22%

4. Opel/Vauxhall
Sålda bilar: 883.291 Förändring: –15%
5. Peugeot
Sålda bilar: 807.297 Förändring: –13%
6. Audi
Sålda bilar: 717.898 Förändring: 4%
7. Citroën
Sålda bilar: 687.006 Förändring: –12%
8. BMW
Sålda bilar: 655.457 Förändring: 0%
9. Fiat
Sålda bilar: 624.147 Förändring: –16%
10. Mercedes
Sålda bilar: 610.262 Förändring: 1%
Källa: Auto Motor & Sport/Best Selling Cars Blog /SvD

Smirnov

SVTs program "Uppdrag Granskning" (som visas för första gången i kväll)
 påstår att Vladimir Smirnov varit dopat. Om detta visar sig sant, bör "Smirnovsbacken"
(en mycket brant, jobbig backe) i ett
skidspår på Södra Stadsberget snarast namnändras.
Varför inte anordna en tävling: "Bästa namnförslaget". Skidåkande,
om än på skidluffsar-stadiet som jag är,
föreslår jag härmed ett nytt namn, och då
något modernt; alltså ett engelskt namn.
Men inte "The Bloody Dope", utan något som tvivelsutan kan
sägas vara rimlikt: det i folkmun mjukare "The Bloody Slope".

Senate confirms Chuck Hagel as Defense secretary



Obama, Hagel
(from the net)

Los Angeles Times | February 26, 2013 | 2:15 PM

The Senate today voted to confirm Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam War veteran and former Republican senator from Nebraska, as the 24th secretary of Defense after a brutal confirmation process that saw members of his own party question his capacity to lead the Pentagon.
Just hours after a vote to end the first-ever filibuster of a Defense nominee, Hagel was approved, 58-41 -- by far the narrowest margin for a successful appointment going back to the Carter administration.

Chuck Hagel confirmation hearing :





From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel (born October 4, 1946) is an American politician who will be the United States Secretary of Defense. He has previously served as a United States Senator for Nebraska from 1997 to 2009.
A recipient of two Purple Hearts while an infantry squad leader in the Vietnam War, Hagel returned home to start careers in business and politics. He co-founded Vanguard Cellular, the primary source of his personal wealth, and served as president of the McCarthy Group, an investment banking firm, and CEO of American Information Systems Inc., a computerized voting machine manufacturer. A member of the Republican Party, Hagel was first elected to the United States Senate in 1996. He was reelected in 2002, and retired in 2008. Hagel is currently a professor at the Edmund A. Walsh Schooof Foreign Service at Georgetown University, chairman of the Atlantic Council, and co-chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. He also serves on a number of boards of directors, including that of Chevron Corporation.
On January 7, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Hagel to serve as Secretary of Defense. On February 12, 2013, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved Hagel's nomination to be Defense Secretary by vote of 14-11. On February 14, 2013, Senate Republicans denied Democrats the 60 votes needed to end debate on Hagel's nomination for Defense Secretary and proceed to a final vote, citing the need for further review. It was the first time in American history that a nominee for Secretary of Defense has been filibustered, although candidates for other cabinet offices have been filibustered before.
On February 26, 2013 the Senate voted for cloture on Hagel's nomination and confirmed him the Secretary of Defense.

Therese Johaug





Ursäkta mig, men jag måste få Kalla henne min Skid-VM-Idol.
Glad, Snygg, Trevlig, Bjuder på sig själv, Skidåkerska av rang och Kämpaglöd är några av de positiva ord man kan plocka fram vid tal om henne. Och nu också Världsmästare.
PS Therese har samma märke på skidorna som jag ( 35 minuter på 1,5 km slät bana [Sundsvalls slalombacke- f.d. LV5] så det så.

PS2 Om det någon gång visar sig att Therese varit dopat tar jag tillbaka allt ovanstående, utom "vacker".

tisdag, februari 26, 2013

Victor Hugo

February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885



Ikea Recalls Meatballs After Detection of Horse Meat

LONDON — The furniture giant Ikea joined a growing list of brands that have been touched by Europe’s food scandal on Monday and withdrew its signature Swedish meatballs from its markets and cafeterias across most of Europe after one batch was found to contain traces of horse meat.

 

Ikea’s decision — which followed a recall by the Swiss food maker Nestlé last week — demonstrated that even closely guarded brand names have found themselves vulnerable.
In weeks of tracing the problem, European Union and national officials have conceded that their oversight had not been aimed at authenticating food products. Now that governments and companies have undertaken more extensive testing, the results appear to indicate that food adulteration may be more commonplace and widespread than previously believed.
 

Hot air balloon crash kill 19 foreigners in Egypt

 

 

Of the 19 killed in the  crash in Luxor, 9 are Chinese citizens from Hong Kong, 4 Japanese, 2 British, 2 French and 2 remain unidentified.

Landslaget sparkar ut snowboardåkare


Snowboardåkaren Kevin Bäckström får sparken ur landslaget. Hans beteende på bland annat sociala medier ligger bakom beslutet.
 
Se Kevin Bäckströms blogg: http://finest.se/kevinbackstrom

17 tips för att förlänga batteritiden på din Android-telefon [Guide]

http://www.swedroid.se/17-tips-for-att-forlanga-batteritiden-pa-din-android-telefon-guide/

La Liga - Omgång 25

Levante02 Osasuna
Athletic13 R.Sociedad
Mallorca13 Getafe
Zaragoza22 Valencia
Deportivo12 R.Madrid
Barcelona21 Sevilla
R.Vallecano12 Valladolid
Celta Vigo21 Granada
At.Madrid10 Espanyol
Betis30 Málaga 


1Barcelona682522218228
2At.Madrid562518254823
3R.Madrid522516456223
4Málaga422512673724
5Valencia412512583637
6R.Sociedad402511774131
7Betis3925123103435
8R.Vallecano3725121123443
9Getafe3525105103544
10Levante3425104113038
11Valladolid332596103433
12Sevilla322595113437
13Espanyol312587103135
14Osasuna282577112227
15Granada262575132436
16Athletic262575133050
17Zaragoza252574142536
18Celta Vigo232565142432
19Mallorca182546152448
20Deportivo162537152956

Skytteligans topp:

Messi

37  mål

31  med foten

0    på nick

4    på straffar

2

Cristiano Ronaldo

24

15

3

5

2

Falcao

21

10

2

8

1

Aduriz

12

7

4

1

0

Rubén Castro

12

9

2

1

0

 

Fats Domino




Fats Domino turns 85 today

måndag, februari 25, 2013

Galaxy Note 8.0

Senast i raden från Samsung är Galaxy Note 8.0, som visats upp på  världens största mobilmässa, mobilmässan i Barcelona som inleddes idag.
Note-konceptet kombinerar en datorplatta med S Pen, den interaktiva pennan, och samtalsfunktion och den nya modellen tillhör storlek större med sin åtta tums TFT-skärm på 1 280 x 800 bildpunkter.
Inuti sitter en 1,6 gigahertz fyrkärnig A9-processor och två gigabyte minne, plus 16 eller 32 gigabyte lagring. Plats finns för micro-SD upp till 64 gigabyte. Det finns två kameror - fem megapixel bak och 1,3 fram. Batteriet har en kapacitet på 4 600 milliamperetimmar. Operativsystemet är Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean och måtten 211 x 136 millimeter, med en vikt på 338 gram. Samsung avslöjar inte tjockleken.
Galaxy Note 8.0 Kommer till butik i Sverige under det andra kvartalet 2013 med ett rekommenderat pris från 5 500 kronor. Det kommer även en Wifi-version med rekommenderat pris från 4 000 kronor.

Oscar

The 85th Annual Academy Awards has come and gone, which only means one thing -- time to PARTY.

Oscars 2013: Winners

 

Full list of winners (and nominees) from the 85th Academy Awards.

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained
Alan Arkin in Argo
Robert De Niro in Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master
Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln

Best Animated Short Film

Paperman, John Kahrs
Adam and Dog, Minkyu Lee
Fresh Guacamole, PES
Head Over Heels, Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly
Maggie Simpson in ‘The Longest Daycare,’ David Silverman

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

Brave, Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
Frankenweenie, Tim Burton
ParaNorman, Sam Fell and Chris Butler
The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Peter Lord
Wreck-It Ralph, Rich Moore

Achievement in Cinematography

Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda
Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained, Robert Richardson
Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall, Roger Deakins

Achievement in Visual Effects

Life of Pi, Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
Marvel’s The Avengers, Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
Prometheus, Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill
Snow White and the Huntsman, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson

Achievement in Costume Design

Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran
Les Miserables, Paco Delgado
Lincoln, Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror, Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman, Colleen Atwood

Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling

Les Miserables, Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell
Hitchcock, Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane

Best Live-Action Short Film

Curfew, Shawn Christensen
Asad, Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
Buzkashi Boys, Sam French and Ariel Nasr
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw), Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
Henry, Yan England

Best Documentary Short Subject

Inocente, Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
Kings Point, Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
Mondays at Racine, Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
Open Heart, Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
Redemption, Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill

Best Documentary Feature

Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn
5 Broken Cameras, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
The Gatekeepers, Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky and Estelle Fialon
How to Survive a Plague, David France and Howard Gertler
The Invisible War, Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering

Best Foreign-Language Film

Amour, Austria
Kon-Tiki, Norway
No, Chile
A Royal Affair, Denmark
War Witch, Canada

Achievement in Sound Mixing

Les Miserables, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
Argo, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
Life of Pi, Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin
Lincoln, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins
Skyfall, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson

Achievement in Sound Editing (tie)

Skyfall, Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
Zero Dark Thirty, Paul N.J. Ottosson
Argo, Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
Django Unchained, Wylie Stateman
Life of Pi, Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables
Amy Adams in The Master
Sally Field in Lincoln
Helen Hunt in The Sessions
Jacki Weaver in Silver Linings Playbook

Achievement in Film Editing

Argo, William Goldenberg
Life of Pi, Tim Squyres
Lincoln, Michael Kahn
Silver Linings Playbook, Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
Zero Dark Thirty, Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg

Achievement in Production Design

Lincoln, production design: Rick Carter; set decoration: Jim Erickson
Anna Karenina, production design: Sarah Greenwood; set decoration: Katie Spencer
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, production design: Dan Hennah; set decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright
Les Miserables, production design: Eve Stewart; set decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson
Life of Pi, production design: David Gropman; set decoration: Anna Pinnock

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

Life of Pi, Mychael Danna
Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli
Argo, Alexandre Desplat
Lincoln, John Williams
Skyfall, Thomas Newman

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

Skyfall, from Skyfall; music and lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
Before My Time, from Chasing Ice; music and lyric by J. Ralph
Everybody Needs a Best Friend, from Ted; music by Walter Murphy, lyric by Seth MacFarlane
Pi’s Lullaby, from Life of Pi; music by Mychael Danna; lyric by Bombay Jayashri
Suddenly, from Les Miserables; music by Claude-Michel Schonberg, lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Adapted Screenplay

Argo, screenplay by Chris Terrio
Beasts of the Southern Wild, screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi, screenplay by David Magee
Lincoln, screenplay by Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook, screenplay by David O. Russell

Original Screenplay

Django Unchained, written by Quentin Tarantino
Amour, written by Michael Haneke
Flight, written by John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom, written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty, written by Mark Boal

Achievement in Directing

Life of Pi, Ang Lee
Amour, Michael Haneke
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin
Lincoln, Steven Spielberg
Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook
Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty
Emmanuelle Riva in Amour
Quvenzhane Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts in The Impossible

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln
Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook
Hugh Jackman in Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix in The Master
Denzel Washington in Flight

Best Motion Picture

ArgoGrant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, producers
Amour, Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz, producers
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, producers
Django Unchained, Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, producers
Les Miserables, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, producers
Life of Pi, Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, producers
Lincoln, Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, producers
Silver Linings Playbook, Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, producers
Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, producers

Födda 1938 eller därefter

Du har väl inte missat premiepensionen (160:-kr/mån).
En del bryr sig inte då de är välgödda, andra har missat
de 160:-, de så väl behöver. SRs 'Plånboken' pratade häromdagen
om denna pension.

What a Woman!





First Lady Michelle Obama, on a video screen via satellite, announces the best picture Oscar with Jack Nicholson, who was at the Dolby Theatre. 

The Best and Nicest First Lady in all the American History.                                              

Jennifer Lawrence wins lead actress Oscar

 

Los Angeles Times | February 24, 2013 | 8:43 PM
Jennifer Lawrence, the 22-year-old star of "Silver Linings Playbook," won the Oscar for lead actress at the 85th Academy Awards on Sunday. Lawrence played an emotionally raw young widow who connects with an equally troubled man played by Bradley Cooper in the film. This is her first Oscar win.

'Argo' wins best picture Oscar

 

Los Angeles Times | February 24, 2013 | 8:55 PM
"Argo," the juggernaut of this awards season, won the best picture Oscar at Sunday's 85th Academy Awards. Directed by Ben Affleck, the film about the rescue of six Americans during the Iranian revolution took the honor as widely predicted over eight other contenders, including Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," an early favorite for the top prize.

" --- The win by “Argo” demonstrates the difference — when it comes to predicting Oscar winners — between earning critical acclaim and earning an Academy Award.
“Zero Dark Thirty” may have won more plaudits from critics, but critics don’t vote in the Oscar balloting.
“Argo,” as FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver wrote, “won the top awards given out by Hollywood directors, producers, actors, writers and editors.” All those groups also vote for the Oscars.
In the Academy Awards, as in political elections, who votes, matters.---" /NEW YORK TIMES

Daniel Day-Lewis wins lead actor Oscar

 

Los Angeles Times | February 24, 2013 | 8:48 PM
Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for lead actor at the 85th Academy Awards on Sunday. He was honored for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln." Day-Lewis had swept through much of the awards season's top acting prizes before the Oscars. The win marks the actor's third trophy in the category.

Ang Lee wins best director Oscar

 

Los Angeles Times | February 24, 2013 | 8:34 PM
Ang Lee won the Oscar for best director at the 85th Academy Awards on Sunday night for his film "Life of Pi." The picture, based on a bestselling novel but with no big-name actors, was considered an achievement for its blend of realistic computer graphics and fantastical visual imagery in its story of spirituality and survival.

Oscars 2013: A tie for the sixth time in Oscar history

When Mark Wahlberg announced there was a tie in the category of sound editing, he had to first convince the crowd that it was not a joke or a continuation of the bit he was doing on the Oscar telecast with his animated co-star from the movie "Ted."
But indeed, for only the sixth time in the history of the Academy Awards, the same prize went to more than one winner: Paul N.J. Ottosson (liksom Malik Bendjelloul född i Skåne) for “Zero Dark Thirty”  and Per Hallberg (född på Öland - även tidigare år Oscarsbelönad ) and Karen Baker Landers for “Skyfall.”

Oscars 2013: Christoph Waltz wins best supporting actor

Christoph Waltz won the supporting actor Oscar for "Django Unchained" in one of the tightest acting races at this year's Academy Awards on Sunday.

The man who already had one Oscar on his mantel beat out four other veteran performers: Alan Arkin ("Argo"), Philip Seymour Hoffman ("The Master"), Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln") and Robert De Niro ("Silver Linings Playbook") in the first contest of the evening.

Waltz won for playing Dr. King Schultz, a dentist-turned-bounty hunter who frees slave Django, played by Jamie Foxx.
He dedicated his win to the film’s writer and director, Quentin Tarantino. “We participated in a hero’s journey — the hero being Quentin.”

Oscars 2013: Anne Hathaway wins supporting actress Academy Award

She dreamed a dream, all right.

Starring in the very musical that made her want to become an actress at the age of 6, Anne Hathaway won the supporting actress Oscar for playing the doomed seamstress-turned-prostitute Fantine in "Les Misérables.”

The Oscar win caps a remarkable run for the 30-year-old actress, who has won a variety of honors for her fleeting performance in the musical. In taking home the supporting actress Academy Award, Hathaway beat out Sally Field from “Lincoln,” who was considered her closest rival in the category.

Oscars 2013: 'Searching for Sugar Man' wins best documentary

The musical mystery “Searching for Sugar Man” won the Oscar for documentary on Sunday night. Directed by Malik Bendjelloul, the film about an obscure Detroit singer made a remarkable near-sweep of eligible awards since its premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
The film details how for years it was thought that the 1970s singer-songwriter known as Rodriguez had faded into obscurity or died. But through the passionate sleuthing of dedicated fans in South Africa, where he unexpectedly achieved a startling level of fame, he was discovered to be very much alive, living and working in Michigan. Producer Simon Chinn previously won the Oscar for his work on “Man on Wire.”
Rodriguez himself was not at the Oscars; Bendjelloul said he was on tour in South Africa. /L A TIMES




/Swedish/
Malik Bendjelloul tog emot Oscars-statyetten ur superstjärnan Ben Afflecks hand, 03.44 i morse svensk tid, tillsammans med sin brittiske medproducent Simon Chinn.Det är 28 år sedan som en svensk fick en Oscar.

- Oh boy! Tack så mycket. Tack till Akademin och tack till en av de bästa sångarna någonsin, Rodriguez, sade Malik Bendjelloul, som även passade på att tacka bland annat Sveriges Television och Svenska filminstitutet förutom sina vänner och familj, i sitt tacktal i Dolby Theater i Los Angeles./Svenska Dagbladet
Malik Bendjelloul

Malik Bendjelloul, född i Ystad, är bror till kulturjournalisten och programledaren Johar Bendjelloul. Hans mor, konstnären och översättaren Veronica Schildt Bendjelloul, tillhör ätten Schildt. Hans far är läkaren Hacéne Bendjelloul. Malik kan t.ex. ses i SVTs kulturprogram 'Kobra'.

Ljumt intresse: när jag för en liten tid sedan såg filmen i Filmstaden i Sundsvall var vi åtta personer i salongen. Lär bli rusning i landet  för att se filmen nu?

Oscars 2013: 'Amour' wins for foreign language film

As the French might say, the victory of "Amour" for foreign language film at the Oscars on Sunday was practically a fait accompli.

Pourquoi, you ask? Well, Michael Haneke's beautiful, elegiac film about a sudden crisis threatening an octogenarian couple's long love affair already had captured the Palme d'Or at last year's Cannes Film Festival, as well as this year's Golden Globe in the foreign language category. The French-language movie -- it was the official entry from Austria, not France -- also had been nominated for the best picture Oscar, an extremely rare feat for a film not in English. /L A TIMES

söndag, februari 24, 2013

Dozens of Fans Injured in NASCAR Crash



Watch Hollywood's biggest night unfold with USA TODAY's entertainment staff.

http://www.usatoday.com/interactives/life/people/oscars-2013/

Tandvårdsförsäkring

Skulle denne okände
person önska sig
försäkringen
blir det p.g.a.
dålig bonus
hög avgift.

Jag var hos tandläkaren (Folktandvården) häromdagen. Det handlade om en "obligatorisk" årlig kontroll. Det konstaterades inga problem med mina tänder. Samtidigt fick jag en rejäl information om landstingets
tandvårdsförsäkring. Eftersom jag fick en bra bonusplacering (ligger på den bättre halvan) blir månadskostnaden för försäkringen relativt låg. Friskvårdsavtalet om försäkringen innebär att jag de närmaste tre åren (som därefter kan förlängas) gratis får a) undersökningar och utredningar b) hälsofrämjande insatser c) behandlignar av sjukdoms- och smärttillstånd som t.ex. rotbehandling, tandutdragning, bettskena d) reparativ vård som t.ex. fyllning och krona (inom dessa områden gäller avtalet även för vård hos specialisttandläkare som vårdgivare remitterar mig till). I avtalet ingår t.ex. inte behandling för att ersätta förlorade tänder, akutbesök hos annan än Folktandvården, behandling av arbetsskador och olycksfall. För rehabiliterande vård som inte ingår i avtalet, men har ersättningsberättigande i tandvårdsstödet, finns ett högkostnadsskydd.
Med andra ord en förträfflig försäkring för mig. Rekommenderas till alla som anlitar Folktandvården, särskilt  de äldre som har hyfsade tänder , och då med tanke på försäkringskostnaden .
Tack Folktandvårdens i Kvissleby (Njurunda) trevliga personal för mycket bra information!

Skid-VM

Minimalt, eller inget alls intresse i internationell press för skid-VM; åtminstone de nättidningar som jag kollat.
Men några länders tidningar slår på stort, särskilt pressen i ett land som har begynnelsebokstaven 'N'.

New York Times: Join Us on Oscar Night

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/oscars/2013/index.html

Oscars app

Viewers located within the United States and its territories, get the  the official Oscars app:
http://oscar.go.com/blogs/oscar-news/official-oscars-app

La Liga

Omgång  25

I går:
 
Zaragoza -  Valencia2-2
Deportivo - R. Madrid1-2
Barcelona - Sevilla2-1
Mallorca -  Getafe1-3
Athletic -    R. Sociedad1-3
Rayo - Valladolid
 
1-2  
Celta - Granada  
 
2-1  
Atlético - Espanyol
 
1-0  
Betis - Málaga     
 
3-0  
Levante - Osasuna måndag 21:00
 
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Vi grattar Racing som i går firade sitt 100-årsjubileum bl.a. genom att vinna över Mirandés med 2-0. Men tabellen (Liga Adelante) ser trist ut; man hittar laget långt ner i tabellen (nedflyttnignsplats).

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