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| Spanjoren (Zaragoza-son) Lafita |
Real Madrid - Zaragoza 2-3
0-1 Lafita i 41a m.
0-2 Gabi på straff i 54e m.
1-2 Sergio Ramos i 62a m.
1-3 Lafita i 77e m.
2-3 Benzema i 85e m.
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| Kaká i R. Madrid begrundar ödet |
lördag, april 30, 2011
La Liga
Omgång nr 34 - Första matchen (idag)
Real Madrid - Zaragoza 2-3
0-1 Lafita i 41a m.
0-2 Gabi på straff i 54e m.
1-2 Sergio Ramos i 62a m.
1-3 Lafita i 77e m.
2-3 Benzema i 85e m.
Real Madrid - Zaragoza 2-3
0-1 Lafita i 41a m.
0-2 Gabi på straff i 54e m.
1-2 Sergio Ramos i 62a m.
1-3 Lafita i 77e m.
2-3 Benzema i 85e m.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Born: 30 April 1777 in Brunswick, Duchy of Brunswick (now Germany)
Died: 23 Feb 1855 in Göttingen, Hanover (now Germany)
Gauss worked in a wide variety of fields in both mathematics and physics incuding number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy and optics. His work has had an immense influence in many areas.
Liten väska kan spåra tidig HIV-smitta
Världens tuffaste granskare av läkemedel och nya analytiska tekniker, det amerikanska läkemedelsverket FDA, har fått upp ögonen för det lilla lundaföretaget CapSenze som på ett tidigt stadium kan spåra HIV-virus i blodet. I botten finns en teknik för att mäta extremt låga koncentrationer av gifter, virus eller andra ämnen i vätskor. I höst kommer den amerikanska myndigheten att testa och utvärdera metoden tillsammans med forskare från Lund.
– I och med att vi passerat den första granskningen har vi klarat den tuffaste biten. Gillar de testresultaten, lär det bli ett slutgiltigt godkännande om två till tre år. Ett godkännande från FDA är i praktiken en förutsättning för att få tillgång till en internationell marknad, berättar Martin Hedström, forskare i bioteknik vid Lunds Tekniska Högskola och delägare.
Med dagens metoder går det att fastställa om någon har HIV eller ej först efter ett par månader. Men med denna teknik går det att spåra sjukdomen redan efter två veckor. Medan dagens metoder främst mäter antikroppar kan CapSenze mäta extremt låga halter av virusmarkörproteinet p24, som sitter på virusets yta och frisläpps i blodbanan.
Analysutrustningen ska framöver bli tillräckligt billig för att kunna köpas in av sjukhus i tredje världen.
– Tanken är att vår apparat, som idag är en prototyp i storlek av en skokartong, ska kunna användas i Afrika, Asien och i andra fattiga områden där HIV och AIDS har stor spridning. Går det att hitta sjukdomen tidigt kan man dämpa spridningen, förklarar Martin Hedström som arbetat med teknikutvecklingen de senaste tio åren.
Bolagets andra delägare, som också kan beskrivas som dess fader, är Bo Mattiasson, professor i bioteknik vid LTH. Under flera år har han byggt biosensorer av olika slag och redan för sjutton år sedan började han skissa på det som senare skulle utgöra grunden för CapSenze. Han utgick från en så kallad kapacitiv sensorteknik. Den här tekniken avger biokemiska signaler, men dessa lyckades Bo Mattiasson förstärka och omvandla till elektriska signaler.
– Den första tiden ägnade vi oss mest åt kemibiten. Det gick ganska trögt i några år. Men senare knöt vi till oss experter inom elektrovetenskap. Tillsammans utvecklade vi tekniken och förbättrade den sammanlagda känsligheten och kalibreringen avsevärt, berättar Martin Hedström som menar att projektet är ett bra exempel på tvärvetenskapligt samarbete.
I praktiken är företaget fortfarande ett forskningsprojekt. Det är också ett vid sidan-av projekt som Martin Hedström arbetar med på fritiden, när han inte forskar med annat och handleder doktorander. CapSenze fick 2010 års hedersomnämnde när PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Lunds kommun och Lunds universitet delade ut innovationspriset. Sedan två år ingår även Joakim Larsson i bolaget. Det är mycket tack hans kompetens på elektroniksidan som gjort CapSenze till ett kommersiellt bolag.
Detta kan tekniken användas till:
Möjligheten att hitta virus och andra infektiösa substanser inom klinisk diagnostik är egentligen bara en av flera möjliga tillämpningar. Med en analysmetod som kan spåra lika låga koncentrationer som en upplöst sockerbit i Östersjön finns så klart flera! Martin Hedström pekar på ytterligare tre:
- Bioterror: att kunna övervaka och spåra gifter i exempelvis vattentäkter (vattentorn etc.)
- Miljöföroreningar: exempelvis går det att ta på ett enkelt och billigt sätt ta reda på om brunnsvatten är förorenat med kolera
- Säkrare läkemedelsproduktion: CapSenze teknik kan minska risken för att biobaserade läkemedel orsakar oönskade biverkningar på grund av föroreningar som kan förekomma i låga halter.
Den nya avrättningen i The New Sweden
Det var 42-årige albanen Xheladin Purava som sköts till döds på Erik Dahlbergsgatan i centrala Göteborg i morse
. Purava har i många år tillhört den undre världen i Göteborg och hade nyligen muckat från ett 4-årigt fängelsestraff .
Purava ledde, före sin senaste anstaltsvistelse, ett organiserat gäng som i olika former knoppats av från den så kallade Naserligan.
Purava sågs under en period som potentiell efterträdare till Naser Dzeljilji, 50, men öppnade i stället en egen verksamhet.
Dzeljilji sköts i ett garage i Majorna i augusti 2006. Han överlevde mirakulöst. Ingen ansvarig har ännu kunnat gripas för attentatet. Enligt underrättelseuppgifter skall Naser numera ha dragit sig tillbaka.
Pang-pang...
. Purava har i många år tillhört den undre världen i Göteborg och hade nyligen muckat från ett 4-årigt fängelsestraff .
Purava ledde, före sin senaste anstaltsvistelse, ett organiserat gäng som i olika former knoppats av från den så kallade Naserligan.
Purava sågs under en period som potentiell efterträdare till Naser Dzeljilji, 50, men öppnade i stället en egen verksamhet.
Dzeljilji sköts i ett garage i Majorna i augusti 2006. Han överlevde mirakulöst. Ingen ansvarig har ännu kunnat gripas för attentatet. Enligt underrättelseuppgifter skall Naser numera ha dragit sig tillbaka.
Pang-pang...
Blir det inte alltför många somalier?
Borlänge har blivit något av en magnet för somalier och nu har regeringens och Miljöpartiets migrationsöverenskommelse gjort det lättare för familjeåterförening. Som en konsekvens av detta väntas hela 600 somalier till Borlänge inom kort. Av samtliga nyanlända som kom till Borlänge under 2010 var 93 procent somalier.
Anhöriginvandringen stannade av under det senaste året efter att reglerna ändrades, bland annat krävdes pass för att få komma in i Sverige och den typen som godtas i Sverige utfärdas inte i Somalia. Efter den ökända migrations-överenskommelsen mellan regeringen och Miljöpartiet kan dock detta ändå ske genom DNA-test för att styrka släktskap.
POLITISK INKORREKT
Anhöriginvandringen stannade av under det senaste året efter att reglerna ändrades, bland annat krävdes pass för att få komma in i Sverige och den typen som godtas i Sverige utfärdas inte i Somalia. Efter den ökända migrations-överenskommelsen mellan regeringen och Miljöpartiet kan dock detta ändå ske genom DNA-test för att styrka släktskap.
POLITISK INKORREKT
Valutaras
På förmiddagen nådde dollarn sin lägsta nivå sedan finanskrisen 2008 och dippade tillfälligt under sex kronor. Nu sjunker oddsen för att även pundet ska gå under den magiska tio-kronors gränsen.
Enligt spelbolaget Unibet är oddsen låga för att pundet går under tio kronor redan på fredagen eller tidigt i maj. Det betyder att det blir mer sannolikt att det snart kommer att ske. Vid 10:40-tiden låg pundet på 10,30 kronor. Något som glädjer turistande svenskar i Storbritannien.
DAGENS NYHETER
Enligt spelbolaget Unibet är oddsen låga för att pundet går under tio kronor redan på fredagen eller tidigt i maj. Det betyder att det blir mer sannolikt att det snart kommer att ske. Vid 10:40-tiden låg pundet på 10,30 kronor. Något som glädjer turistande svenskar i Storbritannien.
DAGENS NYHETER
Understanding the Stigma of Mental Illness
April 25, 2011
By Michael Craig Miller, M.D.
Harvard Medical School
In our society, it is common to hear disparaging remarks and jokes about mental illness or the clinicians who treat psychiatric disorders. Every October, the National Alliance on Mental Illness reports on insulting Halloween costumes, such as those looking like straitjackets or the ones with names like "Dr. Malice" and "Cell Block Psycho." Aside from being distasteful, they add to the persistent stigma associated with and stereotype of people with mental illness.
For the mental health clinician, stigma is important because it causes many people to delay seeking help and getting treatment. Consider this:
One national survey found that only 51% of Americans with symptoms of major depression in the previous year were receiving any kind of treatment, whether with antidepressants or psychotherapy.
Another survey found that only about half of people with social anxiety disorder ever receive treatment.
The average person with symptoms of depression waits at least 10 years before seeking help. In both of these studies, stigma was cited as an important factor.
How Stigma Harms People
The term stigma comes from the Latin word that refers to a tattoo placed on slaves or criminals to mark their inferior status. In much the same way, the stigma surrounding mental illness also "marks" people.
Dr. Erving Goffman, a sociologist who spent much of his career at the University of Pennsylvania, is credited with first explaining the modern concept of stigma. He saw it as a personal characteristic that society views negatively. In his 1963 book, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, he described someone with a stigmatized condition as being "deeply discredited" in society.
People who are stigmatized are made to feel that they don't have the same value in society as other people. Thus, stigma is harmful because:
It has a negative impact on self-esteem and psychological well-being. This, in turn, affects a person's academic and professional achievement.
Stigma is like racism in that it promotes institutionalized forms of discrimination, such as restriction of voting rights.
It reinforce and intensifies the suffering of mental illness.
Stigma and "Social Death"
Dr. Arthur Kleinman, a psychiatrist and medical anthropologist at Harvard University, has made the case that stigma has become such an overused term that it has lost any real meaning. Instead, he proposes a new term: social death. This term underscores how people with stigmatized conditions, such as mental disorders, are treated like social outcasts or — in the extreme — treated as less than human.
People may react to them as non-persons, so they experience a social death in relation to their communities. In China, psychiatric patients are made to wear outfits similar to prisoners. They can't participate in family gatherings. In the worst cases, authorities severely violate their human rights, for example, by putting them in chains.
Dehumanizing conditions exist in the United States, too, although to a less drastic degree. Consider the large number of Americans with psychiatric disorders who are living on the streets or in jails due to lack of proper treatment.
A Problem Worth Solving
Stigma is not just a theory. It is a real problem that is worth solving.
If stigma is primarily psychological, then reducing its bad effects may involve psychotherapy to boost self-esteem. If it is more social in nature, the way to fight it is through awareness campaigns to change public opinion and policies. And if stigma is a moral issue, then it may be necessary to advocate for basic human rights. Much of this work is underway, thanks to mental health advocacy organizations.
Given that stigma about mental illness is so persistent, it's likely that all of these efforts may need to be redoubled before psychiatric disorders are seen as illnesses rather than as jokes or personal failings.
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.
April 25, 2011
Harvard Medical School
In our society, it is common to hear disparaging remarks and jokes about mental illness or the clinicians who treat psychiatric disorders. Every October, the National Alliance on Mental Illness reports on insulting Halloween costumes, such as those looking like straitjackets or the ones with names like "Dr. Malice" and "Cell Block Psycho." Aside from being distasteful, they add to the persistent stigma associated with and stereotype of people with mental illness.
For the mental health clinician, stigma is important because it causes many people to delay seeking help and getting treatment. Consider this:
One national survey found that only 51% of Americans with symptoms of major depression in the previous year were receiving any kind of treatment, whether with antidepressants or psychotherapy.
Another survey found that only about half of people with social anxiety disorder ever receive treatment.
The average person with symptoms of depression waits at least 10 years before seeking help. In both of these studies, stigma was cited as an important factor.
How Stigma Harms People
The term stigma comes from the Latin word that refers to a tattoo placed on slaves or criminals to mark their inferior status. In much the same way, the stigma surrounding mental illness also "marks" people.
Dr. Erving Goffman, a sociologist who spent much of his career at the University of Pennsylvania, is credited with first explaining the modern concept of stigma. He saw it as a personal characteristic that society views negatively. In his 1963 book, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, he described someone with a stigmatized condition as being "deeply discredited" in society.
People who are stigmatized are made to feel that they don't have the same value in society as other people. Thus, stigma is harmful because:
It has a negative impact on self-esteem and psychological well-being. This, in turn, affects a person's academic and professional achievement.
Stigma is like racism in that it promotes institutionalized forms of discrimination, such as restriction of voting rights.
It reinforce and intensifies the suffering of mental illness.
Stigma and "Social Death"
Dr. Arthur Kleinman, a psychiatrist and medical anthropologist at Harvard University, has made the case that stigma has become such an overused term that it has lost any real meaning. Instead, he proposes a new term: social death. This term underscores how people with stigmatized conditions, such as mental disorders, are treated like social outcasts or — in the extreme — treated as less than human.
People may react to them as non-persons, so they experience a social death in relation to their communities. In China, psychiatric patients are made to wear outfits similar to prisoners. They can't participate in family gatherings. In the worst cases, authorities severely violate their human rights, for example, by putting them in chains.
Dehumanizing conditions exist in the United States, too, although to a less drastic degree. Consider the large number of Americans with psychiatric disorders who are living on the streets or in jails due to lack of proper treatment.
A Problem Worth Solving
Stigma is not just a theory. It is a real problem that is worth solving.
If stigma is primarily psychological, then reducing its bad effects may involve psychotherapy to boost self-esteem. If it is more social in nature, the way to fight it is through awareness campaigns to change public opinion and policies. And if stigma is a moral issue, then it may be necessary to advocate for basic human rights. Much of this work is underway, thanks to mental health advocacy organizations.
Given that stigma about mental illness is so persistent, it's likely that all of these efforts may need to be redoubled before psychiatric disorders are seen as illnesses rather than as jokes or personal failings.
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 New Sweden
Man ihjälskjuten på gata i Göteborg.
Göteborg (samt Stockholm och Göteborg) är rena Vilda Västern numera. Trist (minst sagt)!
Göteborg (samt Stockholm och Göteborg) är rena Vilda Västern numera. Trist (minst sagt)!
From Gallup.Com: One in Four in North Africa Desired to Migrate Before Unrest
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Many North Africans wanted to leave their countries before unrest in the region prompted thousands to do so this year, according to Gallup surveys in late 2010. Twenty-six percent of North African adults said they would choose to move to another country permanently if they had the chance. Fourteen percent of these potential migrants said they planned to move in the next year.
Since the "Arab Spring" began, an estimated 25,000 mostly Tunisian migrants have fled to Europe to escape the unrest or economic conditions at home only to find themselves in the middle of a battle over open borders in the European Union. Italy -- where most of these migrants are entering the EU -- and France -- where most migrants are reportedly headed -- are at odds on how to deal with the influx. Both are calling for reform of the EU's Schengen border-free travel agreement.
Before some of the barriers that limited people from migrating from Tunisia fell with President Zine el-Abidene Ben Ali's ouster in January, nearly 3 in 10 Tunisian adults (28%) said they would like to migrate permanently to another country. Desire to migrate was similar in other North African countries such as Algeria (31%) and Libya (27%), and slightly lower in Egypt (24%) and Morocco (24%).
GALLUP.COM
Before some of the barriers that limited people from migrating from Tunisia fell with President Zine el-Abidene Ben Ali's ouster in January, nearly 3 in 10 Tunisian adults (28%) said they would like to migrate permanently to another country. Desire to migrate was similar in other North African countries such as Algeria (31%) and Libya (27%), and slightly lower in Egypt (24%) and Morocco (24%).
GALLUP.COM
Determine Your Fitness Level
In the broadest sense, physical fitness is your body's ability to perform physical activity. There are several ways to judge your level of fitness.
Functional Fitness
One of the most basic measures of physical fitness is your functional fitness: your ability to perform daily activities — such as walking, bending, lifting and climbing stairs — without pain or discomfort. Functional fitness comes from having healthy lungs, heart, muscles, bones and joints, and it influences your risk of disease and early death. Good indicators of your functional fitness are the number of minutes you engage in physical activity each week and the number of calories you burn in the process.
Physiological Determinants
Physical fitness can also be measured using a series of physiological assessments that chart how effectively your body rises to the demands of physical activity.
Cardiorespiratory endurance. Cardiorespiratory endurance, also known as aerobic fitness, is perhaps the best-studied gauge of fitness. Measurements of cardiorespiratory function indicate how efficiently your heart, lungs and blood vessels can supply oxygen to your cells during extended bouts of physical exertion.
Muscle strength and muscle endurance. Measurement of muscle strength assesses the amount of power your muscles are able to exert. Your muscle endurance indicates how long your muscles can work before becoming fatigued.
Flexibility. Flexibility is the ability of your joints to move easily through their entire range of motion. As you age, flexibility becomes increasingly critical for avoiding injury and maintaining independence.
Body composition. Also relevant to your overall fitness is your body composition — the proportion of fat you carry in relation to your lean muscle mass. Many diseases, including cancer, heart disease and diabetes, are linked to the accumulation of extra fat, particularly in the abdominal area.
As the crackdown on protesters in Syria worsens, international officials should push to end the violence by setting up a UN inquiry and imposing sanctions on those responsible for the bloodshed within the Syrian government.On Friday, Syrian officers opened fire on protesters in 14 separate towns, killing at least 76, and possibly as many as 112, according to lists compiled by local human rights activists.
“The hospital's five operating rooms are occupied,” said a doctor working at al-Barr Hospital in Homs, a town where many of the killings took place. “Most of the patients have bullet wounds to the chest. All the bullets are real. No rubber bullets at all. Protesters and neighbors are standing around the hospital to prevent security forces from entering and taking the wounded - like we heard happened in other hospitals.”
After this type of carnage, it is no longer enough to condemn the violence. The international community needs to take action and protect the protesters.
fredag, april 29, 2011
USA:s ambassadör hoppar av
USA:s ambassadör i Sverige, Matthew Barzun, lämnar sin post för att i stället leda insamlingsarbetet i president Barack Obamas återvalskampanj nästa år, rapporterar den engelskspråkiga nyhetssajten The Local. I sin blogg skriver Barzun att det är en ära att bli tillfrågad av presidenten om att få jobbet som ordförande i Obamas nationella finanskommitté, som han mycket framgångsrikt jobbade för i valrörelsen 2008. Barzun kom till Sverige 2009.
SVENSKA DAGBLADET
Germany.info
Word of the Week: 'Arbeitstier'
'Apr 28, 2011
Over the course of the year, Germany.info and The Week in Germany will highlight a different "Word of the Week" in the German language that may serve to surprise, delight or just plain perplex native English speakers.
Arbeitstier
In the literal sense of the word, an "Arbeitstier" is a work animal, as in a beast of burden on a pre-mechanized farm. The horse at the center of the bestselling 1877 novel "Black Beauty" by English author Alice Sewell, for instance, was an "Arbeitstier" - one, moreover, in need of saving from brutal humans driving an innocent, elegant animal to the limits of its physical capacities.
This expression - like so many German compound nouns - is actually composed of two words: "Arbeit" (work) and "Tier" (animal).
In the modern sense of the word, however, a person who works very hard is referred to as an "Arbeitstier", a badge of honor for many individuals in a society that prides itself on efficiency and what some Germans refer to as a strong work ethic or "Prussian sense of duty" (though one would be hard-pressed to find a Bavarian using the latter expression).
So an "Arbeitstier" is, essentially, a very hard and focused worker, but not necessarily a "workaholic", an expression which has many negative connotations in modern western societies.
In Germany the expression "Arbeitstier" is, however, generally used in a more positive sense.