31 March 2013

Joel S. Goldsmith

"God must become an activity in our consciousness."

Nicole Kidman

"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."

Wall Street Proverb

"Buy on the rumor; sell on the news."

Epictetus

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

30 March 2013

Ellen DeGeneres

"You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful."

Pablo Casals

"I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life."

Andre Gide

"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves."

Brendan Gill

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."

29 March 2013

Ed Greenwood

"Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise."

Jennifer Aniston

"I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well."

Mary Daly

"It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God."

Leo Tolstoy

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

27 March 2013

Dorothy Draper

"Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible."

Elizabeth Aston

"There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one."

Chinese Proverb

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

William Langland

"There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame."

26 March 2013

Joseph Joubert

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

Matt Witten

"Parents are never as bad as kids think they are."

Jenny Bicks

"The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun."

Lillian Hellman

"It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you."

25 March 2013

Oprah Winfrey

"Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up."

J. K. Rowling

"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."

Bonnie Prudden

"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."

Coleman Cox

"Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed."

George Fabricius

"Death comes to all/ But great achievements raise a monument/ Which shall endure until the sun grows old."

24 March 2013

Freeman Dyson

"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."

23 March 2013

Julian Jaynes

"Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else."

Anthony Walton

"America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better."

The Belzer Rabbi

"Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones."

Sophocles

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."

22 March 2013

Real Live Preacher

"You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman�s name and claim to love her."

Doris Lessing

"All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh."

Aaron Copland

"Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness."

George Lois

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."

21 March 2013

R. Stevens

"Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!"

Jennie Jerome Churchill

"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."

Jawaharlal Nehru

"The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction."

Milan Kundera

"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object."

20 March 2013

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Chuang-tzu

"Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."

Marya Mannes

"Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal."

Thomas Jefferson

"Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment."

Plutarch

"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."

19 March 2013

Paul Graham

"Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity."

Joyce Maynard

"A good home must be made, not bought."

William Hazlitt

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

"Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done."

18 March 2013

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Barack Obama

"What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government."

Colby Dorr Dam

"Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement."

Barbara Hall

"You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good."

John Berry

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."

17 March 2013

Albert Ellis

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."

Albert Camus

"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself."

George W. Bush

"I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub."

16 March 2013

Paul Tillich

"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."

Joseph Addison

"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter."

Malcolm X

"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

Erica Jong

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."

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15 March 2013

Antonia Brenner

"I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people."

Sharon Salzberg

"If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again."

Marilyn vos Savant

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."

William Congreve

"Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise."

14 March 2013

John Grogan

"We could have bought a small yacht with what we spent on our dog an dall the things he destroyed. Then again, how many yachts wait by the door all day for your return?"

Steve Jobs

"You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new."

Tina Turner

"The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered."

Sue Patton Thoele

"Abundance is, in large part, an attitude."

13 March 2013

Ann Radcliffe

"There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!"

Henry Kissinger

"The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes."

Dale Carnegie

"If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep."

Epicurus

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

12 March 2013

Oprah Winfrey

"I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal."

Jacqueline Cochran

"I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."

W. Somerset Maugham

"There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed."

11 March 2013

New book: A mammoth unparalleled

He was born on the same day as Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Vivica Bandler and Lars Huldén, he has been named to both Finland's sexiest man this year's left-handed person, he is a person who seems to bring the emotional register to life - there are those who hate him; there are those who envy him and there are those who adore him ... we are talking of course about Jörn Donner, 80 years old today.


And just in time for sense days now published his autobiographical works mammoth, mammoth - like myself have spent hours - days! - To read your way through 1128 pages:


The comments on social media after Jörn Donner was the guest of "Skavlan" on Swedish Television speaks - my God, the man has the sense of humor! -
the same week, he was the guest of Marie Lundstrom at Sveriges Radio and it was also interesting to read the comments that the program gave rise to - someone described JD as both unbearable and uncomfortable (before the hen heard the program), another wanted to be able to see the program on tv, a third told me that his mother had it together with JD in Helsinki in the 50's ...


One woman wrote that we need such as Jörn Donner: people who are outspoken and free in thought, and many seemed surprised at JD's gentle image and his self-critical look back on the year that has passed. There was hardly anything left of the arrogant, hefty, sassy, ??ironic and self-sufficient, JD, what happened?! Vafalls, Gossen Ruda has gone and become nice and cozy on old da'r!


The public persona Jörn Donner is different from the private Jörn Donner, who is described by friends as a shy, reclusive, kind and caring. The mammoth sounds JD all personality traits come to the surface - this will fit both the arrogant and cocky J, as the reclusive and melancholic J.


It may seem pretentious and presumptuous to publish a book of 1128 pages about himself - but JD is not alone in its mega projects in recent years, both the Swedish director / writer Lars Norén has published his diaries in a band on one 680 pages, the Norwegian author Karl Ove Knaus Yard has written more or less fictitious about his life in the sexdelade novel series My struggle - the entire series is given away at 3622 pages.


The main character and the self in mammoth are Jörn Donner - or J, as he calls himself - and the book consists of various types of texts: clips from earlier books, quotes from letters and diaries as J left it to a (fictional) assistant, Frederick Cook, to go through.


Thanks to this Fredrik can J create a distance from his own (real) person, and look at yourself from an outside perspective - comment (for Frederick Cook) annoying feature of the main character's personality (eg, self-absorption and hypochondria) and question some behaviors such as all those women business often been at each other ...


This play of fact and fiction makes it naturally easy for Jörn Donner slipping away and refer to the author's freedom to interpret and romance a truth that is his, and assert that J does not necessarily = Jörn Donner.


Evidence and counter-evidence: Spring 2012 J went out to the country with a garbage bag full of letters from and to about 15 women - an estimated 1,000 letters burned up in a fire liberating: "No one can ever say that my quotes were inaccurate, untruthful or distorted. The evidence found in the ashes. "


Mammoth or Jörn Donner left documents. If illamåendets history in Finland is a meandering story that basically follows a chronological order from February 1933 until today - with flashbacks, digressions, glosses and explanations to various papers and documents as assistant Frederick picked out J's voluminous archives.


The mammoth finds J to all the books he has written bears autobiographical traits, and it is clear that J used himself and his life as raw material and sounding board for both his works of fiction as the essayistic travel reportage and portraits he has written over the years (film director Ingmar Bergman , author Elmer Diktonius, Marshal Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, the father Kai Donner).


Anyone who read his Donner know in other words a lot of it as J brings out the mammoth, but in this heavyweight book makes J an attempt to see his 80-year life from a holistic perspective - both professionally and privately, how was it that he became a writer / filmmaker / politicians, what motives he had, and which bases his restlessness and rootlessness - his inability to fully connect with, and to be constantly on the lookout for something else / someone else?


Loneliness and the war did J to writers: when J was two years old his father died, philologist, ethnographer and politician Kai Donner, and J's mother Greta became a single parent with five young children to care for + family farm Ahdenkallio just outside Hyvinkää, summer instead Framnäs in Bromarv and floor on the North Quay 12 to provide for.


During the war years spent J often land in Bromarv or Hyvinkää while her mother (who for long periods was sickly) was elsewhere and the much older siblings served in the Armed Forces. During long periods of raised J primarily of maids and domestic servants.


The loneliness drove him to read (everything from Runeberg and Bertil Malmberg Stein Riverton, Biggles books, Ibsen and Gogol) and writing letters (which he signed at a young age with a cheerful "Sieg Heil") and their own newspapers.


Eventually J away from the conservative patriotic ideals that characterized the bourgeois home in Kruununhaka and joined the socialist circles. Youth uncompromising desire to breakup and revolt strained relationship with the mother, something that J mourn today.


Modern hoped to the last that J would follow in his father's footsteps and pursue an academic career in the Finno-Ugric language research - J studied certainly both literary studies, political science and philosophy at the university, but had no ambitions to become researchers or academics - he wanted to be a journalist , trip out and see Europe, the world, to try to understand it, "everyone depends on everyone."


Mother Greta could die before J became Master of Arts - for a fee, and the summer of 2003 he was also a professor title in the gift of friends who paid 3,000 euros for the title.


The laziness that J repeatedly come back to as a basic element in his character is difficult to understand when you take some of his almost feverish activity in many areas - his bibliography includes more than 60 books since his debut in 1951 and his film production amounts to more than 20 films cinema and television, in addition, the J in various replays worked in radio and television, both in Finland and Sweden, he founded and published magazine Arena (1951-54), he has worked as a film critic in BLM, Daily News and Vapaa Sana, for a period He was managing director of the Swedish Film Institute (1978-82), for several decades, he wrote regularly columns for several newspapers and magazines, as a politician, he has been a member of both the Helsinki City Council (1969-76, 1985, 2005-08) and Tammisaari City Council (2001-03) who in parliament in different occasions (1987-95, 2007), he has been Consul General in Los Angeles (1995-96), MEP (1996-99) and Chairman of Helsinki Cultural and Library Board (2005 -08) - including and mm.


Laziness (imagined or actual) is one side of the coin, while energy and (according to himself) destructive versatility served the other side - in any year, J has been driven by a restless curiosity and fumbled far and wide with too many balls in the air simultaneously, Instead of focusing on one thing at a time. This is also (according to himself) contributed to much of what he has done (books, movies) become medlemåttiga products - the quantity and quality do not always go hand in hand: "I suffer from too much ambition, too meager head and excessive mediocrity "writes J eg in October 1960, and it appears that he constantly struggled with an uneasy sense of inferiority and inadequacy.


The mammoth is largely about precisely this duality and contradiction in J's life - both on a professional level and on a personal level, a conflict that has taken many forms:


For four decades, wrote J. regular columns in various newspapers and magazines (among them Ilta-Sanomat, Blue Wings, HBL), but since he voluntarily quit as a columnist in 2007, he has no longer access to the natural forum and a visible platform for their glosses or their analysis of the state of the Republic of Finland or in the world - the silence is certainly self-chosen, but he provides that no response to know what he thinks of as Middle East question, or if the planned downtown library - the only thing that interests the press seems to be his illnesses. J is i.e. afraid of being forgotten - the silence and solitude can be a burden, even if it is self-selected.


J's interest in politics and history and social and cultural issues has brought him to the corridors of power in Helsinki and Brussels - but he doubts that he managed to make a difference. The latest attempt to be elected to parliament (2011) he describes as "an unsuccessful way to excuse the general idleness" and he ensures that voters seem to see him as a used card. His relationship to power and politics is characterized by a love-hate chafing.


Again and again recurs J to diverse reasons curse: that working drug addict J throughout her life been so incredibly productive in many different areas (according to himself) have been him in the dish, and he claims to be misunderstood by critics and unseen by the cultural establishment - but no one should be led to believe that he cares.


Constantly this duality: to be or not to be part of a context, wanting or not wanting to take root, to despise and curse someone / something you also want to be seen and accepted by - get an approval and a little cred for what you have done .


Speaking of fear of being forgotten or not given place in the public sphere: in recent weeks, it has been split parameters of J both in Finland and in Sweden, and television, radio and newspapers have competed to outdo each other than with a naked Jörn, than a weight lifting Jörn front of the bookshelf in the workroom on the North Quay.


The Helsingin Sanomat (02/03/2013), Anna-Stina Nykänen through the interviews with födelsedagsjubilaren over the past week in Apu, Seura, Image, Suomen Kuvalehti, Yloppilaslehti and Helsingin Sanomat, and she tries to call in mammoth Jörn Donner by lifting the various key elements of Articles: how to prepare the various newspapers Jörn in words and images, the issues it focuses on (what is J afraid of? how does J on Aging • What is the meaning of life according to R), and finally calculates she up all the characterizations that she will find in the articles (my translation): studious lazy, arrogant know-it, arrogant shit boot, conscientious objectors, filmmakers, asocial person, ill-mannered brat, gäckare, tease, fucker, människoslukare, intellectual, intriguer, rebel leaders, samtalare, author, communist, cosmopolite, critic, culture mammoth, cultural personality, iconoclast, ifrågasättare, linslus, collaborators, narcissistic, actors, opportunists, deserters, traitors, polemicist, politicians, citizens, provocateur, radical, yeller, rabid radical, reporter, combat buck, troublemaker, yeller, villain, sex symbol, sivare, civilized, outsider, viewer, snob, conventional switches, Finland's sexiest man, vane, workaholic, old man, visionary, intelligent.


Our need for JD (actual, like the fictional) seems to be insatiable, and - as Jukka Petäjä notes in his interview with JD in Helsingin Sanomat 26.1.2013 - would the Finnish cultural life be much poorer without JD: if Jörn Donner did not exist, we would have to invent him.


The voluminous book has nothing personal, and according to the author is the reason to force all curious to read the entire tome to possibly find himself in it - either by naming names or implicitly.


Many example might be curious about the women in J's life - among them, the three wives Inga-Britt Wik (as J was married to 1954-62), Jeanette Bonnier (as J was married to 1974-88) and Bitte Westerlund (as J married with 1995). Long Where Gare conditions is also mentioned (Harriet Andersson, Sun Axelsson example), while other women are mentioned by name, a letter, or a simple pronoun (she).


In most cases, J decent regard to living or dead persons, while in other cases it may seem right blunt and ruthless: the relationship with the now-deceased first wife Inga-Britt seems to have been conflictual and doomed from the start, and for many years could also be in the public share of a mutual pajkastning where invektiven and accusations flew close by book pages.


Striving for honesty and sincerity in all situations but not necessarily any sympathy points.


The mammoth can eg J not fail to speak obliquely about Inga-Britt, and he feels relieved at her death (2008) because she can no longer make any demands on him.


J has six children with four different women - the two oldest sons (John and James) by Inga-Britt Wik, daughter Susanna (from a relationship with Meri Vennamo) and Otto with an unnamed woman in the book, the youngest sons (Daniel and Rudolf ) has J with his current wife Bitte.


In the TV show "Skavlan" (SVT 01/27/2013) J admitted that he was a bad father, and in the tabloids in the past week have been the eldest son witnessed a constantly absent and generally indifferent father - the inflamed relationship between J and children Mother meant that J and the oldest sons barely spent time at all until recently when the relationship has been what one might describe as "factual".


Throughout the book is J openly indifferent to the first four children, and imposing three of them "to some future loose people." He says he is certainly able to spend time with them, but do not have them in the same manner as he may lack the two youngest in their absence - in itself a natural result of that he was present and participated in the youngest sons lives in a completely different way than before, of course.


J's restlessness and constant need to rush on have thus contributed to many conditions and human relations have been put on the exception, but sometimes distance also could be a boon for a relationship, and according to J himself, he is better at making love on the distance than up close.


That J would rather hang out and confide in (a select few) women than men is a fact - but throughout life, however, he met some men who he felt kinship with, among them Harry Schein and Ingmar Bergman, whom he calls his mentor.


The mammoth searcheth J often themselves in a seemingly merciless way - he presents himself (sometimes, however, in a roundabout way through the Assistant Frederick Cook) as self-absorbed and hypochondriac, he is prone to manic depression, he is often sad and melancholic, he feels misunderstood as a writer and filmmaker, he's a lousy businessman and the only thing he can is to write - write = live.


In the preface writes Jörn that journey with the book marked by parting sadness, and that he tried to write "without regard to self-censorship or others' admonitions" - he learns not to be unchallenged, and the headlines in both Finland and Sweden will probably be filled by Donner Mania the next few weeks!


In one of his books, he quoted a few lines of poetry by Bertil Malmberg, and they can be safely on their way to summarize J. 's attitude to life:


The lines that run
and crossed in my hand
they form a chart
to the unfamiliar country.
They take what secret
my destiny set
The aim, as opportunities
in my väsendes night.
They show me the way
between the vortex and the atoll.
It's just to sail.
But in which direction?
Why worry my heart?
Why I hesitate yet?
I have my charts.
But compass, where is it?


In February broadcast YLE Teema a handful of Jörn Donner's films - more info can be found on Yle Teemas website.


 

Jason Fried

"You don�t need to win every medal to be successful."

Ausonius

"If you are a terror to many, then beware of many."

Anais Nin

"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

Henry George

"Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied."

However, it was thinly between the laughter

Tram between Djurgården and Sergels torg, Stockholm


Two men ~ 30 sits on the tram approaching the Sergels torg square.
Man 1 (on the North): now we are in Malmö. It's so short distance down here, so you end up missing a station in Malmö.


10 March 2013

In the wake of emigrants

On Tuesday begins the celebration of it was 375 years since the ship Kalmar Key arrived in Wilmington in Delaware, with the first Swedish immigrants aboard. One million Swedes followed across the Atlantic in Kalmar key's wake.


The United States was and is a nation of immigrants. Today is the large group of Latinos are the fastest growing minority. The Hispanic roots in including Mexico and Puerto Rico today represents over 11 percent of the electorate. The South is becoming bilingual. But the group Hispanics also puts great impression in the East Coast New York and Washington, which is striking when I along with a group of political editors of the Swedish Media Lens directing visiting the United States, the political and economic center during the course of a week. (Medicare Alen is a company that manages assets earlier M-branded press organs sold. Undersigned sits on its board).


Just the ethnic change in the United States will return to virtually all meetings of think tanks, NGOs and editors. The group Hispanics are now larger than the African-American. It is young and growing rapidly. For it will Latino voters have particular importance in some vågmästarstater. For Republicans who for several years has focused the winning white (less educated) Americans in the hinterland relationship with Latino voters to have a live-or-die issue.


In the last elections frightened Hispanics of Republican tough attitude towards undocumented, a line now looks to be in reversal. Republican hope that Catholic Latinos with strong moral values ??would turn towards the east and west coasts of urban Democrats and liberal stance on value issues did not. The second-generation Hispanic Cubans in key Florida without personal experience of Castro repression is also not nearly as anti-communist as their parents' generation. The fact that over 70 percent of Latino voters in the U.S. voted for Obama should not have surprised the Republicans.


There was previously a show in the U.S. to minorities, except the Jewish, which largely vote for the Democrats, as the years tend to vote more Republican. A growing group of Asians have higher incomes than the white U.S.. Minority populations are - and should be perceived in a Swedish context - often more industrious and hard-working than majorities. But today, there must be a Republican reversal to win the trust of African Americans, Latinos and Asians.


In simplified terms, the white Protestant European culture is on the verge of losing its position as majority culture also influenced a range of policies. No political leadership is insensitive to voters roots, explains the head of one of the country known think tanks. If the proportion of European background decreases, it seems reasonable that the American commitment to economically, politically and militarily in Europe subsides.


But it is also important to create a common foreign policy stance. Group Policies aimed at autonomous groups within the same country risk creating divisions and internal conflicts and Barack Obama accused during the campaign to specifically target individual groups of voters.


In an even greater extent than the ethnic and demographic change in the United States will affect foreign relations teaches the rapid energy transition - relatively unknown on this side of the Atlantic - changing international rules. In a number of states is now clean Klondike atmosphere. Labour and international energy giants Statoil of Norway moved its focus to the U.S. in search of the black gold. The extraction of shale gas in Sweden has mainly been portrayed as an environmental problem, the phasing out of shale gas is already visible in the declining U.S. carbon emissions have not attracted the attention of many.


While talking to many analysts that the U.S. will become self-sufficient in fossil fuels. The world price of gas drops today because of the increased supply in the U.S.. In Moscow see why Putin regime of exploitation in a state like North Dakota with great concern. Kremlin's strategy of using energy as a political force goes to nothing at falling price levels, which means a reduced Russian influence in Central and Eastern Europe.


In at least equally affected the Middle East. The U.S. military presence in the region is far from being solely linked to the oil sources flows. Military backing of vulnerable Israel is a more idealistic motives, concerns about cross-border terrorism and an increasingly aggressive Iran is the second reason. USA also serves on the seven seas shipping routes as a kind public good - that is its fleets to secure shipping lanes from pirates and lawlessness.


But it is clear that the Middle East loses in strategic importance to Washington on the world's commodity map redraws and dependence on the Gulf decreases. The combination of demographic change and increased energy teaches strengthen reorientation, both militarily and politically to the Pacific and Asia.


The anniversary of Kalmar twinning Wilmington testify how strong bands of the Atlantic. A delegation from Kalmar Municipality traveling later in the spring sunshine to celebrate and bring alive the historic relations between the U.S. and Sweden. 100-year-old band is not likely to be cut by demographic changes or fluctuations in the price of oil. But perhaps it will be on Europe and Sweden to take greater responsibility for family ties when Uncle Sam is increasingly looking eastwards.

Epictetus

"Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast."

Florida Scott-Maxwell

"I grow more intense as I age."

Lillian Hellman

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."

If your friend isn't gay, is she happy?

Bus 400 at Tibro


Girl 1 ~ 20: on that note, I don't understand why everyone wants a gay guys to mate!
Girl 2 ~ 20: Uh?
Girl 1: no so I have you!


09 March 2013

Travelers jammed when airlines cooperate

Camilla Waldenström's ticket between London and Miami was booked on SAS home page and the bar the airline's logotype. But when she and her family because of the delay, missed connection at New York airport Newark wanted the Scandinavian airline still does not provide help. Reason: it was the SAS partners United flown the route Miami-New York where the delay occurred.

The family turned to the consumer organisation Flightright as now filed a lawsuit against SAS.

READ ALSO Reservation determine what compensation you get

-SAS has designed and sold the trip and thus has a responsibility, "said lawyer Stephan Eriksson at the law firm of Liman and Partners for Flightrights action

The SAS is to a different view:

It is United's responsibility to take care of the family because United caused the delay, says Malin Selander, press officer at SAS.

What sets to it is the airlines ' cooperation within alliances. SAS is part of Star Alliance along with Lufthansa, Thai Airways and United, which means that when you book a ticket with SAS, it may in fact be another airline flying.

The advantage of alliances is that airlines have a much greater range than if they remained outside collaborations, the downside is that it is difficult for the customer to know which company the ticket really applies, and thus also which companies to turn to if something goes wrong.

When Camilla Waldenström booked his trip for just over a year ago she called SAS to make sure that the intermediate time of approximately 1.5 hours in New York was sufficient. SAS representative ensured that this was the case and that the family would be rescheduled to a later plan if they would miss the connection.

READ ALSO Guide: how to fix your cheapest travel

READ ALSO Faced with simpler rules for luggage on flights

The disappointment was great when SAS personnel in Newark, announce that the company did not take any responsibility for the family. Camilla Waldenström called SAS customer service in Sweden, only to be met with the same answer.

– They said that we had to blame ourselves because we opted for a cheap company United. But we didn't, we booked the via SAS website, says David W.

Malin Selander at SAS:

"We regret, of course, if the family had been badly treated, it may not happen. But the thing had our staff right. The responsibility lies in this case of United that caused the delay, "she said.

And that is precisely the question of liability as Flightright want to try with his lawsuit.

– Since the SAS has planned family trip and sold the tickets where the company's partners United flying leg Miami – Newark, SAS should have the same liability as if they themselves are flown each route, says Stephan Eriksson and continues:

The issue of an airline's responsibility when the company has designed and sold a trip but had a partner to fly part of the trip has not yet been tried on a European level. It is therefore a precedent-setting case that we would like to see the District Court take further to the European Court of justice. If the Court goes on our line will affect all airlines in the EU.

Camilla Waldenström's adventure ended with the family got a hotel overnight stays by United. The day after the American company helped the company to access travel codes in SAS reservation systems so that the tickets went to reschedule. The family landed at the airport a day later than planned.

– Everyone understands that it may be wrong, but as a traveler, you have to know whom to turn to for help, says David W.

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Anna Quindlen

"Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived."

Dee Hock

"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it."

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

"We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break."

Tennessee Williams

"Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else..."

Infertility, she took on a whim

New Orleans Bistro & Bar, Arlanda


Four guys ~ 27 sitting and talking.
Guy 1: So that girl is so freaking short, she is type 160 without heels. So she always has heels, ones ... What is the name of the?
The guys thinks for a moment before one of them seems to be the answer.
Guy 2: Sterilklackar!
Guy 1: Yeah, that's right, sterilklackar!


08 March 2013

The largest leisure interest in Sweden appears on show in Jönköping 5-7 April 2013

Prime roll for the new sport fishing season is made each year at the sports fishing exhibition, which this year will be held at Elmia in Jönköping. Every two years at kistamässan in Stockholm. This year's fair will be record-breaking and has more than 100 exhibitors on over 10 000 m2 of exhibition space. Here gather large portions of the industry to showcase all the news for this year's season, but also to share knowledge and valuable tips. Much of the equipment that will be shown at the fair can be tested in the different caste pools, activities are interspersed with demonstrations and lectures. Angling fair annually attracts approximately 12,000 curious visitors of all ages.

At the same time as the interest and skill level of sport fishing is growing among exercisers, the industry is also growing. Equipment, travel, accommodation, guides, båthyror, training, etc. related to sportfishing tourism earns annually more than 2 billion kronor in Sweden and is seen now as a custom nutrition for an ever-wider.

The sports fishing exhibition organized by Artexis AB (Kista fair) in collaboration with the Swedish sport fishing and fish conservation Association, SeFF, Spofa angling Academy in Pompano Beach Pole for the ninth year.
Europe's largest mobile Aquarium displays many Swedish fish species. Here, they get interested visitors to know most about how the fish looks like, where the various species caught, when they go to fish and how to technically go about.News: Pasture Street! Here you can learn all about what attracts fish to grab, IE. browsers and what is needed to build and design their own bait. No less than 10 experienced bait builders share both knowledge and tips as well as showing how to do this!Fishing school for beginners is for young people between the ages of 7-12 years. Here, you learn what you need to get the fish but also how to behave in the wild, please read more under "Anglers".New! Flugbindargatan complemented this year by a Flugbindarakut where visitors have the opportunity to put questions to the experts and get tips on binding technology, material m.m.Flugbindargatan gathers elite in Sweden and internationally. There are no less than twenty fly binder that shows how to tie flies for all types of fish. There are many exclusive works of art produced during the exhibition days. The interest is very large and well as the throng.New! Anyone who wants to build his own fly rod will get the chance to learn the most about the material and how to technically building a rod with the desired properties. It is Canebyggare of Mälardalen knowledge and tips.Throw courses for "try-on" and shows in the exhibition hall. Once you've learned the caste technology, you can completely focus on the fishery and the experience. Here you can try under the knowledgeable guidance or watch one of the many displays. There is also a fly fishing school for girls of all ages.New! Who does not remember his childhood summers with angling from the bridge, perhaps it is the interest of many resumes? Angling can also be an advanced angling shape that you choose depends on the species to fish on. At the show informs experts in naturlika exhibition environments on Angling the square on which species suitable for this form of fishing. What you need for equipment? How to prepare? What kind of bait do you choose? When the year Dummies? What accessories you have advantage of m.m.En other form of sport fishing that has grown sharply in recent years is the boat fishing, for example. trolling, Lake and sea fishing. Boats for all types of fishing are taking an increasing part of the exhibition area and this year will be shown several brand new boats, together with news on equipment and accessory page.Sport fishing in Sweden earns annually more than 2 billion kronor. With over 3 million practitioners are Angling one of Sweden's biggest leisure activities. What is it that attracts so many? Nature Experience? Community? Relaxation? Planning? The Catch? A is safe; have you been bitten by the interest so it often lasts a lifetime! Many would quickly learn a lot more about different species, in the surroundings where they live, when they bite, what they are biting on and not least how to get baby. Sweden has a several 100-mile long stretch of coastline, about 90 000 lakes and many miles of running water to fish in. regardless of where you live, it is close to the fishing grounds. It's easy to get started and it doesn't have to cost a fortune.
Location: Elmia, Jönköping
Time: 5-7 april 2013
Opening hours: Friday and Saturday 09.00-18.00. Sunday: 10 am-4 pm
Organizer: Artexis, Kistamässan
Partners: the anglers, SeFF, Spofa angling Academy in pole-Forshaga.
For more information: www.sportfiskemassan.se

Brenda Ueland

"Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers."

Leona Helmsly

"I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people."

Elbert Hubbard

"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive."

Pearl Buck

"At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them."

Palm (e) Sunday?

Rådhuset Metro station, Stockholm


Guy ~ 16: So what the hell. Everything is about Palme now-a-days. In newspapers, on tv, radio.
Girl ~ 16: Yes, I know. Sweden has become so palmigt.


07 March 2013

Morocco around by rental car

More and more desires are added to the list. Given points is a walk in the Atlasberge and a night under the stars in the desert. To act on a colourful market in Marrakech or sunbathing and swimming in Essaouira, which is classified as world heritage by Unesco, also have indeed emphasised with.

At home in Falun loading family Winlöf – Kjell and Victoria, with children, Gabriel, 13, Brittany, 9, and Tyra, 4 – for this summer's Morocco trip, the one in the family is known as the "thousand-and-one-night adventure".

READ ALSO Here you can combine Sun and city

"We like to do adventurous travel on their own. To travel around Morocco by car feels like a moderately large projects for a three-child family. Relatively short flight, no clock-shifts, and easy to get family members, different needs met, "says Victoria.

In August, let's go. Of course later on summer vacation, the better because of the heat, but they must travel early enough to get back to the start of school. That summer the journey goes to Morocco is no coincidence. Both Victoria and Kjell have traveled extensively in the Middle East – but not in Morocco. A new land to discover.

– I'm childishly fond of the arab world, but believed that Morocco was just Sun and beach in Agadir, a variation on the Canary Islands. Now I read on, and I think that both the Atlas mountains and the coast are experiences beyond the ordinary, "said Kjell.

Research is done on reading the plates. Family viewing maps, look at satellite images, visit the virtual markets and surfing in on the Travel Channel. On weekends, rent the adventure movies that were recorded in the large Moroccan film studio Atlas Studios, which they plan to visit.

– On the trip, it is fun to be able to say to the kids, "now we're in the environment as ' the Mummy ' was filmed," said Kjell.

READ ALSO Trekking in Morocco among new adventure travel

READ ALSO Live like a sultan in Marrakesh

The family must be characterized "takes an experienced traveller". Before the kids came alive Kjell and Victoria for their travels, and they have tried to travel as much as they can and can afford as well as family. But it's not just the long backpackerresor. The family has traveled on chartered flights and stayed at all inclusivehotell, storstadssemestrat in Europe and kuskat around by car in Sweden.

– Sometimes you want to rest, sometimes you want to have adventures. And what suits one person, does not fit another, I have no opinions about different ways to travel, "said Kjell.

He works in the travel industry, on Pink Buses, and have run several passes to Cape Town, as well as back and forth to Nepal and the whole of South America around. To sit behind the wheel of another country is thus fully natural for him, and of course an explanation for why he did not hesitate to see Morocco from your own car.

– To be a part of the traffic image in a foreign country is fun. Experiences will be strong when you're sitting at the wheel. A driver often remember much from the tours, "he said.

– The fun with your own car is that it is going beyond the beaten track. We can visit places where not as many other tourists, said Viktoria.

Car seat for a child is obvious – not only from the security aspect, but also because it means that she is sitting still.

– Anything that makes it easier is a good thing. We take with MP3 player and Nintendo for the flight, and wagon Tyra can sleep in when we visit restaurants in the evenings, "said Viktoria.

READ ALSO Hearty Marrakech

READ ALSO "Africa is an Asia in the making"

Gabriel, 13, looks particularly forward to bathe and sunbathe.

– And I hope that we're going to ride camels in the desert. I think it will be a good trip, but ideally I would like to go to England and watch football. And so I want to go back to Brazil.

The parents seem to be on track to reach the goal "to infect the children with resbacillen".

– I'd like to think that you become a better person by that trip. To become educated public, broaden their world view, gets another look of poverty … If we can give children a craving for travel, that they understand that it is difficult to travel on your own or to travel there not all other travel, then I think we've done something good, "said Kjell.

J. K. Rowling

"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends."

Ellen DeGeneres

"Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine."

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

"Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one."

Yugoslav Proverb

"Complain to one who can help you."

Aristotle

"Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing."

Test of General knowledge? YOU SHALL NOT PASS!

Workplace, Gothenburg


Some guys are discussing. Guy 1 talking about Mahatma Gandhi and a bit into the conversation comes up that Guy 2 confused Gandhi with the character Gandalf from the Lord of the rings.
Guy 1 (Guy 2): what the hell ... you are totally stupid! (He turns to the Guy 3): did you hear? I talked about Gandhi and he thinks I'm talking about Gandalf!
Guy 3: who is He? He has been working here?


06 March 2013

Discount p f rel solutions

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David Shore

"It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for."

Mary Hirsch

"Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."

The only train that is on time right now

Dublin City Centre


A MOM ~ 40 goes to town with her son ~ 4.
Mother: what do you want to be dressed at daycare when you'll go luciatåg?
Son: Train!


05 March 2013

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Shimon Peres

"If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time."

Thomas Jefferson

"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born."

Charles Caleb Colton

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."

The ugly truth ...

Vågmästare, Gothenburg


Two girls ~ 13 stands and talk about common acquaintances that they apparently don't think anything further on.
Girl 1: The suit of course and so well together. She is ugly and disgusting and he's ... ah, too ugly and disgusting.
Girl 2: do not you together with him before?
Girl 1: Jo ...


04 March 2013

Frank Lloyd Wright

"The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty."

E. Catherine Tobler

"Not going home is already like death."

Minna Thomas Antrim

"Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice."

Jane Austen

"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."

Scandinavian "I Love You"s

Valentine's Day is a great opportunity to tell the love of your life about your feelings, especially when you're on a romantic trip - whether in Sweden, Denmark, or in Norway. If you're spending Valentine's Day in Scandinavia, surprise her/him and say "I love you" in the local language - it's not as hard as you might think...

'I Love You' in Swedish: Jag ?lskar dig ("yah els-kahr day")

'I Love You' in Danish: Jeg elsker dig ("ya els-kah di")

'I Love You' in Norwegian: Jeg elsker deg ("yai els-ker dey")

'I Love You' in Finnish: Mina rakastan sinua ("Meenah rah-cas-tan see noo ah")

'I Love You' in Icelandic: ?g elska ?ig ("eh els-kah thay")

Related articles: Valentine's Day in Scandinavia | Useful Phrases for Travelers | Annual Events

Then it is just to run back through the snow, sea, Earth and water to get fire

Järntorget, Gothenburg


Two girls ~ 18 runs happily to her friend who is waiting for them at the tram.
Girl 1 (friend): I'm the world's best ciggtiggare!
Girl 3: What then?
Girl 1: I got until they are over there and asked for a cigarette with the world's best pickup line.
Girl 2: Yeah, say it!
Girl 1: "excuse me, but now it is so that I run over the fire and water, by land and sea and snow here to get a cigarette. You happen to not have a time? "
Girl 2: do you know what they said?!
Girl 3: no?
Girl 2 (overjoyed): they answered Yes, look!


03 March 2013

Valentine's Day in Scandinavia

Celebrating Valentine's Day in Scandinavia might be a little different from what you're used to. Valentine was one of the most popular saints in Europe. What is happening nowadays in Scandinavia on February 14? Let's find out about the regional traditions at your destination, in Valentine's Day in Scandinavia!

Iceland, in particular, has very romantic traditions with Valentine's decorations and especially festive meals. Just think, in Iceland's dark winter (= the Polar Nights), you can have both dinner and breakfast by candlelight and also see the Aurora Borealis...wouldn't that be something?

Related reading: Destination Iceland | Reykjavik Travel Guide | Restaurant Laekjarbrekka in Reykjavik

Paul "Bear" Bryant

"You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load."

Stella Benson

"Call no man foe, but never love a stranger."

Scottish Proverb

"Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one."

Lord Chesterfield

"Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so."

To bring the ledger book while lying in

Night Club, Gothenburg


Girl 1 ~ 25: Therefore, you see the guy in the Blazer over there at the bar? So sick, I am sure that I have slept with him but I really have no idea who he is, or when, how and where sick!
Girl 2 ~ 25: Huh, did you? I have too!
Girl 1: do you have? Who is it?
Girl 2: no idea. What the hell fun, we're Karti! Cheers!


02 March 2013

The UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Scandinavia's World Heritage sites make for a great attraction and if you're near one during your travels in Scandinavia, make sure to pay them a visit. We've made a useful list where you can easily find all Scandinavian UNESCO sites sorted by country.

UNESCO sites in Scandinavia often offer free admission, and at others the admission is very cheap - great for traveling on a budget!

Sydney J. Harris

"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."

Maya Angelou

"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."

Lois McMaster Bujold

"Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance."

Demosthenes

"He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach."

When you seek a really good party is all means permissible

Bus 56 towards the hook mountain, Stockholm


Three women ~ 35 stand and talk.
Woman 1: Thus, he had a bottle of hair remover and disinfectant, so there was no real party in that sense ...


01 March 2013

See Scandinavia by Train

Traveling through Scandinavia by rail offers an excellent way to explore the vast regions of Norway, Sweden and Denmark in a limited amount of time and a safe environment. When you travel with a EUrail Pass, you can do so on a limited budget for a better value than a rental car!

Find out more about the advantages and disadvantages of this transportation option and read the review. The popular EUrail train tickets are available online with lots of options.

Related Full Travel Articles: All About EUrail Train Passes | Scandinavia Maps & Transportation

Jeanne Moreau

"I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent."

Real Live Preacher

"The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."

Kathleen Norris

"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."

Yes, if the so-so 83 years ...

Secondary School, Gothenburg


Some girls ~ 15 discussing whether or not it will be easier for them to enter the desired secondary school then it is not as many births in 1996 as during earlier and later years.
Girl 1: but it kept well new 96: or?