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Monday, October 31, 2005
End of season 5 for CSI:LV...
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Tonight it's the last episode of CSI's fifth season.. 'Grave Danger', guest directed by Quentin Tarantino. One really talented guy. The original air date in the US was on May 2005 Thursday 19th. The CSI teams come together to save one of their own when they learn one team member has been kidnapped and buried alive. This episode is a 2 hour special not to be missed by any CSI fans in Sweden. For those who won't be able to watch tonight.. the rerun is on Wednesday night and for those who will miss that chance too... here is the beginning of the plot.. btw, stop reading here if you don't want to get spoiled! |
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Night on the strip. Nick sings along to the song on the radio in his CSI Denali XL, 'It was Christmas in Las Vegas, when the locals take the town'. Arriving at the crime scene, Officer Michaels updates him regarding the pile of entrails that lies in a bloody pool on the parking lot asphalt. Nick takes pictures while the officer makes his way to his patrol car, retching from the stench. Nick processes the scene and finds a plastic baggie, sealed with bright yellow tape, containing a Styrofoam cup. As he studies the evidence, a dark figure looms up behind him and places a white rag across his face. Twenty-five minutes later, the area is populated with squad cars with their bubblegums flashing, and crawling with uniformed cops. Officer Michaels tells Captain Jim Brass that he didn't see anything. Grissom and Catherine find Nick's CSI vest, a few white fibers trapped in the ballistic nylon weave that smell of alcohol fumes, and the evidence bag containing the cup. When Catherine asks why Grissom bagged it, he responds that he didn't. He found it that way. It's a message... To read more.. visit CSI's website at CBS... click here. |
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After tonights episode, CSI:Las Vegas is on hold and will be back sometime in spring. We will instead be able to see CSI:New York on the same time slot. My mother welcomes Gary Sinise back to the screen.. he is one of her favourite male actors. CSI: Miami with David Caruso is still on at Saturdays. |
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Posted at 8:02:46 am by Sophie Cecilie
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Sunday, October 30, 2005
Weather causing a lot of trouble...
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A train accident with about 500 passengers occured in south India which caused the death of approximately 100 people and many injured on Saturday morning swedish time. The train with 14 waggons went off track between the station Ramanapet and Vellugonda in the district Andhra Pradesh. Seven of its waggons filled with passengers went into the river, where they quickly got filled with water. Volume of water from a storm on Friday undermined the embankment and destroyed a bridge, which lead to the accident.
Lately there have been many people that died and cities destroyed due to different weather conditions like the hurricanes, massive raining and tsunami. Some scientists claim it doesn't have anything to do with how we treat our planet.. and others assert the opposite. Sure, the world have always had bad storms, floods, dry weather and so forth.. but it feels like we have had more of it the past decade and I believe it got to do with how we humans pollute and mess about in the water, air and earth. It may not be the only reason, but I agree with those scientists that thinks our mistreatment of mother earth have a big part of it. |
Posted at 3:23:05 pm by Sophie Cecilie
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Friday, October 28, 2005
James Marsters.. live in London...
James Marsters will be appearing live in concert in London in a music special this weekend, with two concerts (Thursday and Friday) and two stage performance on Saturday. A few people that I know have gone to London to see tonights concert at St James's Church in Piccadilly. Singer songwriter Al Britten is back to support James Marsters, just like he did in spring on Marsters 'UK live five tour'. I hope you girls (Ulrica, Emelie, Ida, Emma, Marie and the rest) will have a really nice evening and a great weekend in London. To read more about the venue or by the CD 'Civilized Man'.. Mr Marsters latest album... click here. Girls, don't waist to much money at The Forbidden Planet.. save some so you all can buy Christmas gifts too.
What else is on the news.. Saddam Hussein's trial in Iraq started last week and of course did he declared himself not guilty to the crimes he stand in trial for. That was kind of obvious that he would deny to the charges. Earlier in this week, on Monday, UN celebrated it's 60th anniversary. Hipp, hipp, hurray.. I hope for a positive development within the organisation and a more effective process with the financial, leadership, different projects and so forth.. so the needy ones in this world really get the help they ought to. Last but not least, I'm upset over the lack of interest from our elected politicians in the parliament. It's upsetting that when Mr Barossa comes to Sweden and is kind enough to hold an open question meeting/seminar for the members of the parliament to ask question about the EU.. only a handful people signed up and due to that lack of interest it was cancelled. How on earth can they think ordinary people will get interested in EU and try to get some facts about it, when not even our politicians aren't. In my eyes they are all a bunch of nitwits, that's what the parliament seams to consist of nowadays...
I wish you all a nice weekend and on Sunday the summertime will end.. so don't forget to turn the clock backwards one hour. Almost forgot.. due to Halloween coming up, have I made a puzzel with a flash gear. To put it together.. click here and it will open in a new frame.
Posted at 4:28:31 pm by Sophie Cecilie
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Thursday, October 27, 2005
Spotlight on Sophie Zelmani...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
I went earlier today to get me a hair-cut. My hair grows quite fast and I have had long hair most of my life, but now and then I get tempted to cut it off pretty short. That was what I did a few hours ago.. and yes, it's short... it's shorter than I wanted it to be. I really disliked it when I left the hair saloon.. so much that I had to return one and a half hour later and have it fixed again, which made it even shorter. As I said before.. I'm lucky that my hair grows out quick. Until it does I just have to hide and sneak out after dark or use a cap or something to hide my awful hair-style. Also, I didn't like the hairdresser.. she was very rough.. pulling my hair a lot. I won't go back to her again.
Posted at 7:26:32 pm by Sophie Cecilie
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Tamiflu for the bird flu...
Tamiflu will now be rationed here in Sweden. Sweden's state-run pharmacy, will only give out a maximum of ten packets of Tamiflu per order, following a directive from the Medical Products Agency. The decision comes after the agency became aware of too massive orders for the antiviral medicine. One doctor had ordered 500 packets while another had ordered 800. Both were thought to have been ordering the drug on behalf of companies. Tamiflu is usually prescribed to those who have a particularly nasty dose of the flu, old people or young people who are suffering, for example, from a heart condition. The decision will not affect individuals' access to the drug if they have a prescription from their doctor.
The swedish authorities are on high alert following a new outbreak of the deadly bird flu virus in the Tula region of Russia, 200km south of Moscow. Apparently ditching the 'no panic' message of last week, some experts are warning that the virus could already be in Sweden, while more conservative analysts say that it could be expected some time in the autumn. There are fears that infected birds may have already landed in the south of Öland, but despite an increase in testing, no trace of the virus has yet been found. A special task force, including ornithologists, infectious disease experts, epidemiologists and zoologists, is working round the clock to identify particular risk areas in Sweden and to propose safety measures.
The Minister of Public Health returned from a 'crisis meeting' with EU health ministers. He said that they were concerned, but that the scale of the issue should be kept in perspective. When you read certain papers you could almost believe that the pandemic is already here. That doesn't mean that the bird flu isn't a big problem, but at the moment the problem is about whether we could get infected flocks of hens and chickens. Nevertheless, preparations are underway for the eventual mutation of the virus, which would allow it to be transmitted from human to human.
Sweden has already instigated a pandemic plan, bought in antiviral drugs to reduce the symptoms and the risk of infection. The possibility of increasing the capacity for vaccine production is also being explored. Sweden need to buy in at least one million doses so that we double our stock and reach a level of 25% population coverage. On Friday morning the government's measures were criticised as being inadequate and for having serious flaws in the Health Board's preparations. According to the plan we will only have antiviral medicine for 6-10 percent of the population. But the majority of countries have enough for 30 percent. Everyone should have access to medicine, in accordance with our swedish health and medicine laws.
Posted at 7:39:22 am by Sophie Cecilie
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
It could be worse.. a lot worse...
I wrote a long entry and when I clicked on the publish button my computer frose.. the only thing I could do was to shut down the computer, which erased everything I just had written. Very annoying, but maybe that was ment to be.. because now when I was going to rewrite the entry again I realize that it was kind of a depressing, bitching text and I don't like to write or be like that. I know I can't always be happy and have positive thoughts all the time, but trying to put words on how I feel and my mood of the day is a little bit therapeutic.. and a good way to release some anxiety pressure that I've been feeling lately.
It'll be so nice to go home tomorrow and be away from everything that have been going on the past week. Even though I probably won't be able to let go of it totally.. I hope at least I'll be relaxed enough to sleeping a little better and also get rid of my stress eczem. I've also been eating really bad to not at all, which is stupid of me.. I don't need more problems than I already have. Well, I'll be fattened up now when I'm going to be at my mother's care for almost a week.
So, what have happened since last entry.. I've sent a couple of work applications, not that I believe I'll actually will get any of the jobs I apply for. Haven't I try then I don't have the right to complain. Anyway, sooner or later I'll get lucky and get some kind of job I hope.. sooner would be preferable, but better with later than never.
What more.. about three hours ago I went to look at another room to rent.. I'm still not sure what to do and can't decide, so it'll be good to have a talk with my mother when I get home. The old lady wanted an answer tomorrow. I've also written an exemption to the student house committee for a respite, asking for a couple of months more.. which will give me more time to find somewhere else to live. I really feel so stressed out of the whole situation. I hope they will be kind enough and grant me the respite on their monthly meeting they have in next week.
Otherwise not much have been going on around here.. I've been pretty occupied with this and due to that I haven't done anything on my boring essay, which is the only thing I have left before I get my law degree. It's booooriing and I'm not sure of if I want to be a lawyer and work in that field. I wanted to be a doctor, but didn't have grades good enough to get accepted. Not that I think a law degree is bad or anything, but it feels like it doesn't fit me.. well, maybe in the human rights field.. but absolutely not in tax/financial law. It's a really scary thought.. me a tax lawyer.. can't see that in a near future or at all for that matter.
As I wrote in my last entry.. things could be worse, a lot worse. I'm still a very lucky person that got many things to be happy about and appreciate in life. I better publish this entry before it disappear too.. got to continue packing my bag.. my train leaves early in the morning. Even so.. I'll be up to catch Late Night with the special U2 edition tonight. Sorry that I don't have time to change the background music. Weeping willows has to keep playing til I get back in next week, then I'll upload something else..
Posted at 9:36:59 pm by Sophie Cecilie
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Thursday, October 13, 2005
My lease on this small flat I live in right now is soon to be up and I have no other place to move to. It sucks and makes me frustrated which effect on my studies. I've been looking at different appartments lately, I really like to have something on my own, but they are way to expensive.. so now I'm done with the alternative room lodging and went earlier today to look at a room an old lady wanted to rent out. Everything seamed fine to begin with, but when she told me how much I had to pay in rent, 365$/month for the room with shared bathroom, kitchen, water, electricity.. I kind of lost interest. She had also a bunch of rules.. such as I was only allowed to use the washing machine once a week together with the others and we have to clean the house once every fortnight.. and that means not just vacuuming but also mopping the floors and so forth. I pay 386$/month for the place I have now and in that includes my own bathroom, pentry, internet, water, electricity, TV, access to the laundry room how often I want to and a storage place for things I don't use all the time..
How things look at the moment.. I probably have to move my furnitures, books, clothes and rest of the stuff back home to my mtoher's villa. She got plenty of space for me.. but It's not fun to move back home after living 9 years on my own and also the fact that I will be about 19 miles away from the faculty makes it very hard to finish my studies. I can always come down here and stay a week or so with my friend Susanne, but it's still a huge problem.. I really need access to the library's archive on different tax law cases, magazines, compendium and the tax law database that students only have access to in the computer room at the faculty. As I said.. it's not going to be easy, but my new motto is.. 'things could have been worse', because despite everything I really need or more like have to look at things in the most positive way as possible, otherwise I would get depressed and maybe give up on things that are important to achieve in life.. such as getting me a good education..
I've also realised that one thing causes another thing to happen, like a chainreaction and it's pretty difficult to stop it when it once started. One bad thing seldom comes alone.. that's one more of life's mysterious way... Why can't someone up there smile at my direction and let the sun shine down on me once in a while. Am I asking for to much or do I not deserve more than battling every single day. I really don't consider myself as a whiny person and every day I live, I try to be a good human.. and also trying my best to cope with my personal problems. It's tough and I want to believe that I'm a strong person that can deal with my issues.. and hopefully one day be well. What have happened this week have been a setback on several levels, both physicaly and mentaly. What I need now is to be pulled back on right tracks again and for that to happen.. I don't know exactly what that would be, I only want this hard time to be over. Ending this downhearted entry with my mantra 'things could have been worse'...
Posted at 4:54:22 pm by Sophie Cecilie
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Monday, October 10, 2005
Spotlight on Weeping willows...
I was going to put the spotlight on one of my favourite music band from Sweden last week, due to their latest album release the 28th of September.. and dedicate the background music theme to this awesome group, but didn't get to it. Well, I got the musicfiles uploaded yesterday and here is the entry. The album sums up the past 10 years they been playing together, both in studios and live. I myself heard Weeping willows the first time on a student carnival, when they were playing live for a smaller audience and I fell in love with their music right away. That was in late May 1998.. since then I've got all their albums and been to one more concert. I think Weeping willows is a great live band and they certainly get that special connection with their audience.. so when you leave you wish the concert never had ended. I really like the sound the band have and the voice of the singer Magnus Carlsson. The 2CD album 'Singles again' is now on my wishlist for Christmas...
Down below is a list of some tracks from their 4 albums, I have as background music and they are picked randomly as my blog loads.. Those who doesn't have IE aren't probably hearing anything, that can be solved by downloading IE at their homepage. Also, check out Weeping willows website at www.weepingwillows.nu
Eternal Flames
The Truth in Your Eyes
I Didn't Know
Broken Promise Land
Pretty Little Babies
Nothing or All
While I'm Still Strong
How Could You Forget
Hearts of Hearts
Endless Night
Stairs
Into the Light -02 Endless Night -99 Presence -04 Broken Promise Land -97
Weeping willows will be on TV4's 'Nyhetsmorgon' and play live at the studio on Sunday the 16th of October. I'm not sure at exactly when, but keep the TV on between 8.59-11 then you won't miss it. I think there will also be an interview with the band by Tilde de Paula, so for everyone who are interested in to see and hear this great band and live in Scandinavia or for some reason can tune in this channel... watch it, I'm going to..
Posted at 9:07:53 pm by Sophie Cecilie
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Sunday, October 09, 2005
Nobel peace prize to IAEA/ElBaradei...
The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its Director General Mohamed ElBaradei 'for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way'. The $1.3 million award will be split between the organisation and Mohamed ElBaradei. The Norwegian Nobel Committee wanted to emphasise the need for international cooperation to meat the threat of nuclear weapons. 'This principle finds its clearest expression today in the work of the IAEA and its Director General,' said the judging panel. The committee added that the IAEA's work is of 'incalculable importance'.
The IAEA was formed in 1957, four years after US President Eisenhower addressed the United Nations on the likely impact on the world of atomic energy. In the year before the agency was formed, 81 nations agreed the 'three pillars' of its work; nuclear verification and security, safety and technology transfer. In 1968 the agency was behind the nuclear non-proliferation treaty but in recent years it has been required to focus more on countering the threat of nuclear terrorism. 63 year old Dr. ElBaradei joined the agency in 1984 and became Director General in 1997. Born and brought up in Egypt, he trained in law before joining the Egyptian Diplomatic Service.
The Nobel prizes are awarded by the Swedish Nobel Committee, Alfred Nobel stipulated in his will that a panel from the Norwegian government should decide the recipient of the Peace Prize. He wrote that it should be given to whoever had done most for the 'abolition or reduction of standing armies'. The Norwegian Nobel Committee says that it has in recent years concentrated on the struggle to diminish the significance of nuclear arms in international politics, with a view to their abolition.
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All other love is like the moon,
Which grows and shrinks like flower on plain;
Like bud that blooms and withers soon;
Like passing day that ends in rain.
All other love begins in bliss,
And ends in tears and suffering:
No love can salve us all but this,
The love that rests in heaven's King.
For ever green, renewed again,
For ever full, it never pales.
It ever sweetens, free from pain,
Continues always, never fails.
'You can close your eyes to the things you don't wanna see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't wanna feel...'
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