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Ian Paterson used patients' cash to buy Georgian mansion
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Autocratic and arrogant, Paterson saw himself as a God-like figure who alone knew what was best. He could not tolerate criticism and spent his salary on a mansion in Florida.
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Damning testimonies of the women scarred by rogue surgeon
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No one knows how many patients were butchered by Ian Paterson as he worked as a NHS surgeon in England. Lawyers think the total could be above 1,000.

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Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey, and Laura Dern Reflect on that Famous Coming Out Episode, 20 Years Later
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Ellen DeGeneres opened her talk show on Thursday by announcing, “I’m Ellen, and I’m gay,” echoing the moment two decades ago when she came out as a lesbian on her sitcom Ellen in an episode called “The Puppy Episode” (so named because executives wanted Ellen’s character to get a puppy instead of a girlfriend). Thursday’s episode was dedicated to the 20^th anniversary of that episode, including a reunion with Ellen cast members and two special guests from “The Puppy Episode”: Oprah Winfrey, who played Ellen’s therapist and then hosted her on The Oprah Winfrey Show as a follow-up, and Laura Dern, who played her potential love interest.

The entire reunion show was an important reminder of how radical DeGeneres’ coming out really was at the time. Winfrey and Dern both recalled the backlash over their participation, with The Oprah Winfrey Show receiving racist phone calls and Dern having difficulty finding work. DeGeneres explained that in the aftermath of the announcement, not only was her show canceled just a year later, but she was the butt of late night jokes, had passersby scream at her, and was on the receiving end of death threats and even a bomb scare on set.

With her usual good humor, however, DeGeneres ended the segment on a positive note. “I always encourage people, because it really did teach me that no matter what the cost is at the time […] as long as you stay true to who you are, you will be rewarded in ways that you can’t even imagine.”

DeGeneres was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November, with President Obama noting, “It’s easy to forget, now, when we’ve come so far … just how important it was, not just to the LGBT community but for all of us, to see somebody so full of kindness and light—somebody we liked so much, somebody who could be our neighbor, or our colleague, or our sister—challenge our own assumptions, remind us that we have more in common than we realize, push our country in the direction of justice.”

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USA: ”Avsluta diplomatiska förbindelser med Kim”
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USA: ”Avsluta diplomatiska förbindelser med Kim”

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The Angle: Judge Love Edition
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Judges, save us: Donald Trump's battle against the 9^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which he cannot win, shows how inadequate his “vague and sloppily drafted” executive orders really are, Dahlia Lithwick argues. “Time and again he asserts that there is some virtue in stripping away all nuance and legal meaning from his official acts as president,” Lithwick observes. In court, that argument won't fly.

Feeling scared: Trump's first 100 days went a long way toward making American less secure, Phillip Carter writes. Most of all, his failure to appoint the right people has put the national security agencies at a serious disadvantage when it comes to dealing with delicate matters of foreign policy.

Chilling: After a Republican senator told students in Wyoming that gay people who “push it in somebody's face” shouldn't be surprised to face physical violence in public spaces, Mark Joseph Stern observes that conservatives are “normalizing private violence” against those who violate their (poorly defined) norms of gender expression.

Spot-on: The new television adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods is delicious, Laura Miller finds. From casting to visuals, the show is “just right.”

For fun: That “10 Bands” Facebook meme is terrible, but the variations on it are awesome.

Worth it,

Rebecca

23:53
Sixth Take Me out couple set to walk down the aisle
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This weekend, Take Me Out's sixth couple are set to walk down the aisle. Beckie and Adam met during the last season of the ITV dating programme - but it wasn't love at first sight for the pair.

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The Yik Yak app is officially dead
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Yik Yak will be shutting down its anonymous chat app in the next week as the school year draws to a close, the company announced on Friday.

The anonymous chat app used to be valued at $4oo million after raising more than $73 million in venture capital.

At its prime, Yik Yak was considered the darling of the anonymous messaging space, having attracted a young user base of college students that would compulsively open the app multiple times a day to stay informed. However, Yik Yak had trouble enticing people to stick around, especially as Snapchat took off.

"We were so lucky to have the most passionate users on the planet. It’s you who made this journey possible," the founders said in their good-bye note. "The time has come, however, for our paths to part ways, as we’ve decided to make our next moves as a company."

The app will be winding down at the end of the school year, the founders, Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll, said. Some of the engineering talent will be joining Square at their office in Atlanta. Bloomberg initially reported that the payments company had spent $3 million to bring on some of the engineering team, but an SEC filing later on Friday from Square revealed that it only spent $1 million for employment agreements and to license certain intellectual property from the company.

Founded in 2013, Yik Yak at first grew rapidly as high schoolers and college students latched onto the anonymous messaging app. However, the company faced problems with harassment and bullying in the app and never quite found a good way to combat it. Last August, it made a move to do away with anonymous and add real profiles, but it never took off in the same way again. Yik Yak laid off 60% of its team at the end of 2016.

Now, Yik Yak will be shuttering the app as what's left of the company starts "tinkering around with what’s ahead for our brand, our technology, and ourselves."

"Building Yik Yak – both the app you used and the company that powered it – was the greatest, hardest, most enjoyable, most stressful, and ultimately most rewarding experience we’ve ever had," the founders said.
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Arsene Wenger rejects talk of power shift from Arsenal to Tottenham ahead of north London derby
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Eldsjälar får stipendium
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På lördag får fyra engagerade värmlänningar ta emot Eriksstipendiet för sina ideella insatser för barn och unga.
Följande är Björn Eriksson, verksam i Hammarö hockeyklubb, Lise Backe från Bildskolan Pilen i Arvika samt Nicklas Johansson och Magnus Ingves från Säffle FF och Sifhälla ungdomssektion.
Stipendiet, på 5 000 kronor, delas årligen ut av Erikshjälpen och ska användas i den verksamhet där mottagaren är aktiv.

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Images capture the year's most-dramatic 'tumbles'
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The Countryside Alliance Hunt Tumblers' Club competition showcases photos of huntsmen and women coming off their horses. Barry Johnson, from Yorkshire's Hurworth Hunt was the winner.

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Kollektivavtalet RIB 17: Beredskapen kan inte upprätthållas – Snart får invånarna vänta på hjälpen runt om i Dalarna
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I Dalarna är det nu 45 av totalt 598 deltidsbrandmän som har sagt upp sig. För drygt 30 av dessa går uppsägningstiden ut på måndag, den första maj. Om uppsägningarna träder ikraft kan då brandstationerna i Mockfjärd, Säter och Stora Skedvi, där många sagt upp sig, inte längre upprätthålla beredskapen. Där får man då vänta […]

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This 'Twin Peaks' teaser is exactly what you'd expect from David Lynch
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The latest teaser for Showtime's Twin Peaks revival definitely lives up to its description.

The promo takes us to some of the show's most iconic locations — the sheriff's department, RR cafe, and Bang Bang Bar, to name a few — but there's no sign of Kyle MacLachlan's FBI Agent Dale Cooper, or any of the other old (or new) inhabitants of the isolated town.

SEE ALSO: The 'Twin Peaks' revival will be 'pure heroin'

The secretive nature of the long-awaited revival should come as no surprise to longtime fans — creators David Lynch and Mark Frost are notoriously spoiler averse, so we'll have to wait until May 21 to see exactly what brings Agent Cooper back to Twin Peaks, Washington. Either way, we're betting it'll be weird. Read more...
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Angelstad föll mot Växjö Norra på hemmaplan
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Angelstad föll mot Växjö Norra på hemmaplan

23:48
LG G6 Mini with 5.4-inch display could be launched soon, here are some pictures
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LG's flagship smartphone, the G6 has been recently launched in the United States, but the South Korean company plans to launch a smaller version of it.

While the information hasn't been officially confirmed yet, pictures of the unannounced LG G6 mini have just emerged online. Unlike the standard model that comes with a larger 5.7-inch display, the mini variant sports a 5.4-inch panel and a screen-to-body ratio of under 80%.

However, both LG G6 models feature the same 18:9 aspect ratio, so if you weren't particularly a fan of it, you'd probably be disappointed. ...

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#tbt
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Och nu blir det anatomi
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How hard is Apple’s stock going to crash?
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Another day, another analyst shouting BUY BUY BUY on Apple's stock, based on the upcoming iPhone 8 launch. This week, Credit Suisse analyst Kulbinder Garcha raised his estimate for the firm's stock price to $170, based on his belief that "pent-up demand" for a new iPhone will create a "supercycle" of upgrades, sending Apple's profits into the stratosphere and investors into a tizzy. No-one's denying that Apple is going to make a dumpster-truck of money on the iPhone 8, and will continue being the world's greatest smartphone company, etcetera. But the size of the iPhone 8 launch, and the company's current valuation, is still being blown way out of proportion. Cast your mind back to November 2016: a simpler time, when we didn't know Donald Trump would be President, and Apple's stock was trading at $104. Today, it's at $143, and supposed to go to $170. Between then and now, the only significant thing that's changed is a bunch of rumors about the upcoming iPhone 8 launch. But somehow, based on that, Apple's perceived value has risen by over $250 billion and counting. Sure, Apple's services sectors are doing well, and Trump's tax plans could be more friendly to Apple. But analysts still seem to be betting that the iPhone 8 will create at least $100 billion in extra value over a "boring" iPhone launch. Let's put that in perspective. The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus launch, the last major iPhone refresh, saw Apple sell 300,000 more iPhones than the year before. During Q4 2016, the quarter in which Apple launched the iPhone 7, Apple collected $11 billion in net income. If the analyst's prediction is right and Apple's stock rises to $170, that puts Apple's market cap at nearly $900 billion. It was $585 billion in November 2016, which means that between November last year and the iPhone 8 launch, Apple will be $300 billion more valuable. So, the conclusion is one of these:
- Pre-November last year, analysts and the stock market were undervaluing Apple by hundreds of billions of dollars, or;
- The iPhone 8 and more iTunes sales are going to create $300 billion in extra value, or;
- The current valuation of Apple is insane and based on gut feel and hype, rather than a sane economic valuation of the company.
To be clear, I still think that Apple's stock is going to go up when the iPhone 8 launches, and the company will remain in rude health for years. But a stock price and a market valuation isn't meant to be an arbitrary number that goes up and down, based on on quarterly results: it's meant to represent the value of a company, taking into account current assets, profits, and future perspectives. Unless Apple's entire future has got 60% better in the last year, analysts are guessing, rather than analyzing anything.

23:46
NASA pushes first launch of its Mars rocket to 2019
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The Space Launch System (SLS), the heavy rocket NASA plans to send humans to Mars with, won't get its first launch until 2019. Tech problems have delayed the project years later than Congress' originally estimated it would debut, but space agency off...

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Burka-wearing woman is dragged off London bus
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Exclusive MailOnline footage shows the bus passenger, believed to be in her early 20s, screaming as at least five officers drag her off public transport on Willesden High Road last night.
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Acid attack bores hole in Jamie O’Hara's cousin's head
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Sadie Wright has been left with a gaping hole on her head after she was injured in the attack in East London. The footballer condemned the attack as 'shocking.'

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A Big Change in NSA Spying Marks a Win for American Privacy
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The NSA won't collect the emails of US citizens just because they mention a foreign target. That's a big deal. The post A Big Change in NSA Spying Marks a Win for American Privacy appeared first on WIRED.

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Kollektivavtalet RIB 17: Beskedet från Rtj Dala Mitt till Länstyrelsen Dalarna: Allt kommer att försämras
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Längre utryckningstider, sämre säkerhet, större arbetsbelastning och större påverkan av den fysiska, såväl som den psykosociala, arbetsmiljön – det är vad de anställda brandmännen nu har framför sig efter 1 maj, enligt räddningstjänsten Dala Mitt. Det är ingen upplyftande handlingsplan som räddningstjänsten Dala mitt nu skickat in till länsstyrelsen Dalarna. Efter den stora avtalsstriden som […]

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23:44
Robbers target two San Diego Apple stores, make off with iPhones and Macs
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Three men brandishing knives robbed two San Diego Apple stores within the space of an hour on Friday, and the small gang is still on the loose with an unknown amount of merchandise.

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Google and Facebook fall for $100 MILLION phishing scam
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Evaldas Rimasauskas was arrested this month in Lithuania at the request of US authorities and is currently in jail on wire fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft charges.

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How ICE Expanded Its Deportation Force Without Asking Congress for a Dime
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The executive order on domestic immigration policy that President Trump signed on January 25 contained a few proposals that seemed awfully ambitious for the executive branch.

One was to cut federal funding from sanctuary jurisdictions. On Tuesday, a district court judge in San Francisco issued an injunction against that section of the order.

Another was the hiring of 10,000 additional immigration officers, a request made “to the extent permitted by law and subject to the availability of appropriations” that would have nearly tripled the number of ICE agents that initiate deportations in the American interior.

That, of course, would have required a big chunk of money from Congress. But the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Friday that the Department of Homeland Security has found a way around that issue, by mandating that Homeland Security Investigations, a 6,200-person unit within ICE that has typically focused on cross-border criminal activity like drug smuggling, sex tourism, and human trafficking, also arrest individuals suspected of violating immigration law.

An ICE spokesperson said that HSI retained discretion over whether to make "collateral" arrests, and said that any change in HSI protocol stemmed from the January order, which eliminated the Obama administration's concept of "priority" enforcement.

Deportations have traditionally been a very small part of HSI’s work. Though HSI agents outnumber ICE agents tasked with enforcing immigration law, they accounted for only 4 percent of ICE deportations in 2013. Their focus on combatting more serious crimes has earned them the trust of local police departments, a benefit their colleagues at ICE don’t always enjoy. Many local police chiefs say immigration enforcement detracts from police work by discouraging immigrants from calling 911 to report crimes or serve as witnesses.

The relationship between local cops and HSI may be changing under the new protocol. In February, HSI conducted raids in Santa Cruz, California, to combat gang activity, but wound up arresting 10 bystanders suspected of immigration violations. Local politicians were outraged. “We can’t cooperate with a law enforcement agency we cannot trust,” said the city’s police chief, Kevin Vogel.

According to the Chronicle report, ICE-style arrests are now part of HSI’s mission. “If HSI has shifted or expanded its mission ... you have effectively doubled immigration enforcement officers in the U.S.” Pratheepan Gulasekaram, a professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law, told the paper. “That is a significant increase without having to seek another congressional appropriation.”

It’s of a piece with the general push at DHS to try to get more agents working on deportations. One reason that sanctuary jurisdictions are a high priority for the Trump administration is that local jails—and in the cases of 287(g) agreements, local police in the field—were a huge contributor to the deportation pipeline during the Bush and Obama years. Between 2011 and 2013, for example, detainer requests from federal authorities to local jails accounted for about 40 percent of all interior removals. The administration has also attempted to loosen border patrol hiring requirements.

*Update, April 29, 2017: This article has been updated to include a response from ICE.

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Meet the woman with £6,000 of potions in her cabinet!
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Esther Fieldgrass (pictured), 65, is owner of a chain of aesthetic clinics. She lives in London with her husband. She owns an incredible £6,000 worth of cosmetics.

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The past 48 hours in Trump's bizarre, ever-changing North Korea policy, explained
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"There is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea,” President Donald Trump told Reuters in an interview published on Friday morning. “Absolutely.”

It was a frightening capstone to the past two days in Trumpland, which have been dominated by North Korea policy. But happily, there’s less to it than meets the eye: The Trump administration is currently giving every indication that it doesn’t want to use force against North Korea.

The issue, though, is that we have no clue what it actually does want to do.

On Wednesday, nearly the entire Senate took a bus trip to the White House to be briefed on North Korea policy. In the briefing, top Trump officials told senators that they were planning to use economic sanctions and diplomatic outreach to allies to bring North Korea to heel. But they were apparently incapable of being more specific than that, infuriating many of the senators who attended. One anonymous Democrat described the reaction to Trump’s comments at the briefing as “80 sets of invisible eyes rolling.”

On Thursday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told NPR that the US was open to direct negotiations with North Korea — reversing the “no negotiations” stance that he himself had taken a month ago. Then on Friday came Trump’s ominous Reuters interview, which also included a new demand that South Korea pay for the THAAD missile defense system — “the most incredible equipment you've ever seen” — that the US was currently installing there.

And then, late on Friday, North Korea conducted a ballistic missile test. It’s not yet clear how the Trump team will respond.

So when you put that all together, what do you have? What does the Trump administration’s past two days of frenetic activity on North Korea tell us about its actual policy?

“Beats the fuck out of me,” says Joshua Pollack, a North Korea expert at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.

This muddle, according to Pollack and other North Korea experts I spoke to, obscures a fundamental lack of new policy ideas. As far as we can tell, the Trump administration is still pursuing the Obama administration’s approach to North Korea — while trashing it publicly and making aggressive-sounding noises about confronting Pyongyang. Cut through the rough of the past few days, and that one fact shines through like a diamond.

Whether this mixture is sustainable — whether the blustery rhetoric will undermine the seemingly measured policy — is very far from clear.

“This is mostly still par for the course: lots of rhetorical bluster from the US, but really we are not going to start a war,” David Kang, director of the University of Southern California’s Korean Studies Institute, tells me.

What follows, then, is a brief rundown of the key events that have taken place in the past 48 hours — and what they mean for America’s stance on one of the world’s most important national security challenges.
Wednesday: the big, important Senate meeting that wasn’t
The most anticipated North Korea event of the week was the big Senate briefing, announced back on Monday. A classified briefing of this kind, where the entire Senate is invited to the White House, is unprecedented — which initially led observers to think that the White House was preparing a major announcement about a new policy.

That is ... not what happened. According to senators who attended the briefing, it was a whole lot of nothing.

Chris Murphy, a Democrat who’s made foreign policy a major priority in his career, told CNN there was “no revelation” about North Korea policy in the briefing. An anonymous Republican said the briefing failed to clarify even the most basic questions (like how the administration plans to deal with North Korea’s work on missiles that could hit the US):

GOP senator on N. Korea briefing: Briefing lacked "even straight answers on what the policy is regarding N. Korea and its testing of ICBMs"
— Ed O'Keefe (@edatpost) April 26, 2017

Bob Corker, the Republican chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he wasn’t sure if the meeting was worth his time:

When I asked Chairman Corker if the North Korea briefing trip to the White House was worthwhile, he told me "I'm not sure"
— Niels Lesniewski (@nielslesniewski) April 26, 2017

A joint statement from Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, and Director of National Dan Coats released shortly after the briefing explains the senators’ annoyed reactions entirely.

The policy described in the statement — “tightening economic sanctions and pursuing diplomatic measures with our allies and regional partners” until North Korea is willing to negotiate away its nuclear program — is essentially identical to the Obama administration’s policy, which it called “strategic patience.” Since the Trump team reportedly was not much more specific than that, the senators felt like their time was wasted.

“The Senate briefing [shows that] the US is pursuing strategic patience, but not calling it that,” Kang explains.

This is the key insight here: Though the administration is going to great lengths to make it look like it’s taking dramatic action on North Korea, like packing nearly the entire Senate into a bus and bringing them to the White House, the truth is there’s not very much substance to back it up.
Thursday: Secretary Tillerson’s incredible about-face (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)
Secretary Tillerson has long sounded like one of the administration’s toughest North Korea hardliners. In mid-March, he said that the US would only negotiate with North Korea after the country gave up its nuclear weapons — and said military action against Pyongyang was “an option.” In an April statement, he said that “the United States has spoken enough about North Korea” and was ready to act, alone if necessary.

All of this appeared to change on Thursday, when Tillerson sat down for a wide-ranging interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep. In the interview, Tillerson endorsed “direct” negotiations with North Korea, with the aim of getting them to give up their nuclear weapons. Denuclearization was no longer a precondition of talks, it seemed; it was now their endgame.

“A denuclearized Korean Peninsula,” Tillerson told Inskeep, “is our only goal.”

Tillerson then once again rejected the Obama administration’s policy — repeating that “the era of strategic patience is over” — while seeming to endorse it when describing his team’s policy:

This is an approach that is to put pressure on them through implementation of all the sanctions, as well as other diplomatic pressures, and calling on others to cause them to change their view of what will really allow them to achieve the security that they say they seek.

The effect of this is to make America’s overall plan for North Korea hopelessly unclear. Saying you’re rejecting a policy while simultaneously embracing the exact same policy has the effect of confusing allies and opponents alike.

“Whether it’s in DC, or Seoul, or Tokyo, or Beijing, or Pyongyang — no one knows who speaks for the administration or what the message is,” said Pollack.
Late Thursday night: President Trump said what?
To add even more confusion, Reuters published a lengthy interview late Thursday night in which President Trump ominously warned that “major, major conflict” with North Korea was entirely possible.

In fairness to the president, if the US were to go to war with North Korea, it really would be devastating. As Alex Ward noted at Vox, the North is pointing thousands of artillery pieces at the South Korean city of Seoul; one war game estimated that North Korea could kill 100,000 people in the city within the first few days of fighting.

On the other hand, this is the kind of thing the president personally shouldn’t be casually speculating about. When the president says “there is a chance” of a war between the US and North Korea, it’s hard for most people to know whether he’s saying there’s a chance America is going to start one soon. That is a scary thing for American and South Korean citizens to hear — and who knows how it’ll be seen in Pyongyang (they released a lovely propaganda video on Thursday where they nuke Washington, DC, which you can watch below):

Some of Trump’s other comments in the Reuters interview were potentially even more troubling. He laid out a brand new demand — that South Korea pay for the THAAD missile defense system that the US is currently deploying there — in typically blunt terms:

On the THAAD system, it's about a billion dollars. I said, “Why are we paying? Why are we paying a billion dollars? We're protecting. Why are we paying a billion dollars?” So I informed South Korea it would be appropriate if they paid. Nobody's going to do that. Why are we paying a billion dollars? It's a billion dollar system. It's phenomenal. It's the most incredible equipment you've ever seen — shoots missiles right out of the sky. And it protects them and I want to protect them. We're going to protect them. But they should pay for that, and they understand that.

He also blasted the 2012 US free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, calling it “unacceptable ... a horrible deal made by Hillary.” (The bulk of the text was actually negotiated in 2007 by the George W. Bush administration.) He then promised to alter it, saying “we're going to renegotiate that deal, or terminate it."

Who knows if these comments represent actual administration policy, given its history of shifting on Korea policy. But the comments come at a critical time: South Korea is holding a presidential election on May 9. The candidate leading the polls, left-winger Moon Jae In, has promised to “review” the terms of the THAAD deal with the US and plans, in general, to pursue a closer relationship with the North. This isn’t the kind of political climate in which Trump’s bluster will be well received.

“Why he would go out of his way to antagonize a major US ally, especially 10 days before a critical presidential election in which THAAD and the FTA are critical issues, strikes me as unhelpful to say the least,” Kang tells me.

Put all of this together and you get a perfect encapsulation of experts’ broader worries about Trump and North Korea.

While substantive policies may remain the same as Obama’s, in that Trump is deploying THAAD and not declaring war on North Korea, the mere fact that he’s threatened to do some wild stuff changes the way America is perceived. And in foreign policy, perception can determine reality: There’s a real risk, every time someone in the administration mouths off about Korea, that they end up complicating America’s strategic position on the peninsula without meaning to.

"It is important for the administration to continue implementing steps the Obama administration had underway,” Laura Rosenberger, the National Security Council’s director for China and Korea from 2012 to 2013, told me earlier this week. "What particularly worries me is the blustery rhetoric we are seeing from administration officials, which seem to be completely divorced from any practical steps or strategy.”

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Gediget arbete bakom beslutet
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Kommunstyrelseordförande Nisser (M) svarar på en insändare införd i början av april.
Svar på insändare införd i VF på webben den 2 april och i papperstidningen den 3 april, ”Detta beslut rimmar dåligt” underskriven av Den Ideella Föreningen Alobis.
Tyvärr verkar det råda en del missförstånd om varför vi väljer att förändra programutbudet inom gymnasiesärskolan och jag är glad för möjligheten att få klargöra en del saker.
Inför beslutet att lägga ner det estetiska programmet på gymnasiesärskolan gjordes ett gediget utredningsarbete för att få kunskapsunderlag samt söka efter den bästa lösningen för den enskilda eleven. Bakgrunden är den reformering av gymnasiesärskolan som trädde i kraft 2013 vilken innebar att skolformen i flera delar gjordes om för att likna gymnasieskolan. Till skillnad mot tidigare kommer nu fler elever – inte färre – få möjlighet att läsa estetiska kurser.
De elever beslutet berör är elever inom ett av våra fem nationella program som är yrkesprogram. Det finns därmed ett krav i styrdokumenten att varje elev ska ha minst 22 veckors arbetsplatsförlagt lärande, APL, under sin utbildning. Det är innehållet i varje programs ämnesplaner som i den nya reformen styr utbildningen. Det vill säga, går man på det estetiska programmet ska man ha sin APL kopplad till det yrket.
Vi klarar inte att leva upp till kraven i dag eftersom vi inte får fram några APL-platser av estetisk karaktär. Däremot öppnar vi upp för att alla elever – inte bara de som har valt det estetiska programmet – får läsa estetiska kurser, ända upp till 700 timmar under fyra år. Det gör att eleverna får en utbildning där vi kan garantera minst 22 veckors APL mot valt yrke, men ändå kan läsa estetiska kurser. Det ger både goda möjligheter till en anställning med lönebidrag och tillgodoser det intresse eleven har.
Vad gäller kommunens dagliga verksamhet är den till för den som bedöms stå långt ifrån arbetsmarknaden. Det är en bedömning som Arbetsförmedlingen och skolan gör gemensamt. De nationella programmen utbildar i första hand för att få en anställning på arbetsmarknaden. Någon möjlighet för daglig verksamhet att ta emot APL finns tyvärr inte.
Genom att eleven får en APL som direkt kan kopplas till det yrke utbildningen förbereder inför ökas möjligheten till en anställning. Det om något är att ta ansvar för eleven anser vi – att ge bästa möjliga förutsättning för att få en sysselsättning efter avslutade studier.

23:40
Elon Musk Layers on the Crazy With His Plan for Traffic-Killing Tunnels
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An appealing vision held back only by its lunacy. The post Elon Musk Layers on the Crazy With His Plan for Traffic-Killing Tunnels appeared first on WIRED.

23:40
Akta kottarna!
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Valborgsbrasan kan innebära livsfara för mindre djur.
Under vintern och våren letar många djur, bland annat fåglar och igelkottar efter skydd mot väder och vind. När människan inför valborg samlar ihop stora högar av bråte till majbrasan blir detta en perfekt plats för djuren att bygga sina bo. När brasan tänds så hinner tyvärr inte alla djur undan, det är vanligt att igelkottar brännskadas svårt eller dör.
Men vi kan förhindra detta genom att tänka på djuren innan brasan tänds! Kolla igenom högen av bråte, flytta den helst några meter om möjligt och använd ficklampor och liknande för att se så det inte finns djur kvar. Det tar dig bara några minuter men kan rädda flera djurs liv.

23:39
Blu is still outfitting phones with Android Marshmallow in 2017
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There are some things that don’t belong in 2017, and a brand-new phone running Android Marshmallow is at the top of that list (well, near the top). Blu, the company that can’t stop producing mid to low-range smartphones, has released its latest device, the R1 Plus. The specs are mediocre at best, but given the $160 price tag, that’s totally acceptable:
- 5.5-inch 720p display
- 1.3 GHz quad-core Mediatek 6737 processor
- 32GB of storage
- 3GB of RAM
- 13MP rear, 8MP front camera
- 4,000mAh battery, dual SIM, and Android Marshmallow
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23:39
Blu is still outfitting phones with Android Marshmallow in 2017
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There are some things that don’t belong in 2017, and a brand-new phone running Android Marshmallow is at the top of that list (well, near the top). Blu, the company that can’t stop producing mid to low-range smartphones, has released its latest device, the R1 Plus. The specs are mediocre at best, but given the $160 price tag, that’s totally acceptable:
- 5.5-inch 720p display
- 1.3 GHz quad-core Mediatek 6737 processor
- 32GB of storage
- 3GB of RAM
- 13MP rear, 8MP front camera
- 4,000mAh battery, dual SIM, and Android Marshmallow
Let me make this perfectly clear, no Android phone produced in 2017 should run Android Marshmallow. Given that Blu wants to keep this phone in 2015, our recommendation is that no one should buy it, unless you find yourself in possession of a time machine and plan on returning to 2015 and staying there. (Please don’t leave me here.)

23:38
Brazil cities gripped by first general strike in decades
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Brazilian unions on Friday led the nation's first general strike in over two decades to protest President Michel Temer's austerity measures, hitting public transport and closing schools, factories, banks and other businesses in every state. Even so, analysts and government officials said the strike would have little impact on Temer's efforts to push economic reforms through Congress, which are widely expected to be approved given the president's continued support among legislators. Police clashed with demonstrators in several cities, firing tear gas in efforts to clear roadways blocked by burning barricades. Protesters...

23:37
Uddamålsseger när Mullsjö besegrade Kulltorp
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Uddamålsseger när Mullsjö besegrade Kulltorp

23:37
Bil i brand i centrala Örebro
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På fredagskvällen kom larm om brinnande personbil som enligt larmet stod vid Karlslundsgatan och Ringgatan i centrala Örebro.

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Bil i brand i centrala Örebro
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På fredagskvällen kom larm om brinnande personbil som enligt larmet stod vid Karlslundsgatan och Ringgatan i centrala Örebro.

23:37
Putin to be a guest of honour at Russian Grand Prix
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JONATHAN MCEVOY EXCLUSIVE FROM SOCHI: Vladimir Putin is due to be guest of honour at Sunday's Russian Grand Prix despite passes being withdrawn by Liberty Media.

23:34
Storförlust för Dardania hemma mot Månsarp
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Storförlust för Dardania hemma mot Månsarp

23:33
Gianni Infantino in spotlight as new ethics crisis hits Fifa and IOC
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23:31
NASA is running out of spacesuits and it could jeopardize future missions
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A new government audit reveals that NASA is running low on spacesuits and new ones might not be available in time.

Astronauts have been using the same suits since 1981. The suit were only designed to last 15 years, but NASA was able to extend the lifetime during Shuttle era by returning the suits to Earth for regular repairs.

Without the Shuttles, NASA has no way or returning the suits so they are kept on the space station. And recent incidents show that these suits are well past their due date.

The biggest problem is the primary life support systems, which are the large backpacks that astronauts wear during spacewalks. In 2013, one of the units malfunctioned while an astronaut was in space.

First Italian astronaut, Luca Parmitano, had a leak in one of the units that supplied water water to the suit. The water spilled over into his ventilation, which caused his helmet to start filling with water.

By the time he reached safety back on the station, over a liter of water had filled his helmet, entering his mouth, ears, nose, and eyes. Ultimately, he was unharmed.

In recent years, NASA has had 2 other water-related incidents, though not as severe as Parmitano’s. Today, only 11 of the 18 life support systems are considered safe to use. But those units may not even last long enough.

NASA plans to continue sending astronauts to the ISS to at least 2024. These astronaut will need safe, functioning spacesuits to perform spacewalks that are critical for maintaining the space station. The main concern is that the remaining 11 life support systems will not last to 2024.

Over the last decade, NASA has invested nearly $200 million toward developing new and better spacesuits. However, because NASA's budget and missions mainly rely on government funding, its focus has changed numerous times over the years from Moon-focused to Mars-focused.

And since different environments in space require different types of spacesuit protection, it was impossible for the space agency to stick to just one spacesuit design.

As a result, NASA divided its funding across three companies: $135.6 million toward the Constellation Space Suit System, $51.6 million to Advanced Space Suit Project, and $12 million for the Orion Crew Survival System.

None of the three companies have had enough funding to complete and develop a new spacesuit, yet. The report recommends that NASA develop a formal plan that fits their immediate needs. It also suggests that NASA determine if current spacesuit designs can meet the agency’s needs, or if next-generation suits are necessary.

The clock is ticking. NASA has already scheduled 17 spacewalks between now and 2020.

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23:31
Många tonåringar gör alkoholdebut på Valborg
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I morgon är det valborg, ett tillfälle då många tonåringar kommer testa alkohol för första gången.
För många tonårsföräldrar är valborg förknippat med viss oro. En undersökning bland hela 2 987 tonårsföräldrar – som undersökningsföretaget Norstat genomfört på uppdrag av IQ – visar att 57 procent av föräldrarna i Värmland är oroliga för att ens tonårsbarn ska råka illa ut på grund av alkohol. 82 procent svarar också att de tror att det är vanligt att tonåringar under 18 år dricker alkohol i samband med valborg.
Föräldrar har en viktig roll att spela när det gäller att försena alkoholdebuten och att minska tillgången till alkohol för ungdomar. Bland ungdomarna själva är stödet starkt för att föräldrar ska göra just detta. Undersökningar visar att de flesta tonåringar tycker att föräldrar som köper ut till sina barn gör fel.
Det kan dock vara svårt att som förälder prata med sina barn om gränser, förväntningar och risker med alkohol. För att göra det lättare får 2 898 tonårsföräldrar i Värmland, vars barn fyller 14 år i år ett exemplar av IQs ”Tonårsparlören” på posten inför valborg. Totalt är det över 100 000 tonårsföräldrar i hela Sverige som får boken.
Tonårsparlören är en handbok med fakta, råd och tips – från sakkunniga och experter – och gör det lättare att som förälder prata med sin tonåring om alkohol. Och för att göra det hela lite enklare har jag sammanfattat parlörens 136 sidor i tre konkreta tips:
1) Bjud inte på alkohol och köp inte ut. Många föräldrar vill avdramatisera alkohol och introducera tonåringar till ett naturligt drickande. Tanken må kanske vara god, men det slår fel. Forskning visar att tonåringar som bjuds på alkohol hemma börjar dricka tidigare och de dricker också mer. Undersökningar visar att en stor andel unga inte skulle dricka alkohol om de tvingades fråga en okänd person om att köpa ut.
2) Var tydlig och sätt gränser. Ju tydligare du visar vad du förväntar dig desto enklare är det för tonåringen att göra som du bestämt. Tydliga regler och normer hemma kring alkohol gör att ungdomar börjar dricka vid senare ålder och dricker mindre. Ett vanligt argument från tonåringar är att ”alla andra får”. Därför kan ett bra sätt att sätta gränser vara att tillsammans med ditt barns kompisars föräldrar komma överens om gemensamma regler för era barn.
3) Var intresserad, lyssna och visa att du bryr dig. Visa att du är intresserad av ditt barns tankar, upplevelser och umgänge. Om du är orolig att ditt barn ska råka illa ut på grund av alkohol, berätta att du är det. Och är du orolig, kom ihåg att du inte är ensam.
Att prata med sitt barn om alkohol kan för många kännas svårt men det är ett viktigt samtal att ta, inte minst inför valborg. Det är ett samtal som kan komma att göra stor skillnad.

23:30
Volvo och Scania får se upp – här är första bilden på Teslas lastbil
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23:30
Volvo och Scania får se upp – här är första bilden på Teslas lastbil
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23:29
Tesla's epic solar roof plan just hit a speed bump (TSLA)
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Tesla is pushing back the timeline for its solar roof roll-out.

CEO Elon Musk said in March that the company would begin taking orders for its four solar roof shingle options this month. But during a TED Talk Friday, Musk said that two of the tile options won't be available for purchase until early 2018.

"Yeah we are starting off with two initially and then the second two will be introduced early next year," he said.

A Tesla spokesperson declined to comment further on Musk's comments and why the roll-out strategy had changed. Customers will be able to order two of the four shingle options in a few weeks.

Tesla ultimately plans to sell four different tile styles: textured glass, smooth glass, French slate, and Tuscan glass. Musk did not say which options will go up for sale first.

Musk has said that the solar roof will be cheaper than a normal roof, even before factoring in the value of generating electricity, a vow he reiterated on Friday.

Tesla unveiled its solar roof product last October, a month before it acquired SolarCity in a deal worth $2.1 billion. The company will produce the solar cells for the shingles at its plant in Buffalo, New York.
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23:29
CEO Jack Dorsey just bought $9.5 million worth of shares after Twitter beat on earnings (TWTR)
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CEO Jack Dorsey has purchased an additional $9.5 million in Twitter shares — just two days after his company reported better than expected earnings for its first quarter.

Dorsey bought 574,002 shares of Twitter on Friday, according to a filing with the SEC. He confirmed the purchase in a tweet and noted that he's bought a total of 1 million shares in 2017.

Based on his exercised share price of $16.62 on Friday, Dorsey's latest purchases means that he now owns roughly $267 million worth of shares.

His cheerleading of Twitter's stock is in stark contrast to his cofounder Evan Williams, who recently announced that he plans to sell 30% of his shares over the next year. Early Twitter investor Chris Sacca recently said that he's unloaded all of his shares since Dorsey took over as CEO.

Twitter has taken a beating on Wall Street over the past several quarters for its slowed user and revenue growth. The company just reported better than expected growth across the board for its last quarter, but its revenue declined year-over-year for the first time.
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23:28
Auto site Carvana tumbles 26% in stock market debut
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Carvana, the site for buying and selling cars, had a rough first day in the public markets. After pricing its IPO at $15 per share, it ended the day down 26 percent, at $11.10. Bankers typically recommend a price that would cause the shares to go up about 20 percent or so on the first day. But Carvana maximized every last dollar in its $225 million offering, at the cost of new investors. Read More

23:28
Arbetstidsförkortning gör oss kreativa
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Först ut på plan i artikelserien nyfiken på forskning är Ann Bergman, professor i arbetsvetenskap vid Karlstads universitet.
Ann Bergman är en av landets ledande arbetslivsforskare. Lägg hennes namn på minnet.
Professorskontoren är inte som de var förr. Stora och högt i tak. Anns kontor liknar mest ett trångt men mysigt krypin. Fullt med böcker. Foton på väggarna. Ett av Charlie Chaplin och ett av en kvinna som visar musklerna med bakgrundstexten ”We can do it”. Skulle kunna vara ett självporträtt, tänker jag.
Ann Bergman har gjort en klassresa. Med rötter i den svenska arbetarklassen och med en stark och kämpande mamma har hon via Komvux gjort en sagolik resa uppför samhällsstegen.
Jag frågar henne vad hon tycker om det svenska arbetslivet…
– Vänta! Avbryter hon mig och börjar entusiastiskt och flödande berätta om en bok som kom ut 1969. I den intervjuades en framtidspanel, bestående av män, om hur Sverige skulle komma att se ut 2000.
Ann har just skrivit en artikel om boken. Hon berättar:
– Arbetstiden skulle minska till 30 timmar per vecka. Semestern öka till tre månader. Reallönen skulle bli fyra gånger så hög som den var 1969. Men verkligheten visade sig blir en annan för många människor. Osäkrare arbetsförhållanden. Större krav. Mindre inflytande. Dåliga arbetsvillkor som låg lön och oförutsägbara arbetstider.
Ann har intervjuat människor inom servicebranschen. Bland annat kabinpersonal, personal inom restaurangbranschen och inom handel.
– Det är arbetstiderna och tunga arbetsschema som är det värsta, säger hon.
Ann återvänder till framtidspanelen igen. Den trodde att företagen skulle bli allt mer internationella. Det skulle föra med sig att de kan agera utan hänsyn till nationella lagar och lojalitet med sina anställda. Och de fick rätt, säger hon. Det har blivit enklare att flytta produktionen till andra länder. Vilket har gjort det lättare för företagen att få medgörliga anställda och ett medgörligt fack som på grund av rädsla för att jobben skall försvinna håller tillbaka lönekrav och krav på arbetsmiljön.
– De anställda är utsatta för hot. Hot om en katastrof som är värre än dåliga arbetsvillkor.
– Vi som forskar om arbetslivet vet mycket väl vad som kännetecknar ett gott arbete. Upptäckterna är redan gjorda. Men det finns ett motstånd och en ovilja att omsätta de vetenskapliga rönen.
– Vi säger till när vi ser de dåliga jobben, stressen, kraven och sjukskrivningarna. Vi varnar för konsekvenserna när samhället dras isär och människor far illa. Vi ger exempel på hur det borde vara men de efterföljs inte.
Ann återkommer till frågan om det goda arbetet.
– Ett gott arbete är ett värdigt arbete. Ett arbete där man respekterar människors värde. Kraven skall vara okay. Att man har chefer som beter sig anständigt och visar respekt för medarbetarna. Ger dem bekräftelse och uppmärksamhet. Goda anställningsförhållanden och arbetsvillkor. Förutsägbara arbetstider. En anständig lön som man kan leva på. Man skall känna att man ingår i ett socialt sammanhang.
Ann betonar betydelsen av de anställdas medbestämmande, inflytande och delaktighet.
– För att det skall bli en förändring till det bättre måste vi våga ställa krav och protestera mot dåliga arbetsförhållanden.
I Sverige är det ofta så, säger Ann, att man först skall vara lojal med sin arbetsgivare och med sin chef. Man skall vara tyst och inte klaga.
– Men det skulle kunna se annorlunda, säger Ann ivrigt och exemplifierar med vad flygvärdinnorna gjorde.
– De hade först varit lojala och pratat med cheferna. Men det hände ingenting. Då gick de till media och till arbetsmiljöverket. De förstod att vill man åstadkomma större förändringar krävs kollektiva aktioner och solidaritet.
Jag frågar vilket hennes viktigaste vetenskapliga bidrag är. Hon nämner sin forskning om tillgänglighet. Den nya teknologin – mail, mobil – har lett till att människor är nåbara överallt tjugofyra timmar om dygnet. Och många upplever att det är ett måste att vara tillgängliga för arbetsgivare, chefer och kunder.
Anns forskning har visat på tydliga skillnader mellan män och kvinnor. Männen var i större utsträckning tillgängliga för sin arbetsgivare vilket gynnade deras karriär. Kvinnorna var i större utsträckning tillgängliga för familjen och i mindre utsträckning för arbetsgivaren vilket missgynnade deras karriär.
Hur man skall kunna förena de båda kraven – kraven på tillgänglighet från arbetsgivaren och kraven från familjen är en fråga som Ann nu fortsätter att studera tillsammans med Kristina Palm vid Karolinska institutet och Calle Rosengren vid Lunds universitet.
– Vi skall studera gränsen mellan arbete och familjeliv. Vi kommer att intervjua anställda och deras familjer och barn. De skall föra loggbok över aktiviteter. Vi är intresserade av de anställdas upplevelser av hur digitalisering påverkar deras relationer till arbete och familj.
– De unga vill ha ett jobb där de kan förena arbete och familj, säger Ann och fortsätter.
Vill vi ha en 30 timmars arbetsvecka måste vi börja agera nu!
Ann är övertygad om att en arbetstidsförkortning kommer att göra oss mer uppfinningsrika och innovativa. För många är arbetslivet så enformigt att människorna inte får utrymme för sin kreativa förmåga.
– Vi kommer att ta saker och ting i egna händer. Vi kommer att finna lösningar på problem som inte är möjligt att göra på arbetsplatserna idag. En arbetstidsförkortning släpper loss kreativiteten.
Även för en arbetslivsforskare finns det fritid. Och jag är lite nyfiken på vad professorn sysslar med när hon inte forskar eller undervisar studenter. Hon berättar att hon håller på med yoga, paddlar kajak och gillar att vara ute i naturen. Hon gör en konstpaus och säger med glimten i ögat.
– Jag dänger folk i golvet. Jag har börjat med jiu jitsu.
– Det är ganska våldsamt. Men man får inte skada någon.

23:27
Nordkorea provskjuter igen
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Nordkoreas diktator Kim Jong-Un tidigare i veckan.
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Nordkorea gjorde en nytt robottest tidigt på lördagsmorgonen, lokal tid.
Provskjutningen förefaller att ha misslyckats men sker samtidigt som FN diskuterat den ökande spänningen kring Koreahalvön under ett möte i går.

Både Sydkoreas och USA:s militär uppgav att Nordkorea genomfört ett missiltest, men att missilen förefaller att ha exploderat i luften och aldrig lämnat Nordkoreas territorium.

Den nya missiltesten fördömdes som ett brott mot FN:s resolutioner. USA:s president Donald Trump skrev på twitter att testet var respektlöst mot Kina och "dess högt respekterade president", "dåligt", skrev Trump.

Den ökande spänning kring koreanska halvön diskuterades samtidigt i FN:s säkerhetsråd under fredagen.

USA:s utrikesminister Rex Tillerson varnade i säkerhetsrådet att det blir katastrofala konsekvenser av att inte agera mot Nordkoreas kärnvapenprogram och robottester.

Kinas representant sa att Kina inte har ensamt ansvar för att pressa Nordkorea och underströk att Kina vill gå den diplomatiska vägen för att nå en lösning.

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23:25
Mitt i krisen – nytt robottest av Nordkorea
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FN:s säkerhetsråd uppmanade idag Nordkorea, som så många gånger tidigare, att sluta med sitt kärnvapenprogram och sina robottester. Även Sverige valde att fördöma kommunistdiktaturens agerande efter ministermötet. Men bara några timmar senare genomförde Nordkorea ännu ett robottest..

23:24
Caesar Non Supra Grammaticos
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23:22
Transfer Galaxy dömdes ut av riskkapitalisterna – fick bud på över 50 miljoner kronor
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Vivalla-entreprenörens sköna revansch.

23:22
Nordkorea provsköt robot
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Nordkorea har genomfört ytterligare en testuppskjutning av en robot, uppger den sydkoreanska militären..

23:21
Google's CEO got a massive raise last year (GOOG)
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Google's CEO Sundar Pichai had a good 2016.

According to a new company filing posted Friday, Pichai's compensation last year was worth over $199 million. (Most of it was stock, not salary.)

That's nearly double his total compensation in 2015, which was a little over $100 million, according to the filing. The filing cited Google's successful product launches for the major boost in pay.
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23:21
Peter, 42, blev attackerad av personal på Arlanda
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Peter, 42, blev attackerad av personal på Arlanda

23:21
Scientists just discovered something awesome about the soil on Mars
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Humans will one day walk on Mars and while it almost certainly won't happen on the fever-dream timeline that Donald Trump seems to think is possible, it'll definitely happen sooner rather than later. The technology to get us there either already exists or is in active development, but what about once we arrive? The first Mars travelers are going to need a place to stay, and researchers from UC San Diego may have just figured out how those brave adventurers will build the very first human structure on the Red Planet. The research, which was published in Scientific Reports, reveals that the soil on Mars is particularly well-suited to brick making. In fact, the dirt is so easily formed into bricks that building a rigid structure out of it wouldn't require any special substance or even heat to bake them, and it's all thanks to the same material that gives the Mars surface its reddish hue. At first, engineers at the university were trying to figure out exactly how much additional polymer would be needed for the Mars soil to be shaped into bricks. As they gradually reduced the amount of additive used with their soil simulant they eventually realized that they didn't need any at all. The team was able to successfully compact iron-oxide-rich Mars dirt with a flexible container which was then pressurized. The result was small, firm blobs of soil which were stable enough to be cut into brick-like shapes. Amazingly, the pressure-made bricks are also shockingly durable, standing up to some serious punishment in testing. According to the paper, the bricks are stronger than the steel-reinforced concrete that many structures are made of here on Earth. It seems the first Mars visitors could find themselves with the construction opportunity of a lifetime.

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Amazon wants to make Alexa sound like your human friends
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Alexa is always there for those of us with Amazon's AI-enabled speakers, but when she speaks, sometimes it's hard to tell that she really cares.

We're not saying we need to all fall in love with our smart assistants, Her-style, but hearing a little bit more warmth in Alexa's automated responses could make the human-AI overlord relationship so much better. Or, you know, just make us more comfortable allowing a sophisticated AI system to learn just about everything there is to know about us.

Fortunately, Amazon has heard our cries for machine validation, and the company is finally giving Alexa the capability to speak like the true AI friend she is. Read more...
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Francois Hollande awards medal to Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Francois Hollande presented American actor Arnold Schwarzenegger with a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur at a ceremony in Paris, France today (pictured).

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Apple iPhone 8 schematics and molds appear in leaked photos
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An image found on weibo claims to show the latest schematics for the Apple iPhone 8. The 10th anniversary edition of Apple's smartphone once again appears with a vertically placed dual-camera setup on back. A couple of other pictures reveal what looks to be a pair of molds used in the production of parts for the device. The molds appear to be made in conjunction with the schematics. If you look closely, you can see the housing for the vertical dual camera setup on the mold used to produce the back half of the phone.

There has been talk about a delay as long as two months for the iPhone 8. ...

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[Businessclass]Italien/Spanien-Brasilien, Azul Brazilian/TAP, 810 Euro
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Läs mer här: - ERROR FARE: Business Class from Spain or Italy to Sao Paulo, Brazil from only €807 roundtrip

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This electric surfboard can move without the waves
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'Jetfoiler' can fly over water. This surfboard uses hydrofoil, which can lift up the board out of the water when you lean back. It also uses an electric motor to propel yourself. This surfboard can go up to 27 mph. Surf's up! Read more...
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Apple Music clips are the new stars of Musical.ly videos
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Part creation tool, part social network, the popular Musical.ly app lets users make and share their own music videos using segments of songs. Thanks to a new deal with Apple, the service's users will be able to add songs from the vast Apple Music lib...

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Congress Prevents Government From Shutting Down on Trump’s 100th Day
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A measure approved on Friday will sustain government operations for a week, giving lawmakers more time to negotiate a long-term spending package.

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Congress Prevents Government From Shutting Down on Trump’s 100th Day
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A measure approved on Friday will sustain government operations for a week, giving lawmakers more time to negotiate a long-term spending package.

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‘Doctor Who’ Underrated Villain of the Week: Lake Ghosts
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You know Daleks and Davros and Missy the Master, Angels and Silence hell-bent on disaster. But do you recall the most underrated Doctor Who villains of all? Each week, I will dig into […]

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