A woman turned up to a school in Sweden on Monday armed with an axe and a crowbar, reportedly to defend her bullied son. Now, most moms would simply pick up the nearest battle axe and go to town, but a crowbar, too? Brother, that's a Valkyrie!
The woman entered the playground at Osbeck Gymnasium School in Laholm, southern Sweden, following a call from her son. He had been subjected to taunts by some of his classmates. Exactly what caused the argument is not yet clear. But translators are expected to arrive at any moment ...
By the time police arrived at the scene the mother had disappeared. Police were trying to track her down on Monday afternoon, saying they wished to interview her about the incident. Don't forget the pad and pencil.
And a suit of armor ...
Pupils and witnesses will also be questioned. The school said it planned to hold a press conference on Monday afternoon.
If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, so may be a kiss - or certainly to a woman anyway, researchers say.
A New York State University team quizzed over 1,000 students, finding women place a big emphasis on kissing. They use kissing as a way of assessing the recipient as a potential partner, and later to maintain intimacy and to check the status of a relationship. But men placed less importance on it, using it to increase the likelihood of sex, Evolutionary Psychology reported.
Can't slip anything past these psychologists ...
The questionnaires revealed men were less discriminating when it came to deciding who to kiss or who to have sex with. They were more willing to have sex with someone without kissing, to have sex with someone they are not attracted to and agree to have sex with someone they considered to be a bad kisser.
And your point is ...
But kissing was more important as a bonding mechanism to women. In long-term relationships females not only rate kissing as more important than men, but they indicated that kissing was important throughout a relationship.
Meanwhile, men placed less importance on kissing as the relationship progresses.
There was also a difference in the sort of kisses the two sexes preferred, with men liking wet, tongue kisses.
Lead researcher Dr Gordon Gallup said kissing had developed over time to become an essential part of the courtship process. But he added: "While both sexes participate in the adaptive benefits of kissing, we found sex differences when considering the pursuit of short-versus long-term mating strategies."
Dr Glenn Wilson, an expert in relationships at London's Institute of Psychiatry, said: "Kissing is used by everyone as a bonding and testing mechanism. "But the fact is women are more discriminatory than men. Men can just go out and spread their seed, but women have to take more responsibility because of the consequences and so they are likely to want to test more."
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The questionnaires revealed men were less discriminating when it came to deciding who to kiss or who to have sex with.
2) The lost art of "necking", in which couples spend a great length of time just kissing. It has even been suggested that if couples can't even neck for as little as one hour straight, then they should get married. People just aren't going to be necking with someone for an hour they aren't compatible with.
Across the Nation
It's Osculation
It's Osculation
That women prefer
No satiation
sans osculation
With trepidation
I do concur.....
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"While both sexes participate in the adaptive benefits of kissing, we found sex differences when considering the pursuit of short-versus long-term mating strategies."
What the hell is a long-term mating strategy ?
Room service ?
Dozens of cooling centers opened across California as a scorching heat wave strained the state's electrical grid and left many residents without power.
Nearly 14,000 customers were without power late Sunday, largely because of increased demand on air conditioners. Highs reached 109 degrees in Woodland Hills in the San Fernando Valley and more than 100 degrees in other parts of the state.
The California Independent System Operator, which oversees the state's power grid, said no major shortages were expected through Monday. However, officials urged customers to continue conserving electricity by setting air conditioning thermostats higher and waiting to use major appliances until after dark.
The DWP said its power load peaked at 6,107 megawatts at midafternoon Friday, second only to its all-time record peak of 6,165 megawatts on July 24, 2006. So it's cooler than last year?
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it was 107 yesterday at my place with 65% humidity....sucks. I don't mind the heat if it's dry, but the monsoonal flow has been thick this year
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If we all had plug in electric cars we wouldn't have electrical blackouts.
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Typical misdirection! There are brownouts because of the enviros not allowing power plants to be upgraded nor new ones built. All BS!
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California energy management is notorious for over-regulation. Most initiatives don't meet Al Gore' environmental protection criterion.
As for "global warming," it occurs after each Ice Age. All but the brain dead, believe that at some point slow cooling will begin again. Annual warming-cooling differentials are measured in small fractions of a degree, and don't warrant Gore-hysterics. As for the "greenhouse effect," that has more political than theoretical content.
Packin' my clothes,
Coolest ones I've got,
'Cause that San Fernando Valley is hot.
This verse was later struck out of the popular version of the hit song "San Fernando Valley" that went "gold" in the late 1930's. The local Chamber of Commerce didn't want the truth to come out until after you bought property there.
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California Office of Emergency Services reports that virtually all of the power outages are from local transformer failures, and the lack of new generation power for over 20 years has left the state severely under-served for state-based power generation systems. The asshats in Sacramento want it that way, expecting to get their power from outside the state so they can play to the lefty enviro's politically. Problem is, the marginas are always razor thin each day, and maxxed out transmision lines coupled with an old generator in the state failing, means rolling blackouts.... so rather than build more power capacity (or even new dams to serve the other massive state problem, not enough water) (and coincidently creating electricity as well)) we just go along courting disaster. Liberals govern this state, and basic infrastructure, roads, power, water, public safety, good schools, all have been ignored because we need all the bull**it social programs to buy votes from illegals and minorities..... what a mess..
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Global warming, eh? We used to just call it summer...those were the good ol days.
Four Egyptian doctors and a midwife are to be prosecuted for conducting female circumcision, a local official said on Sunday, as the government toughens its stand against the outlawed but widely practised operation. The private clinics of the four doctors in the southern province of Menya have been shut down, governor Fuad Saad Eddin told the official MENA news agency. Health ministry official Ayman Ragab told MENA there had been nine known cases of female circumcision in the province during the month of August. In June, Health Minister Hatem al-Gabali issued a decree banning every doctor and member of the medical profession from performing the procedure. A law to toughen penalties against the practice, prompted by the death of two young girls, is to be put to parliament when it reconvenes.
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Israel successfully launched its new spy satellite, Ofeq-7, from the Palmahim air force base yesterday. The satellite and upgraded Shavit rocket that carried it into orbit are both produced here.
The satellite went into a predesignated orbital path about two hours after launch at 2:40 A.M., and began transmitting signals confirming that its systems are operational. The satellite's initial images, comprised mostly of Middle Eastern areas, are expected to be received at Palmahim's control center at noon tomorrow.
Security sources said yesterday that the launch was not timed to correspond to emerging threats from Iran or Syria, and insisted it had been planned for some time.
However, the same sources noted that the satellite represents a "significant upgrade" of Israel's intelligence capabilities in light of the current situation and possible war scenarios that have been suggested recently.
"Our geopolitical situation is not bright, but I think that if I were now on the other side, I would be very worried about being photographed," a senior defense official said.
Ofeq-7 is an advanced satellite comprised of newer surveillance equipment than its larger predecessor, Ofeq-5, which recently completed five years in orbit. The new satellite is a second-generation system intended to fill the gap created by the failed launch of Ofeq-6 two and a half years ago.
Security sources said the satellite's main advantage is its ability to simultaneously take shots of the same site from different angles. In addition, it will substantially shorten the time lag in image transmittal.
"It's obvious that two are better than one, and the results will be good," a senior defense source noted.
Ofeq-7 is moving at a rate of about 8 kilometers per second, in an elliptical orbit, at a height of between 311 and 600 kilometers from earth.
Israel Aircraft Industries, the prime contractor for developing and manufacturing the satellite, is working on third-generation satellites that are expected to deliver exceptionally high resolution photos.
Security sources said that high quality commercial satellites can photograph objects on earth as small as 70 cm long. "A military spy satellite can do a little better," a defense source said. "A military satellite travels at a lower altitude than commercial satellites, and as a result can capture more."
The development cost of Ofeq-7 is classified.
Defense Minister Amir Peretz was updated during the night about the successful reception of active signals from the satellite.
"This launch adds to the defense of the State of Israel, and is proof of the technological strengths of the country," he said in a statement.
Defense Ministry Director General Pinhas Buchris said that as a former intelligence officer, he knows first hand the important contribution of Israel's strategic capabilities.
Ofeq-7 weighs 300 kg, is 2.3-meters tall and has a life span of five years.
Its launch was watched with some anxiety following the failed launch of Ofeq-7 in September, 2004.
Officials from IAI and Israel Military Industries, the manufacturer of the Shavit rocket engine, along with representatives of other defense firms participating in the project, waited anxiously at the Palmahim control room for the launch's results.
As soon as the satellite's entry into its pre-planned orbit was confirmed, there was a sigh of relief, but officials said they will not celebrate before receiving the initial photographs tomorrow.
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And Polaris/TechSAR will be launched in 2 weeks
Jerusalem - In the Sriharikota Space Center in India, plans are being completed for the launch of the Israeli Techstar satellite. The expectations of Techstar, which is considered Israel's most progressive spy satellite, are already sky-high.
Techstar will be able to track Iran's nuclear compounds and Syria's rocket bases 24 hours a day, almost without limitations. Unlike existing spy satellites, Techstar is expected to supply a sharp and clear intelligence picture even when the tracking target is in the darkness of night or hidden behind cloud cover.
CHENNAI - The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is busy preparing to launch an Israeli satellite called Polaris by a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) between September 17 and 20 from the spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
A core-alone PSLV without its six strap-on booster motors strung around its first stage will put the Polaris in orbit.
It is a remote-sensing satellite that weighs about 300 kg. It can take pictures of the earth through cloud and rain, day and night.
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what, no Islamic satellites? Seething to commence immediately!
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And the real kicker is that Israel and India are sharing the satellite imagery... India's own Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite will be launched next year. The optical Cartosat will precede it into orbit.
By sharing the data from their respective birds, Israel and India get near continuous coverage of their respective pesky neighbors.. as Ofeq or Polaris drops below the horizon, an Indian bird takes its place...
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Dozens of cooling centers opened across California as a scorching heat wave strained the state's electrical grid and left many residents without power. 
Four Egyptian doctors and a midwife are to be prosecuted for conducting female circumcision, a local official said on Sunday, as the government toughens its stand against the outlawed but widely practised operation. The private clinics of the four doctors in the southern province of Menya have been shut down, governor Fuad Saad Eddin told the official MENA news agency. Health ministry official Ayman Ragab told MENA there had been nine known cases of female circumcision in the province during the month of August. In June, Health Minister Hatem al-Gabali issued a decree banning every doctor and member of the medical profession from performing the procedure. A law to toughen penalties against the practice, prompted by the death of two young girls, is to be put to parliament when it reconvenes.
