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Wednesday 31 July 2013

Search engine optimization and blogging

This is an excellent introduction and guide on how to raise your ranking on Google and other search engines. There are practical examples of how to achieve to achieve the through on-page/off-page optimization , link building,blogging,blog commenting and guest posting on other blogs.I highly recommend this gem for online marketing.

Monday 29 July 2013

When you love somebody who loves herself

Honey is always talking about
Her parties and promotions
Self inflation is the fashion of the day
With hundreds of pictures
On instagram or facebook
Daily film clips on Youtube
Seeking to be a microcelebrity
She has one million followers on Twitter
Are You following me on Twitter?
Facebook has a limit of five thousand friends But Honey would like to have more than that
Is that what they call narcissism?

Root causes of recent unrest in Stockholm

The riots in Husby which spread to other parts of Sweden in May can be attributed to several factors.Firstly,according to the far right the country,s borders are too open-about 14% of a population of about 10 million are immigrant or asylum seekers. Secondly,integration has been a failure.Young people born to immigrants complain of job discrimination. Thirdly,the far right Swedish Democrats party has become popular as Europe becomes increasingly uneasy about islamic extremism. In addition,the unemployment rate of around 8 per cent is double in the immigrant dominated areas such as Rinkeby or Husby and four times for those under 25 years of age.Frustration has worsened due to reports of racial profiling and police harassment or brutality. Finally,the widening gap between rich and poor in a country which used to be an example for equality and social harmony between social classes.

Sunday 28 July 2013

Beach fun

July is here
Its warm and sunny outside
As I gaze through my window
Took the bus to the beach
People all over as I changed
For a swim
Women showing more skin

In bikinis or hot pants
Long legs,tits,hips,thongs
Kids screaming in the water
Brown ducks floating
Still lukewarm in the water as I
Made my way step by step inside

Feeling the wind against my face
Its so relaxing as I dive into water
Deep inside the North sea
Gentle waves caressing my body
Its such a wonderful sensation
Moving in the ocean

Saturday 27 July 2013

What is minimalism?

Minimalism is, in its essence, about getting rid of the negative and non-essential, so that you may focus more on the positive and important-the various ways to free up your time and your physical space. To achieve that one has to create more mental space. Happiness, peace of mind, and inner freedom are the ultimate goals of minimalism Further,the ”80/ 20-rule” or ”Pareto Principle” is at the heart of what it means to be a minimalist. In other words twenty percent of a certain cause contributes eighty percent of the effect. Twenty percent of your work time creates eighty percent of the results, twenty percent of your clients contribute eighty percent of your income and so on. For example, regarding work , this means that one first needs to identify precisely what the core twenty-percent-activities which truly create value for ones's employer and the practitioner and then reducing to a minimum or eliminating completely the remaining eighty percent. This principle are applied to to concrete activities such as reading,studying,sleep,economics or travel in the book. What I like about the book is that it is lucid and full of practical examples. Hilmersen, Thomas (2012-08-30). The Minimalist Way: Stress Less, Live More . Kindle Edition.

Saturday 20 July 2013

Legal Procedure

This book discusses what it takes to be an effective legal advocate to a judge or jury.It stresses that a lawyer is part actor and part scholar and may sometimes argue a position that may be contrary to his or her personal beliefs about some factual or legal issue—which is where the “part actor” comes in. An effective advocate must champion that position enthusiastically, even if personally he or she may disagree with it. There are two main types of legal advocacy—advocacy to a judge and advocacy to a jury. The former involves a partisan discussion of the relevant facts and law, with an emphasis typically on the law. The latter likewise involves a partisan discussion of the facts and law, with an emphasis typically on the facts. To be an advocate is to be partisan for his or her client.In addition as an officer of the court he has an obligation to promote the ultimate objective of the court which is to ensure that the guilty be convicted and the innocent go free. A prosecutor, while a lawyer and legal advocate is a public servant whose first and foremost duty is to do justice. The book includes exercises which are scenarios under the factual hypothetical section backed by case law to help students sharpen their advocacy skills. Newton, Brent. Criminal Litigation and Legal Issues in Criminal Procedure . National Institute for Trial Advocacy. Kindle Edition.

Friday 19 July 2013

Daniel died alone

Loneliness is a big problem in swedish society and may old people die alone without any relatives being present.Daniel,a 56 year old man orinally from Argentina lay dead in his flat at Bagarmossen ,a surburb in the south of Stockholm for two years without anybody missing him. Nobody knows exactly when he died because he simply disappeared without friends,relatives or work mates missing him. He lived on a small disability pension that went directly into his bank account. The rent and other bills were paid by direct debit.His body was discovered only when a real estate company forced open his door in order to make some renovations. For more than 30 years ago, Daniel was a young man of 20 years.Together with his wife Susanna and their parents, he came from the military dictatorship in Argentina to Sweden in the late 1970s.Daniel and Susanna had no children and divorced in 1981. Shortly after the divorce Susanna lefty Sweden. There are gaps in the Swedish population register, but Daniel's father Juan should have returned to Argentina in 1991 where he died in 1997. Daniel's mother Maria Rosa remained in Sweden with her son. Five years ago, she died at a nursing home in Jakobsberg north of Stockholm. After her mother's death seems to Daniel social contacts have ceased completely. “It is clear that he did not have a job the last years of his life,” according to a source. Ahmed Jabbar lived next door to Daniel . He remembers a nice, quiet man who looked much older than his 55 years. “He came alone here three years ago. We used to stand next to each other and smoke in the walkway. We said hello, that's all.Once I saw-him wander away alone with a fishing pole. But I never saw him with anyone.” The last years of his life lived Daniel on some form of disability pension and all his fixed bills were paid by direct debit. When police broke into the apartment they found a pile of advertising and free newspapers. Furthermore,there have been similar cases of people dying alone before. In april this year a postman raised an alarm about a 69-year-old man who lay dead in his apartment outside Sundsvall without anyone missing him. He had been dead for two months before the mail man noticed that it smelled from the mail slot. 3 years. 2011 found a 82-year-old man dead in his apartment in Tumba. The man had of putrefaction judge remained there for about three years. His bills were paid by direct debit. In 2011 company porters in Lund found a person who had lain dead in his apartment for three months as they distributed the company's newsletter and observed that the mail slot that was crammed with mail.

Loneliness is dangerous

Loneliness encourages various types of risk behavior, such as excessive alcohol consumption and suicide.Experts say that Swedes are more lonely today than 20 years ago and social isolation increases the risk of premature death by 50 percent, according to a U.S study published in Public library of science(PLOS-www.plosmedicine.org) Humans are social animals who are created to belong to a group. Having no affiliation affects us negatively. Social relationships holds you to a standard which protects you from various types of risk behaviour, such as drinking a lot of alcohol. Social isolation increases the risk of premature death by 50 percent, according to a Mikael Rostila, associate Professor of Sociology at the Centre for Health Equity Studies who has published a book on human relationships.

Tuesday 16 July 2013

Accra - Stockholm

Accra, Ghanas huvudstad, liknar Stockholm, Sveriges huvudstad, på många sätt. Den har kust vid Atlanten precis som Stockholm. Det ger fiskemöjligheter för lokalbefolkningen, den infödda folkgruppen ga. I motsats till de jättefärjor som Birka Princess eller Viking Lines Cinderella som man ser vid Slussen i Stockholm, använder fiskarna i Accra kanoter och fisknät. Badstränderna Labadi, Osu, Jamestown och Nungua, för att nämna några, lockar turister som älskar bad, sol och stranden. Färsk fisk är också typiskt för ga-folkets matvanor. Allotei växte upp i Kokomlele, som är en förort till Accra. Det är en del av staden där många som små affärer ligger. Han kom från en stor familj. Ataa Ayi, hans far, hade barn med flera fruar. Allotei hade tre bröder, Ayitey, Ayikwei, Aflah och en syster, Dedei, med samma mamma, Susuana. Han hade samtidigt ytterligare två halvbröder och tre halvsystrar. Allotei var 39 år, journalist och lärare vid Ghanas institut för journalistik i Accra. Innan han bestämde sig för att att studera global elektronisk journalistik på Stockholm universitet hade han varit redaktör på telegrambyrån Ghana News Agency (GNA) på heltid. Livet blev svårt efter hans uppsägning från GNA. Han borjade frilansa på flera tidningar som Daily Graphic, Mirror, Spectator, Entertaining Eye, Echo, Uhuru och Public Agenda i Accra och tidskriften West Africa i London. Livet som frilansjournalist var tufft ekonomiskt. Hans månadsinkomst var helt enkelt oberäknelig. Därför bestämde han sig för att prova lyckan i Sverige. Men varför Sverige? Därför att det var det enda landet i världen där han kunde studera gratis. Allt han behövde var att lämna in två provartiklar och en ansökan till JMK. Med finansiell hjälp från Sussuana hans 70-åriga mamma och Heidi, en rik och generös kusin, köpte han en flygbiljett med ryska flygbolaget Aeroflot till Stockholm. Den 28 mars 1997 lämnade han familjens hus i Kokomlemle, en förort till Accra, i privat bil till flygplatsen varifrån han skulle flyga till Sverige. Aeroflots internationella flight 495 lämnade Kotoka Internationals flygplats i Accra omkring fyra klockan på eftermiddagen en fredag.

Monday 15 July 2013

Should sex work be decriminilised?

Prostitution is defined as the practice of habitual or intermittent sex,more or less promiscuous, for economic considerations .It is characterised by three elements,payment,promiscuity and emotional indifference. It has been suggested that female poverty is the result of sexual discrimination and low wages in the labour market and that prostitution is a strategy for female survival under conditions of poverty A prostitute is any person who earns a living by the indiscriminate, willing and emotionally indifferent provision of services against payment,usually in advance but not necessarily in cash. Prostitution in the context of sex tourism has been labelled as a form of sexual imperialism by sections of the Asian women’s movement who point to the profits made by tour operators from industrial countries by incorporating prostitutes’ services in their packages of services sold to male tourists. This is attributed to the inferior economic position of some Asian countries which sought to gain from international trade through tourism. Another view is that sexuality has now been transformed to sexual labour in the transition to capitalism. Female sexuality has become a commodity as a result of changing perceptions of the value of their sexuality. As new forms of production were introduced, the value of female sexuality has changed and their sexuality and labour have become a new form of property forcing them to use it for their survival. movement There has been attempts to relate prostitution to marriage where women are traded as sexual objects. Marriage may be an economic transaction where girls or women are purchased through a bride price or a fee to an introduction agency. Prostitution has its origin and counterpart in traditional forms of exchange of girls or women for cash, child marriage, temporary marriage and trafficking of women for marriage .The mail order bride industry has integrated the sale of women into the global sex industry where women are trapped by poverty and lack of remedy such as divorce .Here marriage still reflects an aspect of prostitution since women have to allow access to their bodies in return for survival. For example, muta among shia moslems where marriage even for a couple of hours for sex is seen as religiously acceptable is an example. Sale of visual sex for purely economic considerations is not the same as prostitution but amounts to commercialisation of the body. Stripping, flashing and teasing for a living may be analysed at various levels.Firstly, as predominantly sexual .Here, the performance is dominated by sexual activity.Secondly, as predominabtly entertainment by the amount of entertainment it provides by way of dancing.A third variety is a combination of both.The performances include baring of breasts, flashing by lowering the G-string to expose the pubic area, floor work which is that segment which is done,sitting,kneeling or lying on the floor or prop work which may include use of the dance pole on stage. The type of the women who enter stripping tend to narcissistic who are fully aware of their attractiveness.However,the display of skin before a paying audience is purely for economic considerations and not for her own sexual arousal.The strippers basic and salable product is visual sex.The music and dancing used in their a performance are mere accessories.The occupational conditions means,firstly,isolation from affective social relationships,secondly,unsatisfactory relationships with males and thirdly an opportunity structure allowing a wide range of sexual behaviour. As the clubs seek to maximize profits they put on many dancers which creates greater competition , forces down earnings and compels the stripper to engage in practices such as lap dancing or prostitution. The profit levels are are enhanced by the non-payment of benefits such as sick benefits since club owners treat strippers as independent contractors renting space in the club. Female sex tourism by western tourists is motivated by racist stereotypes using sex tourism to boost their privileged race and class status in their interaction with black men in the Africa or the Carribean.The women are looking for black men with good bodies or firm and muscular machines they can control. . The meaning of prostitution in the United Kingdom was determined in law by the decision of the court of Appeal in Regina V McFarlane(1993) when it dismissed an appeal by a man convicted of living on the earnings of prostitution and determined that, in considering the mischief of harassment and nuisance to members of the public on the streets, the distinction between “a clipper” and “a hooker” was immaterial. The unsuccessful appeal was brought by Eric McFarlane, aged 39, from his conviction at Knightsbridge Crown Court, before Judge Hordern, QC and a jury, on a charge of living wholly or in partly on the earnings of the prostitution of a woman, contrary to of the Sexual Offences Act 1956. He was sentenced to four months imprisonment. Prostitutes can be divided,firstly,the lower-class hooker or streetwalker,,secondly,the call girl and thirdly, the pleasure girl.The hooker does not have a fixed address ,relying on passing trade. The call girl is more expensive.Her services are more expensive because of the cost of accommodation and telephone are included.She can afford to be more selective in her choice of customers and services offered.The pleasure- girl includes models, beauty queens, social climbers and cover girls.A term referring to all women using their bodies and female attraction not merely in exchange for money but in pursuit of getting contacts with the famous and powereful and to achieve social advancement. In the indoor markets where the quality of service implies that a hooker may stay with a client for hours rather than minutes, a set routine may emerge. Sandra, a call girl describes the five stage process she goes through with each client as”settling him in”,” getting him going”, getting him to shoot his load”,”reassuring him”, “normalising” and “getting him out.” The prostitute does what every woman continues to do-they sell their bodies for money while women do likewise for love; prostitute’s tease men with their provocative mini skirts while women do the same fully dressed. Women have developed the technique of surviving and being attractive for the sake of her partner and kids while a prostitutes does the same for herself and her customers. They may be divided into two distinct groups.Firstly,those who do it out of free will (voluntary prostitutes) and secondly,those who do it because of their own psycho-neurotic needs(compulsive prostitutes)There may be three factors that influence hers decision in the case of the second group;namely,predisposing ,attracting and precipitating factors. Predisposing factors may be promiscuous parents or a broken home,attractive factors may be monetary gains or a more exciting life and precipitating factors may be unhappy love life. Those who require the services of prostitutes may be divided into various categories. Firstly,the male who for one reason or the other is deprived of sexual gratification.Examples include sailors, soldiers, commercial travellers police men or the widower who may not want to remarry. Secondly, the shy young man who is unable to experiment with girls of his own age group because he is unsure of himself. Thirdly, lonely men who need company. Fourthly,deviant men whose sexual needs are not satisfied by normal intercourse with a woman. Fifthly,husbands or partners of menopausal women who are less inclined to sexual intercourse than they were a few years back. For women between the ages of 45-55,the menopause is a difficult period in terms of sexual intercourse. Symptoms of the menopause include nervousness,headaches,instability,insomnia,poor memory,moodiness,feelings of inadequacy,tiredness,lack of concentration,palpitations,back ache and aching joints,. The loss of oestrogen causes some wasting away of the genital tract resulting in potential irritation and discomfort and reduced sensitivity of the vaginal walls and greater unresponsiveness which in combination with the forgoing factors make a loss of libido likely and even when even intercourse is wanted it can either prove to be less satisfying than usual or less enjoyable or in a number of caseseven quite painful. Men who find themselves in this kind of situation may turn their attention to to street walkers or other types of prostitutes. Reasons given by clients for accessing the services of hookers include,” no other partner” “,not enough sex with wife/partner”, “excitement” and “ an alternative to masturbation. According one client,” doing it myself is not much fun, “Estimates of the numbers of clients based on the numbers of hookers and the amount of work they do indicates that 11 per cent of the adult male population in the UK pays for sex fairly regularly. The level of resources that would be required to police the behaviour of such a large proportion of the population is unthinkable.Police and allied agencies who have to monitor and arrest violent sex offenders are already overstretched. Opponents of prostitution argue that it is not possible to raise prostitution to the level of a profession because professions such as law and medicine require candidates to attain a body of skills and attain an examinable standard assessed by their peers.Professional bodies play gatekeeping roles to ensure that attractive opportunities opportunities open to professionals are not undermined by cheaper unqualified labour. Consequently, licensing of prostitutes would only be meaningful if they are able to undertake courses to equip them for their profession while licensing boards would impose standards which reflect the kinds of knowledge and skills required for the sex provider’s work and protect clients from any harm resulting from her work. Other supporters of prostitution suggest that women possess special sexual skills.Street walkers stress the skills of getting men to ejaculate rapidly to avoid the discomfort of being used too long.Critics of this line of argument state that this consists of moving round and making noises which does not seem to be more specialised than the action of other women who are not getting paid who want the men they live with to end dull sexual intercourse so they can go to sleep. Some of the arguments in favour of decriminalization of prostitution include reduction of teenage pregnancies, elimination traditional hypocrisy and double standards, reduction of crime by bringing down the level of blackmail,violence,pimps.Legalization of brothels will strengthen the marriage bond and reduce the number of divorces.By reducing divorces,it will contribute to strengthening the shrinking family unit and thus reduce juvenile crime. Besides,it has been suggested that prostitution provides a useful social service for the sick,the ugly,the deformed,the old and the disabled.For example,sexual frustration among prisoners is a cause of homosexuality among inmates.This argument is supported by the fact that homosexuality is rampant is residential boys schools where access to the opposite sex is quite restricted. Further,it is argued that female prostitution tends to reduce homosexuality. By associating with females the male learns the traits of sensitivity, tenderness and warmth which will ultimately make him a successful partner.Where masculine traits are lacking the male becomes either too closely associated with the mother or finds himself in a position of conflict with her.His familiarity with persons of the opposite sex other than his mother is adversely affected. This may explain why some men are put off by an increasing number of strong-willed, assertive group of women who as a reaction prefer friendship with other men. Further,at a social level it is argued that decriminalisation will eradicate traditional hypocrisy and make double standards unnecessary as well as reduce crime generally. For example, street walkers who are on drugs work much longer hours than those who are not.Similarly, those who have to pay fines will have to work harder than those who are not caught.More frequent contacts are more likely to result in the spread of sexually transmitted disease.It likely that a prostitute who operates from a licensed brothel would not need the protection of the kind provided by pimps or criminal organizations or need to work long hours and hence find drug use unnecessary. However,it has been suggested that there are pimps whose services prostitutes consider to be an asset by acting as agents. They offer a series of practical services for a price which is necessary such as soliciting for sex by finding clients,giving warnings of police arrivals as well as protection from violence or robbery or giving free sex services. When it comes to present day society,there appears to be some confusion in its approach to love and marriage.Women have worsened the situation by maintaining a degree of universality of her role within marriage and society by claiming that they can be wife,mother,sister,mistress and friend at the same time.Previously,there was a distinction between profane and sacred love and it was considered acceptable that a human being is capable of both of looking up to heaven and wallowing in hell.The distinction between pure and impure love is to highlight the idea that our sexuality is capable of being directed in at least two ways. Indeed, there is a school of thought which divides women into three categories When it comes availability of sexual favours.Firstly,those loyal to one man who would prefer death to ‘forced’ intercourse.Secondly,the not so high minded who would occasionally provide sexual favours to achieve an objective and thirdly,the saleswoman who because of their moral upbringing or environment or hormonal development or psychological heritage attach no importance to their sex organ and are prepared to sell it. According to J.C Flugel in his book “The Psycho Analytic Study of a Family”, the sexual elements of love are more frequently aroused in a woman together with tenderness and esteem whereas in a man, they can be isolated from each other.Most women may only be capable of having sex only with a man with whom they are in love while some men are content with having sex with a slut just for the sake of gratification. Critics of commercial sex argue that it encourages violence against women.“I am down on whores and shan’t quit ripping them till I do get buckled…” is a quote from a letter sent to the press by someone claiming to be Jack the Ripper,the notorious White Chapel murderer in 1888.It has been suggested that prostitution facilitates murder of sex workers.Sex workers experience violence from clients or men who pretend to be clients,vigilantes,muggers,robbers,partners,pimps and managers. Violence from clients and vigilantes and robbers often takes place while the victim is at work.At the street level the public nature of the work exposes them to aggression from street people and clients.A sex worker may have sex in a car,or outdoors,in alleyways, industrial units,parks,derelict buildings buildings or go to the clients home. Potterat et al(2003) state that in the United States . sex workers are more likely to be murdered than women of similar demographic charateristics.They concluded that the homicide rate is many times higher than for any occupation in the developed world.” Location of work is a critical factor regarding the risk of being murdered, The risk of being murdered as a sex worker is higher for street walkers.An analysis of press reports of 84 deaths and disappearances of sex workers in the UK between 1990 and 2004 shows that only one out of the group was male.The majority were street workers who were last seen alive while working.While others worked from pubs and lorry parks.Only one indoor worker was killed at premises were other people were present at the time of the murder.Eight other indoor workers were found dead either in their own premises or in the homes of clients who were subsequently convicted. .Indoor workers may operate alone, making them vulnerable to attack; where they operate in a group they may be targeted for robbery since the more workers there are in one place, the greater the amount of cash likely to be on the premises. Research carried out by Channel 4 in 2002 found 52 per cent of sex workers experienced attacks for no apparent reason. However,some of the possible reasons that may have triggered the attacks include sex workers refusing the type of services the client wanted ,disputes over money or clients refusing to pay,sex workers saying time up before the client could ejaculate after being paid or the client being unable to get an erection. Clients’ problems with ejaculation are frequently related to alcohol use which in itself has potential for violence.Since much sex work takes place at night as pubs and clubs are closing sex workers will be exposed to the effects of alcohol from their clientele. Physical location facilitates violence against street workers since interaction takes place In dark,isolated places where attacks take place.Clients and others who attack sex workers share common social attitudes that sex workers are worthless individuals, degraded women who deserve punishment. It would be difficult change such attitudes as long as policies and public statements about sex work reinforce an atmosphere of abhorrence aimed at shaming and humiliating clients. Sex worker deaths by homicide are likely to be unrecorded since the coding system does not include in its record of “key occupation” those women who have other forms of unemployment or whose involvement in sex work is concealed. Women who work in institutions providing sex-related entertainment such as night clubs,escort services or massage parlours have a sexual identity which is defined as a personal service.They are largely protected from the police,the law and the court.The legal framework in which these commercial institutions they operate does not view prostitutes as criminals but as wage workers. Prostitution law affects them only when it can be proved that they have engaged in sex for money Physical coercion, abduction and debt bondage deprive women of their civil and human rights which are exploited to turn them into objects of slave labour.Whatever physical assets they may possess are to be used to provide pleasure for their clients while they derive no lasting rewards except maintenance provided by the brothel owner who collects all the benefits.In cases of socio-economic coercion women must compete with each other and expose their assets to attract clients.They must also invest in their assets to maintain their value by buying clothing and cosmetics and ensure a certain degree of mobility within the hierarchy of the sex industry.Such mobility determined by the sustainability of their physical appearance and fluctuations in the market. Downward mobility from well paid forms of prostitution to street soliciting may occur in the course of the hooker’s life.Upward mobility is also possible for hookers who use their experience in the different institutions to acquire knowledge about the market in order to operate more independently. The institutionalisation of criminality in prostitution compromises the position of hookers in relation to their employers and clients and worsens the existing relation of patronage. The criminalisation of prostitution renders hookers more vulnerable to control by employers of their physical mobility,labour and earnings.The use of the wage system as a redistributive measure and a bargaining tool is therefore minimised. Discrimination against prostitutes is considered to as one of a more generalized trend of discrimination through sex-stereotyped occupations in the wage labour sector where women are crowded into a limited range of low paid servicing functions on the basis of their gender. A parallel is drawn between prostitution and other sex stereotyped occupations such as waitresses, fashion models and secretaries. Therefore, hookers should not be criticised as the only women opting for work which in some ways panders to male dominance. In a society with sexual disadvantages, the choice presented to women generally by way of wage labour or domestic work is likely to lead to the same trap. The English collective of prostitutes stated in a newsletter it is poverty which should outlawed and prostitution.It is argued that it is one form of women’s struggle to get paid for housework-by getting paid for the sexual services all women are expected to give for free.”After all,who are prostitutes but housewives who go out for an evening job.”Against this thesis it has been stated that it is impossible to equate a housewife with a hooker on the basis of poverty and wagelessness because not all hookers are poor and not all poor housewives enter prostitution. In conclusion,society’s hatred of commercial sex has resulted in laws and law enforcement strategies that prevent neither violence nor exploitation of sex workers.The legal framework makes all forms of sex work dangerous and proposals for making it safe are rejected in order not to encourage prostitution.

Monday 8 July 2013

Stockholm Street dance festival

www.stockholminfo.se www.alltomstockholm.se Sundays can be boring sometimes.However,yesterday was exciting because,I made a chance visit to the Stockholm street dance festival at Kungstrågärden.The audience was big including many tourists.I was reminded of the many street musicians who play around the city to entertain and make a living without having to beg and suffer humiliation.However,some street musicians have been stopped by police or city guards because they had no permission to play at a venue. The team of the group I saw was led by Brian from New York.Others included Ludwig and Vincent from Sweden and Spain respectively.