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Our President Barack Hussein Obama, "The Arrogant One" wants the whole Country to abide by his rules and The United Nations version of the "Right To Bear Arms", which is to eliminate all personal gun ownership in America and the World.
Our fabulous unique one of a kind, unmatched document throughout history and the world, the United States Constitution stands for liberty and freedom. That's why certain individuals would love to back door these scared writings, granting them the opportunity to over throw our government creating a dictatorial form of leadership?
So what else is new; you might ask, tell us something we don't know? Unfortunately though, most of us, who call ourselves, true Patriots, God fearing Americans citizens believing in God and Country, have become sadly complacent and stymied. We have totally ignored the obvious warnings projected right under our noses?
We see what's happening daily. Adverse conditions that are being shoved down our throats, affecting our lives, and we grin and bear it! We shut our eyes and hope these evils will go away? We hear the voices that are used as a spear, piercing through our rights, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, yet we become deaf to its destruction? Our voices of legitimate protest are viciously silenced by our own fears of imbedded past self imposed guilt, compounded by the Liberal/Progressives, which have no bearing on the present or future. We have committed no crime, yet we are assuming guilt, without a proper defense, freely accepting these unwarranted charges and criminal status? We are afraid of being labeled a bigot, a racist, politically incorrect, or mocked at, so we sit back, get stepped on, assume a step child position and do nothing.
We as rightful Patriots must show no fear. We must take pride in out heritage. We must never disgrace our Revolutionary roots or our Forefathers. We must rise up like the Phoenix out of our own ashes by having the strength and courage to speak our minds, and take back our Country legally and peacefully. We must defend and protect all our inalienable rights, which includes the Constitution and a Free America.
These self imposed illegal acts of espionage endorsing rules of non-sense and phony accusations influenced by the liberals, were established to bogusly control the populous to their Socialistic ideologies. We must think outside the box, and remember the strength and brilliance of our fearless forefathers. Are we willing to defend our freedoms, or meekly handing it over, closing and locking the door, throwing away the key?
Why are we helping all those who take great pride and pleasure in seeing America's demise and downfall with little or no resistance? They do everything in their power legally or not, to bully, browbeat and intimidate the true Patriots and Silent Majority into submission. Whether you know it or not its working in their behalf? Their allies are high level socialist/liberal clueless self serving Government bureaucrats, the naïve, the liberal press and the social non-productive leeches of our society who give nothing but demand plenty. We allow these anti-American heathens to infringe their unauthorized actions to destroy our Country and the Constitution.
We allow them to re-write history, and inflict their own false interpretations and atrocities. We have watched our religious faith ridiculed, our holidays mocked, our symbols and places of worship desecrated. Our Flag violated, burnt and dishonored. Our courageous troops used as defenseless pawns, with decreased benefits and we do nothing? We are told to be tolerant, yet tolerance for us doesn't exist. We have stood by while our freedom of speech has been muffled, and we did nothing? We have failed in combating their ignorance and dominance, we have failed as Americans. These are strong words, but we are a strong Nation.
Now to make matters worse our President Barack Hussein Obama, "The Arrogant One" wants the whole Country to abide by his rules and The United Nations version of the "Right To Bear Arms", which is to eliminate all personal gun ownership in America and the World. This fictional Kumbaya moment was initiated to enhance peace and harmony, throughout the World.
We all know this is hogwash. This would leave the American people defenseless. We would be rendered helpless and hopeless, easy pickings for a hostile takeover, wide open for total annihilation as a free Nation. America would become a third rate banana republic with his Highness playing Fidel Castro? This must be stopped? A leopard doesn't change its spots?
Obama is trying to use the United Nation as a weapon to take away and control your gun ownership, by circumventing the Constitution? Never has America allowed the United Nations the ability to write laws for our Republic? This idiocy is only acceptable during the Socialistic Obama Administration joined together with the Liberal/Progressive Party. He has humiliated his oath of Office that states "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States". Was this oath a lie? Has he been lying to the American people all along? Is he actually selling our beloved Country? Is he fiddling while America is burning? Are we actually lighting his torch?
The second amendment is documented in our United States Constitution, written that "a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" These words have been diced and sliced over the years by the Liberals and The Progressives loons, on all levels of Government, and almost at the brink of extinction. These idiots saw it fit to take weapons out of the hands of the law abiding citizens, used to defend family, home, property and self preservation, and into the hands of the murderers and thieves, which prey on the innocent, committing multiple acts of sadistic horrific violence, against humanity.
Thank God we still have the Constitution that protects us against any imperialistic, leaders who self anoints themselves as King or Caesar. Thank God our Forefathers had the intelligence and foresight to protect us with this valuable document against any and all self serving demigod, who would forcefully demand and dominate the populous by ruling in fear, manipulation and mandatory compliance.
The Constitution gave us, the power to rule ourselves and to steer our own destiny. As much as our President wishes he could, he can't lawfully and rightfully change any amendment or word to the Constitution, by himself, waving his tarnished scepter without following correct procedures, established by law. One man, woman or selected group does not have that ultimate power?
What has our Country turned into? Where are the voices of protest? Where's the new bred of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and John Paul Jones? Where are the new Patriots that are willing to take up the gauntlet keeping the pride, courage and vision of all our Forefathers alive, against tyranny and injustice? Where are the Patriots who are willing to use all legal, legitimate peaceful tools at their disposal that were passed down to us from these brave heroes of the Revolution that risked everything so we may live free, and to keep America free?
This next Presidential election is so very important. The future of our Country is at risk. Don't sit idly home and do nothing but complain to the four walls, get out and vote. Don't be fooled again by anyone selling you snake oil or false promises. Don't sell your inalienable rights, liberty and freedoms for a mere bag of shells. Don't shackle or imprison America and the American people to government control? Remember they work for us, "We the People". We must not let our United States of America be destroyed and degraded into a third world Nation. Stand up America! Exerise, Protect and Defend your "Constitutional Rights", before its too late?


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Yes. Like, right now...I should be getting dressed.
This is getting to be a sore subject around here - I postpone EVERYTHING - school starts in less than 4 weeks - and I am still absorbed all day in the lives and laughs of women all over the world. I can tell you who's on vay-cay - but not what we are having for supper - surely it's a phase, and it will pass. Surely
Me too! I finally caved in a got a new phone (Blackberry) so that I would stay off the computer. With my work, etc. I need access to emails and thus....this leads to the blogging world....and then...yes, I use all sense of time. It is really fun but it comes at a price. I think the new phone has given me back at least 10 hours a week of my life. I try to use blogging as a reward. I do this, then I get this....I negotiate with myself.

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Aaron Paul in 'Breaking Bad' – Hunk of the Day
AMC's 'Breaking Bad' is back for it's fifth and final season and with it comes hottie Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman. The show's season premiered last night, July 15th, and Aaron Paul did not disappoint in his role as chemistry teacher Walter White's sidekick.
Aaron Paul may play a skeezy meth dealer, but his body is anything but gross. Unfortunately, he rarely appears shirtless but don't worry, we found a few screen grabs for you. If you're looking for more shirtless pics, we hear the movie 'Perfect Opposites' has a few scenes with Aaron Paul in some very tight leather pants.


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After a few years writing Edje themes and leading teams doing such task, I've faced some errors and I'm going to list them and explain how to start to debug it with a specific tool: edje_player.
General explanations
Edje is the graphical design library, part of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries. Themes are written as plain texts following the Edje Data Collections syntax and compiled with the program edje_cc. Later, it can be used by any program using Edje API.
Communication between code and theme is done via signals and messages. Signals are composed by two strings, source and signal and can be listened or emitted by a program block in the theme without the need of scripts. Messages can be more complex, can be a float, an integer, a string, an array of these types or a composition, like a string + a float, for example. Also, messages have identifier number. But to handle messages, the theme needs scripts.
So it is a bit error prone regarding typos, since it wouldn't be checked in compile time (this issue can be reduced with the recently added codegen). Also, many other issues can happen, like a part not appearing where you expected, or a transition that doesn't seem to be triggered.
Edje Player, more than just a tool used to visualize the theme, can be used to debug it. Between many options, the more relevant are:
- -g –group : an edc file can have many groups, so if you want to load a group different from "main", or from the first group of the collection, it should be used. E.g.: edje_player -g groupname file.edc. If you can't remember the group name, groups can be listed with "–list-groups" option.
- -Z –size : will try to set a specific size, but minimum sizes will be respected. If not set it will try a default size (that also will respect theme minimum size). E.g.: edje_player -Z 500×500 file.edc
- -p –print : used to print signals and messages emitted by the theme to stdout. E.g.: edje_player -p file.edc
- -S –slave-mode : really useful mode that will make edje player listen for commands on stdin. E.g.: edje_player -S file.edc. Main commands:
- help: list all possible commands
- signal <emission> <source> : send a signal to edje. If whitespaces are required the string should use double quotes. E.g.: signal "play next" player
- message <id> <type> <args list>: sends a message to edje. It supports all message types, and args list can vary depending on them, so check the list with help. E.g.: message 2 Float 0.4
Usually when facing the following issues, an inexperienced developer tends to waste a lot of time digging into themes code just to get to the conclusion that it was an error in the program code, or make many changes to the program code to trigger the issue more easily or to print debugging information, like adding callbacks to signal "*" "*" of some objects.
So, as a first step, it's required to check if it's an issue on the theme or the program code, and I'm providing some suggestions of how to validate the theme using edje_player in many cases.
A general advice: check for typos in signals / sources and part names (for the case of swallows). To prevent it if used in more than one place, you could define a constant.
Animation to be tested is hard to trigger
Suppose you need to test / debug an animation that is triggered only after many interactions in your software, or it only happens after a long task. If the theme program that starts it listens for a signal or message, you can send it using Edje Player slave mode and save a lot of time. If the program is called by others using the after command or via script, you can add a signal there just for debugging purposes (or call the parent program of the whole chain).
Part with apparently wrong geometry
Using the info command of slave mode it will return the geometry of the part.
E.g.: info bg => INFO: "bg" 0,0,512,380
These four values are x and y coords, width and height of the part named "bg".
If you receives the expected size, but yet theme looks wrong, and if the part is a swallow or text, many issues can be happening, like the swallowed object having a problem instead of the theme. In this case, you can change its type for a rectangle just to validate the part sizing.
Transition triggered by signal doesn't play
If a transition that should be triggered by a signal doesn't play, first thing to check is if it is an issue with the transition itself or it is the signal not being emitted by the code. For that, just use the signal command of the slave mode. If the transition plays, you know the theme is fine, you should look for a typo on signal emission on program code or check if it's not being emitted at all.
Transition triggered by message doesn't play
The same approach as transition triggered by signal should be used, but here, instead of typos on signal / source, you need to assure the message id and type are correct (or any other checks you are doing in your script). Using the message command of the slave mode is enough for an initial investigation.
Callback of signal or message isn't called
To check if a theme is emitting a signal or message, you can run edje_player with -p argument. In this case, all the emitted signals and messages will be printed to stdout. If the emission you are looking for is done after a user interaction like clicking a part, dragging, mouse over, etc., just do it and you should read it in your terminal.
If the theme should emit it after a signal or message emitted by the program code, you should run edje player with -p and -S arguments, so it will also run in slave mode. For signals, use signal command, for messages, message command.
If you can see the signal / message emitted by the theme in your terminal, the theme is validated. You should check for:
- typos of signal / message
- callback added to the wrong object
- code that adds the callback isn't even called.
- callbacks are deleted before signal / message emission.
Script variables debugging
Embryo scripts run in a sandbox, you can't print to terminal directly to see a variable value. An easy way to check these values is to send signals or messages with the variables to be checked and run edje player with -p argument, so they will be print to stdout. With that you can inspect integer, string or float variables.
Signals are sent in embryo with emit(signal, source) and messages are sent in embryo with send_message(type, id, values list). For a full list of supported functions by embryo script, check the following files:
- INSTALL_PREFIX/share/edje/include/edje.inc
- INSTALL_PREFIX/share/embryo/include/default.inc
A simple example of a theme that shows a background with a message to the user explaining it will emit a signal back when it receives 'hello' from source 'player':
/* Simple EDC exemplifying how to receive and emit signals */ collections { group { name: "main"; parts { part { name: "bg"; type: RECT; mouse_events: 0; description { state: "default" 0.0; min: 500 50; max: 500 50; color: 0 0 0 255; } } part { name: "text"; type: TEXT; mouse_events: 1; description { state: "default" 0.0; color: 255 255 255 255; text { font: "Sans"; size: 20; text: "I will reply to the signal 'hello' 'player'"; } } } } programs { program { name: "reply"; signal: "hello"; source: "player"; action: SIGNAL_EMIT "hi" "theme"; } } } }
It should be compiled and played:
edje_cc signals.edc edje_player -p -S signals.edj
It will start sending some signals by default to the theme. After that, you can move the mouse cursor over the text. It will emit signals related to mouse movement. It will print in output:
SIGNAL: "mouse,in" "text" SIGNAL: "mouse,move" "text" SIGNAL: "mouse,move" "text" SIGNAL: "mouse,out" "text"
This kind of signals are not emitted when the cursor moves over the background because the "bg" part was set to not handle it with "mouse_events: 0".
To emit the 'hello' signal, just type:
signal hello player
and you'll see the following output:
SIGNAL: "hello" "player" SIGNAL: "hi" "theme"
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I have been using Barca for the past 3 years and enjoy its email and organizer facility. However I think I might need to stop using it as I feel the Calendar is very basic. I was used to Lotus Organizer and even now Google calendar works better.
Is it possible to have add-ons in the main Calendar that show:
Country Holidays eg UK, USA, France, Portugal, Spain and so on... (like Google Calendar)
Phases of the Moon
Anniversaries (like in Organizer). I know you can do it by creating a contact and inputing their birthday but what about their partners, children, etc... ?


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Out with the old, in with the new!
Three alums from the improv comedy troupe Second City will be joining the cast of Saturday Night Live as featured players this season, NBC announced Monday.
SNL recruits two Second City alums for new season
As previously reported, Tim Robinson and Aidy Bryant will come on board this season. Monday's announcement also included the casting of Cecily Strong. In addition to performing at Second City, all three have studied and performed at the iO improv theater in Chicago.
The new players are the latest batch of Second City alums to join the SNL cast. Others include Bill Hader, Tina Fey and Chris Farley.
Will Jason Sudeikis return to Saturday Night Live?
The SNL cast has gone through quite a bit of shuffling since the end of last season, with Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg and Abby Elliott all announcing their departures.
Saturday Night Live kicks off its 38th season on Sept. 15, with Seth MacFarlane hosting and Frank Ocean as the musical guest.
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Almost 17 years after he died while comforting a client during a blizzard on Mt Everest, Kiwi mountain climbing guide Rob Hall will have his heroic story immortalised by Hollywood.
Academy Award-winning actor Christian Bale, whose roles include Batman and Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, will play Mr Hall.
Mr Hall died on Mt Everest in 1996 during a storm that claimed the lives of seven others, including fellow New Zealander Andrew Harris.
Mr Hall's decision to remain with ailing American climber Doug Hansen instead of descending to basecamp as the storm struck was chronicled in the book Into Thin Air, written by journalist Jon Krakauer, who was a member of the climbing party.
Guy Cotter, a close friend of Mr Hall's who took over the running of his guiding company, Adventure Consultants, after his death, said he had been consulted during the project's early stages and was hopeful it would be an accurate reflection of what took place.
"We've seen some fairly trashy renditions of what went on in '96, so it is actually good to see that there are some real professionals who want to make a real story of it rather than just doing the standard drama that appeals to everyone's preconceived notions of what mountaineers are like," Mr Cotter said.
"Most people close to mountaineering probably don't have a whole lot of faith that a good climbing movie will ever be made."
At this stage titled Everest, the film is to be based on interviews and written accounts from survivors of the disastrous May 1996 ascent attempt.
A Working Title Films and Universal Pictures project, Everest will be directed by Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormkur, whose credits include The Deep and Contraband.
Into Thin Air was made into a television movie in 1997.
The book's account of events was criticised by several people involved in the tragedy, including Russian mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev, the lead guide from a rival company.
Krakauer's account criticised Mr Boukreev's decision to return to basecamp ahead of his clients to rest. However Mr Boukreev and his supporters defended that decision, pointing out that it allowed him to return and rescue three climbers once the storm had passed.
No clients of Mr Boukreev's company, Mountain Madness, died during the climb, although the company's founder, Scott Fischer, perished in the storm.
Mr Boukreev was killed by an avalanche in 1997.
Mark Inglis, a contemporary of Mr Hall's who in 2006 became the first double amputee to scale Everest, said Bale was a good choice to play the Kiwi mountaineer.
"He's a serious guy, and that's Rob."
Having been criticised for failing to assist stricken British climber David Sharp - who later died on the mountain - during his own ascent, Mr Inglis was concerned how Mr Hall's decisions would be portrayed.
"I've been through all this s*** with my own trip up Everest," Mr Inglis said.
"It's a bloody sight more difficult that anyone ever thinks. That's the worry [with the movie]. I think it's really cool that they are doing something but I hope it is made in the right way."
Mr Inglis would not say whether he believed Mr Hall had made the right decision to stay with his client during the storm.
"That's too hard for me to answer. Every one of us that go to Everest now have learned the lesson from Rob and Andy. It's not just Rob, Andy died that day as well."
The climbing season of 1996 is the most deadly on record at Mt Everest, with 15 people dying attempting to conquer the summit.
What happened that year, and to Mr Hall's expedition in particular, had changed the way guiding companies operated on Everest, Mr Cotter said.
"We all work together a lot more closely to provide assistance and support when things are going wrong. It kind of made the industry growup."
Everest will be competing with another film of the same name being made by Sony.
Based on Jeffrey Archer's book Paths of Glory and directed by Sheldon Turner, the Sony version will tell the story of George Mallory, the British climber who died on his third attempt to become the first man to scale Mt Everest.
Mr Hall's former wife Dr Jan Arnold could not be reached for comment as she is holidaying in South America.
Last words of a man expecting to die
Rob Hall was out of oxygen and had been exposed to the elements for two days and a night during the Everest blizzard.
The wind-chill factor was 100C below zero.
He had chosen to stay with American client Doug Hansen, but Hansen succumbed.
With his strength failing, he asked the people at basecamp to put him through to his wife, Jan Arnold, who was in Christchurch, seven months pregnant.
"Hi, my sweetheart," he said to her.
Ms Arnold tried to comfort him. He said his last words to her: "I love you. Sleep well, my sweetheart. Please don't worry too much." And then he was gone.
Later, Ms Arnold remembered how she felt during the call.
"He sounded like Major Tom or something [from David Bowie's Space Oddity] like he was just floating away. Rob and I had talked about the impossibility of being rescued from the summit ridge. As he himself had put it, 'You might as well be on the moon'."


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The Tampa Bay Rays have signed free agent designated hitter Luke Scott to a one-year, major league contract. To make room on the 40-man roster, the Rays have designated for assignment right-handed pitcher Dane De La Rosa.
Scott, 34, will earn a base salary of $2.75 million in 2013. The De Leon Springs, Fla., native spent his first season with the Rays in 2012 and hit .229 (72-for-314) with 14 home runs, 55 RBI and 22 doubles in 96 games. He missed 45 games over two stints on the disabled list with back stiffness (June 9-28) and a mild strain of his right oblique (July 21-August 20). He hit .260 (59-for-227) with 12 home runs against right-handed pitching in 2012 and is a .270 hitter with a .353 on-base percentage against righthanders for his career.
In eight major league seasons, the left-handed hitter has totaled 126 home runs and 396 RBI with a .260 batting average and .341 on-base percentage. He has spent time with the Houston Astros (2005-07), Baltimore Orioles (2008-11) and Rays (2012).
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Officials probe E. coli outbreak in 6 states
(AP) ATLANTA - A mysterious and scattered outbreak of the E. coli bacteria is linked to 14 illnesses, including a child's death, health officials say.
No form of contaminated food or other cause has been identified in the illnesses, which occurred in April and May, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Three people were hospitalized. One a child in the New Orleans area died last week.
The reported illnesses were spread across six states. Georgia had five cases, Louisiana four, Alabama two, and Tennessee, Florida and California each had one.
E. coli is a large family of bacteria and most strains are harmless. The most deadly strain is considered E. coli O157:H7, which became well-known in the early 1990s through a deadly outbreak associated with hamburger meat.
Six similar strains are also considered dangerous and one of them is E. coli O145, the strain identified in this new outbreak. Health officials haven't been tracking O145 intensively for very long; it was only in 2009 that the CDC began recommending labs test for it.
"These are not newly emerging bacteria. Our awareness of them has been improving," said Stacey Bosch, who's leading the investigation into the outbreak for the CDC.
People tend to get sick two to eight days after ingesting the bacteria. It's most dangerous to very young and very old people and those with weakened immune systems. For those people, it's more likely that the toxins made by the bacteria will poison the blood and cause kidney failure, experts say.
The first U.S. foodborne outbreak linked to O145 occurred in 2010, when more than two dozen people in at least five states were sickened by bacteria transmitted through romaine lettuce. Health officials have also seen instances where it was spread through water and deer meat.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently enacted measures to step up detection of different strains of E. coli in meat, including the O145 strain. CDC officials say they've seen no evidence that meat was the source of the new outbreak.
Until the source of the new outbreak is identified, health officials can offer the public only general advice for avoiding the infection: Cook meat thoroughly. Avoid unpasteurized milk and ciders. And if you have a diarrhea-like illness wash your hands thoroughly and do not prepare meals for others.
"People more seriously affected by the disease may have blood in their stool, fever and become extremely fatigued. If you suspect you are infected, see your doctor immediately," said Dr. Raoult Ratard, the Louisiana state epidemiologist, in a prepared statement.


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The Asian Clearing Union (ACU) was established at the initiative of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). The Draft Agreement Establishing the ACU, was finalized at a meeting of senior officials of the governments and central banks held at ESCAP, Bangkok, in December 1974 after five central banks (India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) signed the Agreement. Bangladesh and Myanmar were the sixth and seventh signatories to this Agreement. Bhutan and Maldives signed the Agreement in 1999 and 2009 respectively . At present, there are nine member countries, consisting of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Asian Clearing Union (ACU) was established in December 1974 and began its operations by the first week of November 1975. The secretariat office is located in Tehran, Iran. Myanmar formally applied for membership in November 1976 and became a member of the ACU on January 13, 1977. Participation in the ACU shall be opened to the Central Bank of Monetary Authority of each regional member or associate member of ESCAP.
The Governor and the Deputy Governor serve as Director and Alternate Director of the Board of Directors of the ACU for the Central Bank of Myanmar, and the Director of Accounts Department serves as the officer-in-charge of the ACU for Myanmar.
The Central Bank of Myanmar has assigned the Myanma Foreign Trade Bank, the Myanma Investment and Myanma Economic Bank for the purpose of payments to be made through the clearing facility.
The Asian Clearing Union seeks to achieve four basic objectives for its participating countries. They are: -
The accounts of the ACU are kept in a common unit of account designated as Asian Monetary Units (AMUs). The value of one AMU is, with effect from 1.1.1996, be equivalent in value to one US dollar. The AMU is denominated as ACU Dollar. According to the approval of the 37th ACU BOD Meeting, the AMUs are denominated as ACU dollar and ACU euro which are equivalent in value to one US dollar and one Euro, respectively with effect from January 1, 2009.
Myanmar hosted (i) the 8th meeting of the Board of Directors of the ACU in Yangon on February 4 ~ 5, 1980 (ii) the 15th meeting of the Board of Directors of the ACU in Yangon on April 21 ~ 22, 1987 (iii) the 24th meeting of the Board of Directors of the ACU in Yangon on August 25 ~ 26, 1994, (iv) the 30th meeting of the Board of Directors of the ACU in Yangon on May 28 ~ 29, 2001, (v) the 37th meeting of the Board of Directors of ACU in Nay Pyi Taw on June 16 ~ 17, 2008.
Myanmar exports beans, timber, ply wood, betel nuts, dry ginger, natural rubber latex and other commodities to ACU member countries. Myanmar imports bicycle, parts for tractor, medicine and other commodities form ACU member countries.


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If the music industry gave out awards for patience or persistence, Bevan Herbekian would have a healthy handful of trophies to his name. The multi-instrumentalist has lent his songwriting and frontman skills to everything from loose punk bands to a highly orchestrated indie pop quartet over the course of the past decade and a half, in addition to playing bass on other people's songs — at the moment, he's part of fellow Berkeleyite M. Lockwood Porter's band — so he's no stranger to the realities of trying to "make it" as a musician. But Teenager, the moniker under which Herbekian has decided to release his first truly solo album, represents something new for the songwriter: A chance to blend every genre he's ever loved, to talk about his travels to New York and subsequent, requisite disllusionment with it, a musical space where he doesn't have to bend to anyone else's desires.
The resulting joy is contagious — The Magic of True Love, which comes out April 29, is full of unabashedly earnest, tightly crafted pop songs with seriously big instrumentation. There are head-bobbers, there's high-flying falsetto, there are shout-along soul choruses. His voice carries the energy of someone very young, but these aren't songs written by a newbie. Herbekian decided to realease one new song off the album each week leading up to the release, which means you can listen to quite a bit of it online. To be real, though, you should probably buy it. It's catchy as shit, and the guy's been at it long enough.
We caught up with him this week to hear about songwriting influences, going solo, and exactly how much time he spent listening to Nevermind.
San Francisco Bay Guardian Your bio says you're from a small Northern California town. Where, exactly?
Bevan Herbekian I was born in Bennett Valley and raised there until I was 13. It's that small stretch of countryside/small town between Petaluma & Santa Rosa proper that hides behind the hills off the 101. When I was in junior high, my family moved to Avila Beach, which is a tiny beach town on the central coast. It's got two streets and a population of a few hundred. It made Bennett Valley look like a real urban center.
SFBG When and how did you first start playing music? What instrument was the first? How many do you play now?
BH I started playing music when I was about 12. My dad taught me the riff to Nirvana's "Come As You Are" and I urgently learned the rest of the album on an acoustic guitar. It was one of those aha! moments for me. I was totally hooked and immediately wanted to start a punk band, but everyone I knew played guitar, so I hopped over to bass. Since then I've taken to the other rock 'n' roll instruments — piano, organ/keyboards, simple synth stuff, various percussion — I humor myself on drums and basically anything else I can get my hands on.
SFBG What's the first record you really remember loving?
BH Unquestionably, Nirvana's Nevermind. Around the same time I picked up the guitar, I borrowed a cassette of Guns & Roses' Use Your Illusion from a friend's 'cool' older brother — he was in high school so he was automatically cool. My dad caught me walking through the front door with it and said something along the lines of 'you don't want to listen to that garbage' and took the tape, but not in the normal parents-are-a-drag sort of way. An hour later he gave it back to me having recorded Nevermind over it. I remember sitting on the floor of my room hearing those drums kick in and thinking what is this?! It was so loud and aggressive and passionate and vulnerable and somehow just as catchy as the early Beatles stuff that I loved as a little kid. Overnight, I became obsessed. I couldn't stop listening to it. I literally listened to it every day before school for a year.
SFBG Can you name some of the bands you've been in before? The last time the Bay Guardian checked in with you, you were in The 21st Century.
BH Yeah, I've spent much of the last 15 years playing in bands. Prior to Teenager I was leading The 21st Century which was this highly orchestrated Indie-Pop/Rock octet with horns and harmonies and big songs in general. Before that I was working on solo stuff similar to what I'm doing now and playing in a fun experimental art-rock(?) band called The Tea Set and of a band/friendship club called World's Best Dad. Right now, I'm also playing bass in M. Lockwood Porter which is a really sweet Americana/rock 'n' roll band led by fellow 21st Centurier Max Porter.
SFBG How was making an album on your own different from with a group? What made it feel like time to do that? It's interesting, because so many people, when they decide to "go solo," put out a really stark and stripped-down album, but this record sounds really BIG on all levels, in the best possible dramatic power-pop sense….got some '70s arena-rock guitar riffs, soul jams with big backup vocals, some choruses that sound like younger (less cheesy) Billy Joel stuff.
BH Ha, that's funny and pretty true! Yeah, this album came on the heels of being in a band with a lot of people. As is the case whenever working with a large group, there are many competing ideas and opinions. This can be a tremendous strength, but the songs that became this record were incredibly personal and I just found myself wanting to work on them in a solitary way. I had a strong sense of where I wanted to take them — kind of a 'more is more' philosophy — and when you have that sort of clarity, it's best to do it yourself. It's true, many of these songs are BIG and that's been something I've been chasing for a few years. These songs grew out of some very big feelings so it seemed like the right way to bring them to life. There's love and loss and desire and deep disappointment running through them so I wanted them to sound as large as it all felt.
SFBG On that note — how would you describe your genre on this album? Who would you point to as your biggest influences?
BH I love so much music and I like trying my hand at a lot of different types, so there's a handful of genres represented here. I see this album almost like a mixtape of my life. There's nods to many of my musical loves. There's some rock 'n' roll, '60s soul, indie pop, folk, and '90s alternative (do people still say that?). In terms of musical influences, I gravitate towards songwriting. I love the melodies and arrangements of Brian Wilson and Motown. The literary and lyrical precision of Leonard Cohen and Belle & Sebastian blow my mind. Bands like The Pixies, Big Star, Harry Nilsson, and Beck — they're all staples too…and like many of us, I was indoctrinated at an early age into the ultimate Beatles fan club by my dad so that's a part of my musical DNA too.
SFBG Where does the moniker Teenager come from?
BH With The 21st Century, I was unapologetically ambitious. Even the band name was a kind of over-the-top statement of bravado and staking claim on something bold and large. Coming out of that, I veered the opposite direction. I thought, what's one of the more misunderstood, under-appreciated, and generally dismissed groups around? And I arrived at Teenager. I think it was also a chance to acknowledge how long I've been writing and recording music at home. In a lot of ways, I've been doing the same thing for about 16 years so I thought in a way, my time as a musician and songwriter is dead center in those teenager years. Given the pair of meanings, it somehow felt strangely appropriate.
SFBG Plans for the next year?
BH Well, I've been putting together a new lineup to play these songs out. I'm quite excited about that. I'm eager to tour come early Fall. Also, because this album was such a labor of love and took such a long time, I'm sitting on a lot of backlogged material. My hope is to get into the studio and cut it all by the end of the year and then whittle it down — maybe to a double album. I've never made one and have always been a bit against them in principle — I like editing – -but I think it might be time to give it a try.
SFBG Where do you live in the Bay Area? How does being from Northern California/living here influence your music?
BH I lived in San Francisco for a few years and had a stint in Oakland, and now I'm living in Berkeley. Honestly, I'm not sure how Northern California plays a part in my music. To me, it's home and sometimes it's hard to see your home for what it really is. But I love the city and the redwoods and the ocean and the mountains. Being surrounded by all that beauty can really instigate some large dreams and make you feel like the world is an astounding place.
SFBG Bay Area meal/restaurant/food item you couldn't, hypothetically, live without?
BH Without hesitation, La Taqueria followed by banana cream pie and a cup of coffee from Mission Pie. I've dubbed it the 'double threat' and there are times when I do it twice a week. No joke, I did it today.


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Culture clash
Soccer's fine, but in Mexico and Bhutan, and on the Philippines, many people find other traditional sports even more exciting.
Wild and western
Charros, Mexico's cowboys, demonstrate their prowess with horses before huge audiences. Their charreada, a mix of different equestrian sports, is similar to the U.S. rodeo – and a bone of contention among animal rights activists.
Bow and arrow
The local soccer ground is to Germany what the archery range is to Bhutan: Every village, however small, has one, and everyone turns up at competitions. A hit from 140 meters away is celebrated with a traditional victory dance.
Cut and thrust
Arnis, better known as Filipino Martial Arts, is the national sport of the Philippines. Not only are hands and feet allowed as weapons, but in some contests also sticks, knives, daggers and swords.


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I have a belgian dubble in 2ndary for 10 days so far and from 1 it had an active airlock (actually a blow-off tube). Not traub, but co2 into the adjacent grolwer of water. There has been a layer of traub on top, but not expelled through blow off tube. Last night as I was getting ready for bed, I noticed what looked like carbonatin bubbles on the side of the carboy. What should I do? I was thinking of racking to tertiary fermentation. I am heading out of town tomorrow and don't want to have this hanging on my mind!
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Barbara Weaver Smith, The Large Account Sales Expert with guest, Ray Weaver
This program is part of The Whale Hunters Expert Series, featuring interviews with experts on business development and enterprise sales. Today's episode is geared to CEOs, sales and marketing leaders and other executives of small and midsize companies, especially tech companies and marketing companies.
My guest today is Ray Weaver, the new CEO of The Whale Hunters. Ray is a business veteran, leader and entrepreneur with 25 years of broad experience in technology, e-commerce, consulting, retail, entertainment and education. He co-founded Muse Paintbar and grew it to 30 stores along the east coast, and more recently founded Skeleton Key, an escape room concept.
Ray spent five years on the marketing faculty at the Harvard Business School—and before that was a technology marketing exec at Akamai, did a stint at Intel, and was a consultant at Deloitte.
Ray will be talking about his upcoming book, Sputnik's Grandchild™, which explores the emerging explosion in science and technology brought on by the pandemic and offers you a framework to explore the forces, phases, and trends that will impact your business and markets. Additionally, it suggests how these issues will influence sales and marketing strategy and customer conversations.
You will learn:
1. Why this pandemic is the modern Sputnik
2. 3 forces creating economic changes
3. 3 phases of the post-pandemic economy
4. 5 trends that will impact your business
5, How to reframe your business to survive, evolve, and thrive post COVID-19
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text: Campaign Hits MilestoneHamline is pleased to announce it has raised more than $20 million for construction of the Carol Young Anderson and Dennis L. Anderson University Center. This meets the university's financing benchmark goal for the project. The university will continue to raise funds with the aspiration of reaching an even higher number by the building's official grand opening and dedication, which takes place October 5, 2012."Through their generous leadership gift, alumna Carol Young Anderson and her late husband Dennis Anderson allowed us to begin to realize the dream for this new university center," Hamline University President Linda Hanson said. "We have been inspired by their generosity and by the gifts of many other donors, including trustees, alumni, friends, and Hamline community members who have stepped forward to participate in this transformational effort to build the Anderson Center. Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations Tony Grundhauser and his entire staff have my profound gratitude for their persistence and professionalism in reaching this goal."Pledges and gifts for the Anderson Center ranged from $1,000 by those who donated a permeable brick to Alumni Way to the $10 million contributed by the Andersons, for whom the building is named. Of the bricks, 332 are in place on Alumni Way, and another 115 bricks will be engraved on site over the next few weeks."I would like to thank each staff and faculty member who participated in the campaign this past year and those who donated a brick to Alumni Way. We are also grateful for the overwhelming support of the Board of Trustees and the Campaign Steering Committee, led by Campaign Chairman Dick Hoel '69, a longtime Hamline Board member who was recently named an emeritus trustee," said Tony Grundhauser, vice president of development and alumni relations. "The trustees and the steering committee continue to do an outstanding job of keeping us on track throughout our fundraising efforts. They have been instrumental in the success we have achieved, introducing our staff to many donors and personally asking for gifts.""I am elated we are able to give a substantial portion of our accumulated estate to Hamline University," Carol Anderson said. "Hamline has been very much a part of our lives. My memories of Hamline are intertwined with memories of World War II, as the war impacted our college years from start to finish. One effect may have been that women had opportunities for leadership we might not have had in more normal times. I am so thankful for the years I had at Hamline; they were like no other years in my life. I feel blessed that we are able to give back to this university that has served Dennis and me so well. I feel this university center is an incredibly worthy investment." More on the Andersons Carol Young Anderson and Dennis L. Anderson are longtime supporters of Hamline. After graduating from Hamline University in 1946 with a degree in sociology, Carol married Dennis Anderson, and they farmed and managed a ranch in South Dakota for the next several decades. Over the years, Carol Anderson volunteered her time and talent as a member of the South Dakota State Board of Social Services and the State Board for the League of Women Voters. Twice she was named the Democratic Party candidate from Pennington County for the South Dakota State House of Representatives, and she has held a unique position as the first female president of the YMCA board of directors in Rapid City, South Dakota. Carol served on the Hamline University Board of Directors from 1993-2001 and as chair of the estate planning and endowment committee for the New American University Campaign. Carol resides in Rapid City, South Dakota. The Andersons have made a previous gift of $1 million to endow the Carol Young Anderson and the Dennis Anderson Chair in the Social Sciences. Added to their gift for the University Center, and their 50+ years of annual support, their total giving to Hamline University exceeds $10 million.More on the Anderson Center Resting on the southwest edge of Hamline's Saint Paul campus at the corner of Snelling and Englewood avenues, the Anderson Center is a 75,000 square foot building that will serve as the anchor gathering place on campus for commuter and residential students, faculty, staff, and visitors. The three-level glass and terra cotta building includes solar panels and a green roof. It has large and small meeting spaces, a computer bar, dining facilities, a coffee shop, a meditation room, an outdoor terrace, and an underground parking garage. Architectural firm Shepley Bulfinch designed the building, and Roseville-based McGough constructed it."Our exceptional design and construction teams, in collaboration with our outstanding staff in Facilities Services made this building a reality," said Doug Anderson, Hamline's vice president for finance. "The project is on time and on budget." The use of green building techniques and technologies will maximize the energy efficiency of the Anderson Center. Included in the building design are roof top solar panels that will generate up to 17 kilowatts of electricity and a green roof to help reduce water run-off and heat loss. The building also features the extensive use of windows to increase the amount of natural light inside. The green roof is now planted and installed around the terrace of the Anderson Center with a total area of plant coverage of 1800 square feet. This will not only provide energy and sound insulation, but it creates beautiful and lush surroundings on the third-floor terrace.Watch the construction of Alumni Way and see the final touches made to the Anderson Center via a live streaming camera on the construction site.


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- Paper: SU! Basic Black, SU! Retired Halloween Paper,
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- Embellies: Kaiser Craft Pearls, Black Crochet Lace, Gingham ribbon from Papertrey
Tomorrow I am hoping to get a lot accomplished in my craft room and hopefully start filming some more videos for you all!


text: Our recap of the year's best exploratory exploits continues today with a look at the biggest developments in space exploration. 2012 saw the stunning debut of new spacecraft (Curiosity), the continued contributions of geriatric ones (Voyager), and the first full year since the end of the Space Shuttle program. Casey Dreier of The Planetary Society nominated 8 particularly meaningful developments from the last twelve months. Image: Dreier's pick for image of the year, a Cassini photograph of Saturn's north pole through an infrared filter. (Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Emily Lakdawalla) Exoplanets, Near and Far It's been another good year for exoplanets, as the Kepler mission entered its extended mission with 105 confirmed planets under its belt. A different group of researchers, working with data from a telescope in Chile, found a planet orbiting our closest stellar neighbor – Alpha Centauri. The planet speeds around its star at a distance of just 6 million kilometers; for comparison, mercury only gets as close as 46 million kilometers to our Sun. Image: An artist's impression of a small planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our solar system. (Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org) Mars Rover Curiosity On August 5th, the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft cut through the Martian atmosphere, deployed a supersonic parachute, and lowered the Curiosity rover from a hovering, retro-rocket-powered platform, placing it gently on the surface. The mind-boggling sequence of events, nicely dramatized in the viral video "7 Minutes of Terror," went down perfectly, marking the beginning of the mission's geological exploration of Gale Crater. Over the next several months, the car-sized machine underwent deliberate testing and tentative drives to make sure the payload was in working order. In the process, the science team found small organic molecules (of uncertain origin) and evidence of ancient water flow "somewhere between ankle and hip deep," according to co-investigator William Dietrich. In 2013, Curiosity will make its way to the towering Mount Sharp, where it will zap and sniff layered rock deposits to determine if habitable conditions once existed in Gale Crater. Image: One of Curiosity's self portraits. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems) Private Spaceflight Takes Off … For Real This Time The private space industry has been making noise for a while now, signing up willing customers for suborbital flights and casting reality shows to help fund a mission to Mars, but its accomplishments had been rather spotty. Until this year, that is, when SpaceX became the first company to successfully deliver cargo to the International Space Station. Of course, most of the company's money is coming from NASA at this point, but proponents point to SpaceX's lack of red tape, innovative technologies, and bold vision as game-changers. The company has signed contracts with private and public partners alike, forming a promising foundation for a sustainable and profitable mode of space travel and transportation. To many new graduates, SpaceX has become the "it" place to work, playing a rocket scientist's Google to NASA's IBM. Image: SpaceX's Dragon Capsule approaches the International Space Station. (Credit: NASA) A Long, Long Voyage The Voyager spacecraft are our most well traveled probes, high-tailing it toward the outer edge of our Solar System since 1977. The mission celebrated 35 years of operations this year, and marked the occasion by discovering a new region of the solar system. Previous estimates placed Voyager 1 outside the Sun's reach, but instead, it's reached "a magnetic highway where the magnetic field of the Sun is connected to the outside," according to Project Scientist Ed Stone. Because the magnetic field lines haven't changed direction, the team still believes Voyager is officially still in the Solar System, but it likely won't be for long. Image: Voyager 2's farewell image of Uranus, taken in 1986. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The Holy GRAIL of Lunar Gravity Mapping The GRAIL mission comprised twin spacecraft – with two of the best names in recent memory, Ebb and Flow – tasked with mapping the Moon's gravitational field and internal structure. The orbiters acquired data for nearly 12 months, producing beautiful detailed maps of surface and subsurface features. In the Bouguer gravity anomaly map above, contributions from surface features like mountains and valleys are removed; results indicate variations in crustal thickness or rock density. Based on this latest mine of data, the GRAIL team has shown that a very thin veneer of crust underlies some of the largest impact basins like Crisium and Moscoviense. On December 17th, Ebb and Flow enacted a kamikaze maneuver, crashing into the surface near the north Lunar pole and conducting a final experiment on the surface's properties in the process. Image: Maps of the moon's Bouguer gravity anomalies as measured by NASA's GRAIL mission. (Credit: NASA / JPL / GSFC / MIT) A Disappointing Budget Not all was exciting new discoveries and dramatic Mars landings in the world of space exploration: The proposed FY2013 NASA budget put a damper on scientific successes by slashing the planetary science program. The draft budget lowered planetary science's slice of the pie from $1.5 billion to $1.2 billion, a cut of 20 percent during a period of remarkable accomplishments. In response to the news, NASA was forced to back out of international partnerships on missions such as the Mars Trace Gas Orbiter and the ExoMars rover. To some NASA scientists, the budget proposal was both troubling and perplexing. As scientist Jim Bell explained to the Planetary Society, "How many government programs can you think of that consistently fill people with pride, awe, and wonder? NASA's planetary exploration program is one of the few, and so it seems particularly ironic and puzzling that it has been so specifically targeted for such drastic budget cuts." Image: An artist's conception of the European Space Agency's ExoMars rover. (Credit: ESA) Departures This year saw the departures of two giants in American space exploration history. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space and a passionate advocate of science education, died in July. Neil Armstrong, the man who will forever be enshrined as the first to walk on the Moon and a gracious celebrity who seemed bewildered by his fame, passed away at the age of 82. Image: Sally Ride, and Neil Armstrong (Credit: NASA) Space Shuttle Fly-Overs With NASA's manned spaceflight workhorses –- the Space Shuttles –- out of commission to make way for the Space Launch System, the agency moved the remaining orbiters to science museums across the country. Explorer, a full-scale model, was moved from Florida to Houston by barge, Enterprise was shifted from Washington, D.C. to New York City, and Atlantis was delivered to Kennedy Space Center. In April, Discovery –- bolted to the top of the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft –- took a victory lap over the D.C. region before landing. The flyover went viral, as residents pointed camera phones skyward, intrigued by their incongruous visitor. In response to the attention generated by the event, Endeavour had an even busier flyover schedule for its journey from Florida to Los Angeles. The Shuttles' last hurrah was an opportunity to reflect on the program's longevity, successes, and failures, and wonder what the next chapter of NASA's manned spaceflight program will bring. Endeavour flies over iconic burger joint In N Out before landing at LAX. (Credit: Geoffrey Ravenhill)


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A beloved cartoon character may be slowing children's mental functions, a new study led a professor at the University of Virginia says.
The new study suggests that watching just nine minutes of the Nickelodeon show "SpongeBob SquarePants" can cause short-term attention and learning problems in 4-year-olds.
University of Virginia psychology professor Angeline Lillard is the lead author in the study. Researchers randomly assigned a group of 60 children to either watch ``SpongeBob,'' or the slower-paced PBS cartoon ``Caillou'' or assigned to draw pictures. Immediately after these nine-minute assignments, the kids took mental function tests; those who had watched ``SpongeBob'' did measurably worse than the others.
UVA's Lillard said Nickelodeon's ``SpongeBob'' shouldn't be singled out. She found similar problems in kids who watched other fast-paced cartoon programming.
``I wouldn't advise watching such shows on the way to school or any time they're expected to pay
attention and learn,'' she said.
Nickelodeon spokesman David Bittler disputed the findings and said "SpongeBob" is aimed at kids aged 6-11, not 4-year-olds. Bittler also questioned the methodology of the study, noting the sample size was small and most of the test subjects were from white, middle-class to wealthy families.
The children in the study were given common mental function tests after watching cartoons or drawing. The SpongeBob kids scored on average 12 points lower than the other two groups, whose scores were nearly identical.
In another test, measuring self-control and impulsiveness, kids were rated on how long they could wait before eating snacks presented when the researcher left the room. ``SpongeBob'' kids waited about 2 1/2 minutes on average, versus at least four minutes for the other two groups.
Lillard did note that the children were not tested before they watched SpongeBob, but said none of the children had been diagnosed with attention problems.
Study Says SpongeBob Bad For Kids' Mental Function
A beloved cartoon character may be slowing children's mental functions, a new study led a professor at the University of Virginia says.


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Today is Friday, March 28, the 87th day of 2014. There are 278 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On March 28, 1939, the Spanish Civil War neared its end as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco.
On this date:
In 1834, the U.S. Senate voted to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
In 1854, during the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia.
In 1898, the Supreme Court, in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, ruled that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen.
In 1914, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State Edmund Muskie was born in Rumford, Maine.
In 1930, the names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara.
In 1935, the notorious Nazi propaganda film "Triumph des Willens" (Triumph of the Will), directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premiered in Berlin with Adolf Hitler present.
In 1941, novelist and critic Virginia Woolf, 59, drowned herself near her home in Lewes, East Sussex, England.
In 1943, composer Sergei Rachmaninoff died in Beverly Hills, Calif.
In 1969, the 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, died in Washington, D.C. at age 78.
In 1979, America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred with a partial meltdown inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa.
In 1990, President George H.W. Bush presented the Congressional Gold Medal to the widow of U.S. Olympic legend Jesse Owens.
In 1994, absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco died in Paris at age 84.
Ten years ago: French President Jacques Chirac's (zhahk shih-RAHKS') government suffered stinging defeats in regional elections seen as a vote of censure against painful economic reforms. Actor and writer Sir Peter Ustinov died in Genolier, Switzerland, at age 82. Game show host Art James died in Palm Springs, Calif., at age 74.
Five years ago: Fears in Fargo, N.D., of a catastrophic flood eased with word that the surging Red River had crested at lower-than-expected levels. Nearly 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries switched off nonessential lights for Earth Hour to highlight the threat of climate change. Thousands of people marched through European cities to demand jobs, economic justice and environmental accountability. Shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven returned to Earth, ending a 13-day voyage to install a pair of solar wings on the international space station. Film composer Maurice Jarre, 84, died in Malibu, Calif.
One year ago: President Barack Obama, flanked by grim-faced mothers who'd lost their children to guns, urged lawmakers not to "get squishy" in the face of powerful forces against gun control legislation. Anxious Cypriots waited in long lines to get at their accounts after banks opened for the first time in nearly two weeks following an international bailout to save the country's financial system. Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of a dozen inmates, including two young women, at a juvenile detention center in a surprising departure from church rules that restricted the Holy Thursday ritual to men. British actor Richard Griffiths, 65, remembered by movie fans for being grumpy Uncle Vernon in the "Harry Potter" movies, died in Coventry, England.
Today's Birthdays: Former White House national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski (ZBIG'-nyef breh-ZHIN'-skee) is 86. Country musician Charlie McCoy is 73. Movie director Mike Newell is 72. Actress Conchata Ferrell is 71. Actor Ken Howard is 70. Actress Dianne Wiest (weest) is 66. Country singer Reba McEntire is 59. Olympic gold medal gymnast Bart Conner is 56. Rapper Salt (Salt-N-Pepa) is 48. Actress Tracey Needham is 47. Actor Max Perlich is 46. Movie director Brett Ratner is 45. Country singer Rodney Atkins is 45. Actor Vince Vaughn is 44. Rapper Mr. Cheeks (Lost Boyz) is 43. Actor Ken L. is 41. Singer/songwriter Matt Nathanson is 41. Rock musician Dave Keuning is 38. Actress Annie Wersching is 37. Actress Julia Stiles is 33. Singer Lady Gaga is 28.
Thought for Today: "It isn't what people think that's important, but the reason they think what they think." — Eugene Ionesco (1909-1994).
Today in History - Friday, March 28, 2014
Today is Friday, March 28, the 87th day of 2014. There are 278 days left in the year.


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Ever since installing Tomcat 6 on my Windows 7 machine at home I've had an annoying message box pop up every time I restart my machine: Access is denied. Unable to open the service 'Tomcat6'. Since it takes less time and effort to click on OK than to sort out the problem that is exactly what I have been doing … but enough is enough.
Tomcat IS running – so what is causing this error?
I confirmed that the Tomcat 6 service was running even though I got this message box – so what was causing it ? It turns out that Tomcat 6 Monitor Application was causing this error. Tomcat 6 Monitor Application is a GUI for monitoring and configuring the Tomcat 6 Service. It needs to be executed by the Administrator user and the UAC is getting in the way at start up time.
Are you feeling brave ?
The only solution I have found to work so far is to remove the Tomcat 6 Monitor Application from the Windows startup. And the only way to do this is to remove a registry entry …
Fire up regedit (Start Menu > Search programs and files > regedit.exe) and remove the following key:
- Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Now you should not see this annoying message box every time Windows starts up. But it also means that Tomcat 6 Monitor will not be started on Windows startup.
Running Tomcat 6 Monitor manually
You may still want to run the Tomcat 6 Monitor since it does provide nice shortcuts for configuring and monitoring the state of your Tomcat 6 service. You can execute the Tomcat 6 Monitor via Run as administrator or you can configure the shortcut in the Start Menu to always execute the application as administrator.
Find the shortcut to the Tomcat 6 Monitor in the Start Menu (Start Menu > Apache Tomcat 6.0 > Monitor Tomcat) and right-click on it. Select Properties.
Click on the Shortcut tab in the Monitor Tomcat Properties window. Click on the Advanced button and check the Run as administrator checkbox.
Click Continue on the Dialog that pops up and now you should be able to start the Tomcat 6 Monitor by simply clicking the shortcut in the Start Menu. Windows will still flash the UAC though since you are running this application as administrator.
Update: 05 December 2010
The comment by Scot shows once again that there is always more than one way to skin a cat. Thanks Scot.
If you would still like to have the Apache Tomcat Monitor fired up on startup then replace the steps in this post with the following:
- Leave the registry key ApacheTomcatMonitor at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run untouched. This will ensure that Windows starts up the Tomcat Monitor.
- Right click on the tomcat6w.exe executable found at %CATALINA_HOME%\bin. Click on the Properties menu item and then select the Compatibility tab. Check the Run this program as an administrator checkbox under the Privilege Level section. Click the OK button.
When Windows starts up now you will no longer get the Access is denied. Unable to open the service 'Tomcat6' message. The UAC will pop up and ask you to confirm the starting of the Apache Tomcat Monitor.


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12 Traits of a great boss .. (MSN popular opinion)
For many people, a cardinal sin is thinking they're perfect. Job seekers think they're not making any job-search mistakes. Employees "always" do the best they can. And bosses are always great.
Unfortunately, in real life, nobody's perfect — not even you, Mr. Boss Man. In fact, many bosses assume they're doing a good job at managing their employees when the opposite is the reality.
"Such situations occur frequently, quite simply because the boss does not have accurate feedback," says Sandra Naiman, author of "The High Achiever's Secret Codebook: The Unwritten Rules for Success at Work." "Often, employees don't tell him or her what they really think."
In reality, being a good boss isn't as easy as it sounds. Just because you're the boss doesn't mean that you can tell people what to do and they'll do it, Naiman says. And even if they do, that doesn't make you a good boss.
"The role is really one of supporting and motivating people to do a good job. This means you have to understand what motivates people, be constantly available to them, be a role model and adjust your style to suit each individual direct report," she says.
Here are 12 things that good bosses do, according to Naiman and Vicki Salemi, author of "Big Career in the Big City."
1. Ask employees how you can best support them in doing their job. "This ensures that you are doing your best job to help your employees do theirs," Naiman says.
2. Make sure that employees have all the information, resources and support they need to do their job. "It also demonstrates that you see yourself as [being] there to support them," Naiman adds.
3. Give continuous feedback, both positive and constructive. "This helps the employee develop [professionally] and avoids surprises during performance reviews," Naiman says.
4. Provide opportunities for professional growth. "This lets employees know that you are in their corner," Naiman says.
5. Don't let employees know of your own job concerns or challenges or problems in your personal life. "This prevents employees from feeling that they have to take care of their boss," Naiman says. "A good boss is perceived as competent and there to support his or her employees."
6. Create trust. "A good boss is a trusted boss. So, keep promises, follow through on commitments [and] never betray a confidence or talk about others in the organization, except in a favorable way," Naiman says.
7. Show compassion. "Treat employees like they're people. Not employees, but people. If one of your direct reports had a death in the family or even a bad day, be human and compassionate," Salemi says.
8. Listen. "One of the best traits of a boss is someone who not only goes to the wall for their employees but who also listens to them," Salemi says. "Sometimes team members just need to vent and get things off their chest. A good boss will listen."
9. Give frequent feedback. "Instead of waiting until an annual performance review to give feedback — good or bad a sign of an excellent boss is proactive behavior," Salemi says. "A fantastic boss will get the most out of his or her employees. Giving positive feedback and acknowledging a job well-done often results in more good work."
10. Understand your employees' jobs. When you don't completely understand what your employees do or how they do it, it's more difficult to help them navigate their job if they need more resources, Salemi says. "Plus, a good boss should go to bat for his or her employees. If they don't understand the magnitude of their direct reports' job responsibilities, this may be harder to do or convince the higher-ups of their worth."
11. Live and breathe by the company rules. If you show up late, take long lunches or are not available at certain periods throughout the day, people notice, Salemi says. "Rules aren't just for direct reports to abide by. A good boss will know that their behavior is to be emulated," she says. "If the rules don't apply to them, who should they apply to? A true leader takes this very seriously."
12. Acknowledge your employees' work. "Recognize their performance. Even as employees go through a busy season or may be inundated with job sharing in this economy, a good manager will keep them motivated by putting wind in their sails and, more importantly, keep turnover low," Salemi says. "If you have a good boss, you're golden, you won't want to leave. When you know your boss is on your side, it makes a difference in your productivity, morale and overall workplace happiness."
By Rachel Farrell, Special to CareerBuilder