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When u were 15,
your mom came home from work,looking for a hug.
You thanked her by having your bedroom door locked.

When you were 16,
she taught you how to drive her car.
You thanked her by taking it every chance you could.

When you were 17,
she was expecting an important call.
You thanked her by being on the phone all night.

Seven new sins - The Vatican

The seven mortal sins defined by The Roman Catholic Church in the 15th century.

Lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, anger, envy and pride

No particular order. Sin in the Roman Catholic Church is divided into mortal and venial. Mortal sin unconfessed and not addressed with penitence damns you to hell forever.

The seven virtues.

Chastity, abstinence, temperance, diligence, patience, kindness and humility

Bolkow castle

Bolkow Castle is located on top of steep hill known as Pagor Bolkowski, by the river of Nysa Szalona. This medieval building is one of the oldest castles in Poland. The castle is divided into two parts: inner built in Gothic style, and outer – build in Renaissance.

Putin warns West his successor to be just as tough

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday warned the West against expecting an easier ride under his successor Dmitry Medvedev.
“Dmitry Medvedev will be free to demonstrate his liberal views,” Putin said after talks at his Novo Ogaryevo residence outside Moscow with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“But he is no less a Russian nationalist, in the good sense of the word, than I am, and I do not think that with him the partnership will be more simple.”
Putin was speaking at a press conference just before Merkel went to a separate meeting with Medvedev, the first between a Western leader and the new president-elect since his controversial election March 2. Merkel did not respond until seeing Medvedev.
“President Putin just told me that it won’t be easier with you than with him,” she said in televised comments. “But I restrained myself and didn’t say that I hope that at least relations won’t be more complicated.”
Medvedev answered with a chuckle that he expected to continue “the frankness and friendship… of your relations with President Putin”.
Putin also lashed out at the Western military alliance NATO, accusing it of trying to become a “substitute for the United Nations.”
On another sensitive question-the imprisonment of businessman and Kremlin opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky-Putin would not comment on the likelihood of a pardon.
“Questions of pardoning are in the hands of the head of state,” he said. Merkel came to Russia to take the political temperature ahead of Putin handing over to Medvedev, who has crafted a more liberal image than his ex-KGB mentor.
But Putin says he will become prime minister after he steps down in May, leading analysts to predict that real power may lie with the outgoing president, not his inexperienced replacement.
The German leader said there was no alternative to cooperation between Moscow and EU countries, which have frequently clashed with Putin over democracy in Russia and security concerns.
During their brief talks, Merkel and Putin discussed Kosovo, Russian energy exports to Europe and other major international issues that Merkel said showed the need for cooperation.

Dude, Sweet Airstream

The Airstream trailer is a cultural icon, its look little changed in decades. Now, two Nissan designers, both big Airstream fans, have created the BaseCamp, a trailer that takes the Airstream look into the twenty-first century.

Whither Democracy in America?

In 1871, Walt Whitman, the great poet of America, wrote, “We have frequently printed the word democracy, yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempest out of which its syllables have come, from pen to tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remain unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted.” (Democracy Vistas)

Bankrupt Your Startup the Easy Way

 

AUSTIN, Texas — A tongue-in-cheek panel at South by Southwest Interactive promised to teach attendees how to turn their startup dollars into bankruptcy notes in just 15 easy steps.

Startuppers Joshua Strebel, Sean Tierney and Andrew Hyde took over room 19 in the fourth floor of the Austin Convention Center and told tales of their past business failures and their plans for upcoming ones. “We’re teaching Fail, and not just fail — we’re talking weapons-grade Fail,” promised Hyde.

Austin’s Brisk, but About to Heat Up

 

And that would be a bad thing, if you bought into the “ spring break for the internet” hype and, for instance, loaded up your suitcase with shorts and sunscreen rather than a winter coat. Because it’s cold here.

Kingston’s new DT110 thumbdrives

Kingston announced it is expanding its line of USB Flash drives with the introduction of the DataTraveler 110 (DT110) model. Designed for ultra-fast read/write speeds and lower price points, the DT110 drive is available in capacities up to 8GB. “The DT110 provides an economic way to transfer and transport data whenever and wherever you travel.” Dave Lee, Flash Memory Product Manager, APAC Region, Kingston.

The Founder of Youtube[main founder among three] - Bangladeshi

Meet Jawed Karim, all of 27 years old, who ditched Youtube to study his masters at Stanford. A decision that stumped his Stanford professors too.

New York Times has a good article on this. What amazed me was his love for academia and teaching as opposed to the more common opposite route. Sergey and Larry of Google are notable examples.

Solutions to America’s Economic Problems

The following suggestions should be considered as part of a new plan to recover American industry and economic health:

*Appoint an economic czar, a major cabinet post, to develop policies that protect our economy from foreign predatory practices and to create conditions to make manufacturing competitive and profitable through government sponsored research, tax changes and subsidies.

USA HOROSCOPE

 USA HOROSCOPEPREDICTIONS FOR 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010ALSO 2003, 2004, 2005 IN REVIEW

New 6 Nov 2007.  USA Iran at War?  USA and IRAN WAR in 2008, 2009
New 9 Nov 2007. Bush assassination in 2008?  George W Bush Assassination 2008
New 23 Jan 2008. People’s Republic of China: crises years 2008 to 2012
20 Aug 2006
Author
Douglas Parker has been a professional astrologer for over 25 years. Contact Douglas at douglasp@melbpc.org.au .
Douglas has done a lot of research on the USA:    George W Bush,    USA Presidents who died in Office,    USA & Middle East Wars,    Assassinated USA Presidents,    USA horoscope, 

Saturn Moon Rhea May Have Rings

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — New observations by a spacecraft suggest Saturn’s second-largest moon may be surrounded by rings. If confirmed, it would the first time a ring system has been found around a moon. The international Cassini spacecraft detected what appeared to be a large debris disk around the 950-mile-wide moon Rhea during a flyby in 2005. Scientists proposed that the halo likely contained particles ranging from the size of grains to boulders.

Historic March 7 today

Historic March 7 today

“The struggle this time is for freedom, the struggle this time is for independence, Joy Bangla,”- Bangabandhu

On this day in 1971, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of Bangladesh, addressed a mammoth gathering of hundreds of thousands of people at the then Race Course Maidan, now Suhrawardy Udyan, urging them to join a non-cooperation movement(Bangladesh Today)

iPhone SDK gets real, available today

Phenom 9900-powered case mod could lift off at any moment

You know that potent 2.6GHz Phenom 9900 CPU that quite a few folks are waiting for? Apparently, exactly one of said chips has escaped the labs (with AMD’s blessing, of course) and made its way into the sponsored (and recently completed) Project: Phenom gaming rig. Of course, the design here is way, way over the top, and while folks allergic to chrome and not so fond of blatant overkill may be scrunching their noses up right about now, there’s no denying that it’s packin’ a nice set of internals. Hit up the read link for a gazillion and one images along with a number of construction videos — just slip on your shades beforehand, cool?

Microsoft said to be ditching 20GB Xbox 360 for 60GB model

 

Warren Buffett Biography

Warren Edward Buffett was born on August 30, 1930 to his father Howard, a stockbroker-turned-Congressman. The only boy, he was the second of three children, and displayed an amazing aptitude for both money and business at a very early age. Acquaintances recount his uncanny ability to calculate columns of numbers off the top of his head - a feat Warren still amazes business colleagues with today.At only six years old, Buffett purchased 6-packs of Coca Cola from his grandfather’s grocery store for twenty five cents and resold each of the bottles for a nickel, pocketing a five cent profit. While other children his age were playing hopscotch and jacks, Warren was making money. Five years later, Buffett took his step into the world of high finance. At eleven years old, he purchased three shares of Cities Service Preferred at $38 per share for both himself and his older sister, Doris. Shortly after buying the stock, it fell to just over $27 per share. A frightened but resilient Warren held his shares until they rebounded to $40. He promptly sold them - a mistake he would soon come to regret. Cities Service shot up to $200. The experience taught him one of the basic lessons of investing: patience is a virtue.

Birds of Paradise

                                                                                

The birds of paradise are members of the family Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes. They are found in eastern Indonesia, Torres Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea, and eastern Australia. The members of this family are perhaps best known for the plumage of the males of most species, in particular highly elongated and elaborate feathers extending from the beak, wings or head. Birds of paradise range in size from the King Bird of Paradise at 50 grams (1.8 oz) and 15 cm (6 in) to the Black Sicklebill at 110 cm (43 in) and the Curl-crested Manucode at 430 grams (15.2 oz).

Iran dismisses ‘worthless’ UN resolution

Iran on Tuesday dismissed the latest UN Security Council sanctions over its nuclear programme as “worthless”, vowing to press on with the contested drive which the West fears could be used to make weapons.
The Security Council on Monday imposed its third set of sanctions against Iran in the space of 15 months to punish Tehran’s repeated refusal to suspend the process of uranium enrichment.
The resolution “is worthless and unacceptable and it is condemned”, foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said in a statement quoted by Iranian news agencies.
“The continuation of this trend (of issuing resolutions) will have no effect on the Iranian people and the government’s determination in seeking its legitimate and lawful right for peaceful nuclear activities,” he added. Iran had been hoping its ongoing cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog to answer questions about past areas of ambiguity in its atomic programme would mean the nuclear case would be taken away from the Security Council.
Officials have also repeatedly hailed the UN watchdog’s latest report as a success for Tehran that “closed” its nuclear case, even though the body was unable to confirm the atomic drive was peaceful.
“The issuing of this biased and anti-Iranian resolution is another blow to the reputation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and has increased the invalidity of the UN Security Council,” Hosseini added.
Fourteen of the council’s 15 members voted in favour of Resolution 1803 put forward by Britain and France, who delayed the vote in a bid to win unanimity to send a strong signal to Tehran.
The resolution gives Iran three months to comply with UN and IAEA demands to suspend uranium enrichment, a process that can be used to make both nuclear fuel and atomic weapons.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is solely aimed at generating energy and it has every right to the nuclear fuel cycle, including uranium enrichment.
“The resolution is a serious political signal for Tehran on the need to cooperate with the UN Security Council” the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.
Indonesia abstained, but Libya, South Africa and Vietnam, which joined Indonesia in expressing reservations about the need for fresh sanctions, finally voted in favour