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SouthworldNews October 2017China/Panama. A New Ally On The Maritime Silk Road.
Panama breaks off from Taiwan and ties up with China Beijing. Taipei loses an important ally in Central America, the third after the Dominican Republic and Guatemala.
In 1434, the Emperor of the Ming dynasty ordered Admiral Zheng He's voyages to be stopped. The Admiral's fleet of ships numbered in the hundreds. The Maritime Silk Road, at that time, was for Great China a solid reality that stretched from Vietnam to the Arabian Peninsula, and Chinese ships dominated the Indian Ocean. After 1434 China was just a terrestrial empire, while small European countries – Portugal, Spain, France, the Netherlands, England – were preparing to discover America and colonize the entire world travelling by sea.
When in 1492 Christopher Colombus saw land from his little caravel, he believed he had reached just East Asia. He could not imagine that, through that route, he would have to cross the new American continent and then the entire Pacific Ocean before arriving at the shores of China, a country that had been visited and narrated extensively by Marco Polo.
In 1522 Magellan's expedition accomplished the first trip around the world by sea in history. But to do so he first had to circumnavigate South America – in order to enter the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean – and then he had to circumnavigate Africa to get into the Atlantic Ocean from the Indian Ocean. The construction of the Suez Canal in Egypt in 1871 and that of the Panama Canal in Central America in1914, reduced the time of navigation considerably. In 2012, a Chinese military ship which, not by chance, was called 'Admiral Zheng He', accomplished a solo sea trip around the world for the first time in history, passing through the Suez Canal on 27 May and through that of Panama on 9 July. So China returned symbolically to its ancient maritime vocation, and its military navy currently ranks among the biggest in the world, being second to that of the United States, which remains the dominant one of the seas with its eleven Super Aircraft Carriers.
However, China's global challenge does not seem to be focused on the military, but rather on the diplomatic and commercial fields where Beijing is evolving silently but steadily. Chinese companies are present in all corners of the world, and massive Chinese investments have been made in the public works of many countries of the world, especially in the developing countries of Asia, Africa, Central and South America.
Panama recognises 'only one China'
The 13 June 2017 is an important date that marks the umpteenth silent Chinese victory. Panama, a former Spanish Inizio modulocolony, a former symbol of the US commercial supremacy on the seas, becomes a key hub of the Maritime Silk Road. Some Chinese companies have recently contributed to the modernization of the Panama Canal.
Over 150,000 Chinese reside in Panama, where they work in banking, construction, technology and culture fields. And the China-Panama Trade Development Office, currently China's highest representative office in the country, will soon be upgraded to a full Chinese embassy. China transports over 38 million tons of goods with a turnover of billions of dollars.
In June 2016, the container vessel COSCO Shipping Panama from China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited, made history by being the first ship to sail down the expanded Panama Canal… almost a premonition. The strategic waterway is one of the world's busiest maritime routes and China is its second-biggest user. Beyond commercial benefits China has also gained a diplomatic victory.
In an address to the nation announcing Panama's decision to establish diplomatic relations with Beijing, Panama President Juan Carlos Varela said: "I'm convinced that this is the correct path for our country… the Republic of Panama and the People's Republic of China have established new diplomatic relations, according to the interests and will of their peoples". A joint statement from China and Panama said: 'The Government of the Republic of Panama recognizes that only one China exists in the world, the Government of the People's Republic of China is the only legitimate government that represents all China, and Taiwan forms an inalienable part of Chinese territory'. The move drew an angry reaction from Taiwan. The Foreign Minister of Taiwan, David Lee expressed his indignation and regret at the decision of the authorities of Panama to break diplomatic relations. "To safeguard our nation's sovereignty and dignity, we've decided to terminate diplomatic ties with Panama immediately", Lee said at a press conference during which he also expressed Taiwan's 'deep anger and regret' toward Panama's decision. Taiwan also "strongly protests and condemns Beijing for luring Panama to switch diplomatic ties, squeezing Taiwan's space in the international community and hurting the Taiwanese people's feelings".
According to Jiang Shixue, director of the Latin American Research Center at the University of Shanghai, Panama's switch might lead, in the near future, to a domino effect in the 20 countries (mostly located in the Caraibic region), which still recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state.
John Scravaglieri and Patricia Mendieta


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Statement at the High-Level side event on Participation, Human Rights and the Governance Challenge Ahead at the 75th UN General Assembly
High-level discussion at the high-level segment of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly
"Participation, Human Rights and the Governance Challenge Ahead"
EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Eamon Gilmore
EU Statement
Thank you Assistant Secretary General, Ilze.
Secretary General, High Commissioner, Ministers, Excellencies, distinguished Guests and Participants.
It is a privilege to join you today for this important discussion. I wish to express the EU's appreciation to you Secretary General and High Commissioner Bachelet for your consistent leadership in addressing the crucial importance of equal participation in the response to the pandemic. And also for providing valuable guidance and recommendations to states on how to implement the right to participate.
The Covid-19 pandemic is showing us not just the desirability of participation, but the necessity for participation. The measures which are necessary to overcome the pandemic, and to vindicate the human rights to life and access to health care, all require participation. And to be effective they all in turn require access to reliable information, freedom of the press and expression, uncensored internet, and respect for the important role of civil society.
In many ways, the pandemic has been transformative for participation, with many lessons and experiences, which can be applied or adopted for tackling the climate crisis and for the implementation of the SGDs.
As Winston Churchill said at the foundation of the UN, 75 years ago: "Never let a good crisis go to waste".
Of course, when we think of participation, our first thoughts usually go to political participation, to voting and to elections.
This is why the EU gives high priority to our work on election observation. Through our experience of election observation all over the world, the EU has learned much and along with the other election monitoring bodies, such as the OSCE, the OAS, the AU and others, we are willing to share that knowledge and experience in developing better elections and better political participation.
But participation is not confined to voting once every four or five years. Nor is it just confined to the political sphere. More and more citizens are being energised by social, economic, environmental, gender and many more issues and civil society actors are playing a central part in channelling that energy.
Partnership with civil society is vital for Governments to address challenges and issues that are important to society as a whole. It is vital that civil society has the space to carry out its work and to contribute. This should apply to the international fora as well as to the national space. Civil society access to key UN meetings and their participation in the work of the General Assembly must be supported, and I hope that civil society representatives will have access and participation through this 75th session, by making best use of all available means.
Across the world, civil society movements led by young people are pioneering new forms of participation. For example, on climate change, their 'Fridays for Future' movement brought new energy. I think too of the five tech-savvy teenagers from Kenya, whom I met last December in the European Parliament as finalists for the Sakharov Prize. They had developed an app to help girls in the fight against female genital mutilation. With one touch on their phone, they can call for help.
This is just one example of how the digital revolution is already enhancing participation and has the potential to contribute significantly to the protection and promotion of human rights and good governance.
But while digital technologies have transformed access to information and communication, they have not yet been matched with new methods for deliberation, which are necessary for good policy making, and in order to avoid the risk of disinformation, echo chambers and basic populism.
In the world of today and tomorrow, traditional methods of participation are no longer sufficient. We need innovation on our methods of participation to catch up with the potential (and sometimes the risks) of new technologies. This is especially so as we are witnessing an erosion of public trust in institutions and traditional politics.
Let me offer a few examples of what we are doing in the European Union:
The Conference on the Future of Europe and the EU Youth Strategy which is intended to Engage, Connect and Empower
The EU's Green Deal which puts people first, and pays attention to the regions, industries and workers who will face the greatest challenges.
And of course the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy, which we are now finalising and will give a high prominence to participation in our external action.
I would also like to mention an example of innovation from my own country Ireland: the Citizens Assembly model for deliberation. 100 citizens, chosen at random and asked to deliberate on challenging issues of public policy. Their work led to successful referenda on same sex marriage and the liberalisation of abortion laws.
Finally, the background note for this event states that "we need to reset the foundations of collective action through a re-imagined social contract".
This is essential and urgent, as the labour market has changed dramatically (and not always for the better), as inequalities have increased; and as young people in particular feel increasingly insecure in a world where security of employment is now the exception, where pay often fails to match skills and qualifications and the rights to family formation and securing a home are increasingly precarious.
There is much to be done. And you can be assured of the European Union's continued and active engagement on this topic.
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UPFA MP W.D.J. Seneviratne said that the SLFP and the Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) will be creating an alliance to contest the upcoming elections. Seneviratne also said that there is a proposal to appoint the President as the leader of the alliance and the Prime Minister as its Chairman adding that since discussions concluded last evening (November 12), nothing has been officially informed.
Meanwhile, UPFA MP Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said that discussions are underway to consider naming the alliance, "the Sri Lanka Nidahas Podu Jana Permauna," adding that they are yet to agree on a symbol for the alliance.


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9/27/21—As the global community fights the COVID-19 pandemic, there is current debate over steps to prevent the inevitable future pandemics. The topic itself is complex, with focus on researching diseases, the nature of human and wildlife relations and governmental redevelopment. Although the information can be overwhelming, the key points are essential for the world at large to do its part in ensuring it is not hit with another devastating situation like COVID-19.
The relationship between humans and nature is at the core of pandemic prevention. Zoonotic diseases take center stage and are defined as a disease that jumps from animals—wild or domestic—to humans.1 According to a study released by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) three in four new diseases are zoonotic. As human and wildlife realms become more insidious, through deforestation, land conversion, wildlife trade and meat production, the occurrence of spillover diseases is rising. These zoonotic diseases, having only occurred in animal populations, eventually mutate and travel to humans, leading to mass spread in their newfound hosts.
How do we stop these dangerous practices that put wildlife and humans at risk? Most notable measures include stricter regulations on wildlife trade and less wildlife trade in general, reduced deforestation, and increased funding for scientific monitoring and studying of diseases in animals, which is conducted by "virus hunters." Creating more sustainable food systems that stop encroachment on nature, increasing investment in wildlife preservation, and alternative means of food production including highly regulated meat production, are also key according to the WWF.
Preparing governing bodies that detect and monitor viruses, like those responsible for international emergency response and enforcement, is crucial. Pandemic surveillance and response are global efforts, meaning it's time to consider a new global partnership to oversee them.3 While the World Health Organization (WHO) has come under fire for its slow response to COVID-19, there are other complex hierarchies in place that need reform. On an international level, assigning more power to global organizations like WHO, or creating a new global authority for pandemics, is integral. Currently WHO has the International Health Regulations (IHR), a binding international agreement signed with rules related to sharing critical information about epidemics and maintaining core capacities to prevent dangerous disease events.2 However, according to an article from the Council On Foreign Relations, the responsibilities that IHR are assigned fail to prevent, detect, and respond to a pandemic, with programs being under-resourced and lacking capacity to respond to international emergencies.
With this reform and preparation of power, countries should also be provided more incentive to adhere to global directives concerning pandemics. With the COVID-19 pandemic for example, China has been chastised for failing to report findings of COVID-19 in the region in a timely and transparent manner. According to a WHO bulletin, current guidelines on emerging infectious diseases do not consider that when developing countries report outbreaks, they often suffer heavy social and economic consequences. It's no wonder there is hesitation by developing countries to report findings, for fear of negative impacts. With faster and more transparent reporting, international pandemic response can be utilized faster when time is of the utmost importance.
For the safety of our future, vaccine development and distribution need reform to fight the onslaught of pandemics. More funding to vaccine development ensures that the medical community can develop vaccines, based on the study of animal viruses, and prepare them for possible spillover viruses. According the Scientific American, the ability to rapidly develop and approve vaccines, increasing and globalizing vaccine manufacturing, and a global distribution network and supply chain to get those vaccines out to people, are all needed.4 The distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has been disproportionate to say the least, with wealthier countries having greater access and buying power to get vaccines, while developing countries suffer and lack the means. To truly prevent a future pandemic, the globalization of vaccine development and distribution is integral.
A final key effort for prevention requires community involvement all over the world. Many countries failed to quickly implement safety measures, such as travel restrictions, masking, social distancing, and vigorous contact tracing, as can be done with programs like AlertTrace, and stricter guidelines for communities to follow preventative steps. Providing education to the public on viruses and how they work invites community involvement in the process of prevention. There's been a lot of misinformation spreading quickly, and more community engagement and communication efforts can help combat this so-called "infodemic."5
With a multi-layered approach and reform of many complex systems, from meat production to government programs, we can band together to prevent the devastation we've seen from the COVID-19 pandemic. AlertTrace is proud to be a part of fighting the spread of infectious disease, with accurate and easy-to-use contact tracing, that can make all the difference in how quickly infectious diseases spread in your organization.
1 World Wildlife Fund. (n.d.). A call to stop the next pandemic. WWF. Retrieved September 27, 2021, from https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/a-call-to-stop-the-next-pandemic.
2 Council on Foreign Relations. (n.d.). Findings | pandemic preparedness: Lessons from covid-19. Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved September 27, 2021, from https://www.cfr.org/report/pandemic-preparedness-lessons-COVID-19/findings/.
3 Bloomberg. (n.d.). Bloomberg.com. Retrieved September 27, 2021, from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-02-03/steps-needed-to-prevent-the-next-pandemic.
4 Berkley, S. (2021, June 23). How to prevent the next pandemic. Scientific American. Retrieved September 27, 2021, from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-prevent-the-next-pandemic/.
5 Lee, B. Y. (2021, February 17). How to stop the NEXT Pandemic: Who Director, Bloomberg Offer 7 Directions. Forbes. Retrieved September 27, 2021, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/02/15/how-to-stop-the-next-pandemic-who-director-bloomberg-offer-7-directions/?sh=5d0423c775bb.
Cash, R., & Narasimhan, V. (n.d.). Impediments to global surveillance of infectious diseases: consequences of open reporting in a global economy. World Health Organization Bulletin . Retrieved September 2021, from https://www.who.int/bulletin/archives/78%2811%291358.pdf.
Doucleff, M. (2021, April 20). How do we stop the next pandemic? Here's a new strategy. NPR. Retrieved September 27, 2021, from https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/04/20/989074708/anatomy-of-a-spillover-we-failed-to-stop-sars-cov-2-how-do-find-the-next-big-one.
World Health Organization. (n.d.). The best time to prevent the next pandemic is now: Countries join voices for better emergency preparedness. World Health Organization. Retrieved September 27, 2021, from https://www.who.int/news/item/01-10-2020-the-best-time-to-prevent-the-next-pandemic-is-now-countries-join-voices-for-better-emergency-preparedness.
Worldwide Fund for Nature. (2020). COVID 19: URGENT CALL TO PROTECT PEOPLE AND NATURE. Retrieved 2021, from https://c402277. ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/publications/1348/files/original/FINAL_REPORT_EK-Rev_2X.pdf?1592404724.
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Q: include does not work I'm having a problem with include/require commands.
the file structure looks like this:
private |
        - config.php
        - dbc.php
public |
       - index.php
       - includes |
                  - database.php

here is the image for better understanding
http://i.stack.imgur.com/iHm5C.png
in config file i have this:
  <?php
  $dbname = "Prehlad_oop";
  $dbuser = "lifestype_oop";
  $dbpass = "fwoop";
  $dbhost = "localhost";
  ?>

in dbc.php i have this:
 public function c(){
 include "config.php";
 $this->conn = new mysqli($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass, $dbname);
 .... other code

and in database.php:
 require '../private/dbc.php';
 $conn = new connection;
 $conn->c();

this thing is working when i load it from dbc.php, however, if i load the page from the database.php, it doesn't work, says i have undefined  variables in dbc.php
i found a way to make this code work, even when i call if from the database.php, by adding
 ../private/

in dbc.php... final code looks like this:
public function c(){
include "../private/config.php";

my question is, why would i need to go up in directory path, when the file i want to include is in the same directory ( config.php and dbc.php). This error occurs only when i call the function from database.php. Are there some obstacles when i include a file inside included file, etc??
ty for the answers :-)

A: Always use the absolute path of the file to include.
e.g
include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."config.php";

Instead of relative path of config.php file.
Include all files with their absolute path.
As suggested by Rigg's
You can use __DIR__ (Which is a better option)
So you can move script anywhere in web-project tree without changes.

A: Either include './private/config.php'; or include 'private/config.php', the first version looks for the file, relative to the current working directory, the second uses the include path.
PS: best use require_once or include_once, to avoid including the same function/class definitions multiple times, which will casuse issues (redeclaring functions)

A: Mangesh's answer is good (I upvoted it), but I propose this in my opinion, slightly better alternative:
<?php
require_once(realpath($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . '/project_folder/file.php');
?>

I've found this to work better, in other words, more consistently across web servers, since realpath returns canonicalized absolute pathname, and that's what we always tend to have, don't we?
Notice: realpath will strip away any trailing slashes of its path argument, so be sure to have a leading slash after the function (before the projeft_folder, in this case).
In any case, you can use that require/include format across all your project files, and it will work. Stay away from relative paths, they're trouble.

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POOFness for OCT 14: COMMUNICATIONS - I CAN'T PAY MY CELL BILL BUT I AM HERE TO SAVE HUMANITY SO GIVE ME MORE MONEY!!!
Out Of Mind » SCAMTASTIC RV/GCR NEWS - SHADY CHARACTERS, CHARLETONS & THOSE DETERMINED TO STOP THEM! » Jerzy Babkowski aka ZAP & Susan » POOFness for OCT 14: COMMUNICATIONS - I CAN'T PAY MY CELL BILL BUT I AM HERE TO SAVE HUMANITY SO GIVE ME MORE MONEY!!!
TWAS THE DAY BEFORE RELEASE AND OUR COMMUNICATIONS (CELLS) WILL BE SHUT DOWN AT MIDNIGHT AND I CAN NOT AFFORD THAT. I FORGOT THE FINAL DUE DATE BECAUSE OF EVERYTHING ELSE ON MY PLATE.
THIS IS MY REQUEST. I NEED TO KEEP THE CELL LINES OPEN RIGHT NOW DURING THIS CRITICAL 48 HOUR PERIOD OR I WILL NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE FUNDS TRANSFER.
THIS IS IT AND I NEED YOUR HELP TO KEEP TALKING AND GETTING THE INFO. YES, WE ARE ONLY THAT FAR AWAY FROM EVERYTHING STARTING AND IF I CAN NOT KNOW THINGS, THEN WE STAND A CHANCE OF A MAJOR FLUB.
AND AS I SAID IN MY REGULAR MESSAGE, EVERYTHING ELSE IS PEACHY.
MY GREAT THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP OVER TIME WITHOUT WHICH…WELL.. YOU KNOW…THIS LAST BIT I DID NOT EXPECT AND HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO ASK FOR ME THIS TIME.
ZAP wrote: TWAS THE DAY BEFORE RELEASE AND OUR COMMUNICATIONS (CELLS) WILL BE SHUT DOWN AT MIDNIGHT AND I CAN NOT AFFORD THAT. I FORGOT THE FINAL DUE DATE BECAUSE OF EVERYTHING ELSE ON MY PLATE.


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Steve Ballmer Wikipedia
Born name: Steven Anthony Ballmer
Date of Birth: March 24, 1956
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Residence: Hunts Point, Washington, U.S.
Alma mater: Harvard University (BA), Stanford University
Net worth: US$51.9 billion (October 2019)
Spouse(s): Connie Snyder (m. 1990)
Awards: Legion of Honour
Steven Anthony Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and investor who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft from January 13, 2000, to February 4, 2014, and is the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As of October 2019, his personal wealth is estimated at US $51.9 billion, ranking him the 16th richest person in the world.
Ballmer was hired by Bill Gates at Microsoft in 1980 and subsequently left the MBA program at Stanford University. He eventually became President in 1998, and replaced Gates as CEO in 2000. On February 4, 2014, Ballmer retired as CEO and resigned from the Board of Directors on August 19, 2014 to prepare for teaching a new class.
On May 29, 2014, Ballmer placed a bid of $2 billion to purchase the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers after NBA commissioner Adam Silver forced Donald Sterling to sell the team. He became the Clippers owner on August 12, 2014; Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was a fellow owner in the NBA, having owned the Portland Trail Blazers since 1988.
His time as Microsoft CEO was mixed, with the company tripling sales and doubling of profits, but losing its market dominance and missing out on 21st-century technology trends.
Ballmer was born in Detroit; he is the son of Beatrice Dworkin and Frederic Henry Ballmer (Fritz Hans Ballmer), a manager at the Ford Motor Company. His father was a Swiss immigrant who predicted that his son, at eight years old, would attend Harvard, and his mother was Belarusian Jewish. Through his mother, Ballmer is a second cousin of actress and comedian Gilda Radner. Ballmer grew up in the affluent community of Farmington Hills, Michigan. Ballmer also lived in Brussels from 1964 to 1967, where he attended the International School of Brussels. In 1973, he attended college prep and engineering classes at Lawrence Technological University. He graduated valedictorian from Detroit Country Day School, a private college preparatory school in Beverly Hills, Michigan, with a score of 800 on the mathematical section of the SAT and was a National Merit Scholar. He now sits on the school's board of directors. In 1977, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a B.A. in applied mathematics and economics.
At college, Ballmer was a manager for the Harvard Crimson football team and a member of the Fox Club, worked on The Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the Harvard Advocate, and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore Bill Gates. He scored highly in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, an exam sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America, scoring higher than Bill Gates. He then worked as an assistant product manager at Procter & Gamble for two years, where he shared an office with Jeffrey R. Immelt, who later became CEO of General Electric. After briefly trying to write screenplays in Hollywood, in 1980 Ballmer dropped out of the Stanford Graduate School of Business to join Microsoft.
History with Microsoft
Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980, and became Microsoft's 30th employee, the first business manager hired by Gates.
Ballmer was offered a salary of $50,000 as well as 5-10% of the company. When Microsoft was incorporated in 1981, Ballmer owned 8% of the company. In 2003, Ballmer sold 39.3 million Microsoft shares equating to approximately $955 million, thereby reducing his ownership to 4%. The same year, he replaced Microsoft's employee stock options program.
In the 20 years following his hire, Ballmer headed several Microsoft divisions, including operations, operating systems development, and sales and support. From February 1992 onwards, he was Executive Vice President, Sales, and Support. Ballmer led Microsoft's development of the .NET Framework. Ballmer was then promoted to President of Microsoft, a title that he held from July 1998 to February 2001, making him the de facto number two in the company to the chairman and CEO, Bill Gates.
Chief Executive Officer (2000–2014)
On January 13, 2000, Ballmer was officially named the chief executive officer. As CEO, Ballmer handled company finances and daily operations, but Gates remained chairman of the board and still retained control of the "technological vision" as chief software architect. Gates relinquished day-to-day activities when he stepped down as chief software architect in 2006, while staying on as chairman, and that gave Ballmer the autonomy needed to make major management changes at Microsoft.
When Ballmer took over as CEO, the company was fighting an antitrust lawsuit brought on by the U.S. government and 20 states, plus class-action lawsuits and complaints from rival companies. While it was said that Gates would have continued fighting the suit, Ballmer made it his priority to settle these saying: "Being the object of a lawsuit, effectively, or a complaint from your government is a very awkward, uncomfortable position to be in. It just has all downside. People assume if the government brought a complaint that there's really a problem, and your ability to say we're a good, proper, moral place is tough. It's actually tough, even though you feel that way about yourselves."
Upon becoming CEO, Ballmer required detailed business justification in order to approve of new products, rather than allowing hundreds of products that sounded potentially interesting or trendy. In 2005, he recruited B. Kevin Turner from Wal-Mart, who was the President and CEO of Sam's Club, to become Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer. Turner was hired at Microsoft to lead the company's sales, marketing and services group and to instill more process and discipline in the company's operations and salesforce.
Since Bill Gates' retirement, Ballmer oversaw a "dramatic shift away from the company's PC-first heritage", replacing most major division heads in order to break down the "talent-hoarding fiefdoms", and Businessweek said that the company "arguably now has the best product lineup in its history". Ballmer was instrumental in driving Microsoft's connected computing strategy, with acquisitions such as Skype.
Under Ballmer's tenure as CEO, Microsoft's share price stagnated. The lackluster stock performance occurred despite Microsoft's financial success at that time. The company's annual revenue surged from $25 billion to $70 billion, while its net income increased 215% to $23 billion, and its gross profit of 75 cents on every dollar in sales is double that of Google or IBM. In terms of leading the company's total annual profit growth, Ballmer's tenure at Microsoft (16.4%) surpassed the performances of other well-known CEOs such as General Electric's Jack Welch (11.2%) and IBM's Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (2%). These gains came from the existing Windows and Office franchises, with Ballmer maintaining their profitability, fending off threats from competitors such as GNU/Linux and other open-source operating systems and Google Docs. Ballmer also built half a dozen new businesses, such as the data centers division and the Xbox entertainment and devices division ($8.9 billion), (which has prevented the Sony PlayStation and other gaming consoles from undermining Windows), and oversaw the acquisition of Skype. Ballmer also constructed the company's $20 billion Enterprise Business, consisting of new products and services such as Exchange, Windows Server, SQL Server, SharePoint, System Center, and Dynamics CRM, each of which initially faced an uphill battle for acceptance but have emerged as leading or dominant in each category. This diversified product mix helped to offset the company's reliance on PCs and mobile computing devices as the company entered the Post-PC era; in reporting quarterly results during April 2013, while Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 had not managed to increase their market share above single digits, the company increased its profit 19% over the previous quarter in 2012, as the Microsoft Business Division (including Office 365) and Server and Tools division (cloud services) are each larger than the Windows division.
Ballmer attracted criticism for failing to capitalize on several new consumer technologies, forcing Microsoft to play catch-up in the areas of tablet computing, smartphones and music players with mixed results. Under Ballmer's watch, "In many cases, Microsoft latched onto technologies like smartphones, touchscreens, 'smart' cars and wristwatches that read sports scores aloud long before Apple or Google did. But it repeatedly killed promising projects if they threatened its cash cows [Windows and Office]." Ballmer was even named one of the worst CEOs of 2013 by the BBC. As a result of these many criticisms, in May 2012, hedge fund manager David Einhorn called on Ballmer to step down as CEO of Microsoft. "His continued presence is the biggest overhang on Microsoft's stock," Einhorn said in reference to Ballmer. In a May 2012 column in Forbes magazine, Adam Hartung described Ballmer as "the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company", saying he had "steered Microsoft out of some of the fastest growing and most lucrative tech markets (mobile music, headsets and tablets)".
In 2009, and for the first time since Bill Gates resigned from day-to-day management at Microsoft, Ballmer delivered the opening keynote at CES.
As part of his plans to expand on hardware, on June 19, 2012, Ballmer revealed Microsoft's first ever computer device, a tablet called Microsoft Surface at an event held in Hollywood, Los Angeles. He followed this by announcing the company's purchase of Nokia's mobile phone division in September 2013, his last major acquisition for Microsoft as CEO.
On August 23, 2013, Microsoft announced that Ballmer would retire within the next 12 months. A special committee that included Bill Gates would decide on the next CEO.
There was a list of potential successors to Ballmer as Microsoft CEO, but all had departed the company: Jim Allchin, Brad Silverberg, Paul Maritz, Nathan Myhrvold, Greg Maffei, Pete Higgins, Jeff Raikes, J. Allard, Robbie Bach, Bill Veghte, Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia and Steven Sinofsky. B. Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer (COO), was considered by some to be a de facto number two to Ballmer, with Turner having a strong grasp of business and operations but lacking technological vision. On February 4, 2014, Satya Nadella succeeded Ballmer as CEO.
Although as a child he was so shy that he would hyperventilate before Hebrew school, Ballmer is known for his energetic and exuberant personality, which is meant to motivate employees and partners, shouting so much that he needed surgery on his vocal cords.
Ballmer's flamboyant stage appearances at Microsoft events are widely circulated on the Internet as viral videos. One of his earliest known viral videos was his promotion of Windows 1.0 for a Crazy Eddie commercial in 1985, where he energetically shouts "How much do YOU think this advanced operating environment is worth? WAIT just one minute before you answer". Ballmer and Brian Valentine repeated this in a spoof promotion of Windows XP later on.
A widely circulated video was his entrance on stage at Microsoft's 25th anniversary event in September 2000, where he shouted and jumped across the stage, and saying "I love this company". It has been nicknamed 'monkey boy dance'. Another well known viral video was one captured at a Windows 2000 developers' conference, featuring a perspiring Ballmer chanting the word "developers".
Relationship with Bill Gates
Ballmer was Gates' best man at his wedding to Melinda French, and the two men described their relationship as a marriage. They were so close for years that another Microsoft executive described it as a mind meld. Combative debates—a part of Microsoft's corporate culture—that many observers believed were personal arguments occurred within the relationship; while Gates was glad in 2000 that Ballmer was willing to become CEO so he could focus on technology, the Wall Street Journal reported that there was tension surrounding the transition of authority. Things became so bitter that, on one occasion, Gates stormed out of a meeting in a huff after a shouting match in which Ballmer jumped to the defense of several colleagues, according to an individual present at the time. After the exchange, Ballmer seemed "remorseful", the person said. Once Gates leaves, "I'm not going to need him for anything. That's the principle", Ballmer said. "Use him, yes, need him, no".
In October 2014, a few months after Ballmer left his post at Microsoft, a Vanity Fair profile stated that Ballmer and Gates no longer talk to each other due to animosity over Ballmer's resignation. In a November 2016 interview, Ballmer said he and Gates have "drifted apart" ever since, saying that they always had a "brotherly relationship" beforehand. He said that his push into the hardware business, specifically smartphones, which Gates did not support, contributed to their relationship breakdown.
After saying in 2008 that he intended to remain CEO for another decade, Ballmer announced his retirement in 2013, after losing billions of dollars in acquisitions and on the Surface tablet. Microsoft's stock price rebounded on the news.
Ballmer says that he regretted the lack of focus on Windows Mobile in the early 2000s, leaving Microsoft a distant third in the current smartphone market. Moreover, he attributed the success of the expensively-priced iPhones to carrier subsidies. He went on to say,
People like to point to this quote where I said iPhones will never sell, because the price at $600 or $700 was too high. And there was a business model innovation by Apple to get it essentially built into the monthly cellphone bill.
He called the acquisition of the mobile phone division of Nokia as his "toughest decision" during his tenure, as it was overseeing the changing profile of Microsoft as it was expanding on hardware.
Ballmer hosted his last company meeting in September 2013, and stepped down from the company's board of directors, in August 2014.
On December 24, 2014, the Seattle Times reported that the IRS sued Ballmer, Craig Mundie, Jeff Raikes, Jim Allchin, Orlando Ayala and David Guenther in an effort to compel them to testify in Microsoft's corporate tax audit. The IRS has been looking into how Microsoft and other companies deal with transfer pricing.
Ballmer served as director of Accenture Ltd. and a general partner of Accenture SCA from 2001 to 2006.
On competing companies and software
In 2007, Ballmer said "There's no chance that the [Apple] iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance."
Speaking at a conference in NYC in 2009, Ballmer criticized Apple's pricing, saying, "Now I think the tide has turned back the other direction (against Apple). The economy is helpful. Paying an extra $500 for a computer in this environment—same piece of hardware—paying $500 more to get a logo on it? I think that's a more challenging proposition for the average person than it used to be."
In 2015, Ballmer called Microsoft's decision to invest in Apple to save it from bankruptcy in 1997 as the "craziest thing we ever did". By 2015, Apple was the world's most valuable company.
In 2016, Ballmer did an interview with Bloomberg where Ballmer added context to his iPhone statement, saying "People like to point to this quote...but the reason I said that was the price of $600-$700 was too high", he says he didn't realize the business model innovation that Apple was going to deploy, using the carriers to subsidize the phones by building the cost into the customer's monthly bill.
Free and open source software
In July 2000, Ballmer called the free software Linux kernel "communism" and further claimed that it infringed with Microsoft's intellectual property. In June 2001 he called Linux a "cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches". Ballmer used the notion of "viral" licensing terms to express his concern over the fact that the GNU General Public License (GPL) employed by such software requires that all derivative software be under the GPL or a compatible license. In April 2003 he even interrupted his skiing holiday in Switzerland to personally plead with the mayor of Munich not to switch to GNU/Linux. But he did not succeed with this and Munich switched to LiMux, despite his offering a 35% discount at his lobbying visit. (Munich has since backtracked on using LiMux; in November 2017, the Munich City Council resolved to reverse the migration and return to Microsoft Windows-based software by 2020.)
In March 2016, Ballmer changed his stance on Linux, saying that he supports his successor Satya Nadella's open source commitments. He maintained that his comments in 2001 were right at the time but that times have changed.
In 2005, Microsoft sued Google for hiring one of its previous vice presidents, Kai-Fu Lee, claiming it was in violation of his one-year non-compete clause in his contract. Mark Lucovsky, who left for Google in 2004, alleged in a sworn statement to a Washington state court that Ballmer became enraged upon hearing that Lucovsky was about to leave Microsoft for Google, picked up his chair, and threw it across his office, and that, referring to then Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (who had previously worked for competitors Sun and Novell), Ballmer vowed to "kill Google." Lucovsky reports:
At some point in the conversation Mr. Ballmer said: "Just tell me it's not Google." I told him it was Google. At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google."
Ballmer then resumed attempting to persuade Lucovsky to stay at Microsoft. Ballmer has described Lucovsky's account of the incident as a "gross exaggeration of what actually took place".
During the 2011 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, he said: "You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone and you do to use an Android phone ... It is hard for me to be excited about the Android phones."
In 2013, Ballmer said that Google was a "monopoly" that should be pressured from market competition authorities.
On March 6, 2008, Seattle mayor Greg Nickels announced that a local ownership group involving Ballmer made a "game-changing" commitment to invest $150 million in cash toward a proposed $300 million renovation of KeyArena and were ready to purchase the Seattle SuperSonics from the Professional Basketball Club LLC in order to keep the team in Seattle. However, this initiative failed, and the SuperSonics relocated to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where they now play as the Oklahoma City Thunder.
In June 2012, Ballmer was an investor in Chris R. Hansen's proposal to build a new arena in the SoDo neighborhood of Seattle and bring the SuperSonics back to Seattle. On January 9, 2013, Ballmer and Hansen led a group of investors in an attempt to purchase the Sacramento Kings from the Maloof family and relocate them to Seattle for an estimated $650 million. However, this attempt also fell through.
Following the Donald Sterling scandal in May 2014, Ballmer was the highest bidder in an attempt to purchase the Los Angeles Clippers for a reported price of $2 billion, which is the second highest bid for a sports franchise in North American sports history (after the $2.15 billion sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2012). After a California court confirmed the authority of Shelly Sterling to sell the team, it was officially announced on August 12, 2014, that Ballmer would become the Los Angeles Clippers owner.
On September 25, 2014, Ballmer said he would bar the team from using Apple products such as iPads, and replace them with Microsoft products. It has been reported that he had previously also barred his family from using iPhones.
Ballmer was the second person after Roberto Goizueta to become a billionaire in U.S. dollars based on stock options received as an employee of a corporation in which he was neither a founder nor a relative of a founder. As of December 11, 2017, his personal wealth is estimated at US$37.1 billion. While CEO of Microsoft in 2009, Ballmer earned a total compensation of $1,276,627, which included a base salary of $665,833, a cash bonus of $600,000, no stock or options, and other compensation of $10,794.
On November 12, 2014, it was announced that Ballmer and his wife Connie donated $50 million to the University of Oregon. Connie Ballmer is a University of Oregon alumna and serves on the institution's board of trustees. The funds will go towards the university's $2 billion fundraising effort, and will focus towards scholarships, public health research and advocacy, and external branding/communications.
On November 13, 2014, it was announced that Ballmer would provide a gift, estimated at $60 million, to Harvard University's computer science department. The gift would allow the department to hire new faculty, and hopefully increase the national stature of the program. Ballmer previously donated $10 million to the same department in 1994, in a joint-gift with Bill Gates.
Ballmer serves on the World Chairman's Council of the Jewish National Fund, which means he has donated US$1 million or more to the JNF.
USAFacts
Ballmer launched USAFacts.org in 2017, a non-profit organization whose goal is to allow people to understand US government revenue, spending and societal impact. He is reported to have contributed $10 million to fund teams of researchers who populated the website's database with official data.
In 1990, Ballmer married Connie Snyder; they have three sons.
The Ballmers live in Hunts Point, Washington.
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What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.
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Antonio Cánovas del Castillo y Vallejo, better known as Kaulak (22 December 1862, Madrid – 13 September 1933, Madrid) was a Spanish photographer, art critic, editor and amateur painter. His uncle was the assassinated Prime Minister, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, hence his use of a pseudonym; the meaning of which is unexplained, although the word appears to be of Basque origin.

Biography
He was originally a lawyer, and held several public offices before deciding to devote himself to photography. This included high positions in the ministries of Interior and Justice, as well as holding a seat in the Cortes (legislature), representing the constituency of Cieza, in the early 1890s. He also served for a brief period as  in Málaga. During this time, he wrote art criticism for the illustrated version of , and studied painting under the tutelage of Carlos de Haes; signing his works as "Vascano".

As for his photographic activity, he opposed pictorialism, which was the prevalent approach at the time, in favor of professional portraits, rendered in a "purist" manner. He eventually came to be known as the "Spanish Nadar". His portraits encompassed a wide range of notables, including Prime Minister, Antonio Maura, writers such as José de Echegaray, his fellow photographer, , and the torero, , as well as members of the Royal Family.

In 1901, he created the magazine, La Fotografía, which for many years served as the official organ of the . He also collaborated with several other magazines, including Blanco y Negro and, in 1902, won a prize sponsored by that magazine, to provide illustrations for , a book of poems by Ramón de Campoamor. They were later issued as postcards. He also created a series of postcards with the Swiss-born photographers, Adolfo Menet (1866–1927) and Oscar Hauser.

He opened the Kaulak Studios on the Calle de Alcalá in 1904, and immediately attracted an upper-class clientele. In 1912, he published a technical manual: La fotografía moderna. Manual compendiado de los conocimientos indispensables del fotógrafo, under his real name.

He died in Madrid, aged seventy, and was interred at Saint Isidore Cemetery. His studio was operated by his family, except for a period during the Spanish Civil War, and remained in business until 1989.

Selected works

References

Further reading
 José Altabella, Los grandes de la fotografía española: «Kaulak», ABC, 1975 (Online)
 Antonio Gómez Iruela, Las galerías fotográficas de Madrid en los inicios de la fotografía, (Online)
 Jorge Latorre Izquierdo, "Arte e identidades culturales: actas del XII Congreso Nacional del Comité Español de Historia del Arte", in: Fotografía del 98, University of Oviedo,
 Marie-Loup Sougez, Historia de la Fotografía, Madrid, Cátedra, 2004.
 Diccionario de fotógrafos españoles, various authors, Oliva Maria Rubio (Ed.), La Fábrica, 2014 (Online)

External links

  "Un excelente artista: ha muerto Kaulak", obituary from

1862 births
1933 deaths
Spanish photographers
Members of the Cortes Generales
Spanish art critics
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The Kodiak Laboratory resides in the Kodiak Fisheries Research Center owned by the Kodiak Island Borough. The Kodiak Laboratory within KFRC consolidates NOAA Fisheries and management programs in Kodiak and makes them more accessible to the fishing industry and the public.
The Kodiak Laboratory consists of Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) RACE Shellfish Assessment Program and Groundfish Assessment Program. Scientists for both Shellfish and Groundfish Assessment Programs conduct field and laboratory research on the abundance and distribution of marine invertebrate and fish populations, their life history, population dynamics, habitats, ecological interactions, and impacts of human activities such as bycatch, discard mortality, and habitat alteration. In addition, scientists at the Kodiak Lab provide information necessary to conserve, protect, and manage economically important Alaskan shellfish resources, including king, Tanner, and snow crabs, for the benefit of the nation.
The AFSC's Kodiak field office of the Fisheries Monitoring and Analysis Program (FMA), the Alaska Regional Office of the Sustainable Fisheries Division and port samplers from the Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) occupy space within Kodiak Lab.
The Kodiak Lab meets the needs for a base of operations for field research, expanding management and observer coordination in groundfish fisheries and timely cooperation with Alaska Department of Fish & Game (ADF&G) on shellfish surveys and fishery management decision-making.
The Kodiak Fisheries Research Center (KFRC) was designed to provide a multi-agency marine research facility that would foster marine fishery research as well as serve as a resource for providing educational opportunities to the Kodiak community.
The Kodiak Fisheries Research Center is on approximately seven acres in close proximity to the Fisheries Industrial Technology Center and Alaska Department of Fish & Game on Near Island. There are approximately 12,000 - 15,000 of people who visit the facility annually.
The main buiding houses an extensive museum collection containing the most common species of crabs, shrimps, marine snails, bivalves, and a variety of fishes.
The NOAA Fisheries W.F. Thompson Memorial Library (1800 sq ft) maintains about 6,500 bound volumes, 75 current periodicals, and 2,600 goverment documents on marine biology and fisheries.
See our list of regional links for information about Kodiak Lab affiliations and information.
When you meet the main road, leaving the airport, turn right.
In Kodiak, go through the first light. At the Y, follow the right branch (Rezanof Drive East) up the hill.
At the bridge, take a right and cross the bridge to Near Island.
Once across the bridge, take your first left onto Trident Way, and continue past the Fisheries Industrial Technology Center (on your left). The next left will be the Kodiak Fisheries Research Center at 301 Research Court.


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Graft patency determines prognosis in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Numerous reports over the past 20 years have…
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Effects of feeding canola meal and sweet lupin (L. luteus, L. angustifolius) in amino acid balanced diets on growth performance and carcass characteristics of growing-finishing pigs
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Two trials, each with 48 growing-finishing pigs (30-120 kg), were carried out to evaluate the effect of 25.9% and 16.2% of canola…
Long-term results justify autogenous infrainguinal bypass grafting in patients with end-stage renal failure.
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Five- to fifteen-year follow-up of fresh autologous pericardial valved conduits.
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Fate of subpulmonary homograft conduits: determinants of late homograft failure.
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At Athenix, we focus on getting results. Each implant surgery is carefully planned, with the highest attention on patient safety and comfort. Your breast implant surgery will be tailored specifically for you and your body type. The first step is to reach out to us and schedule a free initial consultation. We are interested in hearing what you hope to achieve, and evaluating your breasts and health history so we can advise you about what to expect. Once you meet our professional team, we believe you will feel confident and secure in our abilities and artistry in placing implants. Talk to us in a free consultation, with no obligation. We are conveniently located in Beaverton, with easy access for women in Portland and the surrounding communities.
Enhancing breast size can help you restore feelings of happiness with your physical appearance. Genetics play a large role in the size of your breasts, but other issues, such as gaining and losing weight, childbirth, and breastfeeding can leave once-perky, youthful breasts saggy and loose. This unhappy situation can be resolved with breast implants. The technology has advanced in recent years, with more natural-looking shapes and sizes available, as well as less-invasive surgical procedures, resulting in a natural "feel" to the implants.
Our team of Portland plastic surgeons at Athenix is deeply committed to helping women achieve beautiful, natural looking breasts, and we employ stringent patient safety processes in our state-of-the-art surgical suites. We are proud to help our patients achieve the beautiful, full breasts that make them feel attractive, confident, and womanly. Call today for a free initial consultation at our Portland area office in Beaverton.
This is a surgery to add volume to breasts. At Athenix in Portland, our board-certified plastic surgeons take all the time necessary in choosing the correct size of implants, in planning surgery, and educating patients about what to expect.
What type of implants will be best for me?
This is a personal decision. At Athenix in Portland, we will work closely with you to select the type and size of implant that will look most attractive on your frame. There are many more types of implants, both silicone and saline, to choose from.
When choosing the size of implant, it is important that you know what the implants will look like on your body. We make it possible to visualize the final result and offer countless "before and after" images of patients with a similar body type to assist in selecting the most attractive size.
What type of implant is better, saline or silicone?
There is no real way to say which is better, as they are different. Silicone implants have a very natural, soft feel which is generally thought to better mimic natural breast tissue but require a larger incision to place. Saline implants are filled after placement so some variation in size is possible, and the incision is smaller. These implants may not be the best choice for very slim patients.
Teardrop implants are in a more natural shape than round implants. The truth is that either type can produce a very natural look when the surgery is performed by a highly-skilled plastic surgeon.
How long will I need to take off work for breast augmentation surgery?
Most patients plan on two weeks off work, but some feel good enough to return to work after a week or ten days. The main point is to follow aftercare instructions, take it easy, and allow your body to heal before getting back into your normal routine.
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Most silicone breast implants have a ten year warranty for replacement, with an added amount paid to help cover the cost of surgical replacement; these warranties are rarely used as modern implants are known for being long-lasting.
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We offer natural fat transfer breast augmentation at our private Portland clinic. This procedure involves extracting fat from another body area, purifying it, and injecting the fat cells into the upper part of the breast to add subtle volume. The natural fat is recognized by your body and poses little risk of rejection.
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At iwebcoders, mine main goal is to provide cutting-edge helpful tutorials that are easy to understand and use in projects for web developers.
My name is Harpal Singh and I am Programmer, Developer, Blogger and Technology freak based in Noida, India.
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Though this image looks animated, it's actually a static JPG. I love optical illusions!
NYT put together a nice little slide show of skeletons of everyday animals like the flying fox above, a sea lion, and an elephant.
I cannot believe how widespread the fires are this year. We got a message at work saying there are no packages being delivered to all of Southern California. That's a big deal. When I was in LA in May, I saw the Griffith Park fires which was scary enough; I can't imagine what it's like for everyone fleeing their homes.
Pic Credit: lateott_156 on Flickr.
UPDATE: The NYT is tracking the fires here. They seem to have the most recent information collected from a number of sources.
Threatened: 25,925 homes, 2,055 commercial structures.
We're headed to Geektown today. Don't tell me you don't love it.
Check out this great video montage of all the most famous viral videos from the past few years. It's long, but really worth watching.
Monkeys seem to have the run of many cities in India these days, especially New Delhi. This weekend, Deputy Mayor S.S. Bajwa died after being attacked by a gang of Rhesus Macaques causing him to fall off his balcony. A number of methods have been devised to reduce the number of monkeys roaming the city including relocation of the troops (into another city, sometimes without the destination city officials' knowledge), sterilizing the male monkeys, or even employing Langurs (larger monkeys) to scare away the smaller Macaques.
While the problem of the monkey terrorists at first seems to be an isolated issue for India alone, in light of lethal viruses like Ebola we should all be concerned. Zoonotic diseases (diseases passed from animals to humans like SARS and Bird Flu) are fast becoming a potential global crisis that could affect us all. This month's National Geographic had a scary interesting article detailing the challenges we face with zoonoses.
An abandoned baby Macaque finds a friend and the will to live. It's tough being a primate. All those feelings and such.


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Treasured brother of Patrick, Ann, David, Graham, Bernard (Dec), Philip and Paul.
Funeral Prayers for the late Anthony 'Tony' Seccull will be offered at St Patricks Catholic Church, 515 Smollett Street, Albury at 11am on Wednesday, February 15, 2017.


Attendance- Bob Gonczy, Duke Gagnon, Scott Hivley, King Clark, Casey Ehlinger , and Bill Smart were in attendance. Conservancy Attorney Dan Blaney was also in attendance. Scott Hivley incoming board member was also in attendance.
Approval of the Minutes: Bob made to approve the November minutes. Duke seconded. Motion passed 4-0.
Treasurers Report: The balance in the checking account as of 12/31/2018 is $69,750.54.
Claims: Duke made the motion to approve claims and Bob seconded. Motion passed 4-0.
JD Excavating gave us a bid for the detention pond in the amount of $5250.00. We are tabling this until next meeting. King will also get ahold of Jim Hough and see if he wants to bid on it.
Bob made a motion for the Town accept the property on 275 and Michigan Ave from the Blaney family. The Conservancy will pay for a survey up to $1500. Bill seconded Motion passed 5-0.
The next meeting will be on February 5, 2019.


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Should I Get a Better CPU or More RAM?
written by Yehuda Cayson February 12, 2018
We have some general advice that we dole out a lot here at Laptop Mag: Get a laptop with at least an Intel Core i5 CPU and 8GB of RAM. In general, that works, but people are unique, as are their needs, and that's where reader christinalevinee comes in.
They want to buy a Dell XPS 13, and the company sells several variations at the moment. Our reader is trying to home in on one with an Intel 8th Gen Core CPU and 8GB of RAM or a model with an Intel 7th Gen Core and 16GB of RAM.
I can't find the 7th Gen configuration on Dell's site, but it's possible christinalevinee is in a different country with different configurations or is buying from a local retailer. But since they are suggesting both models, I'm not taking price into consideration.
My usual answer: Go for the 8th Gen Core CPU. Based on our testing, it's as much as 92 percent faster than the 7th Gen Core CPU, and that will have a huge affect on performance. We've seen this time and time again in our testing. Having a quad-core processor — which is what 8th Gen provides over 7th Gen — gives you a huge bump.
MORE: Which Laptop CPU is Right for You?
Now, christinalevinee is preparing for a career as a network engineer and wants to use a virtual machine with Linux, and that can use a whole lot of RAM. In this case, the 16GB is probably better for this user, depending on how intensive the work they're doing on Linux is.
If you save up, Dell does sell its latest and thinnest, the XPS 13 9370, with a Core i7-8550U and 16GB of RAM for $2,050. If you want full-size USB ports, check out the XPS 13 9360 with the exact same specs (except for a smaller SSD), which costs $1,669.
Alternatively, if the XPS 13 isn't the end-all and be-all for this reader, christinalevinee could get something upgradeable. The XPS 13 9360 and 9370 have the RAM soldered to the motherboard, so you can't upgrade their RAM. But grabbing a laptop without soldered RAM will give you the option of getting to that 16GB mark in the future. Dell's XPS 15, which is larger, does let you upgrade the RAM, as do a number of Lenovo's ThinkPads.
For most people, the 8th Gen Core CPU will provide a noticeable performance difference. But in this reader's specialized case, more RAM is probably better.
Credit: Shaun Lucas/Laptop Mag
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Andrew joined Laptopmag.com in 2015, reviewing computers and keeping up with the latest news. He holds a M.S. in Journalism (Digital Media) from Columbia University. A lover of all things gaming and tech, his previous work has shown up in Kotaku, PCMag and Complex, among others. Follow him on Twitter @FreedmanAE.
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Graduation Kids! Adorable End of the Year Writing Project!
This printable bulletin board with a fish or ocean theme is a unique idea for end of the year activities or back to school activities. For a beginning of the year activity, the students will reflect on all of their successful school experience in math, science, reading, recess, art, music, etc.


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Elk take a liking to Bearcat Hollow
Joe Mosby
Bearcat Hollow came into the Arkansas elk hunting scene a few days ago. The extensive multi-agency project south of the Buffalo River was opened to elk hunting for the first time, and the two permit holders were successful.
Cain Lusk of Hector got a 6X7 bull elk, and Billy Burleson of Lead Hill took a cow elk in Bearcat Hollow.
Other successful hunters were Doug Young of Malvern with a 7X7 bull elk on Gene Rush Wildlife Management Area; Ridge Fletcher of Little Rock with a 4X5 bull on Gene Rush WMA and Shane Lyerly of Jonesboro with a cow elk in the Richland Creek Sonny Varnell Conservation Area, a part of Gene Rush WMA.
Two hunters who were scheduled to work Buffalo National River land were sidelined by the shutdown, but they will have permits for 2014's elk season.
Bearcat Hollow is a rugged area, and that is an understatement. Lusk is just 12 years old, and he had help both in finding the bull and in getting it out. Burleson had more difficulty.
"After I shot the elk, it took me an hour and a half to walk back to my truck," he said. "It was uphill all the way."
He had field dressed the elk on the spot.
At the truck, which was hooked to a camper, Burleson had cell phone service and was able to get word to Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists working the elk hunt. They helped Burleson and his wife load the 400-plus pound elk onto a truck with the aid of a winch then take it to Burleson's truck and camper.
Getting to the spot was an adventure for three biologists and a writer.
Rough logging roads were strewn with boulders, downed trees and brush. It was four-wheel drive nearly all the way from the community of Bass, a few twisting miles from Mount Judea in Newton County.
The Bearcat Hollow Project is an effort involving the Arkansas Wildlife Federation, Ozark National Forest, Game and Fish Commission, National Wild Turkey Federation, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and others. Wayne Shewmake of Dardanelle, Wildlife Federation president, has been a major driving force in the project, and he has enlisted a number of volunteers to help in cleaning up after dozer work, improving stream banks, removing old fences, installing gates at wildlife openings and putting up bird houses, bat houses and wood duck boxes.
But the Bearcat Hollow Project has its critics.
Objections have been voiced over controlled burning, the use of heavy equipment in the mountainous area, of removing trees for wildlife openings and of making the area a suitable habitat for elk. The elk were re-introduced to Arkansas beginning in 1981, and some critics say these elk from western areas are not the same as the eastern subspecies which once lived in Arkansas and are now extinct.
Bearcat Hollow already has attracted other wildlife in addition to elk. Bears, deer and wild turkeys are using it, according to Game and Fish Commission biologists. There is no shortage of squirrels, and rabbits are using the more open areas. Bird enthusiasts find a variety of year-round and migratory birds in the remote region.
For deer hunting, Bearcat Hollow has a season limit of two deer, of which no more than one can be a buck with archery, muzzle-loader or modern gun. Two does can be taken with archery or one during muzzle-loader season. Youths can take one buck with modern guns during Youth Hunts.
Joe Mosby is the retired news editor of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and Arkansas' best known outdoor writer. His work is distributed by the Arkansas News Bureau in Little Rock. He can be reached by e-mail at jhmosby@cyberback.com.
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Michal Čabala – the last bohemian of the Prešov art village
Written by Diana Guralev
Source: https://hornyzemplin.korzar.sme.sk/c/20269826/pre-krajinu-mal-michal-cabala-mimoriadny-cit.html
It was in 2001 that Michal Bycko sat down to interview one of the most famous Rusyn artists, Michal Čabala, and later created a beautiful and a touching documentary about his life and work that you can listen to below – in Rusyn. A fair warning, though, you might well up.
Michal Čabala (pronounce Chabala) was from Čabiny near Medzilaborce (1941-2002). He was raised by his grandparents because his parents died when he was very young and he couldn't quite remember the way they looked, which bothered him. His grandpa once told him not to worry anymore and to try drawing them. When he was done, grandpa praised the likeness achieved, but in retrospect the artist couldn't tell if it was true or just to encourage him. From that moment, though, he got to be very interested in drawing and especially, in drawing that fog that he saw enveloping the hills around his village every day before the sunrise and that he thought was hiding something magical.
It was actually our one and only Štefan Hapák who told him to go study art in Brno. And so he did, at 17. After the initial culture shock, he was able to find his place there. Later, in Bratislava, he studied under Dezider Milly, who encouraged him to keep painting the region he came from, as this was where his true soul as an artist lied. And so after graduating in 1969, he settled in Prešov, where he played an indispensable part in the cultural and artistic life as a Rusyn "freelance" artist. At an annual art event called Prešovsky Montmartre, during which artworks are created in the streets in front of passers-by, he was the one who attracted the most people wanting their portrait done. He participated in over 60 art shows; the last and the biggest solo exhibition was held at his 60th birthday in 2001 in the Andy Warhol Museum in Medzilaborce.
His portraits, still lifes, theatrical scenes and landscapes are characterized by misty, muted, earthy tones, and certain unfinishedness, smudginess even, which he defended as intentional, probably brought on by his fascination with that elusive fog of his native hills.
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These are gorgeous! Those leaves are huge – what kind of leaf/plant/tree is it? Looks like a very fun day!!
Oh, I wish I could be there too!! These are lovely photos, I so enjoyed them!
A picture paints a thousand words! I loved them.
I love the pic of you hiding in the leaves. Is it you? Those leaves are HUGE!


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The Buddha Wallah. A 90 minute documentary issued 2011. International travels of Christopher. Now freely available on Vimeo
Posted on February 9, 2021 9:56 am by Christopher
The Buddha Walllah* is a 90-minute documentary following the international journeys of Christopher Titmuss between 2008 and 2010.
The documentary includes Totnes, England, France, Germany, India, Israel, Palestine, Myanmar and Thailand,
There are extracts from his teachings/inquiry/dialogue on retreats, pilgrimages and workshops. The film includes responses to his work from Nshorna (his daughter), Sonya (a former partner), and time with his grandchildren.
Distributed in 2011, the documentary shows his work in areas of conflict and his efforts towards reconciliation.
Christopher, a former Buddhist monk, visits his former monastery in Thailand to pay respect to his dying teacher, Venerable Ajahn Dhammadharo. He also visits the cave on an island off the coast of southern Thailand, where he spent nine months in 1973.
The film was made available primarily for international distribution for television, edited to 60 minutes.
Christopher advocates love of aloneness and deep friendship with people, animals and the environment. He emphasises mindfulness, meditation, service and wisdom as important contributions for a fulfilled and liberated way of life.
Zinnoberfilm, a leading documentary filmmaker in Germany, filmed more than 100 hours of his travels over a two year period.
Director: Georg Maas and Dieter Zeppenfeld
www.zinnoberfilm.de
Duration: 90 min, plus four extra clips
Thank you to Kali Franciska von Koch in Sweden who encouraged Dieter to make the documentary.
*Wallah is a Hindi word meaning 'worker,' such as chai wallah.
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Ernest Tomic says:
More than a year later it's still not possible to see.
A friend told me The Buddha Wallah was freely available after eight years since it became available. I put the link on the blog. Within two or three days, the documentary required a password.
I have no idea who controls the release and how to get hold of a password. The corporate world often shows little regard for values, such as sharing, giving and supporting. It has a primary value – numbers of $. I am not sure if it it is available even with payment. If you find out any info, let me know. I will pass the word on.
Steve Parry says:
Christopher, I too would like to watch it… Do you have the password yet? Thank you.
Hello Christopher. I've wanted to watch this film for years and I'm glad it's freely available, but it says I have to use a password because it's a private video. Now what would that password be?
Best regards to you. I hope we meet again one day.
Dear Ernest, I posted on my eNews the free viewing of The Buddha Wallah. Possibly lots checked it out. So now it needs a password to block access. I will try to find out about the password. Warm wishes,
Thank you, Christopher, appreciated.


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Q: ASP.NET - return value from iframe to main page I have an iframe on a usercontrol. I need to print webpage which I load on iframe dynamically.  I am able to reach this far.  But I am not able to makeout whether user has actually printed or not.
I have javascript function print() called in the webpage on iframe.
When print dialog is displayed, I need to know whether user selected OK(to print) or cancel and pass the same back to usercontrol.
Any ideas as to how this can be done.
Thanks in advance.

A: It cannot be done. The browser will not inform you if the printing has been done or cancelled.
You can use onafterprint event to some extent but that is only supported on FF and IE. On IE 10 for example, the event is fired before the print dialog is even opened.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Printing


Taipei are you ready for Wooden Shark Boy? That's right, Ah-B Blowater AKA Little Good Thing is on a roll at the moment and no sign of slowing down with his wizardry custom works. Collectors and companies like FLABSLAB are giving him so much work at the moment yet he has time to make a Momoco Studio's famous Shark Boy custom. YES you've guessed it a wood effect version.
Wooden Shark Boy has already swum the oceans and reached Wrong Gallery Taipei and ready for the SHARK SHARK'S SHARK Momoco Studio Custom Show at WRONG GALLERY Taipei which you can check out the line up and a few other customs HERE.
Like we've said on many occasions Malaysian artist Ah-b left us gobsmacked when we thought he carved out Shokona Kazawa's "Byron" out of wood which you can check out HERE. This led to closer inspection and we found it wasn't a wood Byron but freaking dam good and fooled us for a moment. Like we've said before, we've seen many wood style customs but Ah-B wood custom style is more rugged and rustic than we've seen but saying that that's the charm about them.
Love the fact that Ah-B added the weathered scarf and made it look like it was supposed to be on Shark Boy. Great look to the scarf as it has that aged look for Wooden Shark Boy.
Save the date and save some display space.