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Record-shattering heat wave scorches Europe: 'It's scary. This isn't the way it's supposed to be.'
Doyle Rice | USA TODAY | 11:34 am EDT June 27, 2019
Record-setting heat is scorching Europe. Red and orange alerts were issued in several European countries including France and Austria.
Record-shattering temperatures are scorching much of Europe this week as searing heat from North Africa overspreads the normally mild continent.
Germany broke its all-time heat record for June on Wednesday when the temperature soared to 101.5 degrees in Coschen, which is about 65 miles southeast of Berlin, according to the German meteorological service.
Authorities in Germany also imposed speed limits on some autobahns amid fears of buckling road surfaces, and some French schools stayed closed as a precaution.
Both Poland (100.8 degrees) and the Czech Republic (102) also set June high temperatures on Wednesday.
Red and orange alerts have been issued in several European countries, including in parts of France, Austria, Switzerland, Spain and Belgium, to warn about the dangerously high temperatures, according to MeteoAlarm.eu. Some of these nations could set June record highs by the weekend.
A nun braves the heat to attend Pope Francis' weekly general audience in Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City on June 26, 2019.
ANGELO CARCONI, EPA-EFE
Professor Hannah Cloke, a natural-hazards researcher at Britain's University of Reading, said the heat along with a buildup of humidity is a "potentially lethal combination. Children, the elderly and people with underlying health conditions are particularly at risk," she said.
Early-summer heat waves are particularly dangerous, the Weather Channel said, since people have not had time to adapt to the seasonal heat.
A woman wades in a fountain at Paris' Trocadero esplanade in an attempt to keep cool amid 100-degree weather in the French capital.
KENZO TRIBOUILLARD, AFP/Getty Images
Several locations in France topped 104 degrees on Wednesday, which is warmer than the 103 degree high forecast in Phoenix. Temperatures in France are expected to approach 110 degrees in southern parts of the country by Thursday and Friday, the Weather Channel said. That's not far from the country's all-time record high of 111.4 degrees, set on Aug. 12, 2003.
The heat could also be a problem for anyone attending Women's World Cup matches taking place in France through next week, AccuWeather said.
In eastern Germany, police pulled over a moped rider who was wearing nothing but a helmet, AccuWeather reported. When officers questioned the man about his complete lack of clothing, he cited high temperatures as his motivation for riding in the buff, according to a post that included photos of the naked rider shared by the police on Twitter.
Sweden's Melinda Cuzner, while vacationing in Copenhagen, Denmark, called the heat wave "worrisome. It's scary. This isn't the way it's supposed to be."
"Europe is currently under a historically strong upper ridge," Mika Rantanen, a meteorologist in Finland, said Wednesday. According to the Capital Weather Gang, an upper ridge is the technical term for an extensive zone of high pressure or heat dome.
Although the World Meteorological Organization said "it is premature to attribute the unusually early heat wave to climate change," extreme heat waves are among the clearest connections to human-caused climate change, numerous studies have indicated, including one from the National Academy of Sciences.
In fact, climate change made the European heat waves in the summer of 2003 at least twice as likely; the 2003 heat episode was the deadliest natural disaster in Europe in the last 50 years, with a death toll exceeding 30,000.
The heat wave in Europe follows extreme heat episodes in Australia, India, Pakistan and parts of the Middle East in 2019, the World Meteorological Organization said.
Globally, extreme heat events are responsible for more deaths annually than hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined, a study in American Journal of Preventative Medicine said.
Even more concerning is that Europe's five hottest summers since 1500 have all been in the 21st century, according to a climatology institute in Potsdam, Germany, the BBC said.
Heat wave scorches Europe
Contributing: The Associated Press
Originally Published 2:47 pm EDT June 26, 2019
Updated 11:34 am EDT June 27, 2019


Advocates for expansion keep pressure on the administration to act as Attorney General Janet Mills announces a $35 million windfall that she says could fund the program through the current two-year budget.
Mainers for Health Care rally outside the State House before Gov. Paul LePage's State of the State address in February.
AUGUSTA — Advocates for expanding Medicaid in Maine sought Tuesday to keep pressure on the LePage administration, even as Attorney General Janet Mills announced a $35 million legal windfall she said could pay for expansion.
Attorney General Janet Mills announced a potential $35 million funding source for expanding Medicaid in Maine.
Tuesday was the deadline for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to file a plan with federal regulators for how the state planned to expand Medicaid coverage to an estimated 70,000 additional adults as part of a ballot initiative approved by Maine voters last November. But Gov. Paul LePage has said repeatedly that his administration would not move forward with implementation until the Legislature fully funds expansion, raising the specter of potential legal challenges.
On Tuesday, expansion advocates held a news conference calling on LePage to submit the state's implementation plan to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
House Speaker Sara Gideon, D-Freeport, said she was hopeful the LePage administration would do its job and submit the application for the waiver the state would need to move forward with expansion.
Last November, 59 percent of voters supported the ballot measure directing Maine to join the more than 30 other states that have expanded Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act.
There are conflicting assessments for how much expansion would cost the state even with the federal government footing 90 percent of the bill. While a recent study funded by the Maine Health Access Foundation estimated it will cost roughly $30 million in the current two-year budget, the LePage administration has pegged the costs at $60 million during the first year and as much as $100 million annually in future years.
Mills said the agreement was finalized in the past several weeks, but that the timing of her announcement and Tuesday's Medicaid expansion events was coincidental.
The Legislature would need to approve spending the additional settlement money – which is deposited into the Fund for a Healthy Maine – on Medicaid expansion. Given the politics surrounding Medicaid expansion, it was unclear Tuesday whether such a vote is feasible before the legislative session ends later this month.
LePage fired back later Tuesday with a statement accusing Mills of consistently opposing past administration efforts to use tobacco settlement money for Medicaid programs.
Organizations such as Mainers for Health Care, which led the Medicaid expansion ballot initiative, have threatened to pursue legal action against the LePage administration if it does not begin to implement the law. Mills declined to comment on whether her office would represent the LePage administration in any hypothetical lawsuit, but indicated that she believes the administration should be moving forward with implementation.


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Voltage Control Box
The Voltage Control Box (VCB) is an external control device, which provides four analog potentiometer inputs and four logic inputs/outputs. When a VCB is placed, an Initialization Properties dialog box appears for assigning the quantities of logic inputs/outputs (4 total). Although the quantity of logic connections on a Voltage Control Box (4) is different from those on a Logic Box (20), their operation and behavior are identical. (See Logic Box for further explanation of logic inputs/outputs).
Once a VCB block has been placed, double-clicking it will produce a dialog for assigning Analog (potentiometer) controls. A single VCB allows potentiometer adjustment of up to four selectable Nexia levels. Levels can be individual or ganged levels within Nexia. This includes Level Control blocks, as well as levels within other component blocks (such as Inputs & Outputs, Mixers, Equalizers, etc.). Object Code selects from a list of blocks found in the layout, and Instance ID is entered automatically, but both can be found easily using Object ID Inspector. Control ID selects from a list of available levels within the chosen block. Identifier provides a custom label for the assigned control.
External controls must be identified (see Device Maintenance) and associated with their corresponding component blocks within the layout (see Equipment Table). The VCB will assume a full range of 0~5 Volts returning from connected potentiometers, unless the VCB Calibration procedure is followed (see Device Maintenance). Please refer to the 'Installation Guide' (included with controls), or see Remote Control Bus for more information.

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By Joanna Brooks (A)theologies, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sexuality/Gender December 12, 2013
'Hardwired' for Hetero Marriage, LDS Tension Mounts Over LGBT Rights
On November 4, a critical mass of Mormons in the United States Senate—including Republicans Orrin Hatch of Utah and Dean Heller of Nevada (whose vote broke a filibuster by his own party)—played a critical role in passing the historic Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) protecting gay and lesbian Americans in the workplace.
Just days later, grassroots LDS Church members in the heavily Mormon communities of Oahu's North Shore received instructions during their Sunday church meetings on how to help defeat—by letter writing or organized bus caravan to the state capitol—historic legislation to secure civil marriage rights for gay and lesbian Hawaiians.
The contrast has commentators from the New York Times to Mother Jones writing about what appear to be divergent impulses on LGBT issues in a faith that built its twentieth-century branding on tight bureaucratic management of theology and public image.
So what do Mormons really believe about homosexuality? Make no mistake about it: more than any other branch of organized Christianity, Mormonism is theologically hardwired around the sanctity of heterosexual marriage. The Mormon concept of God is that of a married heterosexual couple: a Heavenly Mother and a Heavenly Father. Heterosexual marriage solemnized in LDS temples is viewed as a religious rite necessary to full salvation, and the heterosexual family is understood as a reflection of the essential nature of godliness and God's creation and an eternal unit.
Where LDS people have mobilized against LGBT civil marriage rights, it's often because they have been taught that their own religious freedom, theology and marriage practices will come under threat—a threat that while disclaimed by most legal experts can feel especially real given LDS historical memory of popular and US governmental anti-polygamy crusades in the late nineteenth century.
But if Mormonism's unique sacralization of the family presents a theological limit to full participation by LGBT people, it also pushes many Mormons into a position of profound searching and reflection when a member of the family comes out of the closet. How exactly does one understand the obligations and eternal prospects of a son or daughter, brother or sister, who does not fit within what Mormons understand as God's plan?
Speaking to the Times, Senator Reid related that a "lesbian niece" helped him "work [his] way through the issues"—and to a place where conscience compelled him to ensure that most American workplaces had protections for LGBT workers his own Church did not offer its employees.
The complexity of Senator Reid's own position suggests that as it turns out—twentieth-century LDS bureaucratic branding efforts notwithstanding—Mormons are actually subject to the same kinds of growth and conflict as every other people of faith, even if they tend to manage those conflicts in culturally-specific ways.
Tracking shifting dynamics within Mormonism around LGBT issues, it's helpful to understand some of the key tensions that shape what appear to be divergences within the faith. Here are a few to watch:
Theology vs public affairs: Because there are no theological synods in Mormonism, no formally trained official theologian corps, Mormon theology evolves in mysterious ways. But evolve it does, in tandem with shifting personnel in the Church's upper leadership echelons and local and global power dynamics, and awkward moments in that evolution are left to LDS Church Public Affairs to manage.
Case in point: in 1969, LDS Church Apostle Spencer W. Kimball—who later became the Mormon prophet who received and implemented the revelation to welcome men of African descent into the lay priesthood—wrote in his book The Miracle of Forgiveness that homosexuality was one in a series of "ever deepening degeneracies" pursued by the sexually depraved. Although Kimball died in 1985, the view he articulated remained virtually uncontested until the early 1990s, when small, nuanced changes in speeches by high-ranking LDS Church leaders suggested an emerging minority view of homosexuality as a trait of biological origin.
When LDS Church Apostle Boyd K. Packer flatly rejected the idea that a child of God could be born gay in a controversial October 2010 address to the worldwide church, LDS Church Public Affairs officials were tasked with receiving and responding to protest petitions from the Human Rights Campaign, and Elder Packer's denial of possible biological origins for homosexuality was later edited out in published versions of the talk.
LDS Church Public Affairs has also been credited with the development of new web materials that present homosexuality as a "complex issue" deserving "care and sensitivity." Public Affairs seems to be positioned to respond to delicate and quickly evolving issues in a ways that the Church's ecclesiastical chain of command is not.
Insulation vs assimilation: Mormons are more likely to mobilize against LGBT civil equality in places where they are numerous enough to be able to leverage their numbers effectively and to experience themselves as total social community. Where they are so few as to make political mobilization ineffective or even costly to their relationship with their host community, they have not.
Mother Jones's Stephanie Mencimer suggested that fear of harming Mitt Romney's run for the presidency kept the Church on the sidelines in 2012 marriage equality contests in Maryland, Maine, and Minnesota. But it's likely that a pragmatic regard for the numbers also had something to do with it. Mormons make up less than 1% of the population of the states of Maryland, Maine, and Minnesota. In California, home to Proposition 8, LDS people constitute 2 – 3% of the state's population.
In Hawaii, 70,000 Mormons comprise 5% of the state's population. Mormon-majority communities have been in existence on Oahu's North Shore since the late nineteenth century, and the North Shore community of Laie is home to a Brigham Young University campus and the LDS Church-owned Polynesian Cultural Center tourist site. Bus caravans have been organized from LDS North Shore congregations to demonstrations in Honolulu, congregational contact lists have been used for email and text blasts, and forums designed to mobilize campaign participation have been convened at BYU-Hawaii.
These dynamics reflect centuries-old realities of Mormon insularity and assimilation in the United States, but the global growth of the Church will bring new developments and dynamics as LDS people in widely divergent national political contexts respond to global movements for LGBT equality.
Central vs local leadership: In an article critical of the LDS fight against LGBT civil marriage in Hawaii, gay Mormon blogger Mitch Mayne writes,
It's important to understand that there is a lot of autonomy given to local Mormon leaders to engage their congregations in the way that they think best. True, sometimes that means that we're going to get it wrong, as we did in Hawaii, but it also means that we have the opportunity to get it right, and local leaders can create welcoming congregations where everyone—gay, straight, or anywhere in between—has a place in the ward family, and where even openly gay individuals like me can be called to serve in local leadership positions.
"Priesthood leader roulette" is what it's called sometimes at the grassroots; differences in temperament and inclination among Mormonism's all-volunteer, modestly-trained lay clergy. Mayne attends a progressive Mormon congregation in the San Francisco Bay area. He remembers that during the Proposition 8 campaign, even as leaders at the LDS Church's headquarters issued a letter urging Mormons to join the Yes on 8 campaign, there were divergences—sometimes significant—in the level of involvement directed or supported by local leaders
Local leaders and even paid LDS strategists, lobbyists, lawyers, and political operatives who stage the intersection of faith and politics can exert a profound influence on how local Mormons implement doctrine handed down from Church headquarters.
In California in 2008, that meant a campaign that encouraged LDS people to view gays as the "them" in a historic "us vs. them" struggle between God's plan for the family and the ways of a degraded world.
In Hawaii, an initial letter read to members in Church meetings in September encouraging opposition to same-sex marriage legalization featured what veteran Salt Lake Tribune religion reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack characterized as a "new post-prop 8 tone and emphasis." A second letter read to members in Church meetings in October, as Mother Jones's Mencimer noted, had a more militant edge. Some sources suggest the second letter reflected stronger influence from local Hawaiian Church leaders.
An old Proposition 8-style view of gays as "them" seems to be prevailing this month in Mormon Hawaii, even as Mormon Senators in D.C., both Democrats and Republicans, have acted on the understanding that gays are also "us": fellow Mormons and fellow citizens deserving of equal protection under the law.
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Loran says:
Brooks has, as usual, not done her homework, uses manipulative and emotive language to make many of her arguments instead of sound logical reasoning, leaps blindly into overt logical fallacies, and simply does not understand LDS doctrine to a substantive enough extent to really critique it in an intellectually honest way.
Her obsession with the whole "LGBTQ" culture war against the traditional family and the entire Western Judeo-Christian moral ethos surrounding human sexuality (and allowing it to be a productive and edifying force rather than a rampaging hurricane of human devastation, as it has, indeed, to a great extent since the sixties, become) has apparently, at this point, come to dominate much of her intellectual life.
The goal in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not equality but exaltation, and there is no greater inequality than between the exalted and the debased. Egalitarian equality of result or condition erases distinctions, which is why cultural Marxists (of the feminist sect) like Brooks are so attracted to it.
Kristi DeFuchs says:
Actually, President Packer never said any such thing. His October 2010 address didn't even mention homosexuality; it was about pornography! Furthermore, the published version of his talk wasn't significantly different than the spoken version. If you'd like to compare, both versions are readily available at http://tinyurl.com/packer-201010. Whether President Packer's written remarks reflect minor tweaks after the fact or an original script from which he slightly deviated, the differences are extremely minor. I think the main problem is that a lot of people were looking for a fight, so they read things into his talk that were never there in the first place. (I know from discussions at the time that many of the loudest critics never even read nor listened to the talk, in the first place, relying instead on others' assessments of what they erroneously read into his remarks.)
Finally, just as an aside, the printed versions of General Conference addresses are very rarely identical to the spoken version. Most public speakers don't stick to the script 100%, using their prepared remarks as a guide from which they can deviate as appropriate. The concepts are usually the same, but a word here, a word there, is usually different.


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Utilities propose West Coast charging stations for electric trucks
Jim Stinson @JimStinson
Nine West Coast utilities and two agencies representing 24 municipal utilities have proposed electric-charging stations for trucks every 50 miles along Interstate 5 and connecting highways, according to their report issued through the West Coast Clean Transit Corridor Initiative.
The first phase would build 27 sites along I-5 for medium-duty electric vehicles (EVs) by 2025, according to the report. By 2030, "14 of the 27 charging sites would be expanded to also accommodate charging for electric big rigs by 2030, when it is estimated that 8% of all trucks on the road in California could be electric," the report says. Sixteen sites will be in California, five in Oregon and six in Washington.
The plan could take years, as rural areas do not have the power-generating capacity for charging medium-duty trucks, the report found. But most utilities in urban areas of Washington, Oregon and California have the ability to offer medium-duty EV charging, according to the report. No rural area along I-5 can currently serve heavy-duty trucks, meaning the infrastructure to provide such a service has to be built out.
The three West Coast states are being aggressive about mapping out plans to electrify trucks. On Thursday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) will vote on a proposal to transition fleets to electric.
CARB is mulling requirements to make manufacturers produce 9% of Class 8 straight trucks to be zero-emission and 5% of Class 8 tractors to be zero-emission in 2024. By 2030, the possible California mandate will be 30%, up from a previously discussed goal of 15%.
But for truck manufacturers and fleets to do their part, there has to be infrastructure for charging. That is where the West Coast Clean Transit Corridor comes in. The study found that fleet managers are very much watching what utilities and agencies in the three states do, and indicated they will deploy EVs as part of their freight-hauling fleet when they see the infrastructure assemble.
California has in the past blamed its busy ports and its congested interstates, heavy with truck traffic, for the smog that often polluted its skies. The report says transportation causes 40% of California's greenhouse gases (gHg). Heavy-duty trucks alone account for 8.4% of the state's annual gHg emissions, according to the CARB.
The state has seen enthusiasm from fleets and OEMs about making short-haul vehicles for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, because those EVs will not travel long distances. At the April 2019 Advanced Clean Transportation Expo held in Long Beach, California, executives showed off a number of new models for short-range hauls.
"We are on the cusp of the transformation of truck power," said Paul Rosa, SVP of procurement and fleet planning for Penske Truck Leasing, during a session on alternative fuels held at the 2019 ACT Expo. But long-range use of EVs is much more theoretical.
If fleets use battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), they need charging stations every few hundred miles. Fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), using hydrogen as fuel, have longer range, but they would need fueling stations ready with hydrogen. In Southern California and the port area, the infrastructure for both is almost fully ready. But not for long hauls along the West Coast's main north-south artery, I-5.
Washington and Oregon also seek to cut down on emissions from their largest sources: transportation.
"The results of this study provide a roadmap for electric utilities in Washington, Oregon and California to help electrify transportation in a coordinated fashion," said Katie Sloan, director of eMobility and Building Electrification for Southern California Edison, one of the study's sponsors, in the Wednesday news release.
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require 'spec_helper'

describe Twelve::API::Gauges::Locations do
  subject { Twelve.new(ACCESS_TOKEN) }

  describe "#locations" do
    context "with no args" do
      it "should return locations" do
        VCR.use_cassette('locations') do
          response = subject.gauges(GAUGE_ID).locations
          response['date'].should_not be_nil
          response.should have_key('urls')

          locations = response['locations']
          locations.size.should > 0
          locations.first['title'].should_not be_nil
          locations.first['views'].should be_instance_of(Fixnum)
          locations.first['key'].should_not be_nil
        end
      end
    end

    context "with a date" do
      it "should return locations for that date" do
        VCR.use_cassette('locations("2011-12-8")') do
          response = subject.gauges(GAUGE_ID).locations('2011-12-8')
          response['date'].should == '2011-12-08'
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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Extended bias modelling using "LiBiNorm model"
"LiBiNorm count" should be run with the -u <outputfileroot> and -l which generates a landscape file named <filenameroot>_landscape.txt.
The command line format is LiBiNorm model [options] <landscapefile> where <landscapefile> is the name of the landscape file generated by LiBiNorm count.
Allows the length of each MCMC run to be changed (default 200).
The process of parameter determination uses the Nelder Mead simplex method to locate an initial set of parameters for the second stage which uses MCMC to identify the uncertainty associated with each of the parameters. This option results in the initial Nelder Mead stage being omitted and only the MCMC stage being used to determine the coefficients. When this is done, the parameters for the starting point for each run are determined by a random selection from within the likely range of parameters which is used within LiBiNorm as a prior. When this mode is selected then it is necessary to use more (-r), and longer (-s) runs.


Every Thursday, my Twitter feed undergoes a transformation.
That's because on Twitter, Thurdays are Folklore Thursdays.
#Folklorethursday is a hashtag created by British folklore scholars Dee Dee Chaney, Willow C. Winsham and Seline Stevenson. It first hit Twitter on June 18, 2015.
Throughout the day, Chaney, Winsham and others moderate tweets from writers, folklorists, historians, scholars and bloggers like little ol' me as they share links, pictures and tweets about folklore. And I know what you must be thinking, all that scholarly material, it must be kind of dry and boring. You couldn't be more wrong. Though it might be reasonably scholarly material, Folklore Thursday tends to overflow with the exotic and the bizarre.
Every Thursday, my Twitter feed flows over with strange home remedies that require the use of unusual herbs or animal parts, ways to ward off the evil eye or guard oneself from witches, strange customs and superstitions from far away countries and more cryptozoological beasts than you can shake a stick at.
But now, onto the most important questions about Folklore Thursday.
How can I receive Folklore Thursday tweets in my Twitter feed?
Simple enough. Simply follow the @FolkloreThurs account on Twitter.
Is there a way I can participate in Folklore Thursday?
Yes! The first step is to find something folklore related online. When I started participating in Folklore Thursday, I used my own "The Stuff of Legends" posts. Then, write up your tweet, include your link and add the hashtag #folklorethursday and send it off.
Any special tips for taking part in Folklore Thursday?
I have one tip for my fellow American participants: remember that the headquarters for Folklore Thursday is in the UK. Because of time zones, Britain's Thursday starts and ends several hours earlier than ours does. So, Folklore Thursday will likely be underway by the time you start your day. So, it might be necessary to get your tweet sorted the day before (picking the link, etc) so you can tweet it right when you get the first chance on Thursday.
If I can't get enough of Folklore Thursday, where can I get more?
They have a website where many of the more interesting links and articles from Folklore Thursday are showcased. It's at folklorethursday.com.
Are there any folklore based life tips you'd like to give us?
Yes. Always crush your eggshells when you use eggs in your cooking. That way, witches can't use them as little boats to cause trouble at sea. This is just one of the many tips I've picked up from following Folklore Thursday.
So, I hope this post has made you aware of something cool and fun that's worth checking out. It can be a little strange, but I find it can be a good weekly pick-me-up with times the way they are now.
Also, I'm not kidding about that eggshell thing. We can't let those witches cause trouble at sea, now can we!
The name Classics Illustrated is famous in comic book circles. The series, known for adapting works of classic literature, is remembered by comic book fans not only for producing an impressive run of comics but also for being one of the first attempts at classing up the medium and the first introduction many people had to stories from great literature.
Many people forget though that Classics Illustrated had a spin-off series focused on myths and fairy tales entitled Classics Illustrated Junior.
Now, comics of this vintage are not always easy to get a hold of, but I saw a box of them at my friendly neighborhood comic shop. I picked up four issues: Pinocchio, The Frog Prince, The Dancing Princesses and King Thrushbeard.
So, how do these comics stack up? Well, the thing to remember here is that these comics are all from the 1950s and were aimed at very young kids. I mean, Classics Illustrated was definitely aimed at kids, Classics Illustrated Junior must have been aimed at even younger ones. But let's break it down.
Pinocchio- This adaptation of Carlo Collodi's book is pretty faithful except that everything is very condensed. Certain events from the book are left out. For example, the parts with Mr. Cherry at the beginning of the story are taken out. There are also no run-ins with the Green Fisherman or Melampo the Mastiff. The violence is also greatly toned down. One of the most infamous scenes in the book is the one where the Fox and Cat hang Pinocchio from a tree by the neck. This version avoids the execution style hanging and has the Fox and Cat truss Pinocchio up around the middle so his hands are tied and hangs him from there. So, instead of looking like an executed man, the naughty puppet looks a bit more like some sort of awkwardly designed Christmas tree ornament. In addition, the Cricket gets chased off rather than squished and the giant dogfish that swallows Pinoccchio is just a generic (though gigantic) fish.
The Frog Prince- Of the four comics I picked up, this is probably the only one where the story is stretched out rather than condensed. The princess spends a lot more time offering the frog gold and jewels to retrieve her golden ball. The princess also receives a dream sequence in this version that shows her transformed into a frog and abused by a little boy. Now, you're probably wondering about the ending. Does she kiss the frog? Does she chuck it at a wall like in the Grimms' book? Neither. After she wakes up from her dream sequence, she feels bad about the frog having to sleep on the cold, hard floor. So, she picks it up and puts it on a pillow. When she wakes up the next morning there's a prince lying there on her floor. This version seems to draw on two different variants of the tale that I know of, which is an interesting thing to see in a vintage comic book like this one.
The Dancing Princesses- This is another story that is mainly changed in the sense that elements are condensed. The soldier's three nights to discover where the princesses are going is reduced to one. So, everything is happening much faster. There are also some elements that speak more to the era and the age group that this comic was made for. Instead of being executed, the princes who fail at finding where the princesses are going are banished. Also, all mentions of alcohol are changed. Instead of being brought a cup of wine with a sleeping drug in it, the soldier is brought a cup of milk with a sleeping drug in it. They also make a point to mention that it's lemonade that everyone is drinking at the underground ball (making a secret magic, mysterious rendezvous seem more like a very unusual church social or high school dance). One thing that really stands out though, is that they go to the trouble of naming all of the mysterious princes (Stanley, Albert, Conrad, Armand, William, Rudolph, Alex, Aladar, Michael, Oscar and Robert), while only two of the princesses (Flora and Hilda) are named. I don't want to say it's a sexist move, but it certainly seems like one. The comic also makes another change that I've been known to make when telling the story. The soldier (named Felix here) ends up with not the oldest sister but the youngest. Probably because the youngest sister is the only one who seems particularly sympathetic.
King Thrushbeard- This one is more or less the same except the haughty princess is given some rhyming couplets to insult her rejected suitors with. I kind of wish I could say this comic is better than the traditional story because this story doesn't have the best reputation. It's sort of the "Taming of the Shrew" of fairy tales in the way it treats its main female character. I've got a soft spot for it because I like tales that feature some degree of trickery and deception, but yeah I can totally see the issue here. And an adaptation from the 1950s certainly isn't going to fix that.
Each issue also includes an Aesop's fable a page of animal facts and a couple of children's poems and nursery rhymes. The art is about what you'd expect from fairy tale adaptations from the '50s. A lot of clean cut young men and women in fantasy garb.
This isn't the first time I've covered fairy tale comics from this time period. Remember my piece on Walt Kelly's Fairy Tales? So, we didn't really encounter anything here we haven't seen before. I think maybe the biggest revelation is just how young they were trying to skew the demographic for fairy tales. I mean, if Classics Illustrated was already meant for kids, who was Classics Illustrated Junior meant for? Pre-schoolers? It's kind of a reminder in these days when everyone's saying "Fairy tales aren't really for kids" how much we bend the tales to make them fit the demographic we want them to fit. We may even be bending them a bit even now to make them the terribly "adult" tales we want them to be. It makes you think.
Fantasy Literature Rewind: The Reluctant Dragon.
In this age of Disney remakes, I find I usually wait until just before the new film version of the story has been released before writing up a Fantasy Literature Rewind column. But, you know, I just don't see Disney's version of "The Reluctant Dragon" getting remade as a feature. Especially since they already did a dragon movie.
"The Reluctant Dragon" is a short children's story by Scottish author Kenneth Grahame. The story was originally published in 1898 in a short story collection entitled Dream Days. Grahame himself is probably best known for writing the children's story The Wind in the Willows (another story that's been Disney adapted but which I can't picture being remade any time soon). "The Reluctant Dragon" is one of Grahame's more popular short stories. It's been adapted a number of times for television. Rankin-Bass, famed for their many Christmas specials, even paired the dragon with another of Grahame's popular characters for a cartoon titled The Reluctant Dragon and Mr. Toad Show.
The story starts out with a boy, simply called "the Boy" throughout the entire story who lives near the Downs in England. Now, this boy spent much of his time reading fairy tales and natural history, such that they ran together and he started to consider the two to be one and the same. This is why he isn't all that surprised when his father comes home from herding his sheep talking about a terrible creature he saw in one of the caves nearby. The Boy figures it's a dragon and goes to have a chat with it. Upon meeting the dragon he's surprised to find that the dragon isn't a desperate fire-breathing beast that likes fighting knights at all. Instead, he's a polite, somewhat lazy homebody who enjoys writing poetry.
The Boy and the Dragon become good friends. However, it's not really to last. The locals have found out about the dragon and have decided that something has to be done about it. This is partially because they think the dragon must be a monster and partially because they just want there to be a fight they can watch. The townsfolk don't really have anything they can do about it until St. George comes to town (yes, that St. George). Upon warning the dragon that St. George is coming, the Boy gets roped into talking to George which in turn escalates into him setting up a meeting between St. George and the Dragon. That meeting leads to a rather humorous staged fight in which the dragon is supposedly injured and is then reformed, allowing him to take a place in society.
I usually don't give away the endings of stories, but I kind of felt I needed to in order to give a full picture here. You can still read the story HERE. This version actually starts with a sort of framing device that my print copy doesn't have.
Now, as is probably evident, this story is a take on the popular legend of "St. George and the Dragon" (a legend I talked about in The Stuff of Legends). Now, the thing to remember is that this legend is a huge deal in England. This is probably because St. George is considered to be the patron saint of England. Never mind the fact that the story of Saint George fighting the dragon supposedly happened in Libya.
It's easy to just see "The Reluctant Dragon" as a spoof or satire of the popular "knight fights dragon" archetype. However, I also can't help but think maybe it was also Kenneth Grahame's way of poking some fun at the English society of the time period using one of their most beloved stories. While Grahame may have been Scottish it's true, he did spend some time in England even going to university there. Also, with England being the seat of power for the United Kingdom, it was and still is a country that casts a long shadow over the rest of the British Isles. It's really the contradictions within the story that bring up thoughts of Victorian England. The dragon is gentle and poetic while the townsfolk are more bloodthirsty and desiring for violent conflict, at least as spectators. Even the boy wanted to see a "proper fight". Just as Britain was a big, warlike colonial power at the time that identified with the legend of the heroic Saint George while also in some circles being preoccupied with subjects like social class, propriety and civility. Maybe it's a bit of a stretch. But what really gets me and makes me think the story is a poke at English society is the way that the concept of the fight is proposed to the dragon. Both Saint George and the Boy frame the idea of the battle as a matter of propriety. For a dragon to not fight a knight after the challenge is issued is simply not done. On top of that, the Dragon's reasoning for agreeing to the staged fight is so that after he's reformed he may enter society. In other words, it would help his social standing.
I could be completely off. I myself am not English and have not given a whole lot of time to the study of Victorian English society. So, if any of my readers are more knowledgeable about the subject, please let me know.
But still, "The Reluctant Dragon" is a fun story and might give you something to think about.


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Study illuminates genetic understanding of aggressive childhood leukemias
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Aug 20 2021
New research published today in JAMA Oncology reports how two separate DNA changes appear to predict aggressive childhood leukemias when they occur in combination.
Over the course of a decade of work in several study sites spanning multiple continents, the researchers evaluated tumor characteristics of more than 1,300 childhood cancer patients who were diagnosed with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a type of cancer that affects the white blood cells of the bone marrow.
ALL is the most common type of cancer in children, according to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. This study illuminates genetic understanding of this disease in children with the worst outcomes, including relapse and/or death.
The study team explored the DNA of leukemia cells to look for common changes.
We found a barely noticeable area of DNA, known as 22q11.22, to be missing in about 30–40% of pediatric B-cell ALL patients."
Joshua Schiffman, MD, Study Co-Senior Author, Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah
Schiffman is a pediatric cancer physician-scientist at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah (U of U). "We began to wonder if something so small was missing so often, could this missing piece of DNA impact survival?" That's when the study team turned their attention to a much better-known gene in childhood leukemia called IKZF1.
"IKZF1 changes have puzzled doctors for some time," explains Luke Maese, DO, a pediatric oncologist at HCI and associate professor of pediatrics at the U of U who cares for children with leukemia at Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital. "We have known for over a decade that IKZF1 changes predict a very poor outcome in some, but not all, patients." The study team began to investigate if this missing part of 22q11.22 could work together with IKZF1 changes to more reliably predict outcomes.
"Sure enough, we found that patients with both the 22q11.22 deletion and the IKZF1 changes-;collectively known as a 'double deletion'-;had some of the worst outcomes in childhood leukemia," says Schiffman. The team found that patients who already had an IKZF1 alteration had almost twice the risk of relapse if they also had a deletion in the 22q11.22 region.
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The research team utilized sophisticated genomic analysis techniques to evaluate both inherited and environmental changes in the tumors of children with B-cell ALL. They evaluated genomic information of childhood cancer patients across multiple states and countries. The study included cohorts of childhood leukemia patients who had Down syndrome. Children with Down syndrome carry a higher risk of leukemia.
David Spencer Mangum, MD, co-lead author and now an assistant professor of pediatric hematology/oncology at Nemours Children's Health, remembers when he started working on this study more than 10 years ago as a medical student visiting Schiffman's lab at HCI.
"Throughout all of my years in training, we never stopped trying to understand how this 22q11.22 deletion could impact children with leukemia. We gathered data from many different clinical trials to make sure this finding was real and reproducible," explains Mangum. "Our findings are significant because we found that the likelihood of relapse and death was consistent across multiple different cohorts of children with ALL, including children with Down syndrome."
The research team hopes this finding can yield new insights into treatments for childhood leukemia. For example, the frequency of the 22q11.22 focal deletion indicates it may be important for leukemia development, and the combined association with worse outcomes means it could be a useful clinical prognostic marker in the future. "Kids with double deleted leukemia may need more treatment-;or bone marrow transplants right away-;whereas kids without double deletion may require less toxic chemotherapy to still achieve excellent outcomes. All of this needs to be further explored," says Schiffman
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah
Journal reference:
Mangum, D. S., et al. (2021) Association of Combined Focal 22q11.22 Deletion and IKZF1 Alterations With Outcomes in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. JAMA Oncology. doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.2723.
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The Tip-off: Final Four reading competition a slam dunk with students
Selection Sunday is one of the most exciting days in collegiate sports.
It's when NCAA basketball teams find out if they're going to the Big Dance.
The tournament brackets are revealed on live TV, and the broadcast usually features the jubilant reactions of players and their fans/fellow students.
Channeling that aura of excitement and anticipation, students, teachers, administrators and parents gathered in the jam-packed pint-sized gym at B.C. Haynie Elementary in Morrow on Monday (Jan. 27) morning as the NCAA and Atlanta Basketball Host Committee unveiled the 68 schools that qualified for the Read to the Final Four bracket-style competition.
Like the NCAA Tournament Selection Show, Monday's event featured a panel of commentators seated behind a TV-studio-like desk on the gym floor, hosted by two-time NCAA champ Grant Hill, along with the NCAA Assistant Director of Championships and Alliances Matt White, Host Committee Executive Director Carl Adkins, Clayton County Schools Superintendent Morcease Beasley and K-5 ELA Coordinator Ebony Brown.
The Read to the Final Four program is the NCAA and Host Committee's literacy initiative designed to leave a positive legacy in metro Atlanta long after the Final Four games are played April 4-6 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, located on the Georgia World Congress Center Authority's (GWCCA) campus.
"And we do this through promoting academic achievement and love of the game of basketball," said Adkins.
Since November, more than 38,000 third grade students at 360 elementary schools across metro Atlanta have competed as school-wide reading teams for a chance to advance through rounds of competition that mirrors NCAA March Madness. Using an online digital platform students have accessed thousands of books and tracked the minutes they read.
"Today we find out which third-grade students keep their Read to the Final Four tournament chances alive," said Hill, the former Duke University and NBA star who now is a co-owner of the Atlanta Hawks. "I'm sure many students – and teachers – have butterflies in their stomachs today. After months of preparation, the top 68 schools with the highest reading average will advance and earn a spot in the bracket. Read to the Final Four is the perfect blend of education and basketball. This literacy initiative enables students to join in on the excitement that the Final Four brings. Having won two Final Fours myself while a student-athlete at Duke University I know just how special and exciting this competition can be."
Why are only third graders eligible for the competition?
"We did our homework at the NCAA and we understood that third grade is such an important year in the development of young students," said White. "What we learned is that from first grade to third grade, you learn to read. And from third grade on, you read to learn. And so that's why we identified the third grade for this Read to the Final Four program."
White said when the program started in 2015 in Final Four host city Indianapolis, approximately 7,000 youngsters enrolled and they read around five million minutes.
"What's even better is you young people here in Atlanta – we've got 38,000 students enrolled in the program and you guys have already read over six million minutes," said White. "So Atlanta is geared and ready to blow this thing out of the water."
Ending the suspense, Brown took to the mic and announced the round of 68 as they were revealed on a large video monitor. Of course, Haynie Elementary, made the cut, earning the No. 4 seed in the Peachtree Point Guards Region.
The top teams to advance will win field trips to the Final Four Fan Fest presented by Capital One that's being held at the Georgia World Congress Center on April 3-6, where they'll also be recognized during a special ceremony.
The Tip-off is a bi-monthly series tracking the Georgia World Congress Center Authority campus' march to the 2020 NCAA Men's Final Four.
One response to "The Tip-off: Final Four reading competition a slam dunk with students"
Mercedes Carr says:
Awe this is so Amazing!! Being a parent and Clayton County resident this makes me so proud!!


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First, you should have total interest on beekeeping to begin at the right foot. You should also have agreed to share your dwelling space. There are possible dangers in beekeeping that can harm you but your family as well. If you decide to allow the bees inside your living space, then you certainly must know the supplies and gear that you will use for beekeeping. Your focus is not just to earn money by selling honey; a great beekeeper should have fire and a keen interest in rearing bees.
An apiarist ought to know the right location for the beehives. You need certainly to make sure beekeeping is allowed in your area if you decide to place your beehives at your backyard. There are several places confined to beekeeping; you need to get permission concerning this.
Beekeepers must understand whether beekeeping supplies are offered in the area where the beehives are situated. You may never understand when you have to go to a nearby beekeeping shop; it is best that a nearby beekeeping store is not inaccessible.
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Last but definitely not the least, among the beekeeping lessons you need to know is that: it's not unimportant for the beekeeper to know the appropriate way of harvesting honey. If you're incapable to harvest honey from your bees all the beekeeping attempts would be useless. A beekeeper ought to know the procedures in collecting the honey from the comb; beeswax is also part of the returns in beekeeping.


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US marines plead guilty to prisoner abuse
Thu 3 Jun 2004 12.42 EDT
Two US marines have pleaded guilty to giving electric shocks to an Iraqi prisoner they were guarding at a temporary detention centre south of Baghdad, the US military announced today.
The torture occurred in early April inside the Al Mahmudiya prison, several months after the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, military officials said.
Private first class Andrew J Sting and private first class Jeremiah J Trefney, both 19, entered their pleas at a May 14 court-martial in Iraq, according to a statement by the US 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq.
According to the statement, which was released today by a Marine spokesman, Sting, Trefney and two other Marines decided to shock a detainee in order to discipline him for throwing trash outside his cell and speaking loudly.
The Marines attached wires to a power converter, which was used to shock the detainee with 110 volts of electricity as he returned from a trip to the bathroom, the statement said.
Sting pleaded guilty to charges of assault, cruelty and maltreatment, dereliction of duty and conspiracy to assault. He was sentenced to a year in prison, a reduction of rank, forfeiture of pay and a bad-conduct discharge.
Trefney pleaded guilty to cruelty and maltreatment, dereliction of duty, false official statement, violating a lawful order and conspiracy to commit assault. He was sentenced to eight months in prison, reduction of rank, forfeiture of all pay, and will receive a bad-conduct discharge.
The two other Marines, who were not identified, are awaiting court action. Sting and Trefney were infantrymen with the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, which is attached to the 1st Marine Division.
The Al Mahmudiya prison held about 300 detainees and was guarded since late March by active-duty Marines and reservists, Marine officials said.
The pleas by Trefney and Sting came five days before the highly publicised court-martial hearing for Army Reserve Spc. Jeremy C Sivits in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.
Sivits, 24, pleaded guilty to four counts of abuse, the first defendant to go on trial in the Abu Ghraib case. Six other reservists are charged with the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, which occurred between October 2003 and January 2004.


(Stillwater, Okla.) – Former Cushing resident Steven Edward Taylor Sr., 52, who was arrested about three weeks ago in Sulphur, has been sentenced to prison for violating his probation in two methamphetamine cases.
Five years ago, Taylor had pleaded guilty to distributing methamphetamine to an agent of the state narcotics bureau in 2012 and to possessing the same drug along with drug paraphernalia in 2011, both in Cushing.
In both cases, Taylor had been placed on 10 years' probation with an order to enroll in and successfully complete the Payne County Drug Court program from which he was terminated two months later for non-compliance, court records show.
In court last week, Taylor admitted that he had violated the terms of his probation in both cases, for which he was ordered into a drug treatment program in prison by Payne County Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler on April 18.
The judge said that on Taylor's completion of an intensive drug treatment program, he would again revoke the balance of his suspended sentence.
"Good luck to you, sir," the judge told Taylor, who was given credit for the time he had spent in the Payne County Jail since his arrest in Sulphur on March 30.


Angel in the Sickroom: Why Can't I Wake Up?!
ahhh a story I know too well. My husband was once like this. He used to snooze the alarm gazillion times before he finally gets up--which btw, irritates me a lot. Fortunately, he's down to 2 snoozes...I can live with that.
Good for him! LOL! I can't wake up still... This always happen to me during the middle of a school semester... so sad.


This material was provided by Jean-François Mercier, ing., Manager, hydraulics and hydrology at AECOM Tecsult inc.
Using FLOW-3D, AECOM Tecsult inc. was able to improve a fish ladder design that allows sturgeon to successfully navigate the ladder without using physical modeling. Experimental work on the site was essentially ruled out due to the site's limitations and the expense it would entail, so it was critical that FLOW-3D's numerical modeling results provide accurate information.
A fish ladder was built in 2005-2006 by SEBJ (Hydro-Québec) on the Eastmain River in James Bay, Quebec, Canada. Follow-up studies conducted in 2006 and 2007 showed an unsuccessful use of the fish passage by sturgeon, while other species of fish were able to climb the ladder. Two main problems were identified with the existing fish passage: the low attraction of fish and high water velocities. AECOM Tecsult inc. engineers decided to carry out a numerical modeling study with FLOW-3D in order to find the solutions to these problems.
After running the CFD models, the engineers validated the numeric results against experimental data. FLOW-3D results were compared to hydrological records comparing surface elevation. 80% of 124 measured water velocities were in good agreement. Locations that were not were in good agreement were in highly turbulent regions where two different measurements at the same location were significantly different.
The engineers decided to modify the fish passage walls in order to reduce the flow from 45% of flow to between 15 and 20% so that the fish would not go straight to the weir. Figure 2 shows a significant velocity reduction with 10% of the flow in the fish passage compared to Fig. 1 with 45% of the flow in the fish passage. Figure 3 shows the addition of blocks and deflector plates to slow the flow. The criteria that was set was a max velocity of 1.8 m/s. Overall flow conditions are well represented by the model as shown in Fig.s 1 and 2.
AECOM Tecsult inc. engineers were able to validate the accuracy of their numeric models and using the information gleaned from FLOW-3D, redesign the fish passage to conditions suitable for sturgeon to climb and avoid the high costs associated with on-site testing. Follow-up studies in the summer of 2008 showed that the sturgeon are successfully navigating the fish passage even during high flow rates.


Web design is taking on a greater level of importance and those who are looking to make a name for themselves in this realm will need to consider certain facts. For starters, the average browser is now far more likely to pull up web pages on their smartphone (as opposed to their desktop computer).
This creates a climate where mobile friendly web design becomes even more crucial. Those who do not take the time to consider the ins and outs of mobile friendly web design are placing themselves in a position that is less than advantageous.
Fret no more! We are here to provide a very helpful guide to this process that will allow site developers to sidestep the usual concerns that take place. All websites that can be viewed on a mobile device are not exactly mobile friendly. Thanks to these pointers, this is no longer a problem that you are going to have to deal with.
There are few things that will turn someone away from your site faster than a lack of responsiveness. When it is in the process of being designed, you need to make sure that you are prioritizing the correct technology. It is all about the framework and there are a variety of responsive frameworks to choose from. These frameworks are easily established and any design firm can stand to learn as much as possible about how they work.
Think of it this way: the average browser is not going to be hunkered down over their phone, using both hands in order to check out the site that has been built. The developer needs to consider the position of the browser's hands before they place themselves in a difficult position. As a rule of thumb (and the pun is certainly intended), the site should be navigable with just this digit. If the user has to do any pinching to navigate, this is going to put a damper on your level of success.
This is not the time to become a showoff. Simplicity is key and the user should never be confused by what is taking place. Place yourself in their shoes when you are in the process of designing a mobile friendly website. Is the design clean and focused or are there a bunch of unnecessary bells and whistles that are getting in the way of the browsing experience? This is a question that needs to be answered honestly before you can proceed.
As the old saying goes, a picture is always going to say a thousand words. If you are struggling to create space when you are creating a mobile friendly website, it is important to take a closer look at the icons that you are relying upon. When users are able to tap symbols that are easy to recognize, this goes a long way towards creating a far more enjoyable browsing experience. Use icons like these as often as necessary.
This is one of the best mobile capabilities to consider when you are in the process of designing a site. Businesses are able to benefit from this feature immensely. It allows them to speak to their target audience more directly. They can provide directions to their potential customers and visitors can also also check specific locations to find out about the availability of certain items. A company that wishes to offer targeted promotions is going to benefit as well.
As a friendly reminder, we feel compelled to let you know that the heavier media files that may have been usable on your desktop site will probably not work as well on the mobile version. If your site relies on large pictures that take a sizable amount of time to load, this is something that you need to consider. In most instances, the browsers that are going to be used on a mobile device will be much slower than the browsers that are used for desktops.
One of the more common mistakes that is made during these types of instances is a refusal to consider the benefits of all platforms, operating systems and devices. Too many mobile web developers fall into the trap of only considering one specific platform and allowing all of their efforts to be focused on this area specifically. In reality, developers should be taking the time to contemplate the pros and cons of all platforms, devices and operating systems.
Let's say that a business is looking to create a website that will drive more conversions. In order to do that, they will need a site that is responsive and easy to use. From there, they must also make sure that they are providing their contact information in a manner that is easily seen. If the browser cannot find the information that they need quickly, they are likelhttps://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/imgs/mobile-seo/viewport.pngy to move to a different site as a result of that inconvenience.
It is no secret that the modern consumer is more likely to be enticed when they are given access to awesome videos. However, it is important for mobile site developers to consider the pros and cons of this approach. The video needs to get the job done quickly and it cannot impede the user's browsing experience in any possible way. Video is a must have but it cannot keep the user from enjoying a flawless experience.
Anyone who has ever had the misfortune of pulling a website on their smartphone that was not correctly optimized for the experience can relate to this one. The form fields that the browser will be filling out need to be designed in the appropriate manner. Asking people to enter all of their information into form fields that are not correctly formatted is a very difficult pill to swallow.


Mr Nadjib's comments come after former prime Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison were publicly at odds over the issue this week, following Mr Turnbull's critique of the proposal after his meeting with Mr Widodo in Bali.
The possible move of the embassy, he said, and diplomatic recognition of Jerusalem as the nation's capital was a very difficult issue for Indonesians as the stat us of the Palestinian people, and state, was an issue most held dear to their heart.
"Australia is always considered by the countries of this region as part of us, as part of ASEAN plus six, you are part of so many dialogues in the region. So it's time to play a more important role in the region by maybe distancing yourself a bit from America and becoming more part of Asia."
< p>Earlier this week in a major foreign policy speech, Mr Morrison promised deeper co-operation with Japan, Indonesia, India and South Korea "to help forge a balance in our region" as strategic competition between the United States and China heats up.
"I don't think it will go as far as cut off diplomatic ties but it could somehow push the signing of IA-CEPA [the free trade agreement] until after the presidential election," she said.
While Mr Widodo had warmly welcomed Mr Morrison to the Presidential Palace in Bogor soon after he was installed as Prime Minister, the potential embassy move had c ast a shadow over the bilateral relationship.
Defence Minister Christopher Pyne said the policy was "entirely even-handed" because it would help a two-state solution in the region.
"If we were to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and when there is a Palestinian state … we would then open an embassy in East Jerusalem as the capit al of a Palestinian state," Mr Pyne said on Sky News.
"So it's an entirely even-handed approach, and why shouldn't we consider the very simple matter of whether our embassy should be in Israel's capital city, which is Jerusalem?
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In the UK, everybody who earns over the Personal Allowance (currently £11,500, but you can check rates on HMRC) must pay income tax. You also get a tax-free allowance for income relating to savings interest and dividends (if you own shares in a company).
Sole traders and company directors must complete an income tax Self Assessment each year and pay income tax directly to HMRC. To do this you must keep accurate records of your income and expenditure and then fill in the online form by 31st January (for the tax year that ends the previous April).
As a sole trader, you should also keep track of your expenses, such as materials purchased for work, rent, bills, professional fees etc. These are then deducted from your taxable profit and you pay your income tax on the remainder.
As a director of a limited company, you also have to register for a Self Assessment Tax return, but in this case, you pay income tax on the money you have drawn as a salary from the company.
In both cases, for a sole trader and director of a limited company, your National Insurance Contribution is covered in your self assessment, but if you employ other people, you have to make an Employer's National Insurance Contribution too.
As your business grows and you begin to take on staff, many aspects of your business will become more complex. There are more managerial details to consider relating to the wellbeing of your staff, such as employment law and health and safety. You'll also need to think about certain financial aspects; from payroll and PAYE, through to Employer's Liability Insurance and workplace pensions.
When you start taking on staff, you'll need to set up a payroll system, which you can do yourself or with the help of an accountant. Like with your accounts, you need to keep accurate records of your payroll and submit them to HMRC. Employees are taxed "at source" via the Pay-As-You-Earn scheme (PAYE), so their Income Tax and National Insurance Contributions are taken from their wages directly. There are other deductions that can be taken from staff wages directly, such as Student Loan Repayments and Child Maintenance.
Since the new law regarding workplace pensions has come into force, employers must automatically enrol their staff into a pension scheme. As an employer, you'll have to set up an auto-enrolment scheme and include your eligible staff. You should then write to your staff explaining how auto-enrolment applies to them and detail the contributions you will make towards their pensions. The current minimum is 1% employer contribution, along with a 1% employee contribution deducted from their monthly pay. This will increase from April 2018, so that the employee must increase their contribution to 3% and the employer pays 2%. The government will also contribute to your employees pensions by providing tax relief on their payments.
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EL SEGUNDO — Drew Doughty's anger was apparent Wednesday night.
Less obvious while the snarling Kings defenseman was slinging animated barbs at Calgary's Matthew Tkachuk with the two locked in opposite penalty boxes during the Kings' overtime loss was that, well, Doughty likes being angry.
Calgary isn't the only team that targets the Kings' franchise defenseman, but Doughty acknowledged they got under his skin during the Flames' 4-3 overtime win Wednesday night.
The genesis of the heated atmosphere that enveloped Staples Center on Wednesday came when Calgary's Matthew Tkachuk delivered a vicious elbow to Doughty in the team's first meeting last season.
That didn't appear to be the case when the two took the ice together in a key Pacific Division matchup. But the bad blood doesn't bother Doughty. He thrives off of it.
There were several skirmishes during the third period on Wednesday, including one during which Tkachuk knocked off the mask of Kings goalie Jonathan Quick late in the game.
The antics earned Tkachuk a roughing penalty and landed him in the penalty box, where Doughty delivered him a few choice words he chose not to reveal to the media.
The question looming the day after the Kings' first loss of the season: Does the high level of emotion help or hurt the team's chances to win?
Kings coach John Stevens readily acknowledged that Doughty wouldn't be one of the league's best defenseman without the high level of emotion he maintains. But the coach articulated the fine line a player like Doughty must walk in the fog of an emotional game like Wednesday's contest.
Kyle Clifford is week-to-week with an upper body injury sustained Wednesday night when he took a hit from Calgary's Michael Stone early in the second period.
During Thursday's practice, Michael Cammalleri and Andy Andreoff took turns skating with Clifford's linemates, Trevor Lewis and Nick Shore.
With Clifford potentially shelved for an extended period, the Kings' gritty fourth line might be compromised. But the defense can hope for a lift in the form of Alec Martinez returning from injured reserve.
Thursday was the second consecutive practice for Martinez, who has yet to play a regular-season game because of a lower body injury sustained Oct. 4. Stevens wouldn't confirm that Martinez would play by this weekend's games.
After making enough progress since his offseason knee surgery to practice with the team during portions of training camp, Marian Gaborik hasn't made an appearance on the ice for more than two weeks.


Bayliss-Smith, Timothy (1986). Ontong Java Atoll: Population Economy and Society, 1970-1986. South Pacific smallholder Project Occasional Paper no. 9. Annidale, N.S.W., Australia: University of New England.
Friedlander, Jonathan S., et al. (1987). The Solomon Islands Project: A Long-Term Study of Health, Human Biology, and Culture Change. New York: Oxford University Press.
Hogbin, H. Ian (1931). "The Social Organization of Ontong Java." Oceania 1:399-425.
Hogbin, H. Ian (1934). Law and Order in Polynesia: A Study of Primitive Legal Institutions. London: Christophers. Reprint. 1961. Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String Press.
Keopo, John, comp. (1981). Kelaungiu: Ngakakala, Ngalue, Nga ' ai: Stories from Luangiua, Ontong Java. In Journal of Oral Tradition and Contemporary History. Vol. 1. Honiara: National Museum of the Solomon Islands.
Sarfert, Ernst, and Hans Damm (1931). " Luangiua und Nukumanu. " In Ergebnisse der Südsee Expedition, 1908-1910, edited by Georg Thilenius. IL Ethnographie; B. Mikronesien, vol. 12. Hamburg: Friedrichsen.


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//  BMGeolocationModule.m
//  WeexDemo
//
//  Created by XHY on 2017/1/19.
//  Copyright © 2017年 taobao. All rights reserved.
//

#import "BMGeolocationModule.h"
#import "JYTLocationManager.h"
#import "NSDictionary+Util.h"

@implementation BMGeolocationModule

@synthesize weexInstance;

WX_EXPORT_METHOD(@selector(getGeolocation:))

- (void)getGeolocation:(WXModuleCallback)callback
{

    [[JYTLocationManager shareInstance] getCurrentLocation:^(NSString *lon, NSString *lat) {
        if (callback) {

            NSInteger resCode = BMResCodeError;
            NSDictionary *data = nil;
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                data = @{@"locationLat": lat,@"locationLng": lon};
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#define H_BLE_HS_PERIODIC_SYNC_

#include <inttypes.h>
#include "os/queue.h"
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extern "C" {
#endif

struct ble_hs_periodic_sync {
    SLIST_ENTRY(ble_hs_periodic_sync) next;
    uint16_t   sync_handle;
    ble_addr_t advertiser_addr;
    uint8_t    adv_sid;

    ble_gap_event_fn *cb;
    void *cb_arg;

    struct ble_npl_event lost_ev;
};

struct ble_hs_periodic_sync *ble_hs_periodic_sync_alloc(void);
void ble_hs_periodic_sync_free(struct ble_hs_periodic_sync *psync);
void ble_hs_periodic_sync_insert(struct ble_hs_periodic_sync *psync);
void ble_hs_periodic_sync_remove(struct ble_hs_periodic_sync *psync);
struct ble_hs_periodic_sync *ble_hs_periodic_sync_find_by_handle(uint16_t sync_handle);
struct ble_hs_periodic_sync *ble_hs_periodic_sync_find(const ble_addr_t *addr,
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struct ble_hs_periodic_sync *ble_hs_periodic_sync_first(void);
int ble_hs_periodic_sync_init(void);

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}
#endif

#endif


I agree. It looks like it's coming along nicely. Can't wait.
Seven minutes of uncut gameplay with no narration. It is the same mission they keep showing though.
Looks nuts! I like it! Great trailer!
Here's hoping this turns out great!
Here is a right-up over at Polygon about Rage 2. Has some positives and some negatives.
Rage 2 promises a weapon wheel's worth of guns that range from empowering to just silly. There are the requisite meaty pistols, a rail gun (but no sniper rifles; the developers want you to get up close with your victims), a hulking rocket launcher, and a hefty shotgun. There's also the made-for-YouTube Grav-dart Launcher. That weapon fires bullets into a body or an object, and those bullets launch whatever they're lodged into toward a target determined by the player. Using the Grav-dart Launcher, you can send enemies hurtling into the sky or throw an exploding barrel at a cluster of bad guys.
When I watched Willits play, he got more creative: He fired Grav-darts into a mutant, then erected a force field and placed the darts' destination on the opposite side of that force field. His enemy became a bloody paste as their body attempted to travel through the impenetrable barrier.
No sniper rifles?!?!?! Well I'm out.
Kidding, likely gonna pre-order this.
My hope is that this is Borderlands without the loot garbage.
Power usage seems much more a core part of the game than Borderlands. Maybe it was just the classes I played but in BL my powers were usually saved for the "oh sh1t" moments where I needed to get out of trouble.
Rage 2 now coming to Steam. They backed down on the Bethesda launcher only.
And if you're wondering, it's been confirmed as real.
A few days ago I saw a video that showed and talked about what Borderlands looked like before it got the cell shaded graphical redo. And the more I see of Rage 2 the more it looks like an evolution of that. Borderlands, but realistic and prettier.
I hate everything about that. Thank god it is optional.
That looks like it would be amusing for... about the length of that video.
I'm impressed that no one has yet assumed that that's an April Fool's joke.
I'd rather have this guy doing the commentary!
It's not, it's completely legit.


Description: It's Winter! And students will create a Christmas Tree in the one-day workshop. Using pure and simple pieces of natures, such as needles, cones, twigs and reeds, students will make a tree and then decorate it with beautiful snowflakes made on our own! A lovely winter gift and decoration! A $5 materials feel will be due to the instructor.


There are so many things to consider when exporting your product or service internationally; logistics, finance, legislation and marketing are just a few. But let's not forget the important role that language and culture play in successful exporting. For example, did you know that web users are four times more likely to purchase from a website that communicates in their own language? This free webinar, led by Comtec - one of WEConnect International's certified women-owned businesses - will look at why it is important to invest in languages when you are breaking into new markets, how to get the best results once you have decided to translate and promote your business worldwide and how to ensure that you are also bridging the cultural gap when moving into markets overseas.
Susan is a language graduate and has been with Comtec for over five years. Starting as a project manager and working her way to head of business development, she fully understands the needs of clients looking to branch out into new markets overseas. She has worked on a wide variety of projects from localisation of elearning content for large corporates, website translation for leading brands to software localisation for a prominent financial institution. Susan's main aim is to find ways to improve processes around translation, reduce costs and save time for clients – and generally just make their lives easier.
As the original founder of Comtec back in 1981, Isabella brings a wealth of experience working in the translation industry for over 30 years. Originally qualified as a Polish interpreter, with honorary fellowships from both the Chartered Institute of Linguists and the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, Isabella is a dedicated linguist. Isabella was also the first female president of the British Chamber of Commerce, the vice president of the Euro-Chambers and the CEO of CILT, National Centre for Languages. She was awarded her CBE in the 2004 New Year's Honours List for services to industry and languages.


Winners receive a lifetime invitation. Ryder Cup competition is dependent on match play. These days, the yearly championship held at Augusta National is known as the Masters Tournament. Some elimination tournaments involve a number of games in every single round. It's used extensively in these tournaments since it is common to have a vast variance of player skill-levels. Golf tournaments are a favorite activity for fundraising and unique occasions. The match is played every 2 decades, alternating locations in the USA and Europe.
You get to select from a number of locations for you to try your riding skills. If everything appears correct, complete the checkout info and purchase your Ryder Cup Tickets! Ever since then, it has undergone lots of rules changes. You're able to use 10, or in case you would like to deal with smaller totals you can begin with two points for each proper selection in round one. Each period ought to be seven minutes long. Scan through the 2018 Ryder Cup schedule and pick the date or dates which you would love to attend.
The format may be used with any variety of participants over two. There are a number of tournament formats and styles, but one very simple format is known as Horse Race. Horse Race format wants an area of 19 players.
Finish in the top four and you are going to receive a Masters invitation the following year. Finish in the top eight and you are going to get a Masters invitation for the next calendar year. The Masters prides itself on gathering the ideal golf players on earth, not just the USA. Furyk will name extra vice-captains at a subsequent date. The scramble is just one of the more popular variations. The absolute most popular and easy app to remain connected with friends and family across various platforms, WhatsApp is an app which you can't seem to do without. It's a true fun app to get, which permits you to interact with friends and family on Facebook, or you might invite them through emails.
Each player will require a horse. He will have a specific job to do. Most players think about the putter off-limits. They can purchase peas at stores that sell billiards equipment. They usually bet a small amount on each contest. Middle school volleyball players must be below the age of 15.
It's possible to expect your game to take 1 hour from begin to finish. Some games rely just on skill, but others mix skill with luck. The game provides great multiplayer support too, which means you get to challenge friends and family at the many missions. Most pool games are made for an even number of individuals. Have each player take their position and await the umpire to start the game. The easiest approach is for the top player in every group to advance to a last match to ascertain the tournament champion.
With a lot of accommodation options within Paris itself at a selection of budgets, a chance to learn more about the city as a portion of your Ryder Cup experience in France is a necessity. It has full workouts, with specific individual objectives, and exercise tests, to learn your degree of fitness. Teams are limited to five serves. The team having the most points at the conclusion of the game wins. The team having the most points at the conclusion of the game of Nassau is the winner. The coaches are going to have the selection of goalkeeper also. Team captains aren't permitted to change the players in every single slot unless they are hurt or sick.


When it comes to Pokémon, I tend to prefer cute ones to ugly ones. As such, I'm not the biggest fan of Pokémon Black 's Eelektrik.
Given that, I'm a bit surprised that I like Filip Johannes Felberg's LEGO Eelektrik (below and here) as much as I do.
To see Felberg's blocky takes on Pokémon Black 's Basculin, Joltik and Whirlipede, check out his Flickr photostream.
You know, I REALLY wanted to like that evolutionary-chain, but I ended up really NOT liking any of them...this lego one, though...his jaggediness is adorable.


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Posted on October 30, 2017 by gary loggins
Halloween Havoc!: THE SMILING GHOST (Warner Brothers 1941)
A mysterious killer stalks his prey in an old, dark house! Sound familiar? Sure, the formula has been around since Lon Chaney Sr. first crept his way through 1925's THE MONSTER, and was perfected in the 1927 horror comedy THE CAT AND THE CANARY. THE SMILING GHOST, a 1941 variation on the venerable theme, doesn't add anything new to the genre, but it's a pleasant enough diversion with a solid cast courtesy of the Warner Brothers Stock Company of contract players and a swift 71-minute running time.
Lucky Downing, a somewhat dimwitted chemical engineer heavily in debt to his creditors, answers a newspaper ad for a male willing to do "anything legal' for a thousand bucks. Rich Mrs. Bentley explains the job is to get engaged to her granddaughter, Elinor Bentley Fairchild, for a month. Smelling easy money, and a way out of the hole, Lucky and his best friend/valet Clarence take a train to the countryside to meet Elinor.
What Mrs. Bentley hasn't explained to Lucky is that Elinor is the infamous "Kiss of Death Girl", whose three previous fiances have all met with disaster. The first drowned and the third was bitten by a cobra "on the 18th floor of a Boston hotel". The second, Paul Myron, is in an iron lung due to a car accident, and is working with plucky girl reporter (is there any other kind in these films?) Lil Barstow to prove victim #1 is the undead "Smiling Ghost". Elinor's family is your basic motley crew of eccentrics, including Great-Uncle Ames, a collector of shrunken heads who develops an interest in Clarence!
There's sliding panels, secret passageways, and a masked killer roaming around, all the ingredients necessary for "old, dark house" fun. The script by Kenneth Garrett and Stuart Palmer is geared more towards humor than horror, though there's a few atmospheric scenes staged by director Lewis Seiler , including one in a fog-shrouded graveyard. There's also an innovative scene with Paul Myron in his iron lung talking to Lucky and Lil , his face reflected in the mirror, well shot by DP Arthur L. Todd, whose career stretched from 1917 until his death in 1942.
Wayne Morris (KID GALAHAD, BROTHER RAT) does his good-natured lug act as Lucky, and he's delightful. Ingenue Alexis Smith (THE HORN BLOWS AT MIDNIGHT , THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS) has one of her earliest credited roles as Elinor. Brenda Marshall (THE SEA HAWK, THE CONSTANT NYMPH) gets the plucky reporter part, David Bruce (THE MAD GHOUL , LADY ON A TRAIN) is Paul, Lee Patrick (THE MALTESE FALCON, GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE) is a cousin, Charles Halton (TO BE OR NOT TO BE, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE) is the creepy Grand-Uncle, and brawny Alan Hale Sr. (ROBIN HOOD's Little John) gets to show off his comic talents as Norton the butler.
Wonderful Willie Best plays Clarence, whose relationship with Lucky is more as a pal than a servant. Mr. Best was a black comedian who no less than Bob Hope once called "the greatest actor I know". Willie's from the Mantan Moreland school of acting, meaning he was usually typecast as a superstitious, "feets don't fail me now" stereotype, and this film's no different. However, Best's comic timing was impeccable, and he and Morris make a great duo. Unfortunately billed as "Sleep'n'Eat" early in his career, the actor brightened many a 30's & 40's film with his talent. Equally unfortunate, a 1951 drug bust made him unemployable. Gale Storm , who knew Willie from her Monogram days, gave him steady work as Charlie the elevator operator in her sitcom MY LITTLE MARGIE, and had nothing but good things to say about his professionalism. Ostracized by the black community during the civil rights movement, forgotten by Hollywood, and reduced to making his living selling weed and women, Willie Best, one of Hollywood's first recognizable black stars, died of cancer in 1962 at the young age of 45.
THE SMILING GHOST is silly fun, and won't scare anyone under the age of ten, just an "old, dark house" mystery done by some seasoned pros that knew their business when it came to making quick 'B' movies. Sometimes I like these "second features" better than the more prestigious films produced at the time. This one's definitely worth a look.
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originally titled "Demystifying Machine Intelligence" (2013).
A vastly expanded edition of "Intelligence is not Artificial" was published in April 2018.
and this 20-minute video and this 45-minute video.
Table of Contents of "Intelligence is not Artificial"
Intermezzo: Will Robots be Conscious?
A Consumer's Rant Against the Stupidity of Machines: Reverting Evolution?
What is the Opposite of the Singularity?
Intermezzo: Will Intelligent Machines Return to Chaotic Environments?
Philosophical Intermezzo: Do We Really Want Intelligence at All?
The Future of Miniaturization: the Next big Breakthrough?
After Machine Intelligence: Machine Creativity - Can Machines do Art?
The Moral Issue: Who's Responsible for a Machine's Action?
The Dangers of Machine Intelligence: Speed Limits for Machines?
The Dangers of Machine Intelligence: Who will get there first?
Dystopian Quartet 1. Andante: Lessons Learned from A.I.
Transcendental Intermezzo Revised: You are a.?
Why I an not Scared of A.I.
A Conclusion: Religion in the Age of A.I.
Praise for "Intelligence is not Artificial"


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Варвара Михайлівна Горностаєва (нар. 19 березня 1963, Москва ) - російська видавниця, редакторка, співзасновниця і голова одного з найбільш успішних  російських видавництв - Corpus.

У 1986 році закінчила Московський архітектурний інститут.

З 1998 по 2000 рік працювала в журналі "Іноземна література".
З 2000 по 2008 рік головний редактор видавництв «Іноземка»  та « КоЛібрі ».

У 2008 році спільно з Сергієм Пархоменком організувала імпринт-видавництво «Corpus», що випускає інтелектуальну літературу: книги Гюнтера Грасса, Пітера Акройда, Лізи Сі, Петра Вайля, Асара Еппеля, Максима Осипова та інших  . Велика увага приділяється також виданню просвітницької, науково-популярної літератури: до 2015 року видавництво співпрацювало з фондом «Династія» , після закриття «Династії» Варвара Горностаєва стала одним із творців і членом ради нового просвітницького фонду «Еволюція»   . Видавництво увійшло до складу групи видавництв « АСТ ».  .

У січні 2017 року вийшла зі складу Російського ПЕН-центру на знак протесту проти, зокрема, «…бездіяльності та прямого небажання Президента та Виконкому Російського ПЕН-центру захищати право людини на свободу слова та вираження своєї громадянської позиції…»  .

У серпні 2018 року стала одним із організаторів Маршу матерів на захист фігуранток справи «Нова велич»    .

Родина

 Перший чоловік - Семен Файбісович, художник, письменник.
 Другий чоловік — Сергій Пархоменко, видавець, журналіст, радіоведучий, колумніст та політичний оглядач.
 Три сини: Ілля та Яків від першого шлюбу, Матвій від другого  . Пасинки: Лев та Петро  .

Посилання

 Історія успіху Варвари Горностаєвої. Радіо FinAmFM, 2011
 Зробити книгу. Фільм Олега Дормана, 2019
 «Необхідно поважати свого читача — що б ти не видавав», інтерв'ю журналу « Профіль », 2015
 Персональна сторінка «Варя Горностаєва» на Еху Москви

Джерела

Випускники Московського архітектурного інституту
Жінки в бізнесі
Російські видавці
Російські підприємці
Персоналії за алфавітом
Уродженці Москви
Народились 1963
Народились 19 березня

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Cisco On Board with SDN, OpenFlow
"David Ward is the CTO and chief architect of the Service Provider Division and as such is directly involved with Cisco's technical efforts. His role at ONF is about helping to ensure the effort moves towards a real standards body. In terms of Cisco's view of SDN in general terms, it's an area of active interest and activity, today. "The machine is turned on," Ward said. "What I mean is that Cisco is embracing and has been embracing the concepts of software defined networking for quite a while now. We haven't gone public because we've been doing the research side for R&D.
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