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Interview with UK Ambassador to the OSCE on the Moscow Mechanism
Interviews 25 September 2020
In this interview, Neil Bush, United Kingdom Ambassador to the OSCE, explains the reasons for having triggered the Moscow Mechanism in relation to events in Belarus, and explains what will come next.
SHR Monitor: Ambassador Bush, why has the United Kingdom (UK) together with 16 other OSCE participating States decided to trigger the Moscow Mechanism?
Neil Bush: As you say, we invoked the Moscow Mechanism on 17 September, together with 16 other OSCE participating States. In addition, there were a number of other States that supported the invocation.
The UK and a number of other participating States have been following the situation in Belarus very closely, including before, during and after the 9 August presidential election. The body of evidence underlining our concerns of violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms as well as electoral fraud has grown significantly. Our concerns are based on well-documented reports from credible NGOs and media outlets.
In this context, the Moscow Mechanism is a useful OSCE tool that helps us establish an unbiased, independent and factual basis for looking at those reports.
Let me add that Belarus has got clear obligations as an OSCE participating State to uphold human rights and fundamental freedoms. The Moscow Mechanism was established by consensus to help us all implement our shared commitments in the human dimension. All 57 OSCE participating States, including Belarus, have signed up to the instrument. It has been established by consensus and we felt that its invocation was appropriate.
So, it would actually be in the interest of Belarus to cooperate with the OSCE expert mission?
It is in the interest of Belarus to work on upholding its OSCE principles and commitments for the sake of the Belarusian people. We believe that it is to the benefit of Belarus to engage with the Mechanism.
What was the exact role of the UK in triggering the Mechanism?
We played a key role in invoking the Mechanism. UK foreign secretary Dominc Raab very early on called on the OSCE investigation mechanisms to be used, in order to look at both, human rights abuses and electoral fraud.
A series of 16 other countries reached a similar conclusion on support for invoking the Mechanism.
I have seen that ODIHR has already set up an email address so that everyone who has relevant information can get in touch with the expert mission once it is set up. Do you know whether there will be additional, anonymous channels to contact the mission?
From my understanding, it is important that information is received through the email channel set up by ODIHR. We encourage everyone who has information in relation to the mandate of the mission to use that mailbox.
Will there be recommendations in the report and do you think that this can have an actual effect on the situation in Belarus?
We first need to ensure that the experts will be able to produce an independent report, based on evidence. Belarus also has the opportunity to take part in this endeavour and to nominate its own expert. It is at this point that the mission is able to get started, prepare its report, including a series of recommendations. We sincerely hope that they will be acted upon by Belarusian authorities.
Once the report is finished, it will be placed on the agenda of the OSCE Permanent Council to consider possible follow-up.
Besides the Moscow Mechanism, the OSCE Chairmanship in August (together with the incoming Swedish Chair) made an official offer to Belarus for mediation. This offer has not been accepted by Minsk yet. Do you think that triggering the Moscow Mechanism could be hampering mediation efforts by the OSCE?
We don't see them as mutually exclusive. We continue to support the Chair in its efforts to try and facilitate political dialogue. We urge the Belarusian authorities to engage with the efforts of the Chair.
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\subsubsection*{METHODS}

\textbf{Superatom preparation and laser excitation}\\

We start with a Bose-Einstein condensate of about 1700 rubidium atoms in a crossed optical dipole trap at a wavelength of $\lambda=1064\,$nm. The final trap frequencies are $2\pi\times$(260/85/270)\,Hz. A one-dimensional optical lattice is then superimposed by linearly ramping up a retro-reflected laser beam along the weak axis of the trap and the axial motion is frozen out. A focused electron beam ($(250\pm100)$\,nm radius, $20$\,nA beam current), which is also used to image the sample, removes the atoms from selected areas \cite{Gericke2008,Wuertz2009,Barontini2013}. In this way, we prepare samples of several hundred atoms with $\leq3\,\upmu$m diameter at a temperature of $(3.5\pm1)\,\upmu$K. After the preparation sequence, a fraction of 10 - 16\,\% of the atoms dwell in the outer regions of the trap.\\
The superatom is directly excited to a Rydberg state by illuminating it with an UV-laser beam at $297\,$nm with a waist of $100\,\upmu$m and laser power up to $160\,$mW. The light is produced by frequency doubling a stabilized dye laser (Mattisse-DR) in a heated CLBO-crystal installed in a Pound-Drewer-Hall stabilized bow-tie cavity. The frequency of the dye laser can be tuned via an offset-locked reference laser, resulting in a relative uncertainty of the UV frequency of $\pm0.5\,$MHz. The linewidth of the excitation light is estimated from dye laser control parameters to less than $200\,$kHz and the power noise is below 10\,\%.\\

\textbf{Electric fields, ion detection and signal processing}\\

The atomic sample is surrounded by quadruply segmented copper rings of 40\,mm diameter at a distance of 25\,mm, embodying an octupole electrodes configuration \cite{Manthey2014}. Applying corresponding voltages residual electric fields in the chamber are compensated in all directions apart from a remaining permanent vertical component of $E_0\leq$0.25\,V/cm that is used to extract produced ions towards the ion optics below. The ion optics guide the ions into a dynode multiplier (ETP 14553). The signal pulses are further processed with a temporal resolution of 100\,ns.\\

\textbf{Temporal correlation function}\\

We numerically calculate the second order temporal correlation function of the ion signal $I(t)$
\begin{equation}
g^{(2)}(\tau)=\frac{\left\langle I(t)I(t+\tau)\right\rangle}{\left\langle I(t)\right\rangle\left\langle I(t+\tau)\right\rangle}
\label{}
\end{equation}
where $\left\langle I(t)I(t+\tau)\right\rangle$ is calculated as the averaged product of counts (0 or 1) in two bins of distance $\tau$ and normalization $\left\langle I(t)\right\rangle\left\langle I(t+\tau)\right\rangle$ is given by the averaged ion rate. Several effects affect the data evaluation and have to be taken into account. Artefacts from detector ringing occur for time separations of less then 400\,ns. Coulomb repulsion between the ions during time of flight produces additional correlations on a timescale which depends on the extraction field. For our parameters, they never occur on timescales longer than 2\,$\upmu$s. We therefore discard all data points with $\tau\leq2\,\upmu$s. The background atoms (fraction $r$), contribute an uncorrelated signal to the ion emission of the superatom. This leads to a reduction of the measured amplitude $g^{(2)}_{meas}$ compared to the bare signal from the superatom $g^{(2)}_{real}$ which we correct for: $g^{(2)}_{real}(0)=(g^{(2)}_{meas}(0)-1)/(1-r)^2+1$. Note
that $g^{(2)}(\tau)$ is independent of the detector efficiency.\\

\textbf{Calculation of the interaction potential}\\

The potential curves are calculated by diagonalization of the dipole-dipole interaction Hamiltonian in the presence of an electric and magnetic field.
The basis set consists of all pair states which are closer than 15\,GHz in energy to the initial $\left|51p_{3/2,3/2},51p_{3/2,3/2}\right\rangle$ pair state. We consider all possible combinations of $s$-, $p$- and $d$- states including all Zeeman levels.\\

\textbf{Effective rate model}\\

The superatom dynamics is described by a Lindblad equation $\dot{\rho}=i(\sum_{j=1}^{N_\mathrm{atoms}} [\mathcal{H}_j,\rho]+[\mathcal{H}_\mathrm{int},\rho])+\sum_\nu \frac{1}{2}(2 L_\nu \rho L_\nu^\dagger-\{L_\nu^\dagger L_\nu,\rho\})$, where $\mathcal{H}_j=(\frac{\Omega}{2} |r\rangle\langle g|_j+h.c.)+\Delta |r\rangle\langle r|_j$ and
$L_\nu$ are the jump operators for ionization ($\Gamma_\mathrm{ion}$), spontaneous decay into low-lying states which are not ionized ($\Gamma_\mathrm{sp}$) and decoherence ($\Gamma_\mathrm{d}$). The decoherence rate represents the cumulative effect of laser linewidth, thermal atomic motion, fluctuating electric fields and intrinsic dephasing mechanisms \cite{Honer2011}. The rates of ionization $(\Gamma_\mathrm{ion}=45\text{ kHz})$ and internal spontaneous decay $(\Gamma_\mathrm{sp}=5\text{ kHz})$ are known from independent measurements and we extract the excitation rate from the saturation measurements shown in Fig.\,4. For weak driving the ion signal is independent of the interaction term $\mathcal{H}_\mathrm{int}$ and given by $I_{\Omega\ll \gamma}=\frac{\Gamma_\mathrm{ion}N_\mathrm{atoms}}{\Gamma_\mathrm{ion}+\Gamma_\mathrm{sp}}\Omega^2\gamma/(\gamma^2+4\Delta^2)$, with $\gamma=\Gamma_\text{d}+\Gamma_\text{ion}+\Gamma_\text{sp}$, and $N_\mathrm{atoms}$ being the number of atoms within the superatom. Fits
to the saturation measurements at $\Delta=0$ and $\Delta/(2\pi)=4\,\text{MHz}$ yield the relation between laser intensity and $\Omega$ and the decoherence rate $\Gamma_\text{d}/(2\pi)\approx 140\,\text{kHz}$ and $\Gamma_\text{d}/(2\pi)\approx 340\,\text{kHz}$, for two different sets of parameters used in the experiment.

Beyond the regime of weak driving we describe the superatom by classical rate equations, which is justified by the large decoherence rate present in our setup and validated in previous studies of strongly interacting Rydberg systems using such methods \cite{Petrosyan2013, Ates2006, Schempp2014}. The system of rate equations describes dynamics in classical configuration space, where individual states are connected by single atom transitions at excitation rate $(P_i)$ and deexcitation rate $(D_i)$. These rates depend on the effective detuning of the atom $\delta_i=\Delta+\sum_{j}\frac{C_6^{\rm eff}}{|r_i-r_j|^6}|r\rangle\langle r|_j$ through $P_i=\frac{\Omega^2 \gamma}{4\delta_i^2+\gamma^2}$ and $D_i=\frac{\Omega^2 \gamma}{4\delta_i^2+\gamma^2}+\Gamma_\mathrm{ion}+\Gamma_\mathrm{sp}$. The set of many body rate equations is solved by stochastic sampling of trajectories. Simulations take into account the spatial distribution of atoms as measured in the experiment by averaging over many realizations. Atomic
motion is not included within our description and the intricate $p$-state interaction is approximated with an effective, isotropic van-der-Waals potential $C_6^{\rm eff}/R^6$.

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Social Skill Outcomes Following Physical Activity–Based Interventions for Individuals on the Autism Spectrum: A Scoping Review Spanning Young Childhood Through Young Adulthood
Andrew M. Colombo-Dougovito and Jihyun Lee
Researchers posit that physical activity (PA) settings may provide an increased opportunity for social interaction. However, little consensus exists regarding the construct of social skills. Moreover, little is known about what type or amount of PA is necessary for individuals on the autism spectrum to benefit from this increased interaction. Thus, this scoping review synthesized the components (e.g., design, participants, independent and dependent variables, etc.) and findings of PA-based interventions that included social skill components to identify how interventions have incorporated these skills in different settings. Based on a review of 25 articles, this review revealed a great deal of variability in the types of PA, social skills, and instruments studied, as well as the intensity of intervention delivery in the published findings. No longitudinal studies were identified as a part of the search. These results provide a foundation for the design of effective PA-based interventions that may have an increased impact on the social skills of individuals on the autism spectrum. Future research should employ longitudinal designs to capture the relationship between social skills and PA, as well as to increase the likelihood of capturing change.
In Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly Volume 38 (2021): Issue 1 (Jan 2021)
ZáNean McClain, Daniel W. Tindall and Jill Pawlowski
Clinical Validity of the Test of Gross Motor Development-3 in Children With Disabilities from the U.S. National Normative Sample
E. Andrew Pitchford and E. Kipling Webster
The Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD) measures fundamental motor skills competency and is frequently used for eligibility determination of adapted physical education services in children with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to determine if the TGMD-3 is clinically sensitive to detect deficits in the fundamental motor skills of children with disabilities (i.e., intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, language and articulation disorders). Eighty-five children with disabilities and 85 matched controls (i.e., typically developing, individually matched on age, sex, ethnicity, and race) completed the TGMD-3. Mann–Whitney U tests identified significant differences in the total TGMD-3 scores for children with intellectual disability (p < .001), autism spectrum disorder (p < .001), and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (p = .032). No differences were identified for children with language and articulation disorders. Comparisons of subscales (i.e., locomotor and ball skills) differed across disability groups. This study provides evidence that the TGMD-3 is clinically sensitive to identify deficits in fundamental motor skills competency.
Pathways for Long-Term Physical Activity Participation for Military Veterans With a Physical Disability
Celina H. Shirazipour and Amy E. Latimer-Cheung
A gap in knowledge exists regarding how to maintain physical activity (PA) for individuals with acquired disabilities following initial introductory experiences. The current study aimed to contribute to filling this gap by exploring the PA pathways of military veterans with a physical disability, particularly those who maintain long-term PA, from impairment to the present. Veterans with a physical disability (N = 18) participated in interviews exploring their PA history and experiences. A reflexive thematic analysis was conducted to generate common pathways in PA participation, as well as to examine which elements of participation supported PA maintenance. Three long-term pathways were identified—two parasport pathways and one recreational PA pathway. Four elements of participation (i.e., mastery, challenge, belongingness, meaning) supported to maintain PA at key junctures. This knowledge provides further understanding of how to promote long-term PA for individuals with acquired disabilities and can support advancements in theory, as well as program development.
Volume 36 (2020): Issue 6 (Dec 2020)
Acute Effects of Tissue Flossing Around the Upper Thigh on Neuromuscular Performance: A Study Using Different Degrees of Wrapping Pressure
Matjaž Vogrin, Miloš Kalc and Teja Ličen
Context: It has been recently demonstrated that tissue flossing around the ankle joint can be effectively used to improve ankle range of motion, jump, and sprint ability. However, there is a lack of studies investigating the acute effects of tissue flossing applied using different wrapping pressures. Objective: To investigate the acute effects of tissue flossing and the degree of floss band pressure, around the upper thigh on knee range of motion, strength, and muscle contractile characteristics. Design: Crossover design in 3 distinct sessions. Setting: University laboratory. Participants: A total of 19 recreationally trained volunteers (age 23.8[4.8] y) participated in this study. Intervention: Active knee extension and flexion performed for 3 sets of 2 minutes (2-min rest between sets with wrapped upper thigh). Individualized wrapping pressures were applied to create conditions of high and moderate vascular occlusion, while a loose band application served as a control condition. Main Outcome Measures: Participants were assessed for active straight leg raise test; tensiomyography displacement and contraction time for rectus femoris, vastus medialis, and biceps femoris muscles; and maximum voluntary contractions for knee extensors and flexors for pre, after, and 30 minutes after applying the floss band. Results: There was a statistically significant increase in maximum voluntary contractions for knee extensors and a significant shortening in rectus femoris contraction time for the moderate condition, which was associated with small to medium effects in favor of the moderate condition. There were no statistically significant changes observed between control and high conditions. The active straight leg raise test was unaffected regardless of intervention. Conclusions: The results of this study suggest that tissue flossing around the upper thigh might have a localized as well as pressure-sensitive response, thereby improving neuromuscular function of the knee extensors.
Comparison of the Graston Technique® With Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization for Increasing Dorsiflexion Range of Motion
Holly M. Bush, Justin M. Stanek, Joshua D. Wooldridge, Stephanie L. Stephens and Jessica S. Barrack
Context: Limited dorsiflexion (DF) range of motion (ROM) is commonly observed in both the athletic and general populations and is a predisposing factor for lower extremity injury. Graston Technique® (GT) is a form of instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM), used commonly to increase ROM. Evidence of the long-term effects of GT on ROM is lacking, particularly comparing the full GT protocol versus IASTM alone. Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of 6 sessions of the GT or IASTM compared with a control (CON) group for increasing closed-chain DF ROM. Design: Cohort design with randomization. Setting: Athletic training clinic. Patients or OtherParticipants: A total of 23 physically active participants (37 limbs) with <34° of DF. Participants' limbs were randomly allocated to the GT, IASTM, or CON group. Intervention: Participants' closed-chain DF ROM (standing and kneeling) were assessed at baseline and 24–48 hours following their sixth treatment. Participants in the CON group were measured at baseline and 3 weeks later. The intervention groups received 6 treatments during a 3-week period, whereas the CON group received no treatment. The GT group received a warm-up, instrument application, stretching, and strengthening of the triceps surae. The IASTM group received a warm-up and instrument application. Main Outcome Measures: Closed-chain DF was assessed with a digital inclinometer in standing and kneeling. Results: A significant difference between groups was found in the standing position (P = .03) but not in kneeling (P = .15). Post hoc testing showed significant improvements in DF in standing following the GT compared with the control (P = .02). Conclusions: The GT significantly increases ankle DF following 6 treatments in participants with DF ROM deficits; however, no differences were found between GT and IASTM. The GT may be an effective intervention for clinicians to consider when treating patients with DF deficits.
Immediate Effects of Limb Rotational Kinesio Tape Application on Upper Quarter Y-Balance Test Scores
Alyssa Dittmer, David Tomchuk and David R. Fontenot
Context: Rounded shoulder posture is a common problem in the athletic population. Recently Kinesio tape has been utilized to improve balance, proprioception, and posture. However, the literature has been unable to provide definitive answers on the efficacy of Kinesio tape use. Objective: To determine the immediate effect of the limb rotational Kinesio tape application on the dynamic balance and proprioception of the shoulder measured by the Y-Balance Upper Quarter Test (YBT-UQ) in male collegiate athletes. Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: Sports medicine research laboratory.Participants: Nineteen healthy male collegiate National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics athletes (including rodeo, baseball, football, and soccer) with a mean age of 19.8 (1.4) years. Interventions: Subjects were randomized into Kinesio tape and non-Kinesio tape groups. The limb rotational Kinesio tape application was applied to the Kinesio tape group, while the non-Kinesio tape group received no intervention. Each group performed the YBT-UQ, which requires reaching in 3 directions in a push-up position, before and after the randomized intervention on a single day. Main Outcome Measures: The variables of interest included the maximum reach distance in each of the 3 directions and the composite score for both trials between the Kinesio tape and non-Kinesio tape groups. Each score was normalized against the subject's limb length. Results: No statistically significant improvements in any YBT-UQ scores were observed following either the Kinesio tape or non-Kinesio tape intervention. Conclusions: Applying the limb rotational Kinesio tape technique did not improve immediate YBT-UQ scores in a male collegiate athletic population with rounded shoulder posture. The use of Kinesio tape to improve immediate closed kinetic chain function in male collegiate athletes with rounded shoulder posture cannot be supported.
The Influence of Sagittal Plane Hip Position on Lower-Extremity Muscle Activity and Torque Output
Neal R. Glaviano and David M. Bazett-Jones
Context: Hip muscle strength has previously been evaluated in various sagittal plane testing positions. Altering the testing position appears to have an influence on hip muscle torque during hip extension, abduction, and external rotation. However, it is unknown how altering the testing position influences hip muscle activity during these commonly performed assessments. Objectives: To evaluate how hip sagittal plane position influences hip muscle activation and torque output. Study Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: Laboratory. Patients or Other Participants: A total of 22 healthy females (age = 22.1 [1.4] y; mass = 63.4 [11.3] kg; height = 168.4 [6.2] cm) were recruited. Intervention: None. Main Outcome Measures: Participants completed isometric contractions with surface electromyography on the superior and inferior gluteus maximus; anterior, middle, and posterior gluteus medius; biceps femoris, semitendinosus, adductor longus, and tensor fascia latae. Extension and external rotation were tested in 0°, 45°, and 90° of hip flexion and abduction was tested in −5°, 0°, and 45° of hip flexion. Repeated-measures analysis of variances were used for statistical analysis (P ≤ .01). Results: Activation of gluteal (P < .007), semitendinosus (P = .002), and adductor longus (P = .001) muscles were lesser for extension at 90° versus less flexed positions. Adductor longus activity was greatest during 90° of hip flexion for external rotation torque testing (P < .001). Tensor fascia latae (P < .001) and gluteus maximus (P < .001) activities were greater in 45° of hip flexion. Significant differences in extension (P < .001) and abduction (P < .001) torque were found among positions. Conclusions: Position when assessing hip extension and abduction torque has an influence on both muscle activity and torque output but only muscle activity for hip external rotation torque. Clinicians should be aware of the influence of position on hip extension, abduction, and external rotation muscle testing and select a position most in line with their clinical goals.

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Details: C2018B00214
Equal Pay Standard Bill 2018
- C2018B00214
A Bill for an Act to require certain employers to obtain certification of compliance with an equal pay standard, and for related purposes
For authoritative information on the progress of bills and on amendments proposed to them, please see the House of Representatives Votes and Proceedings, and the Journals of the Senate as available on the Parliament House website.
Registered 26 Nov 2018
Introduced HR 26 Nov 2018
C2018B00214
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Simplified outline of this Act
5 Act binds the Crown
Part 2—Equal pay standard
Part 3—Requirement for certification certificates relating to equal pay standard
Part 4—Certification certificates
2016‑2017‑2018
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
Presented and read a first time
No. , 2018
(Mr Wilkie)
Part 1—Preliminary 1
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 2
3............ Simplified outline of this Act.............................................................. 2
4............ Definitions.......................................................................................... 3
5............ Act binds the Crown........................................................................... 4
Part 2—Equal pay standard 5
6............ Equal pay standard.............................................................................. 5
Part 3—Requirement for certification certificates relating to equal pay standard 6
7............ Relevant employers must have a certification certificate...................... 6
8............ Minister may direct a relevant employer to take action to comply with equal pay standard 6
9............ Review of decisions to give directions................................................ 7
Part 4—Certification certificates 8
10.......... Certification bodies............................................................................. 8
11.......... Certification bodies may give certification certificates to relevant employers 8
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act is the Equal Pay Standard Act 2018.
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information
Date/Details
1. The whole of this Act
The day after the end of the period of 3 months beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
This Act requires certain employers to comply with a standard relating to equal pay.
It does so by requiring the employers to have a certificate (called a certification certificate). To get a certification certificate, a certification body must be satisfied that the employer is complying with the equal pay standard.
If an employer is required by this Act to have a certification certificate and the employer does not have one, the Minister may direct the employer to take such action as the Minister considers necessary to ensure the employer complies with the equal pay standard. Failure to comply with such a direction is an offence.
In this Act:
certification body means a body specified in a determination under section 10.
certification certificate has the meaning given by subsection 11(1).
certifying functions includes:
(a) assessing whether a relevant employer is complying with the equal pay standard; and
(b) giving certificates of compliance in respect of relevant employers that are complying with the equal pay standard.
Commonwealth authority means:
(a) a body corporate established for a public purpose by or under a law of the Commonwealth; or
(b) a body corporate:
(i) incorporated under a law of the Commonwealth or a State or a Territory; and
(ii) in which the Commonwealth has a controlling interest.
constitutional corporation means a corporation to which paragraph 51(xx) of the Constitution applies.
constitutional trade or commerce means trade or commerce:
(a) between Australia and a place outside Australia;
(b) among the States;
(c) between a State and a Territory;
(d) between 2 Territories; or
(e) within a Territory.
engage in conduct means:
(a) do an act; or
(b) omit to perform an act.
equal pay standard means the standard made by the Minister under section 6.
relevant employer means:
(a) a constitutional corporation that employs, or usually employs, at least 25 individuals;
(b) the Commonwealth;
(c) a Commonwealth authority that employs, or usually employs, at least 25 individuals;
(d) a person that, in connection with constitutional trade or commerce, employs, or usually employs, at least 25 individuals;
(e) a body corporate incorporated in a Territory that employs, or usually employs, at least 25 individuals; or
(f) a person who employs, or usually employs, at least 25 individuals in connection with an activity carried on by the person in the Territory.
(1) This Act binds the Crown in each of its capacities.
(2) This Act does not make the Crown liable to be prosecuted for an offence.
(3) The protection in subsection (2) does not apply to an authority of the Crown.
6 Equal pay standard
(1) The Minister must, by legislative instrument, make a standard (the equal pay standard) that includes requirements relating to equal pay.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the equal pay standard must require that if individuals receive different wages, the difference must be based on relevant considerations that do not include gender.
(3) The Minister must not make the equal pay standard unless the equal pay standard has been developed in consultation with such organisations, representing employers, employees or small business, as the Minister thinks appropriate.
7 Relevant employers must have a certification certificate
(1) A relevant employer must have a certification certificate.
(2) The requirement under subsection (1) applies:
(a) for a relevant employer that employs, or usually employs, at least 250 employees—on and after 1 January 2020;
(b) for a relevant employer that employs, or usually employs, between 150 and 249 employees—on and after 1 January 2021;
(c) for a relevant employer that employs, or usually employs, between 90 and 149 employees—on and after 1 January 2022; and
(d) for a relevant employer that employs, or usually employs, between 25 and 89 employees—on and after 1 January 2023.
8 Minister may direct a relevant employer to take action to comply with equal pay standard
(1) If:
(a) a relevant employer is required by section 7 to have a certification certificate; and
(b) the relevant employer does not have a certification certificate;
the Minister may, by notice in writing, direct the relevant employer to take such actions as the Minister is satisfied are reasonably necessary to ensure the relevant employer complies with the equal pay standard.
(2) A direction under subsection (1) must specify the time by which, or the period during which, the relevant employer must comply with the direction.
(3) A relevant employer commits an offence if:
(a) the relevant employer is given a direction under this section; and
(b) the relevant employer fails to comply with the direction.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
(4) Section 4K of the Crimes Act 1914 does not apply to an offence against subsection (3).
9 Review of decisions to give directions
Applications may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of a decision of the Minister to give a direction to a relevant employer under subsection 8(1).
10 Certification bodies
(1) The Minister may, by notifiable instrument, determine that a specified body is a certification body for the purposes of this Act. The determination has effect accordingly.
(2) The Minister must not determine under subsection (1) that a body is a certification body unless the Minister is satisfied that the body will carry out certifying functions competently and impartially.
11 Certification bodies may give certification certificates to relevant employers
(1) A certification body may give a relevant employer a certificate (a certification certificate) stating that the relevant employer complies with the equal pay standard, if:
(a) the certification body is requested by the relevant employer to give the relevant employer a certificate under this section; and
(b) the certification body is satisfied that the relevant employer is complying with the equal pay standard.
(2) If a certification body that has given a certification certificate to a relevant employer ceases to be satisfied that the relevant employer is complying with the equal pay standard, the certification body must, by written notice given to the relevant employer, revoke the certificate.
(3) If a certification body gives a certification certificate to a relevant employer, or revokes a certification certificate given by the certification body, the certification body must, as soon as practicable, notify the Minister in writing.
(4) A certification certificate comes into force when it is given to the relevant employer and, unless sooner revoked, remains in force until the end of the 12‑month period starting on the day the notice was given.


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Q: boot2docker starting in Windows 7 I am having issues to start boot2docker in windows 7, virtualbox 4.3.26 (installed together with boot2docker).
Here is the output
Boot2Docker-cli version: v1.6.0
Git commit: 9894ae9
2015/05/05 17:08:12 executing: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe showvminfo boot2docker-vm --machinereadable
2015/05/05 17:08:12 executing: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe guestproperty set boot2docker-vm /VirtualBox/GuestAdd/SharedFolders/MountPrefix /
2015/05/05 17:08:12 executing: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe guestproperty set boot2docker-vm /VirtualBox/GuestAdd/SharedFolders/MountDir /
2015/05/05 17:08:12 executing: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe sharedfolder add boot2docker-vm --name c/Users --hostpath C:\Users --automount
VBoxManage.exe: error: Shared folder named 'c/Users' already exists
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE (0x80bb000c), component SessionMachine, interface IMachine, callee IUnknown
VBoxManage.exe: error: Context: "CreateSharedFolder(Bstr(name).raw(), Bstr(hostpath).raw(), fWritable, fAutoMount)" at line 1008 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp
2015/05/05 17:08:12 executing: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe setextradata boot2docker-vm VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/c/Users 1
2015/05/05 17:08:12 executing: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe startvm boot2docker-vm --type headless
Waiting for VM "boot2docker-vm" to power on...
VM "boot2docker-vm" has been successfully started.
2015/05/05 17:08:16 executing: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe showvminfo boot2docker-vm --machinereadable
Waiting for VM and Docker daemon to start...
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Waiting for Docker daemon to start...
o2015/05/05 17:09:53 executing: C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\ssh.exe ssh -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o LogLevel=quiet -p 2022 -i C:\Users\zencv\.ssh\id_boot2docker docker@localhost grep tcp:// /proc/$(cat /var/run/docker.pid)/cmdline

Then it hangs..
My virtualbox config is as follows (sorry, in german):

I tried different things such as deleting the boot2docker-vm, downloading again and starting again and again.
Also please note that this seems to be different from similar issues like Boot2Docker Start up fails or docker on windows not working -- in those cases, the error message explicitly mentions that the virtualization is disabled, but I do not see any such error in my output. Unfortunately, I work in a very controlled env. and I cannot use any tools that check whether virtualization is enabled or not.

A: This similar boot2docker issue mentions:

It sounds like you might have a stray boot2docker-vm set up in VirtualBox -- it's probably worth trying to open the VirtualBox GUI to delete that and try:

boot2docker -v init
boot2docker -v up

The complete reinstall process is:
docker cask remove virtualbox
docker cask install virtualbox
boot2docker delete
boot2docker init
boot2docker up

Also check if you have a %HOME% environment variable defined:

The problem was my SSH Config. When it try to connect to boot2docker vm, it use my github private key and not the boot2docker private key.
I confirm it works perfectly. Just changing %HOME%/.ssh/config
I added:

Host boot2docker
  Hostname localhost
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_boot2docker

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Rise in Japan's COVID-19 Cases Starting to Speed Up
Society Disaster Apr 2, 2020
It took Japan 65 days to reach 1,000 COVID-19 cases, but only 11 more to reach 2,000, suggesting the country may soon face its own serious outbreak.
Wuhan, China, was the first place to experience a major COVID-19 outbreak. At the beginning of March, China's 80,000 cases were far ahead of the rest of the world, as the below graph shows. The few thousand cases in South Korea raised concerns that it would soon face a major rise. Other countries had at most only a few hundred cases.
The first spike in the West came in Italy, and it may have seemed initially that it was exceptional. Until the middle of March, many countries appeared to be maintaining infections at a low level. However, the second half of the month was different. As COVID-19 spread rapidly through Western nations, the number of cases in the United States, Italy, and Spain soon overtook the China figure.
From the graph, Japan seems to be keeping infections to a low level, far below other countries.
Looking at Japan alone, however, makes it clear that the number of cases here has been increasing more quickly since late March. While it took 65 days for the country to reach 1,000 confirmed cases, it only needed 11 more to reach 2,000.
As of now Japan has fewer cases than many Western countries, but this is no time for complacency, as another half a month might bring a major outbreak on the scale of the United States, Italy, Spain, or Germany.
National and prefectural governments are calling on residents to avoid poorly ventilated spaces, places with large crowds, or those where people are packed closely together. Efforts to increase social distancing can reduce the risk of an exponential rise in infections.
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The United States Barista Championship (USBC) hosted by Espresso Supply, Inc., is a platform for baristas to enhance their espresso beverage making skills through an exciting and challenging competition. In 15 minutes, the barista must prepare and serve espressos, cappuccinos, and a personally designed signature beverage for four sensory judges; all while being assessed on their preparation abilities by two technical judges. The USBC is more than a competition; it's a place to develop community and meet other coffee lovers from across the US. Throughout the year, baristas from all across the country compete in six regional competitions to qualify for this national event and the winner of the USBC will go on to represent the United States in the World Barista Championship at The SCAA Event in Seattle, WA on April 9-12.
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Weddingz.in,India's largest wedding market placehas raised pre-Series A fund from Sixth Sense Ventures, a consumer-centric fund.Sixth Sense Ventures has previously invested in several successful businesses including Grab, Purplle, Vini Cosmetics, Gowardhan to name a few. Weddingz.in also raised over $1 million in seed capital in December 2015 from a group of angel investors led by Ambit Capital.
A Unicorn in the space of Online Wedding Planning in India, Weddingz.in is a one-stop technology-enabled platform that simplifies the process of finding and booking services at the best prices. It aims to fill an obvious gap in the fragmented weddings and events industry – that of finding the right vendor at the right price. With a listing of more than 2000 wedding venues and 2000 wedding vendors across 10 locations in India, it is the largest warehouse of wedding service providers. Presently organizing more than 150 weddings every month, Weddingz.in is the largest wedding company in India and plans to reach out to top 20 cities by the end of 2016 and 100 cities by 2017-end. The company, within one year of its launch, boasts of a 100+ stellar team that includes IIT/IIM/Wharton alumni, all working with the single goal of making dream weddings hassle-free and affordable.
Commenting on this, Sandeep Lodha, Founder and CEO, Weddingz.in said,"The wedding industry in India is pegged at US$40bn, with 10m weddings taking place annually. The market is growing at 25% per year. However, it remains to be extremely fragmented with 100K vendors in top 20 cities. Weddingz.in aims to fill an obvious gap in the fragmented weddings and events industry – that of finding the right vendor at the right price. Further with a change in the age at which people are getting married, younger generation is taking control and planning their own weddings. "Convenience" becomes a key factor for these time-starved couples that are looking for a one-stop solution for their entire Wedding needs.He further added, "We will be using these funds for technology/automation and team expansion. We are also looking at getting into newer categories like décor, honeymoon packages etc. and enhance our customers experience by technology development like making virtual tours of venues on website possible".
"We see the need for a "credible platform" in the fragmented and unorganized weddings space. Sandeep, a first generation entrepreneur, comes with a strong passion of creating the largest Wedding Company in India. His strong pedigree (Ex-Bain and Disney), solid team and aggression instilled confidence in us. The business model is unique and differentiated in comparison to the other listing platforms. Weddingz.in fits well into Sixth Sense investment thesis of "first generation entrepreneurs" creating disruption in spaces with large potential (US$40bn industry!)", she further added.


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Q: Is there a way to zero out weak weights during training? For example if the absolute value of a weight is lower than .05 just set that weight to 0 I was having trouble seems it seems you can't edit a tensor directly or simply convert it to numpy and edit it in that form during training either. To some extent what I'm looking for is the opposite of the clip function that exists in both Tensorflow and numpy. Instead of making sure all values are between min and max, I want to make to switch all values between min and max to 0. Likely min and max will be the same value so it becomes zeroing any weight whose absolute value is less than some input value.
class DeleteWeakConnectionsDenseLayer(keras.layers.Layer):
def __init__(self, units, weak_threshold, **kwargs):
    super(DeleteWeakConnectionsDenseLayer, self).__init__(**kwargs)
    self.units = units
    self.weak_threshold = weak_threshold

def build(self, input_shape):

    self.w = self.add_weight(
        shape=(input_shape[-1], self.units),
        initializer="random_normal",
        trainable=True,
    )
    self.b = self.add_weight(
        shape=(self.units,), initializer="random_normal", trainable=True
    )

def call(self, inputs, training=False):
    if training:
        new_weights = #Code Here such that weights whose absolute value is below self.weakthreshold are reassigned to 0
        self.w.assign(new_weights)  # Assign preserves tf.Variable
    else:
        pass #could think about multiplying all weights by a constant here
    return tf.nn.relu(tf.matmul(inputs, self.w) + self.b)

A: Try this code:
  def call(self, inputs, training=False):
      if training:
          mask = tf.abs(self.w) > self.weak_threshold
          new_weights = self.w * tf.cast(mask, tf.float32)
          self.w.assign(new_weights)  # Assign preserves tf.Variable
      else:
          pass #could think about multiplying all weights by a constant here
      return tf.nn.relu(tf.matmul(inputs, self.w) + self.b)


This subject aims to engage students in the process of designing a proposal to lead change in a 'real world' problem. It looks at the role sport plays within society as an agency for change at the grassroots level. Students will have an opportunity to visit a range of sporting facilities and see first-hand how community programs are adapting to change and meeting the needs of an increasingly diverse population. They will hear from a range of speakers who are experts in their respective fields, discussing the wider role of sport as a tool for change. The subject will explore sport in community settings and examine the educative role it plays dealing with issues such as disability, homophobia and social inequity. Students will investigate what community sport facilities and programs are currently doing to address these issues, and the leadership roles they have taken on in these areas.
Students will have the opportunity to give back to their local community by working creatively with their own sporting club or community group on a negotiated project, taking on a leadership role. Through a staged process starting with the development of an Action Plan, students will explore a problem and consider a range of solutions culminating in a recommendation for action and the publication of a Press Release.
Areas covered include leadership, community development, teamwork, the design process and reflective practice. Processes include planning, reflective writing, teamwork and personal development.
Demonstrate an understanding of the role of sport in the community and explain why sport holds such a prominent place in the Australian psyche.
Identify major social issues and illustrate how sports programs can be used to engage diverse communities and provide opportunities for socialisation and engagement in the wider community.
Understand the growing impact of commercialised sport on grassroots and community-based sport, and its wider implications.
Analyse the role and obligations of the media in the reporting and presentation of sport.
Demonstrate the use and integration of knowledge gained verbally and in written form.
Demonstrate the ability to consult effectively with a range of stakeholders to make a case for change.
On completion of this subject students should have developed a range of transferable, core generic skills, which can be applied across a range of settings, not only in education but also in the broader workplace.
Improved personal skills in oral communication and presentation.
Ability to work individually and as a team member within a community and a business setting.
Ability to demonstrate leadership skills.
An understanding of social and cultural diversity, including indigenous cultures.
Leadership potential through practising, initiating and implementing constructive change.
It is highly recommended that students enrolling in this subject will have competed EDUC20068 Sport, Education and the Media, prior to undertaking this subject.
Minimum of 80% attendance at all scheduled tutorials, seminars and workshops.
During the pre-teaching period, students should check the LMS.


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Q: How to display the activity last visited when click the icon on the desktop? I configed the launcher activity in manifest file :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.hzxfkj.jxt" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.1"
    android:installLocation="auto"> <!-- auto   internalOnly  preferExternal  -->

    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="9" android:targetSdkVersion="9" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.MOUNT_UNMOUNT_FILESYSTEMS"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"></uses-permission>

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

        <receiver android:name="com.hzxfkj.jxt.BootBroadcastReceiver" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.QUICKBOOT_POWERON" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </receiver>

        <service android:singleUser="true" android:name="com.hzxfkj.jxt.service.MessageService" android:label="jxtMessages"/>

        <activity
            android:name="com.hzxfkj.jxt.MainActivity" android:theme="@style/activityTheme" android:alwaysRetainTaskState="true"
            android:label="@string/app_name"  android:launchMode="singleInstance">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity android:name="com.hzxfkj.jxt.MessageActivity"  android:theme="@style/activityTheme"
            android:alwaysRetainTaskState="true" android:launchMode="singleInstance"/>
        <activity android:name="com.hzxfkj.jxt.LoginActivity" android:theme="@style/activityTheme"
            android:alwaysRetainTaskState="true" android:launchMode="singleInstance"/>

        <activity android:name="com.hzxfkj.jxt.MsgDetailActivity"  android:theme="@style/activityTheme"
            android:alwaysRetainTaskState="true" android:launchMode="singleInstance"/>
        <activity android:name="com.hzxfkj.android.xflistview.XListViewActivity"  android:theme="@style/activityTheme"
             android:launchMode="singleInstance"/>

    </application>
</manifest>

...
so when i click the desktop app icon, the MainActivity will start.
if i click the button on the MainActivity, the MessageActivity will be displayed.
then i click the "Home" key on the phone, the app will be hidden. but when i reopen the app by click the icon on the desktop, the app will display the MainActivity,not the last visited MessageActivity.
how could it just show the activity page I last visited?

A: don't use the singleInstance lanchMode.
delete android:launchMode="singleInstance"
or change it to singleTask if need.


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Yeah, sure, you were about to say something. But fuck that shit: IT'S MARIO KART FOR THE WII, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!
More violent that GTA IV. And the roadside hookers in Mario Kart? Far more alluring than the meth-hounds you bang in GTA, especially because they're Japanese, and therefore disturbingly kinky and capable of morphing into blue tentacled fuckbeasts at any time.
Perhaps Columbia has an open date on their schedule. Notre Dame, rebuffed by Rutgers in an attempt to move their proposed six game series to the Meadowlands for "home" games for the Scarlet Knights, makes the New York Times sassy. And we warned you: you won't like them when they're sassy.
How humble of Notre Dame to have visited Ronald Reagan in the Rose Garden at the White House on Jan. 18, 1989, resisting all temptation to call for a meeting at a neutral site more to its grandiose liking.
Ooooooh, Notre Dame you got done EXTERMINGUISHINFLAMMANATED by that one! The writer also points out Notre Dame has lots of fans in the northeast, explaining why the Irish may be making eyes at Syracuse for a new series, presumably played in a custom blue and gold painted Carrier Dome with the Irish spotted seven points to start in the first quarters. (Against Syracuse's offense, that might do it.)
We'd like to tell you that you can start immediately. Because here at UCLA, our quarterbacks should have had their knees injured in a plane crash, see, but they never got on the plane, and now the Ghost of Knee Death is stalking them all. Seriously: please come to school early. Laters, Rick Neuheisel. (Apologies: that's COACH Rick Neuheisel, until he loses eight games.--ed.)
It's like Georgia Tech, but with the possibility of having sex as an undergrad. Taylor Bennett, last year's starter at qb for the Yellow Jackets, transfers to Louisiana Tech. Paul Johnson is looking like a coach with extraordinarily blunt player relations skills, and we don't mean that in a bad way:
"He told me what his plan was and where I fit in and what he saw me doing and that didn't look like something I was interested in," Bennett said. "I thank him for being honest with me."
"Son, you cain't run. And you cain't pass. And I plan on runnin', and sometimes passin'."
"Ruston it is, then!"
Roll, Tide! As in, "please, Tide, roll the urine the young lady just deposited in the Gulf away from my feet."


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Peace on the Small Screen: UNPROFOR's Television Unit in 1994–5 and the 'Media War' in Former Yugoslavia
Baker, Catherine
Dr Catherine Baker Catherine.Baker@hull.ac.uk
Reader in 20th Century History
Between early 1994 and the end of the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, a team of journalists working for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in former Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR) was in charge of a unique televisual experiment–a documentary film unit known as UNTV, which would produce more than 300 films about reconstruction, displacement and peace, to be broadcast on regular slots agreed with local and national broadcasters throughout the region. Departing from UN peacekeeping's conventional public information output, these films aimed to challenge the ethnonationalist biases that post-Yugoslav state broadcasters employed to varying degrees, and to become a much-needed source of reliable information about conditions on other sides of the front lines. Though UNTV's existence is hardly registered in the literature on television and other media during the Yugoslav wars, archival evidence from UNTV's documents and films casts light on how and why the project began, with interpretations of the dynamics of the conflict which were often closer to those of independent anti-war journalists in the region than UNPROFOR command. The tensions that resulted when this commitment clashed with the politicised ideologies of some post-Yugoslav state broadcasters nevertheless show the limits of this attempt to intervene in former Yugoslavia's so-called 'media war'.
Baker, C. (in press). Peace on the Small Screen: UNPROFOR's Television Unit in 1994–5 and the 'Media War' in Former Yugoslavia. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 42(2), 344-371. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2021.1948205
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The Rainbow Wave continues to surge! The LGBTQ Victory Fund, the only national organization dedicated to electing LGBTQ people, cheered South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg's decision to form an exploratory committee for a 2020 presidential run. If Mayor Buttigieg decides to run, he will become the first openly LGBTQ elected official to run for President of the United States. His decision comes in the wake of an unprecedented "Rainbow Wave" of openly LGBTQ candidates who ran this past election cycle at every level of government, many of whom broke down long-standing political barriers on Election Night.
Mayor Annise Parker, President & CEO of LGBTQ Victory Fund, released the following statement about the formation of the exploratory committee:
"An openly LGBTQ elected official forming a presidential exploratory committee is a historic and powerful moment for the LGBTQ community and the entire country. Exactly fifty years after the Stonewall uprising that gave birth to the modern LGBTQ rights movement, we are finally in a place where an openly LGBTQ presidential candidate can be a serious contender. For the teenager in small-town America who is just coming to terms with their sexual orientation or gender identity, having an openly LGBTQ person running for the most important political office in the world will demonstrate there is no limit to what they can achieve – and that is transformative.
"In such a wide-open presidential race, Mayor Buttigieg would be a welcome contribution to the marketplace of ideas that will determine where our nation is headed in 2020 and beyond. And while he is not running on his sexual orientation, his presence will undoubtedly elevate LGBTQ issues in the Democratic primary. LGBTQ voters are an important part of the primary base, and with Mayor Buttigieg on the campaign trail and on the debate stages, other Democratic presidential candidates will need to be outspoken and well-versed on LGBTQ equality issues.
"Mayor Buttigieg is well-positioned for this political moment. He represents a new generation of presidential contenders and brings a sense of optimism and American solidarity that is entirely absent from the current national dialogue. He brings a unique set of skills and values to the race as a successful two-term executive, a first-generation American and a gay war veteran from a deep red state. Mayor Buttigieg understands that Americans are tired of politics as blood-sport and instead want politicians to address real issues affecting real lives. He sees the similarities between the blue-collar worker in Indiana, the undocumented immigrant in Arizona, and the young lesbian in middle school in rural Virginia – and he believes with strong leadership all their lives can be improved.
"Our country is in crisis and it is essential diverse perspectives are heard in this presidential race."
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Federal Judge Blocks Texas Anti-Abortion Law
Demonstrators dressed as characters from "The Handmaid's Tale" to protest SB8 at the Texas Capitol in May.
Eric Gay/AP
A federal judge temporarily blocked an anti-abortion law set to take effect in Texas on Friday that would have limited second trimester abortions in that state.
U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel issued a injunction lasting 14 days that prevents Texas from outlawing an abortion procedure known as dilation and evacuation, commonly used on women seeking to terminate their pregnancies in their second trimester.
In his ruling, Yeakel wrote, "The act leaves that woman and her physician with abortion procedures that are more complex, risky, expensive, difficult for many women to arrange, and often involve multi-day visits to physicians, and overnight hospital stays."
The ruling came in response to a lawsuit brought by abortion providers who argued that the Texas law, signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in May, would deny women access to a safe procedure.
Earlier this week, in a hearing held by Judge Yeakel, attorneys for the state argued that dilation and evacuation, also known as DE, is a "particularly gruesome procedure."
In a statement, Marc Rylander, a spokesman for state Attorney General Ken Paxton, said, "Dismemberment abortions are gruesome and in humane, which makes it troubling that a district court would block Texas's lawful authority to protect the life of unborn children from such a barbaric practice."
"The Texas Attorney General will continue to defend our state's legal right to protect the basic human rights and dignity of the unborn," he added, indicating that Texas will appeal the ruling.
The judge has scheduled a Sept. 14 hearing to consider whether to extend the order against implementing the law.
The ban on DE procedures in the second trimester was part of a broader measure, SB 8, that also restricted abortion providers ability to donate fetal tissue to researchers.
Article source: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/31/547719930/federal-judge-blocks-texas-anti-abortion-law?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news


Even though they knew the products inside and out, the group still had low satisfaction scores. What their employer had realized after they'd been added to the payroll is that technical know-how is not enough to sustain existing customers and attract new ones. These people were driving people to the competition with their words and actions.
Used to the occasional pushback, I responded to Mr. Defiant. "Maybe. Maybe not," I said. "Since you're eager to get things started, let's hear your definition of nice." It was an easy enough task, or was it?
When he dropped his gaze to the workbook in front of him as if the cover might hold an answer, I presented the challenge to the rest of the group. Without exception, they offered illustrations rather than definitions. Their examples revealed the subjective nature of what constitutes nice.
The man's initial comment contained two issues that explained the company's decision to bring in some outside help. He sort of understood that customer service has something to do with being nice-whatever that means-and sitting through a class in this subject was going to be a total waste of time. Luckily, I was up to the challenge of changing his mind.
After about an hour, he started to come around to the idea that exceptional customer service has less to do with being nice than it does with having a positive attitude, a genuine desire to help others, the wherewithal to provide solutions, and an ability to connect with customers. The veneer of nice alone is not enough.
Try to view information from your customers' shoes. It will help you to seem more human and understanding.
Ask questions of your customers and really listen to the answers.
If customers tell you something is not right, don't dismiss what they say.
Find ways to agree with your customers when you can.
Remember that you do what you do all day. What may be familiar to you could be new information to the customer.
Read body language and verbal cues. By paying attention you should have a good idea of whether you are oversharing or under sharing information.
Follow up and do what you say you are going to do.
Experienced consultants and facilitators can give clients the tools they need to use language carefully, adjust attitudes, improve listening skills, and demonstrate empathy, but ultimately, it is up to the participants to put these tools to work.
More importantly, managers and supervisors must walk the talk, reward good behaviors, and address those that are substandard. This requires effort, commitment, and yes, sometimes even being nice.


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The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known simply as the pound, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, the British Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory and Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (in Tristan da Cunha only). It is subdivided into 100 pence (singular: penny). A number of nations that do not use sterling also have currencies called the "pound".
The British Crown dependencies of Guernsey and Jersey produce their own local issues of sterling: 'Guernsey pound' and 'Jersey pound'. The pound sterling is also used in the Isle of Man (alongside the Manx pound), Gibraltar (alongside the Gibraltar pound), the Falkland Islands (alongside the Falkland Islands pound), and Saint Helena and Ascension Island in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (alongside the Saint Helena pound). Manx, Gibraltar, Falkland Islands and Saint Helena pounds are separate currencies, pegged at parity to the pound sterling. Within the UK, some banks operating in Scotland and Northern Ireland produce private sterling denominated banknotes.
ISO 4217 code GBP
Central bank Bank of England
Website www.bankofengland.co.uk
Official user(s) United Kingdom, 9 British territories, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey
Unofficial user(s) Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Rwanda, Malawi, Botswana
Subunit 1/100 penny
Symbol £
penny p
Plural pounds
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Josef Brönner (May 12, 1884 – January 21, 1958) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.

Life
From 1945 to 1946 he was District Administrator of the Mergentheim district. He was then elected to the freely elected constitutional state assembly of the state of Württemberg-Baden. He was a member of the German Bundestag from the first Bundestag election in 1949 until his death. He was always directly elected in the Crailsheim constituency.

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1884 births
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Historic Shoreline Change at Lake Tahoe From 1938 to 1998 and its Impact on Sediment and Nutrient Loading
Kenneth D. Adams
Timothy B. Minor
Keywords: Lake Tahoe, shoreline erosion, phosphorus, nitrogen, nutrient loading
The goal of this study was to estimate sediment and nutrient loading into Lake Tahoe from shore zone erosion over the last 60 years. We first developed a GIS database of georectified aerial photographs from 1938 to 1998 to track shoreline changes over the last 60 years. The study was augmented by field studies and collection of sediment samples for nutrient analyses. Approximately 80 samples were collected and analyzed for phosphorus and nitrogen content. Using the GIS database, surface areas of both eroding and accreting shoreline segments were calculated. For segments undergoing erosion, the areas were converted to volumetric estimates by estimating their thickness from 1918-1919 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation topographic maps with 1 and 5 foot contour intervals. Approximately 429,000 metric tons (MT) of sediment has been eroded into the lake from shore zone sources since 1938, equating to about 7150 MT per year. Using the nutrient concentrations from this study, approximately 117 MT of phosphorus and 110 MT of nitrogen have also been washed into the lake during the same time period. These values equate to about 2 MT per year of phosphorus and about 1.8 MT per year of nitrogen and are considered to be accurate within a factor of two. Although the nutrient loading values are still relatively small compared to other sources, the amount of sediment washed into the lake each year from shore zone erosion ranks second only to stream loading. Therefore, shore zone erosion is important to the sediment and, to a lesser extent, nutrient budget of Lake Tahoe.
Vol 18 No 4 (2002): Journal of Coastal Research
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Election updates fail to change outcomes for any SCV races
Perry Smith
Voters drop their ballots in a drop box at the Valencia Library in Valencia on Tuesday, 060722. Dan Watson/The Signal
Los Angeles County has tallied more than 2.45 million ballots from the Nov. 8 election, adding nearly 1,200 votes with Friday's update, according to the county's Registrar-Recorder's Office.
County officials anticipate the results being certified Monday, according to a news release issued Friday.
The latest round of updates included 1,179 votes from throughout Los Angeles County, with one additional vote being tallied for the Santa Clarita Valley's closest race, a Newhall School District contest. It wasn't enough to make a difference in the outcome.
For the Area 1 race for the Newhall School District's governing board, incumbent Brian Walters trails Donna Robert now by 13 votes, making the margin 50.16% to 49.84%. In Area 2, Rachelle Haddoak maintained her lead over Suverna Mistry by a margin of 53.66% to 46.34%.
There were no significant changes to the results for local races as of Friday's update.
In the SCV's most significant Assembly race, Assemblywoman Suzette Martinez Valladares, R-Santa Clarita, who conceded this week to Pilar Schiavo, saw the margin between them now at 556 votes, 11 more than the previous tally.
Incumbents for the William S. Hart Union High School District races, Bob Jensen, Cherise Moore and Joe Messina, maintained their leads for trustee areas Nos. 2, 3 and 5, respectively.
In the Saugus Union School District races, Cassandra Love, Anna Griese and Chris Trunkey kept their respective leads, also.
County elections officials must report their final results to the secretary of state for certification by Dec. 9, according to the state's website.


The ocean has helped slow the rate of global warming and other effects of climate change by absorbing both carbon dioxide and heat energy. Whilst the ocean has a vast capacity to absorb our pollution and waste, this is leading to a range of detrimental impacts.
Most of the extra heat being trapped by the thickening blanket of 'greenhouse' gases in the atmosphere is going into the oceans, warming them up from the top down. Due to their high capacity to retain heat, oceans have absorbed over 90% of Earth's excess heat in recent decades, with most of this being absorbed by the top 700m. This heat energy is also leading to the thermal expansion of water and consequently contributing to sea-level rise.
For coral reef environments, heat stress may lead to bleaching (whereby corals loose their colour as their photosynthetic symbiont is expelled, effectively leading to starvation). Following the 2016-17 El Niño event, over 90% of corals in the Northern section of the Great Barrier Reef bleached. This also affected reefs in the Maldives, south-east Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific, as surface temperatures rose in the shallow waters where corals exist. While a single bleaching event doesn't usually destroy a reef, the IPCC suggest that 2˚C of global warming will result in the loss of 99% of warm water corals by 2100 (we're currently on track for over 2˚C of warming).
Whilst not strictly related to climate change, the impact that humans are having on the oceans is most visible in the pollution that now litters coastlines across the world. Even islands far from any continental land mass and untouched by humans have plastic bottles, bags and packaging littering the shores. Oil spills, such as the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, have severe impacts on ocean ecology. As exploration for more oil begins in the Arctic, we may soon be polluting every corner of the world.
Plastic of all sizes is being consumed by marine organisms. In one study, 90% of sea birds had plastic in their stomachs. Research from the University of Exeter shows that plastic microbeads, which are found in everyday cosmetics, are being eaten by tiny marine animals - zooplankton - and entering the food chain. This plastic is found everywhere - there are no marine ecosystems that we have looked so far that haven't contained plastic. 1 litre of Arctic sea-ice was found to contain 12,000 pieces of microplastic. These plastics can even be consumed by humans - a plate of six oysters can have around 50 plastic microbeads in.
Approximately one quarter of man-made carbon dioxide emissions are taken up by the oceans, with another quarter taken up by the land biosphere and the remaining half accumulating in the atmosphere. The ocean surface acts like a sponge by dissolving carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. As Ceri has shown, this is leading to ocean acidification and the lowering of the pH of the oceans from around 8.2 to 8.1 since pre-industrial times. While this might not sound like a lot, the pH scale is logarithmic, so this represents about a 30% increase in hydrogen ions. By 2100, ocean pH may be at levels not seen for more than 20 million years. This is why ocean acidification is often referred to as "the other CO2 problem".
At higher latitudes, where oceans cool and water sinks, this carbon dioxide sinks into the deep ocean. But it is the calcifying organisms in shallow waters that will feel the effects first. Coral reefs are particularly susceptible to very slight changes in ocean chemistry. The availability of carbonate ions in sea water is an important control on the distribution of coral species and may tip a reef into a declining state where algae takes over. This affects the whole coral reef ecosystem and may lead to the decline of fisheries – which has a knock-on effect for humans. Looking back in the past, oceans have been more acidic than now, but the rate of change was generally slow enough for organisms to adapt to the changes. In the rare occasions when past ocean acidification happened rapidly, it was associated with the mass extinction of marine calcifying organisms. The absorption of carbon dioxide into oceans today is at an unprecedented rate that many species may be unable to cope with.


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Q: JQUERY - how to make text display as its containing div box is sliding left to right? So i have a containing div, with a heading "about me", and echoed text inside the containing div. when the div slides from left to right, only upon completion of the slide, does all the text magically appear at once. how do i get the text to appear with the slide, rather than magically at once after it. ie. the sliding div reveals the text as it slides, not finishes, and then reveals it.
here is my css:
/*ABOUT CARD SLIDE RIGHT*/
.profile-about { /* contains profile card and about card */
float: left;
}

.u-about50 {
display: none;
position: relative;
top: 113px;
right: 79px;
width: 600px;
height: 220px;
background-color: white;
border-radius: 10px;
margin: 0px;
z-index: 11;
}

.ubout {
margin: 0px;
position: relative;
bottom: 200px;
padding: 10px;
display: inline-block;
word-wrap: break-word;

}

.a-btn {
 -webkit-transform:rotate(90deg);
 float: left;
 position: absolute;
 left: 500px;
 top: 270px;
 z-index: 12;
 border: solid;
 border-color: #333333;
 border-radius: 5px;
 background-color: #333333;
 cursor: pointer;
 border-style: solid;
 box-shadow: none;
 font-family: Lucidatypewriter, monospace;
 color: white;
}

here is my Jquery:
$(document).ready(() => {

$('.dropbtn').on('mouseenter', () => {
$('.dropdown-content').slideDown('slow');
});

$('.dropdown-content').on('mouseleave', () => {
$('.dropdown-content').slideUp('slow');
});

$('.a-btn').on('click', () => {
  $('.u-about50').toggle('slide', {direction: 'left'},1000);

});

});

here is my html:

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<?php echo ucfirst($first);?> <?php echo $last; ?>

        <img class="u-image" src="uploads/<?php echo $image; ?>" alt="no
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<?php echo ucfirst($u_city); ?>, <?php echo ucfirst($u_region); ?
  >, <?php echo ucfirst($u_country); ?>

<?php echo ucfirst($u_rating); ?> Stars

<?php echo ucfirst($email); ?>

    <button class="a-btn">About</button>

About me

<?php echo ucfirst($about); ?>

A: I suspect there's some larger flow/positioning at play, which led to the specific CSS you currently have applied, but the problem in its current form (based on the snippets provided at least) is the use of relative positioning for both the .u-about50 element and its child .ubout.
By removing the position:relative rule on the .ubout element, the desired result is achieved with the text being present as the element slides in & out of view.
CodePen here:
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/mGbqax
Again, to achieve the result, I simply removed the position:relative from the .ubout class rules:
.ubout {
margin: 0px;
bottom: 200px;
padding: 10px;
display: inline-block;
word-wrap: break-word;
background-color: lightgray; /* added for illustration */
}


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Cars Are Fast Becoming Smartphones on Wheels
Wireless connections in cars are becoming faster and more capable, bringing new features, new services—and new problems.
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Most new cars roll off the production line today with as many sensors, computer chips, and lines of code as you'd find in a trunk-load of smartphones. What's more, thanks to deals between carmakers and wireless carriers, cars increasingly come with high-speed, always-on, wireless connectivity—setting up both new kinds of services and a higher potential for distraction and malfeasance.
Remote control: This app, from Delphi, can be used to track a car's position and monitor its engine condition remotely.
Today, the third-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., Sprint, announced a service that will let carmakers improve the sophistication of mobile apps that connect with a vehicle's onboard computer system. Prototype apps developed for this new platform can send directions from a smartphone to a dashboard navigation system, adjust the air-conditioning system remotely so it's cool before the driver gets in, or pinpoint a vehicle in a busy parking lot. The platform, called Sprint Velocity, uses protocols designed for machine-to-machine communications.
The Sprint platform also uses software from IBM called MobileFirst to manage communications between a car's systems and outside apps. Such technology could also let cars report conditions to the driver or to manufacturers more regularly. "You might, for example, get a reading off a car that indicates that the vehicle is slipping on ice," says Michael Curry, vice president of applications integration middleware at IBM. "That might feed back to a central network, and when the car manufacturer realizes that car is slipping, they may say, 'Do we have other cars in that area that might be impacted?' and send a notification to those vehicles or maybe even automatically put those cars into winter mode."
Wireless connectivity has been creeping into cars since 1996, when GM introduced its OnStar service. It uses a cellular network to provide hands-free calling, navigation, and call-center support during emergencies, and can be used to disable a stolen car remotely. Lured by the prospect of selling recurring subscription fees, all major car manufacturers now offer similar services. Ford vehicles have a slightly different service, called Sync, which connects to a cell phone and uses its modem to connect to a cellular network.
Command center: Chrysler's Uconnect dashboard informatics system.
The "connected vehicle" market is expected to grow rapidly in the next few years, with a report from the GSMA, a wireless industry body, predicting that connected cars will create a market for related products worth $53 billion by 2018, up from $17 billion in 2012.
But as more wireless functions are added to cars, the risk of driver distraction rises. In April, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released guidelines for limiting the functions of electronic systems in cars. Defining distraction can be difficult, though. The new guidelines, for example, don't apply to smartphones or other devices connected to a car's "infotainment" system. And last month, a study conducted by AAA found that voice-controlled applications can be just as distracting as texting behind the wheel.
"[Distraction] is a key challenge for the auto industry," says T.C. Wingrove, senior manager of electronic innovation at Visteon, a company that sells dashboard electronics to carmakers. Visteon is conducting usability studies to determine "what are the use cases that excite people the most, and what's the best way to actually implement those in the vehicle so that you distract them the least and inform them the most," Wingrove says.
The new connectivity raises the possibility that cars may become targets for hackers motivated by amusement and profit. In 2011, academic researchers demonstrated a way to take control of a vehicle's computer system through a cellular connection. Stefan Savage, a professor of computer science at the University of California, San Diego, who was involved with the effort, says car companies have invested heavily in security since this demonstration.
"Cars are much more secure than when we did our demo," says Savage, although he believes greater connectivity will inevitably mean more risk, should hackers turn their attention to the millions of potential targets cruising around the open roads. "As you add more of these digital channels, you have to increase the attack surface," he says. "There's no way around it."
The apps and features found in cars will also become more capable as wireless networks are improved. This year, GM announced that by 2014 most of its vehicles will come with 4G wireless capabilities, provided by AT&T, through its OnStar service—providing enough bandwidth to stream movies to passengers in the backseat.
Meanwhile, there is growing interest among drivers in connecting directly to the computer that monitors and controls a car's engine and its various electronic systems. In April, Verizon began selling a device that plugs into a car's onboard diagnostics port, and relays engine information to a smartphone, allowing trips to be logged, the car's doors to be locked or unlocked remotely, and its engine to be started or stopped with a touch on a smartphone. Similar devices that connect to a computer or smartphone via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi can be bought at auto hardware stores.
Ultimately, the wireless connections in cars may augment dedicated car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure technology used to manage traffic and even prevent accidents (see "The Internet of Cars Is Approaching a Crossroads").
Will Knight