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The Commonwealth Heritage List is a heritage register which lists places under the control of the Australian government, usually on land or in waters directly owned by the Crown (i.e., the Crown in right of the Commonwealth of Australia). Such places must have importance in relation to the natural, indigenous and historic heritage of Australia. The List was established under the Federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).


Question: Can you explain the differences between organic and conventional milk in Canada? Respond in 18 sentences.

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/ Ask a Dairy Farmer / Policies / I was recently told that all milk from Canada, regardless if it’s organic or regular, does not contain any steroids, growth hormones, or antibiotics. Is this true?
Yes, that is true! Canadian milk, regardless of whether it is organic or conventional milk, undergoes strict milk quality production procedures and rigorous testing to assure that you have the highest quality milk to enjoy.
If a dairy cow is being given antibiotics for an illness, she is temporarily removed from the milk producing herd and her milk is discarded. Once she has recovered and the antibiotics have cleared her system, her milk is again suitable for human consumption. All milk is rigorously tested for antibiotic residues prior to it being accepted at the milk processing plant. If milk contains traces of antibiotics, the milk is dumped and the producer is penalized. All Alberta producers participate in the Canadian Quality Milk program. This is a science-based, on farm food safety program that uses a preventative approach to minimizing food safety hazards. It helps to ensure the high quality of Canadian milk.
Synthetic growth hormones to stimulate production are not legal for use in Canada. Check out Bea’s question and Nick’s question for more detail. Furthermore, dairy products that carry the 100% Canadian Milk logo will only contain Canadian milk and no imported milk ingredients.
Regarding steroids, these may be used by veterinarians to treat some dairy cow illnesses, such as milk fever and bovine ketosis, as well as used as an anti-inflammatory agent (like when humans use an anti-inflammatory medicine to reduce inflammation.) The prescription’s label explains the milk withdrawal times that must be adhered to before the cow’s milk can be used again.
With organic and conventional milks, the only difference between the two is the way in which the milk is produced. Check out Trina’s question for more detail.


Question: Have you heard about the new California sanctuary state bill for marijuana consumers?

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 Have you heard about the new California sanctuary state bill for marijuana consumers?

Similar to how sanctuary cities have been established to protect immigrants, a new bill would make California a sanctuary state to protect marijuana consumers.
Assembly Bill 1578 would prohibit state and local agencies from using “money, facilities, property, equipment, or personnel to assist a federal agency to investigate, detain, detect, report, or arrest a person for commercial or noncommercial marijuana or medical cannabis activity that is authorized by law in the State of California”, unless there is a court order signed by a judge.
The full text of Assembly Bill 1578, which has been assigned to the Assembly Committee on Public Safety, can be found by clicking here.


Question: Explain "muscle memory" in relation to learning dance choreography, in the context of cognitive psychology.

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 Explain "muscle memory" in relation to learning dance choreography, in the context of cognitive psychology.

I am curious as to your take on “muscle memory” in this context. That is, are there other factors (other than cognitive psychology) that come into play when learning muscle movement? To me, while interesting to compare the mental aspects of dance to cognitive psychology, I wonder if there may be additional items to keep in mind here since we are dealing with movement (I am under the impression that movement kind of learning happens a bit differently than thinking kind of learning)?
Oh! I would say that “muscle memory” is what we call “implicit memory” in cognitive psychology. So, for instance, you may not be able to describe the movements, but you can do them. For instance, the famous amnesic patient H.M. could learn mirror-drawing (an implicit task), but could not explicitly retrieve any new information. Whether he could learn dance choreography is sadly a question we will never know the answer to, since he is now dead.
Interesting! Perhaps this suggests then that implicit learning occurs in a different part of the brain (this seems reasonable to me)? So in effect, when dancing and learning choreography, you are actually utilizing two brain functions (one for encoding the implicit task, and one encoding the new information)? Perhaps this is where the myth that ‘moving while learning is helpful’ ?


Question: Describe the career of Richard Danzig. Respond in 57 words.

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Richard Jeffrey Danzig (born September 8, 1944) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton. He served as an advisor of the President Barack Obama during his presidential campaign and was later the Chairman of the national security think-tank, the Center for a New American Security.


Question: What is Barranquitas? Respond in 2 sentences.

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Barranquitas barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center (seat) of Barranquitas, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,695.


Question: What do you think about Trump supporting Roy Moore?

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 What do you think about Trump supporting Roy Moore?

Meyers ridiculed Trump’s support for GOP Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore who has been accused of child molestation and the tweet he made calling his Democratic opponent Doug Jones a “puppet” of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
The Late Night host then slammed the president for questioning the authenticity of the now-infamous Access Hollywood tape.
Meyers pointed out that Trump “admitted it was real” and mocked Trump’s struggle to get off the bus as seen on the tape itself, proving the tape is real.
“That is so dumb that no one would think to fake that!” he exclaimed.


Question: Describe the new PureMove sports bra from Reebok.

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 Describe the new PureMove sports bra from Reebok.

Sportswear brand Reebok has applied a texture-changing gel used in NASA's spacesuits to make a bra that adapts to support different levels of movement.
The PureMove sports bra incorporates sheer thickening fluid, a substance developed at the University of Delaware, which has already incorporated into spacesuits to protect astronauts from shrapnel and into bullet-proof vests.
The fluid has a unique characteristic: it is more liquid when still or slightly agitated, and becomes harder in response to faster movement.
Its use at Reebok was spearheaded by Danielle Witek, a senior innovation apparel designer who read about the University of Delaware's innovation and thought it could form the basis of a new approach to sports bras.
The brand said that these bras typically rely on a structured design, with multiple layers of material, bonding, straps and hardware to give firm support.
People who participate in multiple sports will often have multiple sports bras, because the firm support required when running and jumping might create a distracting amount of compression when you're sitting on a yoga mat.
Others avoid exercise all together. Reebok — which has been wholly owned by Adidas since 2005 — points to statistics from a 2014 survey that showed one in five women were put off exercising because of breast discomfort. They ranked it as a more common barrier to exercise than cost and access to facilities.
To address these issues, Witek wanted to create a single bra that would firm up during high-impact exercise and relax for a looser fit during low-impact exercise or rest.
Reebok worked with the University of Delaware to create a fabric woven with the sheer thickening fluid. The brand calls the resulting proprietary textile Motion Sense Technology.
A total of seven pieces of fabric come together in the construction of what Reebok describes as a "minimalist" garment.
"Many would assume that the more support a sports bra gives would equate to the more fabric, straps or hooks it's comprised of," said Witek. "However, by utilising our Motion Sense Technology, PureMove's design is quite deliberately the opposite."
"The minimalist design of the bra may seem deceiving when you first hold it, but you should not confuse this for lack of support or technology," she continued. "Every single detail is intentional and directly informed by years of our testing and research."
The PureMove sports bra is one of the first mainstream items of clothing to incorporate an "active material". These are materials that change their characteristics on demand, usually in response to temperature or pressure changes, like MIT's Liquid Printed Pneumatics and Active Auxetic material.
The PureMove bra will be available in 10 sizes on the Reebok website from August 17 and from third-party retailers at the end of the month.


Question: Hey, tell me about your experience developing on a legacy framework.

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At our company, our main web app is based on Symfony 1.0, a PHP framework released in 2008. It was developped by a company called Sensio and open-sourced shortly after. It was a great framework when it came out, with all the good ideas from Ruby On Rails, CakePHP, etc. as well as great documentation, tutorials and a growing community. It is completely MVC, lets you write clean code, and does a lot of things a modern framework is supposed to let you do. But version 1.0 is clearly obsolete, and it is still our main framework.
new “visible” features were deemed more important than technical upgrades.
Three years into the product’s life an effort was done to do a complete rewrite of the product using Symfony 2.X. It was to be done by a consulting company, and preliminary research was already finished when I joined the company. This project was stopped for several reasons, including cost (well into the six figures, a lot for a small company) and an estimated 6-month “no new feature” period (which in my opinion would have evolved into a 9-month to one year period). The biggest issue was that our existing client base would not have benefited from the migration. As we are a SaaS company with a recurring business model, keeping existing clients is as important to us as acquiring new clients. Other issues that didn’t play a role in the decision to stop the rewrite but would have been problems if we had kept going were : new software isn’t as reliable as production software. New software requires new training. It was not possible to be feature equivalent in that short period, so our new application would have been behind what our competition is able to do.
So what is it like developing on a legacy framework ?
You can no longer rely on the community. What that means in my day to day job is that some problems I encounter which could be solved by Googling the issue if I was using a new framework can’t be solved that way, and time is lost finding my own solution. Symfony has a great and large community, even for the 1.X versions. However, 1.0 was one of the shortest lived versions, so the main sources for tech answers (Stack Overflow, Google Groups) mainly have answers for 1.4 and 2.X. Which of course are partially or completely incompatible.
Documentation can be hard to find now. Sensio has done a tremendous job keeping its legacy documentation online and easy to find. However, due to link rot and time passing older blog posts, tips, hints and walkthroughs are often no longer available, or harder to search for. Also, training new employees and interns is much harder as tutorials and documentation haven’t been updated for newer versions of PHP/Apache/MySQL.
The big one in terms of productivity: I can effectively no longer use plugins. Symfony had and still has a great plugin system, somewhat similar to Ruby On Rails gems, that enabled you to add functionnality easily. Most plugins were written for version 1.2+, no new plugins for 1.X are being written (the community for Symfony 2.X bundles however is impressive). That means I often have to develop from scratch what could have been done by just installing a plugin. I recently had to add a small CMS to our app, and had to write it from the ground up. Symfony CMSs exist of course but none are compatible with my version.
This framework is not compatible with newer versions of PHP. It was written for PHP 5.2, and is compatible with PHP 5.3 but no longer works on PHP 5.4. I haven’t even tried 5.5 yet. This prevents us from using the language’s new features, and we can’t use new some of the new libraries.
There are of course consequences for our users. While the code is quite maintainable, features and bug fixes aren’t rolled out as fast as we’d like. Users have to live with the defficiencies just a bit longer than we would like them to. Speed is an other issue. Compared to Symfony 2.X, 1.X is slow. Framework overhead is really much higher than it could be. Using 2.X would probably speed execution by a factor of 2.
Apart from that though, our users don’t feel the age of the framework that much. And that’s why it’s still more cost-efficient to keep this framework than to migrate everything. That doesn’t mean I’m not making life easier for myself as we go on. More on that in later posts.
Could this have been avoided ?
Somewhat. While it was impossible to predict at the time of the release of 1.0 that Sensio would break backward compatibility with 2.X, regular upgrades to 1.1 all the way to 1.4 would have helped. The release of 2.X however would have required the complete rewrite we were unable/unwilling to finish.
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Question: Describe the Groot River. Respond in 33 words.

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The Groot River is a river in the southern area of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is a right hand tributary of the Gamtoos River. This river passes through Steytlerville.


Question: What's the latest news on the FCC's Spectrum Frontiers initiative?

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 What's the latest news on the FCC's Spectrum Frontiers initiative?

If it wasn’t clear before, it is now: Wireless operators want to get their hands on more millimeter wave spectrum, and the more, the merrier. And smaller carriers are worried the deck is going to get stacked against them in favor of the largest operators.
Those themes continue to emerge through comments filed with the FCC as part of its Spectrum Frontiers initiative. The FCC has asked for input on how it should structure spectrum bands above 24 GHz for mobile radio services, and carriers aren’t shy about responding. AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, plus the industry association CTIA, are pushing for an auction in 2018, with T-Mobile in particular pointing to Verizon’s accumulation of millimeter wave spectrum on the secondary market giving it a competitive edge.
Most carriers want to see prompt auction procedures and actual auctions take place this year, although FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has stated that details related to upfront payments need to be worked out before the FCC can launch another large spectrum auction like the one it did last year.
Although it’s not the only spectrum to be used for 5G, millimeter wave spectrum will play a vital role in the next-generation technology, and operators are already using some mmWave bands in their tests and trials. The 28 GHz and 39 GHz bands are popular in the U.S., but several other bands are being considered in the FCC’s proceeding.
CTIA is urging (PDF) the FCC to promptly seek comment on auction procedures to allow the rapid auction of the 24 GHz, 28 GHz, 37/39 GHz and 47 GHz bands, and it’s proposing that the 26 GHz band be allocated for flexible, exclusive use licensing. It also urges the commission to prioritize the licensing of additional spectrum for exclusively licensed terrestrial flexible use.
AT&T told (PDF) the commission that it should prioritize the auction of the 28 GHz, 37 GHz and 39 GHz bands, and, to the extent additional bands can be auctioned concurrently, the FCC should do so, but it shouldn’t delay the auction of the initial spectrum bands that have been laying in inventory for several years. AT&T also urged the commission to advance efforts to develop sharing rules and protocols for the 37-37.6 GHz band.
T-Mobile also wants the FCC to “immediately initiate” the process for conducting an auction of the bands previously allocated in the proceeding—24 GHz, 28 GHz, 37 GHz, 39 GHz and 48 GHz—and begin a combined auction for those bands in 2018.
However, it also makes a point to say that an auction should happen in 2018 because delaying an auction will allow a small number of entities—Verizon included—to dominate millimeter wave band holdings for the next few years, giving them a significant competitive advantage. The bigger carrier has been acquiring millimeter wave spectrum on the secondary market.
“In order to prevent a few select carriers from having a competitive advantage detrimental to consumers, the millimeter wave spectrum that has been allocated thus far should be made available through auction as soon as practicable,” T-Mobile said in its filing (PDF).
T-Mobile noted that Verizon’s millimeter wave holdings are even greater than it initially represented to the FCC. The commission recently approved Verizon’s acquisition of Straight Path, which had been the subject of a bidding war last year. Verizon also has access to Nextlink Wireless spectrum.
The “uncarrier” also said that holding an auction in 2018 would be consistent with manufacturer statements that equipment will begin to be available in these bands in 2019 and 2020.
For its part, Verizon is telling the commission to eliminate the spectrum cap on the amount of spectrum in the 28, 37 and 39 GHz bands that a bidder can acquire at auction. “Doing so would maximize opportunities to put spectrum to efficient use, consistent with the Commission’s decision not to adopt such a cap for the 24 and 27 GHz bands,” Verizon said in its comments (PDF).
US Cellular noted that the FCC has approved Verizon’s acquisition of large amounts of 28, 29, 31 and 39 GHz spectrum from XO Holdings and Straight Path and as a result, Verizon’s millimeter wave holdings already exceed, prior to any auction of Upper Microwave Flexible Use Service (UMFUS) licenses, the former millimeter wave spectrum threshold of 1250 megahertz for proposed secondary market transactions involving spectrum rights in the 28, 37 and 39 GHz bands.
The more recent grant of Verizon’s plan to acquire Straight Path licenses did not cause Verizon to exceed the spectrum threshold now in effect, but only because the threshold had been increased to 1850 megahertz as a result of the addition of the 24 and 47 GHz bands, US Cellular said in its filing (PDF).
“These transactions, however, certainly are evidence that the largest carriers are likely to pursue mmW spectrum acquisition relentlessly, shutting out smaller carriers, unless they are subject to reasonable spectrum acquisition restraints both pre- and post-auction,” US Cellular stated.


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HomeBlogBlogIs It Too Late to Begin Retirement Planning in Your 50s?
Is It Too Late to Begin Retirement Planning in Your 50s?
By the time we reach our 50s, retirement is no longer an abstract idea nor is it too far off in the future. It’s no longer a dream or something to look forward to – rather, it is actually more like a rapidly-approaching reality and that reality tends to intensify when many people reach their 50s.
Perhaps what also makes the reality more real is the fact that many people do not have a retirement plan in place or their plan is severely lacking. By this time, your plan for retirement should be rock solid and your finances should be in a good place. That is a lot of “shoulds”, we know, but the reality is, too many people enter their 50s without a solid plan or any plan at all.
If You Don’t Have a Plan, Is It Too Late?
We realise that many people do not have a plan, and if you’re without one, then you’re not alone on this. However, the great news is, it is not too late to put a solid plan in place and begin working at it. Even in your 50s and even if you’ve only got 12-15 years left in the workforce.
Will you have the retirement of your dreams at this point? It’s hard to say since every financial situation is different. Point being, you still have time to get working on providing yourself with some financial stability when retirement finally comes knocking at your door. No matter when you start your plan, you will be much better off compared to those who never even made an attempt at starting.
The point is not to compare, but unfortunately, too many people do not plan at all, despite having ample opportunity to do so. We understand that not everyone has the know-how, the will power, or the funds to even get started on a solid plan, which is one of the many reasons why the world needs financial planners and advisors to ensure people get off on the right path, no matter where they are on life’s trajectory.
We’ve outlined four things you can do on your own to get yourself started on the right path. This is not a guaranteed financial plan, but these steps provide you with a great starting point. Once you sit down and start taking a look at your entire financial picture and plan for the future, you may realise that you are not as far gone as you may believe.
Take a close look at your current expenses and expenditures. If you are somewhat close to the age at which you are hoping to retire, it might be a good idea to think about limiting yourself to getting by with the essentials. Instead of making those large or extra purchases you’re used to making, you can take the money you would have spent and drop it into your retirement fund.
This could make a huge impact on how well you retire, but will mean going without certain things for a few years. It isn’t going to be easy, but will be well worth the effort and sacrifice when you can finally retire and enjoy yourself in what should be a wonderful stage in your life.
Where could I stand to save some money?
Are there cutbacks I can make that won’t impact the quality of my life?
Examine every monthly deduction and ask yourself, is this necessary?
After going through this process, you may quickly discover that you have a nice little sum of money to drop into retirement each month.
One of the biggest reasons many people do not plan for retirement is because they often feel as though they have to do it all on their own. The reality is, you do not have to go it alone. Do some research and find resources you can take advantage of. You may want to find a financial planner and sit down with them for a free consultation to see what they have to offer and how they may be able to help you get on track.
By consulting with an experienced professional, they may be able to show you a plan that is reasonably attainable at your current stage in life.
If you’re in your 50s and you’re starting to put a solid plan in place but aren’t sure if you will have enough money put aside by the time you retire, then considering a supplemental income may be the best way to go. This could include taking on a second part-time job, freelancing, or finding ways to create a passive income.
This may not be an ideal situation since you will be spending more time at work, but think about the end result of having extra funds put aside when you reach retirement. When speaking with a planner, ask them about stock and investment options as this may be a good option for you and your current situation.
As you examine your expenses, you may realise that you might need more time in the workforce to prepare by building up a larger nest egg. While this may not be an option for everyone, it is not uncommon to see people delaying their retirement by a few years, so they can put more money aside. If this is an option for you, it may be worth considering.
Planning for retirement is not easy when you start in your 50s, but it is certainly not impossible. If you are in your 50s and you’re freaking out, it’s okay. Take the time to consider some of these steps and try sitting down with a planner to see how you can get assistance in getting started on the right track to an enjoyable retirement.


Question: Describe the trial and conviction of former Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, and explain the threat posed by Indonesia’s blasphemy law to religious minorities and traditional religions.

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Jakarta's first non-Muslim governor and Chinese-ethnic minority, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama also known as Ahok, arrives in court for his verdict in Jakarta, Indonesia May 9, 2017.
Indonesian authorities have invoked the country’s discriminatory blasphemy law to destroy the political career of former Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama and will now send him to prison. On Tuesday, a Jakarta court sentenced Ahok to a two-year prison sentence for blasphemy, making him exhibit A of the law’s dangers and the urgent need for its repeal.
Ahok, a Christian, was charged on November 16, 2016, for violating the blasphemy law in connection with a reference he made to a Quranic verse in September. Militant Islamist groups were successful in making Ahok’s blasphemy prosecution a centerpiece of efforts to defeat him in last month’s gubernatorial election, which Ahok lost. The law, article 156a of the Indonesian criminal code, punishes deviations from the central tenets of the six officially recognized religions with up to five years in prison. The blasphemy law has been used to prosecute and imprison members of religious minorities and traditional religions. Recent targets of the blasphemy law include three former leaders of the Gafatar religious community following the violent forced eviction of more than 7,000 members of the group from their homes on Kalimantan island last year. The Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation has called for the repeal of the blasphemy law because of the threat it poses to the country’s religious minorities.
The blasphemy law also has been used as the legal basis for a number of government regulations that facilitate official discrimination on the basis of religion. These include a June 2008 government decree that ordered members of the Ahmadiyah religious community to cease all public religious activities on the grounds they deviated from the principal teachings of Islam and threatened violators with up to five years in prison.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo responded to Ahok’s conviction by urging the public to “to respect the existing legal process, as well as the verdict.” He should instead deliver on his pledges to promote religious pluralism in Indonesia and abolish the blasphemy law and other discriminatory regulations that threaten the country’s religious minorities.


Question: "What can I do show support for Bernie Sanders?" Respond in 3 sentences.

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No, but he's still awesome!
Senator Sanders has taken over the Senate to stand up for us. Show Bernie you stand up for him by throwing him a couple of bucks!


Question: Explain the results of a study that found evidence that the Indus Valley Civilization is older than previously thought.

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Experts have found evidence of the Indus Valley Civilization being at least 8,000 years old and not 5,500 years old.
A group of researchers in India have used carbon dating techniques on animal remains and pottery fragments to conclude that the Indus Valley settlements could be 8,000 years old—2,500 years older than previously believed.
Our study shows that the pre-Harappan humans started inhabiting this area along the Ghaggar-Hakra rivers in a climate that was favorable for human settlement and agriculture. The monsoon was much stronger between 9000 years and 7000 years from now and probably fed these rivers making them mightier with vast floodplains,” – Deshpande Mukherjee.


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Welcome to Mayor Max's website.
Max (Maximus Mighty-Dog Mueller) was voted into office during an election held on June 11, 12, and 13, 2012 in Idyllwild, and was inaugurated to a one-year term on July 1, 2012.
As Idyllwild is a non-incorporated town, it has no human mayor. Idyllwild Animal Rescue Friends (ARF), a non-profit 501(c)(3), sponsored Idyllwild's first-ever mayoral election. Any local resident was permitted to nominate his or her dog or cat. 14 dogs and 2 cats were nominated and ran for office. Constituents cast their votes via $1 donations each, and all $31,000 of the proceeds benefited ARF.
Max won a full two-thirds of the votes, and became Idyllwild's first mayor.
Max's popularity moved the people of Idyllwild to appeal to ARF for his continuation in office beyond his one-year term. On February 9, 2013, ARF announced the extension of his one-year term to a second and final year, ending on June 30, 2014.
On April 2, 2013, Mayor Max passed away. The successor for the remainder of Max's term, Maximus Mighty-Dog Mueller, II, arrived in Idyllwild on July 21, 2013. Idyllwild Animal Rescue Friends approved his mayoral transition plan.
Upon his arrival to Idyllwild, Max was accompanied by two deputy mayors: Mikey and Mitzi (Mikey Mighty-Dog Mueller and Mitzi Marie Mueller). The trio is often referred to as "the Mayor and the spares" or simply "the Mayors of Idyllwild."
Mayor Max, Deputy Mayor Mikey, and Deputy Mayor Mitzi are all related to Mayor Max, I; all four dogs share a common ancestor. Mikey and Mitzi are siblings from the same litter, and Max is a cousin of theirs. Mikey and Mitzi were born in Ohio, and Max was born in California.
In March of 2014, as the June 30 end of Max's term approached, ARF solicited the town's interest in holding another election. Once again, the people overwhelmingly pled for Mayor Max's continuation in perpetuity. Mayor Max and his two deputies, Mikey and Mitzi, continue to serve the town of Idyllwild.
Feel free to contact the Office of Mayor Max of Idyllwild at any time.
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Question: Respond in 938 words. Hey, can you tell me more about VueX?

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The increase in complexity in front end web development has driven to increasing amounts of specialization and separation of front and back end.
This specialization and increased complexity has a number of benefits - the quality of user experiences on the web has increased exponentially, while simultaneously reaching more people across more types of devices than ever in history.
However, it also introduces a number of challenges.
The interface between frontend and API has become a common point of friction, challenge, and complexity.
In an ideal world, backend and frontend would evolve together in harmony, with close communication, and the data served up by the backend would match exactly what the front-end needs.
Build a UI using fake 'stubbed' data, either directly inline in the templates and code, or loaded via a set of fixtures.
When the API is ready, scramble to replace every integration point with real API calls and data.
Data integration is often scattered throughout the application, requiring tracing down and reworking tons of code.
Even if data is relatively isolated, there is often a mismatch between what the frontend expects and what the API eventually delivers.
If you're developing your front-end using Vue.js, a better solution to this problem is right at your fingertips.
The VueX library, deeply integrated into Vue, provides the perfect solution to creating a clean, isolated interface to your data that makes transitioning between stubbed data and a real API a breeze.
VueX is a state-management library inspired by Flux, Redux, and the Elm architecture but specifically designed and tuned to integrate well with Vue.js and take advantage of Vue's Reactivity.
All of these libraries aim to solve a simple problem: When there is state that is shared across many components, particularly components that are siblings or in greatly different views, managing distribution and updating of that state is challenging.
Libraries like VueX make it possible to manage shared state across components in a way that is structured and maintainable, by creating a global state tree that can be be accessed and updated by every component in a structured way.
Mutations are the mechanism by which we change our state tree. All changes of state must flow through mutations, which allows VueX to manage the state in a predictable manner.
This synchronous, direct change of the state object meshes perfectly with Vue's concept of reactivity. VueX state objects are reactive, so the changes ripple outwards to all dependencies.
Actions are the final piece of VueX, an intermediary between intent and modification.
Actions are asynchronous, and indirectly modify the store, via committing mutations. However, because they are asynchronous, they can do much more than that.
Asynchronicity allows actions to handle things like API calls, user interaction, and entire flows of action.
If you're working on a project where the backend and frontend are both evolving at the same time, or you're on a UI/Frontend team that may even be building out a user interface before the backend exists, you're probably familiar with the problem where you need to stub out parts of the backend or data as you develop the front.
A common way this manifests is as purely static templates or content, with placeholder values and text right in your front-end templates.
A step up from this is some form of fixtures, data that is loaded statically by the front-end and put into place.
Both of these often run into the same set of challenges: When the backend is finally available, there is a bunch of refactoring work to get the data in place.
Even if (miraculously), the structure of data from the backend matches your fixtures, you still have to scramble all over to find every integration point. And if the structure is different (and let's face it, it usually is), you not only have to do that but you have to figure out how you can either change the front-end or create an abstraction layer that transforms the data.
The beauty of VueX is that actions provide a perfect way to isolate and abstract between the frontend and the backend, and furthermore do so in a way such that updating from stubbed data to a real backend is seamless and simple.
Now our front-end can implement a login that behaves exactly the way it will in the future, with test data, allowing for both success and failure. The behavior will happen immediately rather than asynchronously via an API, but by returning promises now any callers can treat it the same way they would a real API call.
When our API is available, we can simply modify this action to use it, and everything else in our codebase remains the same.
Isolating our API calls to VueX also gives us a beautiful and clean way to handle mismatches in data format between the backend and the frontend.
We can keep this discrepancy completely isolated within our VueX action, preventing us from needing to change anywhere else in our frontend. Because promises can be chained and nested, we can go through a series of API calls that all need to complete before our action is considered complete.
The end result from the perspective of both our state modifications and the code that is dispatching our login action is exactly the same.
With VueX, the challenge of integrating a new or changing backend API into our front-end has been dramatically simplified.
If you're currently working on learning Vue, you might be interested in learning about my learning process. If you're looking for a course, I can vouch for this one, as it is the one I took to kickstart my learning.


Question: Who is Mark Goodwin? Respond in 24 words.

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Mark Goodwin (born July 17, 1986) is an American drummer. He is best known as the drummer for the Australian rock band Sick Puppies.


Question: Please provide your opinion on the current controversy surrounding Brett Kavanaugh's high school yearbooks and their potential impacts on the national investigation. Respond in 19 sentences.

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And it would be an accurate headline. That's why the yearbooks have been scrubbed. They are a testament to the incredible power these girls had over their teachers, parents and the boys of Georgetown Prep, Landon and other schools in the area. In the pages below, you will see multiple photos and references to binge drinking and the accompanying joy of not being able to remember any of it.
These yearbooks are, therefore, relevant to the national investigation now being conducted in the media, in homes, and in the halls of Congress. And they should not have been scrubbed. If Brett Kavanaugh's yearbooks are fair game, so are these.
And you will wonder while reading them, why the hell did the faculty approve of these yearbooks? Why did the parents take out paid ads in these yearbooks? Animal House had nothing on the infamous "Holton party scene".
The resistance media has been singularly focused on Brett Kavanaugh's high school yearbooks, which imply that he got drunk and threw up. There's no need to imply anything from the Holton-Arms yearbooks. It's all there in focus, and the written word too. All of the sordid details as approved for publication by a "look the other way" faculty. And now it's available for historical/evidentiary review.
If drunken keg parties were so common, isn't it possible that over the last three decades, some memories could have been confused? Especially since the first time Blasey Ford – a leftist political activist – apparently "recovered" the memory and claims to have spoken of the allegation was when it was believed that Kavanaugh might be appointed to the Supreme Court?
Those who are interested can examine the many pages that are claimed to come from the yearbooks and make their own judgments. I am not familiar with the blog or blogger, but the veracity of the pages is certainly subject to investigation and verification.


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Fresh off unseating Apple as the second-largest smartphone OEM, Huawei is gearing up for the launch of its annual Mate flagship smartphone lineup — the large-screen handsets that once occupied the now-defunct “phablet” class of devices. Thanks to marketing material shared with VentureBeat by someone familiar with the company’s plans, two of this year’s models — codenamed Alps and Blanc — are coming into focus.
The current Mate lineup, which debuted last fall, consists of four individual phones: Mate 9, Mate 9 Pro, Mate 9 Porsche Design Edition, and Mate 9 Lite. While it’s not yet clear if those models will all be refreshed for 2017, we know for a fact that at least one more handset, Marcel, exists alongside the two detailed herein.
But since we don’t know Marcel’s specifications yet, some of the relationships between the three represent educated guesswork. One thing is certain, however: Blanc — with its recently introduced Kirin 970 system-on-chip; 1,440 x 2,880, 5.99-inch IPS LCD; and 6GB of RAM (paired with either 64GB or 128GB of storage) — will be the top-of-range entrant, retailing as the Mate 10 Pro.
As its resolution suggests, Blanc’s display does indeed feature an 18:9 aspect ratio, with edge-to-edge properties that give it a high screen-to-body ratio. At 7.5-millimeters thick, it’s quite slim, but still manages to pack a bulky 4,000mAh battery.
Blanc also touts some impressive imaging specs, as it represents the third generation of devices to employ a dual camera system co-developed with Leica. Specifically, the sensors are rated at 12 megapixels and 20 megapixels, and affixed with optically stabilized lenses that match LG V30’s briefly-class-leading f/1.6 aperture. The front-facing selfie camera is an 8-megapixel shooter.
Other notable Blanc features include IP68 water and dust certification and an LTE Cat. 16 modem. It will tentatively ship in December powered by Android 8.0 Oreo and skinned with EMUI 6.0.
Things are a little less clear when it comes to Alps: While its specs seem to slot it into flagship territory, it’s not quite as well-endowed as Blanc. Perhaps most crucially, it features a 2,560 x 1,440, 5.88-inch IPS LCD in a more traditional 16:9 aspect ratio, suggesting that it may be a Mate 10 Lite to Marcel’s Mate 10.
To its credit, Alps runs on the same 8 x 2.5GHz octa-core Kirin 970 as Blanc, while also incorporating the same size battery and boasting an identical imaging setup. But there are a few downmarket concessions: only 4GB of RAM (and no 128GB storage option), slightly slower LTE Cat. 12, and thicker 8.23-millimeter frame, presumably to house that chunky battery with its lower screen diagonal.
On the plus side, Alps should debut on October 16 and ship later that month.


Question: What is the scientific name for the black beetle?

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Callimoxys nigrinus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described in 2011 under two different spellings, and the authors later selected "nigrinus" over "nigrinis".


Question: Respond in 22 sentences. What do you know about Eike Batista?

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Batista – who was once Brazil’s richest man – is being sought for allegedly paying bribes to the former Rio de Janeiro state governor, Sérgio Cabral, apparently to gain an advantage in government contracts.
Tácio Muzzi, an inspector with the federal police, told a news conference that if Batista did not turn himself in soon, he would be considered a fugitive from justice. He did not give a specific deadline. He added that Batista appeared to have used his German passport to leave Brazil.
Police learned overnight that Batista might be out of the country, Muzzi said, but decided to go ahead with attempting to execute the warrant. Globo Television showed images of police going to Batista’s home in Rio de Janeiro early on Thursday.
Prosecutor Eduardo El Hage told reporters that Batista paid $16.5m to Cabral in foreign bank accounts. Officials said on Thursday that they were still investigating what the money was for.
Cabral is also facing several corruption charges and was jailed last year.
The warrant for Batista was one of nine issued on Thursday in connection with an investigation into the money laundering and the hiding of about $100m in foreign bank accounts. The vast majority of that money, nearly $80m, belonged to Cabral, said prosecutor Leonardo Freitas. He held out the possibility that the conspiracy could be even larger.
“The wealth of the members of the criminal organization led by Mr Sérgio Cabral is an ocean not yet completely mapped,” he told reporters.
The inquiry is among many that make up Brazil’s so-called Car Wash case, a sprawling investigation into the cozy relationship between politicians and businessmen, including the payment of billions of dollars in bribes. The focus of the investigation is on allegedly inflated contracts with the state oil giant, Petrobras, and other state-run companies that yielded billions of dollars for bribes and election campaigns. It has spawned hundreds of cases and caught up some of the country’s top businessmen and top politicians.
Batista has already experienced a fall from grace.
In 2011, he was listed by Forbes magazine as the world’s eighth-richest person and had boasted he would take the top spot away from the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. By 2013, his fortune had crumbled amid debts in his various energy sector companies. At one point, he was $1bn in debt.
Batista’s riches-to-rags story was widely seen as a symbol of Brazil’s own economic troubles. After years of surging growth, the Brazilian economy is now in a protracted recession.


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North Korea’s sixth nuclear test on September 3 – of what was possibly a hydrogen bomb – prompted a flurry of Western media think pieces attempting to explain the past and predict the future.
Most left out important aspects of the current crisis, says analyst B.R. Myers, a South Korea-based academic expert on North Korean propaganda and author of The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters.
In this Q&A, The Conversation asked Professor Myers to explain what most in the West are missing about the North-South conflict.
You’re always complaining about press coverage of the Korean crisis. What is it you think people need to know more about?
A major problem is the mischaracterisation of the government in Seoul as liberal, as if it were no less committed to constitutional values and opposed to totalitarianism than the West German social democrats were in the Cold War. This makes Westerners think, “North Korea can’t take over the South without a war, but it knows it can’t win one, therefore it must now be arming only to protect itself”.
In fact, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in has pledged commitment to a North-South confederation, and stressed his opposition to any use of military force against the North, no matter what happens. That makes Moon’s current displays of military hardware seem pretty meaningless.
If Seoul and Washington are playing a good-cop, bad-cop game, it’s a terrible idea. The more placid South Korea appears, the more US troops look like the only real obstacle to unification.
Western media applaud Moon’s soft-line declarations, and they like it when the South Korean man in the street says he finds Trump scarier than Kim Jong Un. But there is a danger of Kim taking all these things the wrong way.
You’ve written that some South Koreans admire the North, or at least, feel a sense of shared identity. Why is that? And can this persist in the current climate?
Many intellectuals here admire the North for standing up to the world. It’s a right-wing sort of admiration, really, for a resolute state that does what it says. More common than admiration are feelings of shared ethnic identity with the North. We are perhaps too blinkered by our own globalism to understand how natural they are.
But the average South Korean’s pan-Korean nationalism is rather shallow. Most people here want to see symbolic shows of reconciliation with the North – like a joint Olympic team in 2018 – but they don’t want unification, least of all under Kim Jong Un’s rule.
And they want the US Army to stay here in case he gets the wrong idea. It’s understandable enough, but this crisis will soon force them to pick one side, and one side only. “No ally is better than one’s own race,” President Kim Young Sam (president of South Korea from 1993 to 1998) said, which no West German chancellor would have dreamed of saying.
While the failures of the Vietnam War loom large, the US bungling of Korea is rarely discussed in “western media”. What’s the national memory of that war in both Koreas, and how is that impacting the current state of affairs?
That memory impacts the current situation less than one might think. Foreigners assume that because of the war, the two sides must dislike each other more than West and East Germans did. The opposite is the case. Some of my students say, “The North would never attack us, we’re the same people,” as if the war never happened. And North Korea would now be just as committed to unification if it hadn’t.
You mention the Vietnam War. In some ways that’s the more relevant and topical event right now. Kim Il Sung (leader of North Korea from its inception in 1948 until he died 1994, and the grandfather of current leader Kim Jong Un) was struck both by Washington’s decision not to use nukes on North Vietnam and by its general reluctance to go all out to win.
I’m sure the ease with which bare-footed Vietcong marched into Saigon in 1975 now strengthens Pyongyang’s conviction that the “Yankee colony” will not last long after the colonisers pull out.
In South Korea, meanwhile, conservatives are now loudly invoking the story of South Vietnam’s demise. They say, “There too you had a richer, freer state, and it fell only a few years after US troops pulled out. Let’s not make the same mistake”. They point worriedly to President Moon Jae-in’s own remark that he felt “delight” when predictions of US defeat in Vietnam came true.
How likely is a war?
I agree with those who say North Korea knows a nuclear war is unwinnable. I also think it fancies its chances of a peaceful takeover too highly to want to risk a premature invasion while US troops are here.
On the other hand, the North’s legitimacy derives almost wholly from its subjects’ perception of perfect strength and resolve. This makes it harder for Pyongyang to back down than it was for Moscow during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
Also, the North’s ideology glorifies the heart over the mind, instincts over consciousness, which makes rash decisions more likely to be made, even quite low down the military command structure. There is therefore a significant danger of some sort of limited clash at any time. But that has always been the case.


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The music played at Beethoven's funeral is a choir arrangement of the little known WoO 30, and, his "greatest hit" Für Elise is a WoO too.
In an attempt to chronologically order all of Beethoven's musical output in Spotify, I compiled another playlist based on the Biamonti Catalogue. Some other sources were also consulted, including Beethoven Reference Site's Works by Date page, and the books I have. The six quartets of Opus 18 are arranged as 3,1,2,5,4,6, according to Maynard Solomon's biography. Both versions of Fidelio are included, as well as various arrangements done the composer himself, and the "realized" Symphony No.10. The Op.130 string quartet ends with its original finale,The Grosse Fugue. And the new finale, the last finished movement of Beethoven is the penultimate track of this playlist. The end result is a fascinating journey from 1782 (Dressler Variations WoO 63 by a 12-year-Beethoven) to 1826 (surviving piano score of a unfinished string quintet, his last musical thought). Not every piece is a masterwork, but, excepts for a few dances and blockbusters written just for the money, all the pieces matter.
Here's the Spotify playlist: Beethoven: Complete Chronological Catalogue (1155 tracks, total time: 4 days) It may work better in Album view (easier to tell one piece from another). I will keep on updating it as I continue reading on Beethoven, and if you find any error or omission, please leave a comment. For beginners, there's a helpful Naxos audiobook on Spotify: Life And Works: Beethoven.
Update (2011/12/16): Playlist has been updated, now most tracks are also available on Spotify USA.
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You can find the Kleiber/VPO version of the 7th in the playlist. If you are looking for specific works, press Ctrl(CMD)+F and use the filter bar in the playlist.
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A company drilling extended-reach oil wells at a fracking operation in Cook Inlet says it likely cannot afford to drill additional wells, and expects to lay off more than 150 full-time workers, because the state has not paid the oil-tax credit cash it planned on receiving.
The drilling program that employs those workers is expected to be completed next month, said Benji Johnson, president of BlueCrest Energy, based in Fort Worth, Texas. The company isn't shutting down the field, which currently produces a small amount of oil.
"We're pausing drilling," he said.
BlueCrest is currently using a giant rig to drill its second, new long-distance well from shore, about 4 miles into the Inlet and more than a mile under the seabed, as part of an effort to tap oil from the Cosmopolitan Unit by fracturing the oil-bearing rock. The company began drilling an earlier, separate well in December, also into Cosmopolitan, at its site about 6 miles north of Anchor Point.
So far, little BlueCrest oil is flowing — just 200 barrels of oil daily, state records show. Most of that is coming from an older well originally drilled into Cosmopolitan by an earlier operator. BlueCrest bought that well after it formed as a business in Alaska in 2012.
The extended-reach drilling so far hasn't yielded much oil. Not everything has gone smoothly, technically speaking. The company's plans to produce oil were pushed back a "couple of months" after a piece of equipment failed, leading to "mechanical issues," Johnson said.
John Hendrix, oil and gas adviser to Gov. Bill Walker, said low oil prices are also adding to the problem. Hendrix said the state helps producers in a variety of ways.
He said a state corporation, the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, provided a $30 million loan to help pay for the big drilling rig BlueCrest is using.
He said the state wants to see production from the field so it can receive royalty oil — one-eighth of each barrel produced. That production would also help fund new drilling efforts, he said.
"Delays cause increase in costs, and it delays production" that brings in cash, he said.
The state oil tax in the Inlet is $1 a barrel or less, depending on profit.
"We want them to have success and they've been working hard, but we need to see some production also," said Hendrix. "Drill for oil, not tax credits."
Johnson is hopeful the field will soon begin producing more than 1,000 barrels of oil daily, after the second long-reach well is completed next month and production begins there. Production might increase further if the company can afford to conduct additional testing and work needed at the first extended-reach well.
Information from the drilling confirms the oil is there as expected, he said. Seventy million barrels of recoverable oil is a conservative amount, he said. Johnson has said production, if several more wells can be drilled, could be up to 17,000 barrels of oil daily.
Getting to all that oil takes money, he said. Investors in the roughly $525 million project expected to receive about $125 million from the state under its cash oil-tax credit program, he said. So far, it has received $27 million, Johnson said.
"It's better than nothing but it's not what we were told at the beginning that we'd receive in the credits," he said.
Lawmakers last month ended the cash-credit program as the state faces a $2.5 billion deficit. The state in the last two years has also dramatically reduced the amount of money it's paying annually to oil companies under the program.
It's paying only the legally required minimum each year — leaving oil companies accumulating promises of eventual payment by the state.
Two other independent oil companies in recent months have also cited the delayed state payments as problems for continuing operations.
Caelus Energy Alaska, awaiting payment of at least $75 million in state oil-tax credits, said in June it won't be drilling an appraisal well this winter as originally planned at its discovery at Smith Bay on the North Slope.
In April, Cook Inlet Energy postponed drilling for a year at an exploration well at its Sabre prospect, citing uncertainty over the state's oil-tax policy as a problem in attracting investment.
The Walker administration is currently preparing a new fiscal plan for lawmakers to consider. It is expected to use earnings from the $61 billion Alaska Permanent Fund and taxes to fill the deficit. Lawmakers are expected to consider that plan before year's end.
Rep. Geran Tarr, D-Anchorage, said she understands the plight of companies like BlueCrest that relied on the credits but haven't been paid by the state as expected.
Companies used the expectation of the credits as collateral to secure financing from banks that are now refusing to grant more loans, she said. The state currently owes companies more than $700 million in cash credits.
Tarr said as part of the fiscal plan that might be passed, she supports paying more than the legal minimum, which is $77 million this year. She would like the state to pay the full amount owed in three to five years.
Johnson said BlueCrest officials decided on Tuesday to pause drilling after they realized they can't secure a loan fast enough to drill a third well.
"There's a limit on how quickly you can borrow tens of millions of dollars," he said. "It's not easy to do."
Tarr said until the state can decide on a fiscal plan to generate revenues to fill the deficit — which has been filled with dwindling savings — lawmakers will continue to pay minimum amounts of cash credits to the oil companies.
The Legislature's first priorities are funding constitutional obligations for public safety, health and education, she said.


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JAMES GALBRAITH: That's no doubt true. First of all, the crisis had been developing for a year. When it broke, he sent up a three-page bill to Congress. Many people said that's a power grab. My view was it was a punt. It said to the Congress, "You take this ball. You write the legislation," which Barney Frank and the other leadership of the Congress actually did do. And they came back. And eventually they passed a bill. And Paulson has been improvising ever since. He's done a number of things that actually I was recommending as early as the 25th of September in the "Washington Post". Guarantee all deposits in the banking system. Support the commercial paper market. Take out equity investment in the banks, effectively partially nationalizing them. All of these things which were unimaginable in mid-September are now policy, even though they weren't, strictly speaking, part of the bill.


Question: Provide an explanation of the situation in China regarding the treatment of Uighur minorities in Xinjiang region.

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The country is responding to concerns raised by a UN committee about a crackdown and strict controls in Xinjiang region.
China has rejected claims one million of its mostly Muslim Uighur minority are being held in internment camps, while it has also insisted "there are no such things" as re-education centres.
The country responded to concerns, raised by a member of a UN human rights committee, that its Xinjiang region has been turned into "something resembling a massive internment camp, shrouded in secrecy, a sort of no-rights zone".
Human rights expert Gay McDougall, a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, last week highlighted reports that more than one million ethnic Uighurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities are being held in counter-extremism centres.
Another two million "have been forced" into re-education camps for "political and cultural indoctrination", Ms McDougall had claimed, as she cited the work of rights groups.
Ma Youqing, among 50 high-level Chinese officials to answer questions from the committee, said: "The argument that one million Uighurs are detained in re-education centres is completely untrue."
He added: "There is neither deliberate targeting at a particular ethnic minority, nor suppressing or restricting the rights or the freedom of religious belief of the Uighur people."
Responding on Monday, Ms McDougall claimed China "didn't quite deny" that re-education programmes are taking place.
"You said that was false, the one million. Well, how many were there? Please tell me," she asked.
"And what were the laws on which they were detained, the specific provisions?"
China has long been running a "strike hard" campaign in Xinjiang, which it says is a counter-terrorism programme aimed at combating ethnic violence.
China's state-run Global Times newspaper insisted on Monday the tough security measures had stopped Xinjiang from turning into "China's Syria" or "China's Libya".
However, Human Rights Watch has claimed the programme "is in practice far broader, and encompasses anyone suspected of political disloyalty, which in Xinjiang could mean any Uighur, particularly those who express, even peacefully, their religious or cultural identity".
China's constitution guarantees the freedom of religious worship but the ruling Communist Party is officially atheist and keeps tight restrictions on religious activities.
On Saturday, officials in Weizhou, in China's northern Ningxia region, delayed the demolition of an £11m mosque after thousands demonstrated to stop its destruction.
The word "mosque" was reportedly banned on Chinese social media at the weekend, while internet and 4G mobile phone service was said to have been cut off from the local area in an apparent bid to stop the sharing of videos.