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Despite the “international” in its title, the Seattle International Dance Festival has been making plenty of room for local artists. Two of this year’s Spotlight shows were focused on the Seattle dance community, and though they didn’t really isolate a checklist of “Seattle-specific” qualities, audiences got a snapshot view of current work in the studios.
In several cases we were seeing the work of neophyte choreographers, who are still “learning on the job.” Others are more in control of their tools, but interestingly, many of them, whatever their experience level, are heading in similar directions. After years of the pattern and puzzle making aspects of post-modern dance, we’re seeing more and more work that is straightforwardly “about” something other than itself.
Adriana Hernadez and Lauren Linder address this desire for meaning directly in FAI, when one says to the other “We should make a dance about this.” And indeed they have, with an exploration of injury and recovery. Named, it seems, for femoral acetabular impingement, the text had some witty moments as well as more pensive ones, but it all was highly specific, in a way that the movement wasn’t really able to match. The pair began the work with brisk and confident travelling, morphing to restraint and intensity, but the kinetic impact would have been more diffuse without the text. Cyrus Khambatta’s duet for Sarah Seder and Amy Weaver of Sapience Dance Collective had a similar dichotomy between a specific text and a more universal movement vocabulary. See You Again opens with a short film where the two discuss their working relationship, and then goes on to illustrate the quirks of that relationship with movement that seems drawn from more standard modern techniques. Peter de Grasse’s duet for himself and Rafaelle Exiana, We wanted to be machines again is also a study of a relationship that uses spoken text to add a deeper context to ballet-inflected contemporary virtuosity. Exiana’s monologue, about searching for a sense of engagement with other people while performing abstract material, was itself a kind of search for that same engagement. All of these works come with a meta-level attached, as dancers talk about making the dances they are dancing while they are dancing them.
In several works, meaning comes in an actual narrative. Some of it, like the implied boy meets girl of Tesselation’s Don’t Sweat It, illustrate characters without complex backstories. Choreographers Jeremy Cline and Blair Elliot create a sunny relationship out of a jazzy vocabulary for a shiny duet that shows performers Cline and Meredith Sallee Qua to advantage. Erin Nichole Boyt’s film The Navigator follows a more elusive path, combining realistic images of a ship and shoreline with more suggestive footage of submerged men and women. Their hair and dresses twist and float, illustrating the complex currents in the water—they lack the fishy tails of mermaids, but seem at home under the surface, unlike the ship’s captain, who thrashes and struggles when we see him there. Some of the material is intensely beautiful, but the through line of the work can get lost in the shimmer of light on the water and the scenic panorama from the wheelhouse of the boat.
Constanze Villines and Kaitlin McCarthy are both unabashedly working with serious issues, and approach them with straightforward narrative techniques. Villines’ Divisible by 2 opens with Ian Howe seated on the floor, surrounded by little cards that he re-arranges, but the work catches us up when a recorded female voice states “Straight away I knew I wanted an abortion.” The two performers, live and recorded, have an antiphonal sort of conversation, both vocal and kinetic. Charly McCreary appears in a video of her aerial work, spinning and soaring above Howe while he is more earthbound. Eventually he dances with a length of red fabric, possibly a metaphorical extension of the silk McCreary uses in the video. While the text implies a relationship between the two dancers, we only see the aftermath, where they are well and truly separated.
McCarthy originally created Please Send Snacks as a humorous perspective on current events (the occupation of the Mahleur Wildlife Refuge last winter), but found herself in a difficult situation when the attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando happened a week before the concert. Her pre-performance comments on the unhappy coincidence helped put a little distance between the real world and the theater, but in the best of situations, comedy is a serious business. The work vacillated between smart and silly, with slapstick moments next to satire. While some of the dancers looked like they were on a casting call for Duck Dynasty, and weapons came from the Nerf section of Toys R Us, the overlying message about gun culture could have used a lighter touch to make a more telling impression.
Some of the other works in the two programs have a more problematic relationship to meaning. Although choreographer Ethan Rome supplies extensive program notes for B(e)-Theory for Khambatta Dance Company, he would like the audience to watch the work before reading anything about it. On its own, the dance appears to be about personal relationships—two women try to exert themselves on a third, who manages to elude that control for a time, only to have the entire sequence repeat. But after reading the notes, what seemed to be an illustration of power dynamics is supposed to be an example of non-linear time—physics, rather than psychology.
Liz Houlton’s Is done with parenthetical citations seemed to have as elusive a relationship to meaning as the title itself. Houlton and Sabina Moe dance for each other more directly than for the audience, communicating in long gestural phrases that resemble ASL. Houlton’s use of structure and stagecraft helps organize the space and gives the dance a framework, so that when the pair returns to the original movement phrase we have a sense of completion. Anna Conner shows an even more distinct interest in pattern with The Machine, using very simple, repetitive movement phrases to set up a kind of steady-state background. The work opens with a solo figure in an even-paced turning phrase, crossing the stage back and forth multiple times, revising her gestures until eventually she’s joined by others with the original phrase. Even as the gestures become more agitated (hands at throats) there’s still a predictable tick-tock phrasing underneath it all until finally the soloist exits and we’re done.
Among all this exploration of meaning, both Elby Brosch and Stephanie Liapis seem to have found a dynamic balance between what they want to say and how they want to say it. Brosch’s solo, It’s Only Right, is full of agitation (feet tapping, fingers snapping, hands running through hair or covering mouth) while Markeith Wiley’s sound score whispers sotto voce, not quite making the words clear. The action gets more intense until finally Brosch seems to tire, or to settle down. We can’t tell if this is a resolution or a momentary pause, as he lifts an arm up to shade his eyes while the lights begin to fade. Me and Her, Liapis’ solo for Alicia Pugh, is even more ambiguous—Pugh swings her arms in big gestural phrases, digging her hands into her pockets and scattering little beads across the floor almost like she’s sowing seeds in a field. The clatter of the beads on the floor acts as a counter-rhythm to the looping surge of her arms and legs, a mysterious ritual that we don’t quite understand, but that moves us nonetheless.
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Detection of Yellow Fever Virus in Sylvatic Mosquitoes during Disease Outbreaks of 2017⁻2018 in Minas Gerais State, Brazil
Pinheiro, G.G.; Rocha, M.N.; de Oliveira, M.A.él.; Moreira, L.A.; Andrade Filho, J.é D.
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Brazil has experienced several arbovirus outbreaks in recent years, among which yellow fever stands out. The state of Minas Gerais faced outbreaks of sylvatic yellow fever in 2017 and 2018, with 1002 confirmed cases and 340 deaths. This work presents the results of survey efforts to detect the yellow fever virus in mosquitoes from two conservation areas in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. A total of 867 mosquitoes of 20 species were collected between September 2017 and May 2018, the most abundant being Psorophora (Janthinosoma) ferox (von Humboldt, 1819) (31.3%), Limatus durhamii Theobald, 1901 (19.1%) and Haemagogus (Haemagogus) janthinomys Dyar, 1921 (18.2%). Total RNA was extracted from the mosquitoes for real-time PCR analysis for yellow fever, chikungunya, mayaro, Zika and dengue viruses. The yellow fever infection rate was 8.2% for Hg. janthinomys (13 mosquitoes), which is the main vector of sylvatic yellow fever in Brazil. In addition to surveying the mosquito fauna of these conservation units, this work demonstrates the importance of monitoring the circulation of viruses near large urban centers.

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JOHANNESBURG - Strike-hit South African Airways (SAA) said on Thursday it would suspend all flights between Johannesburg and Hong Kong from November 23 up to and including December 14 to curb significant financial losses on the route.
SAA, which is running out of cash because of the week-long strike over wages and job cuts, said the losses had been exacerbated by political tensions in Hong Kong.
Two trade unions at state-owned South African Airways said they would continue talks with the airline on Thursday to try to break the deadlock on a strike over wages and job cuts that has lasted a week.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and the South African Cabin Crew Association (SACCA), which have been leading the strike, said in a statement that they hoped to find an acceptable compromise in the talks with SAA.
Trade union Solidarity has revived its plans against SAA by announcing that it is bringing an application to place the cash-strapped airline into business rescue.
Last year, Solidarity was already planning to bring a business rescue application against SAA, but decided not to proceed with the application after negotiations and an agreement with previous chief executive, Vuyani Jarana.
In a media briefing today, Solidarity said it has served court papers on SAA and the ministers of finance and public enterprises, asking the court to put SAA in business rescue.
This comes as SAA confirmed yesterday that lenders would not advance the airline any further credit without the security and support of a sovereign guarantee.
SAA chairperson of the board implementation committee Martin Kingston said if SAA failed to secure guarantees from the National Treasury, the company would have to be placed into liquidation and be responsibly closed down.


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Why Salary History Bans Matter To Securing Equal Pay
Why Salary History Bans Matter To Securing Equal Pay
A comprehensive effort to secure equal pay must include limiting employers’ reliance on salary history in hiring and compensation decisions, as this practice can result in wage disparities and pay discrimination for women and workers of color.
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Employers’ reliance on salary history in hiring and compensation decisions is a textbook example of structural bias. While the common practice of asking a job applicant about their prior salary may seem innocuous on the surface, it can have unintended, harmful consequences, including barring qualified candidates from job opportunities and systematically relegating women and workers of color—particularly women of color—to lower pay that may have been set lower because of discrimination.
Many employers use salary history as a metric to screen, evaluate, or compare applicants; set compensation; or negotiate salaries. However, the practice relies on false assumptions and biases about the relationships among salary, worker value, and market value, rendering it ineffective as well as harmful. In addition to perpetuating wage disparities, reliance on prior salary is unnecessary given other available, less bias-informed factors that employers could use to gauge a candidate’s value. Moreover, salary history can provide a convenient rationale for employers who seek to justify pay disparities or depress wages. Limiting employer reliance on salary history in hiring and compensation decisions would help eliminate a form of structural bias and is therefore an important component of a broader, comprehensive effort to narrow the gender wage gap and secure equal pay for working women. This issue brief details the connections among salary history, equal pay, and the gender wage gap; examines the legislative landscape at the local, state, and federal levels; and recommends the Paycheck Fairness Act as a federal policy solution.
How employers’ reliance on salary history can perpetuate the gender wage gap and undermine equal pay
While the gender wage gap has narrowed over time, progress has stalled for the past decade, leaving a sizable disparity. Based on the most recent available data from 2019, women working full time, year-round earned, on average, 82 cents for every $1 earned by their male counterparts—and the gaps were significantly wider for most women of color.1 Compared with white, non-Hispanic men, Black women earned 63 cents, American Indian and Alaska Native women earned 60 cents, and Latinas earned 55 cents. While Asian American or Pacific Islander (AAPI) women earned 85 cents on average, there were much wider gaps for many AAPI subpopulations.2
A host of complex and interrelated factors drive the gender wage gap,3 including but not limited to longstanding gender biases and inequalities that contribute to the segregation of women, particularly women of color, into low-wage occupations; other differences in jobs worked, hours worked, and years of experience; women’s disproportionate caregiving responsibilities and the lack of strong policy supports such as paid leave and affordable child care; and gender- and race-based discrimination.
Because earnings may reflect any combination of these factors, salary history is often not an objective measure of a worker’s value, and employers should not treat it as such. For example, a job applicant’s prior salary may not reflect existing labor market conditions or their current qualifications or capacity to perform work if they:
- Have experienced pay discrimination or other forms of workplace discrimination
- Have needed to work fewer hours to accommodate caregiving responsibilities
- Had to leave the workforce altogether to accommodate caregiving responsibilities
- Were laid off
- Previously worked in a women-dominated occupation that has lower wages by virtue of being considered so-called women’s work
These are all scenarios in which women’s labor is undervalued and the persistent gender wage gap is preserved. And research on employers who conduct pay equity audits has found the use of salary history to be a key driver of gender wage gaps within a given workforce.4 Furthermore, in some instances, these wage gaps could be a direct reflection of pay discrimination based on unfair, harmful biases about women workers. The above scenarios have also been sustained and exacerbated by the coronavirus crisis, which has led to women disproportionately losing jobs and many being pushed out of the labor force altogether.5 Setting starting pay based on prior salary is not just a one-time decision: It affects a worker’s subsequent raises, bonuses, promotions, and retirement savings, as well as any other factors that may be tied to their starting salary. It preserves a status quo in which women and workers of color earn less money between and within jobs. These lower earnings can translate into difficulty making ends meet, difficulty staying afloat during crises such as the current pandemic, and difficulty building wealth for the future.6
Whether consciously or unconsciously, employers often anchor pay negotiations to an applicant’s prior salary and provide only narrow room for adjustment. This practice holds back women and workers of color: Research documents that when women and people of color negotiate their salaries, they are less successful in large part due to biased perceptions and double standards.7 Furthermore, the use of prior salary to screen candidates is often based on the flawed assumption that an applicant earning a lower salary is of lower quality than an applicant with a higher salary or that an applicant with a higher salary would not accept a lower offer. These assumptions may block qualified candidates from job opportunities. Therefore, reliance on salary history when making a hiring or selection decision represents a structural practice that can both perpetuate lower earnings for women and workers of color and maintain the status quo of less diverse workforces. Given that employers have relied on and may continue to rely on salary history as a tool despite these harmful, potentially discriminatory effects, the case for its restriction is clear and urgent.
Why salary history bans are critical
In the absence of congressional action, many states and localities have enacted their own measures to combat this structural bias and help narrow the gender wage gap for their constituents. One such measure is the salary history ban, which has surged in popularity since 2017.8 A salary history ban is, most often, a policy that limits or forbids employers from asking about and relying on a job applicant’s prior salary in hiring and compensation decisions.
As of December 2020, 19 states—as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and 20 localities—all had some version of a salary history ban in place.9 Alabama10 has a narrow law that prohibits employers from declining to hire an applicant because of their refusal to disclose prior salary, whereas Colorado11 has a more comprehensive law that prohibits employers from asking about prior salary, retaliating against applicants who do not disclose prior salary, and relying on prior salary in hiring and compensation decisions. Some state and local salary history laws differ in their approaches to situations where candidates voluntarily disclose their prior salary. For example, while the Columbia, South Carolina,12 salary history law permits employer reliance on voluntarily disclosed prior salary, the Salt Lake City, Utah,13 law prohibits this practice. While many salary history bans apply to all employers in a given state or locality, some laws are narrower in scope, such as the law in Toledo, Ohio,14 which only applies to employers with 15 or more employees, and the law in North Carolina,15 which only applies to state agencies. In drafting and enacting salary history bans, policymakers must ensure that workers can use protections and obtain relevant information from an employer—such as a position’s suggested salary floor or salary range—and that the law covers as many employers as possible.
Salary history bans benefit women, workers of color, and employers
Emerging research on existing salary history bans indicates that these policies have had the intended effect of helping narrow the gender wage gap in their respective regions. A California study published in April 2020 found that when employers were prohibited from seeking or relying on a job candidate’s prior salary, the overall gender wage gap narrowed as a result, primarily due to increased earnings for women.16 Women older than 35 saw the greatest earnings increase—particularly women who were married and had children older than age 5—which likely highlights the existing wage penalty for caregivers with young children.17 A study published in June 2020 from researchers at Boston University’s School of Law found that, following the implementation of salary history bans, workers who changed jobs saw their pay increase by 5 percent more than comparable workers who changed jobs in the absence of a ban, with even larger benefits for women and African Americans.18
Other research has shown that teams that hire and retain women see increased productivity and innovation and that consumer-facing companies risk brand erosion and loss of business if they fail to meet the moment by enacting diversity and pay equity measures.19 Major companies—including Bank of America, Cisco Systems, Lands’ End, Starbucks, and more—have already pledged to limit their use of salary history as a measure to address gender and racial equity in the workplace.20
Instead of relying on salary history, employers should base hiring and compensation decisions on the references and demonstrated skills of a given applicant, the value of the position to the organization, competition, and other bona fide business factors. While some human resources professionals have taken to recommending the use of “salary expectations” instead of salary history, this practice should also be limited given that economic and other societal biases that devalue women and their work likely inform women’s expectations and may effectively present the same structural barrier to equal pay as questions about prior salary.21 Additionally, without access to salary history, it is important that employers do not instead use salary expectations as a rationale to depress wages or engage in other discriminatory practices. With this in mind, some states—including California22 and Maryland23—have included provisions in their salary history laws requiring employers to provide starting salaries or salary ranges for a given position to job candidates upon request in order to shore up workers’ rights in salary conversations.
Since the start of the 2020-2021 legislative session, dozens of state legislators have introduced a wide range of salary history bills, including in several conservative-majority state Legislatures such as Florida, West Virginia, and Kentucky.24 It is essential to build on this momentum with strong federal legislation to ensure that workers are protected regardless of where they live or work.
Passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act would build on existing progress
Since 2000, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has taken the position that salary history does not, by itself, legally justify a gendered pay disparity—and as recently as last year, many courts have agreed.25 However, a few courts have broken with this view.26 Given these differing interpretations, as well as variance in laws among states and localities, an important next step is to clarify the standard through federal equal pay legislation.
Banning employer reliance on salary history when making hiring or compensation decisions is an important step in the fight for equal pay and will help combat a significant structural barrier for women, particularly women of color. However, this one measure will not narrow the gender wage gap on its own. Instead, it must be a key piece of a more robust and comprehensive equal pay effort. Congress must pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which was reintroduced in the House of Representatives in January 2021.27 The bill would not only prohibit employers nationwide from seeking or relying on salary history but would also promote pay transparency, protect workers from retaliation, strengthen existing equal pay protections, and do much more to secure equal pay and narrow the wage gap for women and workers of color at the federal level.
Fact Sheet: The State of Women in the Labor Market in 2023
By tearing down a form of structural bias, salary history bans can help break the cycle of wage discrimination that can follow women and workers of color from job to job. Recent evidence shows that these bans are an important and effective starting point in the fight for equal pay, but more is needed to close the stubborn gender wage gap. Policymakers must pursue a robust, comprehensive effort to combat pay discrimination and ensure economic security for women.
- The gender wage gap was calculated by finding the ratio of women’s median earnings to men’s median earnings for full-time, year-round workers. Author’s calculations are based on Sarah Flood and others, “Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, 2020 Current Population Survey Data for Social, Economic, and Health Research: Version 8.0 (dataset), Annual Social and Economic Supplement” (Minneapolis: Minnesota Population Center, 2021), available at https://cps.ipums.org/cps/.
- Wage gaps for women of color were calculated by finding the ratio of each group of women’s median earnings to white, non-Hispanic men’s median earnings for full-time, year-round workers. Author’s calculations are based on Sarah Flood and others, “Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, 2020 Current Population Survey Data for Social, Economic, and Health Research: Version 8.0 (dataset), Annual Social and Economic Supplement” (Minneapolis: Minnesota Population Center, 2021), available at https://cps.ipums.org/cps/. See also Robin Bleiweis, “The Economic Status of Asian American and Pacific Islander Women” (Washington: Center for American Progress, 2021), available at https://americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2021/03/04/496703/economic-status-asian-american-pacific-islander-women/.
- Robin Bleiweis, “Quick Facts About the Gender Wage Gap” (Washington: Center for American Progress, 2020), available at https://americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2020/03/24/482141/quick-facts-gender-wage-gap/.
- Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, “Navigating the Growing Pay Equity Movement: What Employers Need to Know About What to Do” (Cambridge, MA: 2019), available at https://resources.trusaic.com/pay-equity-downloads/harvard-business-review-trusaic-pulse-survey.
- Diana Boesch and Shilpa Phadke, “When Women Lose All the Jobs: Essential Actions for a Gender-Equitable Recovery” (Washington: Center for American Progress, 2021), available at https://americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2021/02/01/495209/women-lose-jobs-essential-actions-gender-equitable-recovery/.
- Jasmine Tucker, “The Wage Gap Has Robbed Women of their Ability to Weather COVID-19” (Washington: National Women’s Law Center, 2021), available at https://nwlc.org/resources/the-wage-gap-has-robbed-women-of-their-ability-to-weather-covid-19/.
- See Hannah Riley Bowles, Linda Babcock, and Lei Lai, “Social incentives for gender differences in the propensity to initiate negotiations: Sometimes it does hurt to ask,” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 103 (1) (2007): 84–103, available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0749597806000884?via%3Dihub; Morela Hernandez and others, “Bargaining while Black: The role of race in salary negotiations,” Journal of Applied Psychology 104 (4) (2019): 581–592, available at https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000363.
- National Women’s Law Center, “Asking for Salary History Perpetuates Pay Discrimination from Job to Job” (Washington: 2020), available at https://nwlc.org/resources/asking-for-salary-history-perpetuates-pay-discrimination-from-job-to-job/.
- Ibid. Author’s 19-state count includes Alabama, which has a law protecting candidates against retaliation if they choose not to disclose their salary history rather than a law that prohibits employer reliance on salary history altogether. While the National Women’s Law Center mentions Alabama in their fact sheet, it is not grouped with the other states.
- Alabama Legislature, “H.B. 225, Clarke-Figures Equal Pay Act of 2019,” available at http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019RS/PrintFiles/HB225-enr.pdf (last accessed March 2021).
- Colorado Legislature, “Senate Bill 19-085, Equal Pay for Equal Work Act of 2019,” available at https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_085_signed.pdf (last accessed March 2021).
- City of Columbia, South Carolina, “Ordinance No.: 2019-022,” available at https://d12v9rtnomnebu.cloudfront.net/diveimages/Attachment-7494_3.pdf (last accessed March 2021).
- Salt Lake City, “03.01.10 Gender Pay Equity,” available at https://www.slcinfobase.com/PPAREO/#!WordDocuments/30110genderpayequity.htm (last accessed March 2021).
- City of Toledo, “Enacting a new Toledo Municipal Code Chapter 768, Pay Equity Act to Prohibit the Inquiry and Use of Salary History in Hiring Practices in the City of Toledo.”, available at https://d12v9rtnomnebu.cloudfront.net/diveimages/Legislation_Text.pdf (last accessed March 2021).
- North Carolina Office of the Governor, “Executive Order No. 93, Prohibiting the Use of Salary History in the State Hiring Process,” April 2, 2019, available at https://files.nc.gov/governor/documents/files/EO93-_Prohibiting_the_Use_of_Salary_History_in_the_State_Hiring_Process.pdf.
- Benjamin Hansen and Drew McNichols, “Information and the Persistence of the Gender Wage Gap: Early Evidence from California’s Salary History Ban” (Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020), available at https://www.nber.org/papers/w27054.
- Shelley Correll, Stephan Bernard, and In Paik, “Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty?”, American Journal of Sociology 112 (5) (2007), available at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/511799.
- Researchers also found that employers increasingly posted salary ranges or starting salaries in job postings following the implementation of the salary history ban. See James E. Bessen, Chen Meng, and Erich Denk, “Perpetuating Inequality: What Salary History Bans Reveal About Wages” (Boston: Boston University School of Law, 2020), available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3628729.
- Natasha Lamb and Will Klein, “A Proactive Approach to Wage Equality is Good for Business,” Employment Relations 42 (2) (2015): 21–27, available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ert.21495.
- Jena McGregor, “Bank of America is the latest company to ban this dreaded job-interview question,” The Washington Post, January 29, 2018, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2018/01/29/bank-of-america-is-the-latest-company-to-ban-this-dreaded-job-interview-question/; Jennifer Boynton, “How Cisco Narrows the Pay Gap,” Cisco Blogs, March 30, 2020, available at https://blogs.cisco.com/csr/first-our-workplace-next-the-world-the-power-of-sponsorship-to-increase-diversity; Courtney Connley, “Starbucks has closed its pay gap in the US—here are 4 other companies that have done the same,” CNBC, March 23, 2018, available at https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/5-companies-that-have-reached-100-percent-pay-equity-in-the-u-s.html. Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Jocelyn Frye participated in an event for Marquette University with Lands’ End Senior Vice President of Employee Services Kelly Ritchie, where Ritchie discussed the company’s pay equity efforts such as prohibiting questions about prior salary. See Marquette University, “Pay Equity Series,” available at https://www.marquette.edu/womens-leadership/payequity.php (last accessed March 2021); Institute for Women’s Leadership MU, “IWL Pay Equity: Session 1 – Paycheck Fairness & Equity Audits with Jocelyn Frye & Kelly Ritchie,” YouTube, February 16, 2021, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZT4zecRrBA.
- Laura Adler, “’What Are Your Expectations?’ How Employers Circumvent the Salary History Ban,” research presentation on file with author.
- California Legislative Information, “AB-168 Employers: salary information,” available at https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB168 (last accessed March 2021).
- LegiScan, “Maryland House Bill 123, Labor and Employment – Wage History and Wage Range,” available at https://legiscan.com/MD/text/HB123/2020 (last accessed March 2021).
- Florida Senate, “HB 107: Discrimination in Labor and Employment,” available at https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/107/?Tab=BillText (last accessed March 2021); West Virginia Legislature, “Senate Bill 288,” available at http://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=288&year=2021&sessiontype=rs&btype=bill (last accessed March 2021); Kentucky General Assembly, “Bill Request 316,” available at https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/prefiled/BR316.html (last accessed March 2021).
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, “Section 10 Compensation Discrimination,” available at https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/section-10-compensation-discrimination (last accessed March 2021).
- Lauderdale v. Ill. Dep’t of Human Servs., U.S. District Court, C.D., Illinois, Springfield Division (September 28, 2016), available at https://casetext.com/case/lauderdale-v-ill-dept-of-human-servs-3; Sparrock v. NYP Holdings, Inc., No. 06 Civ. 1776 (March 4, 2008).
- Paycheck Fairness Act, H.R. 7, 117th Cong., 1st sess. (January 28, 2021), available at https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7.
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On April 13th-16th, 2016, the 25th Annual National Action Network (NAN) Convention based in New York City.
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From bathing suit to Punky Brewster cosplay in one cross-Atlantic trip. Some of the changes made to Japan’s Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem to make it North America’s Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE are quite odd.
Another giant JRPG is out for the Wii U today. Is Atlus and Nintendo’s mash-up of Shin Megami Tensei and Fire Emblem any good? We’ve got positive impressions of the Japanese version of the game and video of the first hour of the Western version to help you decide.
True to its title Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem is a mix of the two games, but if you expected a dark and depressing tactics title, you’re more than a bit off the mark.
What happens when you cross Shin Megami Tensei with Fire Emblem? Come join me and find out!
As Kotaku previously reported, Shin Megami Tensei IV Final is a totally new game. We get a very (I mean very) brief look at game play in this debut trailer.
Slated for release in Japan next year, Shin Megami Tensei IV Final isn’t a “definitive edition” of the previously released Shin Megami Tensei IV. It’s an entirely new game set in the same world, featuring a completely different era and setting, all new characters, a branching storyline and multiple endings.
Genei Ibun Roku X FE, that Shin Megami Tensei meets Fire Emblem Wii U game, has a release date. It will be out in Japan on December 26. No word yet about the game’s international release date.
The Shin Megami Tensei/Fire Emblem crossover game sounds like something out of a dream, but is very much a reality. But it almost ended as a dream.
I am so excited about Genei Ibun Roku, the upcoming Wii U JRPG that mashes together Shin Megami Tensei and Fire Emblem. Everything Nintendo has shown off for it so far has been EXCELLENT.
That’s not a bad thing. In fact, it’s a wonderful, wonderful thing.
Every time I post a GIF from Persona 4: Dancing All Night, the comments are always the same: where’s Naoto Shirogane? Here’s Naoto Shirogane.
The game, for the Wii U, is called Illusory Revelations #FE. It’s set in modern-day Tokyo. Holy shit.
64 hours. 23 hours. 42 hours. 28 hours. Somewhere on a grassy plain trying to figure out if I should spend my days hunting down one of many pending side quests. Somewhere deep in the ocean chasing mermaids. Somewhere making preparations for my next strategic battle. These are all the places I’m willing to leave…
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, one of the most visually unique RPGs for the PS2, is out today on the Playstation 3. You can pick it up here on the Playstation Network Store.
The first Shin Megami Tensei comes to iOS next month. It'll be out on March 18 for $8, Atlus says. Here's hoping you don't have to pay real money to negotiate with demons. That'd be kind of evil.
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White people will raise hell for discrimination and brutality against Pitbulls but won’t blink twice at a black person getting choked to death by the police, 300 kidnapped Nigerian girls or innocent black people getting thrown in jail with a death sentence.
The next time a man starts yelling at you, cut him off and tell him you just can’t talk to him when he’s being so emotional.
I have done this and can confirm that is a LOT of fun to watch them implode afterward.
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"So in process of me buying a homeless man a meal from Mcdonalds this is what happen"—OG Ced Johnson
This is the world we live in.
I’m having a growing disdain for law enforcement
I’ve always had a huge disdain for “law enforcement”
No compassionate person would give 2 shits how a homeless man smelled if there was a caring individual who kindly bought him some food. I’d just be grateful that someone was helping him out and he got to eat. Give me a fucking break.
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Exactly the type of response guys should give when girls say no to anything, from dates-to sex.
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WHEN you pick up the keys to your brand new home, the sound of diggers and cement mixers can be heard as the houses that your new neighbours will eventually move into are still under construction. That’s the scenario for thousands of people moving to new estates across the diocese. The Door explores how the Church is responding to the growth of new communities.
By Peter Morgan
Diocesan New Communities Officer, Peter Morgan.
With the General Election looming, one area where there is consensus between all three major parties is the need to address the “housing crisis”.
During this election campaign the Government will claim that house building, during its administration, is recovering from the financial crash of 2008/9 and that under their direction, more affordable housing has been built than under the previous administration. These claims are allied with the recent announcement by the top ten house builders that their profits have surged by an eye-watering 34 per cent, and have almost returned to pre-crash levels.
Such crowing is in stark contrast to one report commissioned by the homeless charity Shelter in which they claim the industry is building 100,000 fewer homes per year than is needed to remedy the housing shortage. So on this issue the battle lines are being drawn and manifesto pledges put into overdrive – the Conservative Party say they will build 200,000 new homes for first time buyers, the Labour party have pledged 200,000 a year – the Liberal Democrats a staggering 300,000 a year by 2020.
Given the past performance of successive Governments on this issue, we could treat these claims with some scepticism. However, one thing is certain – delivering new housing and, more specifically affordable housing is set to be a major concern for the next Government. The Oxfordshire Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA) 2014, concluded that Oxfordshire alone would need to build up to 100,000 new homes by 2031 to meet anticipated demand. Whilst this of course takes account of the existing pipeline to 2026, this number is still eye-wateringly high.
Local councils are trying to find available/deliverable sites to meet this demand and are updating their Local Plans to ensure new development can be delivered in a managed way. New housing is an urgent challenge for our local authorities, as new communities which will inhabit these places are an urgent challenge for the diocese. Given the election promises made by the major parties, this sense of urgency is set to continue for some time to come.
Peter Morgan is the New Communities Officer for the Diocese of Oxford. This edition of the Door was put together in the run-up to the 2015 UK General Election.
Continued growth in Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes as a ‘New Town’ came into existence in the late 1960s and is still expanding with new building going on all the time. The Revd John Robertson, the Director of Ecumenical Mission, chairs the New Communities group in the area.
“We have building going on constantly. We have a meeting with the council looking forward to the next 25 years and how far the boundary will extend,” says John. Currently there are 13,000 new houses planned, a figure that looks set to increase.
In the east ‘A Church Without Walls’ is a developing Christian community headed up by the United Reformed Church minister, the Revd Ruth Maxey, to serve the Broughton and Brooklands area. Her house is provided by the Diocese of Oxford in an ecumenical project. There are aleady 2,800 relatively new homes with another 3,000 set to be built.
“That’s a good example of shared work,” said John. “Ruth has started the work from scratch largely by developing networks and contacts through wider community work. There is now a solid core of involvement with a wide variety of people engaging with ‘Café Church’,’ Dinner Church’ and now ‘Forest Church’.
Another Fresh Expression is St Mark’s, a community of people mainly in their 20s and 30s and run by the Revd Paul Oxley.
John added that construction to the west of the town is well under way with some 6,000 houses planned. He said: “Here, among other things we are looking at the possibility of the diocese expanding its schools’ provision to serve the community as it grows.”
Helping Warfield thrive
The process began for Warfield Church in Berkshire in the autumn of 2012 when we began to grasp how 2,200 new homes and 7,000 new people would see the shape of the parish change forever.
The church needs to be heard and heard very early on in the process. Churches may be the largest provider of youth and children’s ministry in the area, the largest provider of activities for older generations, be the most engaged in their schools and hold a huge volunteer force.
We understand our communities and recognise what will make them thrive. For Warfield, we knew that many of the new homes would be filled with young families; we didn’t want to see them cut off. In January 2013 we invited the Bracknell Forest head of planning to talk to us. We invited Peter Morgan, from the Diocesan New Communities Group to come too. He is an expert in planning and development. The diocese have provided us with an exceptional resource in Peter.
The initial plans contained two primary schools and a community centre. And so we began with one of the schools. I was already a governor at the one-form entry Church of England school, so an initial discussion with the chair of governors and headteacher soon revealed that we would be up for moving to a larger school. We then asked the head of the Local Education Authority to visit us at the church office and we discussed the possibilities. It was clear that he didn’t want to lose the existing school, but it is was also clear that a new CofE school would mean that new houses would sell like hotcakes. Discussion soon led to a plan to keep the existing school and add another two-form entry church school, under the leadership of the same head and governors. The new school will open in September 2016.
When it came to the community centre we began to present a vision for something that Warfield could be proud of, inspired by the Finchampstead Baptist Centre.
Eventually we took everyone involved to Finchampstead where we laid on a buffet and invited councillors to come and talk to us about how a partnership with the church could result in such superb facilities.
The result was that plans for the Warfield Community Hub are being drawn up. The church has offered extra finance to expand this project, along with vision, energy and capable people. This is all still being worked out and Warfield Church has encouraged people to stand for the parish and borough councils so that we can influence the infrastructure.
There’s still a way to go and some more areas to engage with. But here’s my quick summary:
Bring in diocesan support – New Communities Officer
Recognise your significance – your community needs you
Know what you want to achieve
Run at it. And when it looks like it’s not going to happen, run at it some more!
Revd Dr Mark Griffiths, is the Vicar of Warfield Church and part of the Diocesan New Communities Committee.
A Garden City
by Ian Biscoe
THE Government recently announced that Bicester is to become a garden city. This will mean up to 13,000 new homes being built in Bicester, doubling the population of the current town. The development is broken down into three key areas of Bicester, Kingsmere, Eco Town and Graven Hill. Working in collaboration with the other churches in Bicester we are trying to respond to this rapid growth. Within the Bicester and Islip Deanery we also have a further 1,500 houses in development at Heyford Park. (See page seven for more on the Bicester and Islip Deanery.) New housing development brings huge challenges for the local church but also huge opportunities.
Children plant flower beds at the site of the new St Edburg’s School on the developing Kingsmere Estate. Photo: Dave Fleming
We are fortunate to have a Church Army evangelist, John Bentley, who is working with St Edburg’s Church and a group from the Bicester Baptist Church reaching out onto the Kingsmere estate. They deliver a home baked cake and welcome pack to every new resident. Emmanuel Church Bicester is exploring ideas for church planting on the Eco town. This includes a new monastic community, church families moving into the new homes and a possible new place of worship.
Caversfield St. Lawrence are working at developing and improving their church building so it can be used for both worship and community ministry within Caversfield and the Eco Town.
On the Graven Hill development Bicester Baptist Church are pursuing ideas for a place of worship and there is an imaginative idea for a centre for training and supporting young people.
The Revd Ian Biscoe is the Team Vicar of the Bicester with Bucknell, Caversfield and Launton Benefice.
Aylesbury Vale – a great place to grow
by Andrew Blyth
THE landscape around Aylesbury and its surrounding villages is changing fast. Churches across our deanery are having to respond to enormous challenges and mission opportunities being created by a string of housing developments. We already have 5,000 new homes built or in advanced preparation and many more have been proposed. One recent estimate suggests that up to 35,000 homes may eventually be created in the Aylesbury Vale area over the next 18 years.
The super-modern Aylesbury Vale Academy when it was under construction. Photo: Gordon Joyner.
As Area Dean I’m frankly grateful that the scale of the building means it is obvious that ‘business as usual’ is just not going to be an option. Whether we are looking at the needs of an entirely new community of several thousand people or the impact of several hundred homes developed alongside an existing village community, we know that we have to think creatively about different ways of growing and expressing church witness and life.
So far the clear theme in our mission planning is the need for a ‘mixed economy’ of different styles of partnership working. On the Buckingham Park development a group drawn from long-standing ecumenical partners has enabled local churches to forge links into the new community through the tried and tested path of founding a parent and toddler group and active involvement in the primary school.
With the Berryfields development to the north of Aylesbury, we found we needed to forge a new style of partnership with the Aylesbury Vale Academy school which led to the appointment of the Revd Gareth Lane to serve in a jointly funded role as Pioneer Vicar in the community and Chaplain to the school.
Looking forward to the start of work on the major Broughton Crossing development, we have two adjacent parishes with very different traditions and styles committed to working together on an informal ‘covenant’ basis to combine their strengths. With so much population growth there are of course going to be major challenges for our deanery, not least around personnel and financial resources; however, we share an optimism that God will use these as much for the renewal of the ‘old’ as for the ‘new’. We can’t help noticing that the strapline on the bottom of the signs informing people that they are entering the Aylesbury Vale District reads ‘A great place to grow’!
The Revd Canon Andrew Blyth is the Area Dean of Aylesbury.
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How is "travois" pronounced? Which tribe did this word come from? The original pronunciation of travois is trav-wah (though most English speakers today pronounce it trav-oy.) It is a French Canadian word, not a Native American one. Two Native American words for travois are: Ojibwe word is niswaakodaabaan (pronounced niss-wah-ko-dah-bahn), and the Lakota Sioux word is hupak'in (pronounced similar to hoo-POCK-een.)
What is a travois? Basically it is an historical frame, used by the Plains Indians of North America. Initially it was pulled by dogs. After horses were introduced to the Americas by the Spanish in the l6th century, horses were used. Horses could pull a larger load than dogs. The frame consisted of two long poles with a platform, basket, or netting suspended between them. The frame was dragged with the sharply pointed end forward. For more stability, a third pole was added and bound across the other two poles. It was used to drag loads over land. The travois travelled better than a wheel based transport over forest floors, soft and snow. Wheel based transports tended to bog down and get stuck. With the pulling done by horses the travois sleds did not have to be specifically constructed. The Indians would simply cross a pair of tepee poles across the horse's back and attach a burden platform between the poles behind the horse. This served two purposes at once. The horses could simultaneously carry the tepee poles and some additional baggage. Children often rode in the back of horse travois. A horse travois can be made with either A-frame or H-frame construction.
Note: Originally native to the American continent, horses became extinct but were reintroduced by the Spanish, and later by the French, English and Dutch-beginning with Columbus' second voyage in 1493. Native people soon adopted the horse and became some of the world's best horsemen. Horses were used to enhance trade, expand territory, facilitate hunting and wage war. Included in the exhibition will be a Lakota winter count (ca. 1902) by Long Soldier (Hunkpapa Lakota) that depicts when horses were first sighted by the community. Paired with the introduction of the gun, the mounted Plains warrior was a formidable fighter, upsetting old alliances among the tribes and frustrating European advances. Young men proved their valor through the horse raid, where they captured horses from enemy camps. A Song for the Horse Nation-Native American (Indian) Exhibit
What today is known as the Lewis and Clark Trail-Travois Road, and Montana's Lewis and Clark Pass were areas heavily traveled where travois were dragged over the trail, causing deep, parallel tracks to mark the earth. These tracks can still be seen today. Remains of travois tracks can also be seen at the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site.

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(London Post) Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood marks one year since Yazidi plight on Mount Sinjar at the hands of ISIL.
Speaking today Mr Ellwood said:
A year ago, the UK’s brave Armed Forces and aid workers played a crucial role in getting vital supplies to innocent civilians suffering at the hands of ISIL. The Yazidi community were exposed, starving and dying of thirst when they were forced up Mount Sinjar after fleeing from their homes. The UK Government conducted seven airdrops of life-saving humanitarian aid.
We will continue to protect all those persecuted by these brutal terrorists as part of a 63 nation coalition designed to defeat ISIL’s poisonous ideology.
We acknowledge that we need to do more in the fight against violent Islamist extremism. Be in no doubt, we are committed to destroying the terrorist scourge of ISIL that threatens the lives of people from all communities in both Iraq and Syria. Defeating ISIL will take time and patience but it is a fight we must win.

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Using optical fiber making ideas enables development of soft robots with advanced motion control.EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Imperial College, London, have created fiber-based soft robots with advanced motion control that integrate other functionalities, such as electric and optical sensing and targeted delivery of fluids.
In recent years, catheter-based surgery has transformed medicine, giving doctors a minimally invasive way to do anything from placing stents and targeting tumors to extracting tissue samples and delivering contrast agents for medical imaging.
While today’s catheters are highly engineered robotic devices, in most cases, the task of pushing them through the body to the site of intervention continues to be a manual and time-consuming procedure.
Combining advances in the development of functional fibers with developments in smart robotics, researchers from the Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fiber Devices in EPFL’s School of Engineering have created multifunctional catheter-shaped soft robots that, when used as catheters, could be remotely guided to their destination or possibly even find their own way through semi-autonomous control.
“This is the first time that we can generate soft catheter-like structures at such scalability that can integrate complex functionalities and be steered, potentially, inside the body,” said Fabien Sorin, the study’s principal investigator. The work is described in Advanced Science.
The researchers created the fibers with the thermal drawing process commonly used to produce fiber optic cables. Material choice was critical, with elastomers being the preferred candidate.
But, said Andreas Leber, the first author of the study, “Historically, thermal drawing has been restricted to hard materials. Fortunately, our group had identified a class of thermoplastic elastomers that can be drawn and maintain their elastomeric properties after drawing.”
Motion control, sensing, and drug delivery
By optimizing the material properties, drawing speed, and fabrication temperature, the team could reliably produce the continuous channels, arranged within the fibers at a micrometer scale, needed to give the fiber its robotic capabilities. For example, by using a motor to pull on one or several tendons introduced into channels, doctors could control the orientation of the end of the fiber to guide it through the body.
Besides channels, the fibers can be equipped with a variety of elements using the thermal drawing process. “In addition to the tendons, the fibers can integrate optical guides, electrodes, and microchannels that enable drug delivery, imaging, electrical recording and stimulation, and other tools commonly used in robotics and medical applications,” said Leber.
These functional elements also open the door to autonomous fiber-shaped robots. “The integrated optical guides give fibers the sense of sight. They can detect and avoid obstacles in their trajectory and even find targeted objects, such as cavities, all on their own,” said Leber.
Sorin added, “We use optical fiber fabrication technology, which is very scalable. You can generate hundreds of kilometers of optical fiber overnight. As a result, our fabrication approach brings a novel, scalable way to make soft catheter-like structures with an unprecedented combination of advanced functionalities.”
Remotely controlled catheters are only one of many exciting potential applications that this new class of fiber-based soft robots could enable. “The tendon-based approach to motion control is a first step of the development of thermally drawn smart catheters.
The next step will involve moving toward electrical or magnetic actuation modes and testing the exciting opportunities of such fibers one step closer to clinical applications,” says Burak Temelkuran, co-author and group leader at the Hamlyn Center for Robotic Surgery at Imperial College.
Mattresses, prosthetics and robots
Such soft robotic fibers also have many applications outside the human body: mattresses could be equipped with them to monitor sleep quality or change their material properties in response to sensed pressure and physiological parameters.
The fibers could also be used to create soft prosthetics capable of responding to excess mechanical stress on a joint by becoming stiffer. Industrial or environmental sensing applications could include self-guiding soft robots that navigate based on information sensed by integrated heat sensors, haptic sensors, and even electrical and optical systems for vision.


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Garvey convices Cole to eat the groceries by saying that Cole's probably afraid of eating it. Cole doesn't want to be afraid of anything, because he thinks that everyone and everything has to be afraid of him. To prove that he isn't afraid of anything, he eats the groceries.
what were the groceries?
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I’m not sure how this happened, but somewhere among all the iPhone 3GS hoopla, I forgot that it included an encryption chip. This is awesome news because it means that Apple can (and does) encrypt all data on the 3GS. It also means that remotely wiping the data (possible via several methods, see the Enterprise Deployment Guide [PDF] for details) happens very quickly. A remote wipe simply deletes (and writes over) the encryption key. The estimates I’ve seen range from 30 to 60 seconds. Once the encryption key is gone, nothing on the hard drive is accessible and the phone is, for all intents and purposes, useless.
The 3G also has a remote wipe feature but it lacks the encryption chip. This means the remote wipe takes considerably longer. Apple estimates one hour per 8GB (see the Enterprise Deployment Guide, p. 9). That’s a massive time difference when you’re dealing with a missing iPhone carrying HIPPA or credit card information.
I’m not able to upgrade my iPhone to a 3GS for at least another year. But you can bet, once I can, I will. The hardware encryption, by itself, makes the 3GS an attractive upgrade.
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I am already neutered, housetrained, and up to date with shots.
This is Chance, he is about 3 years old, incredibly sweet and loves attention.
He got his name because he was rescued just in time; he was scheduled to be euthanized because the shelter thought he had been hit by a car and knew he had a fracture in his leg. He was given a second chance in life.
He was taken to UC Davis, and they placed a plate in his leg and repaired his fractured hip as well. While he was there they noted that he has a cataract in one eye and is partially blind in it.
With the surgery now a month behind him, he is a ball of fire! He still holds the leg up only because he can go faster when he runs, he can jump onto and off of the couch now, he loves walks, other small dogs, cats and children.
Would you give him another chance? He would make a great companion and family pet.
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LITHIUM DENSIFIER PREMIUM was applied to a concrete polished with 50 grit resin finish. The same concrete treated with a normal densifier and an untreated sample was used as the comparisons. The treated concrete was cured for 7 days before oil and water resistant tests were conducted.
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Figure 1. Capillary water absorptions of the treated concrete & the control
The oil resistant test results are shown in Figure 2, 3 & 4. In this test, oils (engine oil,olive oil & heavy engine oil) were placed as oil droplets on to the treated surface. The oil droplets were kept on the surface for 24 hours. The oil repellent effect (beading effect) was checked at the start and the end of the test. Oil stains on the surface were examined after the oils were removed from the surface with a paper towel at the end of 24 hour test period. The results in Figure 2, 3 & 4 clearly indicated that the surface treated with LITHIUM DENSIFIER PREMIUM has shown excellent resistance to oil penetration and oil staining.
Figure 2. Oil beadings (engine oil, olive oil & heavy engine oil) at the start of test
Figure 3. Oil beadings (engine oil, olive oil & heavy engine oil) after 24 hours
Figure 4. Oil stains (engine oil, olive oil & heavy engine oil) after 24 hours
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Density: 1.0-1.1 g/ml
pH value: 10-11
Solubility in water: Soluble in water
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Keep this product away from aluminium surfaces. Keep out of reach of children.
LITHIUM DENSIFIER PREMIUM is available in 20 litre plastic containers. Other size package is available on request.