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Byrds Legend Roger McGuinn on the Fight to Close a $60,000,000 Royalty Loophole
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Classic rockers Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad and Richie Furay of Buffalo Springfield and Poco recently joined musicians in Washington to call attention to something they perceive as an injustice. Due to a quirk in the law, music streaming services such as SiriusXM and Pandora do not pay artists performance royalty fees on songs recorded prior to Feb. 15, 1972.
SoundExchange, the nonprofit group that collects and distributes royalties to artists and record companies for recordings used by webcasters and streaming music services, has decided to do something about it. The group, along with almost 80 soul, jazz, blues and rock artists, started the Project72 campaign to change the law.
Project72 supports the Respecting Senior Performers as Essential Cultural Treasures (RESPECT) Act, a proposal co-sponsored in Congress by Reps. George Holding (R-N.C.) and John Conyers (D-Mich.) that would require the same protections for pre-1972 artists as those that recorded afterwards. Currently, a hodgepodge of state laws is the only protection these artists receive.
Before 1995, only songwriters and publishers received royalties when songs were played on the radio, while the performers of the songs got nothing. The Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995 and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 made some progress, but still left pre-1972 performers out in the cold.
SoundExchange estimates that heritage artists and record companies have lost out on $60 million in royalties in the last 12 months. It calculates that 59 percent of inductees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have pre-1972 recordings.
Ultimate Classic Rock talked with Roger McGuinn about Project72 and the RESPECT Act. "It's tough for older artists because they recorded their stuff before 1972. Somebody picked that arbitrary date when they redid the copyright law back in the '90s. It seems pretty clever because of the demographic: 77 million people, the baby boomers who listen to classic rock. That's all stuff recorded before '72: The Beatles, the Stones... the Byrds.
"There are artists that are unable to tour for health reasons. They depend on royalties. We just toured last year and we were with artists who were in wheelchairs. They were taken to the stage and away from it in a wheelchair. So it's tough. I'm blessed that I'm able to still get around but there are people who can't. They depend on these royalties.
"I'm not getting royalties for anything recorded before '72 from SiriusXM or Pandora. Somebody from SiriusXM told one of the people in DC that it was illegal to pay us (laughs). It's a big loophole.
"In my case, I recorded 'So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star' with Chris Hillman and the Byrds. Chris and I wrote it in '67 and it was on our 'Younger Than Yesterday' album that came out that year. Then Patti Smith covered it in the '70s and Tom Petty covered it in the mid-'80s and they both get paid royalties for performance but the Byrds don't. It doesn't seem fair.
"Corporations are corporations and they always look at the bottom line. They don't have a lot of heart. That's what people complain about but we do live in a capitalist society where you expect to be paid for your work.
"So we're trying to shine a light on it and we're talking to as many people as possible. Look up your local congressman and e-mail them or phone them. They do respond to public pressure if there's enough of it."
In a statement to Ultimate Classic Rock, Pandora said of the RESPECT Act, "This bill fails to give pre-1972 recordings actual copyright protection and fails to solve the uncertainty created by a patchwork of state laws. Pre-1972 sound recordings should be addressed in a comprehensive approach that considers the many current issues in music licensing."
At press time, SiriusXM had yet to respond to our request for comment.
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Q: Difficulty understanding the "_n_" variable in SAS, and how it applies to a concatenate function I am very new to SAS, and for whatever reason am finding a lot of difficulty deciphering what this code block (below) does. I've googled and search stackoverflow to no avail. I'd appreciate any input, thanks!
set dataset;
id=cat("L",_n_);
run;

A: Probably there must be a data statement as well.
data newdataset;
   set dataset;
   id = cat("L", _n_);
run;

This above code creates a new dataset named  newdataset from the existing dataset named dataset.
Also creating a new column called id, and id is creating by concatenating a constant character value "L" with the automatic variable _n_ using the CAT function.  The automatic variable _n_ represents the number of times the DATA step has iterated.

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"What did I do wrong?" and "Am I doing this correctly" are frequent questions from clients regarding FMLA administration. This is the 22nd blog in this series, which digs into the FMLA regulations to address discrete mis-steps that can result in legal liability.
Not taking into account the interplay of the federal FMLA and "state FMLA" laws.
This post takes on a bit of a different twist by expanding beyond the federal FMLA. A common mistake employers can make in FMLA leave management is not taking into account "state FMLA" leave laws that might provide different or additional rights than the federal FMLA.
Employers can unintentionally overlook state FMLA leave laws, particularly if an employer has remote workers or small numbers of employees across multiple "state FMLA" jurisdictions.
The nature of these laws vary, some adding additional family members to the definition of a covered family member, some setting lower employee thresholds for leave eligibility, some providing for only additional family leave rights, and some mirroring the federal FMLA more closely but providing leave over a longer period of time.
Additionally, the Miami-Dade County Family Leave Law in Florida requires the same leave as Federal FMLA for Miami-Dade County employees, with the addition of leave to care for a grandparent with a serious health condition on the same terms and conditions as leave under the FMLA to care for a parent with a serious health condition.
In jurisdictions with state FMLA leave laws, employers should consider comparing the state law with the federal FMLA to determine any additional rights to which employees may be entitled. These laws also typically have their own notice requirements. In some states, a state-specific policy may be appropriate, or required. Overlooking these details could result in liability under state law.


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Our Dagenham & Redbridge team of the decade
Mark Cousins of Dagenham and Redbridge during Macclesfield Town vs Dagenham & Redbridge, Vanarama National League Football at the Moss Rose Stadium on 28th April 2018 (pic David Simpson/TGS Photo)
From Ollie Hawkins to Matty Cash, see who has made the Dagenham & Redbridge team of the decade
Sam Ling of Dagenham & Redbridge FC. Picture: David Simpson/TGS Photo
Dagenham & Redbridge began the decade pushing for a place in League One, but they end it looking nervously over their shoulders.
The Victoria Road club were promoted to the third tier for the first time in their history in May 2010, after a memorable play-off final win over Rotherham United at Wembley Stadium.
But they were swiftly relegated back to League Two a year later, then dropped out of the Football League once more in 2016.
A play-off semi-final defeat against Forest Green Rovers ended hopes of climbing back out of the National League at the first time of asking, before the club was gripped by a financial crisis.
Scott Doe of Dagenham & Redbridge (pic: David Simpson/TGS Photo)
But new American owners raised hopes, which have suffered a dent in recent months.
Nonetheless, former Daggers correspondent Ned Keating shares his team of the decade here.
Goalkeeper: Mark Cousins - The shot stopper was named Daggers player of the season following his impressive performances during the 2017/18 season where he was one of the best goalkeepers in the National League that season.
Joe Worrall of Dagenham & Redbridge is congratulated after scoring his first senior goal (pic: David Simpson/TGS Photo)
Right-back: Sam Ling - Youngster Ling joined the Daggers as a fringe player but became instrumental in the first half of the 2017/18 season before re-joining his former club Leyton Orient following the club's financial crisis. He was briliant at picking out crosses and even picked up a few goals of his own.
Centre-back: Scott Doe - The experienced defender was at the club for a long spell and had two stints. He led the team as captain and has made more than 300 appearances for the Victoria Road club in total.
Joe Widdowson of Dagenham & Redbridge and Charlie Cooper of Forest Green Rovers (pic: David Simpson/TGS Photo)
Centre-back: Joe Worrall - The defender was only on loan at the club, but showed his class during that time, and is now a regular in the Championship for Nottingham Forest.
Left-back: Joe Widdowson - Joe spent two seasons at the Daggers and was the most consisent left-back for the club in the last decade.
Matty Cash of Dagenham & Redbridge celebrates opening the scoring at Bristol Rovers (pic: David Simpson/TGS Photo)
Centre-midfielder: Matty Cash - Much like Worrall, Matty Cash was only on loan at the Daggers, but was class. He made 12 appearances and found the net three times.
Centre-midfielder: Joss Labadie - The hard tackling midfielder spent two seasons at the Daggers and despite his suspensions was a big part of the team during his time at the club.
Dagenham & Redbridge captain Joss Labadie was forced off with injury at half time in the loss to Wimbledon (pic: David Simpson/TGS Photo)
Right winger: Jordan Maguire-Drew - Maguire-Drew was magnificent for the Daggers during the 2016/17 season when he was on loan from Brighton & Hove Albion as he netted 14 times in 42 apperances and helped Dagenham to a fourth-place finish where they eventually lost out to Forest Green Rovers in the play-off semi-finals.
Attacking midfielder: Corey Whitely - Whitely joined Daggers from Enfield Town and soon became an instant fan favourite. He made 66 appearances in total and found the net 23 times. He won the Daggers' player of the season award in the 2016/17 season.
Jordan Maguire-Drew of Dagenham & Redbridge celebrates scoring the second goal against Sutton United (pic: David Simpson/TGS Photo)
Left winger: Fejiri Okenabirhie - Winger Okenabirhie, much like Whitely, stepped up a few levels to become an instant success. He made 68 appearances and scored 19 times. The youngster also impressed for England C during his time at Dagenham.
Striker: Oliver Hawkins - The big striker was extremely impressed during his spell at Victoria Road. Hawkins scored 19 times in 63 games. He has since moved on to play for Portsmouth in League One.
Corey Whitely of Dagenham & Redbridge scores the opening goal from the penalty spot against Barrow (pic: David Simpson/TGS Photo)
Fejiri Okenabirhie of Dagenham & Redbridge (pic: David Simpson/TGS Photo)
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Q: Directional Derivative in $\mathbb{R}^2$
Definition Let $f: \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}$ and $u \in \mathbb{R}^n$ be a unit vector. The directional derivative of $f$ in the direction of $u$ is

$$D_uf(j) = \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} \frac{f(j+tu) - f(j)}{t}$$
provided that this limit exists.

I am preparing for my summer exit exams in my grad program. I saw the following problem in my notes, but with no solution. So I attempted it myself. I am looking for solution verification. Please correct me if I have made any mistakes along the way.

Example Suppose $f(x,y) = x^2+3xy+4y^2$ and $j =(2,1)$ and $u = \langle \frac{3}{5}, - \frac{4}{5} \rangle$. To find $D_uf(j)$, we find the limit.
$$D_uf(j) = \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} \frac{f(j+tu) - f(t)}{t} = \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} \frac{f((2,1)+ t(\frac{3}{5}, \frac{-4}{5}))-f(2,1)}{t}$$
$$= \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} \frac{f(2+\frac{3}{5}t, 1 - \frac{4}{5}t)-f(2,1)}{t}$$
$$= \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} \frac{(2+\frac{3}{5}t)^2+3(2+\frac{3}{5}t)(1-\frac{4}{5}t) +4(1-\frac{4}{5}t)^2-[2^2-3(2)(1)+4(1)^2]}{t}$$
$$= \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} \frac{( \frac{1337}{100}t^2+\frac{23}{5}t+14) - 2}{t} = \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} \frac{\frac{1337}{100}t^2+\frac{23}{5}t+12}{t}$$
$$= \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} 13.37t + \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} \frac{23}{5} + \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} \frac{12}{t} = \frac{23}{5} + \infty$$
How do I get rid of this pesky $\frac{12}{t}$? Perhaps I have made an error somewhere.

EDIT / UPDATE:
This only works if we have $f(x,y) = x^2-3xy+4y^2$, where the second term is negative instead of positive. Doing so yields
$$D_uf(j) = \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} \frac{f(j+tu) - f(t)}{t} = \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} \frac{f((2,1)+ t(\frac{3}{5},\frac{-4}{5}))-f(2,1)}{t}$$
$$= \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} \frac{f(2+\frac{3}{5}t, 1 - \frac{4}{5}t)-f(2,1)}{t}$$
$$= \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} \frac{(2+\frac{3}{5}t)^2-3(2+\frac{3}{5}t)(1-\frac{4}{5}t) +4(1-\frac{4}{5}t)^2-[2^2-3(2)(1)+4(1)^2]}{t}$$
$$= \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} \frac{\frac{109}{25}t^2 -t +2 - [2]}{t} = \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} = \displaystyle\lim_{t \to 0} \Big( \frac{109}{25}t - 1 \Big) = -1$$

A: Maybe you can recognize that
$Df(\mathbf{x}_0)[\mathbf{u}]
=g'(0)$ with the scalar-valued function
$g(t) = f(\mathbf{x}_0 + t\mathbf{u} )$.
Denote $\mathbf{x}= \mathbf{x}_0 + t\mathbf{u}$.
It is simple to show using chain rule that
$g'(t) = \nabla_\mathbf{x}f(\mathbf{x}_0 + t\mathbf{u}):\mathbf{u}$
from which you can deduce
$$
Df(\mathbf{x}_0)[\mathbf{u}]= g'(0)
= \nabla_\mathbf{x}f(\mathbf{x}_0):\mathbf{u}
$$
In your application
$$
\nabla_\mathbf{x}f(\mathbf{x}_0)
=
\begin{pmatrix}
2x_0+3y_0 \\
8y_0+3x_0
\end{pmatrix}
=
\begin{pmatrix}
7 \\
14
\end{pmatrix}
$$
The directional derivative is
$\frac15 (7\cdot 3-14\cdot 4)=-7$
Here the dot colon indicates the inner product between vectors.

A: Observe that the proposed function $f:\mathbb{R}^{2}\to\mathbb{R}$ is a polynomial, hence $C^{\infty}$.
In particular, it is differentiable.
We can then state the following auxiliary result:
Proposition
If the function $f:\mathbb{R}^{2}\to\mathbb{R}$ is differentiable, then its derivative along the direction $v\in\mathbb{R}^{2}$ at the point $p\in\mathbb{R}^{2}$ is given by the corresponding formula:
\begin{align*}
D_{v}f(p) = f'(p)v
\end{align*}
Proof
Due to the fact that $f$ is differentiable, the next limit exists:
\begin{align*}
\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{|f(p + h) - f(p) - f'(p)h|}{\|h\|} = 0
\end{align*}
Hence, if we make the change of variable $h = tv$, it results that
\begin{align*}
\lim_{t\to 0}\frac{1}{\|v\|}\frac{|f(p + tv) - f(p) - f'(p)tv|}{|t|} = \lim_{t\to 0}\frac{1}{\|v\|}\left|\frac{f(p + tv) - f(p)}{t} - f'(p)v\right| = 0
\end{align*}
whence we conclude that $D_{v}f(p) = f'(p)v$. In particular, since $f'(p)$ is a linear transformation, we can take the ordered basis $\mathcal{B} := \{e_{1},e_{2}\}$ and the direction $v = (v_{1},v_{2})$ in order to conclude that
\begin{align*}
D_{v}f(p) = f'(p)v & = f'(p)(v_{1}e_{1} + v_{2}e_{2})\\\\
& = v_{1}f'(p)e_{1} + v_{2}f'(p)e_{2}\\\\
& = v_{1}D_{e_{1}}f(p) + v_{2}D_{e_{2}}f(p)\\\\
& = v_{1}\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}(p) + v_{2}\frac{\partial f}{\partial y}(p)
\end{align*}
Solution
Now it remains to apply the mentioned result to the particular case where $f(x,y) = x^{2} - 3xy + 4y^{2}$.
Can you take it from here?


Whether you've started to prepare for next year's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) or not, it's worth remembering how important it is to listen your customers wishes, even if you think you've got something great to tell them about!
Despite GDPR not yet being in place, UK price comparison website Moneysupermarket.com has been fined £80,000 by Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for sending emails to consumers who had previously opted out. Over 10 days in 2016, the company sent out 7.1 million to people who asked not to receive anymore emails.
Whilst GDPR may appear daunting to some, sending emails to people who aren't interested in your email marketing, or business as a whole, will not produce any quality return to your business, and instead get you into trouble with a massive fine.
For marketers, now is the time to not just try and get "GDPR ready" with their email marketing databases, but also to build a better understanding of their opt-ed recipients - what are they interested in receiving, why and when. Sounds a lot like marketing 101, doesn't it?
UK price comparison website Moneysupermarket.com Ltd has been fined £80,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), for continuing to send emails to customers that had previously opted out. The ICO is a regulatory body whose role is to upload information rights in the public interest. Over 10 days in 2016, the company sent out a whopping 7.1 million to people who had actively asked not to be included in any further direct marketing.


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New Evidence for Warm-Blooded Dinosaurs
Posted by fossilpro2 on July 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment
July 17, 2013 — University of Adelaide research has shown new evidence that dinosaurs were warm-blooded like birds and mammals, not cold-blooded like reptiles as commonly believed.
In a paper published in PLoS ONE, Professor Roger Seymour of the University's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, argues that cold-blooded dinosaurs would not have had the required muscular power to prey on other animals and dominate over mammals as they did throughout the Mesozoic period.
"Much can be learned about dinosaurs from fossils but the question of whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded is still hotly debated among scientists," says Professor Seymour.
"Some point out that a large saltwater crocodile can achieve a body temperature above 30°C by basking in the sun, and it can maintain the high temperature overnight simply by being large and slow to change temperature.
"They say that large, cold-blooded dinosaurs could have done the same and enjoyed a warm body temperature without the need to generate the heat in their own cells through burning food energy like warm-blooded animals."
In his paper, Professor Seymour asks how much muscular power could be produced by a crocodile-like dinosaur compared to a mammal-like dinosaur of the same size.
Saltwater crocodiles reach over a tonne in weight and, being about 50% muscle, have a reputation for being extremely powerful animals.
But drawing from blood and muscle lactate measurements collected by his collaborators at Monash University, University of California and Wildlife Management International in the Northern Territory, Professor Seymour shows that a 200 kg crocodile can produce only about 14% of the muscular power of a mammal at peak exercise, and this fraction seems to decrease at larger body sizes.
"The results further show that cold-blooded crocodiles lack not only the absolute power for exercise, but also the endurance, that are evident in warm-blooded mammals," says Professor Seymour.
"So, despite the impression that saltwater crocodiles are extremely powerful animals, a crocodile-like dinosaur could not compete well against a mammal-like dinosaur of the same size.
"Dinosaurs dominated over mammals in terrestrial ecosystems throughout the Mesozoic. To do that they must have had more muscular power and greater endurance than a crocodile-like physiology would have allowed."
His latest evidence adds to that of earlier work he did on blood flow to leg bones which concluded that the dinosaurs were possibly even more active than mammals.
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Big-Nosed, Long-Horned Dinosaur Discovered in Utah: Dinosaur in Same Family as Triceratops
July 17, 2013 — A remarkable new species of horned dinosaur has been unearthed in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. The huge plant-eater inhabited Laramidia, a landmass formed when a shallow sea flooded the central region of North America, isolating western and eastern portions for millions of years during the Late Cretaceous Period. The newly discovered dinosaur, belonging to the same family as the famous Triceratops, was announced today in the British scientific journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The study, funded in large part by the Bureau of Land Management and the National Science Foundation, was led by Scott Sampson, when he was the Chief Curator at the Natural History Museum of Utah at the University of Utah. Sampson is now the Vice President of Research and Collections at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Additional authors include Eric Lund (Ohio University; previously a University of Utah graduate student), Mark Loewen (Natural History Museum of Utah and Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah), Andrew Farke (Raymond Alf Museum), and Katherine Clayton (Natural History Museum of Utah).
Horned dinosaurs, or "ceratopsids," were a group of big-bodied, four-footed herbivores that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period. As epitomized by Triceratops, most members of this group have huge skulls bearing a single horn over the nose, one horn over each eye, and an elongate, bony frill at the rear. The newly discovered species, Nasutoceratops titusi, possesses several unique features, including an oversized nose relative to other members of the family, and exceptionally long, curving, forward-oriented horns over the eyes. The bony frill, rather than possessing elaborate ornamentations such as hooks or spikes, is relatively unadorned, with a simple, scalloped margin. Nasutoceratops translates as "big-nose horned face," and the second part of the name honors Alan Titus, Monument Paleontologist at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, for his years of research collaboration.
For reasons that have remained obscure, all ceratopsids have greatly enlarged nose regions at the front of the face. Nasutoceratops stands out from its relatives, however, in taking this nose expansion to an even greater extreme. Scott Sampson, the study's lead author, stated, "The jumbo-sized schnoz of Nasutoceratops likely had nothing to do with a heightened sense of smell — since olfactory receptors occur further back in the head, adjacent to the brain — and the function of this bizarre feature remains uncertain."
Paleontologists have long speculated about the function of horns and frills on horned dinosaurs. Ideas have ranged from predator defense and controlling body temperature to recognizing members of the same species. Yet the dominant hypothesis today focuses on competing for mates — that is, intimidating members of the same sex and attracting members of the opposite sex. Peacock tails and deer antlers are modern examples. In keeping with this view, Mark Loewen, a co-author of the study claimed that, "The amazing horns of Nasutoceratops were most likely used as visual signals of dominance and, when that wasn't enough, as weapons for combatting rivals."
A Treasure Trove of Dinosaurs on the Lost Continent of Laramidia
Nasutoceratops was discovered in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM), which encompasses 1.9 million acres of high desert terrain in south-central Utah. This vast and rugged region, part of the National Landscape Conservation System administered by the Bureau of Land Management, was the last major area in the lower 48 states to be formally mapped by cartographers. Today GSENM is the largest national monument in the United States. Sampson proclaimed that, "Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is the last great, largely unexplored dinosaur boneyard in the lower 48 states."
For most of the Late Cretaceous, exceptionally high sea levels flooded the low-lying portions of several continents around the world. In North America, a warm, shallow sea called the Western Interior Seaway extended from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, subdividing the continent into eastern and western landmasses, known as Appalachia and Laramidia, respectively. Whereas little is known of the plants and animals that lived on Appalachia, the rocks of Laramidia exposed in the Western Interior of North America have generated a plethora of dinosaur remains. Laramidia was less than one-third the size of present day North America, approximating the area of Australia.
Most known Laramidian dinosaurs were concentrated in a narrow belt of plains sandwiched between the seaway to the east and mountains to the west. Today, thanks to an abundant fossil record and more than a century of collecting by paleontologists, Laramidia is the best known major landmass for the entire Age of Dinosaurs, with dig sites spanning from Alaska to Mexico. Utah was located in the southern part of Laramidia, which has yielded far fewer dinosaur remains than the fossil-rich north. The world of dinosaurs was much warmer than the present day; Nasutoceratops lived in a subtropical swampy environment about 100 km from the seaway.
Beginning in the 1960's, paleontologists began to notice that the same major groups of dinosaurs seemed to be present all over this Late Cretaceous landmass, but different species of these groups occurred in the north (for example, Alberta and Montana) than in the south (New Mexico and Texas). This finding of "dinosaur provincialism" was very puzzling, given the giant body sizes of many of the dinosaurs together with the diminutive dimensions of Laramidia. Currently, there are five giant (rhino-to-elephant-sized) mammals on the entire continent of Africa. Seventy-six million years ago, there may have been more than two dozen giant dinosaurs living on a landmass about one-quarter that size. Co-author Mark Loewen noted that, "We're still working to figure out how so many different kinds of giant animals managed to co-exist on such a small landmass?" The new fossils from GSENM are helping us explore the range of possible answers, and even rule out some alternatives.
During the past dozen years, crews from the Natural History Museum of Utah, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and several other partner institutions (e.g., the Utah Geologic Survey, the Raymond Alf Museum of Paleontology, and the Bureau of Land Management) have unearthed a new assemblage of more than a dozen dinosaurs in GSENM. In addition to Nasutoceratops, the collection includes a variety of other plant-eating dinosaurs — among them duck-billed hadrosaurs, armored ankylosaurs, dome-headed pachycephalosaurs, and two other horned dinosaurs, Utahceratops and Kosmoceratops — together with carnivorous dinosaurs great and small, from "raptor-like" predators to a mega-sized tyrannosaur named Teratophoneus. Amongst the other fossil discoveries are fossil plants, insect traces, clams, fishes, amphibians, lizards, turtles, crocodiles, and mammals. Together, this diverse bounty of fossils is offering one of the most comprehensive glimpses into a Mesozoic ecosystem. Remarkably, virtually all of the identifiable dinosaur remains found in GSENM belong to new species, providing strong support for the dinosaur provincialism hypothesis.
Andrew Farke, a study co-author, noted that, "Nasutoceratops is one of a recent landslide of ceratopsid discoveries, which together have established these giant plant-eaters as the most diverse dinosaur group on Laramidia."
Eric Lund, another co-author as well as the discoverer of the new species, stated that, "Nasutoceratops is a wondrous example of just how much more we have to learn about with world of dinosaurs. Many more exciting fossils await discovery in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument."
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Tooth Is 'Smoking Gun' Evidence That Tyrannosaurus Rex Was Hunter, Killer
July 16, 2013 — Tyrannosaurus rex has long been popular with kids and moviemakers as the most notorious, vicious killing machine to roam the planet during the age of the dinosaurs.
So, it may come as a shock that for more than a century some paleontologists have argued that T. rex was a scavenger, not a true predator — more like a vulture than a lion. Indeed, a lack of definitive fossil proof of predation in the famous theropod has stirred controversy among scientists — until now.
"T. rex is the monster of our dreams," said David Burnham, preparator of vertebrate paleontology at the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Kansas. "But ever since it was discovered in Montana and named in the early 1900s, there's been a debate about whether these large carnivores were scavengers or predators. Most people assume they were predators, but the scientific evidence for predation has been really elusive. Yes, we've found lots of dinosaur skeletons with tooth marks that had been chewed up by something. But what did that really prove? Yes, these large carnivores fed on other dinosaurs — but did they eat them while they were alive or dead? That's where the debate came in. Where was the evidence for hunt and kill?"
Now, Burnham is part of a team that has unearthed "smoking gun" physical proof that T. rex was indeed a predator, hunter and killer. In the Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota, Burnham and colleagues discovered the crown of a T. rex tooth lodged in the fossilized spine of a plant-eating hadrosaur that seems to have survived the attack. The team describes the find in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Burnham's KU co-authors are Bruce Rothschild and the late Larry Martin, along with former KU student Robert DePalma II of The Palm Beach Museum of Natural History and Peter Larson of the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research.
"Robert DePalma was a student here at KU doing his master's thesis in the Hell Creek formation," said Burnham. "He found a specimen that represents the tail of one of these hadrosaurs. It had a distorted-looking bone growth. He came to me and said, 'What do you think is causing this?' So we cleaned it and could see a tooth embedded in one of these duck-billed dinosaur vertebrae. Then we went to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and used a CT machine to scan the bones — and we saw all of the tooth."
Previous evidence for predation included T. rex fossil discoveries with preserved stomach contents that included the bones of a young ceratopsian (e.g., Triceratops or one of its kin). However, there was no evidence to conclude whether the ceratopsian was alive or dead when the T. rex made a snack of it.
By contrast, Burnham said the tooth was definitive evidence of hunting, after carefully measuring its length and the size of its serrations to ensure that it came from the mouth of a T. rex.
"Lo and behold, the tooth plotted out just exactly with T. rex — the only known large theropod from the Hell Creek formation," he said. "We knew we had a T. rex tooth in the tail of a hadrosaur. Better yet, we knew the hadrosaur got away because the bone had begun to heal. Quite possibly it was being pursued by the T. rex when it was bitten. It was going in the right direction — away. The hadrosaur escaped by some stroke of luck. The better luck is finding this fossil with the preserved evidence."
Because T. rex regularly shed its teeth, the predator went away hungry, but otherwise no worse for the encounter. It would have grown a new tooth to replace the one left behind in the hadrosaur's tail. This could have been a typical example of T. rex's hunting efforts, even if it didn't result in a meal.
"To make an analogy to modern animals, when lions go attack a herd of herbivores, they go after the sick and the slow," Burnham said. "Most of the time, hadrosaurs traveled in packs. This hadrosaur may have been a little slower, or this T. rex may have been a little faster — at least fast enough to almost catch a duck-billed dinosaur."
This concrete proof of T. rex's predation continues a long relationship between KU paleontologists and the theropod, which lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous, some 65 million years ago. KU graduate Barnum Brown discovered the first documented remains of the dinosaur in Wyoming in 1900.
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In accordance with Rule 63 of the Trust's Constitution, three current Board members must resign each year. This year, they are Moz Baker, Steve Brown and CJ Joiner. They are all entitled to put themselves forward for re-election. There is also a further unfilled vacancy caused by the resignation of a Board member last year.
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Ex-FBI official explains how Trump fooled the world into thinking he condemned racism after El Paso shooting
Former FBI director of counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi explained how President Donald Trump fooled the nation into thinking he renounced racism and white supremacy.
In an interview with BBC Newsnight, Figliuzzi said white nationalists will continue to believe Trump is on their side even after his speech on the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.
"Who is it that seems to be empowering and giving these people license?" Figliuzzi said. "It happens to be the president of the United States."
"At his press conference, we did not hear what we needed to hear," he continued, "him personalize this and say, 'I condemn racism, I condemn white hate and bigotry.' Instead, [he] instructed the nation to condemn it."
According to Figliuzzi, white nationalists will see that as a sign that Trump is "still with them."
"That's going to be interpreted by many extremists as lip service that he has to say because of his office," the former FBI official pointed out. "And they're going to feel like he's still with them."
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Measuring 1 inch high, the Iron Man Head Colored Lapel Pin is a shiny representation of Marvel's beloved Man-in-a-Can. I'm sure you are familiar with his on-screen representation of Robert Downey Junior! I honestly can't tell the difference anymore.


During the eight months of 2011 Moldava produced 29 thousand tonnes of poultry meat according to official statistics, which is 2.5% more than during the same period of last year.
However, the government plans to further boost production volume, but experts noted that producers are currently experiencing some difficulty in terms of product realisation, as the internal market is full of imported poultry. Therefore it is predicted that in the near future the pace of development of the industry will significantly decrease.
According to the country's Ministry of Agriculture the Moldavian government has repeatedly received complaints from local producers, demanding the application of economic mechanisms to limit the volume of imports poultry in the domestic market, but there was no accurate response.
"Today, the price of imported poultry is lower than our products, but our quality is significantly higher," stated Ion Brizgu the director of Avicola-Moldova, one of the largest poultry producers in the country. "If consumers can not understand this, then the government should start regulating import supplies. We can not sell the meat at lower prices, because we already experience a loss due to rise of feed costs, which is now very expensive. In addition, the price of fuel in our country has recently increased too".
According to Brizgu, the company did not raise the price for poultry since 2009 due to a fear of losing customers. Currently, a kilogram of poultry meat directly from the manufacturer is estimated at 28-30 lei (US $2.5).


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Direct infusion mass spectrometry (DIMS)-based untargeted metabolomics measures many hundreds of metabolites in a single experiment. While every effort is made to reduce within-experiment analytical variation in untargeted metabolomics, unavoidable sources of measurement error are introduced. This is particularly true for large-scale multi-batch experiments, necessitating the development of robust workflows that minimise batch-to-batch variation. Here, we conducted a purpose-designed, eight-batch DIMS metabolomics study using nanoelectrospray (nESI) Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometric analyses of mammalian heart extracts. First, we characterised the intrinsic analytical variation of this approach to determine whether our existing workflows are fit for purpose when applied to a multi-batch investigation. Batch-to-batch variation was readily observed across the 7-day experiment, both in terms of its absolute measurement using quality control (QC) and biological replicate samples, as well as its adverse impact on our ability to discover significant metabolic information within the data. Subsequently, we developed and implemented a computational workflow that includes total-ion-current filtering, QC-robust spline batch correction and spectral cleaning, and provide conclusive evidence that this workflow reduces analytical variation and increases the proportion of significant peaks. We report an overall analytical precision of 15.9 %, measured as the median relative standard deviation (RSD) for the technical replicates of the biological samples, across eight batches and 7 days of measurements. When compared against the FDA guidelines for biomarker studies, which specify an RSD of <20 % as an acceptable level of precision, we conclude that our new workflows are fit for purpose for large-scale, high-throughput nESI DIMS metabolomics studies.
Published in the topical collection Metabolomics and Metabolite Profiling with guest editors Rainer Schuhmacher, Rudolf Krska, Roy Goodacre, and Wolfram Weckwerth.
J. A. Kirwan and D. I. Broadhurst contributed equally to this work.
The online version of this article (doi: 10.1007/s00216-013-6856-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00216-014-8047-6.
This work was in part supported by the UK Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) Biomolecular Analysis Facility at the University of Birmingham (R8-H10-61) and by the British Heart Foundation. The FT-ICR used in this research was obtained through the Birmingham Science City Translational Medicine: Experimental Medicine Network of Excellence project, with support from Advantage West Midlands (AWM). David Broadhurst holds salary support from Pfizer Canada. We thank Leansale Ltd. Abattoir, Birmingham, for donating the hearts and Tristan Payne for providing MATLAB programming support.


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Center for the Advanced Study of Educational Administration records
The Center for the Advanced Study of Educational Administration, a division of the Institute for Community Studies, was established in 1964 with funds granted by the Research and Development Program of the United States Office of Education. Collection includes correspondence, committee and general reports, and general office records, 1966-1970.
Department of American Studies records
The University of Oregon offered a major and minor in American Studies from 1984 until 1991. The collection contains records that document the functions, activities, and people of the department.
Department of Speech records
The study of rhetoric and performance has been a part of the curriculum of the University of Oregon since it opened its doors in 1877; the Department of Speech also used to offer classes in radio, film, theatre study, and also dramatic performance. The bulk of the collection (1948-1999) consists of records when the Department of Speech was heavily involved with theatre performance.
Lundquist College of Business (LCB) records
Abstract The University of Oregon began offering a business curriculum in 1884. Originally called the School of Commerce, it was renamed the School of Business Administration in 1920. In 1993, the department was renamed the Lundquist College of Business (LCB) in honor of alumnus and generous donor Charles H. Lundquist. The collection includes records from the Dean's Office (1920-1952; 1958-1988) as well as records of the school's work with local businesses, universities, and...
Office of the President: Clarence Valentine Boyer records
Identifier: UA 001-006
Clarence Valentine Boyer (1880-1954) was an English professor and dean at the University of Oregon, and also served as University President from 1934 until 1938. The collection (1932-1970) contains records from the Office of the President which include correspondence, reports, minutes, financial records, among other documents.
Office of the President: Donald Milton Erb records
Donald Milton Erb served as the President of University of Oregon from 1938 to 1943. The collection contains records from the Office of the President from 1933 to 1942.
Office of the President: Harry K. Newburn and Orlando John Hollis (interim) records
Orlando John Hollis served as interim president of the University of Oregon from 1944 until Harry K. Newburn became the eighth president in 1945, serving until 1953. The collection contains records from the Office of the President from 1945-1953.
Office of the President: John Wesley Johnson records
Collection — Box: 1 (00005.A)
John Wesley Johnson (1836-1898) was an Oregon pioneer, a teacher and administrator in Oregon schools and colleges, was a professor of Latin, and also the first President of the University of Oregon, from 1876 until 1893. The collection (1888-1905) contains records from the Office of the President during Johnson's tenure and also cover the tenure of presidents' Charles Hiram Chapman (1893-1899), Frank Strong (1899-1902), and (the first four years of) Prince Lucien Campbell (1902-1905).
Publication Committee records
According to the University or Oregon bulletin of 1935/1936: "The University Publications Committee has general responsibility for all scholarly and research publications issued by the University of Oregon." The collection contains minutes, memoranda and correspondence regarding scholarly writings and University publications, 1955-1958.
University of Oregon Basketball Exhibition Tour of the Far East records
In 1954, the University of Oregon Basketball team undertook an exhibition tour of Asia and the Business Manager for the tour, J.O. Lindstrom, accompanied the student athletes and kept a diary. The collection (1954-1955) contains Lindstrom's diary, reports, and also programs and itineraries of the tour, correspondence and postcards, photographs, collected business cards, and newspaper clippings.
University Theatre records
Theatre productions were performed at University of Oregon long before the University Theatre was built in 1949; the Horace Robinson Theatre (as it is now known) is used primarily for Department of Theatre Arts productions. The collection (1909-2009) contains annual reports, publicity materials, production reports, photographs and slides, reviews, correspondence, meeting minutes, and also records from Carnival Theater and Very Little Theatre.
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College presidents -- Oregon -- Eugene 4
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Basketball -- Oregon -- Eugene 1
Broadcasting -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Oregon -- Eugene 1
Business education -- Oregon -- Eugene 1
Business schools -- Oregon -- Eugene 1
College publications -- Oregon -- Eugene 1
College students -- Oregon -- Eugene 1
University of Oregon 8
University of Oregon. Office of the President 4
Erb, Donald M. (Donald Milton), 1900-1943 2
Newburn, Harry Kenneth, 1906- 2
Robinson, Horace W., 1909- 2
University of Oregon. Department of Theatre Arts 2
University of Oregon. University Theatre 2
Boyer, Clarence Valentine, 1880-1954 1
Charles H. Lundquist College of Business 1
Clark, Robert D. (Robert Donald), 1910-2005 1
Failing and Beekman Oratory Contest 1
Flemming, Arthur S. (Arthur Sherwood), 1905-1996 1
Hollis, Orlando John, 1904-2000 1
Johnson, John Wesley, 1836-1898 1
Lindholm, Richard W. (Richard Wadsworth), 1913-1994 1
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Miller, Harry B. 1
Morris, Victor Pierpont, 1891- 1
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The baths of the ancient city of Hierapolis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are in danger of collapsing, according to tourism officials.
When talking about the final state of the thousand-year-old bath steps and fences, the tourism industry says that the ancient city has been under construction for 65 years, but only two months a year of excavation and restoration.
The ancient city of Hierapolis, believed to have been founded by Eumenes II, one of Pergamon's kings in the 2nd century BC, was named after Hiera, queen of the Amazons and wife of Telephos. The hero of Bergama, which receives millions of tourists from around the world every year, it is the birthplace of the world-famous Pamukkale.
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One of Hierapolis' most important structures, the 2,800-year-old Temple of the Baths is now in danger of collapsing. The historical structure is surrounded by an iron fence to protect it from potential damage, and is secured by iron stairs to prevent it from collapsing.
Tourism expert Gazi Murat Shen said that the work done by the Italian delegation was not enough.
Excavations at the ancient city need to be accelerated, Shen said, adding that the measures will also play a role in increasing the number of tourists arriving in Pamukkale, which receives about 2 million tourists a year.
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"The work that started in 1957 on the ruins of Pamukkale Hierapolis is still going on. The excavation and reconstruction work is being carried out by an Italian excavation team. "However, the excavation team that worked here for about six months in the past 10 years left the Hierapolis site after about two months," said Shen.
"Unfortunately, these excavations and reconstructions are not enough. Some areas are fenced off to keep visitors out. At this time, Pamukkale University should participate in the excavation and reconstruction. The school continues its excavation and reconstruction work at the ancient city of Laodicea 12 months a year and is making great progress," he added.
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Shen said the temple of Bant, which is in danger of collapsing, is of great importance to the ancient city of Hierapolis.
"In the past, guests were washed and purified here. This is a very important place for the city. But now it is in danger of collapsing. This place also urgently needs to be restored. A huge area of reconstruction on this scale cannot be ignored," he said.
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Over the course of the past year, our various levels have also earned the Citizenship and Government badge, the Cooking badge, the Fire Building and Fire Safety badge, and the Insect-A Inspect-A badge. This summer, at the annual AHG Day Camp, our Pioneer and Patriot girls will be leading the Tenderheart and Explorer girls in earning their Textile Arts and Dance badges. And this spring a group of IBC Elders and Pastors taught the religious award program to a number of our girls.
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The Nigeria LNG Limited has announced it has started accepting applications from qualified candidates for its NLNG Post-Graduate Scholarship Scheme for entry into Masters Programmes in the United Kingdom in September, 2014. The scheme is administered by British Council Nigeria.
Please do not attach any documents to the completed application form. Only application forms accompanied by a single passport photograph will be considered.
Application deadline is midnight on Friday 15th November, 2013. Applications received after this time will not be accepted.
Candidates whose applications are successful will be invited to sit for a test. On the basis of the results of the test, applicants will be invited to sit for a test. On the basis of the results of the test, applicants will be invited for interviews from which the final selection will be made.
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The Golden State Warriors Have Something to Be Excited About Despite Blowout Loss on Opening Night
by Jack Dougherty on December 23, 2020
There weren't many positives to take from the Golden State Warriors' blowout loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night. The short-handed Warriors fell 125-99 to ex-teammate Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and the new-look Nets on opening night of the 2020 NBA season.
But it wasn't all bad for Golden State. James Wiseman, the rookie center and second overall pick in the draft, impressed in his NBA debut. The Warriors have found their big man of the future.
The Warriors were blown out on opening night
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The Warriors had a season to forget in 2019-20. Following five straight trips to the NBA Finals, Golden State went 15-50 last year in what was the worst regular-season record of any team in the league.
Kevin Durant left for Brooklyn, Klay Thompson couldn't play a single game coming off his torn ACL in the 2019 Finals, and Steph Curry played in just five games before suffering a season-ending injury of his own. The Warriors quickly went from dominant to dismal in the blink of an eye, and it wasn't pretty to watch.
Golden State fans came into the 2020-21 season with a renewed hope. Curry was back, James Wiseman was joining the fold as the No. 2 overall pick, and the team added impressive youngster Kelly Oubre Jr. in the offseason.
But even with their upgraded roster, the Warriors didn't look much different from last year during their season debut. Golden State was blown out by the Nets 125-99, as Kevin Durant exacted revenge on his former team.
The Warriors have a lot of work to do if they want to sneak into the playoffs this season.
James Wiseman was the lone bright spot for Golden State
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No Warriors fan enjoyed suffering through the hellish 2019-20 season, but the embarrassing campaign did earn them a valuable gift — James Wiseman.
Wiseman was considered by some the most talented prospect in the 2020 NBA draft, and the Warriors were able to scoop him up with the second overall pick. After not playing competitive basketball for over a year, Wiseman looked like the real deal in his NBA debut.
The rookie scored 19 points on 7-13 shooting, pulled in six rebounds, and nabbed two steals in his first professional game. Not too shabby, rook.
"I felt a lot of jitters," Wiseman said after the game. "But as soon as I took my first shot attempt, everything just went out the window. I just started playing hard. I think I did really well for not playing in a year."
Steph Curry knows the Warriors have something special in James Wiseman
James Wiseman hits a straight on 3, an 18-footer from the baseline and finishes a lob on three quick possessions. Up to 17 and 6 in 22 debut minutes. Indictment of teammates, but a 19-year-old playing his first game in 13 months was probably their 2nd best player tonight.
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) December 23, 2020
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There aren't many reasons to be optimistic about the 2020-21 season if you're a Warriors fan, but James Wiseman is certainly one. Even Steph Curry was impressed with his NBA debut.
"I wasn't shocked to see that," Steph Curry said. "He showed that in practice and our scrimmages. Very confident in what he can do. It's good to see him get his feet wet, get some reps in… Obviously, in the fourth quarter, he showed a little bit of his skillset, what he can do inside and out. Just getting him comfortable as possible as quick as possible. Twenty-four good minutes for him to start his career, that's a good step for him individually."
The Warriors aren't the title contenders they have been in recent years, but Golden State fans will have a blast watching their star rookie develop this season.
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Q: Using Jasmine to test embedded javascript code I have code that is embedded in html as follows:
<script type="text/javascript">
     function add(a, b) {
         return a+b;
     }
</script>

And I was wondering if anyone knew if this was possible to test using Jasmine and the JQuery fixtures? I am new to Jasmine and don't understand how to test this kind of code.
Thanks.

A: I think @pawlik is suggesting it is better belonging in it's own .js file.  The only option I considered to answer your question is to  source this file as a fixture (using the loadFixtures('file') method) but you normally do this with fragments (nothing that contains html, head or body tags) and if there are any on DOM ready events which are fired in script tags or includes they may not place nicely with jasmine.
Saying you can't change the file may not mean you cannot change the structure (ie. push it out to a separate script file and refer to that in the main HTML page.)  In many cases you should refactor the structure of your code to facilitate testing.
Since you are new to jasmine, when writing tests you tend to test javascript functions/methods on their own, or with fragments of HTML (if you are doing DOM-based testing) as fixtures.  You wouldn't normally use a complete HTML page and write tests for it, this is more of an end-to-end / functional test and is not the primary goal of jasmine.
BTW you are missing the end double-quote of "text/javascript <--


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Reporter's Committee launches new FOI request and tracking system
From the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press on Thursday launched iFOIA, a free online system for creating, sending, and tracking federal and state freedom of information requests.
The iFOIA resource, which is online at www.ifoia.org, is an extension of the Reporters Committee's popular FOIA Letter Generator, which has been a feature of the organization's website since 1996. iFOIA can be used on a desktop or mobile device, and allows users to choose whether to keep their correspondence chains with government agencies confidential or share them with designated colleagues, such as editors and lawyers. It also includes a FOIA Wiki for feedback and discussions. Because it automatically organizes all of a reporter's files, it is designed to help with lawsuits and agency appeals when government stonewalling presents no other option.
After beta testing in several newsrooms, the Reporters Committee will be introducing iFOIA at the ONA conference during a Thursday presentation and at a table on the convention hall Midway throughout the event.
"In the coming months, we'll be visiting newsrooms around the country for training, and I hope more news leaders, including non-profit startups and freelance bloggers, who need help filing and pursuing FOIA requests, will reach out to us," said Reporters Committee Executive Director Bruce D. Brown. "Because iFOIA is created by the lawyers at RCFP, it is supported by people with legal expertise who can take you through every step of the FOIA process."
Funded by a generous grant from the Stanton Foundation, iFOIA joins a growing library of free digital resources available from the Reporters Committee, including the Reporters Committee FirstAid mobile application, which was also funded by the Stanton Foundation.
The Stanton Foundation was created by Frank Stanton, a pioneer of the television industry, who built CBS into a broadcasting powerhouse during his 25 years as its president. Among Frank Stanton's myriad contributions to CBS and broadcasting were ensuring that television was used as an instrument of civic education and committing the industry to defending free speech and the First Amendment.
Visit RCFP for more.


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Wave Project Aug 17
We've had an epic month here at The Wave Project.
Firstly, we have been nominated for a national award. Our project in Cornwall has been shortlisted in the mental health and wellbeing category of the Children and Young people Now awards. The winner will be announced at a ceremony on 22 November. It's a great tribute to the hard work of our staff and volunteers, who have supported 300 vulnerable children in Cornwall this year through surf therapy.
We have been working with Surfing England to set up the first ever Adaptive Surfing Open competition for surfers with disabilities and impairments, which takes place on 16 September. One of the competitors is a 16-year old boy called Louis Sutton, who the Wave Project has been supporting since he was 11-year old (see picture). Louis has a learning disability and has never been able to enter (or cope with) a surfing competition before.
In Newquay, local MP Steve Double opened our new surf club on Fistral Beach (see picture), which will provide accessible surfing for hundreds of local children. Mr Double then jumped in on a surf club session and supported some of our young people in the water –see video clip.
We also attended Boardmasters festival in Newquay, where we were one of the charity partners, and the Garlic Festival on the Isle of Wight, where our volunteers and surf club members sold corn on the cob to raise funds for their local Wave Project!
Now we are gearing up to run our autumn surf therapy courses, which start next week. Between now and the end of October, we will work with over 200 new clients.


You all know the ones I am talking about, the Tooth Fairy, Father Christmas etc.
My Daughter is going to be 12 next month. I used to love being the Tooth Fairy making sure I knew where her tooth was. Only to find when I used to sneak in to swap it she had moved it. The panic would set in trying to find it, in the dark without waking her.
Or finding a note she had written to the tooth fairy and having to quickly reply and do a drawing of myself. Or the morning I got her up and she became upset as the Tooth Fairy had not been. I quickly got out of that one telling her it was still early she might have been really busy last night and still on her way. Luckily while she was having breakfast I quickly swapped it over. Her last few teeth she wasn't bothered about the Tooth Fairy so that was quite easy and simple.
But with Christmas approaching, I like to cling on to that bit of magic. I have no idea if she believes in him or not. I am still unsure if last year she believed in him. Or if she was just going along with everything to keep me happy. I have tried asking her in a roundabout way. Trying to gauge whether the magic is over or not. But the little madam gives me nothing. She will not answer with a definite answer that says whether she does or doesn't believe. I just can not bring myself to say, now you are nearly 12 we are Father Christmas, it will break my heart if she does still believe.
So for now I am going to carry on with my chatting away until she says Mum I stopped believing in him ages ago, or I know he isn't real. I am pretty sure she knows this, but you just never know.
And then there is school, now she is in secondary school. What if she is the only one who believes, I really do not like this growing up and not knowing whether to say something or not.
Awww bless you! We're a long way off that in our house as yet but with my niece, she had just about convinced herself that he wasn't real any more until I showed her the ISS traveling through the sky on christmas eve and convinced her it was Santa. I probably made it worse though as now she hasn't got a clue what to believe.. But I still believe!


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Our 'bee-eye camera' helps us support bees, grow food and protect the environment
By Adrian Dyer, Tanya Latty
Tuesday, February 5, 2019 9:32 AM UTC
Walking through our gardens in Australia, we may not realise that buzzing around us is one of our greatest natural resources. Bees are responsible for pollinating about a third of food for human consumption, and data on crop production suggests that bees contribute more than US$235 billion to the global economy each year.
By pollinating native and non-native plants, including many ornamental species, honeybees and Australian native bees also play an essential role in creating healthy communities – from urban parks to backyard gardens.
Despite their importance to human and environmental health, it is amazing how little we know how about our hard working insect friends actually see the world.
By learning how bees see and make decisions, it's possible to improve our understanding of how best to work with bees to manage our essential resources.
Insects in the city: a honeybee forages in the heart of Sydney. Adrian Dyer/RMIT University
How bee vision differs from human vision
A new documentary on ABC TV, The Great Australian Bee Challenge, is teaching everyday Australians all about bees. In it, we conducted an experiment to demonstrate how bees use their amazing eyes to find complex shapes in flowers, or even human faces.
Humans use the lens in our eye to focus light onto our retina, resulting in a sharp image. By contrast, insects like bees use a compound eye that is made up of many light-guiding tubes called ommatidia.
The top of each ommatidia is called a facet. In each of a bees' two compound eyes, there are about 5000 different ommatidia, each funnelling part of the scene towards specialised sensors to enable visual perception by the bee brain.
How we see fine detail with our eyes, and how a bee eye camera views the same information at a distance of about 15cm. Sue Williams and Adrian Dyer/RMIT University
Since each ommatidia carries limited information about a scene due to the physics of light, the resulting composite image is relatively "grainy" compared to human vision. The problem of reduced visual sharpness poses a challenge for bees trying to find flowers at a distance.
To help draw bees' attention, flowers that are pollinated by bees have typically evolved to send very strong colour signals. We may find them beautiful, but flowers haven't evolved for our eyes. In fact, the strongest signals appeal to a bee's ability to perceive mixtures of ultraviolet, blue and green light.
Yellow flower (Gelsemium sempervirens) as it appears to our eye, as taken through a UV sensitive camera, and how it likely appears to a bee. Sue Williams and Adrian Dyer/RMIT University
Building a bee eye camera
Despite all of our research, it can still be hard to imagine how a bee sees.
So to help people (including ourselves) visualise what the world looks like to a bee, we built a special, bio-inspired "bee-eye" camera that mimics the optical principles of the bee compound eye by using about 5000 drinking straws. Each straw views just one part of a scene, but the array of straws allows all parts of the scene to be projected onto a piece of tracing paper.
How a bee eye camera works by only passing the constructive rays of light to form an image. Sue Williams and Adrian Dyer/RMIT University
The resulting image can then be captured using a digital camera. This project can be constructed by school age children, and easily be assembled multiple times to enable insights into how bees see our world.
Because bees can be trained to learn visual targets, we know that our device does a good job of mimicking a bees visual acuity.
Student projects can explore the interesting nexus between science, photography and art to show how bees see different things, like carrots – which are an important part of our diet and which require bees for the efficient production of seeds.
Clip from "The Great Australian Bee Challenge, Episode 2.
Understanding bee vision helps us protect bees
Bees need flowers to live, and we need bees to pollinate our crops. Understanding bee vision can help us better support our buzzy friends and the critical pollination services they provide.
In nature, it appears that flowers often bloom in communities, using combined cues like colour and scent to help important pollinators find the area with the best resources.
Having lots of flowers blooming together attracts pollinators in much the same way that boxing day sales attract consumers to a shopping centre. Shops are better together, even though they are in competition – the same may be true for flowers!
This suggests that there is unlikely to be one flower that is "best" for bees. The solution for better supporting bees is to incorporate as many flowers as possible – both native and non native – in the environment. Basically: if you plant it, they will come.
We are only starting to understand how bees see and perceive our shared world – including art styles – and the more we know, the better we can protect and encourage our essential insect partners.
Looking at the fruits and vegetables of bee pollination; a bee camera eye view of carrots. Sue Williams and Adrian Dyer/RMIT University


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TELUS leads the pack with fewest complaints amongst national carriers for 11th year in a row
TELUS Communications Inc
30 November 2022, 6:10 am ·4-min read
With its Customers First approach, TELUS commits to working towards zero complaints
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- For the 11th consecutive year, TELUS leads the industry with the fewest complaints amongst national carriers as confirmed by this year's Commission for Complaints about Telecom-Television Services (CCTS) report. TELUS' longstanding commitment to putting their customers first continues to be reflected by this important metric, and follows their industry-leading Q3 2022 customer growth, including the addition of 347,000 total Mobile and Fixed customers and 73,000 net additions of robust wireline customers.
"The investments we make in our world-leading networks and customer service team continue to set us apart from our national peers," said Zainul Mawji, Executive Vice-president and President of Home Solutions & Customer Excellence. "While we are proud of our longstanding leadership position, we are focused on finding ways to improve and we will not be satisfied until we receive zero complaints. I want to thank our customers for their loyalty and feedback, and our entire TELUS team who go above and beyond every single day."
These results complement the many accolades TELUS has earned over the years for its global-leading network. Notably, in August, independent global analytics company Opensignal named TELUS Canada's best provider for consistent mobile network quality, making TELUS the most awarded network in Canada by Opensignal for the 11th consecutive time and one of the most awarded globally. In July, US-based Ookla® recognized TELUS as the fastest mobile provider in Canada, representing the 10th consecutive time TELUS has received this award. Lastly, in June TELUS was named the fastest Internet service provider in Canada by New York-based PCMag for the third consecutive year. These acknowledgements reinforce TELUS' leadership in offering customers the fastest, most expansive and reliable service in Canada across its wireless and PureFibre networks.
About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T, NYSE: TU) is a dynamic, world-leading communications technology company with $17 billion in annual revenue and 17 million customer connections spanning wireless, data, IP, voice, television, entertainment, video, and security. Our social purpose is to leverage our global-leading technology and compassion to drive social change and enable remarkable human outcomes. Our longstanding commitment to putting our customers first fuels every aspect of our business, making us a distinct leader in customer service excellence and loyalty. The numerous, sustained accolades TELUS has earned over the years from independent, industry-leading network insight firms showcase the strength and speed of TELUS' global-leading networks, reinforcing our commitment to provide Canadians with access to superior technology that connects us to the people, resources and information that make our lives better.
Operating in 28 countries around the world, TELUS International (TSX and NYSE: TIXT) is a leading digital customer experience innovator that designs, builds, and delivers next-generation solutions, including AI and content moderation, for global and disruptive brands across high-growth industry verticals, including tech and games, communications and media and eCommerce and fintech.
TELUS Health is a global healthcare company, which provides employee and family preventative healthcare and wellness solutions. Our TELUS team, along with our 100,000 health professionals, are leveraging the combination of TELUS' strong digital and data analytics capabilities with our unsurpassed client service to dramatically improve remedial, preventative and mental health outcomes covering over 60 million lives, and growing, around the world. As the largest provider of digital solutions and digital insights of its kind, TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods enables efficient and sustainable production from seed to store, helping improve the safety and quality of food and other goods in a way that is traceable to end consumers.
Driven by our determination and vision to connect all citizens for good, our deeply meaningful and enduring philosophy to give where we live has inspired TELUS, our team members and retirees to contribute more than $900 million, in cash, in-kind contributions, time and programs, and 1.8 million days of service since 2000. This unprecedented generosity and unparalleled volunteerism have made TELUS the most giving company in the world. Together, let's make the future friendly.
For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com, follow us @TELUSNews on Twitter and @Darren_Entwistle on Instagram.
Brandi Rees
TELUS Public Relations
brandi.rees@telus.com


28/07/2016 Answered Are there different levels of service a manufacturer can provide?
28/07/2016 Answered Can any company become servitized?
26/07/2016 Commented I agree Victoria, Britain's main educational failings, especially in manufacturing, is shocking career's advice and poor career development at a young age. It's great to see programmes like this taking shape and helping close the skills gap.
26/07/2016 Up vote question Some contend that CAD design software being utilised is wedded to a more traditional form of manufacturing such as injection moulding. Is it the case that CAD programs employed for designing for AM inadequate?
26/07/2016 Commented Completely agree Jonny. Every year, the skills gap reemerges as a hot topic in UK manufacturing and yet the commitment from government seems to have little to no impact in drawing the required numbers of young people into the sector. Just last week, The Manufacturer reported the growing crisis of an ageing workforce in manufacturing. Surely it's time to see the emphasis shift substantially from government action to promote apprenticeships and work schemes, to schools and parents and ensure the manufacturing and engineering in the UK is regarded with the same career status as a doctor or lawyer.
26/07/2016 Answered What is Servitization?


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Oranges are not only one of the best sources of natural fluids/water for the human body, but its skin is also a very valuable medicinal asset (provided it is cleaned of all insectisides, wax et al!).
Naturally everyone knows about their high contents in Vitamin A beta Carotene and other irreplaceable vitamins.
Combined with other foods it can help prevent cancer like other ctrus fruits!
In Japan, depending on the season, oranges will be called natsu mikan/夏みかん/Summer oranges, haru mikan/春みかん or even fuyu mikan/冬みかん/Winter oranges and accordingly will be available im more varieties.
The satsuma (Citrus unshiu) is a seedless and easy-peeling citrus mutant of Japanese origin introduced to the West. In Japan, it is known as mikan or formally unshu mikan (Japanese: 温州蜜柑, unshū mikan). In China, it is known as Wenzhou migan (Chinese: 温州蜜柑; pinyin: Wēnzhōu Mìgān). The Japanese name is a result of the local reading of the same characters used in the Chinese, the name meaning "Honey Citrus of Wenzhou" in both languages. It is also often known as "Seedless mandarin" (Chinese: 无核桔; pinyin: wúhé jú). The Korean name for the fruit is gyul (Korean: 귤).
Shizuoka Prefecture is a major growing region in Japan.
Depending on the growing area, they will come up with many brand names.
Also simply called "Oranges", The Valencia Orange is an orange first created by the Californian agronomist William Wolfskill, on his farm in Santa Ana. Its name comes from the Spanish city of Valencia, widely known for its excellent orange trees. Most in Japan are imported from the US for their good value as orange juice.
A variety grown in Oita Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Miko Orange is difficult to grow and is comparatively expensive, but very juicy with a beautiful aroma.
Setoka are remarkable fortheir rich skin. That skin being thin, it ios very easy to peel. Very juicy and sweet. Slightly bigger than Unshu mikan.
Blodd Oranges are called so because of the colour of their flesh.
They are particularly popular for fresh pressed juice.
A single mutation in 1820 in an orchard of sweet oranges planted at a monastery in Brazil yielded the navel orange, also known as the Washington, Riverside, or Bahia navel. The mutation causes the orange to develop a second orange at the base of the original fruit, opposite the stem, as a conjoined twin in a set of smaller segments embedded within the peel of the larger orange. From the outside, it looks similar to the human navel, hence its name.
Because the mutation left the fruit seedless, and therefore sterile, the only means available to cultivate more of this new variety is to graft cuttings onto other varieties of citrus tree.
Today, navel oranges continue to be produced via cutting and grafting. This does not allow for the usual selective breeding methodologies, and so not only do the navel oranges of today have exactly the same genetic makeup as the original tree, and are therefore clones, all navel oranges can be considered to be the fruit of that single nearly two hundred year-old tree.
he Japanese varieties are available around February and March, making for an invaluable late winter orange.
-Choose specimen with a uniform colour and bright colour.
-Combined with asparguses, or with turnips, or with beansprouts, or with potatoes, will re-inforce the digestive system, help prevent common colds, and help recover from constipation.
-Combined with broccoli, or with chingensai, or with shiitake mushrooms, or with strawberries, will help prevent cancer, obesity and common colds.
Loved your blog on Sansei!!!
I grow specialty citrus in california. I have access to yuzu and sudachi bud material, but would like to also grow naoshichi, dai-dai, kabosu. etc., non of which genetic material are currently available. Hopeful of finding an avenue by which that japanese germplasm may be shared with the citrus germplasm repository here in California. Any recommendation and/or guidance would be appreciated.
Further, i am always interested to learn more recipes that use japanese citrus. Perhaps you would consider added a blog with that focus.