Scans Catch Tired Fetuses Yawning

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Nine months is a long time to hang around in the dark. But a new study suggests that fetuses yawn not out of boredom, but because growing is hard work.

British researchers used ultrasound scans to catch fetal yawns, a behavior that might be linked to early brain development.

?Fetus yawning is not contagious, nor do they yawn because they are sleepy,? study author Nadja Reissland?from the University of Durham said in a statement. ?Instead, frequency of yawning in the womb might be related to activity-dependent brain maturation early in gestation.?

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The study, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE, suggests that more than half of all fetal mouth openings are yawns at 24 weeks of gestation. The frequency of yawning wanes after 28 weeks, according to the study.

Yawning isn?t the only grown-up behavior seen in the womb: Fetuses also stretch and hiccup.

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Review hails citizen scientists

22 November 2012 Last updated at 22:14 ET By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News

A review of more than 230 "citizen science" projects says the involvement of volunteers offers "high value to research, policy and practice".

It added that such schemes had the potential to help meet the demands of monitoring the UK's environment.

The review's authors also produced a guide offering advice on how to get the most out of citizen science projects.

The review and guide was commissioned by the UK Environmental Observation Framework (UK-EOF).

The authors, from Nerc Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) and the Natural History Museum, London, reviewed 234 projects - ranging from small one-off local surveys to large-scale long-term programmes.

"Participation with environmental science and natural history has a long history, especially in Britain, long before it was termed 'citizen science'," project leader Dr Helen Roy, an ecologist from the CEH, told BBC News.

"However, the development of communication technologies through the internet offers many new options which will help even more people to get involved in contributing information for monitoring our environment, which is under increasing pressure."

The review reached a number of conclusions about the value of data collected by volunteers:

• The development of technologies was "revolutionising citizen science", for example through online recording and smartphone apps;
• Data quality could be excellent, but was not fully recognised by all researchers or policymakers;
• It is a cost-effective way of collecting environmental data
• There was potential to make considerably more use of citizen science that currently was the case.

The guide, published alongside the review, offers the scientific community advice on how to develop, implement and evaluate citizen science projects.

The guide's lead author, Dr John Tweddle from the Natural History Museum, said participating in the monitoring and observation was a "fun and rewarding pastime" for volunteers.

"Our guide aims to support anyone with an interest in developing their own citizen science project - and new communication technologies, like mobile phone apps and environmental sensors, mean that it has never been easier to get involved."

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Music Managers Forum Canada ? 2013 Pioneer Award Recipients ...

November 23rd, 2012

The Music Managers Forum Canada Announces that Neill Dixon and Steve Propas will receive the 2013 MMF Canada Pioneer Award

Presentation to take place at the 7th Annual MMF Honour Roll Reception on Friday March 22, 2013

Toronto, Ontario ? November 23, 2012 ? The Music Managers Forum Canada is proud to announce that there will be two recipients of the 2013 MMF?s Pioneer Award: Neill Dixon and the late Steve Propas. The Pioneer Award was created to pay homage to the efforts of those who have been instrumental in creating the framework for Artist Management in the Canadian entertainment industries. This year?s presentation will take place during Canadian Music Week 2013 on Friday March 22 at Bymark Restaurant, as part of the 7th Annual Honour Roll Reception. Jake Gold is this year?s Honour Roll recipient.

Steve Propas began his career as an entertainment buyer for the Student Union while attending McGill University in Montreal in 1970. After graduating, he went into artist management and talent buying, joining forces with Neill Dixon to form Dixon Propas Management. Their initial clients were the legendary Toronto nightclubs The El Mocambo and The Colonial Tavern and Dixon Propas became the exclusive entertainment consultants for the Ontario Place Forum. They produced over 400 concerts, featuring major artists from 1975 to 1980, booking a wide variety of established acts in musical genres ranging from rock, pop, folk, blues, gospel to classical. The management team launched, guided and established the early careers of many of Canada?s successful artists including Triumph, Toronto and The Good Brothers, achieving a great deal of international success in the process. Steve and Neill?then went on to form?Solid Gold Records where their label?s roster earned the duo over a dozen Gold and Platinum records and numerous Juno Awards in the early 1980?s.

In 1985 Steve launched Propas Management Corporation (PMC) and scored great success with management clients, which included Dan Hill (for 10 years), Lee Aaron, Haywire and Svengali. All of these artists attained Gold and Platinum certification in Canada under Steve?s direction and enjoyed international success. In 1987 Dan Hill had the number one AC single of the year on the Billboard chart with ?Can?t We Try?, his duet with Vonda Sheppard.

In 1995, Steve, through PMC was contracted by Walter Yetnikoff at Velvel Records in New York as the label?s exclusive international licensing and distribution consultant. Acting as Velvel?s Vice President of International, he established a team of international licensing partners worldwide. After KOCH acquired Velvel, Steve became the Senior Vice President of KOCH Entertainment. He was responsible for the development and successful international exploitation of the audio visual sides of music and a cross section of licensed brands. He set up all of?their international distribution and/or licensing arrangements, overseeing them on a global basis. As a licensing and distribution authority, Steve was responsible for the Pokemon brand?s audio soundtrack distribution and television licensing and establishing KOCH?s children?s line by securing Bob The Builder and Madeline.? In the field of sports and lifestyle entertainment products, Propas Management consulted and advised on strategic partnerships for the DVD home entertainment releases of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE, formerly WWF) in Europe, Australia and New?Zealand. Steve still worked closely with Entertainment One (E1) as the company is now called.

Steve?s experience and expertise was put to good use by the Canadian music industry. He acted as a mentor for the Ontario Media Development Corporation, assisting Ontario-based labels in planning the international exploitation of their artists. Steve was a long time member of the Canadian Independent Record Producers Association (CIRPA) and served on the board of directors for 4 terms.

His latest?business success was Propas International Rights Management Corporation which encompassed? CD/DVD distribution, acting as a consultant, digital/mobile streaming and licensing arrangements in the international marketplace on behalf of clients ranging from established artists and brands to labels representing all genres and video game publishers such as Microsoft. He also revitalized Solid Gold Records? catalogue with the late Ed Glinert who also passed away in 2011.

After graduating from College in London, England, Neill Dixon came to Toronto in 1967, and spent three years at the tail-end of the folk music ?boom? running Grumbles, a coffee house that featured major names including a young Bruce Cockburn, Ian & Sylvia, Gordon Lightfoot, B. B. King, and a memorable week-long double bill with the late Jim Croce and Randy Newman.

In 1971 Dixon moved briefly into the record business taking on the role of Regional Promotion Manager at RCA Records before becoming VP of National Promotion and A&R at GRT Records. His path soon changed to management, which led to the formation of Dixon Propas Management ? a partnership with local Toronto promoter and manager Steve Propas.

During the same time, Dixon spent a five-year period as one of Canada?s most influential talent bookers, buying talent first for the El Mocambo in its glory days as the most important live music venue in the country, and then at the Ontario Place Forum, when he introduced the first major pop concert acts to the venue.

In 1985, Neill Dixon opened an ?umbrella company? he named Charttoppers, to allow him to handle a wide variety of different functions in the music industry, including record promotion, event production, television production, sponsorship organization, and numerous consulting assignments.

Working with the Juno Awards, Molson Breweries, Pepsi-Cola, Ontario Lottery Corporation- among dozens of others ? he devised and executed countless music marketing promotions.

Neill Dixon?s involvement with Canadian Music Week began in 1983 as program director of an annual music business conference organized by The Record. In 1993 he took over the event and added a new music showcase festival called Canadian Music Fest now running it under the auspices of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Music & The Arts (CAAMA).

In the last decade, Canadian Music Week has become the most important single event in this country?s music industry. It has attracted an ?A list? of speakers ? from Sir George Martin and Clive Davis to Slash, Alice Cooper, Melissa Etheridge, Sammy Hagar, Paul Rodgers, Burton Cummings, Moby, Lionel Richie, David Crosby and Gene Simmons.

The event offers a number of complementary components. In addition to the Executive Conference (currently known as the International Music Summit) and festival, Canadian Music Week now features three additional conferences ? Digital Media Summit; Radio Interactive: International Radio Summit; and Songwriters? & Publishers? Summit. In recent years Neill has introduced a number of Canadian Awards shows, a film festival, the Canadian International Comedy Fest and new talent searches as well as a Music, Education and Careers Fair called TuneUp. He was instrumental in bringing the model of the ?International Festival Network? as well as the ?Global Synch & Consumer Brands Summit? to Canada for the benefit of Canada?s live music industry as well as emerging Canadian talent. Neill has also put his extensive worldwide database to good use by passionately promoting Canada?s best export ready artists and built CMW?s importance as an export development engine. From China to Australia and India to Latin America, his efforts on the frontlines have opened doors for Canadian companies to explore new channels for trade and export with markets all over the world.

Speaking of the Pioneer Award, Dixon commented: ?I am very honoured to be sharing the Pioneer Duo Award with my longtime friend and former partner Steve Propas,? said Neill Dixon, President of Canadian Music Week. ?Together we developed one of the preeminent indie record labels of the 80s and triggered the success of some of Canada?s great artists. Through the years, we may have walked different paths, but we always knew that music was our way.?

Steve?s award will be bestowed posthumously and accepted on his behalf by his wife, Monica Miller.

The 7th Annual Honour Roll Reception will take place at Bymark Restaurant (66 Wellington Street West, Concourse Level) during Canadian Music Week 2013. Corporate tables, individual seats and advertisement space will be available for sale in early December 2012.

Source: http://musicmanagersforum.ca/news/2013-pioneer-award-recipients-announced-2

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Why Wal-Mart Black Friday protests are throwback to pre-union days

The Black Friday protests by some Wal-Mart employees are an attempt to shame the company into public action ? even though the workers are not organized into a labor union.

By Mark Guarino,?Staff writer / November 23, 2012

Protesters sit outside the Wal-Mart store in Paramount, Calif., on Black Friday.

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In staging nationwide protests at Wal-Mart stores on Black Friday, employees and labor unions are turning back the clock ? trying to influence America?s largest retailer in ways that were the norm before the union movement started in the 1930s.

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The disgruntled employees group organizing Friday?s walkouts, called Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart), complains that Wal-Mart pays low wages and sets unfair labor conditions. But since Wal-Mart employees are not organized into a union, they can?t strike to air their grievances.

Instead, the Black Friday protests are only the latest ? and most ambitious ??of a series of attempts by OUR Walmart and others to publicly shame the company into listening to grievances.

?What is making today so interesting, and what this Walmart group has found, is there may be a way to essentially change Walmart?s behavior legally without having to actually organize 51 percent of the workers,? says Robert Bruno, director of the Labor Education Program at the University of Illinois in Chicago. ?While I?m sure that [union organizing] is still the objective, in the meantime they can create a lot of rights using less workers and without having to represent them.?

Wal-Mart officials say disgruntled workers make up far less than the 51 percent of the workforce needed to organize a union according to federal law. Moreover, they say that the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which is supporting OUR Walmart, is illegally interfering in the company?s business. The company filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board last Friday.

It is unclear how many protests are taking place, though local media reports show they are spread nationwide. They have been relatively peaceful, according to reports. OUR Walmart says that protests are being held at 1,000 stores in the US, but Wal-Mart calls that number ?grossly exaggerated,? according to a statement by spokesman David Tovar.

It says that many of the people in the protests are not employees at all. The company estimates that ?less than 50 associates participated in the protest nationwide ? roughly the same number of associates missed their scheduled shifts as last year,? said Bill Simon, Wal-Mart?s US president and chief executive officer, in a statement.

In Milwaukee, about 60 protesters arrived in buses at two separate Wal-Mart locations, where they marched around each building, holding signs and chanting. Several hundred protesters organized outside a Wal-Mart store in Capitol Plaza in Landover Hills, Md., outside Washington, according to a local CBS station. In Orlando, Fla., US Rep.-elect Alan Grayson (D) joined protesters.

Professor Bruno says it is inevitable that the labor movement would target Wal-Mart, because the firm has emerged to play such an important role in the new economy.

?Wal-Mart is GM and US Steel amplified. They are a key employer in a large industry that, given the changes in our economy, has become more important than they might have been several years ago,? he says. The Black Friday protests are a ?product of a series of experimental efforts over years to organize Wal-Mart and to recognize and improve the working conditions there.?

Since September, OUR Walmart has staged protests at company stores, hoping to force the company to pay an hourly minimum wage of $13, make full-time jobs a priority for existing employees, provide affordable health care, and more. The group also says Wal-Mart has unfairly retaliated against certain employees for various reasons, from needing to change work schedules to speaking out against the company.

Wal-Mart workers currently must work an average of 30 hours per week to receive benefits, and the average full-time hourly wage is $12.57, according to the company website.

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