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Letter to the Editor: Bikes, be gone!
Re: "Ban has cyclists grinding gears – City says FM455 could reopen to bikes if road becomes safer," June 15 Metro story.
Robin Stallings stated that this was about freedom and the right to decide what is safe and not safe. Using this logic, should we not have any traffic laws and allow people to drive or ride any way they wish in the name of freedom? Mr. Stallings states, "Some people need these bikes for transportation." In Anna, folks who need bikes for transportation are precious few.
Mr. Stallings states that every taxpayer has the right to the roadways he or she paid for with tax money. I don't know where he got this, but it is absurdly false. Mr. Stallings seems to forget that society has rights and that the rights of an individual or group end where the rights of society begin. Safety is a right society should have on the roadways of America, and this, at times, may place limits as to how they are used.
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BT Openreach, provider of telecommunications to around 27 million UK homes and businesses, has announced plans to stop selling ISDN services by 2020, and phase out the network entirely by 2025.
Though an aging technology, it is estimated around eight million UK businesses still use telephone lines via ISDN, so will need to upgrade before then to be sure their service is not interrupted. With this in mind, BT Openreach has given businesses plenty of time to manage the switch over, but business owners should consider moving well ahead of 2025.
What is ISDN – and why are BT switching it off?
'Integrated Services Digital Network', or ISDN, has been utilised by BT Openreach since 1986, and has long been the number one standard in telecommunications, providing both voice and internet over a single line, with at one time the fastest internet access available at 128kbps. Connectivity solutions have since advanced rapidly, most notably with superfast internet connections such as fibre lines and high-speed broadband enabling the use of newer technologies such as VoIP or SIP. Read more about our VoIP, or SIP offerings here.
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Scholarship winner tries to aid future scholars
By MADELINE REIDA
Marion graduate and mathematics and physics major Kyle Brinker is one of 12 Emporia State University students honored with a Shepherd scholarship for the 2021-2022 academic year.
The scholarship honors Emporia's top seniors.
Brinker is studying to become a teacher of advanced mathematics and physics.
"I really enjoyed helping others and helping them understand the class work," he said. "I really enjoy the 'aha' moment, as I call it. At Emporia State, I learned a lot of theory and a lot of concepts that relate to helping students with their abstract ideas"
He will be going into his senior year at Emporia while working as a dietary cook and health screener at St. Luke Hospital in Marion. He also does substitute teaching for the Emporia school district.
Shawna Pierce, Brinker's mother and the dietary manager at St. Luke, said he didn't have a plan for where he wanted to teach yet.
"He loves Emporia, but I don't know if that's where he wants to settle down," she said. "That whole town just embraces those kids. They've always got something going on downtown."
Before Emporia, Brinker went to Butler Community College. Teachers there and in high school inspired him.
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Google has unveiled a new utility aimed at the small business market: Google Maps Engine Pro. Using the mapping tool, businesses can utilize the location tool to create maps of databases with locations, names, addresses, and even sales leads included. These maps can then be viewed, changed, and analyzed easily and shared among various devices.
Google hopes SMBs will be able to use the tool to develop business plans via "map-based visualization" of many layers of data that relate to the company's business.
Google Maps Engine Pro is a paid product. It costs $5 per month, per user, or $50 per year, per user.
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Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle (; March 1, 1926 – December 6, 1996) was an American businessman and executive. Rozelle served as the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) for nearly thirty years, from January 1960 until his retirement in November 1989. He became the youngest commissioner in NFL history at just the age of 33. He is credited with making the NFL into one of the most successful sports leagues in the world.

During his tenure, Rozelle saw the NFL grow from 12 teams to 28, oversaw the creation of large television-rights deals and the creation of Monday Night Football in 1970, oversaw the 1970 AFL–NFL merger and the creation of the Super Bowl, and helped the NFL move from a twelve-game schedule to a sixteen-game schedule. By the time of his retirement, many people considered him the most powerful commissioner in sports. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985.

Early life
Born in South Gate, California, Rozelle grew up in neighboring Lynwood during the Great Depression. He graduated from Compton High School in 1944, with Duke Snider, lettering in tennis and basketball. He was drafted into the U.S. Navy in 1944 and served 18 months in the Pacific on an oil tanker.

Rozelle entered Compton Community College in 1946. While there he worked as the student athletic news director and also worked part-time for the Los Angeles Rams as a public relations assistant. Pete Newell, head coach for the University of San Francisco Dons basketball team, came to Compton in 1948 for a recruiting visit. Impressed by Rozelle, Newell helped arrange for him to get a full scholarship to work in a similar capacity at USF.

Rozelle enrolled at USF that year and worked as a student publicist for the USF Dons athletic department. In addition to promoting the school's football team he was able to draw national attention to the Dons' 1949 National Invitation Tournament (NIT) championship basketball team. After graduating from USF in 1950 he was hired by the school as the full-time athletic news director.

In 1952, he re-joined the Rams as a PR specialist. Leaving after three years, he held a series of public relations jobs in southern California, including marketing the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia for a Los Angeles-based company. In 1957, he returned to the Rams, a disorganized, unprofitable team, lost in the growing L.A. market, as their general manager. In spite of continued struggles on the field, including a league-worst 2–10 record in 1959, he turned them into a business success in just three years.

NFL commissioner

1960s
After Bert Bell's death in October , the 33-year-old Rozelle was the surprise choice for his replacement as NFL commissioner. According to Howard Cosell in his 1985 book I Never Played the Game, the owners took 23 ballots before settling on Rozelle as NFL Commissioner at a January 26, 1960, meeting.

When he took office following the  season, there were twelve teams in the NFL playing a twelve-game schedule to frequently half-empty stadiums, and only a few teams had television contracts. The NFL in  was following a business model that had evolved from the 1930s. One of Rozelle's early accomplishments was helping the league adopt profit-sharing of gate and television revenues. The revenue-sharing was a major factor in stabilizing the NFL and guaranteeing the success of its small-market teams. Another important contribution was Rozelle's success in negotiating large television contracts to broadcast every NFL game played each season. In doing so, he deftly played one television network against the other. In early 1962, Rozelle was re-elected to a five-year contract to remain as commissioner, with a salary continuing at $50,000 per year. Less than five months later, he was granted a $10,000 bonus (for ) and his annual salary was increased by $10,000 to $60,000.

John F. Kennedy assassination

After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, Rozelle wrestled with the decision of whether to cancel that Sunday's games. Rozelle and White House press secretary Pierre Salinger had been classmates at the University of San Francisco, so Rozelle consulted with him. Salinger urged Rozelle to play the games, so he agreed for the schedule to proceed. Rozelle felt that way, saying: "It has been traditional in sports for athletes to perform in times of great personal tragedy. Football was Mr. Kennedy's game. He thrived on competition." After their win over the Philadelphia Eagles in Philadelphia, players on the Washington Redskins asked Coach Bill McPeak to send the game ball to the White House, thanking Rozelle for allowing the games to be played that weekend, saying that they were "playing...for President Kennedy and in his memory." There were players and news outlets that disagreed with the decision, and Rozelle subsequently thought it might have been wiser to cancel those games. The American Football League (AFL) and most major colleges did not play games that weekend.

Citing his "aptitude for conciliation" with the league's owners, his work in expanding the NFL, and his crackdown on player gambling, Sports Illustrated named Rozelle their "Sportsman of the Year" for 1963.

The AFL
By , the rival American Football League obtained a new NBC-TV contract and had signed a new superstar in Joe Namath. As the leagues battled to sign top talent, bonuses and salaries grew dramatically, especially after a series of "raids" on each other's talent, both signed and unsigned. The leagues agreed to a merger in 1966. Among the conditions were a common draft and a championship game played between the two league champions first played in early 1967, the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, which would eventually become known as the Super Bowl. Rozelle led negotiations with AFL and NFL executives to merge the two leagues. In October 1966, he testified in front of Congress and convinced them to allow the merger. Rozelle played an important role in making the Super Bowl the most watched sporting event in the United States.

Due to television contracts, the AFL and NFL operated as separate leagues until 1970, with separate regular season schedules, but they met in the preseason and in the championship game. Although Rozelle nominally remained the NFL commissioner, he was given broad authority over both leagues after AFL Commissioner Al Davis was forced to resign and ultimately replaced by an AFL President subordinate to the NFL Commissioner. During this time, the NFL Commissioner's office came to resemble that of the Commissioner of Baseball and Rozelle unofficially became known as the Football Commissioner although that was never an official title. Meanwhile, the AFL expanded, adding the Miami Dolphins in 1966, and the Cincinnati Bengals in 1967. Also during this period, the NFL added the Atlanta Falcons in 1966, and the New Orleans Saints in 1967. In 1970, the AFL was absorbed into the NFL and the league reorganized with the ten AFL franchises along with the previous NFL teams Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns, and Pittsburgh Steelers becoming part of the newly formed American Football Conference (AFC), with all of the remaining pre-merger NFL teams forming the National Football Conference (NFC). By 1970, the newly reconstituted NFL stood at 26 teams.

1970s
In 1970, Rozelle proposed his concept, Monday Night Football, to Roone Arledge, then the head of the ABC television network. After selling his idea to ABC, Monday Night Football premiered in September 1970 with the Cleveland Browns against the New York Jets; the Browns won the game, 31–21. The program is still broadcast today. Monday Night Football aired on ABC for 36 seasons (1970–2005). Except for the 1998 season in which games aired at 8:20 p.m. Eastern Time, games aired at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The first broadcast announcing team was Don Meredith, Howard Cosell, and Keith Jackson. In 2006, Monday Night Football was moved to ABC's sister network ESPN. The NFL expanded by two more teams in 1976, with the addition of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks; this brought the league to 28 teams, which would stand as such for the rest of Rozelle's tenure as commissioner.

1980s

In the 1980s, Al Davis, owner of the Oakland Raiders franchise, sued the NFL in order to relocate the team to Los Angeles. Rozelle represented the NFL, testifying in court to block the Raiders' move. Ultimately, the NFL lost its court case with Davis, and the Oakland franchise moved to Los Angeles in 1982. The tension between Rozelle and Davis, who had wanted to be NFL commissioner, was apparent throughout the case. In January 1981, just after the case was settled, the Oakland Raiders won Super Bowl XV and Rozelle as commissioner was tasked with handing the Super Bowl Trophy to Davis. The Raiders moved back to Oakland in 1995.

Influence
Under Rozelle the NFL thrived and became an American institution, despite two players' strikes and two different competing leagues. He retired as commissioner on November 5, . By the time of his resignation, the number of teams in the league had grown to 28, and team owners presided over sizable revenues from U.S. broadcasting networks.

Rozelle's legacy of equalization has been felt not only in the NFL, but also in the Australian Football League, the major Australian-rules football competition. In 1986, The AFL Commission adopted a policy of equalization based on the method pioneered by Rozelle in the NFL. It is because of this decision that expansion clubs have been able to survive, as well as older clubs with smaller support bases. An example of this is the 1996 AFL Grand Final between North Melbourne and the Sydney Swans, two teams with small supporter bases.

Honors
Rozelle was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985 while still serving as its commissioner. The NFL's annual Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award was established in 1989 to recognize "longtime exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football", and is awarded annually by the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

In 1990, the league instituted the Pete Rozelle Trophy to honor the Super Bowl MVP, first awarded in the  season at Super Bowl XXV on January 27, 1991. A month after Rozelle's death in December 1996, the NFL honored his legacy with a decal on the back of the helmets of the teams competing in Super Bowl XXXI.

In 1990, Rozelle received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. He was honored with the "Lombardi Award of Excellence" from the Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation in 1991.

For his contribution to sports in Los Angeles, Rozelle was honored by Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum commissioners with a "Court of Honor" plaque at the Coliseum.

Personal life and death
Rozelle married Jane Coupe, an artist, in 1949. The couple had one child, Anne Marie, born in 1958. Rozelle was awarded full custody of Anne Marie after his 1972 divorce due to Coupe's alcoholism. Rozelle remarried in December 1973 to Carrie Cooke, a former daughter-in-law of Jack Kent Cooke, owner of the Washington Redskins.

On December 6, 1996, seven years after his retirement in 1989, Rozelle died of brain cancer at the age of 70 at Rancho Santa Fe, California, and was interred at El Camino Memorial Park in San Diego.

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Home Marijuana News Politics Reports: Trump Threatens to Invade Mexico
Reports: Trump Threatens to Invade Mexico
byBill Weinberg
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Amid rapidly deteriorating relations between the U.S. and Mexico, reports are emerging that President Donald Trump openly threatened military intervention in a phone call with his counterpart Enrique Peña Nieto.
According to a partial transcript of the conversation obtained by the Associated Press, Trump told Peña Nieto: "You have a bunch of bad hombres down there. You aren't doing enough to stop them. I think your military is scared. Our military isn't, so I just might send them down to take care of it." ("Bad hombres" is a term Trump also used in his final debate during the presidential campaign to refer to Mexican narco-gangs.)
AP said it obtained the transcript excerpt from a "person with access" who provided it on condition of anonymity. The Mexican news website Aristegui Noticias published a similar account of the call, based on reporting by journalist Dolia Estévez. The report described "a very offensive conversation in which Trump humiliated Peña Nieto."
Mexico's Exterior Secretariat quickly denied the Aristegui Noticias account, saying it "is based on absolute falsehoods," and later said the statement also applied to the excerpt published by the AP.
The prospect of an actual war with Mexico may not be as far-fetched as it seems.
.On Jan. 6, an official with the U.S consulate in Guadalajara was wounded in a shooting attack on his car as he was driving out of a parking garage at a shopping center.
Nightmarish narco-violence continues to be a near-daily phenomenon across Mexico. Four were killed when gunmen attacked the Quintana Roo state prosecutors' office with bullets and improvised explosives in the resort city of Cancún on Jan. 14. One day earlier, five were killed and several injured in a shoot-up of an electronic music festival at a venue in nearby Playa del Carmen. A banner that appeared on a nearby roadside declared the area the territory of the "Old School Zetas."
And the official authorities continue to be nearly as lawless as the drug cartels they are ostensibly fighting.
UN Special Rapporteur Michel Forst delivered a preliminary report on Jan. 24 decrying that human rights defenders in Mexico are themselves targeted for right violations. Rights defenders are arbitrarily arrested and detained, and their families threatened, to silence them. The report found that nearly 98 percent of crimes committed in Mexico remain unresolved, contributing to "the sense of widespread impunity."
The U.S. has long been backing Mexican security forces in their lawless drug war through the massive aid program known as the Merida Initiative. Activists have been protesting to call a halt to this aid.
But if the White House adopts a position of open hostility to the Mexican government, we could be looking at a far greater disaster.
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Oregon Cannabis Industry in 'Weakest Economic Position' Since Launch in 2016
Supply continues to sharply outpace demand in Oregon.
A California lawmaker has introduced legislation to permit the state's licensed cannabis consumption lounges to serve freshly prepared food and drink and host live events.
Legislation To Launch Adult-Use Sales in Maryland Unveiled
Two companion bills would set a tax structure, a reinvestment fund, and other provisions in Maryland.
Federal Judge Rules Gun Ban for Weed Smokers Unconstitutional
A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled last week that a federal law that bans gun ownership by cannabis users is unconstitutional.
Florida To Double Number of Medical Cannabis Licenses
Florida regulators announced last week that new licenses will be issued to double the number of medical marijuana operators in the state.
Australia Approves MDMA, Psilocybin for Therapeutic Use
The change in policy will begin in July in Australia.
Oklahoma Could Generate Nearly $500M if Recreational Pot is Legalized
In just about a month, Oklahoma voters will decide if medical cannabis legalization in the state should be expanded to recreational use for adults 21 and older via State Question 820.
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The MAAS lab is designed to facilitate a wide-range of analytical methods in archaeology, including stable and radiogenic isotope analysis (C/N/O/Pb/Sr/S), thin-section preparation, sclerochronology and high-resolution digital light microscopy.
Researchers in this laboratory work with a diverse range of materials to answer questions ranging from the deep archaeological past, to the historic era through the examination of animal and human populations. The lab specializes in the analysis of organic and inorganic hard-tissues including human and animal bone, teeth, hair, shell, coral as well as metals, ceramics and sediments from archaeological contexts worldwide.
Working collaboratively with staff at CREAIT researchers at the MAAS lab have access to state-of-the art instrumentation for geochemical analysis and visualization. In particular, the Micro-Analysis Facility and the Earth Resources Research and Analysis Facility.
Dr. Meghan Burchell: sclerochronology, digital microscopy, marine hard tissues (shells/corals), stable isotopes (O/C/N), trace elements, petrography, materials science.
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Human-environmental interactions in the Salish Sea, British Columbia: archaeological histories of seasonality, subsistence and settlement through high- resolution biogeochemistry (PI, SSHRC Insight Grant, 2015-2019)
Increasing the capacity for sourcing archaeological material from Newfoundland and Labrador using Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (SEM-EDX) (Seed, Bridge and Multidisciplinary Fund, Memorial University, with Dr. David Grant, Microanalytical Facility, CREAIT)
Geochemical analysis and population dynamics to understand shellfish harvesting at Port Joli Nova-Scotia (Collaboration with Dr. Matthew Betts, Canadian Museum of History)
Trace Element Analysis in Bivalve Shells: Refining Palaeoclimate Reconstructions at Archaeological Sites in British Columbia (SSHRC Vice- President's Research Grant)
Dr. Vaughan Grimes
Reconstructing diets using carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of single amino acids (CSIA). In collaboration with Dr. Geert Van Biesen (CREAIT, MUN). We are using these new techniques in a variety of collaborative projects with:
Drs. Marcello Mannino and Ben Fuller (Aarhus University)
Dr. Wim Van Neer (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences)
Cara Kubiac, PhD Candidate and Prof. Michael Richards (Simon Fraser University)
San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project (SGARP). (Collaboration with Davide Zori, Colleen Zori, Lori Baker, Alden Smith (Baylor University) and Veronica Ikeshoji-Orlati (Vanderbilt University)). For more about SGART see here https://www.baylor.edu/bic/index.php?id=940301
Biomolecular archaeology study of prehistoric populations from Northeastern North America (SSHRC Insight Grant, 2014-2017, Co-PI with Dr. H. Poinar, McMaster University)
Investigating lead exposure patterns in Royal Navy populations from the colonial era (SSHRC Insight Grant, 2014-2018, Co-PI with Dr. T. Varney (Lakehead), Dr. D. Cooper, Dr. I. Coulthard and Dr. T. Swanston (Saskatchewan)
Developing a new chronology for human occupations in Eastern Canada (Memorial University Vice President's Research Grant and Faculty of Arts grant funded)
Migration in Neolithic/Chalcolithic and Roman period Spain and Portugal (Collaboration with Dr. A.-M. Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal)
With ample lay-out space, different areas of the lab are dedicated to pre-treatment of hard-tissues prior to geochemical analysis (shell, bone, teeth, hair, metals, and ceramics), in addition to equipment for collagen extraction & hydrolysis, digital microscopy, and petrography & histology.
AirClean Ductless Workstation
Buehler ISOMET 1000 Low-speed precision Saw
Buehler Metaserve 250 Grinder Polisher
Low-heat gravity convection oven
Zeiss Stemi-2000 digital microscope with live-capture camera & Minimo precision drill
Vitris Benchtop Freeze dryer
Fisher Scientific Marathon 13K/M Microcentrifuge
High temperature box Furnace (Thermo Scientific Lindberg/Blue 1200)
Water Purification System (Zeneer Power TOC System)
ThermoFisher Reacti-Vap Evaporator and Reacti-Therm Module
Ultralow temperature freezer
Ultrasonic baths
Heating block
Eppendorf swing bucket centrifuge
Micro-balances for sample weighing
Hand held micro-drill
Refrigerator and freezer for sample storage and preparation
Dedicated space and facilities in the Radiogenic Isotope Laboratory, Department of Earth Sciences (low blank HEPA filtered clean boxes, distilled acids, wet chemistry methods element purification) for the extraction and isotope analysis of trace and rare earth elements in a variety of materials.
Dr. Madeleine Mant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Banting Post Doctoral Fellow. Stories in Sailor's Bones: A multi-proxy to understanding health and life-histories of Transatlantic voyagers through the 18th and 19th centuries.
PhD. McMaster University, 2016.
Students & Research Assistants
Jess Munkittrick, Ph.D. student
Asta Rand, Ph.D. student
Rachelle Brydon, M.A. student
Anna Sparrow, M.A. student
Ian Predham, Undergraduate Research Student
Christine Conlan, Undergraduate Honours Research Student
Johanna Bosch, Undergraduate Research Student
Cara Kubiak. PhD Candidate, Simon Fraser University (November 2018)
Dr. Marcello Mannino. Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark (July 2018)
Dr. Benjamin Fuller. Post-Doctoral Researcher, Aarhus University, Denmark (July 2018)
Rikke Maring. PhD Candidate, Aarhus University, Denmark (July 2018)
Jessica Hinton. MA Candidate, University of New Brunswick (June 2018)
Sally McGrath, Interdisciplinary PhD, University of New Brunswick (February 2018)
Megan Wong, PhD student, Simon Fraser University (February 2017).
Ciara Ann Gigleux, PhD student, University of Aberdeen (July 2015).
Dr. Kate Britton, Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen (July 2015).
Bower, Megan. P.hD. (2017). Exploring the Potential of Strontium Isotope Analysis to Detect Archaeological Migration Events in Southern Ontario, Canada.
Merner, Courtney. M.A. (2017) Reconstructing southeast Iberian Copper Age mobility: a strontium isotope analysis of the Camino del Molino mass burial.
Leclerc, Natasha. M.A. (2017). Long-term Histories of Clam Harvesting and Seasonal Settlement Strategies on Shíshálh Lands, British Columbia.
Harris, Alison. M.A. (2017). Stable Isotope Evidence for Amerindian Subsistence in Newfoundland.
Munkittrick, Jess. M.A. (2016). A Nursery for Sailors: Life histories from the St. John's Royal Naval hospital cemetery, Newfoundland.
Young-Boyle, Chandra. M.A. (2015) Archaeological otoliths as environmental recorders: high resolution sampling of Pacific cod (Gads macrocephalous) otoliths from Kiska Island, Alaska.
Hamilton, Tyrone. M.A. (2015). An Experimental Geochemical Characterization Analysis of Archaeological Iron from the Central Contact Period of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Ellerbrock, Brittany. M.A. (2014). An isotopic reconstruction of diet and origins in an 18th-Century mass burial site at the Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia.
Pike, Kelly-Anne. M.A. (2014). Bearing identity: a bicultural analysis of human remains from Old Mission Point, New Brunswick.
Guiry, Eric. M.A. (2012). Dogs as analogs in stable isotope based human paleodietry reconstructions: assessing the canine surrogacy approach.
Morry, Alicia. B.A. Hons. (2017) The hunt for red ochre: potential applications of ochre characterization in Newfoundland, Canada.
Rees, Daniel. B.A. Hons. (2017) A possible case of Litterer-Siwe disease in the Maritime Archaic of the Eastern sub-Arctic: an analysis and retro-diagnosis using scanning-electron microscopy.
Harris, Alison. B.A. Hons. (2014). Distinguishing archaeological wild and domestic canids from Labrador, NL, Canada with stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of bone collagen.
Dawe, Kendra. B.A. Hons. (2012). Reconstructing diet of the Beothuk: a biomolecular pilot study.
Holmes, Andrew. B.A. Hons. (2012). Reconstructing early modern human palaeoenvironments using stable isotope analysis of faunal remains at the site of El Miron, Spain.
Desson, Rae. B.A. Hons. (2011). An osteological study of human remains from the 17th century fishing plantation site of Dos de Cheval, Newfoundland.
Hill, Caitlyn. B.A. Hons. (2009). ChAe-13, The Bay Bulls burial: an osteological analysis and possible historical context of unidentified human remains.
Research Partners & Collaborators
Canadian Light Source/Centre canadien de rayonnement synchrotron
Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Canada
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
University de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
University of Northern British Columbia
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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WHEAT:NEWS MARCH 2022 Volume 13, Number 3
Wheatstone will be at NAB 2022... See us in booth N2631!
When Your Station is On Fire!
One minute Steve Clendenin was chatting with the regulars, the next he was running out the door of the restaurant, heart pounding as flames lapped at the WMIR-FM/WYAY-FM studio in downtown Myrtle Beach, S.C.
A video recorded off someone's phone and the dead-air alarms going off on his phone confirmed the worst. "I got there, and the entire roof was engulfed in flames," recalled Clendenin, who simulcasts an oldies format (Carolina Gold) on two frequencies in the area and owns WCNS AM/FM and WXJX AM/FM in Pennsylvania as well as WHGM AM/FM in Maryland under his Maryland Media One company.
Later, he learned that flames shot up the side of the office complex he shares with eight other businesses, and then traveled up the wood frame to the roof, which collapsed in on the second-story studio. Everything in the studio facility was either crushed, burned, or soaked. "I had antique radios in the lobby and the only thing left of those radios were the tubes and some metal coils from the speakers," he said.
With both transmitter sites still functional, Steve was able to redirect music programming logs from a PlayoutONE automation server offsite and continue local programming within a few hours. He has since moved into a new WheatNet-IP audio networked studio across the street and has a few suggestions for other broadcasters who want to avoid disaster.
Isolate studios if possible. Maryland Media One's new studio in Myrtle Beach is on the ground floor and isolated from other office suites on its own concrete slab, making it harder for fire to spread. "Most of the commercial buildings here aren't required to have sprinklers so if a fire breaks out in suite one or two, at least there's infrastructure in place to keep the fire from spreading."
Remote redundancy is a must. Having a backup of the PlayoutONE program automation system in a server off-site and a way for the transmitter site to log onto it was key to getting Carolina Gold programming back on the air before morning drive in nearby Wilmington. WMIR 93.9 serving Myrtle Beach remained off the air a little longer due to the swampy location of the transmitter site that made it impossible to access at night. Staff had to wait until morning to reboot the laptop there and redirect the transmitter IP link to the new server address. Since the fire, Steve has installed a new computer at the transmitter site and programmed the IP link to switch feeds automatically to the off-site PlayoutONE automation server whenever silence is detected by the studio WheatNet-IP system.
Take time to plan audio paths in the event of an emergency. "Before, with analog, you just plugged things in to get audio and that was good enough. Now with AoIP, I can plan backups of backups for stations in three different markets. If something happens, we can reverse audio fairly quickly. But it all comes down to mapping an IP audio plan first and having a flexible automation system."
Deepen the AoIP/automation connection. It's not enough today that the program automation system can playout the music log and the AoIP system can switch between sources and studios. It's not even enough that the two systems can talk to each other. The automation system and the AoIP need to be tightly integrated so that if there's a program interruption due to fire, flood or other disaster, the automation system will know what to do. In the case of WMIR-FM/WYAY-FM, that tight integration between the PlayoutONE and WheatNet-IP is all done through the WheatNet-IP ACI, a control interface that extends AoIP control logic to the program automation system. This makes it possible for the automation system to not only turn channels on/off, set fader levels and change bus assigns automatically according to event or program segment, it's also critical should the stations need to automatically switch a transmitter's incoming program feed to an off-site automation server during a disaster.
Think BIG network. Maryland Media One owns stations in three states as well as two state news networks: Radio PA and Maryland News Network. Both news networks recently shifted from delivering content via satellite to cloud access, serving more than 115 affiliates and a virtual news team that works out of their homes. "I'm looking at growth for my company, and virtual, AoIP and cloud, it's all a godsend for us."
One-Studio Wonder
What's AoIP without the network?
You're looking at it. One studio, one IP-12 console, and every possible workflow imaginable for on-air, production, even syndication. It's all done right here in Carolina Gold's new Myrtle Beach, North Carolina, WheatNet-IP audio studio.
This happened because the previous studio was destroyed by a fire in October and new owner Steve Clendenin, who purchased 106.3 (WYAY) of Wilmington and 93.9 (WMIR) in Myrtle Beach the previous May, didn't have time to build out an analog studio. He had already wired together a completely new analog studio just three months prior to the fire and it was a long, drawn-out ordeal he didn't want to repeat. With that studio now completely toast and talent working temporarily from home in the meantime, he needed a more immediate solution.
Enter the one-studio WheatNet-IP audio network solution, which cut the cost and time of putting in a new studio from weeks to days. It helped that the new location was directly across the street from the old location with line-of-sight to the WMIR-FM transmitter site and previously occupied by an IT company with a killer server room that he could convert into a rack room. All Clendenin needed to do was run about 10 feet of CAT6 cable from the rack room to the IP-12 console in the studio.
The IP-12 console has four event switches, which gives Carolina Gold four completely independent console snapshots for working with different workflows. "We can easily do production in our on-air studio without having to worry about kicking someone out to do all the mix-minus and setup. This gives us the ability to fully utilize that one studio without having to have a second or third studio and take up more real estate space," said Clendenin. Plus, he added, "We're using WheatNet with PlayoutONE so if we need to grow and need more inputs or outputs, we can. We can always route through PlayoutONE for live or voicetrack, for example. It just gives us unlimited capabilities on expanding our automation system."
When we spoke to Clendenin, it was two days after talent had signed on with the new studio and he had just decided to add program syndication to the studio's workload. "Our afternoon drive-time jock does a syndicated beach music show that we are the flagship for, on about 125 websites and stations around the world. He was producing it from home but this week, he will start doing it from the studio. He can easily lay down the voice work and do the phone calls and all the interviews while he's in here and knock three things out at once, instead of going home."
For now, everything for Myrtle Beach is currently being done from that one studio, but Clendenin has big plans for his growing radio operation, which includes the two FMs mentioned plus six stations and two local news networks up the coast. He plans to eventually convert to AoIP for each of his market locations in Maryland, where he operates WHGM AM/FM in Havre de Grace, and in Pennsylvania, where he operates WXJX AM/FM licensed to Greensburg and WCNS AM/FM licensed to Latrobe. "That way, we can have monitoring and remote control access from Maryland or PA to Myrtle Beach so that we always have eyes on each market," he said.
The last thing he wants to ever deal with again is the devastation of a studio fire.
Hypervisors, Thin Clients and VoxPro
In this video shot during a Zoom call, Bill Jackson tells us how he's virtualizing VoxPro audio recording/editing functions using VMWare, thin client and a Windows® dongle server.
Jackson is the Principal Studio Engineer for Educational Media Foundation (EMF), the parent company of K-LOVE and Air1 radio networks broadcasting on stations across 50 states.
To centralize music playout and voice editing, he set up VMWare to manage several server blades* running the RCS playout system and VoxPro editing at EMF's Franklin, Tenn. media center. VoxPro is running in Windows 10 and shared across a number of Windows instances on a network of thin clients. He's using Hewlett Packard's thin operating system based on RDP, or remote desktop protocol.
Jackson is currently in the process of duplicating the same infrastructure in EMF's media center in Rocklin, Calif. "We're not working in the cloud and nor would I want to work in the cloud for our ministry," he explained. "This is truly a hypervisor. We're doing it under VMware and there is an underlying Windows machine that is doing that within that virtualization stack and VoxPro is running in that Windows environment."
The Cisco cluster houses several server blades that VMWare manages the hardware resources for, plus the Windows virtual machines. A SAN array is acting as the drive space for the virtual machines. Because the thin operating system doesn't accept a driver required by the dongle key code, he's using an SEH dongle server to license VoxPro from its virtual Windows environment. SEH has a utility that runs on Windows to instruct where the virtual USB port is that authenticates the licensing key needed.
Virtualizing what once took up 172 rack units has been reduced to equipment in 12 RUs, five for the SAN array plus seven RUs for the virtual stack of servers. Cost savings for satellite and other hardware nearing obsolesce is estimated at around $300,000, not including electrical, AC and real estate cost savings as a result of the virtualized system.
The virtual system is currently at 50 percent capacity.
*Note: Not to be confused with WheatNet-IP I/O Blades, server blades are ultra-compact server modules typically housed together several in a chassis.
8 Smart Studio Trends
Here are the eight most significant studio trends you should be thinking about as you plan your next studio project.
Home is where the studios are. You already know that spare bedrooms are being turned into studios. But did you know that studios also are being turned into home-like settings? The Bridge (90.9) in Kansas City is just one example of how stations are adding courtyard entertainment and living room-like studio spaces with WheatNet-IP routing, control, and automated cameras throughout. (Read Wheat News article Radio, We're Ready for Your Close-Up Now.)
Virtual is real. It's everywhere and on every device, from multiple screens in the control room to tablets on the ballfield. Virtual and WheatNet-IP is why the Reach Media syndication can touch everything from home to studio, tablet to console surface, and from single location to multiple locations between New York to Los Angeles. (Read Wheat News article A Tale of Three Touchscreens.)
AoIP is the rising tide lifting all boats. AoIP has been a part of larger station groups for some time. But now stations like student-run CFAK-FM in Quebec are going AoIP with fully contained, IP audio networked DMX consoles and saving a boatload on wiring and other costs associated with an analog alternative. (Read Wheat News article Upsizing Small Studios to AoIP.)
Studios are downsizing as the cost of real estate rises. Consider Great Eastern Radio, which rented out half of its three-story building in New Hampshire by consolidating its eight stations into a new studio space that takes up a little over a floor. The regional broadcaster went with "glass" consoles in some studios and created codec gateways throughout, all managed, controlled and routed through WheatNet-IP audio networking.
TOC rooms occupy a smaller footprint. Broadcasters are using what space they do have for voiceover booths and other workspaces, not for racks of equipment. Audio codecs now occupy the same I/O unit in the rack room along with audio processing and other apps, thanks to our new Blade 4.
No more Windows® updates or PCs. Rows of PCs are being replaced by Linux AoIP streaming appliances. As part of its WheatNet-IP audio networked studios, Great Eastern Radio is managing metadata, processing and provisioning for 16-plus streaming instances through one RU Streamblade appliance, with capacity to spare.
Help wanted. Short-staffed stations are leaning more on technology partners such as Wheatstone for everything from initial project planning and AoIP system pre-configuration to commissioning and ongoing support. (Read Wheat News article Project in the Cayman Islands.)
It's all in the AoIP. Everything from mic processing to streaming appliances and automation integration is now part of one native AoIP environment. All this and more is in WheatNet-IP, making it possible to scale operations by show or by region or even for eventually offloading part or all of your operation to the cloud.
NAB 2022. WE'LL BE THERE. BOOTH N2631
We'll be at booth N2631 with all the Wheat you've come to know, plus a few surprises we're keeping under wraps until then. Here's what we can tell you so far:
New in AoIP
New consoles, new Blade and new, well, you'll see. It's All in the WheatNet.
New in Audio processing
We're bringing along the MP-532, the new multiprocessor for AM/FM/HD that everyone's talking about. Hear it for yourself. Booth N2631.
New in Streaming
What used to require a row of computers for streaming multiple programs and another PC for metadata along with audio processing for each channel can now be contained in one AoIP Linux appliance. You'll see.
ONSITE OR CLOUD? STRATEGIES FOR MIXING IT UP.
Presented by Wheatstone Technology Manager Dominic Giambo, NAB Sunday, at 2:35 pm
Not ready to entrust your entire operation to a cloud provider, if ever? Dominic has a few strategies for you, including one very promising option that doesn't require a complete infrastructure overhaul. He'll be presenting at the upcoming NAB Broadcast Engineering & IT Conference on NAB Sunday, April 24, in room W-3017-W309 at 2:35 to 2:55 pm.
DJ your own radio show. There's an app for that.
Raspberry Pi, atomic clock?
Prison radio station
How Long Does It Take To Reboot a LOT of Blades?
In this video, Jay Tyler reboots 75 BLADEs in about 1.5 minutes.
The Wheatstone online store is now open! You can purchase demo units, spare cards, subassemblies, modules and other discontinued or out-of-production components for Wheatstone, Audioarts, PR&E and VoxPro products online, or call Wheatstone customer support at 252-638-7000 or contact the Wheatstone technical support team online as usual.
The store is another convenience at wheatstone.com, where you can access product manuals, white papers and tutorials as well as technical and discussion forums such as our AoIP Scripters Forum.


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Gross domestic product fell at an annual rate of 0.1pc after growing at a 3.1pcin the third quarter, the Commerce Department said.
"The big surprise came in defence spending. We thought it would be down a lot, but it was down even more than that at 22pc, Another area that stood out was inventory investment which subtracted 1.3 percentage point from GDP. I'm not deeply concerned about either one of these. Part of the drop in defence spending is payback for a spurt we had in the third quarter. On balance, though, defence spending has been declining for the last year or two.
"On the inventory situation, there is cautious management of inventories, but I don't think we're at the beginning of a major inventory correction.
"On the postive side, consumer spending was reasonably good at 2.2pc. Business outlays for new equipment were strong at 12.4pc and residential construction was solid at 15.3pc."
"It is easy to be spooked by this number. But there are a couple of important things that need to be considered. The decline was because of inventories and the government, subtracting sizable from growth in the fourth quarter. Having said that, this is a rear view mirror number.
"One thing is fairly certain and that is consumers in the current quarter will succumb as a result of the payrolls tax hike, but that could be offset by an inventory swing. This report is eye opening and shows we are still in an extremely challenging economic backdrop. That fact that inventories were soft enough that is was able to drive economic activity reflects that."
"There's a huge plunge in defence spending, enormous, 22.2pc in defence spending after a big jump in the previous quarter. That probably took at least apcage point off the growth rate, it may have taken a little more. So that was huge.
"In addition, the third quarter was a big quarter for inventory accumulation. Inventory accumulation slowed a lot in the fourth quarter. Inventories subtracted 1.3pcage points from growth.
"You got a combination of inventories and defence which are taking more than 2pc off the growth rate. That drop in defence is not going to happen again. Clearly the trend for defence is down, but it's probably undershot that trend now. And we're not going to get a 1.3pc drag from inventories every quarter.
"This is, if you like, it's a payback - a severe payback - but a payback for that 3.1 (percent growth) that we got in the third quarter. So if you think we got a 3.1 followed by a minus 0.1, the average of those is about 1.5pc and I think that's what tells you the underlying growth pace of the economy was in the second half of the year.
"So there may be people running around after this talking about recession, I hope not too many, but this is not indicator of recession."
"This shows you the fear factor about the fiscal cliff slowed things a lot. It will motivate Congress to come up with a deal and not let the sequester activate. (The decline comes) "if you cut too much government spending, and now with higher taxes kicking inn, that slows the consumer even more."
"The market is due for a pullback. I'm not sure if this is going to be the reason for it, maybe what the Fed says this evening certainly could. The Fed is probably going to continue to be somewhat dovish in their statement later today."
"A surge in (government bond) yields is probably not going to happen so that is good."
"The decline was certainly not what the market expected. There was less inventory growth than expected, exports were a drag and there was a big drop in government purchases.
"We have a slowing in government spending associated with the fiscal situation as well as some drawdown in military activity. This is also the preliminary estimate, much of it based on Commerce Department assumptions. This could be revised, hopefully upward, in the next report. This report doesn't have immediate implications for Fed policy. They will be unhappy with it, but it's one quarter's number.


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A large facility located in an excellent location in a location directly connected to Invalides Station is the Air France Museum of Art.
The Air France Institute of Fine Arts has exhibits and goods related to airplanes sold and is a facility worthy of entering as an airplane lover.
It is also a city Air Terminal in Air France, so it could be used effectively.
As a sightseeing it is a historical building like Paris.
Just watching it is beautiful, and the signboard of Air France which is standing on the wall also faces the building, and the French appearance is transmitted.
Invalides Station
http://www.museeairfrance.org/fr
Air France Institute of Fine Arts
Invalides Square
Alexandre III bridge
Palais Bourbon
You can see the Bourbon Palace in the background
Full picture of the Air France Institute of Fine Arts
Open Tourist Map


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Published: July 17, 2021, 2:42 PM
Updated: July 17, 2021, 2:48 PM
Tags: Florida, Crime, Strange Florida
Sheriff: Florida man stole car, got into Coast Guard plane
Published: July 17, 2021, 2:42 PM Updated: July 17, 2021, 2:48 PM
CLEARWATER, Fla. – A Florida man crashed a stolen car through an airport fence and got into a Coast Guard airplane's cockpit before he was arrested, investigators said Saturday.
The suspect was identified by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office as 36-year-old Herrera Hamilton Moreno, who was jailed Saturday with bond set at $24,150. Jail records did not list an attorney for Moreno.
According to the sheriff's department, deputies at St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport began pursuing a vehicle driving near parked commercial airliners. It had crashed through the airport fence to gain access.
The chase continued as the vehicle headed toward the airport's Coast Guard station. The suspect identified as Hamilton Moreno got out on foot, went into a Coast Guard C-130 aircraft and made it to the cockpit, where he was arrested, the sheriff's office said.
The vehicle had previously been reported stolen in Tampa.
Hamilton Moreno faces a variety of charges, including grand theft auto, fleeing and eluding, burglary and criminal mischief. He may also face federal charges, according to the sheriff's news release.


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San Antonio company tied to fraud in Mexico received COVID relief loan
Jason Buch, For the Express-News
Rafael Antonio Olvera Amezcua fled Mexico years ago after his savings and loan collapsed, and investors lost $350 million. Olvera had purchased a number of properties in San Antonio. He was picked up here by immigration authorities.
G01011534.JPG MÉXICO, D.F.- Fraude-Ficrea.- Recibo de cobro de impuestos enviado por el gobierno de Florida a Rafael Antonio Olvera Amezcua -el socio mayoritario de Ficrea- por concepto de las propiedades que compraron en esa entidad. Foto: Especial Agencia EL UNIVERSAL/RCC. (GDA via AP Images)
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A San Antonio company accused of being part of a scheme to steal money from hundreds of depositors in a Mexican savings and loan institution received assistance from the U.S. government under the Payroll Protection Program.
Leadman Trade Inc., once at the center of a sprawling network of shell companies that owned dozens of pieces of real estate, received a loan between $150,000 and $300,000 under the COVID-19 relief program, according to Small Business Administration records.
Leadman Trade's director, Rafael Olvera Amezcua, is in an immigration detention center in Laredo, where he's fighting deportation to Mexico. A trustee appointed by the Mexican government has accused Olvera Amezcua of stealing 2.7 billion pesos, about $130 million today, from a savings and loan he owned in Mexico and using the money to build a real estate empire in San Antonio, Florida and Europe.
Mexico's government is in the process of liquidating the savings and loan, named Ficrea, to pay back depositors. Leadman Trade Inc., and a similarly named company in Mexico, were key parts of that scheme, according to a lawsuit filed by the trustee, who's overseeing Ficrea's bankruptcy and liquidation.
Last year, Olvera Amezcua, his wife, son, daughter-in-law, Leadman Trade Inc. and dozens of companies they control agreed to turn over 80 pieces of real estate, 19 of them in Bexar County, to be sold so depositors could recoup some of their money. The family still operates businesses in San Antonio, where they and companies associated with them own real estate valued at more than $5 million.
Meanwhile, Olvera Amezcua, a citizen of Mexico, has been locked in a battle with the U.S. government about his future in this country.
"Of course Olvera and his associates are going to try to exploit every advantage they can get from being in the U.S.," Jorge Eduardo Jiménez, a Ficrea depositor who lost 800,000 pesos, about $38,000 today, said when he learned about the loan.
Jiménez, who runs a blog chronicling the allegations against Olvera and efforts by Ficrea's nearly 5,000 creditors to recover their lost assets, said he hopes the U.S. will deport Olvera to Mexico.
But he's not hopeful Ficrea's depositors will recover all of their money.
"If (Olvera) is accused in Mexico, and faces justice here, perhaps the trustee can conduct some type of negotiation with him to return more assets to the bankruptcy proceedings," Jimenez said.
In a 2016 lawsuit filed in Florida, the trustee liquidating Ficrea's assets alleged that from 2012 to 2014, Olvera transferred more than $70 million from Mexico to bank accounts in the U.S. About $30 million of that went to Leadman Trade Inc., the company that received the Payroll Protection Program loan, according to the lawsuit. Another 18 million Euros, about $21.94 million, passed through Leadman Trade before going overseas, according to the lawsuit. Along with real estate, the money was allegedly used to buy high-end automobiles, including Lambourginis and Maseratis.
In August 2019, Leadman Trade Inc., Olvera Amezcua, and dozens of companies accused in the embezzlement scheme agreed to settle the lawsuit filed against them by the Ficrea trustee. They didn't admit wrongdoing, but agreed to turn over millions of dollars in real estate and automobiles.
Over the last six years, Leadman Trade Inc. has been battered by lawsuits and negative press, including a 2015 investigation by the Express-News exposing Olvera Amezcua's business empire.
But in May the company was able to secure a PPP loan from San Antonio's Security Service Federal Credit Union. Leadman Trade Inc., which has used addresses on Loop 1604 near Bandera Road and an office suite on Paesanos Parkway, used the loan of $150,000 to $350,000 to retain 11 employees, according to Small Business Administration records.
Nina Ramon, a spokeswoman for the SBA in Texas, wouldn't answer questions about the loan. Brandy Ralston-Lint, Security Service Federal Credit Union's senior vice president for corporate communications, said privacy laws prevented her from commenting about the loan.
SBA rules prohibit issuing PPP loans if an owner of 20 percent or more in a company has been convicted of or is currently charged with a felony. Olvera Amezcua does not face criminal charges in the U.S., but he is wanted in Mexico on fraud charges, according to U.S. court records.
Javier Maldonado, an immigration attorney representing Olvera Amezcua, said the Mexican government's allegations are false, but said he needed to consult with his client before providing more information.
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Since last spring, Olvera Amezcua has been asking U.S. judges to release him from immigration detention, where he was taken for overstaying his visa.
He initially used his real estate purchases and U.S. business activity to enter this country on an investor visa, according to the trustee's lawsuit. Lawyers for the U.S. government said in another court filing that in 2014, Olvera Amezcua obtained a visa used when a company transfers an employee between countries.
That visa expired in 2017, according to the court records, and in May 2019 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested Olvera Amezcua. He requested asylum, but hasn't been able to get out of detention. A judge in December ordered him deported, a decision he's appealed.
Olvera Amezcua has two pending lawsuits against the U.S. government. One request for release filed in San Antonio is under seal. He's also a plaintiff in a lawsuit by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Texas Civil Rights Project demanding the release of ICE detainees who are at high risk from COVID-19.
In one of his lawsuits, Olvera Amezcua, who's in his 60s, said he suffers from diabetes, among other problems, and is on several medications. He argues the conditions in detention don't sufficiently protect him from contracting COVID-19.
An ICE spokesperson didn't respond to allegations made in the lawsuit.
Olvera Amezcua, his son and other family members are still listed as the officers on a number of companies that own real estate in the San Antonio area. Olvera is listed as the director and his son is listed as the manager of LT Car Holdings, a luxury vehicle dealer on Loop 1604. No one answered the phone there on a recent weekday.
The person who answered the phone at North Asset Capital, another company on Paesanos Parkway that lists Olvera Amezcua as its director and Harlow as its manager, took a message when a reporter called asking for comment. No one called back.
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Jason Buch covers immigration and border affairs for the San Antonio Express-News. A 2007 graduate of Texas State University, Buch worked for two years at the Laredo Morning Times before coming to San Antonio. Buch first worked on the business desk at the Express-News, covering at various times real estate, the automotive industry, manufacturing, technology and telecom. In 2010 he joined the metro desk and took on his current beat.


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Q: PHP: Incomplete differences between the numbers of an array I have created the array $numbers which consists of 45 numbers sorted from smallest to largest, with no number appearing twice:
$numbers = [5, 12, 24, 43, 60, 84, 87, 94, 124, 178, 226, 276, 313, 327, 336, 364, 367 , 368, 383, 399, 403, 434, 505, 539, 545, 582 , 584, 586, 651, 654, 676, 729, 739, 750, 754, 777, 788, 808, 814, 846, 857, 886, 895, 932, 999];

I also define the empty array $differences:
$differences = [];

and save the amount of elements in $numbers as the variable $amount:
$amount = count($numbers);

My goal is to save all differences between the elements of $numbers in the array $differences i.e.:
$differences[] = $numbers[1] - $numbers[0];
$differences[] = $numbers[2] - $numbers[1];

etc.
I would like this process to be done more efficiently through the use of a for loop:
for ($i = 1; $i < $amount; $i++) {
       $differences[] = $numbers[$i] - $numbers[$i-1];
    };

The loop seems to be working fine, however, looking at the content of $differences one notices that it only has 42 numbers stored in it, not the expected 44. By printing $differences you can see that it lacks the last two differences.
Since the script seems to be working fine otherwise and the simplicity of the loop does not leave room for many mistakes, I find this malfunction very bizarre.
Does anyone know what the cause of it might be and how it can be fixed?
EDIT: I isolated the part of the script from my question and now it really doesn't show any faults. I presume I made a mistake in some other part.

A: I ran your code and it outputs 44 results, there's no error here.
$numbers = [5, 12, 24, 43, 60, 84, 87, 94, 124, 178, 226, 276, 313, 327, 336, 364, 367 , 368, 383, 399, 403, 434, 505, 539, 545, 582 , 584, 586, 651, 654, 676, 729, 739, 750, 754, 777, 788, 808, 814, 846, 857, 886, 895, 932, 999];
$amount = count($numbers);
for ($i = 1; $i < $amount; $i++) {
  $differences[] = $numbers[$i] - $numbers[$i-1];
};
  var_dump($differences);

Result:
array(44) {
  [0]=>
  int(7)
  [1]=>
  int(12)
  [2]=>
  int(19)
  [3]=>
  int(17)
  [4]=>
  int(24)
  [5]=>
  int(3)
  [6]=>
  int(7)
  [7]=>
  int(30)
  [8]=>
  int(54)
  [9]=>
  int(48)
  [10]=>
  int(50)
  [11]=>
  int(37)
  [12]=>
  int(14)
  [13]=>
  int(9)
  [14]=>
  int(28)
  [15]=>
  int(3)
  [16]=>
  int(1)
  [17]=>
  int(15)
  [18]=>
  int(16)
  [19]=>
  int(4)
  [20]=>
  int(31)
  [21]=>
  int(71)
  [22]=>
  int(34)
  [23]=>
  int(6)
  [24]=>
  int(37)
  [25]=>
  int(2)
  [26]=>
  int(2)
  [27]=>
  int(65)
  [28]=>
  int(3)
  [29]=>
  int(22)
  [30]=>
  int(53)
  [31]=>
  int(10)
  [32]=>
  int(11)
  [33]=>
  int(4)
  [34]=>
  int(23)
  [35]=>
  int(11)
  [36]=>
  int(20)
  [37]=>
  int(6)
  [38]=>
  int(32)
  [39]=>
  int(11)
  [40]=>
  int(29)
  [41]=>
  int(9)
  [42]=>
  int(37)
  [43]=>
  int(67)
}

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