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“All fish species [that have been tested] can hear,” Krahforst says. “They utilize hearing for a number of purposes.” They use it to find food, locate schoolmates, engage in courtship, and avoid danger. Yet the degree to which a fish relies on hearing varies with each species and with the ambient noise level within any particular body of water, she adds. Pelagic fish such as bluefin tuna, for example, don’t depend on auditory sensitivity as much as do fish species that inhabit shallower water, such as redfish or white seabass, says Larry Allen, chair of biology at California State University at Northridge. -- Rod Fly Fishing 2

But in his tentative order on Tuesday, Judge Curiel noted that the $50,000 donation was not approved by the court, and that the settlement does not explain how the scholarship, which will go to California State University, Northridge’s consumer science department, is related to consumer protection for “Made in the U.S.A.” claims. -- Law360

I had the pleasure of speaking with Starr as a California reporter, blogger and researcher of Los Angeles history and he was always helpful and enlightening. No time was more pleasurable for me than the afternoon I was listening to him lecture as the invited speaker at a Cal State Northridge book event and he started describing a book he had just read on the past of the San Fernando Valley. It was my new work and I was thrilled to hear Starr say "Just a superb book—this is history the way I like it." -- LA Observed

Made possible by a grant from the Shifting Foundation, the full-concert-length Ocean of Vows was composed and recorded over three quarters of 2015; it premiered at Cal State Northridge's Valley Performing Arts Center on October 11, 2015. -- Broadway World