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EXCAVATION work at Ridgeway Farm, which has unearthed an Iron Age settlement, will be completed in three weeks when the developers of the site will be inviting the public to inspect the finds.
On Saturday, June 21, developers Taylor Wimpey will be holding an open day where residents will be able to meet the team at the dig site and learn about their discoveries.
Since work began a number of features have been found to indicate a small Iron Age settlement, which lasted well into the Roman period.
The investigation work has uncovered several roundhouses, pottery which would have been used for storing food, loom weights for weaving, quern stones for grinding corn and various personal items.
The work has been carried out by Wessex Archaeology. The original dig started on land allocated for the second phase of homes at Ridgeway Farm, and has now been extended by 0.5 hectares to the north and north west.
Andrew Manning, senior project manager at Wessex Archaeology, said: "We have discovered a number of features which are of local significance. This means that our discoveries are not going to change our understanding of the archaeology of the region, but they are of interest.
"Our excavation work will be complete within two to three weeks, after which we will carry out detailed analysis of the finds."
John Louth, major projects director for Taylor Wimpey, said the developer recognises the importance of the finds and will be donating them to Swindon Museum.
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Squeezing a Squeezed Lemon
The most recent CBA made changes to further squeeze this already squeezed lemon. It placed strict caps on the amount teams can spend on draft picks and instituted harsh penalties--such as the loss of subsequent draft picks--for exceeding these limits.
As I predicted in an earlier post, further restricting an already restricted market had a negative impact on spending. In fact, spending by MLB teams in this year's draft dropped 11% from the previous year.
This 11% drop resulted in teams spending $25.8 million less in 2012 than in 2011. That's an average of $860,000 less per team. Where does all this money go? Well, the CBA fails to directly answer that. But indirectly the answer is found.
The money saved will go to major league salaries, as the new CBA requires MLB minimum salaries to increase dramatically over the next few years. I talked at length in the earlier post about the MLBPA selling out minor league players. I won't bother you again with such talk, but I will make a couple of other points.
Incredibly, the $860,000 average savings per team could nearly double most minor league salaries if it were spent on minor leaguers. A first-year Double-A player makes around $7500 for the entire season. Those in lower levels make even less. While the number of minor leaguers within an organization varies greatly, a reasonable estimate can be made for the amount of players at Double-A and below. For this calculation, we'll say a team retains around 120 players at Double-A and below. While some of these players are at Double-A, most are at lower levels, so we'll assume an average salary of $6,000 per year for these 120 players. What does doubling every one of these 120 salaries require? $720,000.
Most of the minor leaguers would see their salaries doubled, and teams would still be left with an extra $140,000 in their pockets. While not all Triple-A salaries could be doubled with this leftover amount (since more minor league free agents and former major leaguers play in Triple-A), this money could easily be used to double the salaries for the Triple-A players playing under the terms of their original minor league agreements. After all, a first-year Triple-A player makes only a little more than $10,000.
Of course, none of this will happen. Minor league salaries have hardly budged in 35 years. Why would they increase now? Instead, many players will continue to live below the poverty line, and baseball's Robber Barons of the New Gilded Age will continue to profit.
(Thanks to Luke Erickson's post for the Robber Barons analogy.)
A Possible NCAA/MLB Scholarship Partnership?
I recently wrote an article for Baseball America entitled "Beware MLB, NCAA Joint Venture". Here's a little snippet from it:
I fear that baseball might be taking steps towards an NFL type of model. While this might be great for college baseball and great for the owners' bottom line, it wouldn't be great for players. It would take away players' freedom of choice, and it would shave away earning years from an athletes' short earning window. And, as stated above, there are better ways to court young athletes, chiefly through the already existing model.
Again, I'm all for helping athletes get college degrees. But when two cartels start cooperating with one another, I'm immediately wary. Any resulting gift is most likely not what it seems.
Indianapolis Star Article on Minor League Unionization
James Oldham of the Indianapolis Star also wrote a very good article recently on the obstacles to unionizing the minor leagues. It's worth the read.
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The Fellowship of Christian Athletes organization has been around Cleveland County a long time.
So much so that the local adult chapter of the FCA is considered one of the oldest in existence in the nation.
The FCA has gone about its faith-based ministry making an impact on the lives of students, athletes, coaches and others mostly flying under the radar. Its fundraising is directed toward scholarships, purchasing Bibles for coaches and athletes, and sending local students to summer sports or leadership camps.
Its membership is in the hundreds at local high schools, middles schools and Gardner-Webb, plus the adult chapter.
�We don�t advertise, it�s a person-to-person ministry,� said Ernie Blanton, currently the FCA director in Cleveland County, a part-time position. Blanton, a former athlete and then coach at Burns High, is now youth director at Buffalo Baptist Church.
�All the money we raise is spent here in Cleveland County. We send four to 10 students to camp every summer and we�d like to send 25. We also want to put a Bible in the hands of every coach in the county and that goes for rec ball and travel ball and those coaches too.�
It�s hard not to bump into something connected to the FCA locally. The annual Sports Hall of Fame banquet, the Easter holiday baseball tournament at Shelby High and a �Fields of Faith� event at Gardner-Webb each year that attracts 300-500 are just some of its events.
The local FCA group serves as a host for a team each year at the American Legion World Series. In addition, there�s an FCA presence each year at the North Carolina Coaches Clinic in July at Greensboro.
But it�s in the schools where the biggest presence is felt. At each high school and middle school (see accompanying list), plus Gardner-Webb, students meet for devotions, prayer, Bible study and support throughout the year.
�It�s student-led and each school averages about 25-35 members throughout the year,� Blanton said. �You never know what seed will be planted.
�We have people ask: �Can you be part of the FCA if you�re not an athlete?� And the answer is, �Sure, we want all we can.� Sports is just the common ground, whether you�ve played or you just have a favorite team.�
Sports offers the vehicle for connecting with people because, for one, in athletics every possible issue, problem or situation that one could possibly face is confronted at one time or another.
For instance, Blanton and his huddle sponsors collected more than 300 �prayer cards� during the past school year in Cleveland County from students and coaches involving special needs.
�We�re trying to educate people to what we do,� said Blanton, who can point to numerous resources the FCA offers online (see accompanying list). �There�s a parallel between sports and life. The FCA is there to challenge, equip, encourage and help individuals, a team, family with life.�
FCA in our schools
Huddle faculty coaches/sponsors
At Burns High � meets on Fridays at 7:30 a.m. Huddle coach is Chris Cogdill .
At Burns Middle � meets first Friday of each month at 7:30 a.m. Huddle coaches are Karen Martin, Patty Grigg and Steven Pack.
At Crest High � meets Wednesdays at 7:20 a.m. Huddle coach is Jeff Melton.
At Crest Middle � meets Wednesdays at 3 p.m. Huddle coaches are Karen Sain, Glenea Ogren and Joanna Runyon.
At Shelby High � meets every Thursday at 7:30 a.m. Huddle coaches are Kevin Allen and Mike Wilbanks .
At Shelby Middle � meets every Friday at 2:15 p.m. Huddle coach is Mitch Adams.
At Kings Mountain High � meets second Monday of each month at 8 p.m. Huddle coach is Ric Franklin.
At Kings Mountain Middle � meets on Wednesday mornings.
Gardner-Webb University � meets Thursday nights at 8. Huddle coach is Jim Corn.
Learn more about the Fellowship of Christian Athletes online or through social media:
FCA resources � FCAResources.com
R12 Discipleship � r12coach.com
Campus 101 � FCACampus101.com
FCA Camps � FCACamps.org
FCA Magazine � FCA.org
FCA Store � FCAGear.com
One Way 2 Play � OW2P.org
Facebook � facebook.com/fcafans
Twitter � Twitter.com/fcanews


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Gland, Switzerland, 15 April 2004 (IUCN) - Despite the conservation efforts of many people, the saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica tatarica) still faces imminent extinction.
The plight of this nomadic herding antelope featured prominently in the launch of the 2002 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in which it was listed as Critically Endangered, the highest category of threat. Although extensive media coverage of the saiga's situation prompted a certain level of action, this has not been enough to stem its rapid decline.
Inhabiting the open dry steppe grasslands and semi-arid deserts of Central Asia and the Russian Federation, the status of the saiga is an indicator for the state of these fragile ecosystems. Saiga numbers have plummeted 95% from about 1 million in 1990 to less than 50,000 today. The main cause of this catastrophic decline is poaching, both for horn and meat.
Poaching is fuelled by widespread poverty resulting from major changes in the rural economies of the saiga's main range states, Kazakhstan, the Republic of Kalmykia of the Russian Federation, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Unless current conservation measures are dramatically strengthened, poaching will continue and rapidly lead to extinction or near-extinction of the main remaining populations, especially that of Betpak-Dala in Kazakhstan.
This was one of the conclusions of a recent workshop held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, which gathered the world's leading saiga experts including members of SSC's Antelope Specialist Group and others concerned with securing a future for the species such as SSC's European and Central Asia Sustainable Use Specialist Groups.
Held under the auspices of a project supported by the UK Darwin Initiative, the meeting was attended by officials, scientists and experts from Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, Uzbekistan, the UK, Germany and Norway, along with representatives from the United Nations Environment Programme, the UN Development Programme and Fauna & Flora International.
The following recommendations were made by participants:
"We recognise that the livelihoods of rural people in the range states of the saiga are under great pressure and that this is the main incentive for the continuation of poaching. We therefore recommend urgent initiatives to improve the incomes of rural people in the saiga ranges and to support alternative livelihood activities."
"We applaud the very substantial increases in human and financial resources for anti-poaching enforcement activities and public awareness made by the Republic of Kalmykia and Kazakhstan governments under their 'Restoration of the Saiga' strategies. We call for further increases in such resources and for international support for these measures."
"We welcome the existing collaboration between the range and other states at scientific level and are grateful for donor support for current conservation-related research. We recommend enhanced co-operation between the range states in conservation and awareness raising efforts, above all in seeking funding from international institutions and other donors. In particular we call for the signing or ratification of international and trans-boundary agreements such as the Memorandum of Understanding on Saiga Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use drawn up by the Convention on Migratory Species."
"We draw attention to the effect of poaching for horns for the Chinese medicinal trade on the population of male saiga, with its huge negative potential for breeding success. We therefore urge CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) to work with the Chinese authorities to ensure that the illegal international trade is totally eliminated."
These recommendations will feed into the IUCN World Conservation Congress to be held in Bangkok Thailand 17-25 November this year. One of the event's key elements will be the World Conservation Forum which will convene over 3,000 of the world's leading specialists and practitioners. The Forum will present a more comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date assessment of the state of biodiversity on our planet than ever before and demonstrate how cutting-edge knowledge can be applied to address the world's most pressing conservation and sustainable development challenges."
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Not since Indiana Jones, has one man made such a bold statement about men's haberdashery! In a stunning photograph, flashed across the AP wires today, a well-known and well-connected GOP lobbyist by the name of Jack Abramoff has put the once-ubiquitous headware for men, known as the fedora, back on the nation's front pages!
Attaboy, Jack! The BRAD BLOG thanks you for waking up a fashion-stultified nation! The country relies on forward-thinking media icons like yourself to help keep our nation --- and our nation's capital --- from suffering under the oppressive malaise brought on by an all-too-timid crop of girlyman fashion mavens in DC!
Once thought to have been relegated to the fashion basement, the new statement by Abramoff is rumored to have caught a great number of DC lawmakers off-guard! Those who might have otherwise thrown out their old chapeau's are now rumored to have begun to "hold onto their hats" indeed!
Hooray Jack Abramoff! Thanks to you, the fedora is back! We think we'll buy ourselves one today! If you'd like help in buying a few more, please see this! We'll be happy to help any way we can! It's the least we can do to say thanks!
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So… qt-*-4.6.0_rc1 is now in the portage tree, masked (since its not a final release) and you can begin testing your shiny Qt applications with it.
But there's a catch.
4.6.0_rc1 is not binary compatible with 4.6.0_beta1. [1]
This means that if you're upgrading from 4.6.0_beta1 you have to rebuild every single app depending on qt-*, or they won't start at all. This obviously includes all of KDE 4.
You can get portage to do that by using a command like this:
*update* it seems some shells didn't like the old command, so I've updated it:
emerge -av1 $(for i in $(qlist -IC x11-libs/qt-); do equery -q d $i | grep -v 'x11-libs/qt-' | sed "s/^/=/"; done)
Note that this command assumes your system is up-to-date. If some installed packages don't have ebuilds available for their version anymore, you'll have to resolve that manually (probably by removing them and rerunning the command).
You'll find equery in app-portage/gentoolkit and qlist in app-portage/portage-utils.
You don't need to do this if you're upgrading from Qt 4.5.3 (although you should). You'll also be safe if you upgrade from 4.5.3 to 4.6.0 final when the time comes.
Portage will warn you about this when you upgrade qt-core to 4.6.0_rc1:
* Messages for package x11-libs/qt-core-4.6.0_rc1:
* Binary compatibility broke between 4.6.0_beta1 and 4.6.0_rc1.
* If you are upgrading from 4.6.0_beta1, you'll have to
* re-emerge everything that depends on Qt.
* Use the following command:
* emerge -av1 $(for pkg in $(equery -q d \
* $(qlist -IC x11-libs/qt-) | grep -v "x11-libs/qt-" |
* sort -u); do echo "=$pkg"; done)
But users (my user side as well :p) tend to ignore ewarns from time to time 😉
Happy rebuilding!
[1] http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/11/12/bc-break-in-46-against-previous-46/


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Fluctuations in human musical rhythms
The nature and perception of fluctuations in human musical rhythms
Have you ever wondered why music generated by computers and rhythm machines sometimes sounds unnatural? One reason for this is the absence of small inaccuracies that are part of every human activity. Professional audio software therefore offers a so-called humanizing technique, by which the regularity of musical rhythms can be randomized to some extent.
But what exactly is the nature of the inaccuracy in human musical rhythms? Studying this question for the first time, we found that the temporal rhythmic fluctuations exhibit scale-free long-range correlations, i.e., a small rhythmic fluctuation at some point in time does not only influence fluctuations shortly thereafter, but even after tens of seconds. While this characterization is relevant for neurophysiological mechanisms of timing, it also leads to a novel concept for humanizing musical sequences. Comparing with conventionally humanized versions listeners showed a high preference for long-range correlated humanized music over uncorrelated humanized music. (Photo: Courtesy of Agbenyega Attiogbe-Redlich, www.hippocritz-school.com)
Reports on this work
Harvard Gazette (cached PDF version)
Spektrum der Wissenschaft (in German)
Press release by the Max Planck Society
Report by Deutschlandfunk (in German)
Online survey
We held an online survey, where participants were able to listen to both exact recordings of music by J.S. Bach and to versions of these songs that were humanized using the different techniques.
Examples of humanized audio samples
The diference between the humanizing approaches can be understood by listening to the following two musical excerpts, which are available below in different humanized versions (1/f humanizing and conventional white noise humanizing):
J.S. Bach, Invention no.1 in C major, BWV 772
J.S. Bach, Prelude no. 2 in C minor (Well-tempered Clavier Vol. II, BWV 871)
Audio samples of humanized music can be found in the audio gallery.
Media coverage
Science Editor's Choice, "Perfecting the not quite perfect", 334, 1183 (2011)
Nature Physics news & views, "Perfecting imperfection", 7, 930 (2011)
Nature Research Highlight, "Doctoring the beats", 479, 153 (2011)
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Ragnar Fleischmann
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A new Kickstarter project aims to give Raspberry Pi and Arduino boards Internet access throughout the world with an add-on that allows integration with a SIM card.
SparqEE Cellv1.0 would need to raise $70,000 to get the technology to backers, with donors pledging at least $69 to get the device. SparqEE CEO Christopher Higgins, an engineer, said he plans to take the Kickstarter page live on August 20. For now, it's viewable in a draft form so that people can provide feedback.
Cellv1.0 consists of a board with a cellular chip, a power supply, and a SIM holder, as well as a "jumper board" that "includes level shifters for whatever voltage levels you're using (ex. 3.3V, 5V, or other)."
As for getting a SIM card, the Kickstarter suggests taking one out of your phone, purchasing a pre-paid SIM from a retailer, or buying them directly from SparqEE.
"We've contracted with a worldwide SIM provider, so SIMs from us are not only the lowest cost you'll find, but they work anywhere in the world," the company said. Coverage will come from "AT&T in US, 3G and GSM/GPRS Worldwide."
Lots of projects involving the Raspberry Pi and Arduino rely on Wi-Fi, so there would be plenty of ways to put the cellular connectivity to use. SparqEE's project suggestions include an "Arduino-enabled vehicle tracker to know exactly where your car is right from your smartphone," and a "small, solar-powered, RC helicopter that could fly across the US from the comfort of your desk."
If the Kickstarter is successful, the company hopes to ship the devices by November.
In the meantime, another add-on that brings 3G and GPS to Raspberry Pi or Arduino is available at Cooking Hacks for €189. There's also a cellular add-on for Arduino for $99.95.


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With sizable showings from new release Date Night and holdovers Clash of the Titans and How to Train Your Dragon, the weekend as a whole was on the high end for mid-April, albeit down a touch from the same timeframe last year.
Despite Sunday morning studio estimates reporting Date Night in first, Clash of the Titans prevailed when actual grosses were tallied on Monday, but less than $1.8 million separated the top three movies. Clash came in at $26.6 million, slightly less than its $26.9 million Sunday estimate, but Date Night had the biggest overestimation: its actual gross was $25.2 million versus the $27.1 million that its studio, 20th Century Fox, reported Sunday morning. How to Train Dragon was also overestimated, landing with $24.9 million compared to its $25.4 million estimate.
The weekend estimates reported on Sunday mornings can be off significantly because they are calculated by adding reality-based estimates for Friday and Saturday to a projection for Sunday. Because studios essentially make up that Sunday number (albeit usually in an educated way based on historical data), disparities between their estimates and the actual grosses can occur when real Sunday numbers come in later. Date Night had the edge on Friday with its $8.3 million opening day, but Clash of the Titans returned to the top spot on Saturday with $11 million and led again on Sunday with $7.3 million. As reported here on Sunday, Date had a more bullish Sunday projection than Clash, that is to say its projection was assuming the absolute rosiest of circumstances based on historical data.
Regardless of the overestimation, Date Night's opening on approximately 4,600 screens at 3,374 venues was above average compared to similar movies. It exceeded The Bounty Hunter's opening last month, and it nearly quadrupled the debut of Did You Hear About the Morgans?. Date Night had a relatable, cleanly-conveyed premise of a married couple looking to spice up their routine with a night on the town, only to be mistaken for another couple; action-comedy hijinks ensue. The casting of Steve Carell and Tina Fey (along with a bunch of familiar faces in small roles) seemed to help put the picture over the top, given their strong comedy branding. The movie's weekend attendance was the equivalent of a third to a half of the regular audience for the stars' television comedies, Carell's The Office and Fey's 30 Rock, which air back-to-back on Thursday nights. Distributor 20th Century Fox' exit polling indicated that 60 percent of the audience was over 25 years old, while 52 percent was female, playing to a lot of couples.
Clash of the Titans retreated by 57 percent, which was a steeper-than-average fall and worse than 300's 54 percent drop in its second weekend. Despite the 3D boost, which accounted for about 50 percent of its weekend business, Clash's $110.2 million ten-day haul trails 300's $129.2 million. It's correct to compare the two movies not only because of their thematic similarities, but because Clash owes its existence to the success of 300, and both had big Spring releases from Warner Bros. A clear, harrowing storyline like 300's has been forgotten with Clash, which has been all spectacle in its marketing, leading to a less enthusiastic audience response so far.
How to Train Your Dragon, on the other hand, had the best hold of the weekend among nationwide releases, easing 14 percent and lifting its total to $133.4 million in 17 days. Playing at 2,165 3D sites compared to Clash's 1,632, nearly 65 percent of its weekend gross was from 3D showings. At its current pace, Dragon could out-gross the $198.4 million total of Monsters Vs. Aliens, another DreamWorks Animation 3D event that also had a late March launch last year, despite having a significantly smaller debut: $43.7 million versus $59.3 million.
Why Did I Get Married Too? fell off a cliff in its second weekend, posting one of Tyler Perry's steepest drops. Down 62 percent, the ensemble comedy sequel bagged $11 million, lifting its total to $48.5 million in ten days. Its predecessor was off 43 percent at the same point, but the sequel is still on track to surpass that picture's $55.2 million final haul.
Aside from Clash of the Titans and Why Did I Get Married Too?, the rest of the nationwide holdovers generally seemed to enjoy the breathing room of having only one major new release to share screens with. The Last Song slowed 39 percent to $9.8 million, growing its total to $42.3 million in 12 days. The teen romance held better than the last Nicholas Sparks adaptation, Dear John, and much better than Hannah Montana The Movie, though it's made less through the same point.
Alice in Wonderland had its slightest decline yet, down 35 percent to $5.3 million, and its total is $319 million in 38 days, ranking as Walt Disney Pictures' fourth highest-grossing movie ever. Hot Tub Time Machine dipped 33 percent to $5.4 million for a $37 million tally in 17 days. The Bounty Hunter nabbed $4.2 million, slipping 31 percent for a $55.9 million total in 24 days. Diary of a Wimpy Kid's ceased its rapid descent, off 25 percent to $4 million for a $53.6 million tally in 24 days.
The weekend also had two fairly broad debuts that failed: Christian drama Letters to God was returned to sender, grossing $1.1 million at 897 sites, while The Black Waters of Echo's Pond were quite shallow, making $224,409 at 404 sites. Also in limited release, high-profile The Runaways re-expanded to 204 locations (not nationwide as its publicity professed), but only mustered $469,260. That brings its total to $2.5 million in 24 days, making it one of the least-attended music biographies on record.
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Comparatively speaking, it's not that often that you get to engage in wanton bloodshed in a game released for Nintendo platforms. (Well, you can creatively interpret Mario's adventures in an ultra-violent way, if you wanted.) So, The Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2—where you can kick guys to bloody bits—is a departure from the family-friendly stuff you expect on a game machine with the word "Wii" in it.
Aside from the Tecmo Koei title, there's some classic NES action in the form of Mega Man, exercises for your grey matter with Brain Age: Concentration Training and stereoscopic Sam Fisher sneaking in Splinter Cell 3D. There's also some football (not the American kind) and Ah! Heaven, a game where God is, well, kind of lazy. Seriously, read the description:
You play as a soul willing to ascend to heaven. Though heaven's gate is open, God will not take you there, you have to go by yourself. You will meet all kinds of danger in your journey; can you get through it to make your ascension?
WTF, God?
- Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2 (Wii U)
- Brain Age Concentration Training (3DS)
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 3D (3DS)
- Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan (3DS; Demo)
- Splinter Cell 3D (3DS)
- Mega Man 2 (3DS)
- Rayman 3D (3DS)
- Ah! Heaven (3DS)


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Out of the five deaths in his family that Apu was witness to, two happened in APARAJITO. The father, Harihar--a man defeated in the battles of life--died in Benares (Kashi in Bengali /Sanskrit). He had left his native place, Nishchindipur, in search of a better life in Kashi. His hopes were belied and he died a sad death in a damp dimly lit room attended by his wife and son.
The sequences of Harihar's fall on the stairs of the ghat and of his death (immortalized by the flight of pigeons that followed it) are the most heartrending in the film, even more than the one in which Apu, learning of his mother's demise, starts crying.
When his father died in Kashi, Apu was a child, too small to realize the implications of what had happened. He had seldom seen his father when they lived in the village; Harihar was mostly away in search of work. But for Apu, Kashi was synonymous with his father. He was the only child in the family now, saw his father daily and for longer hours, and watched him reading the Scriptures on the steps of the ghat (that was what poor Harihar did for a living). The death of the father meant leaving Kashi forever; Apu left his father behind in Kashi.
Curiously enough, when his mother died, Apu felt liberated of all family bonds. He was now a free man, a teenager on the threshold of life. Remember, Sarbojaya had a restraining effect on Apu's life, whereas Harihar did not. Apu's sense of loss at his mother's death was genuine, but more instilled by a guilt of not having performed the duties of a son. There was nothing of that sort with regard to his father.


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Alec Baldwin's accused stalker has been ordered to spend 30 days behind bars for contempt of court after continually interrupting proceedings in her ongoing trial.
French Canadian actress Genevieve Sabourin is currently facing charges of bombarding the 55-year-old actor with emails and voicemails, and making unwelcome visits to his Big Apple homes after enjoying a meal with him in 2010.
Baldwin denied ever engaging in a romantic relationship with Sabourin during testimony in Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday, and called her alleged pestering "nightmarish" as he broke down on the stand.
His claims prompted a number of outbursts from the 41-year-old suspect, who loudly accused the actor of "lying" on multiple occasions. Judge Robert Mandelbaum ordered her to stay quiet and threatened to hold her in contempt of court for her actions, before she was bundled out of the courtroom by her lawyer, Todd Spodek.
When she returned to court on Wednesday, she was marched off to jail after disobeying Judge Mandelbaum's warnings by interrupting her own attorney.
In another trial twist, movie producer Martin Bregman has also accused Baldwin of lying under oath after the actor told the court he only met Sabourin for dinner as a favor to the veteran filmmaker, who had reportedly been having an affair with the woman.
The former 30 Rock star, who grew emotional during the hearing, claimed 41-year-old Sabourin was the married Scarface producer's longtime mistress – an allegation that stunned Bregman and prompted him to speak out to the New York Daily News.
He says, "He's lying… To sidestep any involvement with (Sabourin), he made up a report."
Branding the move "pretty stupid", he added, "I'm 87 years old and that (reports of an affair with younger woman Sabourin) is very flattering, but that's all it is."
Tuesday's court proceedings also featured testimony from Baldwin's wife Hilaria, who told the court she once tried to reason with Sabourin over the phone in a bid to persuade her to leave the couple alone.
Recalling the conversation, Hilaria, who wed Baldwin last year, said, "She starts shrieking at me, 'You b**ch! You b**tch! You b**ch! You b**ch!' Over and over again."
The trial continues.
Alec Baldwin's accused stalker has been ordered to spend 30 days behind bars for contempt of court after continually interrupting proceedings in her ongoing trial.


text: The Joseph L. Weir Trust was established in 1984 by the estate of Joseph Weir for charitable and education purposes. Joseph's record of industry involvement was remarkable. Joseph joined the National Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association in 1947, became active on the Board of Directors in 1954, served as president of the board for three terms and received honorary lifetime membership in 1974. Joseph also led in the development of the cosmetology school accrediting system still in use today.


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(MEMPHIS, Tenn. June 11, 2014) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center has been renewed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), earning the highest possible score of "exceptional." St. Jude remains the first and only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center that is devoted solely to children. St. Jude has been designated as an NCI cancer center since 1977. The hospital was named a comprehensive cancer center in 2008.
A comprehensive cancer center must possess a deep and broad research-based portfolio that extends from the laboratory to the clinic and includes population-based science. Centers must also be actively engaged in professional and public cancer education and outreach.
"We are honored to once again receive this recognition, especially to receive a score of "exceptional"the highest the NCI awards to cancer centers," said Richard Gilbertson, M.D., Ph.D., St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center director. "St. Jude has been an NCI-designated cancer center for almost 40 years. Throughout this time, we have served as a national resource for children with cancer, their families and physicians. From the first pipette that's picked up in the lab to the last child treated in the clinic at the end of the day, everything is focused on our patients. We are driven by a common goal to find cures for all children with cancer."
"The efforts of our more than 160 clinicians and scientists are incredible," Gilbertson said. "During the last five years, we have made more than 32,500 patient enrollments to clinical studies. In the year prior to our NCI renewal, we ran 166 cancer clinical trials, including 36 brand new studies. In addition to the children we treat at St. Jude, we provide thousands of free patient consultations each year for children around the world. These are frequently complex and involve extensive histopathology, imaging and clinical chart reviews. In keeping with the ethos of St. Jude, no payment is requested for any consultation."
At St. Jude, the Comprehensive Cancer Center is organized as five cross-disciplinary, multi-departmental programs aligned to specific diseases and research conceptsDevelopmental Biology and Solid Tumor Program; Neurobiology and Brain Tumor Program; Hematological Malignancies Program; Cancer Prevention and Control Program; and the Cancer Genetics, Biochemistry and Cell Biology Program. The availability of 10 centralized shared resources with well-equipped facilities support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation and reporting of research.
"The Comprehensive Cancer Center at St. Jude is at the very heart of our institution, bringing people together to accelerate science and facilitate the translation of discoveries from the laboratory to the clinic to develop innovative new treatments," said Dr. William E. Evans, St. Jude director and CEO. "To be given an 'exceptional' rating after such a comprehensive and rigorous peer-review process is truly meaningful and extremely gratifying."
"Spurred on by this honor from the NCI, the St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center is poised more than ever before to leverage our exciting discoveries and resources to bring new treatments and hope to all children with cancer," Gilbertson said.
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The Greatest Coffees of 2011
2011 went like most years: full of busy coffee travels, from Grand Rapids to Vancouver to Copenhagen, and like most great things, each moment went by just a little too fast. In the world of coffee, where each coffee changes crop to crop, roast to roast, brew to brew, remembering your favorite moments of the year can be hard—these drinks aren't (well, not in most cases) something you can bottle and enjoy in exactly the same way again and again and again. But maybe that makes those most delicious cups all that much more special? Here are some—though certainly not all—of the best cups of coffee we sipped in 2011.
Kenya Kiandu Roasted by Gimme! Coffee
Possibly the finest achievement from this longstanding New York State craft roaster, this coffee from Kenya's cooperatively run Kiandu mill jumped out of the bag. It was shockingly juicy, round, long-lasting like hard candy, and though it shouted loud with its big red berry flavors and bottom-of-the-peach-syrup-can sweetness, it revealed nuance and mystery each time I had the pleasure to try it. Roasted with just the care needed to express the incredible voice of these beans, this coffee was an out-of-the-park knockout. Last year's is understandably all sold out by now— but let's all cross our fingers for the next crop to be just as stunning.
Panama Hacienda La Esmeralda Roasted by The Coffee Collective
Though the legendary Esmeralda coffee—a coffee so prized that its high ratings and high prices regularly catapult it to the top of silly newspaper articles—is hardly a secret anymore, opportunities to drink it are still, for many of us, few and far between. And opportunities to drink the graceful, delicate brew as roasted and prepared by one of the most progressive roasters in the world? Well, they're fewer yet. At the risk of revealing the country-bumpkin-like, slow evolution of my own palate, I've had many cups of Esmeralda over the last few years, all of which were very pleasant and civilized, but none of which really rang my bell. This year's selection from The Coffee Collective in Copenhagen, on the other hand, was a floral, apricot, wake-up call, the renowned roastery's gentle touch allowing all the softly explosive lightness of this immensely special coffee to shine through.
Colombia El Paraiso Cappuccino Roasted by Cafe Grumpy
Being a coffee super-geek affords a lot of rare pleasures, not the least of which is getting to sample seldom available coffee creations during the barista competition season. A roaster local to me in Brooklyn, Cafe Grumpy, entered both one of its coffees and one of its baristas in the 2011 United States Barista Championship, the Colombia El Paraiso from farmer Jose Lizardo Rojas, prepared by contestant-barista Park Brannen. The coffees baristas select are often among the more special, small lot, too-costly-to-make-financial-sense-as-a-regular-cafe-offering sort, but if you're in the right place at the right time when a competitor is working out his drink, you might get to try something special. Like, in this case, a cappuccino made with the mapley-cacao El Paraiso, roundly sweetened by one of New York State's lushest milks, from Battenkill Valley Creamery. The single origin espresso roast's fresh, raspberry-tart acidity still sang in the cappuccino cup. This one was a winner with me.
Cold Brew Concentrate Brewed by Kickstand Coffee
Not technically one cup of coffee, but the source of many, is Kickstand Coffee's cleverly deployed cold coffee concentrate. Brewed and bottled locally to their roaster Cafe Grumpy, Kickstand uses standard Filtron cold-brew drippers to create a lasting, flavorful, un-stale cold brew liquor that can be diluted in your house (or on a picnic, or on the prow of your yacht) over several days and drinks. There's something about the way these kids make their cold coffee that takes the slight bummer flavor out of the usual cold-brew interpretations—and for that, we're anxious for summer to roll around again soon.
Brazil Sitio Canaa Roasted by Tim Wendelboe
Another roaster legendary in the coffee world—the most chic, perhaps?—is Norway's Tim Wendelboe, named, interestingly enough, for World Barista Champion and owner Tim Wendelboe. The roastery's reputation is built not just on Wendelboe's prowess, but on a small, super-discriminatingly curated repertoire of beans, roasted to a much, much lighter degree than is customary in, say, dark, roasty North America. When I sampled their Brazilian Sitio Canaa this spring, I would not have first pegged it as a Brazil—none of the easy, family-friendly mellowocity I've come to expect from the world's largest coffee producing country was present in this delicate, nutty, slightly herbal, and super weird, acidic and sweet brew. It's coffees like this that turn your mind around a little, and keep us coffee lovers in the game.
What were some of your favorite coffees of 2011? Whether it's a single shot of espresso or beans you bought over and over again until they didn't make them anymore—which coffee's finish is still lingering in your memory?
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http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Document...-in-the-uk.pdf suggests 33% of all sex workers in UK are men; I've seen others claim up to 50%, but can't find the appropriate link now).
"Of course feminists must speak 'for' women, or what is it good for? " I'm not 100% sure what you mean here, but I was questioning the right of any particular woman to speak 'on behalf of all women' while clearly not being much bothered what adult women (again, obvs the situation is very different when minors are involved) actually engaged in sex work think about their lives.
As far as abolition goes, as John suggests above, it seems impossible to talk about this practically in separation from measures to guarantee everyone an economic safety net.


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Give the city of Port St. Joe an option out.
Give the city of Port St. Joe an option out.
The members of the Lighthouse Committee of the Coastal Community Association (CCA) on Tuesday pressed the Board of County Commissioners to engage again in the discussion about the relocation of the Cape San Blas Lighthouse.
Citing the lack of tangible progress by the city in saving the lighthouse by relocating it into the city, Julia Cunningham, Pat Hardman and Betty McNeill asked county commissioners to write a letter saying the county was willing to take over the project.
In short, the BOCC would reassert what it said early this year after the city was awarded the deed for the lighthouse and ancillary buildings by the federal government a year ago � that the BOCC would cooperate in the city�s efforts but was willing to take on the task if need be.
The members of the CCA said that time had arrived.
�I think the clock is running out and there are several insurmountable obstacles that we think we will prevent the city from moving the lighthouse,� Cunningham said.
Those factors include the cost of the move.
City staff submitted a request for over $900,000 to the county RESTORE Committee for consideration of the relocation of the lighthouse as a project to be funded by BP fine dollars.
There is no clear path to that money, Cunningham noted, and while she said the city had done a good job of fundraising � a $325,000 state appropriation, $25,000 from Duke Energy and roughly $40,000 through a Save the Lighthouse campaign- the dollars secured fell well short of what was needed.
She expressed concern the city might be able to pull off the lighthouse move while leaving the ancillary buildings behind, destroying the integrity of the lighthouse complex.
Further, Cunningham said roadwork on State 30A will prevent the lighthouse from being moved over land until mid-2015. A proposal to move the lighthouse and buildings by barge has gone nowhere.
City commissioners received two bids on the relocation but threw both out at the request of Mayor Mel Magidson, who said he believed the contractors were ill-equipped and lacked the knowledge to move the lighthouse.
The city is now bidding the relocation in two phases � one to move the lighthouse, the other to move the two keepers� quarters and oil house. Those bids are to be received next month.
The city has also let out a bid to have the lighthouse lens removed and restored. The lens is owned by the Coast Guard.
But, Cunningham noted, the city�s second extension of a deadline to move the lighthouse from the federal government expires in mid-January.
The CCA proposes, as a fair number of residents in the county do, to move the lighthouse to Salinas Park, two miles down the cape from the current lighthouse location.
�All the original reasons (to move the lighthouse to Salinas Park) remain in play,� Cunningham said, including historic integrity.
She said the state appropriation � which must be spent during the current fiscal year or it could be lost � and current donations combined with pledges from those who want the lighthouse to remain on Cape San Blas, where it has stood for more than 150 years, would push the CCA close to the fiscal goal.
Hardman lauded the city�s efforts to date and noted the county was in no position to provide any funding.
But she said after a year the city has raised barely a third of what the city originally requested from the RESTORE Committee.
�The city has spent a lot man-hours and money on this,� Hardman said, adding that the city had other fish to fry, such as the quality of drinking water. �You might find there are a lot of citizens who might be interested in having the county take this project back.�
Hardman said the CCA would need to raise another $100,000 or so to facilitate the move to Salinas Park.
Hardman also said the move itself to the city would prove problematic. The owner of Gulf 2 Bay Construction, Hardman said the lighthouse, to be moved would require great care and the more it has to be moved, taken apart, repositioned, etc., would bring greater risk of damage.
�It is complex,� Hardman said. �The thing weighs 120 tons. Any time you move that structure there is a risk.�
The short relocation to Salinas Park would be far safer, she added.
�It needs to stay on the cape to maintain the historical significance of the lighthouse,� said Betty McNeill, a vocal opponent of the move from the outset. �The county really needs to retain ownership. I want the county to assume responsibility.�
That, Commissioner Warren Yeager said, would also present obstacles.
The federal government has deeded the lighthouse to the city. The city would have to give up the deed. The state appropriation was bestowed on the city. Those dollars, along with those raised during the Save the Lighthouse campaign, would have to be transferred to the county.
Yeager also noted the BOCC�s position when the federal government deeded the lighthouse to the city: the county would support the city�s efforts as it could.
�I�d love to have the lighthouse at Salinas Park,� Yeager said. �But what are you asking this board to do?�
The outcome, approved 4-1 with Commissioner Joanna Bryan dissenting, was a letter to the city saying the county was willing to take over if the city desired to abandon the project while reaffirming support, where possible, for the city�s efforts.
Bryan said she would prefer county staff sit down with Port St. Joe staff and provide an update on the city�s position before writing a formal letter.


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Twitter Hashtag Inventor Explains Why Patenting It Would Have Been The Wrong Thing To Do
from the if-you-love-something,-set-it-free dept
Hashtags like #techdirt are not only an indispensable part of Twitter, but are also increasingly to be found elsewhere as a handy way of flagging up key topics in a compact and recognizable way. Given the monopoly-mad world we inhabit, it's something of a miracle that they weren't patented. Business Insider points out that Chris Messina, the former Google employee who came up with the idea in the first place, has explained precisely why he didn't try to patent them. The first reason is practical:
1. claiming a government-granted monopoly on the use of hashtags would have likely inhibited their adoption, which was the antithesis of what I was hoping for, which was broad-based adoption and support -- across networks and mediums.
Messina understands that monopolies tend to throttle the spread of ideas, and that's a big problem when you're trying to introduce something completely new. In fact, the idea of hashtags was so novel that Twitter apparently dismissed them at first according to an interview Messina gave to the Wall Street Journal:
"[Twitter] told me flat out, 'These things are for nerds. They're never going to catch on' "
Given that resistance, turning them into a monopoly that required licensing would have been the quickest way to ensure that nobody ever used them. But Messina's second reason is a recognition that his new hashtags were a tiny part of the greater Internet ecosystem, and since he had implicitly drawn from that wonderful pool of ideas in creating them, it was only right that he should give back:
2. I had no interest in making money (directly) off hashtags. They are born of the Internet, and should be owned by no one. The value and satisfaction I derive from seeing my funny little hack used as widely as it is today is valuable enough for me to be relieved that I had the foresight not to try to lock down this stupidly simple but effective idea.
Note, too, that Messina did derive some benefits from releasing his idea into the public domain. He has the deep satisfaction of seeing his idea spread far beyond Twitter, and of knowing that he had made that possible thanks to his wisdom and generosity. He can probably also draw some satisfaction from the fact that in setting his idea free in this way, he's in good company.
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It's spring and graphic design is busting out all over . . . this creative surf brought us tons of beautiful work, students, graphics shows and even a book about making alphabets. . . :
* Learn to "Draw Your Own Alphabets" by Hand With a Book by Graphic Designer Tony Seddon
* David Hillman, Google Creative Lab ECD & other leading creatives discuss
* Seniors display culmination of work throughout their college careers
* Students impress local night club owners with graphic design project
* Feast Your Eyes: Senior Graphic design students serve 'design stew'
* Rutgers publishing program trains writers and designers together
* Bop Design Announces Tips for Working with Graphic Designers
* Meet : Lavender & Honey for fresh eye-candy
* Brain Candy gives young designers a boost
* Graphic Design: Now in Production
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Seniors display culmination of work throughout their college careers
Michelle Berthiaume writes for Keene-equinox.com
On an overcast Friday afternoon, in the middle of Keene State College's Spring Weekend, a group of college seniors eagerly looked toward the start of their bright futures.
The Graphic Design Portfolio Review helped these senior graphic design majors showcase their work in a professional environment for the first time. Employers from the Monadnock Region along with local residents, classmates, professors and faculty joined the 40 or so students in the student center enter for a night of networking.
Full story : keene-equinox.com
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Feast Your Eyes: Senior Graphic design students serve 'design stew'
With the tagline 'Come See What's Cookin', one might expect the Bachelor of Fine Arts Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition to be a somewhat gustatory experience.
It happened at the Department of Art Gallery in McComas Hall and continues in the Visual Arts Center for the evening's remainder. There may be food at the event, but the students crafting the exhibition have been whipping up graphic design stew, as they call it, rather than beef stew. The galleries will display walls of calendars, posters and T-shirt designs rather than tables of crome broloe and beignets.
Full story : The Reflector online
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Red Palm Weevil, (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) (Olivier)
The red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus), a serious pest of palms, is native to Southeast Asia and has spread through parts of Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and in North America to the Netherland Antilles. Among palm weevil species, the red palm weevil has spread to the greatest number of countries, probably due to its association with the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera), which is propagated by offshoots.
The red palm weevil is a major economic pest of palms, including coconut, date, oil, and sago palms. United States date palm production encompasses approximately 7891 acres, primarily in California and Arizona. The greatest potential economic impact to the United States if the red palm weevil became introduced would be the destruction of palms in the landscape areas, especially in tourist areas of the southern United States and the territories. The preferred hosts of the red palm weevil are Canary Island Date Palms (Phoenix canariensis) as well above other Phoenix spp. In Spain, the problem originated with the import of date palm, Phoenix dactylifera; Canary Islands date palms became infested afterwards.
There is an array of color variations across the native and introduced range of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, and the taxonomy has changed multiple times in the past. Recent molecular research suggests that Rhynchophorus ferrugineus may actually be a species complex composed of two or more cryptic species (Rugman-Jones et al., 2013). The suggested second species, Rhynchophorus vulneratus, is currently synonymized under Rhynchophorus ferrugineus.
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South American Palm Weevil, Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus)
South American Palm Weevil (SAPW), Rhynchophorus palmarum, as one of three 'giant' palm weevils of the genus Rhynchophorus, has its origins in Central and South America and is considered an important pest of palms, specifically date and coconut palms. Sugarcane is also considered a host for this pest. The weevil damages palm trees by direct feeding by larvae on fruits, stems, buds, and leaves, but also by transmitting the nematode, Bursaphelenchus cocophilus, which can cause red-ring disease in coconut and oil palms. On sugarcane, the weevil directly damages the crop by boring through the tissues of the plant as a larva. R. palmarum preferentially attacks weakened or diseased trees but is also capable of attacking healthy trees. It is capable of high velocity flight but its ability for long distance migration is not documented. Any migration would probably be limited because 1) it only flies during daylight hours, and 2) their flight appears primarily in response to chemical cues.
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26 March 2012
Professor Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus has been named by Fortune magazine as one of the 12 Greatest Entrepreneurs Of Our Time.
Professor Yunus is the only social entrepreneur to make the influential list, a who's who of business visionaries including Steve Jobs of Apple, Bill Gates of Microsoft, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Fortune magazine hailed Professor Yunus for inspiring countless young people around the world to devote themselves to social causes, and for his efforts to alleviate poverty and transform business and society through the work of the Grameen Bank.
The Grameen Bank has become a world movement dedicated to eradicating poverty through micro-lending. Replicas of the model now operate in more than 100 countries worldwide.
"His desire to do something to help the local citizens led to a simple but powerful gesture: Yunus loaned $27 to destitute basket weavers in a village next to his university's campus," the magazine says.
"He could not believe the excitement the small amount of money caused. For people living on pennies a day, just a few dollars could transform their lives - and in many cases it did. The gift was used to support and expand these very small businesses, and that helped many overcome their poverty. Much to Yunus' surprise, the basket weavers actually paid off the loans - and on time. He then moved from one village to the next, finding all sorts of entrepreneurial projects to fund.
"It wasn't until 1983 that Yunus founded Grameen Bank, the institution that helped pioneer and spread the concept of micro-credit. By the time Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, the Grameen Bank had outstanding loans to nearly seven million poor people in 73,000 villages in Bangladesh. Yunus, 71, helped create a global movement toward micro-lending. The Grameen model moved on to more than 100 countries worldwide and helped millions."
Professor Yunus visited Glasgow Caledonian University earlier this month to announce details of a new charity - the Grameen Scotland Foundation - a critical cornerstone of establishing the microfinance bank branch in Glasgow.
The Glasgow prototype will combat the health, social and economic wellbeing inequalities in some of Scotland's poorest communities, inequalities which have remained resistant to change for decades.
GCU is facilitating the creation of the bank, having set up the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health at the University in 2010. Through the Centre and with international collaborators, GCU aims to transform the lives of the poorest through pioneering research, examining the impact of microcredit on the health and wellbeing of communities in Scotland and overseas.


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Yo, the bite-sized messaging app that only lets you send your friends a "Yo" notification, already has a competitor called Hey.
Competitor might be too generous of a description, because everything about Hey is lifted and cloned from Yo, right down to the minimalist design.
Hey is still pre-beta, but it does promise to (slightly) differentiate itself by allowing you to choose how many Y's to include in your cryptic "Hey" message. Apparently, a simple "Heyy" means far more than a boring ol' "Hey."
Championing the tagline "When Yo isn't enough," Hey plans to allow users to adjust the number of "Y's" in their message by tapping their phone.
For those who think they'll still be interested when Hey enters its beta, you can sign up to try out the app here.


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Newberry Elementary unique in embracing special kids
Newberry Elementary unique in embracing special kids
Newberry Elementary School is getting national attention for something Principal Lacy Redd views as a simple concept: inclusion.
The school is one of six in the nation to be selected as models of inclusive education, meaning all of its special-needs students take classes with non-disabled students instead of being put into separate special-education programs.
With the help of a handful of special-education professionals and some assistive software, Redd said, "now they can do the exact same curriculum, with the same materials."
Newberry will be part of the University of Kansas' School-wide Integrated Framework for Transformation initiative, or SWIFT for short.
Researchers from KU's SWIFT Center will spend five years working with the schools and producing a study on the most effective inclusionary practices.
Newberry Elementary will receive $16,000 to offset the cost of going through the program, although Redd said she's not sure yet what or how much those costs will be.
Directors from the program will visit Newberry later this month to flesh out the details.
About 65 of the 510 Newberry Elementary students have disabilities, Redd said. An inclusion class typically will have three to six special-needs children.
Redd said she expects the SWIFT study will attract more families to Newberry. Students come from all over Gainesville for the inclusion program, and some come from neighboring counties, she said.
"Many parents want their children (with special needs) to be in a regular classroom with regular children," she said.
Redd founded the inclusion program at Newberry Elementary seven years ago.
Previously, special-needs children spent part of their school week in dedicated "resource rooms" with ESE teachers, separate from the general education students.
Redd said she felt her special-needs students were missing out on grade-level instruction.
In Florida, students with disabilities are expected to take — and pass — the FCAT. A little better than a third of those students pass, while 70-80 percent of Newberry's general education students pass, she said.
By bringing all of the students together, Redd said she hoped to raise expectations and improve learning for both special-needs and general education students.
The result, as she said she has seen over time, is that special-needs students have improved behavior, social development and learning outcomes. Likewise, general education students have an improved understanding of diversity and accept their special-needs peers easily.
"I believe it benefits all the kids," she said.
In a 100 percent inclusion program like Newberry's, all students go to the same classes together. Rather than pulling out special-needs children to separate classrooms when they require assistance, helpers come into the regular classroom.
Newberry's staff includes several exceptional student education, or ESE, teachers, and seven paraprofessionals who move around classrooms and help all students.
Newberry Elementary is the only school in Alachua County with a 100 percent inclusion program, said Regina Currens, a district inclusion specialist.
In Alachua County, 66 percent of disabled students spend at least 80 percent of their school week in general education classes with non-disabled students. The state average is 68 percent of disabled students.
In other schools, Currens said, a student with a disability might spend most of the day in a regular classroom but go to a resource room with an ESE teacher for a subject the student has difficulty with, such as reading or math. Other students might need a very small, controlled environment with special instruction.
Schools tend to make decisions about inclusion based on each student's specific needs, Currens said.
Much of the time, Redd said, you can't tell who the special-needs students are just by looking into a classroom.
"That's what a true inclusion class should be," she said.
One of those students is fourth-grader Katie Ling.
Katie, 10, has trouble with auditory processing and gets fatigued easily. She has been in regular classes at Newberry since kindergarten.
"It takes her awhile to get things, but once she gets it, she gets it," said her mother, Susan Ling, an art teacher at Newberry.
Participating in science class Wednesday, Katie seemed exactly the same as everyone else. She listened to the teacher's instructions, stretching a piece of a plastic bag, then a rubber band to compare their elasticity.
Part of the time, she doesn't need help from the paraprofessional who floats around the classroom, assisting other special-needs students. She needs help only for reading and math, when she can use a computer to type instead of writing assignments by hand.
Ling said being included in regular classes at Newberry has helped with Katie's behavior and social skills. Katie mimics the behavior of her non-disabled classmates.
"She's very successful watching other students," Ling said.
General education students learn from their special-needs peers, too.
First-grader Elijah Andrews is one of the only students to have a dedicated professional present at all times: his sign language interpreter, Peggy Lacasse.
Elijah has autism and is hearing impaired, which would make it difficult for his peers to communicate with him in another setting, said first-grade teacher Morgan Martin.
But at Newberry, having a sign language interpreter in the classroom means everyone else is learning how to sign, too. When Martin's students learn a vocabulary word in written English, they also learn it in sign language.
"He taught us probably more than we've taught him this year," Martin said of Elijah.
ESE teacher Teri Jones has been at Newberry one year longer than the inclusion program. She said special-needs children who are included are much better at rising to expectations and meeting their potential than their peers who are kept only with other special-needs children.
Most people would be amazed at what her students can accomplish, Jones said. You just have to give them a chance.
"You have to expect that they can do it," she said. "And you have to believe in kids."