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LIVING AND LOVING IT: Why I have not yet let go of my not so smartphone

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By Carol Beyanga

Posted  Monday, January 20  2014 at  02:00

The pressure for me to let go of my three-year-old old phone is mounting by the day. Workmates are tired of replying my text messages because they cannot Whatsapp me.
Relatives are weary of having to send me emails with photos they could easily Whatsapp. Friends are embarrassed when on fun days out, everyone whips out their android or smartphone to take down someone’s number and I am getting out my worn out, battered, almost falling apart Nokia 2330.

Hubby is stressed by it. It has fallen so many times that the part meant to hold the sim card is now loose. As such, there are moments the sim card gets slightly out of place such that the phone cannot register it. So I cannot receive calls or messages. Unfortunately, I only tend to realise this, about an hour later and when I rectify the situation, I discover someone has been trying to get in touch with me for so long.

Still, I love my old phone and here is why. When I go out with friends or the hubby, say to a restaurant, I want to engage in a fun conversation and my phone allows me to do that. Text messages or calls are the only things that will make the phone beep.

Smartphones on the other hand can beep for a million reasons, a call, a text message, a whatsapp message, or email, an app reminding you to do this or that and so much more. It is quite distracting when you are meant to have a two-hour conversation over dinner. So my Nokia ensures I pay attention to whoever I am with.

The simple person that I claim to be, all I need a phone to do is call and send messages. My phone does that perfectly.
If I need to check out a favourite website, I shall do so during the day when I have a spare minute at work. If I need to send an email out urgently over the weekend, I shall get the modem out (and pray I still have airtime on it) and send the email. If I feel the need to tweet, my not-so-smartphone actually allows me to go on the Internet and do so. If you ask me, it is doing everything I need it to, pretty well.

I also feel that if I get a smartphone, I shall underuse it. I am not on facebook. I do not intend to get onto Whatsapp until our daughter gets a phone – which if we can manage, is some light years away. I do not live on the Internet. I love the things it offers, but I usually prefer to bury my head in a magazine or book than on a website.

But perhaps one of the reasons I love my phone so much right now is that no one is bothered to steal it. I have left it in a taxi, in a restaurant and a couple of other places and I have always found it intact. In fact, sometimes, the conductor comes running after me to give it back. It is just not worth stealing because they know they will get peanuts for it, if any, should they try to sell.

Funny thing is, this is a phone that was bought to replace one that was stolen (and that I still miss), as we waited to get some money to buy a nice and fancy one. I guess I got too attached to it and I’m not willing to let go.


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The mirrors are syncing and the release announcement has been made... although the main website needs to be updated... and oddly distrowatch.com is dead.

Anyway, I uploaded contributed OpenVZ OS Templates built from the the final release with updates applied... and I have a LiveDVD that includes GNOME3, KDE4, Firefox, LibreOffice, GIMP and Inkscape for anyone who is interested.

I'm guessing Scientific Linux 7 will be out in another two weeks.

Scientific Linux 7 Alpha released - LiveDVD and OS Templates built

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One of the Scientific Linux developers sent out an announcement to the SL-devel mailing list just a couple of hours ago about SL 7 Alpha being released. They have a netinstall CD iso and a 6GB DVD. I got the entire tree downloaded in about 30-ish minutes... and got to work building a LiveDVD as well as OpenVZ OS Templates... using the scripts I had used for CentOS and Oracle... again with a tiny bit of editing.

Everything built and I have a LiveDVD that is 1.5GB in size that includes GNOME3, KDE4, Firefox, LibreOffice, GIMP, and Inkscape. What more does a person need? :)

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Oracle Linux 7 RC - KDE 4 with FirefoxOracle Linux 7 RC - KDE 4 with FirefoxI noticed on DistroWatch yesterday that Oracle released Oracle Linux 7 RC... with RC being "release candidate". Having done all of the work recently building a CentOS 7 Public QA LiveDVD as well as OpenVZ OS Templates I thought I'd give it a try with Oracle Linux. The race is on. Who will release GA first? CentOS or Oracle?

Oracle is a little different - First of all, I'm not even sure what the name of the thing is. I've heard of OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux), Oracle Linux, and a few other names. I think I'll just call it OEL. OEL is a pay distro *BUT* they do offer free downloads of their install media as well as updates. Originally updates were pay-only but they opened that up a while back when they had a promotional campaign claiming they were faster with updates than CentOS (turns out they aren't but close). I guess their business plan is you can use OEL for free and have updates... but there are some value add features (like Ksplice and Dtrace, etc) and support that cost extra. To download their iso install media you have to have an account on their system but that is cost-free and it just so happens I already had one because I've downloaded previous releases like OEL6.

Setting up the LiveDVD build environment - I downloaded the install media. I copied all of the .rpm files from the install media to a directory on a local web server and ran "createrepo ." within that directory. Then I made a four line oracle-7-rc.repo file pointing to the local package repo I just made.

Then I booted the install DVD inside of a newly created KVM virtual machine and did an install selecting that I wanted a GUI desktop (this is Server install media and "minimal" is the default) which is GNOME 3... and added to that the KDE desktop environment. After the install was over the machine was up and running. Then I installed the livecd-tools package previously mentioned made by that CentOS guy. Oracle was missing two perl-something-something packages needed for the livecd-tools dependencies so I just copied the missing two packages (along with the livecd-tools packages and epel-release) to my Oracle 7 RC package repo directory and re-ran createrepo. BTW, you don't have to turn off SELinux anymore for livecd-creator to work. That probably changed a long time ago but I only recently noticed. Ding, build environment complete.

Oracle Linux 7 RC - GNOME 3 ClassicOracle Linux 7 RC - GNOME 3 ClassicFixing up the kickstart - Then I copied my centos-7-pubqa.ks kickstart file and modified it. Within that kickstart I had referred to a number of package groups but in my local package repo package groups weren't working well for me. I don't know if package group names are different between CentOS and Oracle (probably) or if I needed more package metadata than I had with my simple, local package repository. As a result I needed to cough up a more complete and accurate package list for my kickstart. Hey, I liked the install I had in my KVM machine so I just did an 'rpm -qa --qf "%{n}\n" | sort > packages.txt' to generate a complete package list with the version portion stripped off suitable for a kickstart file. I emptied out everything in the package section of the kickstart an then just inserted the contents of the packages.txt file. Then I ran livecd-creator giving it the appropriate flags to generate an iso from the kickstart with the desired name (oracle-7-rc-001-x86_64.iso). After about an hour and approximately 1,400 packages... I had a 1.2GB .iso. I then tested that inside of a KVM virtual machine and it worked great... both as a try-it-before-you-install-it Live Desktop... and as an installer too.

OpenVZ OS Template building - I took the scripts (regular and minimal) I had created for CentOS 7 Public QA to build OpenVZ OS Templates and made the minor modifications needed to point to my local Oracle package repo. I had to change a few of the package names (like centos-release became oraclelinux-release and centos-logos became oracle-logos... and had to add in the rhn-client-tools package) and the desired output file name... but other than that, a simple edit. Those took about 10 minutes to build. I copied the .tar.xz files over to an OpenVZ host node and made a few containers to test things out. They worked as expected.

What else is different? - Turns out Oracle didn't have packages for LibreOffice on their install DVD. I thought that was weird because they had GNOME 3, KDE and some desktop applications including Firefox, GIMP, and Inkscape... but no LibreOffice. I assume after GA happens and their full package repositories become available that those packages will be included. The DVD includes just a little shy of 4,300 packages.

Where to go from here? - I will be releasing the OpenVZ OS Templates after Oracle's GA release but I don't think I can publicly release the LiveDVD as that might violate their license agreement. I don't read legalize so I'm not certain, but I just showed you above how you can make your own. I've attached the .ks I used as well as the scripts for OpenVZ to this post. You'll have to put in the correct URL for your own local repo or the one made available by Oracle after GA. And of course you'll want to modify the package set as desired. My kickstart probably has a some junk in it left over from the Fedora kickstart I based it on, but it does build and work just fine. Feel free to clean it up and make it more perfect if you want.

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Investors going through divorce should ensure they receive their share of retirement assets, reassess their financial goals and time horizons, know their Social Security benefits, and avoid major investment moves during a tumultuous time.

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Divorce can take a devastating emotional toll, but it can also be devastating financially. Here to share some tips for managing your finances during and after divorce is Christine Fahlund, she is senior financial planner with T. Rowe Price. Chris, thank you so much for being here.

Christine Fahlund: You're welcome. It's my pleasure.

Benz: You have recently been looking at this topic of the effect of divorce on retirement planning, and I think you've come away with some really practical takeaways, because it can be devastating to a retirement plan.

Let's talk about, in a big picture sense, the impact that divorce can have on your own retirement nest egg.

Fahlund: Well, for many couples what happens is that all of their retirement assets are divided in half, and they may have a qualified domestic relations order that dictates that the 401(k) plans be split in half, IRAs may be split in half. That can be emotionally devastating, as you say. If you have been saving and saving diligently, and all of a sudden what you see on your statement is half of that amount, it's demoralizing.

Benz: So, the two of you may have been on track for retirement together, but you split it in half, and neither party maybe is on track?

Fahlund: That's right. And it's important, by the way, that as part of the divorce that you do split retirement assets in half, because they are not the same as taxable assets. They are tax-deferred; they are in tax-deferred accounts. So, you're getting a tax benefit when you split the retirement accounts in half. So it's important that that be part of what you receive as someone who is going through a divorce.

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It seemed time to check on Zillow again and, while we were at it, to take a look at a couple of relative newcomers to the home values genre of websites.

Primarily we were curious about Zillow's Make Me Move feature that allows owners to enter information about their house and a price that would make them take notice even if the house was not actually for sale. Use of this novelty was increasing by leaps and bounds as was another service where sellers or their agents can list, for free, houses that are actually for sale.

Well, the popularity of both continues unabated. When we last visited on December 18, shortly after the features were announced, 9,880 homes were listed for sale by sellers or their agents and there were 5,431 owners daring someone to make them move. Today those numbers have skyrocketed to 59,006 "for sale" entries and 31,451 homeowners putting out feelers.

At about the same time Zillow launched a "wiki." Originally seeded with dozens of well-written staff submissions on buying, selling, building, and remodeling houses as well as information on mortgages, "wiki" now has around a thousand entries submitted by readers. We pulled up several dozen at random (many of the entries are apparently marketing pages for local, national, and international agents) but found many to be empty of everything but a headline.

Zillow now claims to cover 67 million homes, little changed from December.

We had been told about two other real estate oriented sites of relatively recent origin; and A visit to the latter left us with no clue what-so-ever as to what it was about. It may be generational; aimed at the people who flock to Myspace and its peers and we are just too old. But, after investing 30 minutes in reviewing it we moved on. If anyone can provide a brief outline of how to use it and why we should we would be delighted to receive it.

The site, however, seems poised to give Zillow a little competition. It is sponsored by Fidelity National Information Services, a provider of automated valuation services and software for lenders and realtors and claims to cover 100 million property listings. It shares many of the attributes of Zillow but Cyberhomes has not (yet) imitated some of its predecessor's quirkier features.

Cyberhomes has satellite images of the world that can be narrowed down to aerial views of individual homes. The birds-eye views incidentally have improved dramatically on Zillow and both sites now offer pictures of individual houses that are easily identifiable if one is familiar with the property.

Cyberhomes offers a wealth of data on states, towns, local areas (probably Census tract based.) Educational information is provided on availability of public, private, and charter schools, expenditures per student, student/teacher and student/counselor ratios and individual schools are named and enrollment sizes given. Demographic information includes the area's median age, education level, income, employment rates, and gender breakdown. Wonder about the weather? Average temperatures in July and January, rain and snowfalls, and the number of sun-filled and rainy days are given. All of this data is readily available from other sources, but it is helpful to have it in one place.

Like Zillow, Cyberhomes allows visitors to upgrade houses with new kitchens, baths, and amenities such as hot-tubs or decks and see the impact on values. There is also an easy to use comparables function but we found a wrinkle or two there which we will explain later.

What continues to amaze is the difficulty that Zillow has in nailing down data and now, with Cyberhomes to compare against, discrepancies become even more apparent. Zillow may be right, Cyber may be right, but in our very limited experiment it was impossible that they both were much of the time.

We looked at (or at least for) four homes in four different states for which we had firsthand knowledge. We had looked at all of these twice before in evaluating Zillow and found that two of them had dramatic changes in description and values in a very brief period of time. Things have changed again. The properties are located in Brunswick, Georgia; Arlington, Virginia; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Lexington, Massachusetts.

First the respective data:

' BR BA SF Price
Arlington, VA Unk 2 1,984 $699,200
SLC, UT 5 2.75 3,126 $503,403
Lexington, MA 5 2 1,112 $1,470,994
Brunswick, GA Unk Unk Unk Unk

' BR BA SF Price
Arlington, VA Unk 2 1,984 $709,424
SLC, UT 5 2 3,380 Unk
Lexington, MA 3 2 1,650 $700,132
Brunswick, GA Unk Unk Unk Unk

The most glaring inconsistencies, both between the two sites and with reality occurred with the Lexington property. This is a nice three-bedroom cape in an area of similar homes but where significant tear-downs and rebuilding has been going on. Similar homes in the area are valued in the $500,000 price range so when the $700,000 estimate popped up on Cyberhomes we assumed it had fallen victim to a contractor yet the non-price info still indicated it was a modest cape. Then Zillow's data seemed to confirm the teardown theory - but at twice the price. Yet, aerial photos, with a recent copyright date on both sites show the same little cape that has been there for 50 years.

The SLC house came on line with Zillow a year ago with a value of over $1 million. Three weeks later it had retreated to the high $300,000s. No particular argument with Zillow's Zestimate today, but why, given that assessors data is being used by both sites, does Cyberhomes have no value for the house or for any other in that very upscale neighborhood. And, incidentally, the house has three full baths. The Virginia house was consistent between sites but one wonders why information on the number of bedrooms is missing for a house built 85 years ago.

We keep checking to see if coastal Georgia has joined the world and Cyberhomes indicates that it has the area fully covered. On closer inspection there was information on only 11 homes in a town of 15,000 and the closest of these to our target property, a small ranch on about 20,000 sf. is described as being on 10 acres and, while the address is right, is placed in the wrong county. There are a scattering of For Sale and Make Me Move homes on Zillow but not much has changed since the last time we looked.

The comparables we mentioned earlier don't seem particularly helpful on Cyberhomes. The Lexington house had several dozen "comps" but they seem to have been put forth without rhyme or reason. Some were nearly two years old (appraisers and real estate agents try to limit themselves to six months), were scattered all over town, and ranged from two to five bedrooms with about a 900 sf size spread. In other words, there seemed little basis for comparing them. There were no comparables for the SLC house, possibly because there were no price estimates in the area. All of the Virginia comparables were from 2006 and 2007 and seemed reasonably close in location although the house sizes were all over the place.

It is hard to see, gimmicks aside, how these sites are going to become more useful unless they can pin down their data. Both may be on the right track by inviting homeowners to verify and/or update the information but how many will be willing to make the effort to do so? Maybe Zillow doesn't care. Its business plan appears to involve becoming a link between buyer and seller. No theories yet on where Cyberhomes is headed. Maybe accuracy won't be that important to their business model either.


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My DD's are 5 and 1 and I would like to invest in a yoga for kids DVD that is engaging and clear, easy to follow.  My plan would be for us all to do it together (1 year old already does a good downward facing dog, too bad she usually tries to do it while she's nursing!).  Please advise!

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We have YogaKids, Storytime Yoga: The Peddler's Dream and Family Yoga with Rodney Yee (and family!).  DD is 4 and has liked them all but seems to like the last one best now--it has kids and parents together doing yoga.

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YogaKids ABC is a great one: I feel straight and tall at the end and happily integrate it into my (occasional) yoga "routine".  Family Yoga, yes.  Also, my girls love "Yoga Trance Dance", an adult video that has some fun free-form dancing as part of the practice.  I am forever amazed at how much they love to do what we call "Mama Yoga Videos".  My oldest also loves to lead us through "number yoga": the "home practice" pages in Yoga Journal magazine.  Yoga cards can be fun, too.  I know the last two aren't videos, but they are a fun addition to family yoga practice.

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We have YogaKids and one my daughter loves called Yoga By the Dozen. She's only 2.5 and she loves yoga...though not actually while watching the DVDs. She just watches them, checking out all the poses and then incorporates her yoga moves into her life literally all the time, while dancing, playing and out at the park or walking down the street. I love the sounds of the Yoga Trance Dance, SweetSilver, that sounds like something we'd both enjoy!

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Here's the thing about 2012: it was a really, really good year for movies. To get to the specifics of this column, it was an especially fine year for sci-fi. In fact, the movies were so good that my Best Science Fiction Films of 2012 post is going to be absolutely jam-packed.

You can look for that in two weeks. Today, we're looking at the stinkers.

Compiling this list proved to be difficult. With so many good science fiction films out this year, there wasn't a lot of room for so many bad ones. In fact, most of the films discussed below are missed opportunities, not outright stinkers. Strangely, some of these highly flawed films will pull double duty and will find homes on both lists. Of course, we'll also be visiting some popular punching bags, and we'll be beating some dead horses, but the year is just about over. In a few weeks we can throw the corpses in the fire and start anew.

Most Disappointing Sci-fi Film: Prometheus

Let's get one thing straight: at the end of the day, I like Prometheus. Still, there's no denying the fact that this is a movie that didn't just fail to live up to expectations -- it failed spectacularly in the expectations department. What sounded like the Next Great Science Fiction Film from the man who made Blade Runner and Alien turned out to be a silly, shallow, extremely entertaining and gorgeously shot studio blockbuster. It feels horrible to damn Prometheus for just being a decent movie, but there wasn't a bigger letdown in 2012.

Runner-up: John Carter

Like Prometheus, I'm a big fan of John Carter. I like it a lot. In fact, you may very well see it pop up in the "Best of 2012" column that'll follow this one. But a sci-fi/fantasy epic from Andrew Stanton should've been the next Star Wars… and John Carter is no Star Wars.

Worst Performance in a Bad Film: Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black 3

Like so many actors late in their careers, there are times when Tommy Lee Jones obviously just doesn't give a f**k. His superb work in Lincoln is evidence that he still cares when he's put in the right project, but his lazy, sleepwalking performance in Men in Black 3 is a far cry from his frequently hilarious work in the first film. Jones is here for the paycheck and the paycheck alone, meaning that his more enthusiastic costars (the never lazy Will Smith and Josh Brolin) have to save the film. He's not in the film for too long, but every frame with him in it is dripping with contempt.

Runner-up: Taylor Kitsch in Battleship

Oh, Riggins… you are not a leading man. I love, but you're not. I'm so sorry. Also, I really don't think Battleship is a truly "bad" film, but that's a subject for later.

Worst Performance in a Good Film: Logan Marshall-Green in Prometheus

For all of its (major, extreme, terrible) story flaws, Prometheus is full of wonderful actors doing everything they can with the material, from Michael Fassbender's incredible performance as an android to Charlize Theron's memorable turn as an icy corporate type. Logan Marshall-Green's Charlie Holloway is an exception. I'm not sure how much of it is his fault and how much is the fault of his terribly written character, but he comes off as the whiniest, most irresponsible and least impressive scientist in recent cinematic memory. In short, you spend every second of the movie wishing he had stayed back on Earth, which was surely not the intent.

Runner-up: Taylor Kitsch in John Carter

Oh, Riggins… you are still not a leading man. I still love you, but you're not. I'm still so sorry. Also, I really don't think John Carter is a truly "good" film, but that's a subject we've already covered.

Brain-Shatteringly Bad Scene of the Year: The Stupid Scientist Touches the Weird Alien Creature in Prometheus

If you were a part of any movie discussion during the summer of 2012, you surely talked about this scene. You probably first talked about how stupid and improbable it was that two scientists would journey to a distant planet and get scared and run away when they have the opportunity to make the discovery of the century. You probably then moved on to how dumb it was that they got lost in a spaceship that is essentially a big circle. However, it all comes down to the scene where these scientists, too afraid to even look at artifacts a few hours ago, suddenly decide it's okay to touch the weird alien creature. So bad. So stupid. Let's close the book on this one.

Runner-up: The Motorcycle Chase in Lockout

Early in Lockout, before he ventures to an orbital space station to rescue the president's daughter from convicts, Guy Pearce's Agent Snow gets himself involved in a motorcycle chase that looks like it was rendered for the PlayStation 2. It's easily the worst special-effects sequence of the year, an assault on the eyes only saved from the top prize in this category because it adds to the movie's amazing cheese factor.

The "How Did You Screw This Up?" Award: Iron Sky

Iron Sky began as a clever concept teaser, released on the Internet before a single frame was shot: What if the Nazis had a secret moon base? What if they came back? It's an endearing pulp concept, the kind of thing you'd see in a '60s science fiction paperback or a silver age comic book. Iron Sky's great sin is that it doesn't embrace the pulp of its concept. Rather than create a silly but fun adventure film, it wastes its premise on Friedberg/Seltzer comedy. The result is an impressively made exercise in how to not be funny. Call it "Sci-fi Movie' and put it in a box set with Epic Movie.

Runner-up: John Carter

Remember what I said above? You could've been the next Star Wars, man.

Worst Reboot/Remake/Sequel of the Year: Total Recall

Len Wiseman takes Paul Verhoeven's trashy action masterpiece and scrubs it clean of every drop of blood and every ounce of satire. Although I'm all for remakes running off in a completely different direction, I'm not for that direction being safe and bland. There is nothing of value here.

Runner-up: Men in Black 3

Hey, at least it's not as bad as the second film.

Worst Universe: Total Recall

It's all so very blue. And when it's not so very blue, it's so very gray. In any case, it's always so very Minority Report and the simple fact is that you don't ape Steven Spielberg because he's going to do it better than you. Verhoeven's sets may look like they're made of cardboard now, but his funky, bizarro world is nowhere to be found in the soulless remake. But let's face it: Total Recall won this award the moment it wrote Mars out of the script.

Runner-up: Iron Sky

Iron Sky doesn't win this dishonor because of its universe -- it wins this dishonor because it creates a cool universe and proceeds to do it every possible disservice.

Special Prize For "Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?": Battleship

Here's the rotten truth: I like Battleship. A lot. Like John Carter, it has been unfairly maligned by the critics and scorned by millions of people who didn't even see it. This silly, bizarre and hilariously jingoistic alien invasion flick is director Peter Berg doing what Michael Bay never could: make a good Michael Bay movie. But there's a reason this bombed so badly and a reason it has become a laughingstock and a black eye for Universal -- it's based on a board game and proudly displays "Hasbro" among the opening production companies. As much fun as Battleship is, its hasty death at the box office hopefully means we won't be getting a Monopoly movie anytime soon.

Worst Sci-Fi Film: Men in Black 3

The first Men in Black may be little more than a good excuse to eat popcorn, but it had a lot going for it: a fun, dense world, incredible alien designs by Rick Baker and two amiable leads with terrific chemistry in Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. Over the course of two dire sequels, the promise of the first film has been thoroughly deflated. There were worse films than Men in Black 3 released this year, but none were this cynically made and none were so obviously a product of money men. Of course, that wouldn't have mattered if it was funny or exciting, but it's not. So it just stinks.

Runner-up: Lockout

Technically, Lockout is a worse film than Men in Black 3 on virtually every level… except for the fact that it's really, really fun. No film this year has felt so marvelously, lunkheadedly out of date and no film this year has reached such dizzying heights of stupidity and that's exactly why you'll find Lockout sneaking into the fringes of my Best Of column. See you in two weeks.

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YERMO' Kenneth'Rusty� Lasley, 41, of Vista, died of injuries sustained in a fall down an abandoned mine shaft Friday, the San Bernardino Coroner's office said. Lasley and his 7-year-old son, who was not identified, were exploring the Calico Mountains north of Yermo in an all-terrain vehicle when they came upon the abandoned mine in a remote, rugged area. Lasley ventured about 60 feet into a horizontal mine shaft, then fell into a vertical mine shaft estimated as being 30 to 50 yards deep, according to San Bernardino Sheriff's Sgt. Doug Hubbard. The young boy rode his ATV to one of the few homes nearby, two or three miles from the mine shaft to seek help, and the homeowners called deputies. At 12:30 p.m., sheriff's deputies, county fire personnel and two sheriff's helicopters were dispatched to the area where the mine shaft goes an estimated 100 feet into the mountain.

The mine is'three ridges past� part of the mountain that is visible from below, Hubbard said, and is very difficult to reach except by helicopter or on vehicles designed to traverse rugged areas. It was determined that the mine shaft was very unstable and portions needed to be shored up before rescue personnel could enter.

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Military sexual assault: Is ‘keeping it in the family’ the right approach?

Earlier this week Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said that he wanted to “review every aspect” of the chain of command in dealing with cases of military sexual assault. This came after startling reports showed a significant uptick in sexual assault cases in the military in 2012, reaching 26,000 cases up from 19,000 in 2010.

As the system stands now, the military adjudicates its own cases in incidents of sexual assault. Hagel wants to keep it that way, saying that taking the responsibility away from the military would “weaken” the system.

But many are concerned that this approach is hurting the victims of assault, making it harder for them to report cases and more difficult to prosecute those responsible for the offense. “What people are concerned about is that keeping this in the family, keeping this in the military, means that there is so much isolation and insulation from outside accountability,” The Cycle’s S.E. Cupp said on Friday. “And these prosecutions are not having the desired result in staunching these sexual assaults.” In fact, 62% of the women who experienced and reported sexual assault to Department of Defense authorities felt some form of social, administrative, or professional retaliation.

Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, who is co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill to improve protection for military members who report their sexual assault cases, thinks the problem is cultural–not judicial. She agrees with Hagel in thinking that taking the adjudicating power out of the military will send the message that it’s not the Commanding Officer’s problem if rape and assault is happening within his or her unit. S.E. Cupp worries, however, that these officers aren’t making it their problem as the system stands now. It’s not a question of legal training–as Sanchez points out, lawyers in the military are educated at the same law schools are civilian court attorneys–but a question of how the cases are being brought before a court

While some call for moving these cases to civilian court, Sanchez insists that the problem lies within the military. She told The Cycle hosts: “I believe that there are people who have stars on their shoulders who are rapists in our nation’s military. And we have to weed that them out and change the culture of what’s going on in there.” Sanchez has previously said the increase in sexual assaults in the military “reflects a terrible problem of culture and climate in our ranks.”

This is not Congresswoman Sanchez’s first effort to fight the trend of military sexual assaults. Previously she worked to implement a sexual assault database in the 2009 National Defense Authorization Act, part of her attempt to “weed out” those sexual offenders who are destroying their culture and community.

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LoopaDaLoopa Sun 27-Oct-13 03:19:48

How are they getting on in terms of reading and writing etc?

We are not in uk and DD should be in reception but is not reading at all and barely writing. Was considered v bright before we moved away but now, see that friends' kids are far more advanced.

leelteloo Sun 27-Oct-13 06:30:03

My dd was just 4 when she started in September and couldn't read or write. She knew her numbers up to 20 and a few letters.
We have just ended the first half of term. She now can write her name, has started reading high frequency words, pointing out letters she recognises and counting everything. I am very impressed with how much she has developed in a very short space of time but she attends a small village school and gets plenty of one/one teaching.

my2bundles Sun 27-Oct-13 07:47:34

Dont worry, for many kids reading dosent click untill yr 1 or even 2, most at this point in recpetion are only just working on the first 6 phonic sounds and only just learning about blending. There are exceptions of course but the majority are working at this level. The strongest readers Ive found are those who develope the skills (or click) later so dont worry.

peachesandpickles Sun 27-Oct-13 07:54:22

My dd2 (not in UK) started school this Sept. so far she has learned to write her name and can sound out lots of phonic sounds, around 15 or so but no reading yet as such and no writing homework yet although I am sure they are writing in school.

onetiredmummy Sun 27-Oct-13 07:56:45

My ds is singing the alphabet and counting to 100 at random moments during the day smile

We have wordless books from school that we read by making sounds and finding little pictures in a big one etc he's not reading, is writing his name but he was doing that before he started.

We play I spy phonetically but it doesn't really work, if I spied a 't' he will guess seahorse smile

Other children are writing more but I'm not worried, it will come. I treat reception as a year more for play and learning about friendship, sharing, listening etc more than education.

thegreylady Sun 27-Oct-13 10:18:47

Dgs is 4.8 and in Reception. He can read cvc and ccvc words and is on 9b of those books. He recently had a certificate for 'outstanding number work' which seems to involve number bonds to 10 with addition and subtraction and shape matching. He isn't unusual in his class though he does work with yr1 for phonics atm.

thegreylady Sun 27-Oct-13 10:20:34

His writing is restricted. He can write his name and make a stab at other words bur b's and d's are confused and the letters are irregular sizes.

LoopaDaLoopa Sun 27-Oct-13 10:51:12

I have no idea what any of that means I'm afraid thegreylady.

Mrmenmug Sun 27-Oct-13 13:38:34

Mine recognises and sounds about 20 letters and can count to 30. Can copy letters reasonably clearly and write his name, just about. I encourage but I don't push, he'll get there when he is ready, they all develop at their own speed but tend to find a similar level by 6 years old apparently

thegreylady Sun 27-Oct-13 17:10:39

cvc is consonant vowel consonant like cat and jam and sip and ccvc is two consonants vowel consonant like spit trip and tram.The reading books are aimed at Reception and if you Google cvc reading books they come up.

mrz Sun 27-Oct-13 17:21:55

cvc also includes words like rain, boat, tune, light, weight ...
ccvc train, float, prune, slight

much more difficult I'm sure you agree.

TallyGrenshall Sun 27-Oct-13 17:32:19

DS is on blue band books, and is reading them with no problems. He can write his name, if he sits still long enough, and can occasionally writes random letters to make a story at home.

They haven't done any sort of maths at school yet but he understands the process of twenty, thirty, forty etc. We haven't tried any sums or anything at home

Pinkpinot Sun 27-Oct-13 17:49:09

This time lady year in reception ds hadn't even been given a reading book yet
They concentrated a lot on the basic sounds first
It's amazing how much they learn in a year
I worried at first, but they all get it

thegreylady Sun 27-Oct-13 18:23:31

Not in our primary it doesn't mrz it is basic vowels and simple consonants at Reception level.I may have the term wrong though if you google cvc reading books the ones that appear are the ones dgs is reading.I will find a link.

thegreylady Sun 27-Oct-13 18:28:14

In fact the link is very long but one of the early ones is on Amazon and it is called Sad Dad.

thegreylady Sun 27-Oct-13 18:31:12

I'll find the info from his current book tomorrow just in case anyone wants to know.I thought I could just google but its not as easy to find as I hoped and I have to cook now.

mrz Sun 27-Oct-13 18:32:01

thegreylady it has nothing to do with your primary school or mine or reading schemes...cvc words can be basic cat dog mum dad or more complex weight, night, coat

sugaplumfurry Sun 27-Oct-13 19:16:24

Dd 4yrs 6 mths struggles with reading, attempts but struggles with her letters/name, knows her numbers 1-20 and has just started writing them. She is only 1 term into reception and I imagine she will just click at some point.

Periwinkle007 Sun 27-Oct-13 19:53:20

DD2 is reading yellow books so simple words in sentences, some she reads fluently, some she sounds out and blends.

writing she is good and very willing to have a go at spelling just about anything phonetically but I think that is because she wants to copy her older sister so is more confident about trying.

She can count up to 100 both and relate numbers to objects (not sure that is the right way to refer to that but hopefully you know what I mean) and can do basic addition and subtraction with objects (so counting on and back) and in her head.

she is unusual in her class at this stage of the year though and I think she is mostly putting into practice what she saw her older sister doing last year, she has picked it up and is desperate to copy. I would guess that majority of her class are on the first level of books and writing their names, counting to 10 (ish) etc.

I wouldn't worry, for starters your child doesn't need to be doing these things yet where you are and I wouldn't say children doing them are therefore more advanced, they have just been encouraged to do it.

Jaynebxl Sun 27-Oct-13 19:59:43

Is your dd in a british school or a local school? In lots of countries children start their formal education later but soon catch up.

thegreylady Sun 27-Oct-13 20:03:25

mrz it seems stupid of me to argue as you are oviously an informed professional and I retired from teaching some years ago and write only as a grandma/observer.It seemed logical to me to think that cvc meant 3 letters in an appropriate combination.The examples you give certainly have a vowel sound between two consonants, however, in terms of phonics these sounds would probably be some way along the road from early readers in Reception.
No matter and not at all relevant to the OP so my apologies.

Tiggles Sun 27-Oct-13 20:23:29

DS3 is in reception. He has lilac (1+) books home, and is on the cusp of going up to level 2. They have done lots of phonics - mainly single letter phonemes on a daily basis (although also done ck, ss, ll, ff). But they have talked about other ones as his teacher was explaining to DS the other day about igh, i-e etc and he has had lots of these in his jolly phonic reading books. They do an 'over to you' diary most days, where they record what they have done that day in school. I know DS writes in his - he has had targets to learn to spell some of the more common words with tricky parts like 'was' to write in it properly, but they do also draw in them too.
Mathswise they have done counting to 10 forwards and backwards, lots of maths language - under, over etc. I think they have done shapes too.

Thanks Mrz for the clarification about CVC words smile

freetrait Sun 27-Oct-13 21:27:44

DD can read cvc words in greylady's definition of those. She has just read this

which she could manage very easily.

Her writing is less developed. She can write her name and with a bit of adult assistance can be encouraged to sound out and write other words. She hasn't learnt to form all the letters properly yet, and often gets bs and ds mixed up. I think they start focussing on letter formation more after half term.

OP, don't worry. England is a bit freakish in getting 4 year olds reading and writing. If you are somewhere that does it later I would chill, just read to your child and enjoy.

freetrait Sun 27-Oct-13 21:28:24
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ClayDavis Sun 27-Oct-13 21:42:18

thegreylady, CVC words like rain, boat, light would be introduced during the first term of reception, so is probably relevant to the OP. In lots of schemes some vowel digraphs would be introduced about now or within the next few weeks.

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