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Rents to go high for South Mumbai pugree residents
The draft housing policy proposes to amend the Maharashtra Rent Control Act 1999 for old South Mumbai buildings under the pugree system; tenant associations claim it will affect nearly 25 lakh people
There's bad news for tenants residing in South Mumbai's old buildings under the pugree system — where a tenant is not the sole owner of a flat and a part of the flat belongs to the landlord — as the draft housing policy is likely to change.
Rent control: Under the pugree system, a tenant is not the sole owner of a flat and a part of the flat belongs to the landlord. (Left) Buildings under the pugree system in south Mumbai. File pic
As per the policy (yet to be released), the government has decided to amend the Maharashtra Rent Control Act 1999 iand make the tenant pay rent equal to 30 per cent of his/her annual income to the landlord.
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According to the government, one of the key factors that have led to the dilapidation of old and cess buildings is the provisions of the Maharashtra Control Act, under which rents stood frozen since 1948.
As per the proposed policy, the government will amend the statute to exempt all commercial establishments occupying more than 46.5 sq mt (500 sq ft) from protection under the Maharashtra Rent Control Act.
Further more, all residential tenants occupying more than 80 sq mt (860 sq ft) will also be excluded from protection under the Act. Ergo, for these flats and commercial outlets, a tenant occupying more than 46.5 sq mt of commercial area and 80 sq mt residential area, shall however be entitled to continue to occupy the rented premises so long as he/she agrees to pay the market rent.
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The government has also decided the rent that the tenants must pay to the landlord. To ensure that the change does not unsettle the tenants, for the first three years they will be liable to pay only 50 per cent of the market rent, and 100 per cent of the market rent from the fourth year onward, subject to the clause that if the market rent is more than 30 per cent of the annual income of the tenant, then in such a case, the tenant will be liable to pay rent equal to only 30 per cent of his/her annual income to the landlord.
In the pugree system, a tenant is not the complete owner of a flat and a part share of the flat belongs to the landlord. An aerial view of Gaiwadi in South Mumbai. file pic
In such a case, senior citizens will be liable to pay only 50 per cent of the market rent or 15 per cent of annual income, whichever is lower.
All such buildings/occupants/ landlords will not be required to pay repair cess and Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) shall not be responsible to maintain such buildings. Further more, it will be the sole responsibility of the landlord to maintain all such buildings and keep them in good repair and condition. Failure by the landlord to do so will attract penal provisions including negligence as contained in the Indian Penal Code.
Tenant associations claim that this move will affect nearly 25 lakh people, as more than five lakh families are directly going to be affected because of it. Vidula Warawdekar, a resident of a pugree system building, and a member of an entity called Action Committee of Tenants, said, "It's not just five lakh families who will be affected; the ramifications will be for more than these people. The government's decision is just arbitrary, how can it decide such a thing? It seems that it wants to help certain influential people. This will bring us out on the streets, paying 30 per cent of our salary as rent, 33 per cent as income-tax, leaving us with less than 40 per cent for ourselves to run the house, educate our kids and do everything else."
Viren Shah, president, Federation of Retailer Traders Welfare Association, threatened a strike. "We have told the government to withdraw the draft housing policy within 15 days (of whenever it is launched), or face mass action and protest."
Another tenant said, "By hiking the rent abnormally, the government wants to oust the tenants, and give the property in the hands of the landlords and a few builders, so that they can financially exploit the land mostly available in
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In War, Can the Innocent Survive?
This compelling war novel will stir hearts in the upcoming Guadalajara International Book Exhibit in Mexico on November 30 - December 4
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LARKSPUR, Calif., Oct. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Author Anthony De Benedict illustrates how the chaos and uncertainties of war affect people in different ways. One person may succumb to fear and despair, dissipating into the excesses of drugs, sex, and violence. Another, like Regis Fallen, might find war's dissonance an opportunity for transformation. At the beginning of his story, we find him consumed with his innocent pursuit of the American dream: a college education, a promising career, and a desirable partner with whom to share home and a comfortable lifestyle. The deconstruction of his innocence was at first initiated by Sharon, a young black woman totally committed to the Civil Rights Movement. And then Regis was drafted into a war deliberately mischaracterized by his government. The forces set against Regis' utopic dream were formidable. His relation with Sharon was considered "unnatural"; and any opposition to the war, unpatriotic.
In this compelling read, the intricate plot embellishes historical events in their actual chronology, much of mirrored in contemporary times. Readers will follow Regis as he attempts to redefine his American birthright in the midst of the racial, political, and military strife of that era. Many themes are interwoven in a tale that encompasses both the horrors of war and the persistence of the human spirit. As Regis is drawn into the political intrigue and espionage of a Vietnamese judge and his seductive niece, his preconceived ideas about loyalty, love, and integrity are challenged. In response, he changes the trajectory of his life, risking everything in a daring rescue attempt and then returning to civilian life, transformed in purpose and firmly committed to his true love.
For further information, you may visit author's website at www.aculpableinnocence.com. This book is available online and can be purchased at www.bookwhirl.com, www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com.
About the Author
Anthony De Benedict was born in Philadelphia, PA. His developing years were spent in California where he earned a BA, studying philosophy and English literature, and eventually an MS, studying systems management. He worked mainly as a project manager or systems consultant and, in 2001, managed a dot.com that succumbed to the economic downturn. He then turned his attention to writing novels. A Culpable Innocence is his first published novel.
A Culpable Innocence by Anthony De Benedict
Publication Date: December 2011
Price: $25.95; 340 pages; ISBN 978-0-533-16363-2
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If you're getting it on with your honey and, during your intimate sesh, he leans over to the nighttable to check his team's game score on his iPhone, then, yea, we'd say that a smartphone just got in the way of your relationship. Also, someone doesn't have your relationship as a priority.
According to the study, the number of adults using their smartphones during sex rises to one in five when looking only at the 18 to 34 age group. We are shaking our heads right now.
Might we remind you that we're talking about sex here. That should be the only thing on your mind while being intimate. Forget your phone for those 15 seconds - or however long it takes for you both to be done. Your phone will still be there. Your phone is not a living being; it does not have limbs. It will not go anywhere.
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Yeah, until I moved to AZ 4 years ago I was stuck in a rut, but then when I returned I rediscovered The Peninsula, Tahoe, Big Sur, Carmel, Monterey (my perenial home), and the Salinas Valley and associated river. Ever been to Spreckles, Coalinga, Paso Robles? You should go.
Here, there's the ubiquitous Desert w/Saguaro Cacti (shown), Tucson, White Mountains, Tombstone, Prescott, Flagstaff, Williams, Sedona, and of course... The Canyon. Western scenes and lifestyles. So much to shoot, so little time. This weekend the Salt River... including warter... flowing(!!!)
I actually drove through Paso today. I used to go to school near there. Never been for photography though. Haven't been to the other places. The beach is just easy and close. I don't have to make a trip out of it. Plenty of places I want to go inland though.
I went to Sedona last year. It was a fantastic place.
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I actually drove through Paso today. I used to go to school near there. Never been for photography though. Haven't been to the other places. The beach is just easy and close. I don't have to make a trip out of it. Plenty of places I want to go inland though.
I went to Sedona last year. It was a fantastic place.
Paso and Coalinga are pretty close. Spreckles is off of 68 heading to Monterey (before Laguna Seca).
Next time... Williams, and the Grand Canyon Railway, or come down for the Festival Of The West...
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Love it D70fan. A bit freaky seeing gum trees from the USA.
If you hadn't given Wengler all the advice on potential subjects I'd have never known the Sonoran Desert in your sig meant the USA.
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I haven't put up a picture here in forever and a half. Funny because I never stopped talking pictures, I just got tired of sorting through and posting them.
The following shots were all from my parent's back porch over the past two weeks, where I am staying while I have some Chinese visa issues sorted out. Or in some cases through the window if I was especially lazy. These are the Ruby Mountains in Nevada, where a number of my landscapes and many of my wildlife shots are taken. It looks spectacular, but for a long time I thought this scene was very boring because I saw it so much. It was only recently with my improved knowledge of composition that I looked at it again. The first one was taken around 4:00 in the morning just after a night of 12 inches of snow, just before the full moon, it is a 1 minute exposure. Some of the others are so bright that at ISO 100 I wasn't able to shoot wide open (my 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 lens) because my camera's 1/4000s shutter speed wasn't fast enough. The last one gives the best impression of how the mountains actually look, I think. The others were generally taken at 36-18mm, making things look too small.
C&C appreciated, I posted too many of the same thing.
The 2nd one there is my favorite of the set and probably one of the better shots I've seen from you. The 1st one is also interesting. I'm going to give the moonlight photography another shot at the next full moon.
Really? That one I probably liked least of the set and almost didn't post. Though, it is the best composition foreground-wise. I probably shouldn't be allowed to sort my own pictures .
I suppose I need to look at composition rather than content, if I had the cloud formations of some of the others with the foreground of #2 it would be a nice combination.
While I'm at it, a few more. Two from Pyramid Lake that I took a few months ago. It was cold. About 10 degrees F with a 20 mph wind.
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While I'm at it, a few more. Two from Pyramid Lake that I took a few months ago. It was cold. About 10 degrees F with a 20 mph wind.
WOW, the first one is amazing. I love everything about it. Brilliant colours, composition and atmosphere.
I agree with Lukas about the second shot of your other post. I also think it's the best of the batch. I don't really like the last three, IMO they are lacking in foreground.
I also like the slightly more misty shot of this batch; very nice!
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Nicely done Raven, two very different shots. Is that a duck of some sort in the water on the first one?
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It's not a duck, but it is some sort of waterfowl, I don't know what. I followed it up the shoreline about 100 feet as it swam by, trying to keep it in the frame and taking shots whenever it crested a wave. It was a spectacular morning, it was the first really cold day of the year so the warm water was steaming. I think it helped that part of the lake is geothermally heated (ie. hotspring). Basically I was throwing everything available in the foreground.
A few more, possibly better than the first, but I am not entirely sure I did the scene justice. I think I'm leaning toward the last one.
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Does Cardio Give You Energy?
You might associate cardio with tiredness, the feeling you get after a run, a bike ride or a tough aerobics class. Even though a hard workout can leave you exhausted over the long term, cardio is critical to improving your health and fitness, which will give you more energy in your everyday life. Cardio gives you energy in specific ways, but the type of cardio isn't important — just get out there and get your heart pumping. Consult your doctor before starting a vigorous exercise program.
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Cardio exercise gets your heart pumping, which is one of the key ways it helps give you energy. According to "Your Best Body Ever," as your heart adapts to the demand of cardio it grows stronger, meaning that when you are resting your heart doesn't have to beat as often to circulate blood. Thus, your resting heart rate lowers, reducing the demands on your body and leaving you with more energy. This becomes a positive feedback loop where increased energy boosts your workout so you build more endurance and have more energy to spare.
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Cardiovascular exercise is energizing because it trains your body to use oxygen efficiently, according to fitness training guide "You Too Can Succeed." Even moderate cardio such as walking or taking the stairs will help your heart and lungs become more efficient at absorbing oxygen from the blood, meaning you have access to greater reserves of oxygen. This prevents feelings of tiredness or weakness due to lack of oxygen.
Muscular Fitness
In "Exercise Therapy in the Management of Musculoskeletal Disorders" author Fiona Wilson-O'Toole reports that poor cardio fitness is linked to muscular injuries such as ankle sprains. Though it is not clear exactly why this is, it may be because cardio workout such as running, biking and swimming also support muscle building. Greater muscular fitness, along with the beneficial effects of cardio in supplying more oxygen to the muscles, means your energy and endurance improve.
Cardio has many long-term benefits for energy, but it also supplies a quick burst of energy in the form of feel-good chemicals called endorphins. "Move To Lose" notes that when you do cardio your brain releases endorphins, which lift your mood and alleviate feelings of pain and stress. They are responsible for the phenomenon known as "runner's high," where you feel energetic or even euphoric after doing a tough cardio workout. This makes cardio an ideal way to beat the blues, or give you a boost after a tough day.


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365 Days Blogging – 4 of 365
Handstand Push-up's – Worked on 5 Tibetans (got to 13 reps)
Dinner with friends – 0 of 12
Words of Fiction written – 659
Hopefully some of you are here to find out more about my books. Summer was a little rough in terms of creating new content, but I did get some things written and you should start seeing new books soon.
As far as what I'm writing right now, that words of fiction counter up top reflects new words in the 6th Dylan Cold novel, titled Frayed Shorts. The 659 words today pushed the manuscript past the 10,000 word mark and things are really starting to flow.
In Frayed Shorts, Dylan has left the Brookford Police Department and is trying to make a go of things farming with Abbey. Unfortunately his good friend Betty, from the police station, gets herself in serious trouble trying to help her nephew Luke. The young man was working on a charter boat in the Caribbean when he overheard some clients talking about stock market transaction. He overplayed his hand and while the men manipulating the securities can survive without the millions they cannot afford the scrutiny Luke has brought to their business practices.
This story is getting Dylan out of New Hampshire and expanding the world where his skills are needed. There will be some jetsetting and plenty of action to keep the pages turning.
The release of Book 4 of the Dylan Cold series, Exotic Husbandry, is getting closer everyday. I'm trying to learn more while I go through the feedback from my editor. Every time I send her a manuscript I think it's perfect, but when it comes back there are corrections on almost every page.
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- Loving Creek (0.7km)
- Ioni Creek (6.6km)
- Jowell Creek (7.7km)
- Harris Branch (8.6km)
- Eagle Creek (9.2km)
- Bluff Creek (10km)
- Wolf Branch (10.1km)
- Dark Valley Creek (12.1km)
- Town Branch (12.5km)
- Brushy Slough (12.9km)
- Elm Creek (13.1km)
- Deep Elm Creek (13.4km)
- Ainsworth Creek (13.7km)
- Elm Creek (13.8km)
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- Fortune Bend (5.7km)
- Crawford Bend (6.5km)
- Belding Ranch (7.1km)
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- Costello Island, Incorporated Airport (9.4km)
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- McMurrey Lake Dam (10.6km)
- reservoir(s);
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- Possum Kingdom Lake (3.8km)
- McMurrey Lake (10.6km)
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- McGinnis Point (8.8km)
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Tweet I always hoped to meet Shimon Peres. I got close. I was due to meet him at the Israeli Presidential Conference three years ago on his 90th birthday. Sadly the plans for him meeting the bloggers covering the conference changed and I only got to see him from afar when he was part of a panel with Sharon Stone. Now Peres is gone and the chance to meet a man I admired will never be. I'm sitting … Read entire article »
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Tweet I spent the last two days at the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem. I was a first time attendee and didn't really know what to expect other than the fact that there was an amazing lineup of top name speakers, worldwide activists as well as current and former politicians. I was also excited about finally getting to meet a lot of people in person whom I only knew online . What is certain is that the … Read entire article »
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text: El Lunes, 23 de Noviembre de 2009 10:18:42 Valerio Passini escribió: > Alle domenica 22 novembre 2009, Manolete, ese artista... ha scritto: > > e, but I use dark backgrounds and light fonts (I cant stand much time > > in front of my screen with all that white and light grey without > > feeling visually fatigued, besides dark colors save some minutes > > when using battery) > > > > If you have an LCD screen (I'm just guessing since you told you are > trying to spare your battery) and not a plasma screen, you are not going > to save energy choosing a dark colors set because the screen has a back- > light always on. > Bye > > Valerio The backlight consumes most of the energy, yes (a well regulated screen brightness -which reduces the backlight intensity- is the best practice); and energy savings with dark colors are especially noticed on CRT screens, where savings can even reach 20-some %, I don't remember exactly; but as far as I remember, when that "blackle" (Google with a totally black background and grey letters) and sites thing appeared, a couple of years ago, coments on some blogs (blogs that seemed reliable, I mean, of course, like Nature's one) said that despite the savings for LCDs were much smaller than those on CRTs still there were small savings, that's why I said dark colors save "some minutes" of my battery. Anyway, I'm no expert at all; the main reason is just that I can't stand much time with a device throwing a lot of artificial light to my eyes. On this I think every occulist would agree, and if I can also save 3 or 4 minutes, welcome they are. In few years LED screens will be the usual, and in them pixels are self-, not retro-, illuminated, so I still think it's a good habit for the near future. Ciao.


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A Miami County woman is troubled after she says a police officer shot and killed one wounded stray dog to put it out of its misery, but refused to help another.Read more: http://www.kshb.com/subindex/news#ixzz2MEpMRKt6
MIAMI COUNTY, Kan. - Thursday morning started out normal enough for Ashley Ralston and her two young sons in Paola, Kan. But on their way to school and daycare, they noticed a stray dog walking alongside Old Kansas City Road south of Spring Hill.
"I wasn't going to leave him out in the cold," Ralston said. "He doesn't have any fat to keep him warm."
The dog, Mac, was so thin his ribs stuck out.
Ralston said she pulled over, and Mac jumped in her car. But then she noticed a second dog lying on the side of the road. He had been hit by a car and was badly hurt.
A Miami County officer soon arrived to take a look.
"He was still alive and (the officer) advised me to get my son because he was going to put him down," Ralston said.
She said the officer shot the dog, and then made it clear he wasn't going to help Mac.
Ralston said she's still not sure putting down the injured dog was the right decision, even though it was clearly suffering. However, Ralston firmly believes the officer's lack of action for Mac was troubling.
"I kind of felt like it was in my hands because obviously I'm not leaving them, and he wasn't going to take him with him," Ralston said.
Miami County Administrative Sgt. Mike Talcott told 41 Action News the department does not have a policy for transporting stray animals, in part because animals are not required to be on a leash in rural areas of the county.
Talcott also said the officer involved in the incident tried his best to locate Mac's owner by using information from his collar.
For now, Mac is staying at Kerry's Kennels near Spring Hill, where they are fattening him up and giving him vaccinations.
Anyone looking to help Mac can contact Kerry Gast from Kerry's Kennels at 913-592-3900.


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5 random movies I liked on Netflix this week
Short Term 12 is about a "short term" care facility for teens who can't be at home but who, for whatever reasons, don't fit into any long-term care models. Two twenty-something counselors, Grace and Mason, both former at-risk teens themselves, work through their own relationship challenges as they try to make unconscionable situations bearable for the teens in their care, some who have been in "short term" limbo for years. Brie Larson's Grace is a wounded healer in every sense. Unresolved issues in her past come rushing to the surface as she herself in Jayden troubled girl she tries to help. It's the little moments with each of the kids that makes the film so good. The film's humor and honest emotional responses keep it from being the typical maudlin "inspirational" drama. Writer-director Destin Daniel Crettion shows, instead of preaches, compassion, empathy, and restoration. While the film reveals something so broken in our society, rather than focusing on all the issues associated with the problem, it offers a glimpse of a few starfish thrown back into the sea.
The Babadook's brand of horror is psychological deconstruction rather than a gory dismemberment. Single mother Amelia (Essie Davis) was widowed by a car accident on the way to the maternity ward. Six years later her child, Sam, is a scary little kid she can't understand or seem to help. Sam knows it's there, that monster in the closet or under the bed, creeping out from the dark cracks in the house. It's real and it has a firm hold on his perceptions. Amelia's torment over her inability to rescue her son grips her as tightly as her growing realization that the Babadook is real. Writer-director Jennifer Kent uses image upon fractured image – a bizarre picture book, a series of strange film clips on the television, murky flashbacks to the accident- to lead the audience into questioning the reliability of Amelia's point of view, and thus what we've seen through her eyes. Just as I felt after watching Pan's Labyrinth, The Babadook left me questioning whether I'd just seen a horror movie, a psychological thriller, or some combination of reality and metaphor.
In a World centers around the voice-over industry. Lake Bell wrote, directed, and stars in this funny, satirical look at competition and self-worth. Carol (Bell) is a voice coach whose competitive, egotistical father is a top dog in the voice-over world. Carol is a little uncomfortable with herself. She doesn't want to be defined by family and colleagues who are considered more talented and successful but in many ways she's let them define her. Though Carol wants more in her career she's seen what unbridled hubris does to relationships so she is deliberately non-competitive and also a little naive. When Carol wins a coveted gig her relationships suffer. This is a thoughtful film about how professionals respond to one other's success in a competitive marketplace.
From Time to Time, directed by Jullian Fellowes (Downton Abbey), is ghost story, murder mystery, and period piece set in two different time periods. I watched it because Maggie Smith and Hugh Bonneville are in it and because it's based on one of the books in the Lucy M. Boston "Green Knowe" series I read and loved in elementary school. Near the end of World War 2 13-year old Tolly, played by Alex Etel (Millions), is sent to live with his father's mother, Mrs. Oldknow (Maggie Smith) while his own mother desperately tries to get information about his father who is missing in action. Mrs. Oldknow is peculiar and a little distant, but believes him when he tells her he's seen ghosts. Alex becomes involved in a 17th century mystery with the help of ghosts of children who lived and died at Green Knowe, the name of the house. More than anything else From Time to Time is about relationships.
In director Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler Jake Gyllenhaal plays Lou Bloom, an independent cameraman who films gruesome crime and accident scenes and sells them to local news producer Nina (Rene Russo), who operates with the philosophy of "if it bleed, it leads." Bloom gleefully applies everything he's learned from internet self-help success videos, he's obsessed with them, to nightcrawling. Is Bloom devoid of moral reasoning or simply willing to cross any moral boundary to achieve his goals? Nina comes across at first as merely ambitious, but it seems that the boundaries she's already crossed makes it easier for her make the compromises Bloom demands of her if he going to keep feeding her ratings-boosting gore. Rather than playing Lou as a easily-to-peg sociopath, Nightcrawler lets the audience observe and decide. He's so bizarre and creepy that, like the scenes he films and sells, it's hard to look away. In a strange way this makes the audience is complicit in the very practices the film seems to indict. It's worth watching for Gyllenhaal's performance alone.


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Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, a key division of Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT), received a modification contract worth $101.9 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program.
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Hallo, I wonder if there is a way to call functions in plpgsql having their oid. As an example: suppose i have a table that contains oids to functions and i have some statements that select some rows and must call the corresponding functions. Of course i can do it using dynamic sql (building the statement string on the fly), but this is much less performing than direct sql written in plpgsq... Thanks, Max.
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Officers from several law enforcement agencies combed the streets and wooded areas around Gladstone Street, Buell Street and Courtland Avenue in Campbell on Tuesday afternoon, looking for Deletaire White, 30, a man who made sexual advances towards a 12-year-old girl at a home in that neighborhood.
The girl's mother confronted White, who lives with them. Officers said White grabbed a gun and took off through a window into the woods between Gladstone Street and U.S. Route 422.
Neighbors and police say they heard one loud boom.
"I was in the house and I heard what sounded like a loud gunshot," said resident Kathleen Hassay.
"There definitely was some kind of loud bang that did come from the wooded area that could have been a gunshot," said Campbell Police Det. Sgt. John Rusnak.
Officers from several departments, including a K-9 from Struthers, searched the woods and backyards but didn't find the suspect. A nearby car wash was evacuated for safety purposes.
Police called off the search after about an hour. They found a 12-gauge pump action shotgun believed to be White's behind a home on Courtland Avenue. Rusnak said officers have had a couple run-ins with White for domestic problems in the past year after he got out of prison.
"It's a scary situation because you are in an open area where there's not a lot of cover. And, you know, obviously there is a potential danger there with an armed subject inside. We did have a clothing description. We did have a height and weight. We did have a general idea of what we were looking for, however it's still a very dangerous situation," Rusnak said.
Hassay and other neighbors said they were concerned the suspect would come back.
"We're definitely going to attempt to locate the suspect, and we are going to speak to the victim further, as well as the victim's mother, and see what, if any, charges will be filed against him," Rusnak said.


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Posted on 07/01/2013 6:30:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Book of Proverbs, part of biblical canon, once a vital part of American culture, tells us: Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
Its this haughty spirit, this pride that precedes destruction, that lies behind the Supreme Courts decision last week to bury the Defense of Marriage Act.
DOMA defined marriage, for purposes of federal law, as traditional marriage the union of man and woman.
This decision did not come out of nowhere. It did not happen in a vacuum. It is but the latest in a long process of the unraveling of American culture driven by pride the sense that we answer to no higher authority. That the two-legged animal man is master of the universe and decides, invents right and wrong, true and false.
There have been many stops on the way to this Supreme Court decision relegating marriage, as we have known and understood it for millennia, to a casual fiction that could come out of Hollywood.
One stop we might note was the Supreme Courts decision in 1980, Stone v Graham, that said that posting the Ten Commandments in a public school is unconstitutional.
A free society must start with a foundation of rules. If our biblical tradition is not the source of these rules, what rules do define how we live and where do these rules come from?
The preamble of our Constitution tells us that its purpose is to secure the blessings of liberty.
What is a blessing? The first definition in my Websters New World Dictionary says that a blessing is a statement of divine favor.
How can we secure divine favor in a nation for which the divine is unconstitutional? A prideful nation by definition must be a nation that rejects the idea of a blessing.
In the pride that precedes destruction in America of 2013, we reject that there are truths that dont come out of a laboratory. We reject that that there are truths that parents get from their parents and pass on to their children.
We reject that there are truths that, when children learn them from their parents, and embrace them and become responsible for them, they become adults.
So now we live in society in which there is nothing that distinguishes a child from an adult, that distinguishes responsible from irresponsible.
Who suffers the most?
First and foremost, children. Because they are deprived from learning and taking seriously the very rules of lifes road that are critical to live successfully.
Even more so, children from minority families.
67% of black children are raised in single parent households. The collapse of black family life reflects this very welfare state materialism, bestowed to blacks by elitist white liberals, that defines the culture that now rejects the sanctity of traditional marriage.
Can there be any doubt that the grandparents and great grandparents of the five Supreme Court Justices who just voted to delegitimize the sanctity of traditional marriage in America would be appalled by the decisions of their offspring?
Can there be any doubt that if the ancestors of these same Supreme Court justices had the values that their offspring are selling today that that these judges would most likely not be who they are and sitting where they sit?
America is a free country. You can do what you want in private.
But when values of meaninglessness become sanctioned as part of our public and official culture we should know that this is the pride that goes before destruction.
Let there be no doubt that same-sex marriage is about much more than marriage. It is a deliberate and conscious assault on religion and all traditional values.
We have only two options. Turn back to where we belong or watch the continuing collapse of our country.
Kennedy said "those who oppose Gay Marriage are an enemy of the Human Race. I guess I am not a "friend of Caesar" either.
The ultimate goals of the sodomite agenda (perceived by some many decades ago) is nothing short of prohibiting the Bible and traditional marriage. All prophetic signs of Jesus' soon return.
Next in line is Polygamy, child marriage, then legalization of beastialty. Where does it stop. I remember growing up in the 60s: if it feels good, do it.
The only winners are the lawyers. If you can marry, you can get divorced.
Count me in as an enemy of Cesaer.
This month's Chronicles has a nice cover that sums it up: two gays, one in a wedding dress are angrily charging towards a church door holding a very large log to use as a battering ram. It's not about domestic partner benefits, filing joint tax returns or inheriting property. It is not even about two people who love each other. It is about propagating perveristy into society and through the only remaining line of defense that our society has: the church.
Kennedy is a key general on the other side of the Culture War. He is an enemy of the traditional values and institutions that make for a stable and moral civil society.
Revolt is coming.
An American fall is coming.
If this is allowed then this great country is the second Gomorrah, and we know what happened there
Revolt is coming.
It seems increasingly likely to me we won't even have to revolt: merely nullify, secede, reassert our orignal Constitution, and choose a name and flag for our reestablished constitutional republic. I'm partial to "Constitutional States of America." You'd think an artist would have strong opinions about a new flag, but I don't. The original Republic of Texas flag looks good enough to my eye.
Why do I think revolt may be unnecessary? Because everything the loudly self-proclaimed "progressive" regime touches degenerates into an abject failure. How's the George Zimmerman show trial coming along? How's the IRS spying doing these days? How's the NSA spying doing?
Yes, the "progressives" did get away with stealing the 2012 presidential election, and are doing an effective job of wrecking the American economy, but what else have they done? It's clear they intend to Chicago-ize and Detroit-ize America, but every time they open their over-sized mouths, all they do is make still worse fools of themselves.
Instead of beating the living [fill in the blank] out of the bullies, maybe we'll just laugh them out of the school yard.
One of the oft quoted tragedies of black slavery in American was that slave families were split apart when sold. Black families are now splitting their own families up, "selling themselves", their morality and their dignity for subsistence level welfare payments. They are NOT "sticking it" to whitey by taking the transfer payments, they are "sticking it" to themselves and their children. They are "selling" out their opportunity to make a better life for themselves and their children. It doesn't much matter WHO makes you a slave . . . somebody else or yourself . . . a slave is still a slave.
Anthony Kennedy is an enemy of civilization itself.
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The Pasig Kapitolyo area has started to gain popularity for having quite a number of must-try restaurants and hole-in-the-wall foodie havens. Honestly, I'm already living in the East side of Manila and just in the town next to Pasig but I haven't even scratched the surface, so to speak. Last week, I found the time to visit Peri-Peri Charcoal Chicken and Sauce Bar in Capitol Commons, Pasig, and boy I'm glad I did!
It was lunchtime when I arrived and the place was already starting to get crowded with yuppies taking their lunch break. Capitol Commons' close proximity to the offices along Shaw Boulevard and the Ortigas Business District explains this.
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The Valley Oak is a large deciduous tree that grows 60'-80' tall. It develops a rounded canopy that spreads 50'-70' wide with leaves deeply lobed and rounded. The Valley Oak is very heat tolerant and drought tolerant once its root system is developed. It is a native to CA and attracts squirrels and birds who love the acorns.
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Jenny Blackburn is Willie's girlfriend and fellow athlete. After the accident Jenny is the one who saves him then nurses him while he recovers health. Jenny loves Willie so much that she promises to always stay by him regardless of the debilitating accident. However, Willie's bitterness about life and unkindness toward Jenny drive her away. She tells Willie: "I'd have stayed with you, Willie, if you'd have made any attempt to be decent. But no! Not Willie Weaver! If he can't be a hero, then to hell with everyone else."
Lisa is the physical education teacher at the high school Willie attends in California after he runs away from his shattered life in Montana. She takes charge of Willie and helps to take control of his body once again through building his strength up. Without knowing Jenny, Lisa tells Willie a variation of what Jenny told him. Lisa says: "You crippled yourself because you stretched the rules till they broke. Simple as that."
Lacey Casteel finds Willie in Oakland, California, rescues him and gives him a home. Lacey isn't the best of men. He drinks. He isn't permitted to see his son or get near his ex-wife because of past horrible behavior. Nonetheless, despite his uncontrollable vices, Lacey has a conscience that is burning him with guilt over what he has done. He hopes that taking Willie in will help make up for some of the wrong he has done and save his soul. He says: "I get this idea to get me out of Hell. Raise me a white cripple kid. Can't fix all the bad shit, but maybe I make up some." It's call recompense, and he has a shot at making good out of bad.


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text: Series 1 joins Sarah Lund on what is supposed to be her final day as a detective with the Copenhagen Police department. She is all-set to immigrate to Sweden with her fiance, when a 19-year-old girl is found raped and brutally murdered.;A local politician, Troels Hartmann, is in the middle of a hard-fought election campaign to become the new mayor of Copenhagen when suddenly, evidence links city hall to the murder. Over the course of twenty episodes, each a day in the investigation, suspect upon suspect is sought out as violence and political pressures cast their shadows over the hunt for the killer.;Two years on, and Series 2 finds Lund stripped of her investigative role and transferred to a low-key job in the country, but when the body of a female lawyer is found murdered in macabre and puzzling circumstances, Lund's former boss calls her back to assist with the investigation. Initially reluctant, Lund soon changes her mind as she becomes engrossed with the case... Over the course of 10 gripping episodes, the worlds of crime, politics and the military become increasingly tangled and, as the case progresses, Lund's mission becomes a race against time to find the culprit and prevent further killings...;Now, at long last, Detective Inspector Sarah Lund returns in Series 3, the long-awaited third, and final part of the trilogy. The financial crisis is raging and the number of bankruptcies and repossessions is on the rise, but Lund has a newfound sense of peace, in the form of a new job, a new home and the recognition of achieving 25 years of service in the Police Force.


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Now that the busy holiday shopping season is behind us, it's time to look at which department store retailers are set up for the long haul.
Investing for the long run involves sticking with a retailer known for consistency in terms of product offerings, management and price. For investors, what makes a great retail investment is a nice dividend, strong balance sheet and robust returns on equity.
These days, most department store retailers lack these qualities, especially J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) and Sears (NYSE: SHLD). The one department store retailer that shoppers and investors alike can count on is Macy's (NYSE: M).
Macy's possesses all the necessary qualities based on value and growth. Going forward, Macy's has a number of initiatives to drive both its top and bottom lines. The retailer performed well during the holiday season, executing on its Black Friday platform and various strategies.
The department store retailer recently announced November and December (holiday season) sales, which revealed that comparable-store sales were up 3.6% year over year. If you include sales from licensed departments within Macy's, comparable-store sales rose 4.3%.
Several Growth Measures In Place
Macy's primary focus is its My Macy's program, which is focused on figuring out what a particular region's customers want in their stores. After all, what sells in Arizona might not necessarily go over well with customers in New York. Macy's has 1,600 experts deployed in 60 cities across the country to monitor trends and help guide purchasing decisions.
In addition, Macy's store-within-a-store concept is starting to take off. The company has partnerships with Finish Line and Sunglass Hut to have their stores located with a Macy's location. By the end of this year, Macy's plans to have about 450 Finish Line stores within its stores.
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|Macy's performed well during the holiday season, executing on its Black Friday platform and various strategies.
Macy's is also one step ahead of the competition with its omni-channel presence. Omni-channel retailing takes the idea of multi-channel retailing a step further. In contrast to multi-channel retail strategies that use brick-and-mortar stores, websites and mobile applications somewhat independently of one another, omni-channel retailing integrates all of these strategies. One example is the ability of customers to order a product online and pick it up at the nearest brick-and-mortar store.
Part of Macy's omni-channel strategy includes a $170 million investment in a new direct-to-consumer distribution center in Oklahoma that's intended to give the company a presence in the middle of the U.S. and help it easily fulfill customer orders and shipments from across the country. Macy's expects the first orders to ship in summer of 2015.
The other focus for Macy's is in getting more millennials (people born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s) into its stores, with Impulse areas for older millennials and MStyle Labs for younger millennials. This year, Macy's plans to add 13 new brands to target the millennial generation.
Cost-Saving Program Paying Off
Macy's is also focused on the bottom line. In a surprise move, Macy's announced a comprehensive cost savings/restructuring program that is expected to generate $100 million in savings annually, starting in 2014. As part of the program, the company will combine its Midwestern and Northern regions and realign and reduce staffing at its stores and back office operations. Combined, the retailer is laying off 2,500 of its 175,000 employees.
For the upcoming year, the company is now forecasting earnings per share (EPS) of $4.40 to $4.50, which is better than the consensus estimate of $4.36. Macy's also sees comparable-store sales growing 2.5% to 3% this year. J.C. Penney and Sears, on the other hand, are losing money (though my colleague Jody Chudley did find something to love about SHLD earlier this month).
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A couple of notable competitors that are turning a profit, however, are discount retailers Target (NYSE: TGT) and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) -- yet Macy's trades below these two on the basis of both price-to-sales and EV/EBITDA (enterprise value/earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization). Macy's also has a return on equity of 25%, which is better than both the discount retailers.
With profits and cost-saving measures, Macy's is looking to reward its shareholders. In the third quarter, Macy's repurchased over 10 million shares for $447 million. The company still has $1.75 billion remaining on its current authorization program, and I'm looking for the company to again be an active buyer of its shares this year.
Risks to Consider: While Macy's does cater to a more affluent customer base, it's still not immune to a weak economy. Also, the retail industry is being threatened by e-commerce. Macy's is making a number of investments to improve its omni-channel strategy and implementing a cost-saving program, but one or both of them might not be as effective as anticipated.
Action to Take --> Buy Macy's with a price target of $70 for upside of 30%. That would put Macy's trading at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of under 16 times forward earnings, right in line with major peers Target and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN). Macy's also has a 1.8% dividend yield, which is only a 26% payout of earnings. It's trading right around its 52-week high, but it's still over 30% off its 2006 high of $78.
This article originally appeared on StreetAuthority.com as: The One Department Store Stock You Can Trust.
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Hilton Park has made quite a name for itself in the circles of acoustic music. The trio of Bruce Hilton, Conor Hilton, and Gregg Pannier, based in Berwick, Maine, have a style as modern and fresh sounding as anybody in today's New England music scene. This trio by no means limits itself to acoustic music idioms. Their originals ring out in every note with pop brightness, harmonic finesse, and within the framework of good song craft.
The trio's latest CD Greener Grass is a solid document of their ability to weave many musical styles together and to present their ideas on acoustic instruments without sounding like any other folksy, acoustic outfit. This is not just another acoustic music album. It's a magical experience brought about by memorable melodies and many nice things moving around and alongside the melodies. One is transported to other times and places with the sweeping sounds that are found here.
Opening track "Goodbye Lilac Sky" finds the lead vocal as gritty as any in the rock milieu and the guitar playing is as assertive. Lush harmony vocals remind of classic rock as does the sublime piano notes in the backdrop. The song is pleasingly mellow and it spreads itself out with a confident wideness, letting the craftsmanship of the song breathe.
"Affected Nonchalance," too, feels like a full band song. Gritty vocals spread out wide and warmly as a seriously picked melody line is accompanied by tender note from piano and mandolin. Each note falls on the ear like a gentle, tender raindrop, creating an amazing sonic landscape with just these few acoustic instruments.
The stomping acoustic blues number "Harder Times Coming" comes at the listener with a serious, purposeful stride. The low end notes on the guitars and piano form a steady beat, and the rest of the instrumentation and the sprawling, raspy vocals just glide over. The trio really make one wary of whatever harder times are coming, playing with just a hint of menace in their harrowing, folksy harmonies.
Instrumental piece "Tashunka Chinkala (Little Big Dog) doesn't needs words to make you feel its tender emotions. It finds the guitars practically crying out a melody line with a high pitched slide. The acoustic guitar underneath the slide creates another warm thicket of emotion, and when the listener picks up on the sublimely tinkled piano notes, its stirs the feelings even more. There is a sense of loss and longing here that is only buttressed by the great affection they all must have had for what they lost. And Hilton Park put it across with skill.
"Walk On (Wakan)" has a breezy feeling within its perfectly accented notes and beautiful sandpapery voice. There is a magic charm in the warm acoustic guitar chords and its contrast with the brittle snaps of mandolin picking underneath it. These boys really know how to weave a wide acoustic texture. They are masters at making the listener feel that there is more going on than just three acoustic instruments and a voice. The trio, with the traveling feeling they create with their dreamy melodies, make you feel someone walking along and walking away from one situation to another. This would make a great movie soundtrack song for a motion picture that ends with one of the main characters walking down a lonely two lane highway after some kind of fierce drama.
There's more than a touch of the medieval world in their song "Dream A Dream." Their accents and cadences are straight out of the middle ages. While it makes this song sound slightly out of touch with the rest of their album, it certainly gets by on the strength of its smooth, flowing vocal and its tasteful mandolin playing. The song has a strong feeling of mission. One can envision Robin Hood and his merry men on a long journey across the countryside to find the next evil king to oppose.
"Sweet Clarity" is a tender call for a better, more meaningful life. Hilton Park can certainly create emotional portraits of the characters they write about. A solemnly picked guitar line makes one feel the song's main character dragging himself through his depressed, drug induced hazy world. The listener can also feel the song's yearning, a hopefulness for a more sensible view of the world. The easeful change from tender melody and vocal line to sprawling, warm chorus is amazing, making the listener feel suddenly swept into another world, from a moody introspection to a poignant, earnest plea.
Hilton Park close out this Greener Grass album with a cover of Cold play's "Life In Technicolor PT II." Taken from one of Hilton Park's live shows, one can hear how well their audience supports their energy level with their own enthusiasm. Tireless clapping becomes the beat for this cover of a modern rock song that the trio seem to let flow out of them. There's a sweeping arc to this song that cannot be denied. One feels the trio playing this song to a large crowd while keeping its emotions wide and embraceable. It's a plentiful spread that works well as a closer for an album of well crafted songs that all swing far and wide in their musical range.
Hilton Park are certainly onto something good. Combing acoustic instrumentation with classic rock and modern rock influences just might be the beginning of a huge music scene trend gaining more mainstream appeal. This Greener Grass album makes a great calling card for the trio at this time.


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I know some of you are cringing already. But by all accounts, I am a dog person. I love all sorts of dogs, big and dopey, tiny and yappy, energetic and crazy, or quiet and lazy. I love them all.
We have raised dogs that were given away at the supermarket, adopted from the animal shelter, purchased from good and bad breeders. We have loved them all. We give them a good home, with plenty of love and exercise, healthy food and proper veterinary care. In short, we are responsible pet owners. We choose to bring dogs into our lives because they bring love and innocence to our family. We owe those dogs a permanent, loving home.
Not all dog owners love dogs as much as we do. Not all of them make good decisions in getting a dog. Not all can afford a good life, healthy food and veterinary care. Sometimes dogs from those homes end up in the animal shelter or placed for adoption through various agencies. It is a great choice for people to rescue shelter dogs. It's true that shelter dogs need to be adopted or in many cases they will be euthanized. I care about those dogs, but I do not owe those dogs a home.
About two years ago, our beloved Golden Retriever, Sam, developed bone cancer. This is an amazingly common condition among Goldens and one that is almost always caught far too late to help the dog. We were sent home with an arsenal of pain medications to keep him comfortable and told to return to the vet when the pain meds could no longer help our poor Sam. It quickly became too painful for him to walk up the steps, so I stayed downstairs to sleep on the couch near him. Soon after that, he had to be euthanized. Sam was only 10 years old, and we were devastated.
After Sam died, my daughter and I were deeply depressed for several months. When we decided we were ready for a new dog, we chose to research all the breeds that captured our interest so we could find the best fit for our family. Sammy was the love of our lives, but he was huge! We decided right away to go with a smaller dog. Also, we were interested in dog training and dog activities that require a fairly energetic dog. In addition, my children wanted to raise the dog from a puppy.
We decided that we would love to get an English Springer Spaniel, particularly the field-bred variety. They are medium-sized, high energy dogs with long life spans, and no increased risk of cancer. However, like many purebreds, there are genetic problems that occur at higher rates within the breed, such as eye problems that can lead to blindness. Good breeders assure that parents and grandparents of the puppies have no such eye problems and have certifications to prove it. Puppies can be DNA tested before they go to their new homes to be sure they do not have the condition. This is true for some other genetic conditions as well.
My definition of a good breeder is one that breeds dogs to improve the breed, not one that is primarily concerned with money. We live in Pennsylvania, a state with many money-motivated breeders who are not concerned with the health of the dogs they sell or the suffering of the dogs they continually breed. We searched for a few months before finding Fast Track Springers, about an hour northeast of our home. We went to visit puppies twice before bringing one home. The puppies were kept in the house with their mother. Besides that, the breeder had many files on the generations of pups she raised and offered to let us contact other people who had purchased puppies from her. She is primarily interested in hunting trials with her dogs and breeds them to improve the breed and as obedient hunting dogs. All of the puppies have been fully tested, and their parents have no health problems.
Fast Track Springers is just the sort of place I want to encourage to breed dogs. If people don't buy dogs from good breeders and only get dogs from shelters, who will be the breeders of the dogs? What happens to the strength of the breed if the only ones breeding are those who don't care about the health of the dogs?
In the end, we decided to buy a well-bred, purebred English Springer Spaniel, field variety. We named him Pi as a tribute to a favorite book character and a tongue-in-cheek nod to his 3/14 birthday. He is an obvious testament to his outstanding breeding: beautiful, healthy and easy to train. We have him in rally obedience classes as well as flyball (no dog loves a ball as much as Pi!), and he's a certified AKC Canine Good Citizen. You can certainly do many if not all of these things with a shelter dog, and that is a lovely choice for many people. However, our family found our perfect pet from a responsible, loving, professional breeder, and it is a lovely choice for us.
Beverly Baptiste lives in Camp Hill, Pa., where she is working toward her doctorate in genetics at the Penn State College of Medicine and trains her energetic and loving English Springer Spaniel. Pi's recent interests include rally obedience and flyball with his buddies at the Dauphin Dog Training Club.


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I think modelling reading is really important. DS1 is also in reception and a good reader like yours but tends to race through a bit.
I keep him reading to me and me reading to him separate. He reads to me before we go upstairs for bed and then I read his bedtime story, a chapter book, to him when he is in bed. He is read to every night.
When he is reading to me, I particularly try to encourage him to try out different voices for the characters and might read the book back to him or ask him how his voices sounds when he is cross, scared, excited etc.
in my daughters class allot of the children got 'stuck' on around level 15 (orange band i think) because this is when they were looking for more expression and awareness of the punctuation not just the reading of words they could read the books fluently but weren't telling the story if you know what i mean. I dont know if this is the same in every school obviously but i agree it is easier to work on those things when the actual reading of the words is not a struggle. to concentrate on both at the same time would be hard. I would just read less complicated books at home and work on it with them.
Thanks libelulle - I do agree, i'm grateful they're stretching him, I am aware that a lot of parents push for their kids to be on a higher stage book and I have absolute respect for teachers, he's my baby, youngest in the class and I'm clearly over sensitive when it comes to teachers comments. I just thought well it's great his reading is good, but I figured the expression thing would come naturally just with more exposure to books and not something I could really teach, i've had some fab hints of festive wench though so I'm gonna see how it goes
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As I'm quite sure you know really, gold is the level of an average 7 year old according to the ORT - he is obviously doing rather more than 'fine'. Any comments are going to be aimed at stretching him - if they didn't say anything many parents would complain they child wasn't being challenged! Teachers can't win.
Most children in the class will still be at the stage of learning how to blend, so I think you can probably relax...
I it is easy to have the stage that you've just finished 'sussed'
I'm currently trying to figure out how to make DS1 learn his timestables and despairing about the ludicrous spelling lists that he keeps being sent home with...
Thank you so much, you've clearly got it sussed! I am sure it will all come, he reads less like a robot than he did 6 months ago!
Meg and Mog is good for this.
My boys are 5 and 7 and we often read these together. I am always Meg, DS2 is Mog and Ds1 is Owl.
And we love reading the books that they are 'too old for' together like the Gruffalo.
I suspect it's not intended as a negative. If he's on gold level his decoding skills are obviously very good - but at this sort of level the stories are more complex and being able to read with expression is very important. e.g. at this sort of stage DD used to be able to read all the words but she would run sentences into each other with no regard for punctuation, say funny bits in a totally deadpan voice etc. Being able to read with expression in part shows that you are understanding the story and relating to it - which at your DS's level are the main skills to be focusing on.
Brilliant thank you!! We read billy goats gruff the other day cus there's the troll's horrid voice and then the goats and he did find that fun, the teacher said "point out that the words in speech marks should be read differently", your right, very dull indeed, I don't worry about the school books, he's being sent home Ben 10 and similar, which are crappy, american and the only words in speech marks are sarcastic which go totally over the head of my 4 year old!
Of the ones that I've come across, books for four year olds to read don't have enough dialogue in them to make reading for expression meaningful. To my way of thinking it isn't until you get to Ladybird's Three Little Pigs that expression really makes sense. In that story it's necessary. The wolf and the pigs obviously don't sound the same.
But talking about practising reading with expression just for the sake of practising reading with expression is silly.
I found the best way to 'do expression' was to read books together taking it in turns to do the different characters. IME it is really dull to tell a chid to 'read with expression'. Much more fun to say "lets read this with silly voices". Books with giants, witches, monsters etc are good.
And I also went through a stage at this age of completely ignoring the reading books that school sent home - they were far to dull for his 4/5 year old brain. Just because he coudl read like an older child didn't mean that he didn't want to read the same silly childish nonsens as other 4/5 year olds
I know your right! I always look for the negative!, I tend to stick to easier books at home like MR MEN cus I find he enjoys the books more and so thats an easier place to start with expression and stuff. He's just a baby though! I think that sadly as his reading has improved I probably read to him less as I tend to let him read, but I reckon it'd benefit him more to hear me read lots and hear my expression x
Sounds like he is doing fantastically well at decoding and comprehension and so this is the only thing left for them to mention that needs improvement.
My guess is that you are reading these comments in a more negative way thatn they are intended. If he is racing through the levels then clearly his teacher is very pleased with him
Hi..my DS is in Reception and doing fine as far as I know, his reading is very good and there has always been positive comments in his reading diary from treachers/TAs, however lately they keep banging on about his expression, "he really needs to do this, that and the other" actually quite negative comments. I understand that his expression should be something we are working towards improving but would you expect his reading level at the age of 4 to be level with his ability at expression? I was not worried about it at all as I felt it would be something he would naturally improve upon with confidence but the teacher is making it out to be a huge issue....and yet she keeps racing him through the book bands, came home with a Gold band book last week but quite a downer comment in his book - why not keep him at a lower level so he can read the books very comfortably and focus on other things, rather than decoding?
Sorry for long post, not biggest issue in the world!
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