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My aim is to set up this old laptop for my nine year old son to use as an educational/communications machine - Moderated internet usage, writing documents, educational software (typing tutor, maths software, maybe a spanish tutor if there is one), and emailing and skyping relatives (I know he should use wengophone but the relies don't so he'd be all alone on there).
The machine already has XP SP2 on it. And, while I'd love to wipe it clean, he has games that only run on XP and I've had trouble getting his iPod working on my Linux machine (I think it's a hardware issue not software) and I'm worried it won't work on his either and he'll still need iTunes... so, for now, XP stays, and he'll be dual booting (although he'll be staying on Ubuntu most of the time).
I've chosen Ubuntu because... well because it's all I know. And, unless someone can suggest a good reason that I should go with another unknown (to me) distro (I'm all ears), Ubuntu or Edubuntu it will be.
I've got to make the decision though between Edubuntu and Ubuntu. Is there really much of a difference? So that's my first question: Ubuntu or Edubuntu?
I would personally go for EdUbuntu rather than Ubuntu, since a LOT of educational programs are already installed by default.
Please write here how you go with it!
This is also good timing, since Feisty has just been released. I use it myself, and it's fantastic!
Its got the software you're looking for. I think KVerbos helps in the Spanish language practice. (Not sure, haven't tried it myself). Also try out TuxMath & TuxPaint.
I would like to know how your son uses EdUbuntu. Kids always find innovative ways to do things!!
PS:If you run into any problems, consult these sites. They have tons of info regarding installing & using linux on laptops. It has helped me lots of times.
- Linux on Laptop
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Edubuntu it is!
Thanks guys. Edubuntu was what I was expecting but it sounds like it might be better for my sons needs.
Okay, so, as I write, I am downloading Edubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Now, before I install, I know there are some things to consider.
1) Backing up the files he'll want to keep. I'll just burn them to a CD and I'll wipe his music for now - I've got it backed up on an external drive already.
2) Working out what partitions I should use. I know I should keep 10GB for Edubuntu and 500MB for swap. But how much do I need for XP and should I split the rest off into a partition for file that will be used by both OSes - music, docs, movies, photos etc. I've got 27GB to work with in total. I don't know how much I can squish XP down to once I remove his files and defrag.
3) Anything else?
So any advice on the partitions and the "anything else" bit would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
hmm... there is no 'right' way to partition, it depends upon your need and use.
Device Boot Available Filesystem Use
/hda1 10GB ntfs Windows
/hda2 500MB swap Linux
/hda3 6.5GB fat32 common
/hda4 10GB ext3 Linux
Reserve around 10 GB for Windows. But install all programs to this. (I've used 6GB for XP, but had programs installed elsewhere.)
I suggest you create a FAT32 parition from the remaining space. You can store the music, docs, pics etc. here. NTFS support in Ubuntu is buggy. So stick with FAT32. This way both XP & Linux can read & write to this partition.
Check these links:
Linux Partition HOWTO
"Anything Else":
Got this via Digg. Useful!!17 Must Have apps for Ubuntu
Thanks for those links
I didn't end up needing them. But maybe someone else who reads this will find them useful.
Thanks anyway.
The plans of mice and men
Okay so things didn't go to plan.
Here's what happened:
* I backed up the files that needed to be backed up.
* I removed the music files because they were going to be moved to a shared partition.
* I did a disk clean up
* I turned off paging
* I did a defrag.
* I did it again 3 more times just to be sure.
* I ended up with XP taking up less than 10GB.
* I decided to divide up the disk like this: XP = 11GB; Edubuntu = 11GB; swap = 500MB; shared = whatever's left.
* I stuck my edubuntu disk in a rebooted.
* The LiveCD loaded up and I tested some everything.
(I found the sound wasn't working but I was willing to go ahead anyway because it was the only thing not working and I was really happy because the iPod was detected.)
* I then hit the install button on the desktop and started to edit the partitions.
* After some messing around and talking to some people on the ubuntu channel of irc about ext3 vs fat32 I had my partitions set up.
* I pressed forward to install ubuntu on the "/" partition and nothing happened!?!?
* I was back on the desktop. I thought that maybe I needed to just hit install again now that the partitions had been set up. But, when I did, the system didn't react. Okay...
* I rebooted and chose install edubuntu from the CD options again.
* I went through the process again.
* This time it started to install... YES!
* Once it was finished I rebooted and Edubuntu loaded up. It looked great and everything looked in order.
* I rebooted to check on the Windows side of things...
* Windows said it needed to perform some sort of disk check and I thought it best not to interfere and let it do its thing.
* After it had finished I got into Windows and everything seemed fine. Great!
* I rebooted again to go back to Edubuntu to set some things up...
* I was presented with the normal edubuntu loading screen but instead of the graphical login/password screen I was dumped on a CLI and asked for my login and password!?!
* I entered my details and when it loaded up I was presented with a desktop that looked more like Ubuntu than Edubuntu. The icons had changed, the wallpaper had gone, and it no longer detected the iPod. I still had no sound.
* Puzzled, I decided to set things up anyway. I needed to get my son's gmail password from Firefox on Windows for Firefox on Edubuntu - he was asleep. So I did a few things and then rebooted back into Windows...
* But all I got was the background image... no start menu... no task bar... no desktop icons...?!?!
* I did the usual thing and rebooted to try again.
* Nope. Same result.
* Somehow both OSes had stopped working properly.
* I didn't have anyway of correcting the problems with windows because I didn't have the disk with me. When my dad installed XP for him on the laptop he didn't give him the disk (I guess he didn't want him damaging it).
So... I decided if they aren't going to play nicely one of them will have to go. Goodbye XP.
I put the install disk back in rebooted. Made a 10GB partition for the OS; 1000MB swap; and made the rest one big "/home". The installation was a success. Everything was working nicely except the sound. I felt so much better not having Windows in the house.
Now, on to the sound problem. I looked all over the place, google, forums, ubuntu channel on irc. Everything appeared to be working fine but there was no sound coming out. And then after a couple of hours I realised that my son had his headphones plugged in the whole time. I unplugged them and there was sound! Don't you hate that. I hadn't noticed the headphones because they plug in at the back, whereas on my laptop they plug in at the front. It hadn't even occurred to me to look to unplug something. Usually you check connections to make sure everything is plugged in not to make sure something that shouldn't be plugged in isn't. Bah!
I was surprised to find that it didn't come with educational games installed by default. In fact, I found that Edubuntu is pretty much just Ubuntu with a different theme and wallpaper installed by default. Both of which my son changed in the first 5 minutes. Are there any other differences?
I was also surprised when I turned on desktop effects and got window wobbles, transparency, shadowing, and the other 3D goodies (except the cube workspace shifter, which I can't figure out). My son had been so disappointed when I told him they probably wouldn't work because of his graphics card. So he was very happy and surprised when he saw them working. You know kids love (eye) candy.
Now my son is happily a complete convert and I feel good that I'm not raising another MS zombie. Now we just need to convince his family back home to convert too so that we can use Ekiga for video calls.
I'll post again if that happens.
Thanks for your help.
Well it's been just over a week now and...
Well it's been just over a week now and my son doesn't miss Windows one bit. His iPod was detected and works great with Rhythmbox. He is happily installing games in his free time using Synaptic Package Manager (I showed him how to do it once and now he does it on his own - if a nine year old can do it then anyone older should be able to get their heads around it).
He is also learning to type using TuxType and is having fun with the other educational software.
Thank you free software.
Happy Times
I'm glad you were able to work this out! It sounds like through this experience you learned a lot and you're starting the next generation of Linux user. Thanks to you!
Please keep us updated on anything your son wishes to do or needs from his machine and I'm sure this forum will be more than enthusiastic to help out.
Some other programs he may want to check out would be OpenOffice for word style writing. gtkpod for his Ipod. And as far as games go there are some great ones out that are completely free. If he gains interest feel free to let myself or any of us know, we can point in the right direction.
Inspiring story. Love to here about success with Linux of any sort and Free/ Open Software.
Hi. I have edubuntu on CD
I have edubuntu on CD and am fairly impressed with it. However, I am not ready to dump my Xp installation just yet. When installing edubuntu it starts a partitioning process. Does this wipe out XP or can I have the best of both worlds?
No and Yes!
Ubuntu will not wipe out your XP installation unless you tell it to. However, I would recommend following the steps Danboy took above: moving files that are to be shared (music, movies, photos etc.) to an external media (hard drive, CD/DVD(s) etc.); back up everything else!!!; do a disk cleanup; defrag several times. Then squish the partition containing XP, and split the new empty partition into one for shared media and one for Ubuntu to be installed. You may also want to create a parition for your home folder for ubuntu (like your c: drive for windows). This will allow you to install new versions of ubuntu without touching your home folder.
Now there are plenty of howtos all over the net that explain these steps in more detail. I think the Ubuntu forums have some of the best ones. I SERIOUSLY recommend doing some research before trying a dual boot. If things go wrong it's probably because you didn't know what you were doing. If you don't want to do the research then at least back up your precious files first.
It's all a learning experience so enjoy it.


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DENVER – Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. capped an historic week Friday night when it medaled at the World Beer Cup gala and awards ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Centennial Ballroom in downtown Denver.
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China and Africa solidified their ties last week at the fifth Forum on Chinese-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing. Once again China offered money, this time sweetening the pot by almost doubling the aid from last year's forum. Chinese President Hu Jintao pledged $20 billion in aid to African countries. According to Hu, the funds will be allocated to aid Africa with infrastructure and agriculture.
Not that this is anything new. China's African romance can be summed up in one word: Hydrocarbons. For instance, on Thursday July 18 and in town for the forum, Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou visited CNPC. According to a CNPC press release President Issoufou had "a friendly talk with Mr. Zhou Jiping [Vice Chairman and President of PetroChina and General Manager of CNPC] on promoting oil and gas cooperation." Issoufou praised China, attributing cooperation agreements with CNPC for turning Niger into an oil producer and one that can now "boast its own refinery."
And, just a few months ago, in April, Ghana signed a $1 billion lending agreement with China Development Bank as part of the biggest loan in the country's history. Ghana's Vice President John Dramani Mahama said it would provide hundreds of thousands of jobs and develop natural gas.
While America's energy policy has grown from bad to worse and is now anemic under the Obama Administration, China's energy grab has kicked into high gear. In just over a decade CNPC, China's largest offshore oil producer and the parent company of PetroChina, has gained major footholds in nearly a dozen African countries. The list is impressive: CNPC has been present in Sudan since 1996 and now has oil and gas assets and equity in the country, while also providing oilfield services. CNPC entered Tunisia in 2002, got involved in Chad"s oil and gas businesses in 2003 and also Algeria and Niger the same year, Mauritania in 2004, Libya in 2005, Equatorial Guinea in 2006, and commenced oil and gas cooperation with the Nigerian government in 2006. China's other two oil majors, Sinopec and CNOOC, are also entrenched in Africa. To date, CNPC is operating in 30 countries worldwide.
Recently the ante for Africa's hydrocarbons has been raised even higher. In the last few months massive gas deposits have been discovered in East Africa. In February, Statoil disclosed that it had found large volumes of natural gas off the coast of Tanzania, while Anadarko Petroleum, Cove and Eni of Italy made even bigger discoveries offshore Mozambique.
"Their two fields combined could contain up to 60 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of recoverable resources of gas – nearly as much as Kuwait's entire reserves and enough to turn Mozambique into a key exporter of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, to China and India's fast-growing economies," reported the Financial Times in March. Morgan Stanley expects 23 wells to be drilled off Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique this year, almost double the number in 2011.
According to Reuters, Mozambique could be vying with Algeria as the world's sixth largest exporter of gas by the middle of the next decade. The 253 Tcf that the U.S. Geological Survey now estimates may lie off Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique compares to the 186 Tcf for Nigeria, Africa's biggest energy producer.
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Western companies and China both vie for Africa's hydrocarbons. However they seldom use the same playbook. Western critics claim that China turns a deaf ear to human rights abuses in Africa to acquire the oil and gas it needs, while they refuse to do business with what they consider rogue regimes. China counters, claiming that it always plays by international rules and seeks "win-win situations." More poignantly, Western critics allege that China is out to colonize Africa economically through concessional loans, grants, debt cancellations and infrastructure projects, although the West had similar ambitions through much of the last century.
China, ever attune to Western criticism, flatly denied these claims two months ago.
China is not planning to colonize Africa economically and industrially through its investments, Chinese officials reiterated at a three-week development conference in Tianjin in May. The conference was sponsored by China's Ministry of Commerce for 27 delegates from English speaking African countries. Officials said that China, through on-going and planned investments in Africa, intends to assist the continent in its economic, industrial and urban development and transformation.
At the conference, Wu Xiaxong, the Divisional Chief, National Development and Reform Commission of China, defended his country's increased investment in Africa, stating that China had a foreign external reserve of $3.18 trillion by 2011 from $167 billion in 1978 through a holistic implementation of reforms. He added that the total import and export growth of China had increased from $20.6 billion in 1978 to $3.64 trillion in 2011.
"It would be ideal if, China with all these assets at its disposal, assists Africa to grow industrially with the Chinese government and people sharing their reforms experience with the African continent," Wu said.
China's entrance and now dominance in Africa is imposing by any count. The continent that was once subjugated by colonial powers increasingly looks to China. It has been said that African school children no longer run up to visiting foreigners with greetings of "hello." Instead "ni hao" is the watchword of the day. First, China overtook France's place as Africa's second largest business partner and in 2009 bypassed the U.S. as Africa's biggest trading partner.
China's insatiable thirst for oil and gas does indeed play out economically, geo-politically and even militarily. According to Amnesty International, in 2006 China became the world's largest small-arms exporter and much of that is now funneled to support African governments, some with atrocious human rights records, but with resources needed by China. Sudan's Dafar region is a case in point. China on the other hand usually downplays such findings from Western agencies as politically motivated.
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China's investment in Africa may rise by 70 percent to $50 billion by 2015 from 2009, as it seeks to acquire resources, Standard Bank Group Ltd. (Africa's largest lender) said last year. Bilateral trade between China and Africa will reach $300 billion by 2015, double the 2010 level. In April Bloomberg reported that China's Export-Import Bank lent $67.2 billion to sub-Saharan Africa between 2001 and 2010, overtaking World Bank lending of $54.7 billion. The numbers are staggering, adding fuel to those that condemn China's African ambitions.
Liu Guijin, former Chinese ambassador to South Africa and Zimbabwe, said, "China doesn't have the will or ability to exercise monopoly control over Africa's development."
His remarks, coinciding with last week's forum in Beijing, seemed a preemptive strike against criticism that was sure to follow.
"Western misconceptions of the Sino-African relationship will pose difficulties to the relationship. African leaders, intellectuals and media are deeply influenced by Western ideology."
He added that China will always have a non-intervention policy toward African countries' domestic affairs, but its relations with the continent should be seen as developing rather than right.
Criticism and allegations however, whether founded, unfounded or in varying shades of gray, won't stop China's energy grab in Africa or any other part of the world for that matter. The Asian super power simply can't quench its accelerating hydrocarbon thirst. That means that China and Africa are now joined at the hip. President Hu's $20 billion pledge to African countries last week attests to this fact.


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Foxtel is leveraging its relationship with Telstra in its most defensive move yet against a wave of video-on-demand services with the launch of bundled Foxtel, home phone and broadband plans.
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Nero recently refreshed its Multimedia Suite 10, which it had extensively revised only last spring. The Multimedia Suite 10 Platinum HD adds Blu-ray movie creation and playback to a broad feature set that already comprised audio and video editing and conversion, data disc creation, DVD authoring, and more. The new $109 Video Premiumits HD is a subset consisting of the video-oriented components, plus support for creating and playing back Blu-ray movies.
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FSU coaching legend Bobby Bowden believes the statue of former coaching rival Joe Paterno should come down.
Bowden's comments come on the heels of a scathing report that shows Paterno and others covered up for now-convicted child molestor Jerry Sandusky.
We sat down with Bowden at his home in Tallahassee this afternoon.
He say he hoped all along it wasn't true.
"I knew Joe pretty well and always liked Joe," Bowden said. "My hopes as they were investigating this thing ... gosh, I hope they find out he didn't even know what was happening. I mean he should have, but I'm hoping ... he didn't know Sandusky wasn't doing all this. Then when the report comes out, you find out it's completely false. Not only did they know, but they covered it up and ten years go by with 10-11 other guys getting molested... that's bad. That's sad. It was sad," Bowden said.
Former FSU football coach Bobby Bowden and Penn State rival Joe Paterno waged a friendly battle for bragging rights as college football's winningest coach. Statues of the legendary coaches stand in front of their respective home stadiums. Bowden says it's time for Paterno's to come down.
"Now just picture this. 100 thousand seat stadium packed. TV cameras all over the stadium. They're going to flash on that statue and they're not going to talk about those two national championshpss. They're not going to talk about those great years he had. They're going to talk about Sandusky, Sandusky," Bowden said. "Penn State needs to put this behind them. So that's why I say, I would remove the statue."
Bowden's comments come in the wake of a report released Thursday. An investigation indicates Paterno and others at Penn State knew about child molestation allegations against fellow coach Jerry Sandusky and fearing bad publicity, did nothing.
The question now is what becomes of Joe Pa's legacy?
"You know what his legacy is going to be. It's going to be this. I used to warn my football players over and over. You be good, you be good, you be good, you set a good name, you get a good reputation, you can kill it in 15 minutes. You can kill it by one act. This is what happened in Joe's situation."
"A guy who's coached for 60 years, which is probably a record at the same school, impeccable. Everybody looked up to him and then to have something like this happen .. you wonder ... why? I nearly wish I could ask Joe why," Bowden said.
"Would the Joe Paterno you know, would he have allowed something like this to go on?"
"The one I knew, uh uh (shakes head no). That's the biggest surprise of it. That's the biggest surprise of it. The one I know, no he would not do it, but he did and the report showed it. We can't hide from it anymore," Bowden said.
Joe Paterno's family says it is impossible for them to accept the idea that Paterno would knowingly cover up for a child predator. They said it's far more likely he and many others "didn't fully understand what was happening."
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Former FSU Football Coach Bobby Bowden says a statue of his longtime rival Joe Paterno should be taken down.
His comments come in the wake of a scathing report that found the Penn State coach and others covered up for now-convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky.
Bowden says Paterno's statue will always be a reminder of the scandal that ended Paterno's career.
Bowden and Paterno waged a friendly battle for decades to claim the title of College Football's winningest coach. Bowden told the media Thursday that he still loved Joe and his family, but Paterno made a mistake and quote- "this was a big one."
Bowden's comments come on the heels of a report released Thursday that indicates Paterno, Penn State's former athletic director and former president all knew about at least one incident in which Coach Jerry Sandusky molested a young boy and did nothing.
WCTV will have a one-on-one with Coach Bowden later this afternoon, we'll share that with you tonight on Eyewitness News.


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Tonight, "American Idol" makes its first-ever stop in Oklahoma City -- the state that gave us one of the show's greatest stars -- Carrie Underwood.
But is there another Carrie in this bunch? If there is, we certainly didn't spot her. Host Ryan Seacrest said 45 golden tickets to Hollywood were given out here, but the hourlong show featured only a handful of them. And some were more questionable than exceptional.
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SPECIAL DELIVERY: The show got off on a decent note with Karl Skinner, a skinny, red-haired pizza chef from Joplin, Mo., who had passion and pipes to spare. He screamed out "I Feel Good" and then followed that up with a little ditty of his own while strumming his guitar. The judges ate it up and a happy Karl tossed in some extra sauce by chest-bumping Ryan Seacrest.
NATE THE GREAT? Nate Tao, 24, is an unassuming ASL teacher and both of his parents are deaf. He belts out a lovely -- if not remarkable -- version of Stevie Wonder's "For Once In My Life." The judges like it and he's a liakable dude. Onto Hollywood.
OSCAR THE SLOUCH: Halie Hilburn was brave (or weird) enough to show up for her audition with a furry dog puppet that looks like a car-wash rag. Turns out, she's a ventriloquist and her friend is named Oscar. They start off with what is kind of a duet, as Oscar contributes some yodeling to Halie's sweet tones.
The judges are intrigued, but they want to see what Halie can do on her own. ("I think Oscar's holding you back," Keith Urban suggests). So Oscar is tossed aside. Halie sounds lovely as a soloist and she gets a golden ticket.
Halie insists that Oscar won't be coming to Hollywood and moments later, we see the mangy mutt on the sidewalk with a "Will Yodel For Food" sign. Even worse, he soon winds up in a garbage dumpster.
SHE'S NO BEYONCE: In the astute words of Randy Jackson, Zoanette Johnson is "a whole party by yourself." Because President Obama won reelection, this big, boisterous woman belts out the "Star Spangled Banner" and the only thing we can say is that we wish it was lip-synched.
She squeaks and screeches and butchers the lyrics, but it doesn't matter as she goes on so gallantly screaming. The performance blows Keith right out of his chair and its more comical (horrifying?) than classical, but in a very strange decision, the judges send her through.
KAYDEN CAN: Kayden Stephenson is 16, looks even younger and is a heartbreaker. He has cystic fibrosis. His life expectancy is 35. Still, he absolutely gives off good, upbeat vibes and he's adorable. He sings Stevie Wonder's "I Wish," and though it's far from perfect, it's sweet and soothing. Nicki compares him to "Baby Michael" and says she's inspired. The gang sends him on through.
DUDE LOOKS LIKE A LADY: It's only fitting that a very weird night ends with former "Idol" judge and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler taking to the audition stage in drag, complete with a blonde wig, short skirt and honking hooters.
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SAN JOSE -- The birth mother of the 15-year-old boy who stowed away in a Hawaiian Airlines wheel well says she feels awful her son risked his life in a desperate attempt to find her and wants to see him again.
In her first interview with reporters since her son's ordeal, Ubah Mohamed Abdullahi, 35, said from a refugee camp in Ethiopia that she blames the teen's father and stepmother for treating him poorly and making him believe she died years ago in a rocket attack in Mogadishu.
"They killed me in my children's minds," Abdullahi told reporters in a call placed by one of the teen's San Jose relatives. "If I could give a message to my son I would say I am still alive and I will come one day. Please stay calm and do not do anything stupid."
On Friday, the boy's father, Abdilahi Yusuf Abdi, told friends gathered at a Santa Clara mosque that he also wants to reunite with his son, Yahya, and bring him home. But he can't afford to leave his job as a cab driver until Hawaiian authorities are ready to release his son.
For years, Abdullahi said, her ex-husband and his wife have refused to let her talk to her children, whom she is trying to join in the United States.
She also told the VOA in a radio interview, "I felt bad that he risked his life. I was told that he did this because of me."
Abdi is hiring a lawyer to deal with the media, which remains camped out in front of his Santa Clara house as the family holes up inside. He also wants the lawyer to help address accusations from the mother and a relative that the teen was abused.
Yahya is the middle of three children born to Abdi's first wife. Yahya's father and stepmother have six younger children together.
"Now we're dealing with so many things. That's why they got the lawyer," said Noor Mohamed, a family friend and fellow cab driver who was among a small group of Somali men who met Abdi after noon prayers on Friday at the Muslim Community Association Islamic Center, where the family worships.
Yahya remained in a Honolulu hospital Friday, where he still has difficulty breathing, Mohamed said the father told him.
The teen's ordeal captured international attention after he was discovered on the tarmac at the Maui airport last Sunday.
Security cameras there caught images of Yahya's feet dangling from the wheel well, then of the teen weaving from left to right, disoriented on the tarmac before asking a luggage handler for a bottle of water.
Aviation experts say Yahya may have gone into a "hibernation" state, which allowed him to survive the 5 1/2-hour flight in the wheel well at altitudes of up to 38,000 feet and temperatures that could have dipped as low as 85 degrees below zero.
Mineta-San Jose International Airport officials still have some explaining to do after the teen told Maui authorities he hopped the barbed-wire fence in the darkness and climbed into the wheel well of the nearest plane, which happened to be Hawaii-bound.
The breach, some of which was caught on video, has raised numerous security concerns, including that employees who are supposed to watch the security screens are also tasked with a number of other responsibilities.
Yahya, whose only personal possession at the Maui airport was a comb in his pocket, told Maui airport officials and the FBI that he ran away after an argument with his father and stepmother and walked the three miles to the San Jose airport. He also said he longed to see his birth mother in Africa.
Marvin Moniz, the Maui airport manager, told this newspaper he asked the teenager if he wanted to go home.
"He was disoriented. He kind of gave us a nod, but we also asked if he was tired," Moniz said. "He said yes. We didn't press anymore."
In the telephone interview Wednesday from the refugee camp, the mother told reporters she wants the U.S. government to look after her son and her other two children with Abdi "until I come because I do not believe they are safe with their father and their stepmother."
"She treats my children badly. She has her own children and she doesn't care about mine," Abdullahi said.
"I felt bad that he risked his life," she told VOA. "I was told that he did this because of me."
The mother, who hasn't seen the children since 2006, said she had been trying to reconnect with them for years, but her ex-husband and his wife wouldn't allow it.
A woman who answered the stepmother's phone on Friday hung up without answering questions.
The interview with Abdullahi on Thursday with the Daily Mail was arranged by Mukhtar Guled, an insurance agent in San Jose who is the cousin of Yahya's stepmother. He also spoke with this newspaper.
"He felt he didn't belong in the house," Guled said of the teen, who routinely complained to relatives. "The younger siblings were treated like kings and queens and his siblings were treated like trash. The only option he had was to run away from both of them."
Guled acknowledged he has other grievances with the stepmother relating to the care of an elderly relative and hasn't talked directly to the teen in months. But he said the Somali community in the South Bay is tight-knit and "you can't hide anything."
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A special congrats to the graduating class from your friends at the Incline Recreation Center. Don't forget all of the great summer programs available at the Rec Center — Bocce Ball sunset socials, camp Xtreme, Volleyball camps, senior hiking programs and much more. If you want something to do, head over to the Rec Center and they can help you find something.
From 5:30-7:30 Thursday, June 21, Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation is offering its extremely popular series Current Thoughts on the Economy for 2012. The event is free and a community favorite. For information or to reserve your space email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 775-298-0184.
Don't forget the annual Golf Fore Education tournament is Sunday, June 24, at the Championship Course. This is a fundraiser for Incline Schools Academic Excellence Foundation (ISAEF), the Tahoe Nevada American Association of University Women and Project MANA. For information and to register go to www.golfforeeducation.com.
On Tuesday, July 10, at the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences at SNC, Wendy Perrin of Conde Nast Traveler Magazine will share Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know. This is a fundraiser for READ. For information go to www.READEvent.org.
Save the Date of Sept. 6 for a unique signature event, The Community Table, presented by the Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation. Watch for more information to arrive in July.
Happy Anniversary to Bill and Amelia Black.
OK, sorry, I missed June Brown's birthday on June 5, so belated wishes June; birthdays to celebrate this week include: Jack Morrison on June 15; Ryan Hogue and Don Hollingsworth on June 16; Lauren Iida and Keith Sheffield on June 19; C.J. Manthe and Manny Sylvester on June 20. Happy Birthday.
The best deal around this week is at Susie Scoops. Summer hours are now back. You can eat your favorite Tahoe Creamery selection right up to 10 p.m. What a great treat for Father's Day. All dads like ice cream! Thanks Susie Scoops for all you do for our community.
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Roger to open against Lu
Roger will open his quest for a sixth Wimbledon title against Taiwan's Yen-Hsun Lu (ATP 64) next week. The two players have not me before.
Our champ would meet Guillermo Garcia-Lopez or Augustin Calleri in the second round and Philipp Kohlschreiber in the third before he is due to face Robin Söderling - which would be a remake of the final at Roland Garros. Fernando Verdasco is a possible opponent in the last eight and Roger could play Serbian fourth seed Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals. Rafael Nadal pulled out of the tournament today.
London is Roger's next opportunity to mix up the statistics. He is aiming for a record 15th Grand Slam title, a record 7th consecutive final and a sixth Wimbledon victory (just one below Sampras' record).
I'm watching right now!
Hello ***Brian and everybody!
Time to Wimbledon, time to grass...
All the best for our CHAMPION and fo all of us too!
Dear Roger,
GOOD LUCK today!!!
You CAN do it!!!
Enjoy grass and play your beautiful game. Smile....
All the best,


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Fire crews are investigating the cause of a Wednesday morning blaze in Forsyth County.
It occurred just before 8 a.m. Wednesday in the 4400 block of Misty Mountain Court and was brought under control. The right side of the house was badly burned, a WXII photographer said.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi tennis program picked up a handful of titles on Sunday on the final day of the Third-Annual Islanders Open, the first official tournament at the state-of-the-art Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center. The team will add another championship on Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. at the facility when Aurelien Tave and Matt Westmoreland play to decide the men's bracket winner.
"Whenever there are conditions such as heat and wind, it favors the more mentally-tough player," said Director of Tennis Steve Moore. "It is very important to us to always use those elements to our advantage."
In a tournament that turned into a fitness marathon with extremely hot and humid conditions, Stefania Nicolae prevailed over a field that included top players from Houston, Lamar, UTSA, Abilene Christian, Laredo CC and Tyler JC.
"This team always fights hard; it's just a part of their makeup," said Moore. "But our first tournament in this incredible facility, there was definitely a little something extra in the way they competed."
Nicolae picked up the singles title in the women's main draw after beating Natalia Mayagoitia of Lamar by a 6-3, 6-1 score in the semifinals. Her opponent in the finals withdrew due to injury to give her the championship.
"Aurelien, Matt, Stefania and a lot of these new players are working extremely hard and really developing their games," said Moore. "I'm really proud of the way a lot of these young players have stepped up."
In the consolation bracket, Mia Matuszak captured the title after a win over teammate Ashley Garza by a 6-3, 6-2 score advanced her to the semis against Nelo Phiri of Tyler Junior College. In the semifinals, Matuszak captured a 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 win to reach the finals. She faced Alejandra Enderica of TJC and picked up an 8-2 win as the two played a pro set to eight.
In men's action, Islanders Tave and Westmoreland will meet after both advanced to the finals with wins on Sunday. Tave won a 6-0, 7-6 (7-4) match against Alfredo Desiati of Abilene Christian to advance. Westmoreland took a 6-1, 4-6, (8-6) match against Matt Campbell of ACU with the two playing a third-set tiebreaker to determine the winner.
Fernando Llorens of Texas A&M – Corpus Christi won a 6-3, 6-0 match in the quarterfinals of the consolation bracket before falling 3-6, 6-3, (8-6) against Ryan Kennedy of Tyler JC.
In doubles, Tave and Pietro Jordao won the championship after and 8-3 win over a team from TJC in the semifinals. Their opponent in the finals had to withdraw due to injury to give the Islanders the title.
The final title of the tournament will be decided on Tuesday night at the Henry Tennis Center when teammates Tave and Westmoreland meet to determine which Islanders player will take home the title for the second year in a row.
Last year, Laurent Montoisy played James Langford at Corpus Christi Athletic Club in front of several hundred people The Islanders are holding the match on Tuesday night so fans can have a chance to come out and cheer on the players as they vie for the title. Admission to the match will be free.
For the latest on Islanders tennis, follow the teams on Twitter (IslandersTennis) and Facebook (Islanders Tennis).


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Local Search Engine Optimization for Eye Care Providers
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Local independent Eye Care Providers are the primary way that consumers access eye care diagnostic screening and obtain corrective prescriptions for glasses and contact lenses. The success of our local professional eye care providers is important to the optical health of the country and the growth of the optical products industry.
In this series we will explore ways that eye care providers (known as ECPs) can use the Internet to expand and strengthen and their patient relationships.
Local Search Engine Optimization
Making sure your eye care practice appears near the top of the natural search results, for searches referencing your local service area, is key to getting more traffic to your website and more calls to your office. All search optimization efforts should be localized. It is too costly, difficult and unnecessary to have success in general non-localized searches.
What is a local search?
An example of a non-localized search term, is "best eye doctors." In contrast, an example of a localized variation of this search term is, "best eye doctors in bellevue wa". The marketing goal for a local eye care provider is to appear near the top of the search results for common localized relevant search terms.
Below is a screen shot of the Google search results for the localized search term, "best eye doctors in bellevue wa". For this search term, the best optimized eye care practice in the local area is Overlake Eye Care.
There are a few simple things you can do to win in the search results for localized searches:
- Choose a localized domain. If possible, chose a URL that has the primary locale within it. An example would be "bellevueeyecaredoctors.com"
- Localize the page title. Put local names in the page title tag. Overlake Eye Care did a great job of localizing their page title. Their page title text is, "Eye Exam Bellevue, WA | Overlake Eye Doctor | Bellevue Eye Doctor | Overlake EyeCare."
- Localize the page description. Each web page has something called a 'meta description. The meta description is a short description inside the HTML source code of the page. It tells the search engine the main topics of the page. It is important to localize this text also. Again, Overlake Eye Care did a great job in localing their meta description: "Bellevue Eye Doctors of Overlake EyeCare provide exceptional eye care services, eye exams, eye surgery. Located in Bellevue, WA"
- Localize your page content. Make sure your home page or custom pages on your site have local place name references. A good place to localize your content is on your 'home page', 'about us' page and 'contact us' page. On these pages you will want to include references to the locales your practice services.
While general search engine optimization can be difficult, costly and slow to see results, localized search engine optimization works. It can work fast. By following the simple best practices above your website will appear higher in the all important local search results on Google, Bing and Yahoo.


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Students hone problem-solving skills at engineering camp
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The annual Young Engineers Experience Camp was held this week in the Mechatronics Room at Balfour Education Center.
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The four-day camp educated about 30 students on what engineers do, occupations, ethics, the design process, problem-solving, communication and more.
Hands-on activities included designing, building and testing of a Lego trebuchet, truss design building and testing, demonstrations in mechatronics, CAD and working with electronic kits.
Program instructors said the purpose of the camp was to get the kids interested in the engineering field. The camp was a collaborative effort between Blue Ridge Community College, Henderson County Public Schools and Transylvania County Schools.
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How Is Paranoid Personality Disorder Treated?
People with PPD often do not seek treatment on their own because they do not see themselves as having a problem. When treatment is sought, psychotherapy (a form of counseling) is the treatment of choice for PPD. Treatment likely will focus on increasing general coping skills, as well as on improving social interaction, communication, and self-esteem.
Because trust is an important factor of psychotherapy, treatment is challenging since people with PPD have such distrust of others. As a result, many people with PPD do not follow their treatment plan.
Medication generally is not a major focus of treatment for PPD. However, medications, such as anti-anxiety, antidepressant or anti-psychotic drugs, might be prescribed if the person's symptoms are extreme, or if he or she also suffers from an associated psychological problem, such as anxiety or depression.
What Complications Are Associated With Paranoid Personality Disorder?
The thinking and behaviors associated with PPD can interfere with a person's ability to maintain relationships, as well as their ability to function socially and in work situations. In many cases, people with PPD become involved in legal battles, suing people or companies they believe are "out to get them."
What Is the Outlook for People With Paranoid Personality Disorder?
The outlook for people with PPD varies. It is a chronic disorder, which means it tends to last throughout a person's life. Although some people can function fairly well with PPD and are able to marry and hold jobs, others are completely disabled by the disorder. Because people with PPD tend to resist treatment, the outcome often is poor.
Can Paranoid Personality Disorder Be Prevented?
Although prevention of PDD might not be possible, treatment can sometimes allow a person who is prone to this condition to learn more productive ways of dealing with situations.
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Amazon's Impressively Successful Holiday?
Amazon shipped its annual press release Thursday with impressive-sounding facts touting the performance of its $79 membership-based service, Prime, over the holiday season.
How impressive? Unclear, because Amazon is rarely forthcoming with specific numbers. We've plucked a few:
It was a "record-setting holiday season for Prime." Amazon doesn't tell us how many people signed up throughout the season, or how many Prime members now exist. Amazon did say "more than a million" people around the world signed up in the third week of December.
Prime was so popular, Amazon said, that the company had to pull out a velvet rope, throttling new signups so existing customers weren't unduly affected. Analysts at Baird put the number of Prime members somewhere north of 20 million world-wide.
On its peak shipping day for Prime, Amazon says, more Prime items were shipped world-wide "than ever before." In the press release, CEO Jeff Bezos said there are tens of millions of Prime members world-wide, and he credited in part the Amazon's "all you can eat" two-day shipping.
It wasn't just Amazon that got snowed under by a late surge in online buying. Companies ranging from Kohl's to Wal-Mart (and, yes, Amazon) missed some of their promised deliveries before Dec. 25. United Parcel Service realized Tuesday that it wasn't going to be able to make good on some deliveries before Christmas because of the spike in last-minute shopping.
To that end, Amazon said its last Prime "one-day shipping" order that was delivered on time was placed Dec. 23 at 10:22 Pacific time, shipping to Carlsbad, Calif. Last year, the final successfully delivered one-day order was placed nearly a day earlier — Dec. 22 at 11:52 p.m. PT, shipping to Fayetteville, Ga.
Best. Season. Ever. The entire 2013 season was Amazon's best ever, the company said. To illustrate that assertion, Amazon said more than 36.8 million items were ordered world-wide on Cyber Monday – a record-breaking 426 per second. Baird said the number was up 39% from the peak day a year ago. Here's last year's press release from Amazon, where the headline was all about customer satisfaction.
Mobile Gains. Amazon said more than half of its customers shopped using a mobile device this season.
Merry Kindle Christmas. "Millions" of Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fires were unwrapped. But no further specifics. Amazon historically hasn't broken out Kindle numbers.
Mayday, Mayday: Amazon said the average response time for its live "mayday" help on the Kindle was 9 seconds, better than it had hoped for. No sense of how many calls were taken by Amy. Amazon scooped together some people's reaction to the mayday button:
A young girl got a Kindle Fire HDX for Christmas. She was playing around with it and accidentally tapped the Mayday button—when she saw the Tech Advisor, she just screamed "MOOOOOOMMM!", not having expected a person to pop up on the screen. Her parents could be heard laughing in the background.
Here's the full holiday sales press release to find contextually difficult to assess numbers, and other genuinely interesting anecdotes from the selling season. (Here's one: The most gifted Kindle book during the holiday season was "Sycamore Row" by John Grisham.)
Julie Law, a spokeswoman for Amazon, said the company doesn't disclose sales or dollar figures outside of earnings reports.