Meeting the Religious Needs of ALL Students: An Op-Ed | Zeh ...

Dear Friends,

I am writing to share with you my op-ed from last week?s Albany Times-Union. It addresses the legal right of all children to attend the private schools that reflect their families? religious beliefs and traditions?including children with special educational needs. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the subject in the comment boxes below.

? Jay Ruderman

How to Meet Religious Needs of Students

It has been legally established for close to 40 years that children in America with disabilities are entitled to a ?free and appropriate education.?

Full inclusion in access to education is a right ? one that is legally protected in our country.

This right for a ?free and appropriate public education? ? commonly called FAPE ? was codified in Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Further protection of the education rights of those with disabilities was secured with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004.

What happens, though, when a school or school district cannot provide a FAPE?

Then a student is permitted under the Rehabilitation Act to attend another public school, or a private school, which can make available that education. And as the law requires, costs for the student attending the new school are the partial or total obligation of the school district from which the student transferred.

Yet what neither the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 nor IDEA provide for are the needs of children with disabilities who are brought up in devout religious traditions, where public school is not an option because of these beliefs. These children face additional challenges, because the laws do not allow for public money to be spent for the secular portion of an education that also meets the religious and cultural needs of the students.

Earlier this summer, Gov.?Andrew Cuomo?vetoed a bill which passed with strong support in both houses of the state Legislature that would change the FAPE reimbursement regulations and require public school districts to pay costs associated with children with disabilities learning in an environment ? such as a religious academy ? in which they are most comfortable.

It is encouraging that New York legislators are marshaling support for another go at passing the bill ? which is expected to include overriding another Gov. Cuomo veto ? in a special legislative session this fall.

In certain situations, it is both appropriate and fair that there be public reimbursement of the cost of educating a person with disabilities in a private school that conforms to their religious beliefs.

There is a long and successful track record of public spending on private education; this is the case with Pell Grants, publicly financed scholarships which can be used to attend public or private colleges or universities, including places like Notre Dame or?Yeshiva University.

There are needs-based government vouchers that parents apply toward the payment for child care ? whether it is an?Islamic academy, a Jewish community center, or a Catholic Charities child care program. And what about charter schools, which get public funding but are not subject to the rules and regulations by which public schools must adhere?

Our foundation first became involved because Jewish children with disabilities could not in many cases attend Jewish day schools. They were shut out from a Jewish education on the basis of nothing else but their disability. It was unacceptable.

An appropriate education in a comfortable learning environment is the right of all our children. Achieving what?s right is often difficult ? and it can take a while. Most certainly, it can get done.

In assuring the educational rights of all children, those with disabilities and those without, getting it done requires the private and public sectors working cooperatively ? and recognizing, honoring, and sharing obligations.

Jay Ruderman?is president of the Boston-based?Ruderman Family Foundation

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Nash Kobe doesn't follow? Experts - Recreation and Sports

Beijing time on September 23rd, in contrast to Jordan occupation career amazing shooting 50% from the field, Kobe ( micro-blog ) has been dubbed the title fight tetsuo. Experts believe that the arrival of Nash might have saved Kobe bad shot hit rate, while the 50% and the hit rate for Kobe is not realistic, but 47-48% shooting still has hope ?
When Nash came to the Lakers, Kobe?s shooting is expected to china nfl jerseys?reach the Jordan occupation career average of 50%?
50% of the hit rate is not a simple digital, the inside players might not, but for a perimeter players, difficult beyond your imagination.
Take the union current hot three player Kobe, James and Durant to a group of data to make a comparison.
Kobe in his occupation career, the average shooting 45.3% from the field. Shooting the highest for a season in the 2001-02 season, Kobe was shooting up to 46.9%.
Durant is better, his occupation career average shooting 46.8% from the field. Shooting the highest for a season in the 2011-12 season, Durant was shooting up to 49.6%.
James is two better than the above, his occupation career average shooting 48.3% from the field. Shooting the highest for a season in the 2011-12 season, James was shooting up to 53.1%.
Of the three players hit rate is good, but compared with Jordan, they are floating clouds.
Jordan in the occupation career average shooting 50% from the field, shooting the highest one season in the 1990-91 season, when Jordan shooting for 53.9%.
But Kobe ?s shooting and James, Durant, not too much comparability, because Kobe is a perimeter player, while James and Durant are playing small forward. Kobe ?s and Jordan can be compared.
And compared to Kobe Jordan, shooting some be inferior by cheap nfl jerseys?comparison, one is the occupation career field are 50% shooting, one is the occupation career high shooting average is 46.9%, gap immediately revealed.
Some people say, Jordan has such high hit rate, Pippen played. It was also called before the Kobe occupation career, not enough for a good ball control guard to give him the ball.
When Nash and Howard arrived, all this without any doubt, passing Nash Kung Fu in league history to have a number. In addition, Howard inside will attract more attention, this will also give Kobe enough to create good spaces.
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Louie, Season 3

You?re right, Jonah: a Late Show With Louis C.K. would probably consist of meta-jokes and jerk-off confessions, among other things. And it would, apparently, be pretty good! I would tune in, anyway. The believable charm of that test episode was one of the more impressive things about last night?s Louie.

The most impressive? Probably that ending. We all knew that Louie wouldn?t end up getting the Late Show gig?though we never considered one possibility: that he could have gotten the job, and then C.K. could have just ignored that plot point for the rest of the series, continuity (as almost always) be damned. Or C.K. could?ve intermittently dipped from here on out into an alternate universe wherein Louie hosts a late-night show. Heck, he could still do that. It would be an appropriate tribute to David Lynch, with shades of Mullholland Dr.

But for now I?m happy with the way this arc played out?and especially that last-minute shift from dejection to triumph. The episode?s early moments harkened back to last week?s theme of being yourself and the showbiz pressure to be someone else. The final lesson, though?and I agree that there was one, Jonah?was not the Polonius pabulum of ?To thine own self be true,? but something along the lines of, ?Push yourself to be something more.? Sure, that sounds like a Nike slogan, but it?s not terrible advice. And C.K.?s current success really is a tribute to an incredible work ethic, so why not portray that? I?m a childless child of Seinfeld, too, Jonah, but that show, for all its greatness, was somewhat limited by its refusal to consider life lessons at all. C.K. is working with a wider palette.

And I loved the boxing sequence at the end, which seemed to function differently than most of the show?s epilogues. I took it to be an additional scene, one that happened after Letterman signed his new contract. Louie is still fighting, getting in shape, wanting more. He?s no longer circling failure in a rapidly decaying orbit.

I didn?t mind the sentimental scenes with the daughters, either. Yes, the music was a bit much; that was also the case when Seinfeld told Doug and Louie to keep it a secret that he got the job, and they both realized, per Jack Dahl?s words of wisdom, that he must be lying. A look between the two would have sufficed; instead we got somber music and the two men repeating Dahl?s words. (Granted, C.K. declined to show Louie later realizing that of course Tardigan was playing him all along: He told Louie to keep Letterman?s retirement a secret, so Louie should have known it was bogus.)

But heartwarming moments between parents and children happen pretty often, if my Facebook feed is any indication?so refusing to depict such scenes would arbitrarily limit the material out there in the world that C.K. has to work with. And, to be honest, I found that moment with the daughters genuinely touching.

That?s not to say the episode was perfect. There were two more training montages than were absolutely necessary, for instance, and the narrative beats at the end felt a little rushed. I still think the Parker Posey-starring two-parter is the season?s highlight. But I will gladly watch this three-episode sequence again?for me, the ultimate test of a TV show.

Two other notes before I ask Allison whether we?re both being too kind. This series has gone to some dark places?lonely funerals followed by seedy strip joints, sad sexual encounters that end with women crying, borderline sexual assault. But nothing we?ve seen has been quite as grim as Louie trying to make Jack Dahl laugh on command. That was gruesome. Dahl?s response, on the other hand??You just bought yourself another week??was hilarious. As was the tag: Dahl telling Doug, previously unseen, to leave.

Finally, there?s a little bit of possibly-relevant backstory that gives the conclusion some added poignancy. C.K. wrote for Letterman back in the mid-?90s?around the time, if I have my chronology right, that he did one of his earliest network stand-up spots, on Letterman?s show. He only had that job a few months before going to write for the doomed Dana Carvey Show. And then he went 15 years without appearing on Late Show,* even though, as he put it, ?Dave?s who I watch.? As of last year, at least, he couldn?t explain the apparent ban?but he was told, apparently, that ?I?m not OK there anymore.? He did finally go on Letterman again late last year, but he looked distinctly uncomfortable, and his set was only so-so. Having all this in mind gave that ?fuck you? at the end a little more oomph.

* Why do they all say ?Late Show,? by the way, rather than ?the Late Show?? At first I thought this was one of Dahl?s many quirks, but then Seinfeld said it that way, too. Is it like how CIA agents never say ?the CIA,? but instead drop the article?

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ASUS Padfone 2 gets rumored pre-announcement specs

We're expecting ASUS to unveil the Padfone 2 on October 16, but why wait for details? This is the back of what looks to be the back of the box for the next smartphone from ASUS, and breaks down all of the important specs. 

• Model A68
• LTE, DC-HSPA+: WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100, EDGE/GPRS/GSM E 850/900/1800/1900, Class 10
• Qualcomm 8064 quad-core 1.5 GHz processor, 2 GB of RAM
• 137.9 x 68.9 x 9 mm, 135 g
• 2140 mAh battery
• 4.7-inch Super IPS+ 1280 x 720 display
• 13 megapixel camera with zero shutter lag LED flash, auto-focus, and HD video recording
• 1.2 megapixel front camera
• Wi-Fi a/b/g/n
• Bluetooth 4.0
• MicroUSB 2.0 with MHL support

Keep in mind that this is coming from some random dude on a Chinese forum, but it looks convincing enough to me. We had already heard from some leaked benchmarks that the next Padfone would have a quad-core processor, and this certainly corroborates that. What I'm mostly interested in is the dock and tablet companion devices; how much will they cost, and will they do anything more than the originals? What would the ASUS Padfone 2 have to offer in order to pull you away from more established smartphone makers?

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Steep Cuts To Special Education, Disability Programs Loom ...

The White House is warning that special education will face more than $1 billion in cuts and millions more will be trimmed from other federal programs for people with disabilities next year unless lawmakers act.
In a report sent to Congress Friday, the Obama administration painted a stark picture of what?s to come, detailing the impact of more than $100 billion in automatic spending cuts that are scheduled to take effect Jan. 2.
The funding reductions were triggered after lawmakers failed to reach a budget deal last year. As a result, most federal programs will be slashed by at least 8.2 percent.

Steep Cuts To Special Education, Disability Programs Loom - Disability Scoop

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Back to school: Is higher education making you fat?

ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2012) ? A new study published in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism (APNM) looks beyond the much-feared weight gain common to first-year students and reports on the full 4-year impact of higher education on weight, BMI, and body composition.

"Gropper et al. present a unique study that follows students through their undergraduate years. It documents the nature of the weight gain and shows the differences between males and females," says Susan Whiting, a professor of nutrition and dietetics at the University of Saskatchewan.

"While dozens of studies have investigated weight gain during the freshman year of college and have reported on the so called "freshman 15" (the commonly held belief that students gain an average of 15 lbs their first year of college), our study is the first to examine changes in weight, body mass index, body composition, and body shape over the 4-year college period," explains Sareen Gropper, a co-author of the study and researcher at Auburn University in Alabama.

The study followed 131 college students from the beginning of their first year to the end of their senior year. After 4 years in college about 70% of students had gained weight, which averaged at 5.3 kg, or 11.68 lbs; males gained significantly more weight, percent body fat , and BMI than females; and the percentage of participants considered overweight or obese increased from 18% to 31%.

"College and university students are often living away from home; they do not have a parent grocery shopping or preparing food for them. They can be distracted from their health by their studies and by extracurricular activities," says Terry Graham, Editor of APNM, and a professor in the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Guelph. "While one can alter their body composition at anytime by tipping the balance of energy intake and expenditure, this investigation demonstrates how important the years of early adulthood can be in this aspect. After 4 years, the changes are quite substantial even though the daily, weekly, and even monthly responses are subtle. This study highlights that students need to make healthy choices and also that the institutions need to take steps to facilitate these decisions."

Gropper agrees, "Our findings clearly suggest the need for additional campus-based health promotion strategies for students from the freshman year through their senior year of college."

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Syrian rebels seize control of a border crossing

Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, left, speaks to reporters, as UNHCR representative to Jordan, Andrew Harper, right, listens during his visit to the Zaatari Refugees Camp for Syrians who fled the civil war in their country in Mafraq, Jordan, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, left, speaks to reporters, as UNHCR representative to Jordan, Andrew Harper, right, listens during his visit to the Zaatari Refugees Camp for Syrians who fled the civil war in their country in Mafraq, Jordan, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

FILEIn this Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 file photo, Pro-Assad supporters chant slogans during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. For the embattled Syrian regime, the crudely produced film mocking Islam that has unleashed fury across the Muslim world could not have come at a better time. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman, File)

Syrian refugees chant slogans to protest against the visit of Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, not pictured, to the Zaatari Refugees Camp in Jordan for Syrians who fled the civil war in their country in Mafraq, Jordan, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

FILE - In this file Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 photo, Pro-Assad supporters chant slogans during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. For the embattled Syrian regime, the crudely produced film mocking Islam that has unleashed fury across the Muslim world could not have come at a better time. Arabic on the poster reads, "anyone but God's prophet." (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman, File)

AKCAKALE, Turkey (AP) ? Rebels seized control of a border crossing on the frontier with Turkey on Wednesday, pulling down the Syrian flag and sending a stream of jubilant people pouring across the border into Turkey.

An Associated Press reporter at the scene Wednesday said people were moving freely across the Tal Abyad crossing, crawling under barbed wire. Some appeared to be wounded.

"I am a free Syrian!" one man shouted, throwing his hands in the air.

Syria's rebels control several other border crossings into Turkey but Wednesday's capture of the Tal Abyad post is believed to be the first time they have taken the border area in the northern province of Raqqa.

Taking control of border crossings helps the opposition ferry supplies into Syria and carve out an area of control, which is key as the rebels try to tip the balance in the civil war.

Wednesday's takeover comes after a day of fierce clashes as rebels and regime forces fought for control of the Tal Abyad crossing.

Turkey's private Dogan news agency said earlier Wednesday that the rebels surrounded the customs building and engaged in an intense fire fight with Syrian sharp-shooters positioned at the building. Several people were wounded in the battles and were taken to Turkey for treatment, the report said.

Civilians escaping the violence reported that several people were killed in fighting around Tal Abyad, Dogan reported.

The 18-month conflict between the regime of President Bashar Assad and his opponents began with peaceful protests that were attacked by government security forces, and has since evolved into a civil war. Activists say at least 23,000 people have died, many of them civilians who fell victim to the regime onslaught, although rebel factions have also been accused of summary executions and other abuses.

Also Wednesday, Amnesty International said the Syrian government has carried out indiscriminate air bombardments and artillery strikes on residential areas that do not target opposition fighters or military objectives, and instead appear aimed solely at punishing civilians seen as sympathetic to rebel forces.

Much of the recent fighting has centered on the contested city of Aleppo, but the London-based group said hundreds of civilians in other parts of northern and central Syria have been killed or wounded in recent weeks, many of them children, in attacks that struck people in their homes, in the street or while trying to take shelter from the bombings.

The conclusions were published in an Amnesty report that followed a visit to Syria by senior crisis researcher Donatella Rovera, who traveled to 26 towns and villages in the Jabal al-Zawiya area and other parts of the northern Idlib and north Hama regions between Aug. 31 and Sept. 11.

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Associated Press writer Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey contributed to this report.

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Afghan insurgents: Attack revenge for prophet film

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? A spokesman for an Afghan militant Islamist group says they carried out a suicide attack near Kabul airport that killed at least nine people in reprisal for an anti-Islam film that ridicules the Prophet Muhammad.

Haroon Zarghhon claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attack near Kabul airport in an email to The Associated Press. He said the attack was carried out by a 22-year-old woman named Fatima.

He is with the group called Hezb-e-Islami led by former warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

Police say a suicide bomber rammed a small sedan heavily laden with explosives into a mini-bus believed to be carrying foreign aviation workers to the airport at dawn.

Associated Press

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Tanzania orders review of all oil and gas exploration contracts

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tanzania's energy minister has ordered a review of all contracts with oil and gas exploration companies by November 30, saying some were not in the country's interest and should be revoked, adding to measures already under way to overhaul the country's energy policy, newspapers reported on Sunday.

Earlier in September, state-run Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) delayed a licensing round for nine deep-sea oil and gas blocks previously set for this month until a parliamentary vote on a new gas policy in October.

Tanzanian newspapers quoted Energy and Minerals Minister Sospeter Muhongo saying that the incoming board of the TPDC had until the end of November to complete the review of contracts.

"Some of the agreements are really shoddy and they need to be revoked," Muhongo was quoted saying in the privately-owned Guardian on Sunday newspaper.

"I can't tolerate agreements which are not in the country's interest but they benefit a few individuals."

Newspapers reported that the nine board members were handed bags containing the 26 existing production sharing agreements and told to start work right away.

East Africa has been a focus of hydrocarbon exploration after substantial deposits of crude oil were found in Uganda in 2006 and major gas reserves were discovered in Tanzania and Mozambique.

In June, Tanzania - which already uses some of its natural gas to produce electricity and to power industry - said it had nearly tripled its estimate of recoverable natural gas reserves to up to 28.74 trillion cubic feet (tcf) from 10 trillion following recent major discoveries.

Opposition lawmaker Zitto Kabwe has urged the government to impose a 10-year moratorium on issuing new licences.

Tanzania's energy ministry has been in talks with the country's largest gas producer - PanAfrican Energy, a unit of Toronto-listed Orca Exploration - over payment of $33 million.

A parliamentary investigation said last year that PanAfrican had denied TPDC a share of gas revenues, a finding that Orca strongly rejects.

Among other companies exploring in Tanzania are Norway's Statoil, Ophir Energy and BG Group, which have all made significant offshore natural gas discoveries offshore.

Others include Canada's Wentworth Resources, which along with its partners is building a 532 km gas pipeline from Mtwara in southern Tanzania to the commercial capital Dar es Salaam at a cost of $1.06 billion, expected to take 12-14 months to complete.

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They Do?! The 12 Most Surprising Celebrity Weddings

Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds' out-of-the-blue nuptials, Britney's drunken Vegas "I do's" and 10 other weddings that shocked us

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AndroidGoss: Amazon Kindle Fire HD Running On @Google #Android 4.0 'Ice Cream Sandwich' - The Inquisitr : http://t.co/NxpdUK4D

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PST: Rooney admits to packing on too many pounds

Take solace, Manchester United fans. There may be a reason why Wayne Rooney looked so bad in his one Premier League start. At least, there may be a reason beyond ?maybe he?s just not as good anymore.? He might be out of shape.

That news comes after the Guardian published excerpts from Rooney?s upcoming book, one chronicling 10 years in the Premier League. It?s Rooney?s second book, with the 2008 release?My Story?chronicling the hard-earned lessong of a 22-year-old soccer proteg? who?d already earned a move to Manchester United.

Busy cranking out these tomes rather than training (as if he writes them himself), it?s no wonder Wayne?s put on a few pounds.?How much weight? A whole seven pounds, which doesn?t sound like a big deal considering the peak state at which most soccer players play through their seasons (at the end of which, it?s not uncommon for them to be under-weight). For Rooney, however, the scales were quite a shock:

Early July: the first day back at pre-season training. I?m like most blokes, I put on a few pounds after a holiday. Even if I don?t train for a week, I put on two or three, but when I get back to Carrington for the first day of work, I?m in for a shock. The scales in the club gym tell me I?ve put on a few more pounds than expected ? seven. Seven!

As Rooney later hints, the weight shouldn?t be a problem, but if he was more out of shape than normal when he returned to Carrington, it?s no wonder he looked behind the pace when United opened their season at Goodison. Rooney concedes as much when talking about the demands on a center forward:

As a striker I need to work hard all the time. I need to be sharp, which means my fitness has to be right to play well. If it isn?t, it shows. It would probably be different if I were a full-back. I could hide a bit, make fewer runs into the opposition half and get away with it. But as a centre-forward for Manchester United, there?s no place to hide. I?ve got to work as hard as I can, otherwise the manager will haul me off the pitch or drop me for the next game.

So Rooney probably wasn?t surprised when he was benched for Fulham.

The weight revelation, headline-material though it may be, is one of the least interesting parts of the Guardian?s excerpt. More compelling (and quiet sad, considering Rooney?s age), is his current physical state.

Physically I?ve taken a bit of a battering over the years; being lumped by Transformer-sized centre-backs or having my muscles smashed by falls, shoulder barges and last-ditch tackles, day in, day out, has left me a bit bruised. When I get up in the morning after a game, I struggle to walk for the first half an hour. I ache a bit. It wasn?t like that when I was a lad. I remember sometimes when I finished training or playing with Everton and United, I?d want to play some more. But football has had a massive impact on my body because my game is based on speed, power and intensity.

All of which makes you wonder how much longer Rooney can be a top player. His rings count 26, but his miles count closer to 32. While we marvel at the collection of attackers Alex Ferguson has been able to amass (signing another one, Angelo Henriquez today), that depth looks entirely different when you consider the minutes piling on Rooney?s body. Undoubtedly, United?s staff have witness the effects.

Particularly with post-Cristiano Ronaldo United, Ferguson has had to rely on Rooney to an uncomfortable degree. Perhaps that time is over.

Source: http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/05/wayne-rooney-weight/related/

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SanDisk announces 32GB ReadyCache for Windows: $55 at Amazon, keep your existing HDD

SanDisk has built itself a decent reputation in the SSD game, and a cheap cache-only drive is a logical addition to its line. Unlike regular SSD or hybrid upgrades, you don't have to transfer your system to the new drive -- the 2.5-inch, 32GB add-on simply hooks up to a spare SATA III port alongside your spinning storage and then you run SanDisk's ExpressCache software to do the rest. The program, which is currently Windows 7-only, monitors which files you access most frequently and then automatically caches them on the SSD, promising up to 12x faster application launches and also faster boot times compared to your HDD working on its lonesome. Importantly, the ReadyCache works with multiple hard drives too, rather than just boosting your primary drive -- a feature that SanDisk claims gives it a one-up over most other caching solutions. The list price is $100 but Amazon has it up right now for $55.

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City, OSU, Healthy New Albany to Partner on Wellness Center | New ...

Unique partnership to elevate health and wellness, be the first of its kind involving entire community.
The City of New Albany and Healthy New Albany, a community-based non-profit organization, today announced plans for a 48,000 square foot, community-based health and wellness center in the heart of New Albany?s historic Village Center that for the first time ever will uniquely blend personalized medicine, exercise and community activities all in one place.

The announcement came as part of a New Albany City Council meeting in which council members approved financing for the project.? Last Friday, The Ohio State University Board of Trustees approved an agreement for The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center to lease more than 70 percent of the space in the center that will be owned by the City of New Albany. The health and wellness center will provide a platform for Ohio State?s Wexner Medical Center to introduce the concept of personalized healthcare ? also known as P4 Medicine ? to an entire community.

The Healthy New Albany initiative promotes healthy lifestyles for those who live or work in New Albany.? In a short time, Healthy New Albany has organically connected thousands of people through their community magazine, lecture series, and initiatives such as the New Albany Walking Classic, the community garden, and the farmers market. ??This center will be a destination place in the heart of New Albany that will serve as a community hub of health and wellness activity,? said Healthy New Albany Founder Phil Heit.? ?There will be programming for all ages, along with a research component that can help New Albany become the healthiest community in the United States, which is the ultimate goal of Healthy New Albany.?

That research component was a selling point for Ohio State?s Wexner Medical Center, a key partner promoting the concept of P4 Medicine, a novel approach to individualized medical care that engages consumer participation, predicts and prevents disease, facilitates health and creates a personalized life strategy wellness plan for each individual.? ?This is the first time we?ve been able to blend our P4? Medicine philosophy with an entire community, yielding research opportunities never before available,? said Dr. Clay Marsh, executive director of the Center for Personalized Health Care and vice dean and senior associate vice president for research at the College of Medicine at Ohio State. ?P4 Medicine focuses on executing key evidence-based practices to reduce healthcare costs and improve outcomes, with an emphasis on how individuals? unique DNA, environment, and behavior define their health and disease.?

P4 Medicine utilizes advances in genomics and molecular diagnostics discoveries to provide predictive information that is necessary to tailor, or personalize, health improvement approaches for each individual. ?Therapeutics and health management tools are being developed to help prevent disease instead of waiting until it develops. Medicine of the future will be participatory, engaging consumers to take ownership of their own health care.

Programming inside the wellness center will be a collaborative effort between Ohio State?s Wexner Medical Center, Healthy New Albany, and other potential partners.? Multi-purpose space will be integrated for activities included all age groups, and students with interests in health or medical careers will have opportunities to interact with Ohio State experts in a ?real-world? learning environment.

?This is very exciting for The Ohio State University as an institution of higher learning.? As a concept, this center could help us globally transform how medicine and wellness are integrated to improve people?s lives; and locally, this center ties seamlessly with New Albany health and fitness amenities that already exist,? said Larry Lewellen, vice president of care coordination and health promotion at Ohio State?s Wexner Medical Center.

City officials expect this wellness center to serve as a catalyst for future Village Center development.? The Village Center is New Albany?s geographic and social core, and the wellness center will be within walking distance of restaurants, coffee shops, government offices, the post office, the library, New Albany Plain Local School District campus, and the McCoy Center for the Arts.? ?The strategic positioning of the wellness center itself, and the community activities that will occur inside it, will create the foot traffic needed to attract more retail tenants to the Village Center. This center will be a wonderful community asset and a reflection of our core values,? said New Albany city manager Joseph Stefanov.? ?It will bring people together in the heart of our town and strengthen our core while supporting health, wellness and education.?

Construction on the wellness center should be complete sometime in early 2014.

Source: http://www.newalbanyohio.org/news-and-notices/city-osu-healthy-new-albany-to-partner-on-wellness-center

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Bill Clinton fires up Dems before Obama's speech

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ? God is back in the Democratic platform and people rooting for President Barack Obama hope the dazzle is back in him.

With war ending, the health care system recast and the creaky economy overshadowing all, Obama takes the stage of the Democratic National Convention on Thursday to appeal for a second term before a huge prime-time audience. He's got several tough acts to follow ? his wife Michelle's crowd-swooning speech of a few days ago, former President Bill Clinton's rollicking turn on stage Wednesday night and his own soaring oratory of four years ago.

Clinton, the one-time "comeback kid," offered a rousing defense of Obama's economic stewardship in a speech setting up Obama's moment to come. "He inherited a deeply damaged economy, put a floor under the crash, began the long hard road to recovery and laid the foundation for a more modern, more well-balanced economy that will produce millions of good new jobs," said Clinton ? the last president to see sustained growth, in the 1990s. "Conditions are improving and if you'll renew the president's contract, you will feel it."

He also preached bipartisanship and a pullback from politics as "blood sport" ? this near the end of back-to-back conventions that feasted on rhetorical red meat and even as he ripped the Republican agenda as a throwback to the past, a "double-down on trickle-down" economics that assumes tax cuts for the wealthy will help everyone down the ladder.

Obama watched Clinton's speech from backstage, then strolled out and embraced him, bringing happy roars from the crowd in his first convention appearance and making for a spirited ending to a trying day for Democrats.

After passing their platform a day earlier in a smoothly scripted show of unity, Democrats reopened it to restore a reference to God that had been stripped out in earlier deliberations.

Republican rival Mitt Romney called quick attention to the omission, branding it as evidence that the Democrats are a "party that is increasingly out of touch with the mainstream." White House aides said Obama himself ordered the party to get God back in. The platform also was altered to declare that Jerusalem "is and will remain the capital of Israel," a view at odds with a carefully neutral U.S. policy but in tune with campaign sensibilities.

Citing a chance of thunderstorms, convention organizers scrapped plans for Obama to speak to an enormous crowd in a 74,000-seat outdoor stadium and shoehorned the event under the roof of the convention arena, holding up to 15,000. That meant no opportunity to reprise the massive show of support, excitement ? and on-scene voter registration ? from Obama's 2008 acceptance speech before 84,000 in Denver. Republicans said Democrats made the switch because they feared the sight of empty seats.

For Obama, the evening speech provided one of his best opportunities not just to persuade undecided voters to swing his way in a tight election but to put fire in the belly of his supporters and get them to come out on Election Day. That wasn't an issue in 2008, but the anemic recovery has raised questions about the motivation of Democrats as Obama seeks to become the first president since the Great Depression to win re-election with joblessness so high.

It was no accident the president devoted many stops on a pre-convention tour of battleground states to campus crowds of the sort that lifted him to the Democratic nomination and the presidency last time.

"Barack's challenge here is to sort of wake up America and make them realize how serious this election is," Democratic Rep. Sam Farr of California said in an interview at the convention. Judging from his town hall meetings in August, when only 15 or 20 people showed up instead of the usual hundreds, there is a "big apathy about politics right now," regardless of party.

Farr added, "If we have an apathetic America, I'm terrified."

Motivation was not an issue in the convention hall, at least not when Clinton spoke.

The hall rocked with cheers as Clinton strode onstage to Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop," his 1992 campaign theme song, and he held the crowd rapt as he drifted off his prepared remarks for about 50 minutes.

He accused Republicans of proposing "the same old policies that got us into trouble in the first place" and led to a near financial meltdown. Those, he said, include efforts to provide "tax cuts for higher-income Americans, more money for defense than the Pentagon wants and ... deep cuts on programs that help the middle class and poor children."

"As another president once said, 'There they go again,'" Clinton said, paraphrasing Ronald Reagan, who often uttered "There you go again" as a rebuke to Democrats.

"In Tampa," said Clinton, "the Republican argument against the president's re-election was pretty simple: We left him a total mess, he hasn't finished cleaning it up yet, so fire him and put us back in."

Clinton's speech marked the seventh consecutive convention in which he has spoken to party delegates, and the latest twist in a relationship with Obama that has veered from frosty to friendly. The two men clashed in 2008, when Obama outran Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former president's wife, for the Democratic presidential nomination. Hillary Clinton, then a New York senator and now Obama's secretary of state, was in East Timor as the party met but made a cameo appearance on the huge convention screens in a video that celebrated the 12 Democratic female senators now in office.

Party leaders did their best to draw as little attention as possible to the changes in the platform, making the switch even before the prayer that opened the second night of the convention.

They restored wording from the 2008 platform calling for a government that "gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential."

The switch on Jerusalem puts it in line with what advisers said was the president's personal view, if not the policy of his administration. "Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel," it says. "The parties have agreed that Jerusalem is a matter for final status negotiations. It should remain an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths."

Three times Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the convention chairman, called for a voice vote on the changes and each time the yes and no votes seemed to balance each other out. On the third attempt, Villaraigosa ruled the amendments were approved ? triggering boos from many in the audience.

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Woodward reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Ben Feller, Ken Thomas, Matt Michaels and Jim Kuhnhenn in Charlotte, Jennifer Agiesta, Jack Gillum and Josh Lederman in Washington, Kasie Hunt in Vermont, and Thomas Beaumont and Steve Peoples in Iowa contributed.

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A 17-month-old toddler died tragically Monday after falling into a drain.
Dead is Okeskia Thomas called ?Princess? of Timmers Dam, Angoy?s Avenue, New Amsterdam, who lost her life by drowning.
Her father, Otheia Thomas, 23, was in police custody until 14:00 hrs yesterday assisting with the investigation. The baby?s mother, Nakaice Blair, was treated at New Amsterdam Hospital and sent to a relative?s home to rest.
When Kaieteur News visited the home of the family at Timmers Dam, Angoy?s Avenue no one was available for a comment.
However, her paternal grandmother, Valarie Thomas, said that her son, who is a carpenter, came from work around 17:30 hrs on Monday and was liming on the street.

The drain in which Okeskia Thomas was found.

His daughter, who was with her mother at a relative, on seeing her father ran out to meet him. He reportedly got distracted after meeting a friend. It is believed that at that point in time the little girl decided to return to her mother. It is believed that she slipped into the drain which is in front of the relative?s home.
Kaieteur News was told that a few minutes after, her mother, seeking the whereabouts of her child could find no signs of her. A frantic search was made and her father made the shocking discovery.
One neighbor said that the child?s body was still warm and CPR was administered by her father. A community police officer who was on the scene said she also assisted in giving CPR.
A motorcycle was used to transport the child to the hospital since no taxis were available.
At the hospital, angry relatives said that if the doctor on duty had attended to the child immediately, she would have been alive. They claimed that the doctor took his own time to attend to the child.
The toddler is the only child of her parents who have been living together for a year now and were high school sweethearts.

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MANILA, Philippines (CNN) -- Growing up, Cecilia Lopez hoped to escape poverty by finishing school and becoming a teacher. But now 52 years old and having never finished school, she wishes she had learned a few things."If I knew back then about the choices in family planning, I would've been able to control having children," said Lopez, who has 12 children. "If it were up to me, I wouldn't want to have so many. But I didn't use family planning, so basically they just kept coming and coming."She eventually heard about the birth control pill from neighbors, but did not know how it worked. 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A dozen childrenIn Lopez's small home in Tondo, a poor neighborhood in Manila, she and her family sleep, cook and eat inside one room.Seventeen people share a cramped 12-square meter room, one person next to another.Although limited in space, the room has a sense of order. An array of slippers in different sizes sits next to the front door. The family has one mattress and the rest sleep on the floor, covered with cardboard, mats and blankets. Two pieces of plywood serve as a bed and a desk for one of her children.During the interview, her sleeping grandchild curled next to her teenage father, using a pair of adult shorts as a blanket.The walls are covered in family photos. Lopez is most proud of the school pictures showing three of her children, which bear the word "Graduate," showing that they finished elementary school.Lopez hopes that unlike herself, her children will have choices.National statistics show that the Philippines population is growing at 1.98% and that it could reach 105 million by 2016. The growth rate is not the problem, said Ugochi Florence Daniels, the Philippine representative to the U.N. Population Fund."It's about the quality of life available to the segment of the population having the most children," she said. " Poor women are the ones having more children. So as the Philippine population is growing, it's growing poorer."Lopez first became pregnant at 17. Since then, she can't recall when she did not struggle to provide basic needs for their children. Her husband, a carpenter, does not have steady work."If we earn money, they eat," she said, referring to her children. "If we don't, they have nothing to eat all day. Most days they just bear with it. Even when they go to school without food.""I find it so hard when they go to school without food, without money. When they're hungry. I just want to cry most times."With no one else to care for her growing family, Lopez stayed home to watch her children. Her adult children struggle to find work, because they didn't graduate from high school."The older ones had to stop going to school so the younger ones could start," Lopez said.But her children appear to be entangled in a familiar cycle. Just like Lopez, her daughter became pregnant at 17. Her son became a father when he was 18, and her 17-year-old son is expecting a child soon. Lopez has three grandchildren.The health bill, Lopez said, would give her youngest the means to "understand what happens with their bodies."Young people in the Philippines lack health services and education, said Daniels from the U.N. Population Fund. This has caused a problem of skyrocketing teen pregnancy rates in the Philippines, which are the second highest in Southeast Asia."We are also failing the young people in the Philippines," she said. "Ideally it's a time when young people are focused on education and skills- the things they need to live productive lives. Instead, we have a situation where children are having children."A pack of condoms cost about 50 pesos and upwards, and birth control pills start at 100 pesos. When Lopez's husband can find work, he earns about 350 pesos a day. Condoms are sold in convenience stores and groceries, and pills are available, but they're harder to find in remote areas. The health bill would make various forms of birth control free and available to the country's poor.It would help quell the dramatic rise in maternal mortality rates, which has increased from 11 women dying per day to 15, from 2006 to 2010, said Daniels. It would also help address the fact that the Philippines is one of seven countries in the world where HIV rates are increasing, according to a U.N. report.Proponents of the Reproductive Health bill say it is about human rights, health and sustainable human development, not religion and sex. Church resistanceThe Catholic Church hierarchy has seen the bill differently- saying that artificial birth control is a sin and its distribution will relax moral standards."Preventing fertilization is not a surgical, but a chemical or medical abortion," said Father Melvin Castro, executive secretary of the Episcopal Commission on Family and Life, of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Philippines."It's like OK, go ahead. As long as you don't get pregnant or you do not impregnate anyone, you can have any physical relationship. It will destroy the trend of marriage in our country. And slowly when you bring down the bar of morality, everything follows."Castro said the government is infringing on territory beyond its authority by "legislating an immoral law," and maintained that the state should not intervene in the moral and religious realm.But Lopez, who is Catholic and regular church-goer, disagreed.With a faded print of Christ and the Last Supper hanging on a wall behind her, the mother of 12 said, "The choice is yours if you need them for your own family, your own life. When you use them, it's not like you've sided with evil."The battle over the health bill has both Catholic officials and lawmakers accusing each other of overstepping boundaries between church and state. The bill in its previous five attempts at passage, has languished in Congress.The stiff resistance from the Catholic Church, which is influential in politics, has prevented the passage of the bill, said Elizabeth Angsioco, national chairperson of the Democratic Socialist Women of the Philippines, which supports the health bill.In the past, politicians have hesitated openly supporting the bill in fear of going against the Catholic Church and damaging their chances of re-election, she said."Legislators are called on regularly by bishops, one by one, and some priests visit legislators in their districts, to 'convince them' to drop support or strengthen their opposition to the bill," she said.For years, politicians have feared the Church's moral influence on voters, said Solita Monsod, professor emerita at University of the Philippines, School of Economics."There are two kinds of Catholics in the Philippines, the unthinking -- who say I don't need to read that bill because my priest is the guardian of my morality and whatever they say goes. And the thinking -- who will study the issues, follow their own conscience, and don't let anybody try to sway that," she said.But Father Castro denies that the church gets overly involved in politics. Bishops issue guidelines when Catholics decide whom to vote for, but they do not openly endorse political candidates, Castro said. "It's up to the voters to ask themselves if this particular candidate possesses those needed criteria to lead our nation.""In the final analysis, no one can stop the priest when they want to do it. But they will never be ordered to do so by the bishops," he said.But Monsod said the Philippines is a different country today compared to when the bill first tried to fight its way to the legislative floor 14 years ago."It's no longer a one-sided, unidirectional situation, where the hierarchy says something, it goes down and everybody says 'Amen,'" she said.For Lopez, a lifelong Catholic, the issues are simpler. Her greatest fear is that her children will end up trapped in the same life she has known."I don't want them to be like me," she said. "I don't want them to go through what I have."

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Eric Church Tops 2012 CMA Nominations

The nominations for the 46th Annual Country Music Association Awards were announced Wednesday, and newcomer Eric Church leads with five nominations this year, including Male Vocalist, Album ("Chief"), and Video of the Year for "Springsteen."

Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert nabbed four nominations, including one shared for Lambert's hit "Over You? as Song of the Year.

Dierks Bentley, Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney, Little Big Town, and last year?s Entertainer of the Year winner, Taylor Swift, each received three nods. Swift, who releases ?Red? next month, will have a chance to snag her third trophy in the category, competing with Aldean, Chesney, Paisley, and Shelton.
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BlackBerry 10 L-Series all-touchscreen phone caught on camera

If you can't wait until next year to see the future for RIM, N4BB has obtained what it claims is a picture on the BlackBerry 10 L-Series, aka London. The screenshot shows a launcher pane full of app icons including BBM, Facebook, Maps and StoryMaker, which could be an iMovie-style video editor. Other leaks, including one from a video posted by BlackberryItalia.it (embedded after the break), indicate it could pack a removable 1800mAh LS1 battery and will be gunmetal colored. Of course, we don't know how far along the software is on this unit compared to the ones we had hands-on experience with, but if you're committed to sticking with the team from Waterloo then any news is likely welcome.

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Every atom counts in graphene formation: Nanoreactor theory could advance quality of material?s growth

ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2012) ? Like tiny ships finding port in a storm, carbon atoms dock with the greater island of graphene in a predictable manner. But until recent research by scientists at Rice University, nobody had the tools to make that kind of prediction.

Electric current shoots straight across a sheet of defect-free graphene with almost no resistance, a feature that makes the material highly attractive to engineers who would use it in things like touchscreens and other electronics, said Rice theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson. He is co-author of a new paper about graphene formation to appear this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

To examine exactly what happens at the atomic level, Yakobson and his Rice colleagues took a close look at the now-common process called chemical vapor deposition (CVD), in which a carbon source heated in a furnace is exposed to a metal catalyst to form graphene, a single-atom layer of pure carbon.

Yakobson, Rice's Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and professor of chemistry, and his colleagues calculated the energies of individual atoms as they accrete to form graphene at the "nanoreactor" dock where the carbon vapor and catalyst meet. With the help of theories long applied to crystal growth, they determined that, at equilibrium, some patterns of graphene are more likely to form than others depending on the catalyst used.

One hitch has been that the edge of a graphene sheet dictates how -- or even if -- current may proceed to an electrode. Grain boundaries -- transitions in the hexagons' angles that appear when islands of graphene merge during growth -- can also derail electrons. Yakobson said these edges and boundaries determine the sheet's overall electronic, mechanical and magnetic properties, so knowing the conditions under which graphene would favor edges that look like zigzags or armchairs -- or some angle in between -- is important to researchers who want to grow the material for use in electronic components.

Yakobson and his co-authors, research associate Vasilii Artyukhov and graduate student Yuanyue Liu, drew upon their knowledge of crystal growth for their nanoreactor theory. They present a comprehensive model of how atoms migrate from the feedstock -- usually a carbon-rich mist in a CVD furnace (and sometimes, famously, a cookie) -- to the catalyst and finally to the graphene lattice.

"Owing to the talents and efforts of materials chemists, graphene now grows like mold on almost anything, and from almost any feedstock," Yakobson said. "But how it looks and the shape it takes is hard to understand or predict.

"If you spill a little water on a flat, horizontal table, it will form a little puddle of circular shape, because water is isotropic -- all directions are identical, and a circle has the smallest perimeter and therefore the lowest-energy shape," he said.

But on the nanoscale, carbon atoms don't always act like water. "When carbon is 'spilled' on metal, things get more complicated," he said. "Different directions dictate different physical properties, and as a result, graphene's shape can be a polygon or a star or a flower."

That sounds like the way a crystal grows, a property not lost on the researchers.

"Despite the huge amount of research being done on graphene all over the world, almost nobody so far has treated graphene synthesis as a crystal growth process and taken advantage of the rich theoretical tool set developed in mid-20th century for semiconductor technology," Artyukhov said. "Crystal growth theory is a large and established field of science, and there are many more concepts that can be applied to graphene synthesis beyond the first steps outlined in our work."

The ultimate shape of graphene depends on the subtle interplay of energies and speed of growth. Like water, atoms take the path of least resistance, and that path can change due to slight temperature changes and variations in the carbon vapor density.

"As carbon is added in CVD growth, different sides advance with different speeds," Yakobson said.

The team used density functional theory to calculate the formation of graphene for all possible edge orientations on various catalysts, including nickel, iron, copper and cobalt. They found the energy levels of atoms can be mapped, step by step, as they leave the vapor and join the lattice at a nanoreactor.

A sheet of graphene starts to form when the first few carbon atoms attach to the catalyst and establish a nucleus around which atoms continue to settle. The graphene grows in rows as new atoms are added, but the rows don't have straight edges. Some have a zigzag pattern, others form a more complex shape that scientists call armchair. The shape of the edge pattern is dictated by the most efficient use of energy. The Rice team found that zigzag edges face a high-energy barrier at the start of a new row, but the rest of the row's atoms fall into line quickly and easily. For armchairs, the initial barrier is smaller but remains the same for every subsequent atom that docks.

Skewed edges -- in between zigzag and armchair -- grow fastest of all, because they have the smallest energy barrier to overcome to start or complete a row, Liu said. Also interesting, he said, is the finding that carbon vapor with atom pairs called dimers might prompt faster and better-quality graphene growth.

The researchers found the lagging zigzag edges are a bottleneck that, independent of the metal substrate, helps determine the overall shape of a graphene bloom. Other kinetic factors can also lead to variations that produce stars, flowers or asymmetric shapes.

The researchers were surprised to find that open-pentagon armchair edges are the most likely growth pattern under equilibrium on iron, cobalt and nickel, while zigzag edges were especially pronounced on a copper catalyst. They also found mathematical evidence that certain defects, in which five- and seven-atom polygon pairs replace adjacent hexagons, are unlikely to form except in a vacuum, an unrealistic scenario for graphene growth. That puts the new theory in line with Yakobson's previous work to show how unlikely defects are to form when growing carbon nanotubes.

Yakobson said the theory advances on one the carbon-growth community considers canonical -- thevapor-liquid-solid paradigm -- by getting right down to the smallest details.

The work was supported by the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Robert Welch Foundation. Computations were performed with National Science Foundation support using Rice's Data Analysis and Visualization Cyberinfrastructure (DAVinCI), the Kraken supercomputer at the National Institute for Computational Sciences and the Hopper supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

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