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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Dancing With the Stars Results: Who Had to Go?

The first elimination on Dancing With the Stars is the dubious honor no one wants, but here in Season 14, the second Tuesday ouster was even sadder.

That's because Martina Navratilova double faulted her way out the door over the opening routines, leaving little doubt she should be sent packing.

This week, however, five couples not only tied for the lowest score, but that score was 24! Someone was going home after all 8s! Or better!

"No one deserves to go home tonight," proclaimed Dancing With the Stars judge Len Goodman as Tuesday's elimination show got underway.

But alas, someone did ...

Seemingly out of nowhere, it was Jack Wagner who got the boot despite a solid samba dedicated to long-lost daughter Kerry, who was in the ballroom Monday night.

"It was a great time and it was fun to test myself. Thanks to the judges, I appreciate it, and good luck to everybody else!" the surprised, but classy actor said.

Perhaps in response to this unprecedented situation, Tom Bergeron introduced a new twist. For the next four weeks, the bottom two will dance for their lives!

Simultaneously! The judges will then decide who goes home, giving them a chance to save a favorite ... not that it would've helped if no one deserves the pink slip.

You tell us: Did Jack deserve to be voted off Dancing With the Stars?

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WoodysGamertag Tries PC Gaming - YouTube

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

All-TIME 100 Fashion Icons: Olsen twins join Coco Chanel and Miuccia Prada

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Oakland district strives to offer health care for all students | Oakland ...

Published on Monday, April 02, 2012
Last updated on 08:57AM, Monday, April 2, 2012

Image by HEACphotos, http://www.flickr.com/photos/heacphotos/2651621099/in/photostream/

By Callie Shanafelt, California Health Report

The Oakland Unified School District wants to be the first major urban school district in the nation to guarantee universal access to primary health care to all its students.

A patchwork of funds ? an $18 million initiative funded primarily by the City of Oakland, Alameda County and Kaiser Permanente ? is going a long way towards helping the school district reach that goal by the end of the year.

Nine new school-based health centers providing primary care to students were opened or will open between 2010-2012, for a total of 26 throughout the district.

?The greatest challenge of education is the concentration of poverty in urban school districts,? said Alex Briscoe, Director of Alameda County Health Care Services Agency, adding that Oakland schools are a prime example of that challenge.

That kind of poverty, and the health problems that accompany it, can also have a direct impact on how students learn.

?Teachers know that they cannot teach if kids are not in class because they are sick, or their asthma is out of control,? said Serena Clayton, Executive Director of the California School Health Centers Association.

But the concentration of poverty in urban schools also means that a majority of OUSD students qualify for Medi-Cal. When the County opens health centers on or near school campuses, they are reimbursed for most of the services they provide.

Students get services including mental health counseling, physical exams, sports physicals, first aid, vaccinations, dental screenings and treatment, STD screening and treatment and health education about nutrition, fitness, puberty and sexual health at the clinics. Clinic staff also enrolls students in insurance programs and refers them to providers off-site.

Twenty years ago, studies showed adolescents among the least likely to have access to health care and having the lowest rates of primary care use of any age group in the U.S.

?You?ve got to put it where they?ll trip over it,? Clayton said.

That?s what schools, public entities and non-profits have done over the past three decades, starting with teen health centers in high schools that offered preventative health services. Healthy Start began making grants to hundreds of schools for school-based services in the 1990s.

Now there is a more unified effort to provide comprehensive primary care on or near school campuses. All 26 school-based health centers in Alameda County are built and funded through the county, but run by community health clinics.

?They are not just a clinic in a school, they are part of a broader healthcare system,? Briscoe said.

Serena Clayton says school-based health centers provide a unique value to the healthcare system. ?They can monitor chronic disease on a daily basis,? Clayton said. ?They can do education in a way no one else can?in a classroom 1-on-1 with students.?

Gone are the days of a school nurse sitting in an office waiting to give a student a band-aid. ?We have one of the lowest school nurse ratios in the country,? Clayton said. Today, school nurses are integrating into school-based health centers.

The Oakland-based Native American Health Center is involved in six school-based health clinics, two of which they run. Nurse practitioner Bonnie Trinclisti runs the Native American Health Center?s Adolescent Program. Over the past twenty years, she?s seen Oakland?s school-based health centers grow from four nurse stations to 26 clinics.

She spends half her time administering the program and half her time meeting kids in 15-minute blocks at the school-based health centers. ?I do primary care?a lot of reproductive health,? said Trinclisti.

?The biggest barrier to care for kids is their parents,? Trinclisti said. She says it is difficult for parents to take a day off of work to take their child to the doctor off-site. But once kids are in middle or high school, they don?t need a parent with them at their appointments.

Providing mental health services is the biggest challenge at the clinics. ?You can?t get anybody to pay for them,? Trinclisti said. ?Mental health is more needed than any other single support for kids in schools.?

The unmet needs for mental health services and dental access have been the largest complaints about the health care system over the years, Serena Clayton said. Recently, there?s been more funding for dental programs, primarily for prevention, screening, varnish and sealants.

School-based health centers, Clayton said, are the epitome of the principals of health care reform?to transform the way health care is delivered through inexpensive preventative care. Little of the funding for school-based clinics, however, came from the Affordable Care Act.

The Affordable Care Act did provide $100 million for significant and pressing capital needs to improve delivery and support expansion of services at school-based health centers in 2011. The Health Resources and Services Administration awarded a total of $1.2 million in Alameda County to the Oakland Unified School District, Alameda County Health Care Services Agency, Native American Health Center and Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center.

?Right now it?s a little drip in a big ocean,? Bonnie Trinclisti said.

A $399,260 grant to the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency covered some furniture and equipment expenses. A $423,098 grant went to Oakland Unified School District to add an additional portable to the clinic at Oakland Technical High School, doubling their square footage.

The grant will also make it possible for an East Oakland-based community clinic, La Clincia De La Raza, to switch to electronic health records (EHR) at the five school-based health centers they run. All clinics will be expected to switch to EHR by the time health care reform is fully implemented in 2014.

The development of school-based health centers is more of a locally funded effort with $14 million of the $18 million initiative in Oakland coming from voter approved school bonds, Alex Briscoe said.

Serena Clayton originally hoped that the Affordable Care Act would support ongoing operations at the clinics. Support for those expenses are included in the legislation but the funding was not approved.

?It?s like an empty shell that?s sitting there,? Clayton said of the ACA.

She is holding out hope that the next $100 million to be released in the spring will be authorized to fund ongoing operations.

In the meantime, people like Bonnie Trinclisti will continue to piece together whatever funding is available, mostly from Medi-Cal reimbursements and billing for services.

This story first appeared at HealthyCal.org, http://www.healthycal.org/archives/8105

The Oakland Local Editorial Team is made up of Kwan Booth, Amy Gahran, Irene Florez, Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig, Eric Arnold, Jennifer Inez Ward, CB Smith-Dahl, Meg Bertoni, Susan Mernit, Tehea Robie, Ruth Miller, Debi Mason, and others.

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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Facebook inks partnership with Opower, looks to socially compare home energy usage

Google passed, and Microsoft reckoned it had better things to do, but Zuckerberg's Castle is seemingly willing to pick up where those two left off. In what may go down as the strangest Facebook decision since the rejection of Valentina Monetta's video as best in the whole wide world, the company is launching a new social energy app that'll tap into technology from the National Resources Defense Council and Opower. Initially, the app will reach some 20 million households, and it's designed to help eco-curious Earthlings compile and benchmark usage data to see how their home stacks up against others. Within territories with utility participation, people can connect their utility account directly to the app to track progress and share energy saving accomplishments with friends. Unfortunately, the whole process looks rather manual for now, and privacy overlords will no doubt question the motives for requesting even more information from Facebook users; that said, it's totally possible to engage in the Opower tracking sans a Facebook account. To get going, give those source links a look.

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Obama, Calderon, Harper talk trade, energy

FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2009, file photo, President Barack Obama, right, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, center, and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper walk towards a stand for an official photo in Guadalajara, Mexico, for a North American summit. Obama is convening a summit with leaders from Mexico and Canada on Monday, April 2, 2012, that aims to boost a fragile recovery and grapple with thorny energy issues against a backdrop of painfully high gas prices. The session at the White House is a make-good for a planned meeting last November in Hawaii on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific summit. Obama ended up meeting just with Harper when Mexican President Felipe Calderon's top deputy was killed in a helicopter crash. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2011, file photo, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, talks with U.S. President Barack Obama following the first plenary session of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Kapolei, Hawaii. Obama is convening a summit with leaders from Mexico and Canada on Monday, April 2, 2012, that aims to boost a fragile recovery and grapple with thorny energy issues against a backdrop of painfully high gas prices. The session at the White House is a make-good for a planned meeting last November in Hawaii on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific summit. Obama ended up meeting just with Harper when Mexican President Felipe Calderon's top deputy was killed in a helicopter crash. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is convening a summit with leaders from Mexico and Canada on Monday that aims to boost a fragile recovery and grapple with thorny energy issues against a backdrop of painfully high gas prices.

The session at the White House is a make-good for a planned meeting last November in Hawaii on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific summit. Obama ended up meeting just with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper when Mexican President Felipe Calderon's top deputy was killed in a helicopter crash.

Sure to feature prominently in Monday's Oval Office session: Mexico's role as a major oil exporter and the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada that Obama has shelved pending further review.

Republicans denounced Obama's move as a blow to job-creation and U.S. energy needs. But he maintains GOP leaders in Congress forced his hand by insisting on a decision before an acceptable pipeline route was found.

The pipeline would link Alberta's oil sands to the U.S. Gulf Coast, but environmentalists fear both its local impact and a major uptick in greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.

Harper has voiced disappointment with Obama's decision. He also visited China in February to explore alternatives. Canada has the world's third-largest oil reserves ? more than 170 billion barrels ? after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, and daily production of 1.5 million barrels from the oil sands is expected to rise to 3.7 million by 2025.

Trade also topped the North American summit agenda, with Obama hoping that booming exports will help drive the U.S. recovery. The White House also listed growth and competitiveness, citizen security and climate change as key issues, along with the agenda for the next summit on the docket, the hemispherewide Summit of the Americas later this month in Cartagena, Colombia.

Obama, Harper and Calderon are well-known to each other from international gatherings ? but are headed in different electoral directions.

While Obama faces a tough re-election battle for the next seven months, Calderon is term-limited. The battle to succeed him formally kicked off last week and will culminate with Mexican elections July 1. The main issue is the deadly war his government has waged with drug cartels, which has claimed an estimated 47,000 lives.

By contrast, Harper, who has led Canada since 2006, appears secure in his job, having led his Conservatives from minority status to a majority in Parliament in elections last May. He doesn't have to face voters again for four years.

Another reason Obama might envy Harper: thanks to that majority, the budget Harper's government introduced last week should pass easily, including its budget cuts designed to eliminate Canada's deficit by 2015.

Associated Press

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