Homeschooling Programs in Fayette | Fayette Woman

By Ashley Miner

In addition to its beautiful scenery and welcoming community, Fayette County boasts a phenomenal school system. The Georgia School of Excellence award has been bestowed on over fifteen schools. Over the years, multiple Peachtree City elementary, middle and high schools received the National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, and in 2011, Fayette Middle School won the National Title I Distinguished School award. To top off a shining academic record, Fayette County hosts many successful sport teams, from football to cross country. With all this to offer, many parents wonder why so many others choose not to take advantage of this school system and homeschool their children.

What makes homeschooling so popular? An almost unlimited amount of information is available to answer this question. From religious convictions to dissatisfaction with the available school system, a remarkable amount of parents wish to take control of their children?s education.

Probably the most pressing concern for parents who consider homeschooling is, ?Will my child receive the socialization he or she needs?? Surprisingly, the answer is yes! With homeschooled children, parents can schedule volunteer and sporting activities as well as chores and vacations around the children?s schedule. This composes what LifeOrganizers.com defines as a ?reality based education.? Additionally, several Fayette County group organizations exist to aid parents and children in their home education.

Peachtree City hosts a Veritas campus at Vineyard Community Church, 2450 Highway 85 Senoia, GA, 30276. Veritas is a group tutoring system that meets weekly and caters to children from elementary through high school. It offers humanities, math and science courses. Unique to other programs, Veritas offers high school children the opportunity to participate in Teen Pact. Teen Pact, a nationwide leadership program, takes place at each state?s capitol. During this four day course, the students are assigned to a branch of government, sit in on parliamentary debate, and experience the process of a bill becoming a law. For more information about dress code, tuition and enrollment, visit http://www.veritasatlantasw.org/Peachtree-City.htm, or reach the administrator, Sherry Camp, at 770-487-8027.

New Creation Christian Academy classifies itself as ?a university-style center for full-time, part-time, and home school students, [where] you choose the programs and classes that meet your educational needs.? It serves middle grade homeschoolers in Butts, Clayton, Fayette, Henry, Rockdale, and Spalding County. Although this program caters to middle school children, it offers a variety of sport teams to high school students. Contact, registration, and administration information is available at http://newcreationcenter.org/, or call the office at 770-898-9728.

For an equally unique homeschool program, many Fayette County homeschoolers turn to the Konos Connection, developed by Charles and Carole Thaxton. Like Veritas, Konos meets once per week and offers educational services to elementary through high school students. In addition to math and science courses, Konos uses the writing curriculums Learn to Write the Novel Way and Write Your Roots. Both of these programs teach the English language and grammar through the interactive activities of writing a novel and researching and writing about the student?s family history. For more information about this program, visit http://www.konos.org/. For further information, e-mail info@konos.org, or call 770-632-0771.

Many additional resources exist at the fingertips of Fayette County parents. Other programs, including Eagle?s Nest Christian Home Educator?s Association (http://www.enchea.org/) are located in Newnan, fifteen miles south of Peachtree City. For information about getting started, choosing a curriculum, and finding support groups, check out the Georgia Home Education Association (GHEA). It is located at 258 Sandy Lake Circle, Fayetteville, GA, 30214.? Visit its website at http://www.ghea.org/, or call the GHEA at 770-461-3657.

The New Hampshire Homeschooling Coalition summarizes homeschooling with the words: ?Any classroom teacher will tell you that the children who succeed in school are the ones whose parents are involved in their education. Homeschooling simply brings that involvement to a new level.? Not all children are suited for this method of learning, but for some, it is a wonderful alternative to traditional education.

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Researchers develop new genetic method to pinpoint individuals' geographic origin

Researchers develop new genetic method to pinpoint individuals' geographic origin

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Understanding the genetic diversity within and between populations has important implications for studies of human disease and evolution. This includes identifying associations between genetic variants and disease, detecting genomic regions that have undergone positive selection and highlighting interesting aspects of human population history.

Now, a team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, UCLA's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Israel's Tel Aviv University has developed an innovative approach to the study of genetic diversity called spatial ancestry analysis (SPA), which allows for the modeling of genetic variation in two- or three-dimensional space.

Their study is published online this week in the journal Nature Genetics.

With SPA, researchers can model the spatial distribution of each genetic variant by assigning a genetic variant's frequency as a continuous function in geographic space. By doing this, they show that the explicit modeling of the genetic variant frequency ? the proportion of individuals who carry a specific variant ? allows individuals to be localized on a world map on the basis of their genetic information alone.

"If we know from where each individual in our study originated, what we observe is that some variation is more common in one part of the world and less common in another part of the world," said Eleazar Eskin, an associate professor of computer science at UCLA Engineering. "How common these variants are in a specific location changes gradually as the location changes.

"In this study, we think of the frequency of variation as being defined by a specific location. This gives us a different way to think about populations, which are usually thought of as being discrete. Instead, we think about the variant frequencies changing in different locations. If you think about a person's ancestry, it is no longer about being from a specific population ? but instead, each person's ancestry is defined by the location they're from. Now ancestry is a continuum."

The team reports the development of a simple probabilistic model for the spatial structure of genetic variation, with which they model how the frequency of each genetic variant changes as a function of the location of the individual in geographic space (where the gene frequency is actually a function of the x and y coordinates of an individual on a map).

"If the location of an individual is unknown, our model can actually infer geographic origins for each individual using only their genetic data with surprising accuracy," said Wen-Yun Yang, a UCLA computer science graduate student.

"The model makes it possible to infer the geographic ancestry of an individual's parents, even if those parents differ in ancestry. Existing approaches falter when it comes to this task," said UCLA's John Novembre, an assistant professor in the department of ecology and evolution.

SPA is also able to model genetic variation on a globe.

"We are able to also show how to predict the spatial structure of worldwide populations," said Eskin, who also holds a joint appointment in the department of human genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "In just taking genetic information from populations from all over the world, we're able to reconstruct the topology of the global populations only from their genetic information."

Using the framework, SPA can also identify loci showing extreme patterns of spatial differentiation.

"These dramatic changes in the frequency of the variants potentially could be due to natural selection," Eskin said. "It could be that something in the environment is different in different locations. Let's say a mutation arose that has some advantageous property in a certain environment. So you can imagine then that a kind of force for genetic selection would make this mutation more common in that environment."

The research team began to examine all of the genes, and for each gene they computed how sharp of a change there was in the frequencies. They soon discovered that the genes which had the largest and most extreme changes are the ones that are known to have experienced selection in the recent past.

"So this is a new method for finding genes that are also undergoing selection in humans," Yang said.

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Remember when Sony said it would "unify" its product lines and consider going into the medical device business? Well, we've unearthed this patent application from 2010 that does that just. A wireless wristband monitors your heart rate, vitals and blood glucose levels, and beams that information to your TV over infra-red. Your data will then update in real time for you to watch of an evening, if it's a choice between that and Gossip Girl, at least. Moreover, if your TV is web-connected, it could even send emergency messages to your local HMO if the conclusion of your favorite show / sporting event sends you into chest-clutching fits of apoplexy.

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Soccer player defects from Cuba, requests asylum in US

Soccer player defects: A Cuban national soccer player disappeared while his team was playing in an Olympic soccer tournament in Tennessee.

Yosmel De Armas is a Cuban soccer player who has defected in order to seek asylum in the United States. While in Nashville, Tennessee last month for an Olympic qualifying soccer tournament, the Cuban midfielder was absent from his national team's final game against Canada, although he played on Saturday?s 4-0 loss to El Salvador.?

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When asked why the player skipped the game, the Cuban national coach said De Armas was sick and remained at the team's hotel. However, when the team left Nashville, the promising soccer player did not accompany his teammates on their return trip to the island nation.

Although US officials refused to comment about the player?s whereabouts, it was reported that De Armas was last seen in Miami.?

"We're preparing an asylum application to file with the Department of Homeland Security," attorney Alex Solomiany said, according to Reuters.?

The Miami-based lawyer, who?described his client as "nervous," said De Armas is "alone here"?and that he was on his way to Miami at the time of the game, contrary to the coach's allegations.

A rising number of Cuban athlete defections are explained by several factors: the continuous financial hardship the populace faces in Cuba, the plethora of defection precedents that make the process look easy, and the luring prospects of a better life, all coalesce to urge young athletes to follow this path.?

"This is another case of a Cuban sportsman trying to get a decent life, to try to take control of his own career," Omar Lopez told Reuters.? Lopez is general director of the Cuban American National Foundation, a Miami-based organization of Cuban exiles who seek political change on the island.

Four years ago, seven members of the Cuban under-23 national soccer team also sought political asylum after competing against its US counterpart in Tampa, Florida.?

"Of course, my heart will be in Cuba with my family, but I want to have the freedom to better my life, to play professional soccer, to be the best I can be, and for that we had to make this sacrifice," Yenier Bermudez told the Miami Herald, according to ESPN.

Since the 2002 CONCACAF (Confederation of North, Central America, and Caribbean Association Football) tournament in Los Angeles, a total of 15 Cuban soccer players abandoned their teams and requested political asylum in the United States.

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