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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Economists say nursing and other health care-related services will continue to grow in Ohio.

The Health Policy Institute of Ohio projects that Texas, California and Ohio will have the greatest need for lvn jobs in orange county ca in the next 10 years because of aging baby boomers. Researchers also expect Ohio to be short 32,000 nurses by 2020.

That’s why nursing is attracting people who are seeking new careers.

Travis Minzler of suburban Columbus quit his all managed care nursing jobs with an auto-supply company in 2008 and enrolled in nursing school last January. The program at Mount Carmel College allows people who already have a degree to get a bachelor of nursing degree in 13 months.

The 41-year-old Minzler says he hopes becoming a nurse will provide more job security.

Slappa recently unveiled a new line of ladies laptop shopping bags. From that collection we received a review sample of the sleek and sexy Loren custom bag. The bag’s Designer style, normally found in handbags, merges shape fully with business practicality. Nothing about the appearance of this bag says it is for laptops. It simply says minimalist elegance. It is the anti-type to the blaring pink women’s laptop and reusable grocery bags we often spot on the market today. This is a bag that could seamlessly transfer from boardroom to boardwalk.

We say minimalist because there aren’t a lot of frills on this custom bag. The outside has two pockets, one on each side. One of them a zippered pocket, the other a slide in pocket. Inside there is a large padded plush lining laptop pocket. Opposite of that are a few little pockets for holding various small items. The largest would hold an iPhone and it’s charger. Mostly I found myself just dumping stuff in the vast void space between. There is lots of room there and it is amazing how much i could fit. I actually lost my camera for two days in it.

The custom finished faux leather is really quite impressive right down to the feel of it. The customized bag has an overall sturdiness to it that makes one feel safe to carry a laptop in it. Keeping in mind that this is a faux finish and not real leather, it takes a careful eye not to scratch it and ruin the illusion. The metal pieces are 5 micron plating so that they will not tarnish. Inside is a floral non obtrusive print that is muted.

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THE oversized tote may have been the fashion must-have of years gone by, but handbags are shrinking in size thanks, in part, to multipurpose gadgets such as iPhones.

Instead of lugging around giant custom bags bursting at the seams with mobile phones, MP3 players and in some cases a laptop computer, women are increasingly turning to smaller shopping bags, stylists and retailers say.

A UK study found the average woman’s handbag weighed 1.5kg last year - half the 3.5kg they were carrying two years ago.

University student Martyna Wiencierz, 20, tries to stick to smaller customized bags and said the advent of iPhones had made this “so much easier”.

Seagate earlier this week announced a new thin, low-end hard disk drive which the company hopes will spur the creation of a new class of thin laptops. At 7mm thick, the 2.5-inch Momentus Thin drive is 25 percent slimmer than other hard disk drives in its class, yet spins at a healthy 5,400 rpm and comes with a SATA 2.0 3Gbps interface. These specifications allow the drive to compete well against standard 9.5mm height 2.5-inch laptop drives when it comes to performance and power efficiency.

While slim, the retention of a 2.5-inch form factor allows the Momentus Thin drive to “provide the lowest-cost storage for netbooks and thin laptops” wrote Seagate in a written statement, comparing it favorably against much more expensive solid state drives as well as 1.8-inch hard drives. The drive is scheduled to ship to resellers in January, though no suggested retail price was announced by Seagate.