| African honey partnership empowers teen entrepreneurs
When high school students want to get experience in running a business, they usually take up summer internships or shadow corporate executives. But several Florida students have taken it a big step further - they are running their own honey business and with a global twist. The Honey Project is a program tied to the Junior Achievement Youth Entrepreneurship Program and the Minority E-Commerce Association - also known as MECA. It selects 15 Broward County, Florida, high school students to run the business, which sells organic African honey. Nathan Burrell, founder of MECA, conceptualized the The Honey Project and along with being a partner in the business, he serves as an adviser for the students. "There are many after-school programs that focus on career training or reading or certain things from that standpoint, but we're one of the few unique projects that talk about youth entrepreneurship, in a sense that really gives the students an opportunity to own and manage their own business," Burrell said.
Constituting Change
She dismisses the possibility of starting from scratch or striking a national commission to draft an entirely new document. “Whether you call it ‘change,' ‘reform' or ‘amendment' is beside the point," says Mostafa, “because any move will retain elements of the current Constitution." Mostafa cites Article 40, which clearly prohibits discrimination along racial, ethnic, gender or religious lines, as a perfect example: The article is still perfectly valid and will remain so as it is in line with similar guarantees in other countries. Still, Mostafa does admit there are articles that have become moot. “[Article 87] stipulating that 50 percent of the People's Assembly (PA) members should be peasants or laborers is a remnant of a socialist single-party system — does it mirror the present?" she asks.
Use of subs called block to learning
A year is a long time in a child's education, the time it can take to learn cursive writing or beginning algebra. And that school year is also how much time kids can spend with a substitute teacher, according to recent studies. Despite tremendous pressure on schools to increase instructional time and meet performance goals, the vacuum created by teacher absenteeism -- from kindergarten through high school -- has been all but ignored. And new research suggests it can have an adverse effect in the classroom. The problem isn't just with teachers home for a day or two with the flu. Schools' use of substitutes to plug full-time vacancies - the teachers that kids are supposed to have all year - is up dramatically. Duke University economist Charles Clotfelter, among a handful of researchers who have closely studied the issue, says the image of spitballs flying past a daily substitute often reflects reality.
JAQUITTA'S JOURNEY: Read Her Blog
I have some strong peach fuzz going on all over my head. I'm told by March I should have a respectable amount, so come on MARCH!! My weight is still holding steady, Dr. Goddett wants me to hang onto it; she says that since my body is fighting the radiation and getting rid of the bad cells and rejuvenating the good cells my body needs to stay strong to continue to fight. Good news though, she did say I could work out, but just make sure I listen to my body and don't over do it. She did mention I would at some point begin to feel tired or fatigued and would need to take a nap. She suggested probably by week 3. We'll see. Happy New Year! Enjoy this Life that you have the good the bad... all of it! I know I will. Love and Live Your Life JaQuitta! ******************************************************************************************************* 12/27 It's finally happened after all the hot flashes, being super hot and then back to normal, sweating, you name it.
Optimistic end for World Economic Forum
PepsiCo Inc. chief Indra Nooyi urged lower food prices so the poor don't go hungry in 2008. The final session of this year's gathering of the world's rich and powerful seemed to shrug off any pessimism about what can be achieved in the coming months despite fears that the U.S. economic downturn could lead to a global recession. .
AC360°: Flirting with disaster
There were supposed to be pictures tonight to give you a view of the control room from the back row. The photos didn't happen because of late word from Chicago that a decomposed body, which could be that of Stacy Peterson, had been found at an industrial site in Chicago. However, If you had gotten those pictures you would have seen: - our satellites coordinator, Brooke Turnbull, with multiple phones plastered to his ears, making sure that the two late guests and two late phoners actually made air at the top of the show - our video coordinator, Ashley Corum, frantically cutting new video of investigators at the site that was being fed in from the field - our line producer, Jenny Blanco, doing rundown aerobics to make sure the hour did not become a 90 minutes showIn the end, Brooke got us the guests, Ashley got us the pics and Jenny got us out on time.
'Last' man creates different world on 'Lost'
Everything is still sort of in flux, sadly, but I know I'm disappointed," says Vaughan, who was a fan of the show before "Lost" producer and fellow "comic book geek" Damon Lindelof approached him to write for it. "I think these eight episodes are eight of the best in the entire series." As production remains shut down both on "Lost" and the film adaptation of "Y: The Last Man," Vaughan considers himself fortunate. Comic books aren't covered by the Writer's Guild of America, allowing him to continue to work while his colleagues cannot. Despite the accolades and opportunities, Vaughan sees his growth, both personally and professionally, as very much a work in progress. .
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