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The Long Road to Cannabusiness Leadership
Making Fast Moves as a Sustainable Slow Fashion Brand
Pressure and Isolation: Addressing Mental Health Crises for Founders
Building Inclusive Social & Wellness Clubs for People of Color
Ten of the Best Small Black-Owned Businesses You Can Support This Month
Connecting Black Founders to the Startup Ecosystem
Succeeding in Slow Fashion as an Entrepreneur of Color
What We're Reading: October 2019
What Books Like 'American Dirt' and 'My Dark Vanessa' Are Teaching Us About the Publishing Industry
Growing The Sill's Online Houseplant Marketplace
What You Should Know Before Going Into Business with Your Significant Other
Bohemian Dog Beds Take Pet Chic to the Next Level
A Dozen Cousins Serves Up a Better Way to Eat Beans
Personal Tragedy Inspired This Founder's Mental Health Startup
What It's Like To Build a Sex Tech Platform
The Beauty Brands to Know Helmed by Black Women
What It Means To Be A Queer Designer, and the Club That Helped Me Figure it Out
Advice on Raising Startup Funds as a Woman of Color
Building Social Responsibility Into a New Cannabis Business
What We're Reading: November 2019
A Day in the Life of Launching an Online Latinx Marketplace
The Company Bringing Cannabis To Your Kitchen
Is WFH Hurting Your Mental Health? How Remote Workers Cope With Loneliness
Inside the Fund Addressing VC's Diversity Disaster
The Virtual Communities Supporting Freelancers' Mental Health
LGBTQ Entrepreneurs Are Coming Out & Beating Odds
The Psychology of Workaholism
Connected by Perspective with Tze Chun of Uprise Art
The Companies Venture Capital Isn't Allowed to Invest In
Adaptogens Are the Latest Wellness Craze. Are They Safe?
The Best Black-Owned CBD and Cannabis Companies
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Meet the Founders Challenging the Shape of Plus-Size Fashion
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Startups Want To Make Electronic Voting Apps Mainstream. But Can We Trust Them?
How to Confidently Set Your Pay Rate as a Freelancer
Bippy Is Building a Sustainable Brand for Your Butt
Four Reads the "Liberated Woman" Might Enjoy This Holiday Season
Meet Muse: The Brain-Sensing Headband for Meditation
'This Is Who I Am': On Starting Up as a Trans Founder
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You have to understand how close you are to wasteland
DETROIT — The solid red brick house on a block of similar homes in Northwest Detroit sounds like a steal at $3,728.
But in many ways, it's a lemon.
The house, sold at an auction last fall, sits at the edge of Detroit's infamous urban blight. And scrap thieves, or "strippers," have taken anything of value, including the kitchen sink and metal pipes, requiring repairs of up to $15,000.
"You could take a great picture of this house, put it online and make buyers … think it's a good thing," said Antoine Benjamin, chief operating officer of real estate firm Benjigates Estates, which bought the house at a Wayne County auction to renovate and rent out. "But you have to understand how close you are to wasteland."
Low property prices in Detroit in the wake of the housing crash in 2008 have lured investors from California to China. Speculators bank on high returns despite a financial crisis so dire Detroit's state-appointed emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, has cited a 50-50 chance the city will file for bankruptcy.
But small-time speculators eyeing quick profits often let the houses fall into disrepair because they lack the funds for renovations or end up abandoning them — and frequently do not pay real estate taxes.
In 2011 alone, the last year for which data is available, Wayne County had to write off $170 million in uncollected taxes on Detroit properties. About 100,000 city-owned properties, many of which are abandoned, are in limbo until a study of local property values is completed.
"The city has made no effort to make those 100,000 available, so we don't have a real market," said Jerry Paffendorf of Loveland Technologies, whose widely followed property database includes Detroit's tax delinquencies and foreclosures.
Bill Nowling, a spokesman for Orr, said the city does not intend to sell right now because there is no way to discover fair market value, and the emergency manager is awaiting the result of the Michigan Tax Board study.
"There is serious concern that the assessment process in Detroit is broken and many, if not most, properties have been inappropriately assessed at artificially high levels for years," Nowling wrote in an email.
A state plan to demolish abandoned buildings may eliminate some of the blight, but would do little to resolve city property codes that are unclear or largely ignored.
"The lack of property code enforcement means there is no risk for investors who buy here and neglect their properties," said Khalilah Gaston, executive director of the local nonprofit Vanguard Community Development Corporation. "We have to ensure there is risk and not just reward."
One speculator, 22-year-old graduate student Darin McLeskey, who also runs a non-profit urban farming group, noted Detroit's many rules on property use but few resources to police them.
"With no code enforcement, it's the Wild West," said McLeskey, who moved to Detroit from an outer suburb. And he has taken his shot, spending $25,000 to snap up 20 empty plots and three homes in the city.
McLeskey is a rarity among speculators because he plans to make Detroit his home. Detroit's population fell 25% in the past decade to 700,000, well off its 1950 peak of 1.8 million, as manufacturing declined and white residents moved to the suburbs following race riots in the late 1960s.
In a few neighborhoods, sales are picking up on recent talk of new infrastructure projects including a light rail line, a new hockey stadium and a new bridge to Canada.
At Wayne County's annual foreclosure auction last year, 12,000 properties were sold online, some for the minimum $500 bid. More bargain seekers are expected this fall when around 25,000 properties will go on the block.
"Just a few years ago the big joke was, 'You can buy a house in Detroit for $500, ha ha ha,'" said Ted Phillips, executive director of the nonprofit United Community Housing Coalition, which helps homeowners fend off foreclosure. "Now the buzz is, 'You can buy a house in Detroit for $500 and it's a great investment.'"
Detroit property prices rose 20% year-on-year in April, Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller Home Price Index showed.
Benjamin estimates the house Benjigates bought in Northwest Detroit for less than $4,000 will ultimately cost about $20,000 after renovations. But the company has a renter lined up and should be able to sell it for $30,000, he said.
The North End district in central Detroit sits alongside the route of a planned $137 million, 3.5-mile light rail line and has attracted serious investors. On a recent visit to the area, groups speaking with New England, British and other accents and were seen walking the neighbourhood looking for deals.
Phillips of the United Community Housing Coalition worries about a get-rich-quick mentality. "These homes are not just paper investments," he said. "If they're left to disintegrate, they undermine neighbourhoods."
To monitor abandoned properties and foreclosures, Loveland Technologies, a for-profit company, has created a private online database, http://www.whydontweownthis.com, that Wayne County deputy treasurer David Szymanski has described as the most reliable source for such information.
Data provided to Reuters by whydontweownthis.com depicts the city as a patchwork of neighbourhoods where multiple foreclosed homes belonged to individual owners.
One such owner, Shirley Ray of Signal Mountain, Tennessee, bought dozens of houses on April 21 2011, for $10,000 each, according to whydontweownthis.com. Of the more than 20 Detroit-area homes still listed under her name, most have been foreclosed on and the rest are seriously delinquent.
Ray did not respond to numerous calls seeking comment.
Other speculative buyers hurt the city's cash flow by refusing to pay property taxes.
According to whydontweownthis.com, a local investor named Ralph Kinney owes more than $70,000 in property taxes on seven Detroit homes.
Kinney could not be reached for comment, but his property manager, Darren Pettway, said Kinney buys homes cheap and rents them out. He then sells them at a profit to buyers who also agree to pick up the back taxes.
Occasionally, Pettway said, Kinney defers foreclosure proceedings by paying down a nominal amount of the property taxes he owes.
"He (Kinney) hasn't lost a house in seven years," he said. "The taxes eventually get covered by someone else, so it all works out."
In some of Detroit's more vibrant neighbourhoods, residents are fighting back, targeting blight where the city lacks the resources to do so.
Economics are improving to the point that some "benevolent speculators" are investing in ways that benefit neighbourhoods, Gaston of Vanguard Community Development said.
For instance, Abass El Hage's Upstream Real Estate Investments has bought nearly 30 homes to renovate, rent out, or sell to investors, she noted.
Vanguard is helping El Hage seek up to $1 million in financing toward a retail and restaurant project called Milwaukee Junction in an abandoned and stripped red-brick building purchased for $15,000 last year.
El Hage said longer-term investments, like Milwaukee Junction, are the next wave in Detroit's real estate market. "Too many people are trying for a quick flip," he said. "That kind of deal is gone."
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Connecticut needs to lead
In memory of Sandy Hook, bold action is required on mental health treatment
More than four months after the mass shooting that took the lives of 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, little has been done to help reduce the chances of such an atrocity happening again in the United States.
Several states, including Connecticut, have passed tough new gun-safety legislation, but the inexcusable failure of the Congress to take any action at all waters down the potential effect of those state laws.
The national debate since Dec. 14 has focused primarily on guns -- proposals to ban military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazine clips, mandate universal background checks and cut down on gun trafficking vs. claims that the Second Amendment right to bear arms would be infringed upon.
The country is divided on most of those issues, and even on the one that has overwhelming public support -- background checks -- the U.S. Senate disgracefully caved in to threats and false propaganda from the National Rifle Association.
There is one point, however, on which there is widespread agreement: The gunmen in the mass shootings that take place in the U.S. with alarming frequency are mentally ill.
There is further agreement: A sharp focus needs to be placed on the issue of mental health treatment in this country, and bold action needs to be taken.
Thus far, the mental health issue has taken a back seat to the debate over guns and also to the issue of enhanced school security. That needs to change.
We have supported strong, comprehensive gun-safety legislation, and we urge proponents to keep fighting for such legislation until reason and courage prevail in Washington, D.C.
We also support improved school security, with the emphasis on improved school design and common-sense safety measures, not on creating armed fortresses.
But we believe it is time for the mental health issue to move to the front burner with gun safety and school security.
Mental illness has been considered a cause in the nearly three dozen mass shootings in the U.S. since the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, and it is likely a factor in many of the 30,000 gun-related deaths that occur in this country every year.
Major strides must be taken to tackle this most serious problem.
The Connecticut Legislature made a start when it included mental health treatment as a component of the sweeping gun-safety legislation it passed last month.
And Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's Sandy Hook Commission has reconvened to address the issue as it prepares recommendations to be delivered later this year.
The challenges ahead are enormous.
Mental illness must be destigmatized in society so individuals, families and friends are more willing to accept it and seek treatment for those who need it.
Early detection of mental illness is considered a key to helping prevent violent acts like Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tucson, Aurora and Sandy Hook.
At the same time, a fine line needs to be walked between individual privacy rights and public safety concerns.
And greater access to mental health treatment and improved treatment are essential.
All of that is easier said than done. It will require a change in the American culture. It will require sustained commitment. It will require money -- lots of it.
We urge the state of Connecticut to take the lead and to be aggressive in its efforts to find solutions to the mental health issue.
We are hoping Connecticut, in memory of those who died at Sandy Hook Elementary School, can serve as a beacon of light to show the way for the federal government and the rest of the nation.


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GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala — After two almost-perfunctory group matches, the United States U-20 team faces its first game that really, truly matters since it arrived here.
The math is simple: Win, and the US are into the FIFA U-20 World Cup. Lose, and they go home.
The former is no easy task against Guatemala. The host nation will have nearly the entire crowd at Estadio Mateo Flores behind them, although this might not be the disadvantage one might think. For one, the crowds, while enthusiastic, have not been huge for this tournament. Secondly, Guatemala have had very little success against the United States at this level: only one win in six tries. That win came in 1964. They last met in 2007, finishing 0-0.
On paper, the US, who have yet to concede a goal during the tournament, should be able to win and earn a berth in the World Cup for the eighth consecutive time.
The Americans raced through the group stage, easing past Suriname, 4-0, and Panama, 2-0.
[inline_node:323929]Coach Thomas Rongen experimented a bit in the match against Panama, inserting D.C. United defender Perry Kitchen in the midfield. The strategy served two purposes: 1) It kept Amobi Okugo from getting a second yellow card and facing a suspension, and 2) it threw a little misdirection at the US' quarterfinal opponent.
"[The plan was to] make Guatemala and Honduras think a little and not totally play our hand," Rongen said at a press conference after the match.
Earlier in the week, Rongen admitted the first-choice lineup was the one that took the field in the US' first match, against Suriname, so presumably Kitchen will move back into the defense and Okugo, who plays for the Philadelphia Union, will reprise his defensive midfielder role for the Guatemala game.
|GK MacMath
|GK Morales
|D Garza
|D Ramirez
|D Agbossoumonde
|D Moreno
|D Kitchen
|D Enoc
|D Valentin
|D Andrade
|M Lletget
|M Herrarte
|M Okugo
|M Castillo
|M Rowe
|M Del Aguila
|M Wood
|M Ceballos
|F Doyle
|F Lopez
|F Gyau
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1860 Munich's Bobby Wood, who scored against Suriname before coming off with a first-half injury, appears ready to return, and Notre Dame midfielder Dillon Powers also seems likely to make the bench for the first time in the tournament.
The two goals against Panama, both scored by UCLA star Kelyn Rowe, were things of beauty and showed an American attack functioning as a group. Against a Guatemala defense that can concede goals—they let in three against Honduras in group play—the attack's ability to stay unified could be key.
"[Sebastian Lletget] and I were working well together," Rowe said after the Panama match. "Conor with the little dummy. Perfect. I saw Sebby, and went in behind. Sebby with another great, calm ball. I saw the keeper come out, leave his right side open, and I put it past him."
If there's a danger for the US, it's a tendency to lay off after taking a lead. The first 20 minutes against Panama were excellent, but the side relaxed after scoring the second goal. The players admitted to taking their foot off the pedal, and when they tried to regain their poise, the match devolved into an ugly kickabout.
With home-field advantage clearly on Guatemala's side on Wednesday, the US would like to avoid anything that could incite the referee into too many whistles and cards.
The host nation has never qualified for the U-20 World Cup. Gustavo Bobadilla's side, however, came through the group stage, finishing second to Honduras in Group A with one win and one loss.
Truth be told, although they earned a 2-0 win against Jamaica, the Chapines have been outplayed for most of the tournament. They fell 3-1 to Honduras, and never really threatened. It was shocking how little pressure they put on even after Honduras went down to 10 men.
But, of course, they are the home team, meaning they will have the overwhelming support of the crowd (and perhaps a little help from the referee). And it's not a squad totally devoid of talent. Henry Lopez is Guatemala's best attacking player and most creative. He is the only player on the U-20 side with a senior cap, and he has a history of tallying against the US—the 18-year-old netted a penalty kick in a 2008 friendly when he was on the U-17 side.
Gerson Lima, an 18-year-old who plays for Jalapa, has scored twice for his country in two games. He took advantage of a Jamaican defensive error in their group opener and then struck again against Honduras.
If Lopez or Lima can somehow find a goal early, Guatemala could pack it in and eke out a victory.
[inline_node:316158]Key Players
United States: Conor Doyle
Rongen on the Derby County forward, who has been one of, if not the, breakout player of the first two matches: "He was just unbelievable [against Panama]. We needed him in a lot of positions today, due to the fact that we rested some guys with a few little nicks. He played as a 9. He played as an 11. He played as a 7. And I think he played as a 10 for the last 10 minutes or so."
Guatemala: Kevin Norales
Assuming Bobadilla keeps the same lineup he's used the first two matches, the midfielder won't start but the substitute spark might be the most dangerous attacker on the Guatemalan roster. Creative and attack-minded, he's not afraid to shoot, particularly with left foot.
Final Analysis
Guatemala will provide the sternest test yet for Rongen's team, but the Americans should move on against a side that cannot match them for skill, poise, or experience.
Noah Davis covers the United States national team for MLSsoccer.com. Follow him on Twitter at @noahedavis.


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Not only is manager Ozzie Guillen rotating his designated hitter, he was ready to give it up completely Sunday and, potentially, let the pitcher hit. Bench coach Joey Cora talked him out of it.
After DH Andruw Jones singled home the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth, Guillen considered putting Jones in left field for his defense, which would have moved the pitcher into Juan Pierre's leadoff spot.
But Pierre was due to bat fourth in a one-run game and the Sox would have had to use a pinch-hitter for him in a tie game. Guillen only had Jayson Nix and Omar Vizquel left on the bench, which might have left him short in extra innings.


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Leaders from the secular movement are praising a new resource they say will help them be better understood in the media and in society. To help journalists cover secular Americans, the news service ReligionLink has unveiled a comprehensive source guide focused on American nonbelievers titled "Freethinkers: A source guide to atheists, humanists and other nontheists." It is the first comprehensive resource for people interested in learning about nontheists in the country.
The project was initiated by the Stiefel Freethought Foundation, an organization which provides strategic and financial assistance to the freethought movement. It officially marked its launch two weeks ago with a $50,000 gift to help the Secular Student Alliance support atheist teenagers.
Said Foundation president Todd Steifel, "The American public deserves the chance to get to know their nontheistic neighbors - their fellow Americans - and find that we are a community of loving, moral and joyful people. This resource can give journalists the tools they need to tell our story in full."
The news was hailed as an indication of growing nontheistic influence by the Secular Coalition for America, the national organization that advocates for church-state separation and for the advancement of Secular Americans in national policy.
"Secular Americans will play an increasingly prominent role in the national discourse, and so this new resource is both welcome and necessary. In the media and in Washington we will increasingly speak out for human rights when they are infringed upon by the commingling of church and state," said Sean Faircloth, Executive Director of Secular Coalition for America. "There are at least 30 million nontheistic Americans. That number is growing and the media wants to know more about us."
Earlier this year, the Secular Coalition for America, became the first such organization to engage in a formal briefing with White House officials. All 10 of the Secular Coalition's member organizations are featured in the source guide.
ReligionLink.com, a nonpartisan and nonsectarian service of Religion Newswriters, terms itself "the only religion story idea and source list resource by journalists, for journalists."
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In interviews conducted prior to the 2012 Ariat Kentucky Reining Cup CRI3* competition held on April 27, I discussed with Shawn Flarida, Tim McQuay, and Lyle Lovett their thoughts on competing in the Ariat Kentucky Reining Cup CRI3* and the future of the sport of FEI reining competition. The Ariat Kentucky Reining Cup competition is held in conjunction with the Rolex Kentucky 3-Day Event at the Kentucky Horse Park.
Shawn Flarida thought that the Ariat Kentucky Reining Cup is an awesome event that is doing well and the sky is the limit when it comes to the event. He said he enjoys coming to the beautiful Kentucky Horse Park's Alltech Arena to compete as it is a top notch facility. Flarida ended up winning the individual CRI3* later in the evening.
Tim McQuay felt that the event is a premier event and the Alltech Arena is top notch. He liked the fact that the horses were housed in safely designed facilities. He also said in order for the horses to perform at the highest level of reining the footing needed to be in great shape and he felt the Kentucky Horse Park had top notch footing in the Alltech Arena.
Lyle Lovett loved the fact that being a non-pro rider competing in the amateur level he has the opportunity to compete in such a great facility and at a premier event like the Ariat Kentucky Reining Cup Event. He said otherwise he would not have that opportunity. Lovett owns all three of the horses that were on the Ariat Apparel & Denim Team - Mistress With A Gun ridden by Lovett, Master Pepto ridden by Sam Schaffhauser and bred by Lovett, and the striking palomino with the gorgeous long mane Smart N Shiney ridden by Tim McQuay. Lovett said he can't expect to compete and win against such professional riders as Flarida and McQuay in the open events, but instead likes to compete against his last ride and see if he can improve upon it and do the horse justice. At the Ariat Kentucky Reining Cup he says he feels comfortable doing that.
When I asked each of them what they liked best about their mounts in the Kentucky Reining Cup CRI3* there was a recurring theme. All said their horses had great minds and had high trainability. McQuay said that reining horses have that athletic agility bred into them to be able to execute the spins, sliding stops, roll backs, and flying lead changes required of them, just like eventing horses are bred for eventing. He said that the shorter reining horses may not clear a big cross country jump like the taller event horses that are at the Rolex Kentucky Event, but they have such big hearts that they sure would try to.
I asked them how they felt about eventing celebrity riders David and Karen O'Connor, along with Gina Miles, and Hall of Fame Jockey Chris McCarron coming over to participate in the World Championship Freestyle Event being held Saturday evening. They were all for it saying that it gives reining more exposure to people who have never watched a reining competition.
Flarida, McQuay, and Lovett were asked how it felt to be at the forefront of hopefully making reining the first western discipline to be considered for acceptance as a Olympic sport by the FEI. They all said it would be an honor if that could happen. Flarida said that it would be awesome and he would be proud to ride for his country in the Olympics and it is a dream of his to hopefully one day get to do that. He also said his 8 year old son has just started riding in reining and it would be nice for him, and other youth involved in reining, to be able to one day have that goal of riding for their country in the Olympics in the sport of reining. Flarida felt it would make the Olympics more well rounded to include western equestrian disciplines. McQuay said that the sport of reining must be competitive internationally in order to become an Olympic sport, right now the United States, where reining originated, dominates the sport. Progress is being made in other countries.
Shawn Flarida is an Ariat sponsored rider and is the 2012 Ariat Kentucky Reining Cup CRI3* individual winner as well as an Ariat Boots Team member in the event that won second place in the team competition. Ariat sponsored rider Tim McQuay was an Ariat Apparel & Denim Team member in the CR13*, as well as the 2011 Ariat Kentucky Reining Cup CRI3* individual winner. Both Flarida and McQuay were also on the 2010 Gold Medal winning Reining World Championship Team. Lyle Lovett also rode on the Ariat Apparel & Denim Team in the CR13*. Ariat is the title sponsor for the Ariat Kentucky Reining Cup.
For more information on the Ariat Kentucky Reining Cup go to their website.
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Distinguished Purdue Professor Visits Stevens to Talk STEM Education and Digital Learning
Stevens has been talking to experts nationwide as it looks to implement its strategic plan. One of those experts, Purdue University Professor Johannes Strobel, visited the Babbio Center on Feb. 11 and gave a detailed presentation on the alignments, challenges and opportunities facing STEM education in the context of digital technologies.
Stevens Provost George Korfiatis introduced Strobel, calling his expertise in education very relevant to what Stevens has been planning.
"Teaching and learning are critical components of our plan," Korfiatis said.
Korfiatis said the strategic plan calls for Stevens to build a new digital learning laboratory. Korfiatis said Stevens will continue to meet with experts like Strobel to understand how best to build the lab.
"We're starting this series of seminars and activities around digital learning in order to shape our approach to this, so we don't end up with 5,000 square feet of a laboratory and we don't know what to do with it," Korfiatis said. "It will take a couple of years to build a building, but we have to start the efforts of implementing that strategic plan now, and this is part of that implementation."
Strobel, who serves as assistant professor of Engineering Education & Learning Design and Technology, and who directs Purdue's Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning, began his presentation by reminding the audience how much the world is changing.
"Business as usual will not bring us very far, and education as usual will not bring us very far either," he said. "We've seen changes that the world is flat, we've seen globalization hitting, and at the same time education as a system is very much under stress and very much under critique."
Strobel then described the current higher education landscape. He said that universities still have a monopoly on credentialing, that governments are attaching more strings to funding, that tuition levels are nearing the limit of what students are willing to pay, and that outsiders perceive academic institutions as sluggish and outdated. Strobel said that schools sometimes lose focus of the "big four" of needing to increase access, raise quality, provide value and decrease cost.
As a result, online education is booming. Strobel cited statistics that found that more than 6 million students – a third of all students in higher education – took at least one online course in 2010, and that online enrollment grew by over 21 percent from the previous year, compared with just 2 percent for higher education overall.
Strobel explained that online classes offer students several incentives, including convenient access, flexible scheduling and lower costs. He said that students today are "digital natives" who grew up with technology and see learning online as natural.
However, Strobel highlighted three polarities that challenge digital learning. He said that students feel virtually connected and yet suffer from "location-deficit disorder" when understanding their own communities; that computing is ubiquitous and yet education lags in adopting it; and that student digital natives study under professors who are only digital immigrants in contrast.
Strobel further sketched the existing framework for STEM education and digital technologies. He said that while students can follow some industry standards and transferable applications, they waste time having to learn procedures for software rather than the concepts the software teach.
"Research tells us that the more we give students an opportunity to learn in a structured environment that is very sophisticated and situated, the less they're able to transfer, because they learn in a very particular context," he said. "If you want them to transfer you need to keep some level of abstraction."
Strobel also said that students are experimenting with digital technologies such as blogs, wikis and social media, and are re-purposing them for educational use. But what these digital natives find natural might not fit in a classroom setting.
"The intended use was not educational, so there is a clash when you bring them to a classroom," Strobel said.
After explaining the current framework and challenges to it, Strobel presented his suggestions for new ways to understand and improve student opportunities to learn digitally.
Strobel called for universities and industries to collaborate to better prepare students for their future careers. He cited MIT's work with the defense industry as an example.
"This could be really similar in universities, joining research and development and digital learning, and really targeting lateral architecture spanning the life cycle of students, so when students leave they actually know enterprise systems that they might encounter in industry," Strobel said.
Strobel said he encourages professors treat their classrooms the same way they value their research.
"If you think of a classroom as more of an engineering problem, we might get more of that mindset where we bring real research into the classroom," he said.
Strobel also said universities should focus on preparing students for a lifetime of learning.
"We seem to be extremely focused on these four years when kids are in undergraduate," he said. "The worst we can do is have a graduation ceremony. We're communicating to them that their learning life is over. This is not the right message. We should understand how we can connect with systems integrated with the lifespan of students well after they're gone."


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Name: Jamie Weber and Eric Gogulski
Position: Owners
Company: Anago of Nashville
Ages: 39, 38, respectively
Jamie Weber and Eric Gogulski went to high school together, worked at Enterprise Rent-A-Car and now jointly own Anago of Nashville, a corporate cleaning systems master franchise.
The pair decided to break out of the traditional corporate world and own a business.
Weber led the search, looking into many franchise systems. He chose Anago because the people in the corporate headquarters were supportive, and it was a "perfect skill-set match" from their experience with Enterprise.
"Selling cars is like selling cleaning accounts, except the buildings don't move and the weather's good all the time," he said.
Eric Gogulski, left, Michelle Weber and Jamie Weber pooled their talents to launch Anago of Nashville in 2005. Anago is a commercial cleaning franchise system supporting more than 30 master franchises and 2,400 individual franchisees. / John Partipilo / The Tennessean
As Weber, his wife, Michelle, and Gogulski all worked previously at Enterprise, they all have the same sense of value and consider relationships with employees and other contacts to be crucial.
Similarly, the trio had worked in different arenas that Weber thought built an important skill set for Anago. Weber ran a car dealership, Gogulski rented cars and Michelle worked in administrative support positions.
Gogulski emphasized that, like car rentals or sales, "we want [the client] to make a well-informed decision every step of the way. It's not going to work unless they're excited." Gogulski takes the lead in presenting the Anago system to potential franchisees and emphasized the importance of happy clients for the network to function.
As a master franchise of Anago Cleaning Systems, Anago of Nashville is in charge of selling janitorial franchises and supporting them. In a way, they are the liaison between the franchisees and the corporate headquarters.
Anago of Nashville opened in July of 2005. Since then, the company has retained its first franchise owner and added more than 100 to its service. The larger Anago Cleaning Systems was ranked the 10th-fastest growing franchise by Entrepreneur for 2013.
While Weber and Gogulski attended high school in Connecticut, they diverged for college.
Weber spent his first two years at Colby Sawyer College before transferring to the University of Miami for his junior year. He left Miami for a personnel coordinator internship at Riverside Park in Agawam, Mass., what is now Six Flags New England.
There he learned how to manage employees from all different backgrounds and how a business runs. This sparked his excitement in serving the community through business.
Gogulski attended Holyoke Community College in Massachusetts before transferring to Westfield State. After he graduated, he began working at Enterprise in Connecticut and later in Massachusetts.
Weber's pursuits of business ownership for the pair led him to Nashville specifically, as it was highly rated for entrepreneurship.
"Nashville was a great growing city," Gogulski said. "It was someplace you would want to start a business."
Gogulski said one of the most gratifying aspects of being an Anago master franchise is helping people achieve their goal of running their own business. He also takes pride in the fact that "someone's hopes and dreams are now in my hands" as the business owner.
Do you have hobbies or other interests?
Gogulski: The Nashville Predators. I am a season ticket holder. I think my first purchase in Nashville was half-season tickets. I played hockey since I was 8 years old.
Weber: Working out, pinball, spending time with my twin daughters (2 years old). But the first kid was Anago. That was a birth. This model takes a lot of time, patience and capital.
Favorite book or movie?
Gogulski: John Grisham novels
Weber: "Gone in 60 Seconds"
Who inspires you?
Gogulski: My parents gave me my values of honesty and integrity. My fiancée keeps me grounded with support at home.
Weber: My parents and Michelle, but also Frank Flack. Flack is the co-founder of Molly Maid USA. He was a mentor for Michelle and me before we even started. He had so much to offer and he really took us in.
What, besides family, can you not live without?
Gogulski: The passion of everything we do every day. That sense of accomplishment from growing something bigger and bigger every day.
Weber: I couldn't live without waking up every day and having something like this to make better.


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A few months ago, a Swiss (not German!) poet called Sabine Imhof asked if she could use a Sofa Portrait image on the cover of her latest collection of poems, Das Alibi der Abwesenheit.
She asked in such a lovely way I said yes, and I got the book the other day. I don't read German too well, but it looks fantastic. I feel there is a link between poetry and photography that ties the two together - a way of using the visual or the written word as a metaphorical pathway into our hearts and emotions.
Both poetry and photography are disabled by the futility of the endeavour, by a yearning for meaning or feeling that is always ultimately defeated, that is never definitive or clear.
But that defeat is also the strength of poetry and photography. That failure to settle or be still mirrors how we are, how we live, it mirrors the chaos and contradictions of our hearts, our minds, our lives and it recognises that life is something that goes beyond categorisation and the concrete, that we can look beyond and live beyond the ranking and grading and judging that stain our daily lives.
The poet, be it the written or the visual poet, recognizes what it is to be human. And long may that continue.


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You can apply for a document to travel outside the UK if you're not British and can't use or get a passport from your country.
You must be living in the UK for one of the following reasons:
you have permission to stay as a refugee or stateless person
you have humanitarian protection for a limited time after a failed asylum application
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you're settled here permanently (known as 'indefinite leave to remain')
You must show that you've formally applied for and been unreasonably refused a passport by authorities in your country, unless you have permission to be in the UK as a refugee or stateless person.
You'll need to provide evidence that supports your application – use original documents, not photocopies.
Types of travel documents
There are 4 different types you can apply for, depending on your status.
Your status Type of travel document |Adult fee | Child (15 or under) fee | Fee if born before Sept 1929
Refugee Convention travel document £72 £46 £0
Stateless Stateless person's document £72 £46 £0
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One-way document ( IS137) £72 £46 £72
Refused a passport by your own national
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1 1/2 lb ground turkey thighs
6 oz tomato paste
1/2 cup turkey or chicken stock
1/4 cup bourbon
1 medium onion, diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
3/4 cup shredded carrot
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon ground chipotle
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon chipotle chile flakes
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon cloves
freshly ground black pepper
sea salt
In a large saucepan, saute the garlic, onion and carrot in olive oil until fragrant, about 5 minutes. Add turkey and saute until brown, stirring to break up the meat. Add the remaining ingredients. Simmer, stirring occasionally, about 20 minutes, until thickened. Serve on buns. I like mine with a bit of sharp cheddar grated on top.
Yield: about 6 servings


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22 July 2009
Wordless Wednesday
Labels: camels, Wordless Wednesday
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eh, cool. :) -- Carolyn
- Thursday, 23 July, 2009
- Steve Danko said...
To tell the truth, Brenda, I could tell that something wasn't quite right about my perceptions of this picture, but I had to cheat and watch the YouTube video to figure it out. Cool!
- Thursday, 23 July, 2009
- BDM said...
YouTube!! See, I learn something new every day. You did cheat but I forgive you because you're an excellent researcher (smile).
- Thursday, 23 July, 2009
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A Valentine's Day Lesson
Posted by Jim Gunshinan on February 14, 2014
Our motto at Home Energy, especially today, could be, We Love Houses. We do, and I have to admit to being a little house-proud. I feel good about the simple lifestyle we live at home, and the low amount of energy we use compared to our neighbors. But "pride goes before the fall," paraphrasing Proverbs 16:18.
Since moving into our home seven years ago, my wife Michele and I have proudly kept our thermostat set in the winter to 68°F during the day and 64°F at night. I know, it's not that great given that we live near the coast in Northern California, but it still allowed us to feel superior to our less-virtuous neighbors. It all changed when we decided to swap out our thermostat. My wife noticed that the temperature on our old thermostat didn't match the temperature on an inside-outside thermometer that we have at home. Turns out we weren't being so virtuous.
The usual 68°F felt a little chilly after the thermostat swap. So we checked it against the freestanding thermometer and found out that when the old thermostat said 68°F, it was really 72°F. It seemed so easy being an environmental hero before, and now I knew why.
I'm still not quite adjusted to the true temperature and the ego bruising, but our heating bills are down significantly from last year; that sooths my pain. We still very much love our house. And the lesson learned? Pride does go before the fall—in utility bills.
(Check out Alan Meier's editorial on a shift in the way we think about thermostats in the upcoming, March/April issue of Home Energy. It may not be what you think.)
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classic custard
- 2 cups (500ml) single (pouring) cream
- 1 vanilla bean split and seeds scraped or 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4 egg yolks
- ¼ cup (55g) caster (superfine) sugar
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- Place the cream and vanilla in a small saucepan over medium heat and bring just to the boil.
- Place the egg yolks, sugar and cornflour in a bowl and whisk to combine. Gradually whisk in the cream mixture until combined. Return the mixture to the saucepan and stir over low heat for 2–3 minutes or until thickened and coats the back of a wooden spoon. Serve warm or chilled+ with pudding or cake. Makes 2 cups.
+ To chill custard, cover the surface completely with plastic wrap and place in the fridge. This will prevent a skin from forming.
Adapt the classic custard recipe with these variations:
RASPBERRY: Stir ½ cup lightly crushed frozen or fresh raspberries through cooled custard.
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Day of Rest
September 24, 2007
At this time of the season, players are physically and mentally tired. It is part of the marathon called a 162-game baseball season. For the first time since September 6, the Phils have a day of rest. Adrenaline even gets a day off.
While the Phillies are idle today, their postseason rivals are playing: Mets hosting the Nationals and Padres in San Francisco. So, the Phillies' position in the standings will change without playing a game. To keep abreast of these games, check out phillies.com throughout the night.
Tomorrow night, the Phillies begin their final homestand, three each with the Braves and Nationals. The Braves are throwing their best starters, Chuck James, Tim Hudson and John Smoltz. Anything worthwhile doesn't come easy, someone once said. Or, as Charlie Manuel says, "If you want to be the best, you need to beat the best."
All fans coming to the game tomorrow Rally Towels, courtesy of Toyota.
Sunday's regular season finale, Fan Appreciation Day, is sold out. Tickets remain for the other five games. The Phillies are on pace to draw three million for the third time in their history. The home field advantage comes into play and Phillies fans will be whooping it up this week.
Remember: Saturday's game time has been changed from 7:05 p.m. to 3:55 p.m. for FOX TV.
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Areas being covered include ticketing (tickets are being shipped to season ticket customers), hotels, publications, security, media, television, hospitality, merchandising, ARAMARK and an event called Rally Monday, an MLB initiative started a couple of years ago. Rally Monday faces the challenge of a tie-breaker game so alternate plans are being discussed.
Now that autumn is here, the challenge is to play fall ball. (That's an awful line, I must admit).
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Hi Larry,
You might want to check out my blog, "My Favorite Things." While it usually is about jazz music and those who create it, I went off topic for the current post. Enjoy!
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The best pound cakes are made with butter. Since you aren't eating meat anyway, this is your chance to make a special, simple yet rich, weeknight dessert.
3 cups sugar
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We've heard about cars in developing nations being ridiculously expensive, but nothing like what's going on in Cuba. Cuba recently started allowing the sale of new cars, and they're trading for 10 times their European price.
For example, a Peugeot 508 is $29,000 normally. In Cuba, you can get it for a mere $262,000. That's a lot of coin for a midsize French sedan that might (I'm going off stereotypes here) break down all the time. And it's not like the people there are rolling in dough. On average, they make about $20 each day.
Obviously, people who thought that the new arrival of these cars would mean they could replace their old dilapidated ride with something a bit more modern are upset about how these cars are being priced.
What this means is that for all of you who like to wax poetic about Cuba's fleet of old American cars won't have to worry about them all being replaced in one week.
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This article describes a platform update for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. This update improves the features and performance of the following components:
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The 26th Annual Biggie Awards
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A year like 2014 is precisely why I created my own awards to begin with. It's a year when the Oscars and I disagreed perhaps more than we ever have. I dutifully watched the Academy Awards this year, as I always do, but I had little to no rooting interest, as almost none of my favorite movies were up in the categories they should've been recognized in. Though you'll find quite a bit of overlap in our acting nominees, I only agree with 3 of the Academy's 8 Best Picture nominees, and they passed gas on nearly all of their technical categories. What else is new?
I thought 2014 was a good year on the whole, but not great. Maybe a B+ if I were to grade it. The barometer I use in judging an entire year is how many movies I put on my all-time "Movies I Love" list. This year, there were 21 new entrees on that list. There were 22 in 2013 and 25 in 2012. For perspective, the most ever is 31 from 2000. None of 2014's entries will wind up in my all-time top 100, but that's a tough list to crack any year.
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Sunday November 11th, 2012
By Barrie Dunsmore
One of the main jobs of a foreign correspondent is to serve as a mirror to reflect the image of how the country of his or her readers and audience is perceived by the rest of the world. In my decades of reporting from overseas it wasn't just adversaries that had a distorted picture of the American political process. Often allies didn't understand it very well either.
During the Watergate period most of the world was astounded when Richard Nixon was forced to resign the presidency over what was mostly seen abroad as a partisan political scandal. Significant world leaders such as Egypt's President Anwar Sadat said as much to me on more than one occasion.
However, experienced foreign correspondents from other countries often "get" America because they view this country with detachment. I offer the headline and the lead paragraph of a major analysis of America by the respected German magazine Spiegel, published on-line on the eve of Tuesday's election.
"Divided States of America: Notes on the Decline of a Great Nation.
"The United States is frittering away its role as a model for the rest of the world. The political system is plagued by an absurd level of hatred, the economy is stagnating and the infrastructure is falling into a miserable state of disrepair. On this election eve, many Americans are losing faith in their country's future."
The long and detailed article which follows is scathing in its criticism of Republican Party obstructionism and often nativist policies. But it is also unsparing in its critique of President Barack Obama who is portrayed as sometimes rather hapless. I am not embracing this sharp, slap in the face analysis, although parts of it may be taken as a bracing wake-up call.
All of that said, in the wake of President Obama's reelection, most of the reaction from abroad has been positive. That reflects a sense of relief in most capitals based on the old adage that it's always better to deal with the devil you know.
Governor Mitt Romney was largely an unknown overseas. But he had spooked at least two big powers – Russia and China. Twenty years after the Cold War had ended Romney said Russia was America's "number one geopolitical foe." And he promised that "on day one" he would declare China a "currency manipulator," meaning that it was artificially keeping the value of its currency low, to make its exports cheaper. But such a specific declaration would have automatically invoked mechanisms in the World Trade Organization, which many analysts feared could have led a trade war .The other negative about Romney as seen in the rest of the world, is that while he had no apparent foreign policy experience himself, he had surrounded himself with advisers from the George W. Bush administration, many of whom were neo-conservatives, unapologetic for their eager support for and their roles in the Iraq War.
But just because Obama appears to have been favored in most world capitals, doesn't mean he has smooth sailing ahead. In addition to an increasingly complicated relationship with China, the world Obama will face in his second term is littered with mine fields that could blow up at any time. Afghanistan continues to look unstable. Several Middle East countries remain in the throes of revolution- Egypt and Syria bear very close attention. And Iran is still the most likely place in which a major conflict could occur.
Yet the advantage a second term brings any American president is that it allows him to conduct foreign policy pretty much as he thinks is best for the country. He no longer has to give undue consideration to hostile elements in the U.S. Congress. And he can make decisions free of even the slightest consideration for their impact on his re-election.
This is going to be very important as we move into the next phase of the on-going crisis with Iran. If another Middle East war is to be avoided, at some point in the coming year there is going to have to be a negotiated settlement. We know what the basic elements of any successful diplomatic deal will have to contain.
- Iran is going to have to stop reprocessing uranium above the 5% level.
- It is going to have to agree to put its existing reprocessed uranium –some of which is close to nuclear weapons grade – under strict international control.
-And Iran is going to have to accept intrusive international inspections of all its nuclear facilities.
-In return the United States, China, Russia and the European Union are going to have to accept that Iran does have the right to reprocess uranium to the level of 5%- (a right which it actually has under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.)
-And these same countries will have to agree to lifting the severe economic sanctions they have imposed on Iran, according to a mutually agreed upon time-table.
It is going to take quite a while to negotiate such a deal - not years but certainly many months. Meantime there will be those who will argue that the US is being too conciliatory with Iran. And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also likely to be claiming that Iran is on the verge of having a nuclear bomb and therefore must be attacked immediately.
Frankly I think the successful Cold War policy of containment, which deterred communism for five decades would also work with Iran, but President Obama has said he is not going to allow Iran to become a nuclear power. So, I take him at his word that if all else fails, he will use force.
But now that he is in his second term, the president will be able to resist the pressures of his critics- be they in Congress or Jerusalem. He will make the decision of when to use force in Iran, based on his judgment of what is in the vital interests of the United States – nothing else.
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