| 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.
PREP SPOTLIGHT: Meridian, known as a football school, having success ...
Meridian High School has a rich athletic tradition, but like all schools, the level of success fluctuates from year to year, sport to sport. The results are clearly evidenced by championships earned by, among others, the volleyball and football teams. Shane Stacy, in his second season as head coach of the Trojans' boys' basketball team, has been an assistant for the Meridian football team for several seasons, and points to that highly regarded program as model to which the basketball team can aspire. "It's done a great deal of good that I coach football at the school," Stacy said. "It's highly regarded as a football school, and (longtime coach) Bob (Ames) has been very, very supportive of the basketball program. He's dropped a few dates from spring football practices to allow us to do a mini-camp every summer.
Commuters struggle to stay connected
Sean as he heads south on U.S. 85, rolling past farm towns, mom-and-pop scrapyards, gravel pits and, finally, into downtown Denver. Chris as she travels north on U.S. 85, her wheels swallowing pavement along the endless prairie, past deer and antelope and, finally, across the state line into Cheyenne.
The teachers, both previously married, met through an Internet dating service in 2002 and married in 2004. She moved from Cheyenne, her hometown and longtime place of work, to Greeley in 2003, the year he got hired at Park Hill K-8 School a few blocks east of Denver City Park.
Chris, 45, and Sean, 43, say the chatting gets them through.
"It's sort of like she's sitting right next to me except she's somewhere between one and 100 miles away," Sean said of the daily drive.
A NEWS REVIEW FROM THE EMBASSY OF GREECE IN WASHINGTON DC
While exports shrank in the 2000-2004 period from 10.6 to 7.4 percent of GDP, lost ground is now being regained, with exports expected to account for 9.8 percent of GDP this year. Unemployment in Greece fell in April to 8.4 percent, compared with 9.9 percent in 2005 and 9.0 percent last year. While jobless men were 5 percent of the workforce, unemployed women represented 13.3 percent. By raising over $1.5 billion, the sale of a 10.7 percent equity in the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) made a significant contribution to the reduction of the countrys public debt. President and First Lady Welcome "Flame of Hope" SPECIAL OLYMPICS EVENT AT WHITE HOUSE The Flame of Hope for Octobers Special Olympics World Summer Games in Shanghai, lit on June 29 on the Pnyx sacred site in Athens, arrived in Washington on July 26 and was received by President and Mrs.
Mid−Day Forex Technical Report − Dollar Mixed after Data, Canadian ...
However, the S&P/Case-Shiller home price indexes showed further weakness in the housing market. The 20-city index dropped -7.7% yoy in Nov, even worse than expectation of -7.1%, to 188.8, the worse reading since records began in 01. Conference board consumer confidence deteriorated from upwardly revised 90.6 to 87.9 in Jan, but was above expectation of 86.0. On the other hand, the major mover today is indeed the Canadian dollar again, which ride on record gold price and rally in oil prices. USD/CAD dives through parity as reaches as low as 0.9943 so far. Canadian dollar's strength is also apparent in EUR/CAD and CAD/JPY. Also, yen and Swissy were generally weak Earlier today, Sterling was lifted briefly by CBI distributive trade which dropped from +8 to +4 but was much better than expectation of +0.
August 2007 Archive
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