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$250 Million For A 14-Year-Old's Big Idea: Origami Owl

smallbusiness.yahoo.com

by Karsten Strauss

October 24, 2013

All Isabella "Bella" Weems really wanted was a used car. That desire set in motion a chain of events that led to the Arizona teenager spearheading what is now a multi-million dollar enterprise that she may someday control.

Weems, now 17, is founder of Origami Owl, a custom jewelry company whose direct sales business model turns would-be entrepreneurs into salespeople and evangelists. The company, which she founded in 2010 at age 14, generated $24 million in revenue in 2012 and this year expects to reach $250 million, according to the company. Origami Owl takes on independent associates - known as "designers" - who buy products at a discount and then peddle them to others for a marked up price. One of the favorite points of sale are "jewelry bars," or private parties at someone's home or another venue operated by a "hostess" (the hostesses get discounts and some free products too). The company has about 50,887 designers.

Harvard study reveals gun control counterproductive

smallgovtimes.com

by Steve Adcock

August 20, 2013

Once again, a study from an organization that you would never accuse of being "gun-loving" or "right-wing" seems to disprove the myth that the availability of handguns increases murder rates. In fact, it doesn't.

The Harvard study attempts to answer the question of whether or not banning firearms would reduce murders and suicides. Researchers looked at crime data from several European countries and found that countries with HIGHER gun ownership often had LOWER murder rates. Russia, for example, enforces very strict gun control on its people, but its murder rate remains quite high. In fact, the murder rate in Russia is four times higher than in the "gun-ridden" United States, cites the study. "Homicide results suggest that where guns are scarce other weapons are substituted in killings." In other words, the elimination of guns does not eliminate murder, and in the case of gun-controlled Russia, murder rates are quite high.

Parental Child Care in Single Parent, Cohabiting, and Married Couple Families

Social Science Research Network

by Charlene Kalenkoski, David Ribar, Leslie Stratton

February 1, 2006

Time Diary Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom

This study uses time diary data from the 2003 American Time Use Survey and the United Kingdom Time Use Survey 2000 to examine the time that single, cohabiting, and married parents devote to caring for their children.

Warp Drive More Possible Than Thought, Scientists Say

space.com

by Clara Moskowitz

September 19, 2012

Faster than light travel may actually be possible using a warp drive to bend space around a starship. New calculations suggest such a vehicle would require less energy than once thought.

A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel - a concept popularized in television's Star Trek - may not be as unrealistic as once thought, scientists say. A warp drive would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light. A concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre; however, subsequent calculations found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy.

Diversity fuels student enrollment boom

Stateline

by Kavan Peterson

June 2, 2005

Fueled by rising immigration and the baby boom echo, U.S. public school enrollment has surpassed the previous all-time high set in 1970 and is expected to increase steadily to a peak of 50 million students in 2014.

The number of students in public elementary and high schools swelled to 49.5 million in 2003, breaking the 48.7 million mark set by school-age baby boomers in 1970. Students identified as minorities made up 42 percent of public school enrollment in 2003, up from 22 percent in 1972, while the share of students who were white decreased to 58 percent from 78 percent.

Preschool study: Do books cause good behavior?

stltoday.com

by Jane Henderson

June 11, 2011

Preschoolers who like books are better behaved, says a researcher at Purdue University. I'm not sure that they found out anything new. Have coffee with a couple of preschool teachers and they'd probably tell you the same thing.

Kids 3-5 years old who show less interest in "literacy activities" apparently are more likely to be chucking Play-Doh at classmates, stuffing Lego pieces in their nose or otherwise getting into mischief. The findings of this study, which focused on 61 predominantly low-income preschoolers ages 3-5, are published in the April edition of Early Child Development and Care.

Home schooling grows by 80 percent in state in past decade

TCPalm

by Kelly Tyko

August 11, 2008

Sara Garman doesn't have to worry about a school dress code or the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. As one of the 2,000-plus students on the Treasure Coast who is home-schooled.

When the upcoming school year begins Aug. 18 for Treasure Coast public schools, there likely will be more home-schooled students than ever before and the number of home-schooled students is expected to continue to rise. For the 2007-08 school year, the Florida Department of Education estimated 56,650 students were home schooled, compared with 31,440 students in 1997-98 - an 80 percent increase.

Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform

TCRecord

by David C. Berliner

August 2, 2005

This analysis is about the role of poverty in school reform. Data from a number of sources are used to make five points. First, that poverty in the US is greater and of longer duration than in other rich nations.

Second, that poverty, particularly among urban minorities, is associated with academic performance Third, that poverty restricts the expression of genetic talent at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale. Fourth, compared to middle-class children, severe medical problems affect impoverished youth. This limits their school achievement as well as their life chances. Fifth, and of greatest interest, is that small reductions in family poverty lead to increases in positive school behavior and better academic performance. The data presented in this study suggest that the most powerful policy for improving our nations’ school achievement is a reduction in family and youth poverty.

The Consequences of Apple's Walled Garden

techland.time.com

by Harry McCracken

November 14, 2011

At the SysCan conference in Taiwan this week, security researcher Charlie Miller will describe a flaw he discovered in the iPhone's web browser that allows a malicious app installed on the phone to download executable code from a remote server.

Miller is well-known for finding security flaws in Apple software, and this latest instance could be the most serious flaw he's uncovered yet. A hacker that sneaks an app that exploits this vulnerability into the App Store would essentially have free reign over the phones on which it is installed, including access to photos and contacts. To prove his point, Miller did just that. He submitted and got approved a stock price ticker app called Instastock. Unbeknownst to users who installed it, the app called in to a server at Miller's home in St. Louis, and from there Miller could control the compromised phones. When this came to light, Apple was irate.

Solar system to welcome three new planets

Technology & Science

by Steve Connor

August 16, 2006

The nine planets of the solar system are about to be transformed into 12.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is planning to add three new members to the exclusive club of large celestial objects orbiting our Sun. Astronomers are about to vote on an official proposal to extend the definition of a planet to include at least three more objects that are known to be big enough to warrant planetary status. It will mean that astronomy textbooks will have to be rewritten with the names Ceres, Charon and UB313 being added to the more familiar names of the classical planets.

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