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UB Graduate School of Education to offer new online graduate programs

Release Date: January 9, 2014

“The degree offers tremendous flexibility for those who work during the day.”
Suzanne Miller, chair, Department of Learning and Instruction
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo’s Graduate School of Education (GSE) will offer two new fully online master’s degree programs beginning in January, one in English Education and one in Music Education.

The programs are designed to conform to the requirements outlined by the New York State Education Department and the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC).

The master’s degree in English Education is a 33-credit-hour program designed for individuals with initial teaching certification who need professional New York State certification, according to GSE administrators. The program is grounded in theory, research and practice for the 21st century.

Students will have opportunities to conduct research in their local schools, creating a pathway to publish their work and present at local, state and national conferences. Interested students must have prior teaching certification before applying to the program.

“For those interested in teaching literature, composition and digital media in secondary schools and at the college level, this new program in English Education offers a great opportunity to advance toward a more rewarding career as a teacher leader,” says Suzanne Miller, PhD, and chair of UB’s Department of Learning and Instruction.

“The degree offers tremendous flexibility for those who work during the day and provides a broad humanistic approach in classes on written and digital composing, integrating multi-genre approaches to literary study and inquiry into one’s own teaching.”

Through this EdM program, students who have initial certification at the adolescence level will qualify for professional certification at the middle child and adolescence levels.

The master’s degree in Music Education is a 33-credit program designed for those who hold initial certification to teach school music and need professional New York State certification (EdM Professional), as well as international students seeking a master’s degree in music education.

Taught by nationally and internationally recognized faculty and seasoned practitioners, the coursework is grounded in music learning theory and is identical to the program offered on-campus. The program can be completed on a part-time basis in two years, and offers students the option of including summer sessions on campus should they desire to do that.

“The new fully online program in music education will help empower musicians with in-depth study of the psychology of learning as an overarching framework for active music making,” says Maria Runfola, PhD, associate professor and program director.

“We aim to prepare leaders in the field who are able to thrive in a challenging and rapidly changing educational environment and who have command of subject matter knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and pedagogical-content knowledge.”

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and students will be accepted based on space availability for fall or spring semesters.  Applications are still being accepted for spring 2014, but spaces are limited, so those interested in beginning this spring semester are encouraged to apply immediately.

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I'm looking for a few good men.

Or women. Or companies. Or churches. Or trusts.

I'm looking for partners -- 11 partners, to be precise -- to help people like Sherell Garrison, who, at 17, is a jewel of Detroit, an honor roll student bursting with potential, who, until now, was facing a limited future.

Sherell began drawing as a child on Detroit's west side. She drew with crayons. She drew with colored pencils. She drew on any available paper and sometimes on the walls of her grandmother's house.

"Oh, yeah, she did a lot of great work on that wall," her father, David, recalled, laughing. "We had to wash it off, but we praised it first."

Today her artwork -- she is particularly gifted at drawing and painting people, their moods, their expressions, their facial nuances -- hangs in her mother's room, on the walls of her father's auto glass shop, and this past week was hanging inside a gallery of the prestigious College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

Where she is a freshman.

And where the few good men -- or women, companies, etc. -- come in.

I am starting something called the Detroit Dream Scholars at CCS. It is a series of scholarships for kids from the area to realize their artistic dreams -- kids who otherwise wouldn't have a chance given the high costs of tuition.

"I knew my parents couldn't afford it," Sherell said. They also had her twin sister starting college (at Eastern Michigan University). Her mother, Stacy, who works as a corrections officer, told Sherell, "Keep your dreams, but have a Plan B."

When I asked Stacy what Plan B would have been, she shrugged and said, "Probably go somewhere else."

I have a better Plan B. Let's help kids like Sherell stay with Plan A. As in A Scholarship.

Not a handout. An investment. As part of this Detroit Dream program, young people like Sherell would be required, every summer during the four years of school, to produce some work of art, free of charge, to help beautify our city. A mural. A sculpture. A billboard. The exterior of an otherwise ugly building. The city is making you better? You make it better in return.

"I'd love to do that," Sherell said.

Of course. Like most artists, she just wants the chance to create.

Detroit has a working class, a darn fine one, but it also has a creative class.

And we should nurture it.

I would not ask anyone to do something I wouldn't, so I am funding the first Detroit Dream Scholar. Four years, $60,000 total. This utilizes all available scholarship sources from CCS and makes up the difference.

One down. I want to make it a dozen.

Would you -- or your company -- join me? You could sponsor one talented young Detroiter (and all of them, like Sherell, have to be top-rate students and top-rate people to even be considered) and you could watch him or her grow and go.

If you'd like to partner up -- and the goal is to quickly label it "A Detroit Dozen Dream Scholars" -- please get in touch via e-mail at

Meanwhile, you'll be supporting the most important currency of this city: young, productive minds.

Not a handout, an investment. The next four summers, Sherell, through her paintbrush, will help make Detroit more beautiful. But by learning here and thriving here, she already is.

You can, too.


text: Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Owens of Williamsville celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with marital blessing at SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Williamsville, followed by a family boat ride on the Erie Canal with a reception at dockside. Mr. Owens and Lorene G. Schalk were married Aug. 23, 1952, in Blessed Trinity Catholic Church, Buffalo. He is a retired Buffalo firefighter and retired engineer for South Buffalo Railway; she is a retired teacher in the Western New York area. They have six children and 12 grandchildren.


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OLEAN – Mark Schmidt didn’t bother trying to dance around the questions after the game because they’re not going away. Andrew Nicholson was his best player last season before landing in the NBA, so let’s not kid ourselves into believing that St. Bonaventure is somehow better off without him.

Nicholson was the most dominant forward to come through Olean in decades, a player who scored from any position on the floor while everybody else kicked back and enjoyed the show. He led them into the NCAA tournament. He was a first-round pick. He was their best player since Bob Lanier.

Agreed? Yes.

The Bonnies aren’t better without him, but they are better-balanced this season now that Nicholson has jumped to the Orlando Magic. Schmidt merely needed to scroll down the scoring sheet after a dramatic 82-79 victory over UB for evidence that the Bonnies can win their share of games in the Atlantic 10 in the post-Nicholson era.

Demitrius Conger had a season-high 20 points, including two critical free throws with 1.1 seconds remaining. Chris Johnson finished with 14. Matthew Wright made a key steal and finished with 11 points. Charlon Kloof was in double figures. Marquise Simmons and Eric Mosely had nine points apiece.

“We don’t have that inside presence that we had last year,’’ Schmidt said. “You look at our four leading scorers [Saturday], and it was all perimeter guys. That’s how we’re going to win. We’re going to do it collectively. One guy is not going to do it every game for us. It’s going to be a different guy every night. And that’s what’s happened.’’

OK, so their names don’t exactly roll off your tongue. The loud and proud student section in the Reilly Center would be hard-pressed to name their starting five. But the Bonnies can become a dangerous team if they compete in conference games the way they did for most of the game against UB.

It starts with Schmidt, who signed a five-year contract extension over the summer. He was masterful in rotating his point guards, maximizing quality minutes from his big men, getting his team to share the ball and getting everyone involved. Conger just so happened to take his turn atop the score sheet Saturday night.

UB didn’t figure to offer a serious challenge considering how it had been playing this season, a transition year. The Bulls couldn’t put the ball in the ocean from a rowboat in an embarrassing loss to Temple in which they scored 39 points. UB had that many in the first half against Bona.

The same team that couldn’t shoot straight suddenly couldn’t miss. At one point in the second half, UB was draining so many three-pointers that Bona was begging to give up a layup. But UB was capable of making just enough mistakes to get beat and none was bigger than Tony Watson’s errant pass with 30 seconds remaining.

It certainly wasn’t the best game ever played. At times, it was ugly. It’s hard to imagine a team that made 22 of 38 free throws won the contest at the foul line. UB was only 12 of 23 from the line. The Bulls should have backed up to the three-point line, where they finished 13 for 24.

Wright, who had flashes of brilliance earlier in the game before falling quiet, stepped in front of Watson’s pass and finished the play with a soft layup to give Bona an 80-79 lead. Conger made two free throws in succession – in this game, it passed for a shocking development – that ensured the win.

Johnson has emerged this season, his story one of many coming from around the world. He grew up in hockey-loving North Preston, Nova Scotia, played on the Canadian Junior National team, spent two years in Texas, committed to Liberty University but instead concentrated on – get this one – academics.

The 6-foot-5 swingman averaged 6.6 points per game and made one Division I start before this season. He’s leading Bona in scoring at 16.1 points per game through six games this season. He’s one of several players in their little melting pot who have helped overcome Nicholson’s departure.

Kloof was born in South America via the Netherlands with a pit stop in the Canary Islands. He played internationally before arriving in the United States. Wright, who made the key steal late in the game, is from Toronto. Youssou Ndoye is from Senegal. The 7-footer altered the final in-bounds pass after Conger’s free throws.

They took turns. They survived against UB. And they’re learning to survive without Nicholson

“That’s one of the strengths of this team,’’ Conger said. “On any given night, somebody could have a good night. It’s not like you’re keying on one person, someone who’s going to score on that particular night.’’


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Pamela M. Blood’s attempt to avoid prison for stealing $311,000 from a 77-year-old widow to support a gambling addiction included a claim that medicine she was on helped trigger her compulsive behavior.

Erie County Judge Thomas P. Franczyk wasn’t buying that explanation at her sentencing Monday. He pointed out that her thefts began a year or two before the 56-year-old paralegal started taking prescription medicine for restless leg syndrome.

In refusing her request for probation, Franczyk sentenced her to state prison for 16 months to four years. He could have imposed up to 30 years.

Blood, who often wept throughout the proceedings, wrote monthly checks to herself for as much as $5,000 from Patricia Rupp’s accounts, after being hired part time by the Grand Island woman seven years ago to keep track of her money following the death of Rupp’s husband, a construction equipment company owner.

Blood pleaded guilty in October to second-degree grand larceny and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing. A former paralegal with the Buffalo law offices of Hiscock & Barclay, Blood took on the side job independent of the law firm.

“She stands before you a broken woman,” defense attorney Anthony J. Lana told the judge. “She has no assets, no husband and no sense of self-worth.”

Her husband, the attorney said, died in a trucking accident late last year.

Lana said that while managing Rupp’s books, Blood suffered a series of mini-strokes that may also have clouded her judgment.

Some of the stolen money, Blood had confessed, went to help finance her husband’s business.

When it was her turn to address the court in front of 10 members of her family and friends, the Lockport woman owned up to her thefts and apologized.

“Your honor, I am totally responsible for what I did. There is nothing I can do to change it. The medication was a factor, but I still was responsible for gambling,” she said of her trips three or four times a week to a Niagara Falls casino. “I will never allow myself to forget. I am very, very sorry, most of all for the breaking of trust.”

Mirapex, the medication she took, is known to promote compulsive behaviors such as gambling, Lana told the judge.

Franczyk, in sentencing her, said he had a difficult time reconciling the woman standing before him, who was described as a good and loving individual, with the one who routinely stole from the accounts of a person who had trusted her.

“This was a colossal breach of someone’s trust. It’s not like a shoplifter taking one thing. This was the systematic, ongoing fleecing of a woman at a rate of $5,000 a month,” Franczyk said.

Blood, a mother of two grown children and a grandmother, came to court with a check for $100,000 in partial repayment for the thefts. She raised the money by closing out her retirement account and mortgaging her home, Lana said.

Franczyk ordered Blood to pay the remaining $211,000.

Present in court on behalf of his mother, who is in Florida, was Melvin Rupp III. The money Blood stole, he said, was intended for his mother to live on in retirement. And while he felt the judge imposed a just sentence, he said, “it is hard to pay back when you’re in jail.”

His mother, he added, would have accepted a sentence of probation in order for Blood to make restitution.

“My mom is relieved and sad. This is not a happy victory,” Rupp said of a phone conversation he had with his mother after Monday’s sentencing. “As a Christian, her heart goes out to Pam, who has been through a lot.”

The thefts were discovered last September when the widow was reviewing unrelated financial matters with another son, Andrew.

Lana said he is hopeful that Blood, who has no prior arrests, will be released from prison in about a year and placed in a halfway house. He added that she has been attending Gamblers Anonymous meetings and receiving mental health counseling.

Assistant District Attorney Candace K. Vogel, who specializes in cases of financial elder abuse, prosecuted the case.


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March 25th, 2011

Boston University GMSSO and Biomedical Laboratory & Clinical Sciences (MET/BUSM program) present Teaching Opportunities for graduate students and postdocs.

Learn about opportunities to tutor, TA, and instruct undergraduate courses at BUSM.

Friday, April 8, 2011 12:00pm-1:00pm

L-109, Lunch will be provided

Contact Name: Gloria Vachino

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July 12, 2012

Value is in the Land! No, really!

Let’s take a drive North again, courtesy of Burbed reader Tom Paine.  Tom’s got a real winner for us today, that is if by winner I meant something that is the exact opposite of winner.  So let’s check out this bitchen Bolinas back four thousand!

0 Birch Rd
Bolinas, CA  94924

120711-birch-welcome-to-bolinasBEDS:  –
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LOT SIZE:  4,008 Sq. Ft.
PROPERTY TYPE: Lots & Land, Single Family
COUNTY:  Marin
MLS#:  21214547
STATUS: Active
ON REDFIN:  26 days

Flat lot in Bolinas:Not a buildable site under the current water moratorium and County Septic rules and zoning. For further info:Bolinas Public Utility District at Marin County Planning Environmental Health dept.

Here’s what Tom thinks about buying this lot.

I wonder if you can park your RV there for longer than 24 hours?

Ah, yes, a little slice of property in paradise!  Unfortunately we can’t tell you which slice, as there are several 4,000 square foot lots on Birch near Poplar.  But we can show you how awesome the area is!

And when you look for some of the lots, they look even better!

Booyah!  So are you going to let a little thing like zoning issues and no septic and no water meter stop you from buying here?

Comments (15) -- Posted by: madhaus @ 5:08 am

April 29, 2010

$300,000 for a Water Meter

Thanks to Burbed reader madhaus for this guest post!

Everyone knows construction costs in the Bay Area are “through the roof” because it’s so Special here.  What everyone did not know is that some places are so Special that it will cost more for a water meter than a house almost anywhere else.

image Bolinas is north of San Francisco, but the residents don’t want you to find them.  The state has given up replacing any direction signs to the town, because they keep getting torn down.  And even if you can find your way there, don’t plan on moving into a new house.  There are exactly 580 water meters allowed in Bolinas, and they don’t come up for sale very often.  No water meter, no new construction.

One is coming up for sale very soon, and it’s going up for auction.  Minimum bid: $300,000.  It’s for sale because a the town, aided by billionaire venture capitalist Michael Moritz, bought a house that burnt down and is turning the lot into a park.  The auction ended Friday, April 16th, after this NY Times article was published.

For most of the last 39 years, “the only way a water meter came free was when a house burnt down, or fell off a cliff,” said Barbara Rothwell, a longtime Bolinas resident.

The meter moratorium has survived, even through protracted litigation, with the support of residents who like this isolated town the way it is.

The last water meter to come up for auction was in 2005, and it sold for $310,000.  Now, that’s Special!  How are your Special communities keeping out the riff-raff?
Incidentally, don’t you think The Bolinas Water Meters would be an awesome name for a rock band?

Update, 4/20/10:  Nobody submitted a bid for the coveted water meter. The deadline has been extended another week, ending on Friday April 24th.

Update, 4/28/10:  No bidders on water meter, auction extended to May 14th

Your chance to get a rare Bolinas water meter has been extended to May 14.

“We want to give people more time,” said Flower Fraser, owner of Seadrift Realty, who is ready to collect the bids.

The original deadline was April 16, then was extended to Friday and now until mid-May. Seven parties have inquired about the meter, but no one has submitted a bid.

Maybe some properties outside the RBA aren’t all that Special.

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Ford Focus Econetic: Test Drive Review

Date: 20 January 2014   |   Author: Jack Carfrae

Ford's best-selling Focus has dropped to a new emissions low in conventional, diesel-engined guise.

The brand's lower medium model can now be had with emissions of 88g/km and official fuel economy of 83.1mpg from the 1.6 TDCi Econetic engine.

The 88g/km model is only available with the lowest-spec Edge trim level, so standard equipment is sparse. That aside, the lowest-emitting Focus (if you don't count the electric version) has all the best bits about the regular car.

It's about as good to drive as conventional lower medium cars get, with responsive steering, great handling and a comfortable ride. The Mazda 3 and the pricier BMW 1-series are arguably the only competitors that really come close for driver appeal.

Cabin quality is impressive too, but the 316-litre boot trails the sector's average, and it's easy enough to find a rival with a capacity of 350 litres or more.

Either way, the Ford's sub-£19,000 price tag, tried-and-tested status and rock-bottom running costs from a conventional engine will be a big draw to the business car community.

It will come as no surprise, though, that the Ford's biggest stumbling block is its chief competitor, the Volkswagen Golf Bluemotion. At £21,215, the VW is £2825 more expensive on P11D alone, but in terms of cost per mile there's less than a half a penny between the two, the Focus with 41.9ppm and the Golf at 42.3ppm.

There isn't a big enough gap between emissions or economy on either car to make a significant difference, but the Volkswagen has a near 10% residual value advantage at 38.3% versus the Ford's comparatively meagre 29.6%. It's also better specced, with key fleet kit such as Bluetooth and DAB radio standard.

That's not to say that the Focus is a bad car - it's exceptionally clean and frugal and an extremely competent all-rounder - but the simple fact is, the Golf is the better fleet option.

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P11D price £18,390
Model price range £13,815-£25,265
Residual value 29.6%
Depreciation £12,956
Fuel £4540
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Vehicle Excise Duty £0
National Insurance £1091
Cost per mile 41.9p
Fuel consumption 83.1mpg
CO2 (tax) 88g/km (13%)
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Service interval 12,500mls
Insurance (1-50) group 14
Warranty 3yrs/60,000mls
Boot space min/max 316/1101 litres
Engine size/power 1560cc/105hp
Top speed/0-62mph 116mph/11.8secs

Low spec only, but as clean and frugal as Ford's best-seller gets


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While the national unemployment rate may be bouncing back and forth (now at 8.7%), some states are making clear progress in kickstarting their economies. New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that some states are outpacing others, significantly.

Many of the country's weakest states are at the top of this list, like Nevada and Michigan, showing that either things are finally getting better there, or workers are just dropping out of the workforce.

For many, much of their year-over-year job gains can be found in just April alone, where serious progress was made.

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text: Buyers Are Lining Up For A Piece Of Hostess Brands en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 12:08:21 -0400 Phil Milford CobbP Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:04:23 -0500 Add a comment.Hostess Brands have never owned Sara Lee or Entennmans and Sara Lee was purchased by BBU Bimbo Bakeries USA a year ago. dave2 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:52:08 -0500 Those brands are already owned by Bimbo Grupo. Not sure when they got sold though. dave2 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:50:51 -0500 Not to mention that is a ONE TIME payment of $140. One article said the average baker made $20/hour. Do some rough back-of-the-envelope math, and we find Hostess was spending ~710 Million/year on payroll. Add 60% for the employer paid taxes, pension, etc, and you get total payroll of ~1.1 Billion/year. And somehow paying the executives ~1% of that total is the sole cause of the companies financial problems. Riiiigggghhhhtttttttttt..... Jim D Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:50:13 -0500 Hostess also owned inteleectual property of Entennmann's ........they also at one time owned Sara Lee......are they included in the bancruptcy? My Take Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:37:59 -0500 So if you were making $680 a week, you'd rather be unemployed and get a government check for $140, rather than take an 8% percent cut and get $625 a week? You're one SMART lady! Do you think these bakers are going to make as much as Hostess was paying them somewhere else? Of course not, or they would have quit their jobs and moved on to better things years ago. My Take Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:30:36 -0500 I don't get it. Twinkies last for ages. Why not just move the factories to China and ship the stuff back here? The could use the jobs in China (or Cambodia, Vietnam, India, etc.). Mike Mathea Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:49:24 -0500 Then you agree big government is the problem. The Bankruptcy judge is the person who allowed the crimes you describe to continue. We must need smaller government so these outrageous government decisions stop immediately. james herman Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:55:15 -0500 .........ok, help me here. Marijuana is legalized and Twinkies go out of, what's a guy to do. nurse_jae Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:43:01 -0500 Hostess can blame the unions all they want. They had the worst baked goods ever! They were awful in the 60's and they never evolved with the times. Wonder Bread? I'd rather eat something a preschooler baked in an EZ Bake oven! nurse_jae Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:40:25 -0500 I'd rather get $140 dollars than an 8% pay cut! harf Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:13:49 -0500 Suppose you took that CEO's entire salary away from him and gave it to the workers. They would each get $140 a year. Or transfer his $2.5M to the company operating expenses. It you cover those expenses for 16 minutes. TOM SAWYER Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:55:26 -0500 THe unions are getting the fallout from this decision but what the media isn't reporting is that the CEO raised his salary from $750,000 per year to $2,550,000 per year AFTER the first filing for bankruptcy. Several other high ranking management officials saw their pay raised by 300% over the same period and even low ranking managers had their salaries raised significantly. The workers gave back wages at least twice to keep this business going. This is a failure of management not union demands. RS Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:32:16 -0500 I just went to several Publix Supermarkets and purchased all their Wonder and Hostess products for donation to my local food bank. I will continue to do this until the company is purchased. I request others to do the same in their area. POWER TO THE PEOPLE! PS. Yes I will take a charitable contribution from my taxes. Nomeste! >:-)


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The US jobs report comes out at 8:30 AM ET.

At 3:00 PM ET is another big report: US consumer credit.

Analysts expect a $5 billion overall expansion in consumer credit.

One of our favorite numbers to watch is the year-over-year change in non-seasonally adjusted revolving consumer credit (credit cards). It's been growing on a year-over-year basis for much of the year, but the momentum definitely seems to have faded in recent months.


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A small automaker that received a $50 million loan from the Department of Energy (DOE) has laid off nearly all of its staff and ceased operations, USA Today reports.

The Vehicle Production Group, aka VPG Autos, produced the MV-1, a six passenger wheelchair-accessible van that can run on gasoline or environmentally-friendly compressed natural gas.

It stopped operations after the DOE froze its access to federal money, when its finances fell below the threshold required by the loan, according to Bloomberg.

The DOE "wanted us to get the remaining capital raised and we couldn't get it done," former CEO John Walsh told USA Today.

The problem, he said, was not lack of orders for the MV-1, but cash flow.

The small automaker has not filed for bankruptcy.

The loan was approved in March 2011, under the DOE's Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program, created by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act to allocate $25 billion to fund highly fuel-efficient vehicles.

Other loan recipients include relatively successful Tesla Motors and defunct Fisker Automotive, which is in deep financial distress.

According to the DOE, the $50 million for VPG should have created 900 permanent jobs and taken 12,200 tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere annually. The automaker was supposed to build as many as 22,000 vehicles every year (counting compressed natural gas and gasoline models).

Just six months ago, VPG seemed to be in solid shape. Between September 2011 and October 2012, it produced over 2,500 MV-1s, more vehicles than Tesla made in the same period, according to John Voelcker at Green Car Reports.

A Department of Energy spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment, and calling the phone number listed for VPG Autos led to an "after hours voicemail system."


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Unless employers can understand this, they'll risk losing their top talent, says Dan Schawbel, founder of Millennial Branding and author of the new book "Promote Yourself."

Schawbel's Gen Y research and consulting company conducted a recent survey with oDesk, a global job marketplace, and found that freedom-seeking young people have their own definition of "entrepreneurship."

"The number one reason why [Gen Y employees] leave is a lack of career opportunities," Schawbel tells us. "If you can't show them a path up, if you're not going to mentor and support them, they're out."

In the interview below, Schawbel tells us about Gen Y's definition of entrepreneurship, how companies can retain their young talent and create a culture that attracts young people and makes them want to stay there.


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clarence thomasSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas expected to see an African-American president in his lifetime — as long as the candidate abided by standards for blacks that are prescribed by “elites and the media,” he said in little-noticed remarks last month. And he suggested that Barack Obama fits the mold.

“I always knew that it would have to be a black president who was approved by the elites and the media,” Thomas said last month at Duquesne Law School in remarks posted to YouTube Friday.

“Any black person who says something that is not the prescribed things that they expect from a black person will be picked apart,” the justice said. “Pick anyone who’s decided not to go along with it — there’s a price to pay. So I always assumed it would be somebody that the media had to agree with.”

He didn’t elaborate on what those prescribed standards were.

Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1991 by George H. W. Bush to replace Thurgood Marshall, the first ever African-American to serve on the court. A staunch originalist who unfailingly votes with conservatives on issues of race and diversity, Thomas has complained that his J.D. from Yale was tarnished due to the elite law school’s affirmative action program. He’s also been described by Supreme Court watchers as deeply distrustful of mainstream media after the Anita Hill scandal that marred his confirmation hearings.

Thomas said he has met Obama but hasn’t had any “in-depth conversations” with him. “I’m not into politics,” he said. “I don’t like politics.”

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As new tracking polls show President Barack Obama benefiting from a big post-convention bounce, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is starting to sound a little bit panicky.

In a new campaign memo circulated this morning, Romney's pollster Neil Newhouse warns people not to get "too worked up about the latest polling."

"While some voters will feel a bit of a sugar-high from the conventions, the basic structure of the race has not changed significantly," Newhouse writes. "The reality of the Obama economy will reassert itself as the ultimate downfall of the Obama Presidency, and Mitt Romney will win this race."

You can read the whole memo below, but the gist of Newhouse's argument is that, regardless of what the polls say right now, the President will never be able to escape the terrible economy.

"President Obama is the only president in modern American history to stand before the American people asking for re-election with this many Americans struggling to find work," Newhouse states. "The key numbers in this election are the 43 straight months of 8% or higher unemployment, the 23 million Americans struggling to find work, and the 47 million Americans who are on food stamps."

Newhouse points to polls that show Romney and Obama locked in a tight race in many of the key battleground states that could determine the outcome of the election, and notes that, in most recent polls, Romney still leads Obama on economic issues.

Interestingly, the memo deviates from the straight numbers message typical of most polling reports, and offers a wide-ranging explanation for why Obama's polling lead is actually deceptive, highlighting Romney's fundraising advantage, target advertising campaign, and voter mobilization efforts as factors that give Republicans an advantage that is not yet showing up in the polls.

The bottom line is that people don't send "don't freak out" memos unless people are in fact freaking out.

The latest polls show Obama widening his lead coming out of last week's Democratic National Convention, while Romney's own post-convention bounce fell short of his campaign's expectations.

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As of this writing, Slingshot, Facebook's new photo messaging app designed to compete with Snapchat, launched less than 24 hours ago.

I've already deleted it from my phone.

Let's ignore the complaints about the confusing layout and controls. And the fact that Facebook only seems to be able to clone popular apps instead of dreaming up new ideas on its own

The core of the app, the way you share photos with your friends, is fundamentally flawed.

If someone sends you a photo in Slingshot, you can't see it until you send a photo back to that person. It's like responding to an email without reading the contents. Last night, I ended up sending photos of my couch, my living room wall, and my eyeball to a few friends just so I could see what they sent me. Eventually, I got stuck in a bizarre selfie loop with a friend because all we wanted to do was see the original photo each of us had sent.

Slingshot doesn't reduce the friction in communication, it throws up a giant wall by forcing you to blindly respond to messages before you view them.

Those forced responses feel like a cheap way for Facebook to artificially boost the engagement in Slingshot without adding any real value to users. It might give the app a nice boost at first, but I suspect people will grow bored of the game very quickly, just like I did.


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Posted by: Greg T. Spielberg on June 19

optimism.gif Over the past few weeks you may have noticed BusinessWeek/YouGov’s Optimism Index on our Case for Optimism page.

Our weekly index combines U.S. public opinion and forecasts from leading economic establishments. In the spirit of transparency, we want to make public the sources we use to build this proprietary index. We’re not going to divulge the algorithms we use to formulate the index (hey, Google doesn’t), but we do want to disclose where the data comes from:

* The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Volatility Index, which displays the expected market volatility of the S&P 500 over the next 30 days. A higher expected volatility typically translates the pessimistic investing outlook. Not surprisingly, back in November the tumultuous index hit 80 — which market-watchers read as “No swimming!” Now, the index is down to 30, a benchmark that traditionally signifies smooth waters.

* Bloomberg’s GDP forecast for 2009 and 2010.

* Bloomberg’s prediction for unemployment rates in 2009 and 2010.

* To track the ever-shifting opinions of Americans, YouGov polls a representative sample of 1,000 citizens each week. From this survey, we use three questions:

“Overall, do you think the economy is getting better or worse?”

“If you lost your job, how hard would it be for you to find a new job that paid as much as you are making now?”

“Do you think the stock market will be higher or lower 12 months from now?”

As we’ve seen from comments on our site, readers enjoy armchair forecasting as well. Post a comment to weigh in on which direction you think the economy is heading. And let us know what you think of our index.

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BusinessWeek’s Joe Weber, Patricia O'Connell, Michelle Conlin, Frederik Balfour, Peter Coy, Greg Spielberg and Roger Crockett examine The Case for Optimism by looking past the financial turmoil and economic unrest gripping the globe to focus on the promising future that lies on the other side of this storm. We’ll chronicle the forward thinkers investing in R&D, launching promising new products, entering new markets, or implementing management and leadership.

See why BusinessWeek Editor-In-Chief Stephen J. Adler is optimistic about the economy amid the sharpest downturn since the Great Depression.

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Saint Louis Runs Past Butler

Senior Andrew Smith (Photo by John Fetcho)

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - One result of being nationally-ranked is the fact that you face your opponent's best effort every night. The Butler men's basketball team saw that Thursday night in a 75-58 loss at Saint Louis.

Butler (17-4, 4-2) was led by senior guard Rotnei Clarke's 17 points. He shot 3-for-7 from 3-point range but was pressured by the athletic SLU guards all night. Senior Andrew Smith added 12 points and six rebounds. Freshman Kellen Dunham led the Bulldogs on the glass, grabbing a career-high seven rebounds.

In front of a raucous crowd of 10,612, the largest crowd at Chafeitz Arena history, the Billikens used pressure defense to force Butler into a season-high 23 turnovers.

The Bulldogs had committed 12 turnovers in the first 12:12 of the evening, but still trailed just 14-12 at that point. A lay-up by sophomore Roosevelt Jones at the 6:28 cut the SLU lead to 17-14, but the Billikens then ripped off a 14-0 run. Butler answered with a 9-0 run over a span of 67 seconds to pull within 31-23, but Jordair Jett made a 3-pointer as the first half ended to give SLU a 34-23 lead.

SLU picked up where it left off in the second half, starting with a 9-2 run to run ahead 43-25. Later, a pair of Clarke free throws at the 14:46 mark cut the Billikens' lead to 45-33. That's the closest Butler would come in the second half. Saint Louis would go on to grow the lead to as much as 71-51 late in the game.

Saint Louis (15-5, 4-2) was led by Jett, who scored 19 points on 8-for-12 shooting. Dwayne Evans scored 15 points on 6-for-8 shooting and Rob Loe added 12. The Billikens pounded the ball inside for a 51-22 scoring advantage in the paint and also had a 19-2 edge in fast-break points.

The one area where Butler excelled was rebounding, as the Bulldogs held a 37-29 edge on the boards. Butler had eight offensive rebounds and held Saint Louis to five.

Another upcoming positive is that Butler doesn't have to wait long for a potential rebound. The Bulldogs host Rhode Island Saturday, Feb. 2 at Hinkle Fieldhouse at 4 p.m. ET. The contest against the Rams will be televised on CBS Sports Network.


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THE TIP: Butler (5-5) continues Horizon League play with a New Year's Eve trip to face UW-Milwaukee (5-6). The Bulldogs have won three straight games, including their league opener Thursday against Youngstown State. Both teams enter the match-up with a 1-0 league mark. Free video and audio of the 2 p.m. (CST) tip is available live at www.butlersports.com.

THE SERIES: This is the 24th meeting between the Bulldogs and UW-Milwaukee. UWM owns a 13-10 advantage in the series, including an 8-3 edge in Milwaukee. The Panthers swept the season series last year after the teams split games during the 2003-04 season. The teams first met March 11, 1982 in the MAIAW Regional Tournament in Chicago.

LEAGUE DISTINCTION: Butler freshman Lade Akande led the Bulldogs to a pair of come-from-behind wins last week, earning Horizon League "Player of the Week" honors for her efforts, the league office announced Tuesday (Dec. 27). Akande averaged 16.5 points and 9.5 rebounds as the Bulldogs downed Evansville and UMBC at Hinkle Fieldhouse.

QUICK START: Butler used 63-percent first-half shooting to take a 46-22 halftime lead and cruise to a 78-55 win over Youngstown State Thursday in the Horizon League opener for both teams. That's the best mark for shooting in a half this season, bettering the team's previous mark of 55 percent in the first half of the team's win over Central Florida Nov. 25.

SHOOTER'S TOUCH: Junior Jackie Closser went a perfect 5-of-5 from the field in the first half against Youngstown State and finished the contest with 17 points on 6-of-8 shooting. Her scoring output tied for the team lead.

PICKING THE PENGUINS: Freshman Lade Akande had a career-high five steals against Youngstown State Thursday to go along with 17 points, eight rebounds and three blocks. Her 17 points and eight boards tied for the team high. Akande went 7-of-10 from the field.

15-FOOT RANGE: Butler shot a season-best 96 percent from the free throw line Dec. 22 against UMBC, going 21-of-22 on the night. The Bulldogs followed that up with 80-percent (20-25) accuracy against Youngstown State. Butler continues to lead the league with a .747 mark from the charity stripe.

MORE CHARITY: While Jackie Closser (.914) and Candace Jones (.913) rank 1-2 in free throw shooting among Horizon League players, the longest current streak of made free throws belongs to Stephanie Boeke at 13. She hasn't missed in more than a month (1-2 against Saint Mary's Nov. 26).

BOEKE DOES IT ALL: Despite scoring just four points Thursday against Youngstown State, Stephanie Boeke filled up the statsheet. She led the team with five assists and added eight rebounds, which tied Lade Akande for the team-lead. Boeke is second on the team and sixth in the conference at 5.7 rebounds per game.

OFFENSIVE EXPLOSION: Butler is scoring 71 points per game this season, which is second in the league. Four Butler players average double figures and the quartet occupies four of the top 13 spots on the league charts.

CLEANING THE GLASS: Freshman Lade Akande is tied for the league lead in rebounding, averaging 8.0 caroms per contest. She's not even letting some shots get to the rim, pacing the Horizon League at 2.0 blocks per game.

`CLOSS' TO THE TOP: In addition to being fifth in the Horizon League in scoring (14.4), junior Jackie Closser leads the Horizon League in three-pointers made (2.9 per game), free throw percentage (.914) and assist/turnover ratio (2.15). If that weren't enough, Closser is second in assists (4.8) and seventh in three-point percentage (.419).

ENOUGH ABOUT THE OFFENSE: Butler also clamped down on defense against Youngstown State, allowing the Penguins just 55 points. That's a season-low for a Butler opponent. Butler also limited the Penguins to opponent lows in field goals (21), field goal shooting (.318), three-pointers (one) and three-point accuracy (.071).

THREE'S COMPANY: Behind 2-of-4 shooting from behind the arc Thursday, Butler sharpshooter Ellen Hamilton has moved back into the Horizon League lead with a .481 mark from behind the arc. Her 2.5 treys per game are third in the circuit. Hamilton has hit at least one three-pointer in 17 straight games dating back to last season.

HITTING THE TRI-FECTA: Butler's 7.8 three-pointers per game and .431 percentage both lead the Horizon League. The Bulldogs are actually shooting better from behind the arc (.431) than they are inside of it (.425). Junior Jackie Closser moved into a tie for third on Butler's career treys list with classmate Ellen Hamilton on her heels.

Career three-pointers made
1. 167, Debbie Benziger (1995-98)
2. 142, Maria Marchesano (2002-05)
3. 128, Jackie Closser (2004-present)
3. 128, Jennifer Marlow (1996-99)
5. 123, Ellen Hamilton (2004-present)

BENCH WORK: Led by a season-high nine points from sophomore Cassie Freeman, Butler's bench out-scored its opponent's for the first time this season (24-21) against Youngstown State. Freeman added a career-high four assists in 20 minutes of action. Freshman Candace Jones added eight points off the bench.

WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR US?: Freshman Candyce Brown got the most extensive action of her young Butler career Thursday against YSU with 16 minutes and she didn't disappoint. Brown posted career-highs of four rebounds and three assists to go along with a steal.

QUICK SHOTS: For the second time this season and just the third time in Beth Couture's three-plus years at Butler, five Bulldogs scored in double figures against Evansville Dec. 19...Butler is 4-0 when leading at halftime and 5-0 when shooting a higher field goal percentage than the opposition...Butler shot 53 percent (8-15) from three-point range against Youngstown State, the fifth time in 10 games this season the team has shot better than 50 percent from long range.

WE'RE GOING STREAKING: Butler has hit at least five three-pointers in all 10 games this season and in 16 of its last 17 outings dating back to last season...the Bulldogs have scored at least 72 points in six of their last seven games. The team only topped 72 points twice last season in 28 contests.

AGAINST THE PANTHERS: Juniors Jackie Closser (10.8) and Ellen Hamilton (10.3) each have had success against UW-Milwaukee in their respective careers. Hamilton has particularly loved playing in Milwaukee, where her average against the Panthers jumps to 16.5 points per game in two contests.

WORTHLESS STAT OF THE DAY: Butler is 0-3 in its second Horizon League game of the season under head coach Beth Couture.

EARLY RECOGNITION: Butler's junior backcourt of Jackie Closser and Ellen Hamilton earned preseason "All-Horizon League" second-team honors. The juniors combined for 22 points a game last season.

LISTEN LIVE: Josh Rattray returns as the play-by-play voice of the Bulldogs this season and is joined by Cory Schnurbusch in bringing the action of Butler basketball live on www.butlersports.com all season. Butler Athletics will provide the feed free to fans this season and will also have a video stream available for all home contests and Horizon League games.


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Chicago’s Gay Hockey Association Covers Mariah Carey Flawlessly

If you weren’t in the holiday spirit before, you are now.

1. The Chicago Gay Hockey Association (CGHA) is serious about getting into the holiday spirit.

Chicago’s official gay hockey organization, the team encourages all people with a passion for ice hockey — female, straight, or gay — to come out and play.

2. So they recorded a little holiday message for us all.

3. A special cover of Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas, to be exact.

4. This guy has an angelic voice.

5. These guys look smashing in their outfits.

6. Some of them can seriously move.

7. And all of them are about to steal your heart.

8. This is the most adorable thing to ever happen in the sport of hockey.

9. The team also posted this message:

We want you to put aside your differences. And to spend some time getting closer to your family and friends. If you take a step back and look, you may surprise yourself with how much you have in common with people. The person next to you on the train could become your best friend. After all, aren’t we all just looking for love? Don’t forget to laugh a little. And sing a little. Happy Holidays y’all!

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