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var _ = require('underscore');

var Regions = require('../views/regions.js');
var swap = require('../views/swap.js');

var URI = require('urijs');

var dust = require('dustjs-linkedin');

// models
var Entries = require('../models/entries');
var Entry = require('../models/entry');

// views
var Base = require('../views/base');
var ArchiveView = require('../views/archive');
var TimelineView = require('../views/timeline');
var EntryDetailView = require('../views/entry_detail');

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    );
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Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this environmental stewardship instructional activity, students compose personal mission statements that express their personal beliefs about their responsibility to the environment.
Debate: "Indoor Air vs. Outdoor Air Pollution: Which Is the More Serious Threat to Public Health?"
Ninth graders explore the concept of organic eating. In this environmental stewardship lesson, 9th graders compare and contrast organic foods with conventional foods and discuss the benefits of eating organic foods.


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Als Deutsche in der Ersten Tschechoslowakischen Republik werden die Angehörigen der deutschsprachigen Minderheit bezeichnet, die innerhalb der 1920 im Vertrag von Saint-Germain festgelegten Grenzen des neu gegründeten tschechoslowakischen Staates lebte.

Nach der Proklamation der Tschechoslowakei (ČSR) am 28. Oktober 1918 verloren die dort lebenden Deutschösterreicher die dominierende politische Rolle, die sie in der Habsburgermonarchie bis zu deren Zusammenbruch gespielt hatten. Die Siegermächte des Ersten Weltkriegs betrachteten Tschechen und Slowaken als Verbündete und gestanden dem neuen Staat im Wesentlichen die Grenzen zu, die ihre Führer Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Edvard Beneš und Milan Rastislav Štefánik auf den Pariser Friedenskonferenzen 1919 gefordert hatten. Entgegen dem von den Alliierten propagierten Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Völker wurde dabei auf die ethnische Zusammensetzung der betroffenen Regionen und den Willen ihrer Bevölkerung kaum Rücksicht genommen. Die Tschechoslowakei stimmte jedoch einem Vertrag zum Minderheitenschutz zu und garantierte auch Deutschen, Ungarn und Ruthenen alle staatsbürgerlichen Rechte.

Anfängliche Autonomiebestrebungen verloren daher im Laufe der Zeit an Stoßkraft und entwickelten sich zu Forderungen nach politischer Gleichberechtigung. Eine erste Verständigung zwischen Deutschen und Tschechoslowaken kam 1926 zustande, als Vertreter deutscher Parteien (s. u.) an der Regierung beteiligt wurden. Im Streit zwischen Aktivisten und Negativisten, also zwischen deutschen Befürworten und Gegnern des tschechoslowakischen Staats, setzten sich jedoch letztere in den 1930er Jahren durch. Die Sudetendeutsche Partei unterstützte Hitlers Aggression gegen die Tschechoslowakei. Im September 1938 verschärfte Deutschland die Sudetenkrise, und im Rahmen ihrer Appeasement-Politik stimmten Frankreich und Großbritannien im Münchner Abkommen der durch Kriegsdrohung erzwungenen Abtretung der deutschen Siedlungsgebiete, des Sudetenlandes, an das Deutsche Reich zu.

Zerfall Cisleithaniens

Noch vor dem österreichisch-italienischen Waffenstillstand in der Villa Giusti bei Padua am 3. November 1918 proklamierten sich auf dem Gebiet der westlichen Reichshälfte der Donaumonarchie zwei Republiken mit widerstreitenden Gebietsansprüchen, am 21. Oktober 1918 in Wien die Republik Deutschösterreich und am 28. Oktober in Prag die Tschechoslowakische Republik.

In den von der Tschechoslowakischen Republik vollständig beanspruchten Ländern der böhmischen Krone hatten nach der Volkszählung vom 31. Dezember 1880 insgesamt 2.927.684 Deutsche gelebt, was 36,04 % der Gesamtbevölkerung entsprach. 1910 lebten in den bisherigen Ländern der Böhmischen Krone (Böhmen, Mähren und Österreichisch-Schlesien) 6,33 Millionen Tschechen und 3,49 Millionen Deutsche (Deutschböhmen und Deutschmährer sowie Deutschschlesier, später oft alle als Sudetendeutsche zusammengefasst).

Seit dem 21. Oktober 1918 bildeten die 1911 gewählten Reichsratsabgeordneten aller deutschen Regionen Cisleithaniens in Wien die Provisorische Nationalversammlung für Deutschösterreich. Die deutschen Abgeordneten aus Böhmen und Mähren proklamierten am 29. Oktober 1918, dem Tag nach der Ausrufung der ČSR, die Gründung der deutschösterreichischen Provinzen Deutschböhmen und Sudetenland unter dem Vorsitz von Landeshauptmännern. Andere von Deutschösterreich beanspruchte deutsche Siedlungsgebiete im Böhmerwald und in Südböhmen ("Böhmerwaldgau" unter Kreishauptmann Friedrich Wichtl) sowie in Südmähren ("Deutschsüdmähren" unter Kreishauptmann Oskar Teufel) sollten von Ober- und Niederösterreich verwaltet werden.

Am 30. Oktober 1918 bestellte der deutschösterreichische Staatsrat (der Exekutivausschuss der Provisorischen Nationalversammlung) die erste republikanische Regierung, die Staatsregierung Renner I, deren Staatskanzler Karl Renner aus Südmähren stammte. Aus den Ländern der Böhmischen Krone stammten auch die Staatssekretäre [= Minister] : Josef Mayer (deutschnational), Ferdinand Hanusch (Sozialdemokrat), Karl Urban (christlichsozial) und der erst einige Tage amtierende Landeshauptmann der Provinz Deutschböhmen, Raphael Pacher (deutschnational) sowie Unterstaatssekretär Leopold Waber (deutschnational).

Die Provisorische Nationalversammlung Deutschösterreichs erklärte ihr Staatsgebiet durch Gesetz vom 30. Oktober 1918 als Bestandteil des Deutschen Reiches, noch bevor dort am 9. November die Republik ausgerufen wurde. Der Anspruch auf alle deutschen Siedlungsgebiete und der Beitritt zur Deutschen Republik konnte aber realpolitisch schon im Spätherbst 1918 nicht realisiert werden, später noch viel weniger.

Militärische Besetzung der deutschen Siedlungsgebiete

Während die Truppen des Habsburgerreichs aus Angehörigen mehrerer Nationalitäten bestanden und kapituliert hatten, standen der tschechoslowakischen Regierung die Tschechoslowakischen Legionen, die auf der Seite der Entente gekämpft hatten, als Grundstock einer neuen Tschechoslowakischen Armee zur Verfügung. Ab dem 13. November 1918 setzte sie diese ein, um ihren Anspruch auf die strittigen Gebiete militärisch zu bekräftigen. Zu einem flächendeckenden Widerstand kam es nicht. Nur in ungefähr acht Orten stellten sich bewaffnete Gruppen dem Militär entgegen (beispielsweise am 27. November 1918 in Most, damals Brüx, und am 2. Dezember 1918 in Kaplice, damals Kaplitz).

Die Landesregierung Deutschböhmens ersuchte US-Präsident Woodrow Wilson mit einer von der Schwedischen Gesandtschaft übermittelten Kabeldepesche um Gewährleistung des von ihm proklamierten Selbstbestimmungsrechtes der Völker. Gleichzeitig protestierte die Landesregierung gegen "Vergewaltigungen, welchen unser Staatsgebiet durch Truppen des Czecho-slowakischen Staates ausgesetzt ist".

Aufbau der neuen Staatlichkeiten

Die Wahl zur Konstituierenden Nationalversammlung Deutschösterreichs am 16. Februar 1919 konnte nur in den heutigen österreichischen Bundesländern (ausgenommen dem Burgenland, das damals noch Teil Ungarns war) stattfinden. In den deutschen Gebieten im heutigen Tschechien bzw. der damaligen Tschechoslowakei(!) wurde die Abhaltung dieser Wahl von der tschechoslowakischen Obrigkeit verhindert. Die Überlegung, für jene Wahlkreise, in denen nicht gewählt werden konnte, Abgeordnete anhand der Parteilisten einzuberufen, wurde für einige wenige Wahlkreise an der Südgrenze Österreichs realisiert, die wenigstens zum Teil im heutigen Staatsgebiet lagen. Auf die Wahlkreise der Deutschösterreicher in der Tschechoslowakei wurde diese Praxis nicht angewandt, sodass diese von der deutschösterreichischen Politik nicht mehr vertreten wurden.

Am 29. Februar 1920 nahm die Provisorische Nationalversammlung der Tschechoslowakischen Republik deren Verfassung an. Die Deutschen in Böhmen und Mähren hatten aus ihrer Ablehnung gegen diesen Staat die Nationalversammlung boykottiert und so die Gelegenheit verpasst, sich an der Gestaltung seiner Regeln zu beteiligen.

Am 4. März 1919, dem Tag des Zusammentritts der neu gewählten Nationalversammlung Deutschösterreichs in Wien, fanden in vielen Orten im deutschen Siedlungsgebiet Demonstrationen für das Selbstbestimmungsrecht und die Zugehörigkeit zu Deutschösterreich statt. Dabei wurden 54 Deutsche erschossen und fast 200 Personen verletzt.

Die ersten Parlamentswahlen zum Abgeordnetenhaus und Senat der Tschechoslowakischen Republik fanden am 18. April 1920 statt.

Der am 16. Juli 1920 in Kraft getretene Vertrag von Saint-Germain bestätigte die seit November 1918 eingetretenen faktischen Machtverhältnisse und Grenzziehungen. Auch der Versailler Vertrag beinhaltete ein Anschlussverbot Österreichs sowie der mehrheitlich deutsch bevölkerten Gebiete der ČSR an das Deutsche Reich bis 1946. Mit dem Inkrafttreten des Vertrages von Saint-Germain wurden die Deutschen in der Tschechoslowakei tschechoslowakischen Staatsbürger. Die von ihnen beanspruchte deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit erlosch nach Art. 76.

Fortsetzung des seit 1848 bestehenden Nationalitätenkonfliktes
Der Vertrag von Saint-Germain bestätigte den tschechischen Standpunkt von der Einheit der Länder der Böhmischen Krone. Damit setzte sich der seit Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts ausgetragene Nationalitätenkonflikt in diesen Ländern nun unter umgekehrten Vorzeichen fort.

Sichtbar geworden war dieser Konflikt mit dem Slawenkongress vom Juni 1848 (→ Jungtschechen). Dieser basierte auf der "nationalen Wiedergeburt" der Tschechen. Stationen des erwachenden Nationalbewusstseins waren im 19. Jahrhundert insbesondere die Weckung des Interesses an der tschechischen Sprache, an Literatur und Theater, die Besinnung auf Patriotismus und Historismus, schließlich erfolgreiche politische und sprachliche Forderungen wie die Dekretierung von Tschechisch als zweite Amtssprache 1880 und die Teilung der Karlsuniversität in Prag 1882.

Der Versuch eines österreichisch-tschechischen Ausgleichs nach dem Muster des österreichisch-ungarischen Ausgleichs von 1867 oder auch nur ein innerböhmischer Ausgleich zwischen Tschechen und Deutschen analog zum Mährischen Ausgleich von 1905 war von den Deutschböhmen blockiert worden. Nun wurde die Tschechoslowakische Republik entgegen der Zusage der Pariser Note vom 20. Mai 1919 nicht zu einer zweiten Schweiz. Unter anderem verstand sie Tschechen und Slowaken zusammen als Staatsvolk der Tschechoslowaken, obwohl andererseits gleichzeitig mit der Verfassung ein Gesetz in Kraft trat, das Tschechisch als Landessprache Böhmens, Mährens und Schlesiens, Slowakisch als Landessprache der Slowakei festschrieb. Bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs hatte die Slowakei als Oberungarn der ungarischen Reichshälfte Österreich-Ungarns angehört. Die ihr am 30. Mai 1918 im Pittsburgher Vertrag zugesicherte Autonomie wurde ihr nicht gewährt. Die Nationalitätenfrage wurde schließlich internationalisiert und 1938 von Adolf Hitler in der Sudetenkrise instrumentalisiert.

Tschechisierungspolitik ab 1918
Hinsichtlich der Deutschen betrieb die ČSR von Anbeginn eine Tschechisierungspolitik. Hinzu kam eine protschechische Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Sie dezimierte in den deutschen Siedlungsgebieten durch Schließung von 9 der 19 Lehrerbildungsanstalten das deutsche und förderte das tschechische Schulwesen. So wurden tschechische Schulen eröffnet, wenn mindestens fünf tschechische Kinder (auch von dorthin versetzten Angehörigen der Post- oder Bahnverwaltung) vorhanden waren; gleichzeitig wurde in den anderen Schulen der Klassenteiler auf 60 Schüler angehoben. 1920 gab es im deutschen Siedlungsgebiet 495 tschechische Minderheitsvolks- und -bürgerschulen, 1930 über 1400, davon 1153 staatliche Minderheitsvolksschulen mit insgesamt 2559 Klassen. Bei der Bodenreform wiederum wurden z. B. von deutschen Forsteigentümern 30 Prozent ihrer Waldungen beschlagnahmt, von tschechischen nur 4 Prozent.

Der Prozentsatz der tschechischen Einwohner bei den Volkszählungen 1910, 1921 und 1930 wuchs beispielsweise in Eger von 0 % über 3,2 % auf 7 %, in Aussig/Elbe 5,6 – 17,4 – 20, in dem an der Sprachgrenze gelegenen Dorf Bölten/Nordmähren von 0,75 % auf 10,75 %.

Hinsichtlich des Arbeitsmarktes ((in welchem Gebiet?)) ist dokumentiert, dass im Januar 1936 auf 1000 Einwohner 97,5 deutsche und 47,3 tschechische Arbeitslose kamen (2,06 : 1), bezogen auf 1000 Berufstätige 192,4 Deutsche und 110,7 Tschechen (1,74 : 1).

Für die fünf wichtigsten und größten tschechischen Parteien stand im neuen Vielvölkerstaat ČSR der Nationalstaat im Vordergrund der Politik. Sie bildeten 1921 ein "Pětka" (Fünferausschuss) genanntes und später erweitertes Gremium, die Allnationale Koalition, in der bis 1926 die wichtigsten Diskussionen stattfanden und Vorentscheidungen fielen, bevor Regierung und Parlament eingeschaltet wurden. Allerdings gab es teilweise gute Kontakte zwischen Schwesterparteien tschechisch-slowakischer und deutscher Nationalität.

Demokratische und undemokratische deutsche Parteien

Unter den Deutschen in der Tschechoslowakei bildeten sich zwei politische Hauptrichtungen, die "Aktivisten" und die "Negativisten". Die Aktivisten setzten sich durch Mitarbeit in dem neuen Staat für die Belange der deutschen Minderheit ein, die Negativisten setzten von Anfang auf das Anwachsen eine Ideologie der Revanche in Deutschland und eine Revision der in den Pariser Vorortverträgen geschaffenen Staatenordnung.

Ab 1926 wirkten an der Regierung des Ministerpräsidenten Antonín Švehla mehrere Minister aus der deutschen Minderheit mit:
 aus der Deutschen Christlich-Sozialen Volkspartei (DCSVP) Robert Mayr-Harting, gefolgt von seinem Parteifreund Erwin Zajicek. Einer der Abgeordneten dieser Partei im tschechoslowakischen Parlament war der Vorsitzendes des Verbandes der deutschen christlichen Gewerkschaften in der ČSR, Hans Schütz (nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg Abgeordneter des Deutschen Bundestages und bayerischer Arbeitsminister)
 aus dem Bund der Landwirte (BdL) der Minister Franz Spina. Letzter Vorsitzender des BdL war der spätere Hessische Landwirtschaftsminister Gustav Hacker.
 Der erste Kongress aller sozialdemokratischen Parteien der Tschechoslowakei am 28./29. Januar 1928 bahnte den Weg, dass 1929 bis 1938 der Regierung auch die Deutsche sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei in der Tschechoslowakischen Republik (DSAP) angehörte, bis 1935 größte deutsche Partei in der ČSR. Ihr Parteivorsitzender war der Minister Ludwig Czech.

Am 1. Oktober 1933 gründete Konrad Henlein die Sudetendeutsche Heimatfront (SHF). Er bot im Herbst 1934 in einer Großkundgebung mit rund 25.000 Teilnehmern in Böhmisch Leipa der ČSR noch die Anerkennung des Staates und seiner Verfassung unter der Voraussetzung an, dass die Lebensrechte der Deutschen gesichert würden. Damit platzierte er seine Partei, die sich stark auf Turnerbünde stützte, einerseits als "aktivistisch", bestritt aber andererseits, dass in der Tschechoslowakei auch die Lebensrechte der deutschen Bürger des Landes gewahrt wurden. Diese Forderung erläuterte er auch britischen Persönlichkeiten bei Besuchen in England. Bei den Parlamentswahlen 1935 wurde die damals in Sudetendeutsche Partei (SdP) umbenannte SHF stimmenstärkste Partei in der ČSR. Zunehmend erfuhr sie Unterstützung durch die NS-Regierung des Deutschen Reichs.

Eine weitere "aktivistische" Partei war die Deutsche Demokratische Freiheitspartei (DDFP), die nur 1920 selbst kandidierte. Später stellte sie sich in Listenverbindungen mit ungarischen und karpatendeutschen Parteien zur Wahl. 1935 hatte dieses Bündnis 9 Abgeordnete.

Seit 1934 bildete sich in der DSAP ein deutschnationaler Flügel, angeführt von Wenzel Jaksch und Emil Franzel.

1936/37 unternahmen Wenzel Jaksch, Hans Schütz sowie vom Bund der Landwirte Gustav Hacker als sogenannte Jungaktivisten im Zusammenwirken mit tschechischen Publizisten den letzten Versuch einer Vermittlung zwischen Sudetendeutschen und Tschechen. Ihr Eintreten für deutsche Belange und die Veröffentlichung ihrer Forderungen in zwei tschechischen Zeitschriften am 13. Mai 1936 führte zu "Verhandlungen im Schoße der Regierung" des neuen Ministerpräsidenten Milan Hodža und schließlich am 18. Februar 1937 zu dem einzigen Übereinkommen seit 1918. Darin wurde der Anspruch der Sudetendeutschen auf Proportionalität im öffentlichen Dienst und bei der Vergabe von Staatsaufträgen anerkannt, eine volle sprachliche und kulturelle Gleichberechtigung verheißen.

Zum 22. März 1938 veranlasste Gustav Hacker jedoch die Überführung seiner Partei und ihrer Abgeordneten in die Sudetendeutsche Partei.
Auch die Abgeordneten des BdL traten zur SdP über, die nunmehr 55 Abgeordnete hatte.
Im selben Monat gab es einem fundamentalen Kurswechsel in der DSAP, verbunden mit einem Wechsel an der Parteispitze von Czech zu Jaksch. Damit endete auch die Regierungsbeteiligung dieser Partei.

Die führende Persönlichkeit der "Negativisten" war Rudolf Lodgman von Auen, bei Kriegsende Landeshauptmann der kurzlebigen Provinz Deutschböhmen. Seine Deutsche Nationalpartei (DNP) bestand bis 1933. Daneben gab es von 1919 bis 1933 die Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (DNSAP).

Münchner Konferenz
Henlein und die SdP orientierten sich zwar in den ersten Jahren wenigstens äußerlich am Aktivismus, ab 1937 wandten sie sich jedoch ganz offen Hitler und seiner Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei in Berlin zu und wurden so zum Wegbereiter des Anschlusses der Sudetengebiete an das Deutsche Reich.

Im April 1938 erhob Henlein in Karlsbad seine letzten Forderungen, bekannt als Karlsbader Programm, die zur Sudetenkrise führten. Sie endete nach einer britisch-französisch-tschechoslowakischen Einigung vom 19./21. und 25. September 1938 über die von dem britischen Vermittler Walter Runciman empfohlene Abtretung überwiegend deutsch besiedelter Gebiete (28.942 km² und 3.710 Gemeinden inkl. Petržalka und Devín bei Bratislava/Slowakei) an das Deutsche Reich mit dem Münchner Abkommen (zwischen Großbritannien, Frankreich, Italien und Deutschland) vom 29. September 1938 "über die Bedingungen und Modalitäten vorerwähnter Einigung" (vom 19./21. und 25. September). Die Tschechoslowakei wurde zu den Verhandlungen nicht beigezogen. Der Einmarsch deutscher Truppen erfolgte vertragsgemäß vom 1. bis 10. Oktober 1938.

Siehe auch
 Sudetenland
 Länder der Böhmischen Krone
 Erste Tschechoslowakische Republik
 Böhmische Gebiete Deutschösterreichs
 Deutschböhmen und Deutschmährer
 Briefmarken des Sudetenlands
 Vertreibung der Deutschen aus der Tschechoslowakei nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und hierzu das zweisprachige illustrierte Buch "Zmizelé Sudety / Das verschwundene Sudetenland",  herausgegeben vom Verein  ANTIKOMPLEX  und seinem Autorenkollektiv  in 5. Auflage mit 727 Seiten in Domažlice 2007, ISBN 978-80-86125-21-3.

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 Alfred Bohmann: Das Sudetendeutschtum in Zahlen. Hrsg. vom Sudetendeutschen Rat, München 1959.
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 Ferdinand Seibt: Deutschland und die Tschechen. Geschichte einer Nachbarschaft in der Mitte Europas. 3. Auflage, Piper, München 1997, ISBN 3-492-11632-9.
 Tomáš Krystlík: Zamlčené dějiny, Prag 2008, ISBN 978-80-87197-06-6 (in deutscher Sprache unter dem Titel Verschwiegene Geschichte 1918-1938-1948-1968 erschienen in Dinkelsbühl 2009, ISBN 978-3-9812414-3-3).
 Jörg K. Hoensch: Geschichte Böhmens. 4. Auflage, C.H. Beck, München 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65015-4.
 Wolfgang Bruder u.a.Benannte in: "Die Erträumung der tschechischen Nation" und die Nationalikone Frantisek Palacky aus Hotzendorf im Kuhländchen, Schrift des Vereins Alte Heimat Kuhländchen, Wiesloch 2018, ISBN 978-3-87336-635-0, 50 Seiten, http://d-nb.info/1171380186
 Jan Gerber: Ein Prozess in Prag. Das Volk gegen Rudolf Slánský und Genossen. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2016

Weblinks
 Christian Unger (über František Palacký): Der böhmische Traum, in: Zeit Online, 2009. Siehe auch unter Literatur die Schrift von Wolfgang Bruder.
 Zdenek Beneš und Václav Kůral (Herausgeber für das Kultusministerium der Tschechischen Republik): Geschichte verstehen. Die Entwicklung der deutsch-tschechischen Beziehungen in den böhmischen Ländern 1848–1948. Prag, Gallery s.r.o. 2002, ISBN 80-86010-66X. Im Kapitel II werden u. a. die erfolgreichen Bemühungen der tschechoslow. Exilpolitiker um die Staatswerdung und – S. 62/63 – die erreichte Anerkennung aufgrund der Teilhabe am Krieg durch čsl. militärische Einheiten auf der Siegerseite dargestellt.
 SZ Zeitstrahl: Deutsche in Tschechien 1918–1938 und später; https://gfx.sueddeutsche.de/apps/55239b61a5cb12a658042aaf/mobile/#/0

Einzelnachweise

Erste Tschechoslowakische Republik
Sudetenland
Deutsch-tschechoslowakische Beziehungen
Minderheitenpolitik

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ATD Fourth World, present in Peru for the past thirty years, conducts projects relating to access to knowledge and culture, respect for human rights, and the active participation of people living in extreme poverty in the life of their community.
These projects take place in three very different contexts: Lima, the urban capital; Cusco, a medium-sized city; and Cuyo Grande, a very low-income indigenous rural community near Cusco.
Each week in four different communities, six to ten young facilitators sit on the ground with children who have no other access to culture. Together, they read books, create artwork, and appreciate beauty — a first step toward education, self-expression, and knowledge. The Street Libraries take place every Saturday in the Vista Alegre slum of Lima, the rural community of La Vizcachera close to the capital, the Moises Barreda neighborhood of Cusco, and rural Cuyo Grande. A total of 250 children participate.
Small groups of four or five people meet regularly with an ATD Fourth World Volunteer Corps member in their neighborhood. Together, they work on a proposed topic and prepare a presentation for larger Uyarinakusunchis meetings where all these groups come together with guests, professionals, experts, academics, and others. The Uyarinakusunchis take place in Lima (20 participants) and in Cusco (75 participants). They allow for an exchange of ideas between people living in poverty and other stakeholders in society and provide an irreplaceable space for citizen participation.
Opened in 2013, this house is a place for cultural, educational, and training activities. It has a library and a computer workshop. Open four days a week, it holds film discussions, ceramic workshops, and early-childhood experiential learning activities. With 200 participants, these activities aim to teach skills, support access to culture and knowledge, and develop the capacities of people living in poverty based on their aspirations and their talents. The House of Culture creates links between people experiencing exclusion and others in the community; they are brought together by cultural, creative, and intellectual activities. Relationships developed here change the way people look at each other, which is a key factor in reducing exclusion in this very low-income rural community.
The annual budget for ATD Fourth World–Peru is $157,000 (€140,000).


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HCC's enrollment falls by almost 7 percent
Mary Clarkin
Hutchinson Community College's preliminary fall semester enrollment reveals a drop by nearly 7 percent in full-time-equivalent students from a year ago.
"It didn't catch us by surprise," said Hutchinson Community College President Carter File. Enrollment numbers "are pretty soft across the board," he said, and it's a nationwide trend.
People can go from high school to higher paying jobs, he said. When the economy has a low jobless rate, community colleges see enrollments dip.
The Hutchinson college has seen numbers slip in recent years, but File said this year's drop by 6.94 percent to 3,261 students - down by 243 from 2017 - was more significant than earlier, smaller declines,
"It's not due to a lack of effort," File said.
Four-year universities in Kansas were mostly steady, although Fort Hays State University climbed by over 2 percent and at almost 9,500 students is fourth behind the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, and Wichita State University. Pittsburg State University experienced an enrollment decline of almost 4 percent.
The majority of community colleges reported a loss of full-time enrollment this fall. The biggest percentage drop was felt at Dodge City Community College, tumbling by 15 percent to 1,079.
Other community colleges in the region reported new enrollments:
-Barton Community College: 2,553, down 1.58 percent
-Garden City Community College: 1,436. down 6.82 percent
-Pratt Community College: 875, up 2.14 percent
-Seward County Community College: 1,188, up 2.14 percent.

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In Times of Crisis, It's Sports To The Rescue
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BY CONOR FORREST STAFF WRITER
It came and went in just a few short days. It was late August in 2005 when the most destructive storm in modern American history rocked the southern gulf coast of the U.S. Right in the heart of the storm was the city of New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29, 2005, just east of New Orleans. The cost of damages and the loss of human life forever reshaped Louisiana and the lives of those who called it home. The storm eventually weakened into a tropical depression, and slowly faded away into the atmosphere. But what was left behind was a city in ruin, and over a million people left without their homes.
As the south prepared for Hurricane Katrina, one place served as the final means of protection for those who didn't evacuate and chose to stay behind. That place was the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, the home of the New Orleans Saints.
Thousands of residents packed themselves into the Superdome for shelter dressed in the black and gold of their hometown football team. After all, there wasn't a storm on earth that could take away the city's love for their Saints.
On Sept. 25, 2006, the New Orleans Saints returned to their home city for the first time in over a year. After the cleanup efforts had paved the way to a repaired stadium, and the area was finally on the road to recovery, thousands filled the Superdome on a Monday night. This time, it wasn't about survival. It was about football.
The Saints went on to win against their division rival Atlanta Falcons in primetime, and a few short years later, in 2010, they hoisted the Lombardi Trophy.
Sports have always been an escape. It's an escape from politics. It's an escape from the stress of our life and work that cloud our heads every day. It entertains us, it breaks our hearts and it gives us incredible joy. There has never been a period in our lifetime where the sports world just stopped.
The global health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic has completely put a pause on life as we know it. Going out to restaurants, going out to the movies on a Friday night, visiting the mall with friends, even going to school has all been put on hold. Along with daily self-quarantine, the sports world has been put on hold for the foreseeable future.
The NBA, NHL and MLB all announced the indefinite suspension of their seasons. The Masters, the Olympics and the Kentucky Derby will be or have been rescheduled. The NCAA canceled all spring events, wiping out hundreds of games across the country, including March Madness. Mason's men's basketball team made the trip to Brooklyn for the Atlantic 10 tournament, and after defeating St. Joe's in the first round, the A-10 canceled the tournament.
Thousands of senior athletes left without finishing their scheduled games. From women's to men's sports, across the world, the cleats, skates and sneakers of athletes have all been hung up indefinitely.
While some of us telework for our jobs, and some of us video conference ourselves to class, one thing has made itself quite apparent in recent weeks.
The world feels different without sports.
The times we want to kick off our shoes and watch a mid-week hockey or basketball game are now filled with countless hours of the Cooking Channel or PBS. But the love of sports remains even when the sports world itself is on hold, and in times of struggle and pain, we find a way to turn back to sports to bring us together. Just like Hurricane Katrina in the City of New Orleans, the pandemic of 2020 will come and go.
The hard times and struggles will take time to rebuild. But when the storm of coronavirus passes, and the world begins to reopen, the sports we love will take center stage once again.
And this time, it will be bigger and better than ever before.
The Kentucky Derby will race again. The Olympics in Tokyo will eventually go on. The NCAA, NHL, NBA and every other sports league around the country and across the globe will begin again.
While we look to each other for help and guidance in combating the uncertainties that lie ahead, we should take a moment to look at history to help us understand the best path to the future.
Just a few weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that shook the world, President George W. Bush took to the mound in Game 3 of the 2001 World Series to throw the opening pitch. "USA! USA! USA!" filled Yankee Stadium, etching a moment that will forever be remembered in sports and cultural history.
The 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y. saw the United States Hockey team defy the odds by upsetting the Soviet Union, which became known as the "Miracle on Ice." Hockey in the U.S. took flight from that moment on.
Sports have historically lifted people from moments of pain and hardship, and if history is destined to repeat itself, be ready for when the pandemic of today comes and goes and life is restored to normal.
Sports are bound to come to the rescue, just as they have so many times before.
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Dancing Derek
Derek always seemed to have a presence during Mollie's and my choreography sessions. We found ourselves asking "How would this compliment Derek?" Of course, that didn't matter because Derek was almost always the hardest working student at rehearsals. If the movement didn't compliment him, he would practice the steps until they did. Derek was magnetic on stage and it was difficult not to cater the choreography to him. He was an incredible role model to students in the theatre program in that way. During notes at the last dance rehearsal for Shrek, I said this, "Derek is pulling my eye because he is putting so much joy into the movement. I believe him. If the rest of you are having as much fun as Derek, show me."
Mollie and I had a lot of other encounters with Derek. As dance teachers, we are connected to a lot of young people in Pittsburg through our work in the studio or in rehearsals. But Derek went out of his way to become our friends outside of dance. We cheered on the Royals during long rehearsals, discussed stylish haircuts, and ran lines together. These non-dance related encounters are the moments we are grateful for now.
This photo was taken in the studio where Mollie and I choreographed Shrek. It's a tiny space in Mollie's basement. While choreographing, we imagined how well Derek could fill that space, and eventually an auditorium of thousands, with the energy he brought to the stage. It felt fitting to make Derek a permanent presence in our little room so that we are always reminded of how great an influence he was to our work.
— Maggie Stephens (PHS Class of 2007)
— Mollie Stephens (PHS Class of 2010)
A dog, a smile, and stinky kisses
Today is National Puppy Day, a day in the past that would mean as much to me as Talk Like a Pirate Day, but this year… I have a puppy and this day means something to me now. Here's our story about our super, special puppy.
A couple of months ago when Kyle and I were home by ourselves, because our teens had better things to do, we started toying with the idea of getting a dog. I had seen something that said, "When you have teenagers it's important to have a dog so at least someone is excited to see you." I've never been a huge animal lover, but my kids have always wanted a pet. Part of me wanted someone excited to see me and part of me wanted my kids to have a really good reason to stay home or come downstairs every once in a while.
Kyle and I had narrowed it down to a Shih Tzu and were going to surprise the kids. At a New Year's Eve party my friend Jenny, who owns a kennel, and I started talking about a litter that was just born and would be ready around Valentine's Day. Her dad, David, was at this party and again at our Super Bowl party. While Jenny and I talked about which dog in the litter would be the best one for us to get, David and I were playing cards. He was cheating and giving me a hard time, always smiling about it, laughing, being his ornery self.
I had decided on a girl puppy and wanted to name her Rozie in honor of my favorite person my grandma Mary Rozella, who was born on Valentine's Day which is one of the reasons it is my favorite holiday. Monday after Valentine's Day, Jenny secretly brought me the 8-week-old puppy Rozie and we surprised the kids with her. Makayla mildly freaked out, Logan picked me up and started hugging me, they were both so happy and instantly fell in love with her (Kyle and I did too).
The next day, Makayla's best friends Derek, Aspen, and Macy came over to meet her. Rozie loved Derek and she kept licking and kissing his face. He was laughing his distinguishable laugh and that charming smile and called her Rosetta Stone. It was so funny. Kyle and I couldn't stop laughing at those two. These teenagers were exhausted as they prepared for Shrek that week, and this little puppy seemed to really perk them up and made them temporarily forget their nerves.
Less than two weeks later, on a Sunday night, we got information that will forever haunt us. Derek had been killed in a car accident, but Aspen was okay and at the hospital. As I went to the hospital and hugged all of these amazing high schoolers and tried to be the support they desperately needed, I couldn't cry, not that I couldn't feel it and not that I didn't want to as I thought about this loss to his family and friends, I just couldn't because these kids needed me then. It wasn't until we got home late that night that I found out that the other victim in this horrific accident was David, another heart-wrenching, devastating blow that brought me to my knees, but all I could do was crawl in bed and hope to wake up and pray it would be Sunday morning again.
The next morning, as I was in the kitchen by myself drinking coffee, I finally broke down and just cried and cried. Rozie started to whimper and begged me to pick her up. She started licking my face, licking my tears. I remembered her licking Derek's face the same way and it made me smile. Her breath was awful of course and it almost was bad enough to stop her, but I could picture David laughing about it so I didn't. There have been so many times in the last three weeks that Rozie has made our whole family smile, when we didn't want to or feel like it.
My point to this long story is that Rozie, who came into our lives at the perfect time, will always be a special puppy. She will always remind me of three amazing people with her name, her kisses, and her bad breath. 😋
Tami, Jennifer, and Melissa - Rozie reminds me everyday of your favorite people. She's always good for stinky kisses, if you ever need them. ❤
— Ashlei Bockover
"Drama Mama"
Messages in chalk
The second or third day after Derek's death, these caught my attention at morning drop-off at school and I found myself having to pull over and search for a Kleenex. A teacher — or someone — had thoughtfully put out buckets of sidewalk chalk so that students could express themselves. I knew rain was in the forecast, and that chalk drawings wouldn't last forever, so my instinct was to turn the car around and return to school, wait until everyone was inside, and take photos of each message to preserve them. Now seems a good time to finally share them, as Derek's mom, Tami, says she worries that in the weeks to come the public might forget Derek as daily life becomes once again routine. My guess, though, is that every day students and teachers arrive at this school, they still remember Derek — even if the chalk drawings have faded and washed away.
— Andra Bryan Stefanoni
"Drama Mama" and PHS Class of 1988
Theatre is Family
The past week my mind has been trying to remember every little moment I have had with Derek. Trying to remember every time I talked to him, and what we talked about. Derek and I had first met around preschool age through our older sisters, and then we reconnected again in high school through the performing arts program. I knew I wanted to write a memory for this page that showed how caring Derek was for his theater family. This year during the thespian conference we had been working our tails off. We were all tired and frazzled. I had not been sleeping well in the hotel and I had been upset because my boyfriend had left the conference to go to state auditions for band. I found my self standing in the lobby of the hotel crying my eyes out for no reason when I think back to it. Derek and Aspen saw me and with out even asking me why I was upset they just gave me a hug. In the moment it didn't mean much it was just another hug, but thinking about it now it seems like so much more. Although this is a small memory it is one I will always remember.
— Lydia Winters, senior, PHS
Sorry for the bad quality but this is one of my favorite photos. This picture was taken right after we found out Band Geeks was going to state conference, and right before the Shrek cast list was posted.
Remembering 'elliott'
In the midst of a hectic show week, our thespians took time to honor a fellow thespian, one who shared a lot of joy with us and gave us wonderful memories from State Conference. To everyone in Pittsburg, thank you for sharing your show, and your friend Derek, with us.
— Stella Productions, Thespian Troupe 287, Leavenworth High School
(Honoring Derek with a tuba in reference to his role as the tuba-carrying "Elliott" in "Band Geeks," which the troupe saw at State Conference. By a twist of fate, the show they were producing when they stopped to honor Derek was "Our Town," which was Pittsburg High School's first show of the school year and featured Derek as a cast member.)
"We SHall Overcome/Lean on Me"
Yesterday, hundreds of people who knew and loved Derek gathered at Memorial Auditorium for a celebration of his life. A highlight was this performance, a song by the PHS Multigenerational Choir under the direction of his choir teacher, Susan Laushman. As a member of this choir last fall, Derek had joined in singing this song during the annual concert.
My family did not know Derek but my son, Ethan (7yrs old), was very drawn to his recent performance as Pinocchio. I do wish we had gotten a picture the day we attended the musical. During quiet times, when Ethan is drawing or playing some make believe game, I hear him singing. Always the same song "Story of My Life" the Pinocchio parts. I just wanted to say that it takes a true talent and amazing spirit to reach a random unknown kid in the audience. Derek did that for my son - even though we never met him, his spark lit a torch and touched my son's life.
-Jess Nicholson
In Derek's words
When looking back through Derek's Twitter account to prepare his obituary and a column for the March 7 Joplin Globe, I came across these last two tweets of his that seem to summarize perfectly the kind of person Derek was. I will always be grateful to have gotten to see him perform, and grateful that he was such a good role model for the underclassmen who got to perform with him.
— Andra Stefanoni, PHS Drama Mama
Just the little things
I just wanted to share this photo that I took when my family went to see Shrek in Pittsburg. We didn't know Derek, but I'm so thankful we were able to get this photo of him with my niece and my son. My son was so excited to meet him and as a shy 5 year old, didn't want to go up and ask him for a picture when we spotted him in the lobby. Derek saw the kids standing near him and asked if they wanted a picture with him. The kids were beyond thrilled to say the least! I will forever be grateful and remember him going out of his way to be so kind. Such a sweet kid, and I'm truly saddened and heartbroken for all his friends and family. We will cherish this photo and small memory of him always.
-Darcie Wall
"When The going gets tough"
Thanks for sharing Tatum Vonwinklepleck:
This page, "Story of My Life: A Tribute to Derek Brumbaugh," will be authored by the many people whose lives were touched in some way big or small by Derek Brumbaugh. It will be maintained by a student and a parent volunteer. Memories, photos, and video clips may be emailed to [email protected] for posting here.


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Brands acquire customer data using Covid-19 vaccine giveaways
America's rising vaccination numbers have helped Drop, a rewards app, add a new section to its playbook for acquiring customers.Since launching April 2, the company's recent #DropCovid initiative gave new customers up to $50 in credit for getting vaccinated and proving it (with a picture of them getting the vaccine or of the sticker they received for doing so) by June 30th. The app has seen 15,000 users redeem such Covid codes and is on track to meet its goal of 20,000 by June, according to Drop's CRO Paul Crowe. So far, 75% of the redeemed codes are new users — that's a little over 11,000 new user names, phone numbers, and email addresses.
Drop was one of several brands that offered freebies to folks who prove they've gotten their Covid-19 vaccines and gained valuable zero-party data in the process — a tactic that will boost their targeted marketing efforts, along with those of other, like-minded brands.
Anheuser-Busch brands Budweiser and Sam Adams each sent the first 10,000 qualifying participants money to buy themselves a beer if those who qualified shared their vaccinated selfie on social media and provided key information — such as their name, email, birthday and zip code. So Good So You, a probiotic juice company, mailed coupons for free juice shots in exchange for a consumer's name, email address, and mailing address. The response was so overwhelming that they had to stop taking sign-ups after launching it on April 5th.
"We had intended for this to run through June 30th, but we hit our goal of 10,000 sign-ups in the first few weeks," said Rita Katona, co-founder of So Good So You.
The giveaways increase brand-building and offer a nice booster shot's worth of new customer data, and a chance to build a direct commercial relationship with them.
"If you don't believe in vaccinations, then you don't participate, but if you do, that's an amazing touchpoint on aligning values and loyalty," said Tim Glomb, vp of content and data at Cheetah Digital. "People often think of loyalty as post-purchase, but this is loyalty at the beginning."
Underlying all this is the growing importance of zero and first party data in a cookieless world.
"First-party data is absolutely critical, now more than ever," said Fatemeh Khatibloo, vp and principal analyst at research firm Forrester, in an email. "Brands and CMOs need to be more focused on data strategy than they have been, and really understand not just the data they have, but the data they need in order to deliver first-rate customer experience."
Katona said the giveaway helped build out their customer database. So Good So You actually halted its own DTC shipping to focus on fulfilling wholesale orders, but plans to re-establish their site's e-commerce capability in the coming months.
Drop is excited about their new data as well. "We now have this valuable dataset that allows us and our partners to connect to that [vaccinated] group and possibly give them high-value offers," said Crowe. "Companies want to speak to people who have that mindset."
Both Crowe and Katona said this kind of "data for giveaway" plan is something they would try again in the future, calling it a new tool in their marketing tool belts. Some consumers may not mind that trade either. A recent survey of 1,000 U.S. adults by Inmar Intelligence, a data company, found that 90% of consumers believe a brand's ability to personalize their shopping experience impacts the amount consumers spend with that brand.
The highly charged events of the past year also put lots of brands in an uncomfortable position of having to take sides in very heated conversations about topics including racial justice. But for some brands, the vaccine is "something undeniably good for the world," as Crowe put it.
"We can't blanket their intentions, but brands know that at least half of the country agrees with vaccines," said Glomb. "There is a larger feeling that people getting vaccinated is ubiquitously good."
So Good So You and Drop were surprised that more brands didn't take advantage of the opportunity. But it could be that many just may not have been nimble enough to get creative, legal, and supply chains set up in time, said Khatibloo. Drop had the idea for their campaign in late February and intended to launch in March. They switched it to start in April, when the vaccines were more widely available. So Good So You set up their giveaway in just two weeks.
But now that they've put that infrastructure in place — which ranged from mar-tech services used in-house as So Good So You did to the data Drop anonymized by using Snowflake — it'll be easier to deploy in the future.
"Our vision is to be the most personalized rewards program in the world," said Crowe. "We now have a new tool belt that we are able to quickly use that will let us run even more personalized campaigns."
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What Size Photos Are Allowed on Facebook?
By Erica Kasper
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Facebook is a great place to share photos of the people, places and things you care about. Before uploading photos to Facebook, ensure that your photos are within the size limitations (minimum and maximum) that Facebook imposes. If you're unsure of a photo's dimensions, you can hover your mouse over the file's icon and read the dimension information that appears. Alternatively, you can right-click the file, select "Properties" from the drop-down that appears, and then choose the "Details" tab to view the photo's file size and dimensions (for Mac users, choose "View" and then "Show View Options" from the Finder of your images folder, then check the box for "Show Item Info" and your photo file dimensions will be displayed under the filenames).
Facebook Profile Pictures
Be sure the image you use for your Facebook profile picture is at least 180 pixels on each side.
Your profile picture on Facebook has a minimum size of 180-by-180 pixels. If you attempt to upload a smaller image, you'll get an error message from Facebook notifying you that the photo is too small to use. Once uploaded, the display dimensions of your profile picture are 160-by-160 pixels, with a white border around the image that you can't remove. If you upload an image that isn't square, you can hover your mouse over the image, click "Edit Profile Picture" and "Edit Thumbnail," and tweak the image cropping to display the desired part of the picture. If your image is blurry, upload a file that is at least twice as large as the final image will be (such as a file that is at least 320-by-320 pixels) to get better photo quality.
Facebook Cover Images
When framing out your cover photo, make sure it's at least 720 pixels wide.
Your cover photo is the one that is displayed across the top of your Facebook profile page. Facebook requires a cover photo that is at least 720 pixels wide; the final display image is 851-by-315 pixels. If you upload a photo that is less than 720 pixels wide, you'll get an error message. If you upload a photo that is at least 720 pixels wide but more than 315 pixels high, you'll have the option to position and crop your image where you want it shown. Facebook cautions that you should not use commercial or promotional images in this space; nor should you use a picture that someone else is already using. For best results, a JPG file is ideal, unless you have text or a logo in your image. In that case, a PNG file is preferable.
Facebook Timeline Photos Have Limits, Sort Of
Photos can be up to 2048 pixels wide on your Facebook timeline.
Most of the images you'll post to Facebook will be on your timeline, which is where your friends and family will see them. On the surface, Facebook puts a maximum size limit of 2,048-by-2,048 pixels for images uploaded to the timeline. But in reality, that limit does not appear to be universally enforced. Photographers have reported uploading photos of 3,000 pixels wide or more with no problem. But if you upload images that are too large, your viewers will have trouble fitting the entire image on a monitor, so it isn't recommended to exceed the recommended dimensions limit.
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NZ's payroll system needs urgent attention: MYOB
With one of the most complex payroll systems in the world, New Zealand is at risk of strangling employment growth in red tape unless urgent attention is paid to streamlining the payroll system, according to the country's leading payroll provider, MYOB.
To address some of the immediate issues faced by local employers, MYOB is making a significant investment in the sector, launching a raft of payroll-focused initiatives, including a new online payroll solution, a payroll bureau and a mobile web app.
MYOB General Manager – SME Solutions James Scollay says employers of all sizes in New Zealand report spending too much time calculating and processing payroll.
"With the disconnected nature of the current systems, and so many different requirements for reporting and record keeping, it's easy to see why New Zealand is ranked as one of the world's most complex payroll environments," says James Scollay.
"New Zealand is generally considered a great place to start-up and run a business, but payroll is an area that remains mired in red tape."
According to the latest NGA Human Resources Global Payroll Complexity Index, New Zealand is ranked 10th internationally for payroll complexity, and 5th for the complexity of government reporting. Over 70 per cent of local employers pay their staff weekly, compounding the time required and the risk of errors in processing and reporting.
To help streamline the process for employers, MYOB is introducing a range of new payroll products and services as part of its focus on reimagining payroll for local businesses, according to Mr Scollay.
"MYOB's vision is to provide a connected and easy online payroll solution for all employers, whether they have one employee or over 500 staff," says James Scollay.
MYOB estimates that its software is used to pay over 30 per cent of the New Zealand workforce. The company has been investing strongly in the local market, developing new technology and extending the scale of its offerings with payroll-focused acquisitions including Pay Global in 2014 and ACE Payroll and IMS Payroll in 2015. MYOB now covers payroll for businesses of all sizes, from 1 – 20,000 employees.
MYOB's latest payroll product, Essentials Payroll, is an online solution which can be used as a stand-alone payroll system or integrated with MYOB Essentials Accounting. Essentials Payroll removes manual, time-consuming tasks, allowing employers to easily pay staff, track holiday entitlements, and manage reporting obligations while staying on top of any tax changes automatically.
"Our Essentials users tell us they have already cut time spent managing payroll by up to 40 per cent. This next-generation online solution takes that even further, letting employers pay their staff quickly and accurately in three easy steps or collaborate with their payroll provider to manage the process," says James Scollay.
"It's also going to streamline communication between employers and the IRD, which currently has to deal with a wide variation of systems and providers and still has to process paper returns from a significant proportion of businesses."
To complement the new Essentials Payroll, MYOB is introducing a new payroll intermediary service, MYOB PayAgent, at an extremely competitive price in the market compared other leading intermediary service providers. The service will allow customers to nominate MYOB as their payroll provider enabling them to outsource payments to staff and PAYE as well as their IRD reporting obligations.
The company is also focused on enhancing communication between employers and their staff, launching a new mobile web app, MYOB YourPay, which allows staff to complete timesheets and receive their payslips online. MYOB YourPay is an ideal way for employers to interact with employees who are on the go or working remotely. It helps streamline pay runs, minimise manual data entry and double handing and allow staff to clearly track leave entitlements.
For larger businesses wanting a fully featured cloud payroll solution, MYOB Advanced People will be launching later in 2016.
Mr Scollay says MYOB believes working to reduce payroll complexity for New Zealand businesses of all sizes will make a real difference to the local economy.
"Our vision is to provide a connected, end-to-end payroll solution for all employers that enables them to engage with employees, collaborate with service providers, automate compliance and integrate systems to minimise data duplication and manual processing," Mr Scollay says.
"We are confident this will boost productivity, reduce complexity for New Zealand employers and free up their time to focus on their business and what they do best."
MYOB is inviting partners and local businesses to register to trial the new products. The company is also hosting a nationwide Payroll Seminar Series, which will feature guest speakers from the IRD and MBIE, covering new legislative changes, employment law and employer obligations. Registrations for the Payroll Seminar Series open 15 February at www.myob.co.nz/events.
For MYOB product information, research results, business tips, discussions, customer service and more visit the MYOB enterprise webpage, or its The Pulse Blog, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook,Instagram and YouTube.
For further comment or other information please contact:
Rebecca Huang, MYOB NZ Public Relations Consultant
P: 09 925 3505 / M: 021 1122 720/ E: rebecca.huang@myob.com
Gerard Blank, The Agency Communications Limited Director
P: 03 341 5841 / M: 0275 243 629 / E: gerard@theagencynz.co.nz
MYOB (ASX:MYO) is a leading cloud based business management solutions provider. It makes business life easier for approximately 1.2 million businesses across Australia and New Zealand by simplifying accounting, payroll, tax, practice management, CRM, websites, job costing, inventory and more. MYOB provides ongoing support via many client service channels including a network of over 40,000 accountants, bookkeepers and other consultants. It is committed to ongoing innovation, particularly in cloud computing solutions, and in 2015 was awarded the BRW award for the most innovative large company for 500+ employees and placed 2nd in BRW's Most Innovative Companies Award list across all categories nationally. For more information, visit myob.co.nz or follow @MYOB on Twitter.


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From skotjnsn Thu May 2 00:16:30 1996
From: skotjnsn@armory.com (Scott Johnson)
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To: garrett
Subject: madre y padre
Date: Thu, 2 May 96 0:16:25 PDT
Message-ID: <9605020016.aa13474@deepthought.armory.com>
Status: R
Interesting set of revelations tonight... stuff that I'd known for a while suddenly came together just now in a 'conversation' with mi madre. Why feminists are right:
Another proof that feminists are right... my mother.
I look around, suddenly noticing that my mother has disappeared. 'Hmm', I think. 'She didn't even say anything.'
I look around the house. Finally, I go downstairs and find her in the room.
"Ah, there you are," I exclaim. "I wondered what happened to you."
"If I'm going to be alone, I might as well be alone by myself."
She says this in a very sob-laden voice, and I begin to roll my eyes, thinking that she's referring to me listening to music on my headphones while she sits around. But then, I realize that something much deeper is going on while she recounts all the times that my father has come home late from school, work, carshows, etc. without so much as considering her. Of course, through all this, there is a silent indictment of me and my own philosophy towards home life: stay away from home as much as possible so work can be accomplished.
"Whatever happened to me? My whole life I've simply been waiting for him. Waiting to come home for dinner, waiting, waiting. The whole world revolves around him."
I listen to this all, thinking that it is very plain that since my father is a political conservative and my mother has silently aqcuiessed to standard definitions of "femininity" her entire life, that she should expect this kind of treatment, but I don't say so, obviously.
"Men," she says, disparagingly. "The whole world revolves around them, I suppose."
I kind of laugh to myself, but only at the cliche, not the greivance. "Well?" Suddenly she's very agressive towards me. "What should I do? Continue begging?"
"I can't say a damn thing, mom. I live in a completely different social setting than you do."
(Ensuing complaint about how I'm never home deleted)
"No, that's not what I mean. I mean that I live in a world with completely different male-female relationships than the one you got married in."
I think, but somehow don't say this: "If I were to simply ignore the desires and ambitions of my girlfriend I wouldn't have a girlfriend."
I don't say it because I don't want my mother, still grappling with the ghosts of her dead parents and a dying society, having still further problems with herself after I tell her that most women today don't go along with that kind of bullshit. I don't want any lame-o psychological crap filtering through to her, like "if I were a strong woman I'd say no, but I'm weak" etc. etc. In short, she lives in a fantasy world; she's sleepwalking; and it's best not to wake a sleepwalker, you know what I mean? Let the dead bury the dead.
I understand her plight, and I'm glad most women don't allow themselves to get into this kind of a situation any longer. In fact, Torrey's mom divorced Torrey's father simply because she saw that he wanted her to wait on him her entire life. (Torrey is my girlfriend.) Obviously, the list of reasons is more complicated than that, but what it boils down to is that Gail (Torrey's mom) wouldn't have had a life of her own, much the same way that my mother has no life of her own. Three cheers for Gail, sober consideration and respect for my mother.
However, let me tell you why my father doesn't like to stay home.
In the 1950's, it was not okay to "do it" with a girl before you got married. He married a frigid woman, and didn't know it until the honeymoon. He must have had initial misgivings, but set them aside until too late.
My mother has never responded sexually to him, or anyone else, I imagine. I exist because she was willing to let my father do his thing in bed, but she was not that interested in the act.
As a result, my father became a very frustrated individual very quickly. I tend to feel that men find expression of their love more readily in sexuality (though I may easily be quite dead wrong) and when the woman my father loved didn't respond at all to his thrusting, he must have felt a little frustrated and unloved. Of course, I don't imagine he was able to voice these feelings in quite this way.
From this inauspicious beginning they created a family. It is 32 years later. Let's take census.
My father married a woman incapable of sexual love. As my father is a very sexual individual (this is quite true) he became more than annoyed at my mother's inability to share his joy. My mother becomes little more than an annoying woman who cooks dinner for him and listens to him. Since she comes from a Catholic family, she has been trained to shut her mouth and listen to men. Years later she will contribute, but she feels rather guilty about the whole thing.
(This last revelation came up in a conversation earlier today, in which I found that I, an atheist, know more about Catholic theology in greater detail than she, a Catholic, could possibly know. How is this? Never looked into her beliefs. I looked into them, found that they were perfectly self-consistent, but unfortunately, absurd.)
What kind of man wants to stay home with a nagging, yelling woman who doesn't know that "sex" isn't a dirty word anymore, and hasn't been for twenty-five years?
I don't mean to idolize my father and turn my mother into the stereotypical frump, but the patterns are definitely there, and there's no sense in denying them.
Again, the feminists are right. Women are entitled to their own lives. My mother is living proof that this ought to be an accepted truism.
Nothing is certain when you're about, eh?
Santa Cruz, California 5/2/96


The SFU students had a few days off and went to Nadi village above the McLeod Ganj area (higher than upper Dharamsala. We attended The Dalai Lama's teaching. We sat with a large group of monks and nuns. His Holiness's teaching was taught in Tibetan language and we had no clue what he was saying until some monks shared their radios and headsets with English translation. His teaching was very good and I took some notes (though the translation was not very clear).
A few of us went hiking last Saturday with Chok, our Tibetan language teacher. The hike was called the Triund Ridge and we left at 4:30am. We had to take a taxi up to meet Chok near a Hindu temple (Galu temple). Our taxi had trouble climbing the rocky, steep hill so we had to get out so the driver could get the car up. We started walking in pitch dark and an hour later we saw the beautiful crimson sky at the start of the sunrise.
The temperature was chilly as we were close to 7,000 feet in elevation. As the sun came up, we passed a large herd of sheep with many baby lambs...so cute! It took us only 2.5 hours to get to the ridge and we were at awe when we saw the mountains. Ten years ago, the mountain tops had glacial ice but unfortunately, we saw clear evidence of global warming as the glacier had diminished to only a small patch.
When we arrived at the ridge, we saw tents, tea shops, people having breakfast and even a guest house. Of course we had to have tea and it was the best masala tea that I've had in India so far! We even practiced some yoga moves to stretch our muscles. The environment reminded me of Joffery Lakes near Pemberton.
We spent five hours up there had a great time talking and learning from Chok. He had been a monk for 10 years but was disrobed after he went to France and experienced his first temptation. He shared some Buddhist philosophy and told us about Tibetan debating skills (really cool that all Buddhist monks learn how to debate to enhance logical thinking skills).
Laurie Wong, a Bachelor of Physical Education and Coaching grad, is in India with the Professional Development Program (PDP) at SFU as part of the International Teacher Education Module. She will be filing stories for doug during her adventures in India – stay tuned.


It has been my first year involved with Kiltimagh Tourism Association but what a year we have had. When we started out last year it's a good thing we were clueless or we might not have signed up if we know all that would be ahead of us, we started out intending to continue the good work of the committee that was there before us. We first got together as a committee in early October 2015 and we decided to run some fundraisers before the Christmas. It all began in November where we ran a fashion show movie night and finally stars in their eyes which we saw a huge community involvement, after Christmas we ran operation transformation in conjunction with the TV show, this saw 8 leaders getting involved and not only were they shedding the pounds but also raising over €11000 for charity, In march seen a great St Patricks weekend festival, huge crowds turned up to both take part in the festivities and watch the parade which has become one of the main parades in Mayo.
July 2016 saw the rejuvenation of the Coilte Come Home festival after some many years, this proved to be a huge success due to the hard work and commitment of our committee members in conjunction with the Race2Glory Committee and Donal Byrne of The Big Red Barn.
We had a fantastic election campaign for our King/Queen of the coiltes which involved 8 candidates running for the prestigious title Padriac 'Tulip' Walsh was elected king in a tightly run election which was held on Thursday night of the festival. At this point I would like to thank them all for getting involved and to their campaign managers also who kept them in check, they raised over €4000 for the M.S. Association which was presented on the night of the election.
On Friday evening we seen a number of teams partaking in our annual Tug of War competition on the streets of the town, after them proceedings we had our local samba band parade through the town and Padraic officially opened the festival followed by a fantastic display of fireworks this led onto Robert Mizell playing in The Big Red Barn.
On Saturday we saw a huge increase in numbers for the Race2Glory. It was a spectacular event with many local competitors competing. On Saturday evening we held a publican's race and the Tavern came out victorious on this occasion. Saturday night Robert Mizell drew huge crowds to the Big Red Barn.
On Sunday we held a family day with different novelty events for all ages, this came all free to our community who came out in huge numbers and had a fantastic day. We rounded the events off with our tug of war final which was won by Cosby's, we hope to see them back next year defending their title.
Overall it was such an enjoyable year and I as a chairperson have had such an enjoyable year. we have already events lined up for next year again which includes our Stars in their eyes our St Patricks weekend festival which we welcome our old friends back again the Quaker City Band and also you will see from our website all the activities for our Annual Coilte Come Home Festival which is planned for July 2017. We would hope that anyone who is planning a weekend away or our own Coilltes who are living abroad would join us to celebrate this fantastic festival , I would recommend you come along for this weekend and make it an annual event!!!
Monday 17th July 2017 – Coillte Cup Golf Competition in Balla.


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Rev. Jim Shaw
Rev. Jim Shaw has been with ARC since 2011. He is the former director of a classical Christian school serving at-risk and low-income students in Bessemer, Alabama. His particular focuses are in the areas of Christian Ethics and Cultural Apologetics. In addition to counseling individuals, Jim regularly speaks and teaches on matters relating to the homosexual agenda and "gay marriage;" the church's response to illegal immigration; post-modernism and relativism; church and state and numerous other subjects – a listing can be found in our Cultural Apologetics track. Jim received his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama, and the Master of Divinity from Birmingham Theological Seminary. He is an ordained Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church of America.
Jim and his wife Brook have been married for sixteen years and they have three children.
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Q: www to non-www with removing extensions htaccess i've removed .php extensions first on my website. then i've forwarded www to non-www version. but there is a problem with that.
my .htaccess file looks like this:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ $1.php
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ /$1/$2.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule (.*)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^188\.166\.104\.194
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

www forwards to non-www with that .htaccess. that is cool. but the problem is with the other files.
i'm now using: http://example.com/contact instead of: http://example.com/contact.php
but when you try to open http://www.example.com/contact that .htaccess forwards me to http://example.com/contact.php/
how do i fix that?
have a nice day!

A: Change the order of rules and some refactoring:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.example\.com|188\.166\.104\.194)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule (.*)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ $1.php [L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ /$1/$2.php [L]

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Q: Issue with JSON Schema object validation (How does it work internally)? BACKGROUND:
I have mockedup my issue here for reference:
https://jsonschemalint.com/#/version/draft-06/markup/json?gist=4c185903d7aeb13f6977852a09cf5462
and I am using this npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsonschema
CODE
//i read in JSON specified in files (the contents of which are below) and parse them into JSON objects. This process works fine.

var jsonDef = JSON.parse(schemaFile); //i store this jsonDef in my database as an object
var jsonObj = JSON.parse(objFile);
var jsonv = new JSONValidator();

var validateResult = jsonv.validate(jsonObj, jsonDef); //jsonDef is read from my database
//validateResult.valid is true

PROBLEM:
I have a general schema + metadata definition like so ("props" contains the actual object schema I want to validate)
schemaFile:
{
    "name":"schoolDemo",
    "displayName":"School Demo",
    "propertiesKey":"assetId",
    "props":{
        "assetId": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "grade": {
            "type": "number"
        }
    }
}

objFile:
{
    "assetId": "75255972",
    "grade": "A"
}

However, when I try to validate against the following user-input object, it succeeds. Shouldn't it fail because:
(1) there is no "properties" element in the initial metadata+schema definition? This field seems to be required based on the examples shown here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsonschema
(2) the type for grade is not a number
What am I doing wrong?

A: The validation is passing because the schema is not well formed ("properties" is missing).
Try this instead and then the validation will fail:
{
  "name": "schoolDemo",
  "displayName": "School Demo",
  "propertiesKey": "assetId",
  "properties": {
    "assetId": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "grade": {
      "type": "number"
    }
  }
}


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Emiliano Dumestre Guaraglia (born February 11, 1987 in Colonia del Sacramento) is a Uruguayan rower. He is a two-time medalist in the men's double and quadruple sculls at the 2010 South American Games in Medellín.

Dumestre represented Uruguay at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he and his partner Rodolfo Collazo finished fourth in the C-final, and sixteenth overall in the men's lightweight double sculls, with a time of 6:51.94.

Dumestre is a graduate of agricultural studies at Universidad de la Empresa Business School in Montevideo.

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Rethinking collaborative innovation processes: Don't focus on goals but steer the network's dynamic
A new foresight method for managing innovation networks, as well as an instrument for measuring innovative processes in real-time have been created and elaborated during the research project "Dynamic Innovation Networks in Disaster Management".
By: Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE)
Christina Weber 'Real-time Foresight' ISBN 978-3-00-055001-0 (c) SCE
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MUNICH - Feb. 7, 2017 - PRLog -- In close cooperation, the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE), Munich University of Applied Sciences and Leiden University in the Netherlands have created a new foresight method for managing innovation networks, as well as an instrument for measuring innovative processes in real-time, elaborated during the research project "Dynamic Innovation Networks in Disaster Management". The research project has been supported by the Hella Langer Foundation and now was concluded in a traditional festive venue at Leiden University the 20th of December 2016 with the defense of the dissertation titled "Real-time foresight – preparedness for dynamic innovation networks", written by PhD Christina Weber.
Global challenges can only be solved in collaboration with different partners. For some time past, thus cooperative networks are considered to be the best possible framework to convert locations into hubs for innovation, or to react effectively on emerging crises. Nevertheless, reality still differs: Despite digital support and best possible planning, many innovation projects fail due to initial uncertainty and the difficulty to overcome differences. Collaborating in real-time without preset goals remains to be an unpredictable risk. Many organizations and companies shy away from ad hoc collaboration with unknown partners, even though they are in urgent need of innovative solutions.
Using reconstruction efforts after global catastrophes as an example, the SCE research project investigated this problem, under supervision of Prof. Dr. Jaap van den Herik from Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS, Leiden University). The study aimed at exploring thoroughly how network collaborations can be successful, sustainable and innovative in a troubled and dynamic environment. The results suggest that there is in fact no such thing as sudden well-performing "adhocracies", but rather collaborations that follow underlying procedural network dynamics instead of disrupting these success patterns.
By conducting a comparative analysis of critical events, heterogeneous socio-technical agents and repeating communication patterns, three complex global actor-networks have been observed for seven years. Innovative and sustainable reconstruction turned out to be possible where five success patterns verifiably took place. By identifying those patterns, the so-called "dynamic network principles", the study makes an important contribution to the investigation of processual network management and the evaluation of innovation networks – and start-up teams.
"While we were dealing from the beginning of this research with the question of why traditional planning and management approaches fail when it comes to innovative solutions for urging problems, real-time feedback and real-time foresight have not been on the agenda", stated Dr. Christina Weber and Prof. Dr. Klaus Sailer. Therefore, it is true that explorative studies are innovative projects in itself. If the research process had not been kept open, the recognition of the five success patterns would not have occurred.
The results of the scientific work are accessible to the public at the library of the University of Leiden. (https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/45051). Real-time foresight has already been included in the SCE's entrepreneurial teaching formats. The indicator-model to measure innovative processes while those are occurring, and not when they have already happened, is of great importance for supporting start-ups and will be applied to other research project at the Munich University of Applied Sciences' incubator.
Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship
Dr. Christina Weber (christina.weber@sce.de)
Head of Research
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The Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) of the Munich University of Applied Sciences offers training and research programs in the field of entrepreneurship, and encourages innovation processes and the development of entrepreneurial personalities. SCE supports business start-ups from science and guides young businesses from idea development to marketable innovation. In this way SCE actively contributes to shaping the future of our society and to establishing a comprehensive start-up culture. SCE was founded in 2002 as an affiliated institute of the Munich University of Applied Sciences (MUAS). In July 2011 SCE and MUAS became one of the six EXIST Start-Up Universities in Germany. For further information, visit http://www.sce.de/en/home.html
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This largely unedited free-write is linking up with the annual Write 31 Days Challenge. // indicates the start and stop of five minutes. Today's prompt word is WALK. Go!
Day 3. Why does no one warn you about day 3?
The tears started afresh and out of her mouth gushed all of the insecurity and self-doubt that had ravaged her heart and mind for the last hours.
I hugged her and let her spend her tears on my shoulder. I remember that truck, the one that rolls over you without warning, over and over and over again. Her real mother was an ocean away―I felt the weight of maternal compassion. When the tears were spent, she sat, and I made her tea.
"What am I going to do?" she asked me.
I gently looked in her eyes, and answered, "Well, the first thing you are gonna do is open that door there." (On the other side of their apartment door lived thirty-five gap year students who were aching to hug their friend and see her beautiful baby).
"The Word says that 'God sets the lonely in families…' (Psalm 68:6). We are your family, my darling friend. You are no longer alone.
"The very reason that today feels sooo horrible is that there is no one here to share it with you. Those people outside that door, they are the answer to your pain. You are empty, and they have love to spend on you. You need to let them in.
So we made a plan. I baked some brownies and brewed the coffee. She washed away her tears and then rested on the couch.
And when the time was right, we opened the door together.
Thirty-five walked in, not including the multitude who floated in unawares. We saw and felt the difference.
ministering angels brought comfort, encouragement, confidence, hope, peace… and the first glimmers of joy again.
If ever you notice that a brother or sister has 'disappeared,' please be Father's hands and heart. Go… find them and call them back from the isolation.
Oh Emma, thank you so much for your comments. Those milestones in motherhood are so crucial, especially when hormones and the tiredness kick in together. I'm so grateful for community and relationships!
So nice to see you also writing for 31 Days. Heading over there soon to read yours. I love this group!


From its frontage to the A474, the site rises gently to the west to a low ridge.
In the broad valley landscape between Neath and the watershed above Rhos, the site does not occupy a prominent position which draws the eye.
The development of the site for housing would not materially harm the landscape setting of Neath, nor would it intrude harmfully into the landscape of the Clydach valley.
Because of the flatness of the valley base, the ridge is actually quite significant. We have undertaken a GPS survey of the ridge and of the village.
The top of the ridge stands some 43 feet above the junction of main road and Furzeland Drive, 50 feet above the junction of main road and Elias Drive, and over 60 feet above the junction of main road and Neath Road at the top of Pen-y-Wern hill. This of course, is without the 30 feet of a house build and roof aerials above that.
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This photo, taken from ground level, shows the view from the site over the pond and Dyffryn Arms toward Fforest Goch and Rhos. the hills at the skyline are on the other side of the Swansea Valley.
This photo shows a view over the village and beyond Neath to the mountains above Cimla and Briton Ferry. photograph also taken from ground level.
Do you think building here would not harm the landscape of the Clydach Valley?


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