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Q: Facebook share button error 401 authorization required Ok, I have this problem with the facebook share button on my site. For one week I was having a password on my site and two days ago I removed it. However when I click on a facebook share button on my site I get this error:
401 Authorization Required  This server could not verify...
It looks like the facebook crawler is recognising my site as it is with password but it's not. I tried the debugging tool. The error that was found was this:
Bad Response Code    URL returned a bad HTTP response code.
And it's not recognisin my meta tags.
Inferred Property   The 'og:url' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.
Inferred Property   The 'og:title' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.
Inferred Property   The 'og:description' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.
But I have this tags on the page I want to share. Can somebody please help me?

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Jaguar Land Rover recently announced that every vehicle it sells would soon have some form of driveline electrification (coverage here).
The Range Rover Sport was the first model out of the blocks (coverage here), now comes confirmation that the full-size Range Rover would also soon be offered as a plug-in hybrid too.
Set to land next year for MY19, the Range Rover offering will combine a 2.0 litre petrol engine with an electric motor – combined output has been confirmed at 297kW/640Nm.
The Range Rover PHEV, to be known as the P400e, will have an electric drive range of up to 51 kilometres and can be charged overnight with just a domestic power supply.
With permanent four-wheel drive (as you would expect), Land Rover is promising a respectable 6.4 second sprint to 100km/h and a top speed of 220km/h.
Designed and engineered by Jaguar Land Rover in the UK, the PHEV announcement comes with confirmation of a 2018 update for the flagship Land Rover offering.
Some of the tweaks coming for the new year include improved seats with extended adjustability, additional cabin power outlets, and a 4G Wi-Fi hotspot.
Gerry McGovern is the Chief Design Officer at Land Rover, he says the update is all about making the Range Rover that little bit better.
The updated MY18 Range Rover will start landing in dealerships towards the end of the year.
We will bring you more details on the Range Rover PHEV, including updated Australian availability, pricing and specification info, as it comes to hand.


Can anybody help tell my why this code isn't working. Its a Browser Helper Object for Internet Explorer, Simply designed to Write the Current Time at the bottom of each page. It compiles ok, and it registers as a COM object with regasm ok, and I put its GUID in the correct place in the registry (under Explorer/Browser Helper Objects). I can't even get VS.NET to attach to the IEXPLORE process.
I recently was using the Full Source utility by ThunderMain, and I was curious to see if I could make my own context menu for Internet Explorer. A useful utility I thought of using was a "send to a friend" utility.
From the page on www.pop3webmail.info, it automatically fills in a message saying "Please Visit: (whatever url)"
I was interested in trying out the new feature in SQL 2005, whereby it can host web services directly within the database engine, rather than via IIS.
On running this code – I got an error saying the "CREATE ENDPOINT' statment is not supported in this edition of SQL server. (note the typo in the error message! :)). Fair enough, it's a free product. But what really struck me was that it forced me to enter an Authentication option. To me this is counter intuitive for a web service. – I have to add the caveat here that I'm no expert in SQL server webserices, so there may be a way around this.
Forcing the user to provide authentication seems logical, as in, the web service needs to run under some credentials so that it can authenticate itself against the database, but this should be coded into the webservice, not provided by the caller. After all, in order to supply Windows authentication (NTLM) over the internet, We'd need a VPN or similar. Then if we were to use Basic authentication, this is too insecure, it would need to be provided over SSL.
Therefore in order to supply a web service directly from SQL server to the general public over the Internet, you'd need (a) to get a SSL certificate and install it (b) create a new windows login, since, you don't want mr Joe public logging in under Administrator rights (c) map the new windows login to a sql login, (d) Include the login details in a public place so people can find it easily. – This seems much more difficult then hammering out an equivalent stored procedure in Visual Studio, with hard-coded credentials.
To me, the ethos behind web services, was that they were designed to be publicly viewable and useable resources, not coveted entry points to fulll control of a company's data.
Anyway, enough grumbling. I just realized this morning that my website www.openmerchantaccount.info just got a PR5 in google. Unfortunately it hasn't yet re-positioned itself in google yet, I guess I have to wait for the next index shuffle. It's got over 1,000 backlinks from my own personal ring of data-heavy websites, of which I just launched two more, www.listofhauliers.info and www.listofcardealers.info – I'm quite an expert at SEO !.
I was given the task of extracting data from an unknown database format – given the extension .BDB. From research on the Internet, I narrowed this down to two database formats, either Microsoft Works or Berkely database.
I tried importing into Works, but only got a cryptic "BTLDB2.0" as an output. I then downloaded Berkly Db from SleepyCat.com, to find, to my dissapointment no binary distribution, just a bulk of C++ code, which when I tried to compile in VS 2005 gave errors like failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or corrupt , duplicate resource — type: type , name: name , language: language , flags: flags , size: size etc. Which I didn't have the time or patience to fix. I tried also their Java version but that gave an error too.
I then read that MySQL supported Berkely databases, so I downloaded MySQL, and used the mySQLImport utility to insert it into a table, Unfortunately, you need to have the table created already, in order for mySQLImport to work, apparently it doesn't import table schema. I created a generic table with just one column of type blob. The import succeded, but the data was as vague as if I opened it up in notepad.
I then opened the resultant file in notepad, and tried to figure out the schema from the debug into. And luckily with a little study I got it, for the specific database I was working on. Unfortunately, I can't give an exact schema of BDB files here, since I don't 100% understand them. But It serves as an interesting example of reading a non-standard database.
One of the drawbacks of MSDE is that Full Text Searching (FTS) us unavailable. However, you can put together your own version of FTS with a stored procedure and a few tables.
The benifit of FTS is that it can match queries against english text without great difficullty. Say we had some textual data "The cat sat on the mat" and we wanted to make a select statement for text containing the word "cat" we would use: select from sometable where text like '% cat %'. This has two knock on effects – (a) text "like" comparisons are relatively slow. and (b) since we have no idea how many records the query will return, we cannot use select top to speed up the query. Furthermore, if we searched for a collection of words such as "cat", "mat" and "floor", the above text should still come with a match, albeit with a lower degree of certainty, since the word "floor" is not in the data.
Although this looks more complex, since we are only using exact string comparison and joins on integers (assuming all the relevant columns are properly indexed). The query should work out to execute quicker.
As a benchmark it took 20 seconds to read 1000 rows, and I'm now running it on a 11M row database!.
If anybody has any optimization hints, just post a comment.
I've often found the need for extracting text from other windows applications, for example to extract text from MSN messenger, or the Internet explorer address bar or whatever. Instead of opening up Spy++ to get the Hwnd, and working with scraps of Win32 API calls I decided to write a generic class which recursively extracts text from every window on the screen, and stores it in an XmlDocument.
I used a VB6 version of this class before, so I decided to port it to .NET to modernize the code a bit, hense it's written in VB.NET.
Private Const GW_HWNDNEXT As Short = 2 'The window below the given window in the Z-order.
Private Const GW_CHILD As Short = 5 'The topmost of the given window's child windows. This has the same effect as using the GetTopWindow function.
Notice that SendMessage is declared twice, with an overloaded parameter lParam. I found this to be a better approach to using "Object" as the type of the parameter, as it kept causing Ole errors.
' use <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> as a header.
Here, I used SendMessage WM_GETTEXT rather than getWindowText, since I found that the SendMessage technique works better accross process boundaries.


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NS/EP telecommunications is an abbreviation for National Security or Emergency Preparedness telecommunications of the United States. Telecommunications services that are used to maintain a state of readiness or to respond to and manage any event or crisis (local, national, or international) that causes or could cause injury or harm to the population, damage to or loss of property, or degrade or threaten the national security or emergency preparedness posture of the United States.

NS/EP telecommunications are managed and controlled by the National Communications System using Telecommunications Service Priority through both the Government Emergency Telecommunications Service and Wireless Priority Service.

References

Telecommunication services

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Q: В чем проблема кода? Хотел добавить стикер в телеграм бота, а получается такая вот проблемка

A: В питоне одиночный слэш используется в качестве экранирования, для указания полного пути вам подойдут следующие варианты:
file = open('D:\\Folder\\Folder1\\','rb')

или так, литерал r в данном случае отключает экранирование.
file = open(r'D:\Folder\Folder1\','rb')

A: Добавь букву r перед первым апострофом.


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I can't even describe how happy I am to see this.
The theme that started many players' raiding careers.
Drop from Opera boss in kara!
This item adds the "Karazhan Opera House" theme to your garrison jukebox (see the full guide for more details).
Opera can make a great roll, if you're adventurous enough to find it.
Go into the Karazhan raid instance located in Deadwind Pass. Defeat Moroes, then proceed to the Opera Event - one of three random boss encounters which begin upon speaking to Barnes. The music roll will drop from this encounter (not a 100% drop).
I got it in first try, and I immediately changed awful default garrison music.
Drop from The Big Bad Wolf first try.
Saw two of these drop from Julianne & Romulo. Since they can drop independently from both, that encounter is your best chance of seeing it.
Just a warning, if Big Bad Wolf dies while you are Red Riding Hood, he may despawn before you revert back. If that happens, you lose your drops. Best bet is to wait until the first debuff wears off to drop him.
Dropped first try for me, not trying to brag but i think the 0.7% drop rates are wrong as the black temple roll dropped first time as well. Can anyone confirm this?
Got mine Jan 5 2016 after 4 attempts. Very happy.
This dropped for me on the 2nd week. (2nd time trying to get it). Dropped off Little red riding hood show.
I'm going to assume being this a new drop to an old instance the data is a little off. It states about a .9% drop but I managed to get it on the first try. As a matter of fact it even dropped two copies of it. It might be much easier to obtain than stated.
Use: Add "Karazhan Opera House" to your garrison's jukebox.


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Our Action Figures, Ourselves
How a children's toy can be an identity marker for adults: an Object Lesson
By Nolen Gertz
Elijah Catrone / AP
On my desk are several action figures, ranging from the heroic (Superman) to the historic (Alexander the Great) to even the academic (Freud). But as long as I've owned them, these action figures have remained actionless: I do not make Superman fly, or Alexander conquer, or Freud psychoanalyze. Rather, I leave them standing, in the same pose, in the same place, in the same spatial relationship to all of the other items left static on my desk.
And yet, in their own way, they're still acting. Any toy can be played with, just as any rarity can be collected, but what makes action figures special is their ability to shape, and reveal, the nature of their owners.
The origin story of the action figure goes like this: One day in the early 1960s, Don Levine, then the vice president and director of marketing at Hasbro, walked by an art store and saw a wooden artist's mannequin in the window display—and had an epiphany that would dramatically alter the landscape of toys in the U.S. In 1964, Hasbro shipped the first action figure, G.I. Joe.
At the time, Hasbro rival Mattel had already succeeded in marketing the massively popular Barbie dolls to girls; a doll geared towards boys seemed like a niche waiting to be filled. Instead of a doll, however, Hasbro developed what it called a "movable fighting man," a figurine built on the cultural understanding of war as an experience that turned boys into men.
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G.I. Joe—which debuted early in the Vietnam War, when popular support for the war was still high—was an immediate success, making Hasbro nearly $17 million in its first year. But as that support waned over the next several years, so too did G.I. Joe sales. In the 1970s, he was relaunched with a beard, a "Kung-Fu grip," and a backstory that recast his symbolism. Once representative of the geopolitical quagmire of war, G.I. Joe was now all about fantastical "adventure" removed from reality.
But the true revival of G.I. Joe didn't happen until the early 1980s, when the right ingredients for an allegorical war figure emerged: jihad and state-sponsored terrorism, the "Evil Empire" rhetoric of Ronald Reagan, and the rise of Star Wars and fantasy war. The "movable fighting man" was no longer a generic representation of the armed services, nor was he a macho representation of an abstract militaristic fantasy. Instead, G.I. Joe synthesized both of these incarnations into something new—an increasingly detailed representation of a fantasy war between good (G.I. Joe, the Real American Hero) and evil (Cobra, his fictional nemesis).
The tension between fantasy and reality, in turn, led to the trait that would come to define the action figure's enduring appeal: its ability to take on new meanings at the hands of its owners.
Children create new personalities for their action figures, turning warriors, wizards, and Wolverines into whatever their stories require.
It's a characteristic that owes as much to capitalism as it does to warfare. To keep production costs down, action figures were often produced in a modular fashion, allowing action figures to share accessories across different companies. And different collections, for that matter—intellectual-property law forbids the copyrighting of the human form, which meant Hasbro could not protect the basic form of its action figure, enabling competitors to model their own action figures after G.I. Joe in shape, size, and style.
One such competitor was the toy company Leisure Concepts, founded by the former Hasbro executive Stan Weston, who had worked on the development of G.I. Joe. In 1996, Leisure Concepts created Captain Action—a generic action figure who could be transformed with accessories into anyone from Batman to the Lone Ranger, thanks to Weston's licensing agreements with DC and Marvel Comics. The shape-shifting nature of Captain Action and similar action figures meant that weapons, uniforms, even heads could be taken off and moved from one body to another, as children re-created and re-defined their toys.
Even without the removal and replacement of parts, action figures can still be repurposed by the imagination. In play, children create new personalities and backstories for their action figures, turning warriors, wizards, and Wolverines into whatever characters their stories require. The ability to move and pose the limbs—the "action" in "action figure"—also gives children the ability to move those stories forward. By developing their own imaginary worlds within the context of the real one, children use the fluid identity of action figures as a tool to help them discover their own identities.
Toy Story Was Originally Going to Feature G.I. Joe and Barbie
Megan Garber
How Did We Get So 'Cringe'?
But today, the toy industry often resists those imaginative possibilities. G.I. Joe was once a generic, militaristic everyman, ready to take on whatever task his child operator might invent. But ever since the monumental success of Star Wars action figures in the late 1970s, action figures have increasingly become specific characters from movies, TV shows, and comic books. Contemporary action figures come with pre-packaged media-franchise identities: Toy companies help sell entertainment, and entertainment companies help sell toys.
As a result, action figures are now largely sold as cross-promotional efforts for movie releases. They become interactive advertisements, but also handheld spoiler alerts. Recently, an Iowa Walmart accidentally started selling Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens action figures too early, leading two fans to receive lawsuit threats from Lucasfilm and Disney for posting pictures of their purchase online. Movie fans can try to avoid watching trailers and reading about movies online, but action-figure fans also have to wade carefully through toy stores to avoid seeing characters, costumes, and locations that give away major plot points. (Just imagine if The Empire Strikes Back were coming out today, and toy companies released Luke Skywalker action figures with removable hands months before the movie hit theaters.)
Another side effect of the rise of the pop-culture-character-as-toy: Action figures have evolved from mass-produced, generic play companions to artfully crafted items made to be collected and displayed. In the movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Steve Carell's character Andy Stitzer is ridiculed for owning an action figure of the Six Million Dollar Man's boss, Oscar Goldman. Andy has to explain to his incredulous co-worker Cal that it's worth far more than the Six Million Dollar Man. To Cal, action figures are just children's toys. But to Andy, action figures are collectibles for adults to display like works of art or bottles of wine. To own and exhibit such a rare item makes perfect sense.
Turning action figures into collectibles, as Andy does, both embraces and undermines the imaginative possibilities of play. Any collector knows that if you want to maximize your investment, your action figure can't be taken out of its original packaging—to retain value, an action figure and its box must both be kept in mint condition. The action figure owner is forced to determine if the benefits of play are worth the costs of lost appreciation: Since play cannot be quantified as easily as can market prices, the transformative value of play and imagination is swapped for the (hypothetical!) investment value of collection and conservation.
If owners aren't using action figures to expand their imaginations, perhaps it's no surprise that some choose instead to use them as a mirror. Sites like myfaceonafigure.com and thatsmyface.com offer shoppers the chance to buy action figures of themselves—for around $30, instead of creating a personality of your own invention, you can project your face onto Batman's body and adopting his persona for your own. By extension, you can now buy, sell, and trade action figures of yourself to celebrate your own identity—or alienation. Who do I want to be? Superman? Freud? Alexander the Great?
It's easy to sneer at Andy Stitzer—or at me—for displaying children's toys rather than using them. But the Oscar Goldman on his shelf and the Superman on my desk are still tools of discovery. Despite its changes over the last 50-something years, the action figure still stares back at whoever holds it, daring children to see who they could become and adults to see who they think they are.
This article appears courtesy of Object Lessons.

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Q: Intersection of set partitions I am trying to figure out a good way of finding the intersection of two partitioned subsets of a set (or what to call what I'm trying to do so I can read something about it).
Let's say I have two subsets, ABC and BCDE. The first is partitioned into A/BC (part A vs part BC) and the second is partitioned into B/CDE (part B vs part CDE). Whatever the two subsets are, the partitions are always bipartite.
Now I want to combine these subsets, retaining the partitions so that I have A/B/C/DE. I may implicitly be treating the fact of the two subsets as a higher-order partition. This seems to me some sort of intersection of partitions (hence title).
It seems there should be a clear algorithm for what I'm doing here but I just can't grasp it. To make things worse, I need to be able to scale this up to more than two subsets (but the partitions are always bipartite). Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks for reading--

A: You can equivalently think of partitions as equivalence relations, with elements in the same piece of the partition labelled as equivalent. So the partition in the first subset $S_1$ is given by the equivalence
$$B \sim_1 C,$$
and the partition in the second subset $S_2$ is given by the equivalence
$$C \sim_2 D \sim_2 E.$$
We can even suppose that we have more subsets, $S_1,...,S_n$, each with a partition defined by the equivalence relation $\sim_n$. In order to match your operation, it's actually better if we extend these relations to the union $\bigcup_1^n S_i$ by additionally declaring $X \sim_i Y$ if $X, Y \notin S_i$.
Now I define a final equivalence relation $\sim$ by $X \sim Y \iff X \sim_i Y \;\forall\; i$. Translating this back into a partition should match the operation you've defined.


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RED-CARPET
Meet the Met Gala's biggest new donor
Wendy Yu. mage credit: Sophie Davidson
Harriet Quick
Unlike Rihanna, Madonna, Kim and Kanye and other mononymous celebrities likely to be attending the Oscars of the fashion world this year, Wendy Yu - one of the most important guests - is a name that might be new to you. But not for much longer.
When the 600-plus guests ascend the red carpeted steps at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual fundraiser known as the Met Gala on Monday, there will be a very important person in the midst – Wendy Yu, an investor and philanthropist who in March endowed the position of Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute in perpetuity. At just 28, Yu's patronage of the largest costume collection in the world makes her one of the youngest as well as one of the most significant donors in fashion today, and ensures the affiliation between the Yu name and the Costume Institute for generations to come.
The Costume Institute's head curator, the brilliant Andrew Bolton - now Wendy Yu Curator in Charge - has chosen the theme of Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, for his annual blockbuster exhibition this year, which gives ample room for extravagant, baroque dress-up with, no doubt, many Madonnas, vestment-style robes, cherubs and angelic apparitions in the mix. The dress code is an accurate reflection of the event's fundraising clout - a handsome $12 million was donated at last year's gala.
Even though Yu has just flown in overnight from Shanghai to meet Vogue in a studio in deepest East London (equipped with a vanity bag of sleep masks, Chanel serums and tech facial devices), the discombobulating change of scenery and time zones does not sway her to divulge secrets about what she will be wearing on Monday night. "It will be a very big gown from one of my favourite designers and I will be wearing jewellery by a Chinese designer featuring Buddhist symbols," she says of her interpretation of the religious theme. Dressed in a black taffeta empire line dress and sparkling stilettos at 9 a.m., she's cheery and as sharp as a pin.
Yu, who attends about eight big gown events a year and who is amassing her own distinctive collection of couture pieces and ready-to-wear (including Valentino, Dior, Ralph & Russo, Huishan Zhang and Mary Katrantzou) is well versed in the fantasy of dressing up. But as a newly anointed patron, this year's gala will be a pivotal one. The endowment, made through her investment company, Hong Kong-based Yu Holdings, will support the work of The Costume Institute and help bridge cultural relations between East and West, with Bolton giving a series of educational talks in China, which as of yet does not have a dedicated costume or fashion museum. Yu in turn will help develop Bolton's relationship with the country and introduce him to homegrown talent.
English-born Bolton, who through his explorative, provocative curation has helped position fashion as one of the foremost of creative arts (more than 815,000 people visited China: Through the Looking Glass in 2016 – the fifth most-visited Met show) and build one of the world's leading costume collections, welcomes the union. Fifty positions in the Met's curatorial and conservation teams are similarly endowed.
The appointment, Yu says, happened "very organically." She started following Bolton's work after visiting and being "really moved" by the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition in 2011. Then, last year, she was introduced to Bolton and Anna Wintour by the influential fashion PR and events planner Melvin Chua. "At that stage, I didn't know very much about Wendy. She was interested in participating in, and being involved with, the Costume Institute but she didn't quite know what she wanted to do," Bolton remembers. When he and Wintour put forward the idea of naming his position in perpetuity (his successors will also be named the Wendy Yu Curator in Charge) "she thought about it for 24 hours and said 'yes,'" he continues. "We've become great friends. She's in her 20s - I had no idea what I wanted when I was that age! She's a very impressive businesswoman too - she's multifaceted."
Wendy Yu at the Mary Katrantzou show during London Fashion Week in September 2017. Image credit: Getty Images
Yu developed business acumen as a young girl growing up in the affluent Zhejiang province. She is the daughter of a Chinese businessman and entrepreneur, Jingyuan Yu, founder of the Mengtian Group, the largest wooden door manufacturer in Asia – a business that boomed as China's cities grew exponentially at the turn of this century. Mr. Yu, who is trained in computer engineering and was formerly employed by the Chinese government, is one of the first generation of entrepreneurs to strike success after the cultural revolution, and he instilled in his daughter work-hard, study-hard values. "My dad always asked me, 'Where are you? Where do you want to go? And how are you going to get there?' I don't think it is so common for a dad to talk to a five-year-old like that," she says. "He taught me that nothing is impossible and that as an entrepreneur you have to be a problem solver. As a person he underlined three qualities: to be a loving person, contributing to society and to your family and to always better yourself - once you have a vision, be relentless about achieving it, and make sure to give back to the people who help you achieve." Yu, who completed Olympiad maths training, describes herself as a geeky tomboy in her teenage years, who was fascinated by calculus and data. When she moved to the UK at the age of 15 to attend a Catholic school near Croydon, she remembers her maths tutors being shocked when she solved equations without a calculator.
While Yu may have been born to go into business, her fascination with the creative arts and specifically fashion came in her 20s, when she enrolled on the Fashion Management degree course at The London College of Fashion, and immersed herself in the world through exhibitions, books and her own wardrobe. She founded Yu Holdings, a venture capital firm, in 2015 (it employs 20 people) and her early investments included ASAP 54 - a social shopping platform dubbed 'the Shazam for fashion' - the sustainable accessories company Bottletop and in January took a minority stake in Mary Katrantzou. "I want to be someone who propels creative people into the business sector," Yu says of her work.
Her big wins come from Yu Holdings investments in Chinese ride hailing app, DiDi and Tujia, the Chinese equivalent of Airbnb (last year was valued more than $1.5 billion). "With every investment you have to measure the risk carefully and people questioned me about my commitment as a Chinese person and also a woman," says Yu, who distances herself from the pleasure-seeking, compulsive-shopping stereotype of 'fuerdai' (super wealthy children of the nouveau riche in China).
"The way you prove yourself is through the work and the solid results. There's always a rebel in me too and I love it when people challenge me," says Yu, who currently lives between Hong Kong, Shanghai, London and New York. "I think of myself as a global citizen." She keeps her feet on the ground with daily meditation and with the help of a network of spiritual and business mentors.
"I always consider my footprint, my legacy. How can I utilise my wealth to create positive social impact and move the creative industries forward?" she continues. "I think my generation is flexible, versatile and myself and my peers also have the benefit of living in both the East and the West. China has a huge potential as a fashion market and I really want to incubate young talent and make that bridge, help those designers and brands grow on the global stage through investment and through partnerships with the Met and British Fashion Council." She is also partnering with BAFTA to platform Chinese acting talent. As Chinese/U.S. trading negotiations are currently fraught with tensions, Yu's endowment will seem like a big hallelujah. So watch out for that statement in a dress on Monday's red carpet.
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We've all seen the infomercial at 2 a.m. starring the dude relaxing in his mansion who claims he was once broke and wants to show you how to get rich doing almost nothing. Sorry to break it to you, but no matter how many of his foolproof kits you buy for just three easy payments of $99.99, there's a good chance you'll leave that transaction $300 lighter and none the wiser.
Don't close out this tab in disgust just yet. There are ways to create income streams that earn you money while you're eating, sleeping, working out and… well, you get the point. Known as passive income streams, these revenue generators require one-time setup and minimal ongoing work to earn you money.
Will you get rich from a passive income stream? Possibly, but not likely. Instead, these passive income streams create small puddles of cash you can combine into one larger pool — or maybe a kiddie pool — that you can save.
Here are 12 passive income streams you can dive into without a huge investment of money or time.
App developers can gamify just about anything these days, and fitness is one of the newest areas app creators have tapped into. Some fitness apps, like HealthyWage, will reward you with real money for hitting your weight-loss and fitness goals.
So, if you're already at the gym sweating out those couple pounds you packed on while posted up in your cubicle eight hours a day, you might as well download one of these apps and turn those pounds you shed into a passive income stream.
People have bought and sold stocks and securities for hundreds of years to protect and grow wealth, but the days to handing burlap sacks of gold coins to monarchs are over. The age of the smartphone has put the power of affordable investing in your palm.
New microinvesting apps crop up regularly, giving people who want to invest but lack loads of cash the ability to invest as little as a few bucks at a time. Also, these apps have tiny fees, if any at all, and the behind-the-scenes growth can sneak up on you.
I can't stress enough how entertaining it is to watch your $10 per week grow into hundreds or thousands of dollars without tons of work on your end.
So, maybe investing a fixed dollar amount every week is outside your comfort zone. There are other apps like Acorns that forgo scheduled withdrawals and turn penny-sized transfers each time you swipe your credit or debit card into a passive income stream.
How these apps work is they round up every purchase you make to the next dollar and put the rounded up cents into an account. Once that account reaches a certain dollar figure — generally $5 or $10 — the app automatically invests that cash according to your preferences.
That once-a-week $10 withdrawal may worry you, but you'll likely never notice those 200 5-cent round-up charges last week. At least you won't notice them until you see that fat wad of cash sitting in your investment account and the interest it's gained.
While a lot of brick-and-mortar retail stores are packing up and locking their doors for good, the online retail space is still competitive and thriving. Because of growing competition, online retailers will pay people with a web presence a commission to send buyers to their online storefronts through affiliate programs.
There are many affiliate aggregators online that give you easy access to thousands of smaller retailers' affiliate programs, but the big bucks come from teaming up with retailers directly. Just do an online search for a big retailer's name and "affiliate," and you'll likely turn up the company's affiliate program.
To maximize your profits and likelihood of being approved for affiliate programs, only apply for affiliates that match your web presence. For example, if you have a voice in the automotive space, sign up for an affiliate program for a car parts store. Once the company approves you for its affiliate program, promote your personal affiliate link via you preferred content-delivery method — YouTube videos, social media or a website — and watch that passive income roll in.
Everyone has a passion, so why not turn yours into some passive income?
When you turn your passion into a money-making project, it's a double dip into the cup of satisfaction — and there's no one around to yell at you for double dipping.
Do you have a knack for photography? Go out there and snap amazing photos to your heart's content, then sell those images through any of the online image databases. Do you love to paint? Create a satisfying masterpiece and put that bad boy on eBay or an artist marketplace to turn it into profit. Whatever you are passionate about, there are often ways to turn it into passive income.
Credits cards get a bad rap. Everyone gripes about being elbows deep in debt and paying outrageous interest fees, but did you know you can flip this on its ear and have the credit cards paying you?
Simply sign up for a rewards credit card that allows you to redeem your points for cash or other useful things like gift cards or statement credits, and use it everywhere that accepts plastic.
Paying your electric bill? Use the card. Buying groceries? Use the card. And so on.
Over time, you'll see those rewards stack up to the point where you can redeem them for hundreds or even thousands of dollars in gift cards, travel credits, goods or statement credits.
Remember one thing, though, you must avoid all interest charges by paying your statement balance in full every month. Even one month of interest charges can wipe out months passive income you've generated just by swiping your card.
Oh, and while you're using that rewards credit card to buy things, make sure you use rewards shopping sites to double up on your cash back. Sites like Ebates and TopCashback will transfer a small percentage of your total purchase — generally 1 to 5 percent — into a rewards account just for buying items using their special links.
If you use these special links every time you buy something you would normally buy, you are padding your rewards account. Once that account hits a certain balance, you can cash it out for a check or gift card.
Pro tip: Only use these sites to buy something you normally would. Do not fall victim to their marketing schemes to get you to buy stuff you don't need.
Want to be a real-estate mogul but lack a billion-dollar bank account or a rich parent to float you a small loan? Crowdfunding may be right up your alley.
Crowdfunding is when a group of real-estate investors pool their assets to buy one expensive piece of real estate and split the profits. Normally, that would require friends in high places, but new crowdfunding sites like Fundrise make it possible for virtually anyone to get in on the real-estate market.
These sites will let you start with as little as a few hundred bucks, and you get to pick what projects to put your money behind, whether it's remodeling a skyscraper in Malaysia or breaking ground on a new housing development in the New York City suburbs.
Like standard investments, your passive income comes in the form of increased share value and quarterly dividends. What's more, you make this money without lifting a finger (except to click your mouse a few times).
Did your kids recently leave the nest? Did you get stuck renting a place that had an extra room or two? Instead of blowing cash to turn that space into a killer wet bar or game room, turn it into a passive income machine.
List that extra room on one of the countless short-term rental sites like Airbnb or VRBO and let temporary tenants help you pay the bills (unlike that lazy teen you raised). There are precautions to take like locking up valuables and setting up the space to be as hotel-like as possible, but those are small investments of time and money to get the dollar bills rolling in.
This is especially valuable if you live in a high-demand vacation spot or a popular city with a pricey housing market. For example, the average price for a private room in San Francisco is $124 per night. If you can keep that room filled for 15 days per month, that's a cool $1,860 per month in passive revenue.
Got entertaining stuff on the brain that you want to get out to the world? Why not toss it in an e-book and turn it into a passive revenue stream?
While traditional publishers may turn their noses up at the thought of publishing a book by an untrained writer not named Kardashian, many e-book publishers are fine with your inexperience.
Services like Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing make it relatively easy for unknown publishers to push out e-books and earn up to 70 percent in royalties with minimal ongoing work. That's a sweet deal considering you don't have to pay a dime for publishing.
Like other creativity-based passive-income streams, you first have to find a genre you're an expert in, have an existing following in or you can make very entertaining. With that genre in mind, you can pound out a 20,000-word e-book in a few weeks while sipping margaritas on the beach.
Keep in mind, if you're not an experienced editor, it's a great idea to shell out a few bucks to have one look over your e-book before releasing it into the unforgiving jungle known as the internet.
In the era of low-overhead online banks, high-yield savings accounts are becoming more common. Sign up for one of these accounts and dump any extra cash you have into it. Over time, you'll see that 1.5 or 2 percent interest add up to big bucks.
Keep in mind, though, this is a slow-burn way to earn passive income, but if your bank offers automatic scheduled transfers, it is the perfect set-it-and-forget-it way to earn extra hands-free cash.
If you want even higher yields and can go without a set amount of money for a longer period, you can open a certificate of deposit account. These CDs require you to tuck money away for a set amount of time — usually a few months to a few years — but you can earn double or triple the interest relative to a normal savings account.
The interwebs is chock-full with funny cat videos, so why can't you (or your pet chinchilla) be YouTube stars too? Think long and hard about what you are great at or just enjoy the heck out of doing and find a way to turn that into quick videos. There's no need to worry about professionally edited videos at this point — your knowledge or personality will easily make up for any editing snafus.
Once you get a few videos online and grow a small following, go into your account settings and click that "monetize" button. This allows YouTube to put ads before, during or after your video that generate revenue you and YouTube split. You may not make a killing immediately, but a few hundred bucks a year in passive income from a few videos is attainable.
Quick tip: Be unique. Sure one guy's vlog about the underwater breeding habits of the sea cucumber may get millions of views, but that doesn't mean you should copy him.


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Starting with the name, it was actually called as Trionfi earlier. psychics were initially employed as a deck of cards for amusement purposes during mid 15 th century Europe, starting Egypt. Reputable psychic -- Free psychic Reading. Soon after they were used for divination purposes. Defining psychic.
Could be used anonymously or via email for your own reading. The first record of that was as ancient as in 1540. Simply explained, psychics are decks of cards with pictures, symbols, and numbers printed on them. psychics were initially used as playing cards in Europe, but started to be used for divination purposes in the 18th century. 10 card Celtic cross spread which also uses star sign and numerology. Court de Gebelin, a French clergyman, observed a group of Egyptian women playing cardswhich directed him to believe that it wasn't only a deck of cards but possibly, of celestial significance. In theory, psychics are used for divination and will give insight into your past, present, and future. Fast loading website and optimized for mobile devices.
In addition, he realized that its source could be from Egypt. To many, psychic reading may seem supernatural and intimidating to approach. Horoscope.com. Jean-Baptiste Alliette (called Etteilla) and Maire Ann Lenormand were the first to assign divinatory meaning to psychics. But, psychics are often very simple and provide a different perspective to some challenging situation or question you might have. Horoscope.com -- Free psychic Reading. Interpretation of the Cards.
Furthermore, reading psychics can be simply an enjoyable hobby. Draw one angle card at one time. Different individuals have given different interpretations.
The psychic deck is composed of all 78 cards divided into the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana. Fully responsive website and fast mobile loading time. The cards are to be organized in a specific manner - The Major Arcana are the labeled cards and represent fundamentals, concepts, and thoughts, and therefore are typically more significant.
No email sign up free and required to play. Lots of variations have been discovered from the cards. The Minor Arcana are divided into four suits and represent the details of the situation described from the psychic spread. Astrology.com. The French, the German and the Italians have their own distinct versions. It's a good idea to get used to the cards prior to continuing.
Astrology.com -- Free psychic Reading. It is thought that the result is directed by a spiritual power, which appears to an individual 's subconscious. psychicology has no scientific evidence. Click the following links to get a better Comprehension of the Major & Minor Arcana!
Simple Yes or No psychic response card game. It is considered as a pseudoscience. psychics work by arranging them in a certain "spread. " There are many different types of spreads you can practice for different situations, and they reveal various quantities and types of information. psychic spreads range in difficulty, and a few can be quite complex to translate. No email sign up free and required to play. Hence it should be used only as a source of amusement and not to take important decisions based on it.
Therefore, we will be focusing on the simple three-card distribute to have a better sense for how psychic works! Free psychic. Getting Started. Spanish psychics and Their Spreads. Free psychic -- Free psychic Reading. If you're a beginner to psychic, the three-card spread is a great place to begin learning and get a few practice reading psychics!
Even when you're an experienced psychic reader, this spread is great for quick answers and return to the basics. When predicting the long run, it's most usual to use Marseilles psychics, which can be composed by 22 big arcana and 56 minor arcana. Simple psychic reading 3 card spread for a fundamental psychic reading. The three-card spread is good for suggesting some kind of linear route or sequence of events. It's great popularity because, among other reasons, it had been the very first factory-produced printed card deck.
Could be slow to load card spread on both mobile and desktop. The three-card spread can be used for many different queries and situations. These sets then split themselves in four matches: coins, swords, cups and clubs. Completely free to use and no email sign up required. For the purpose of this education, we will be more centered on the three-card spread that gives insight into your past, present, and future. These suits are the ones which make up what's called the Spanish deck; and thus, it's no real surprise that you will find psychic spreads with those cards.
Salem psychic. Step 1: Choose a psychic Deck. You may be curious: the meaning of minor arcana psychic. Salem psychic -- Free psychic Reading. First, you'll have to obtain your personal psychic deck! There are hundreds of decks available, therefore it is important to buy a deck that actually speaks to you. The Spanish deck psychic spread.
Past, present and potential 3 card reading. Pick something that appeals to you aesthetically. The origins of the Spanish deck come from the Seville card deck, the oldest remaining in the Iberian peninsula which dates back to 1400, and whose representation is very similar to today's. Fully responsive website and ideal for mobile viewing. However, if you're new to psychic, it might a good idea to pick something that is widely referenced. However, there's experts that believe that coins, clubs, cups and swords have some symbolism for them which comes in ancient Egypt.
No email sign up free and required to play. The Rider-Waite psychic deck is a favorite and standard psychic deck, which is a good starting point. Thus, every household would match each one of those layers in Egyptian culture: the gold coins were attached to salesmen; bracelets were connected to lords and governors; cups were attached to priests; and clubs belonged to farmers. psychic.com. I'm utilizing a Rider-Waite deck for this particular demonstration. These symbols have stayed over time, and they're popular both for recreational card deck utilizes and psychic spreads, so even though it's recommended that each deck is employed to play card games or even for amusement generally shouldn't be used for magical purposes. psychic.com -- Free psychic Reading. Tips: psychic decks can be bought everywhere from bookstores (I bought my own at Barnes & Noble), local shops, or online at websites like Amazon.
The meaning of Spanish deck psychics. 3 card studying with numerous deck choices. Step 2: Locate a Quiet, Secluded Area.
As we've mentioned before, the cards at the Spanish deck are similar to this Marseilles psychic Minor Arcana, even though the queen's figure disappeared from it. Quick loading for both mobile and desktop viewing. You'll require some space and a quiet environment to run your own reading. It still remains in French decks, which don't have knights). Requires an email address to get consequences of studying.
Pick whatever area is suitable and feels right to you! This may be somewhere like your bedroom, living area, outside, etc.. In the exact same manner, it should be pointed out that there's decks which have numbers 8 and 9, and many others don't, however in any of these, the power stays the same. Divipsychic.com. Just make sure you choose a place that is relaxing and you can concentrate, uninterrupted.
Every one of those four Spanish card deck matches is attached to a specific emotional dimension of people when doing a psychic reading, which we'll explain in more detail below. Divipsychic.com -- Free psychic Reading. Tips: You may also want to add sage, incense, stones, crystals, or even candles. The Cups. No Choice to Choose Own Cards.
This is optional, but is a good method to set the air and cleansing the area. This colour is connected to individuals 's psychological dimension and their psychological issues, such as romance, life in a relationship, family, children, friends. No choices to choose your cards since these are chosen for you.


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By Travis Schlepp
Oxnard man sentenced to 35 to life for killing wife
Ventura County Sheriff's Office
Alfredo Ortiz, 38, of Oxnard
VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. - An Oxnard man who pled guilty to killing his wife back in 2017 will spend more than three decades behind bars.
Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced Monday that Alfredo Ortiz, 38, of Oxnard was sentenced to 35 years to life for the murder of his wife, Teresa Ortiz.
Back in September, Ortiz pleaded guilty to first degree murder in the death of his wife. He also admitted to using a gun in the crime.
In January 2017, Ortiz shot and killed his wife Teresa in front of six of their children. The children were from ages 2 to 16 years old at the time of the murder.
Ortiz then fled the scene but was arrested the following day in Somis.
Ortiz was arrested and has remained in custody at the Ventura County Jail. The case was investigated by the Oxnard Police Department.
Travis Schlepp
Travis Schlepp is the Digital Content Director for News Channel 3-12. To learn more about Travis, click here.


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Weee Fest brings an evening of eclectic music and art to Skinny's Ballroom
Samantha Pitchel
Jun 23, 2012 | 4:05 pm
This Sunday, the only-in-Austin variety show Weee Fest celebrates its fifth — and possibly final — installment at Skinny's Ballroom.
Created and curated by Polly Smith of spork booking (the lady responsible for Cherrywood Coffee's exceptional events calendar), Weee Fest is a celebration of "the weirdest of the weird, the most obscure, the least likely, the funniest, most wrongest, danciest, experimentalist, and bestest musicians, performers, and artists." With past Weee Fest's including performances from Night Viking, Pat Healy, Vid Kidz and more, the show's proven to be a completely unpredictable, but always fun, line-up.
With a stage draped in red velvet and seats made of repurposed pews, Skinny's Ballroom is perfect for an evening of eclectic music and visual art.
Smith, who also helps produce the Acro-Cats Circus Cats' wildly popular Austin appearances, will be hitting the road with the kitties and their trainers for the next few months, so this Weee Fest is especially a cause for celebration.
The party begins at 5 p.m. on June 24 at Skinny's Ballroom, and if you haven't been to the new-ish venue on San Jacinto and 2nd Street, you're missing out; with a stage draped in red velvet and seats made of repurposed pews, the intimate space is perfect for an evening of eclectic music and visual art.
Here's the line-up for Sunday's show:
Patrick Healy
Doctor Clown
World Racketeering Squad
Bipolar Gentlemen
J Dubb
Lead Pipe
Pornohelmet
Lo Stadio Real
…and headliner Paul Arambula (Phoenix, AZ)
DJ Grog Frog will be on hand to soundtrack the between-band dance party.
You can check out exclusive videos from past Weee Fest performances, and hear tracks recorded live at Skinny's, to get ready for tomorrow's send-off show.
Weee Fest begins at 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 24 at Skinny's Ballroom.
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Editor's note: It's that time again — time to check in with our top stories. Here are five articles that captured our collective attention over the past seven days.
1. A diner with the "world's rudest service" is coming to Austin...like, whenever. Karen's Diner provides the worst service for the best experience, at least according to cheeky clientele who appreciate the campy comedy of a long-suffering server.
2. Award-winning New York pub brings Irish hospitality to Austin's Sixth Street. The Dead Rabbit pub is bringing Ireland to Texas, opening a new location in downtown Austin.
3. Where to see the once-in-recorded-history green comet approaching Austin. The comet will be closest to Earth (thus, likely the most visible) on February 1, and its most recent appearance was 50,000 years ago.
4. 6 Austin restaurants score coveted James Beard Award nominations. Austin restaurants and bars earned both national and regional recognition, with three national nominations and three nominations for Best Chef: Texas.
5. 2 Austin suburbs cash in among the richest places in Texas for 2023. Lakeway has been renamed the fifth richest place in Texas for 2023 in a recent study, while Bee Cave moved from No. 13 in 2022 to No. 9 this year.


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Singing the Eden Call
By Debra RienstraJanuary 16, 20217 Comments
In 1989, Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrios I declared September 1 a day of prayer for creation, corresponding with the beginning of the Orthodox church year. The World Council of Churches caught onto this idea and someone—I don't know who, but stars in your crown, whoever you are—came up with the idea of a whole Season of Creation, beginning on September 1 and ending on October 4, the Feast of St. Francis. Naturally, the current Pope was a fan of this idea, and in 2015 he made the Season of Creation official for Roman Catholics. Now it's a whole ecumenical thing, with a website and everything.
Never heard of it? Well, new liturgical seasons take a long time to catch on. But in this case, we might want to hurry up. After all, 2020 was tied with 2016 as one of the hottest years on record, species extinction proceeds apace, the ocean continues to warm, rise, and sour, plus fires, storms, plastic pollution—you know the drill. There's no overstating the urgent need to repair our human impact on the planet. So it seems like an excellent idea for worshiping communities to give some high-level liturgical-year attention to the more-than-human creation.
This past year, despite pandemic limitations, Roman Catholics, Orthodox folk, Anglicans, Lutherans, and others all around the world commemorated the Season of Creation with prayer services, garden plantings, climate action events, and other activities particular to their place on the planet. People are figuring it out. But if we're going to continue to observe this season and let it help re-form us in faith, we are going to need more worship resources. Fortunately, we're starting to see such resources emerge.
For instance, I've just spent some pleasant hours working through the songs and supporting materials released last summer by a UK group called Resound Worship. They are a "collective of British worship songwriters" founded in 2006, equipping and inspiring worship leaders and composers. Such folk often "plough a lone furrow" in their churches, so Resound Worship has created a community of support. They have created a culture where writers can critique, revise, workshop and publish new songs in the service of the church. They have a podcast, composing challenges, retreat events—the whole works.
Last summer, they released an album titled doxecology. It's a collection of thirteen new worship songs by a variety of composers, with song materials supported by a nicely assembled study guide, fully developed sheet music book, and videos that provide congregations with the lyrics. The study guide contains meditations on the songs and relevant scripture as well as some sample service plans.
The album's "ecologically themed worship songs" have a three-fold purpose: to "celebrate the wonder of creation, acknowledge our failures, and anticipate a glorious restoration in Christ." In the introduction to the study guide, one of Resound Worship's leaders, Joel Payne, wisely notes the crucial role of worship songs in faith formation:
"In the contemporary church we absorb much of our theology from worship songs. Those are the words we repeat, with melodies to aid memorisation, and they become ingrained truths. The core of our worship repertoire becomes the core of our theology. The core of our theology becomes the impetus of our activity. And on issues of creation and ecology the substance of our repertoire is thin, to say the least."
The doxecology project is intentionally designed to help thicken that substance. Suited best for churches worshiping in a praise-and-worship idiom, some of the songs are more successful than others—at least in my opinion—but the whole project is a welcome contribution to ecology-themed resources.
One of my favorites of the thirteen new songs is "Let All Creation Sing" (based on Psalm 148 and other similar texts) with its playful country twang and concluding "la la la" section. I can imagine whole congregations grooving to this one, including children. And extra points for softly rhyming "supernova" with "hallelujah," "otter" with "daughter." Also for mentioning narwhals and armadillos.
Another excellent offering is "Where Are You in the Storm," one of several songs in the lament-and-repentance category. This one has a slightly 1980s R&B feel, some welcome harmonic interest, and fitting allusions to the story of Jesus asleep in the boat: "Water rising, / are you sleeping: / are you Lord after all?" The refrain shifts to assurance: "In the storm, you're the anchor / … all of creation will be healed."
"Why Are You Downcast," with notes of Psalm 42, is another winner in lament/assurance mode, a simple expression of faith amid what we might describe as climate anxiety: "Beneath the shadow of each storm, / in all the sorrow and despair, / remember God still loves the world."
Of course, developing worship resources focused on the more-than-human creation brings numerous challenges. One is cliché. Do we need more songs naming God as king, for example? It's almost impossible to resist that metaphor system—especially since "king" rhymes so happily with "sing." And one can always argue that this is a biblical name for God.
But staying in that king metaphor system all the time reinforces a reductive image of God up there in the sky, distant from the world, just soaking up the praise coming from down below. We could use some more songs imagining God active in creation (remember "in the rustling grass I hear him pass / he speaks to me everywhere"?), and we could use a lot more songs imagining humans getting busy, healing and caring for creation. After all, restorative action is praise, too.
Fortunately, human action is emphasized throughout the doxecology collection. Lines like "make us partners in your mission" and "use our hands to heal creation: / you are making all things new" strike a nice balance between God's purposes and human action. In one of the lament songs, the line "Lead us in your Eden call to live as those who bear your name" offers a neat encapsulation of the Genesis accounts, combining the image-bearing responsibility (Gen. 1) with the originary human vocation of "serving and protecting" the earth (Gen. 2).
The song "As the Seeds are Planted" is another winner, with the welcome refrain "Let the earth find rest." How often do we sing about letting the earth rest from all our human striving and disruption?
While this collection does offer some appropriate new themes and emphases to the church's collection of ecology-themed songs, we still have some growing edges. In the English-speaking world anyway, we have plenty of songs that call us to a kind of aesthetic appreciation of the earth and the universe. Lots of spinning planets and pretty flowers and "rocks and trees and skies and seas" in our repertoire. All good. We should indeed wonder and rejoice in the beauty of creation and respond with praise to the Creator. Of course.
However, this aesthetic posture does render the rest of the living world somewhat inert: it's a beautiful backdrop for the drama of our human lives. OK, fair, we sing all the time about the creation praising God and, in a few songs, groaning in longing a la Romans 8. But anything else?
How about some songs that acknowledge our interdependence with other creatures, the way plants and water are the means through which God gives us life? This give and take between humans and other creatures—this "reciprocity" as Robin Wall Kimmerer describes it—we rarely speak of that in our worship life. At best, we talk about stewardship, imagining ourselves as the caretakers of the earth, usually with little specificity about what that might actually demand of us, and certainly without making vivid in our imaginations how much the earth provides to us.
So yes, the other creatures give praise to God, but they also keep us alive. And biologically speaking, we're not even separate from "creation"—we are holobionts, basically walking ecosystems of microbes on and within us.
Hmm. I hereby challenge the worship-songwriting world to mention microbes in a song. Maybe you could rhyme it with "spinning globes" or something.
Anyway, I'm grateful for people like the Resound Worship group, who are taking seriously the need to continually renew and refresh our worship lives, rooting their work in tradition but also giving discerning attention to our current blind spots and growing edges.
There's still much to do to make the Season of Creation a viable liturgical season. For instance, what to do about liturgical colors? Green is already taken. (My suggestion: rainbow.) The longer-range goal, of course, is to let the Season of Creation spread its seeds throughout the church year, lifting up and emphasizing ecology themes in all seasons of the church's life.
You can find full lyrics and recordings of all the doxecology songs on the website. Just search for the song title and then click on the video to hear the song. I also note gratefully that in the study guide, Joel Payne kindly credits an essay I wrote for this blog in March of 2019, in which I separately "discovered" the word doxecology.
Debra Rienstra
I am a writer and literature professor, teaching early British literature and creative writing at Calvin University, where I have been on the faculty since 1996. Born and bred in the Reformed tradition, I've been unable to resist writing four books about theological topics: beware the writer doing theology without a license. Besides the books, I've written well over two hundred essays for The Twelve as well as numerous articles, poems, and reviews in popular and scholarly contexts. I have a B.A. from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!) and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers. I am married to Rev. Ron Rienstra, and together we have three grown children. Besides reading and writing, I love classical music, science fiction, fussing in the yard, hiking, and teaching myself useful skills like plant identification and—maybe someday—drywall repair.
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Carol L Rienstra says:
Re: stewardship, Luke Bretherton, in his book "Christ and the Common Life," refers to becoming "manure" in the public square and in politics for the common good. that fits with your reference "we are holobionts, basically walking ecosystems of microbes on and within us."
Debra Rienstra says:
Ha! That's fabulous. All right, another challenge: rhyme "manure" with "endure." Go!
Andrew Rienstra says:
Great piece! Thanks Deb!
Great piece! Very intersing! Thanks Deb!
Tom Ackerman says:
Thanks so much for this Deb. It made me think and laugh. I am quite taken with rhyming "microbes" with "spinning globes", particularly because it evokes (in my mind) the vast spatial and temporal scales that we have to think about when we consider climate and ecosystems. I look forward to this new hymn of microbes and globes.
Daniel J Meeter says:
I'm still thinking about the implications of a Creation Season in the Church year, working through the problems and possibilities, and I do see a couple of theological problems, but apart from that, this implicitly touches one of the weaknesses of the Common Lectionary (despite its many great features). It remains, at base, a Roman Catholic lectionary, even in its later revisions, which ends up silencing so much of the Bible. And it's much of the Creation / creaturely / grounded / earthy material that is silenced.
Gretchen Schoon Tanis says:
Thank you for highlighting this! I came to know of the Season of Creation through the World Communion of Reformed Churches where the able interns have assisted in making this website and social media posts happen! We have been thrilled to participate in this season as a small English speaking congregation here in Hannover, Germany. It truly is an ecumenical project but I am happy to note that the Reformed family is playing a part of making this happen!


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Ośrodek Dokumentacji Zabytków – instytucja założona w 1962 roku w Warszawie, która podlegała Ministerstwu Kultury i Sztuki, miała na celu inwentaryzację i dokumentację zabytków architektury, urbanistyki i zabytków ruchomych. Ośrodek wydaje pisma: "Ochrona Zabytków", "Teka Konserwatorska", "Muzealnictwo" i serię Biblioteka Muzealnictwa i Ochrony Zabytków. Działała do 2002 roku.

14 października 2002 roku utworzono Krajowy Ośrodek Badań i Dokumentacji Zabytków poprzez połączenie Ośrodka Dokumentacji Zabytków i Ośrodka Ochrony Zabytkowego Krajobrazu. Tenże Ośrodek od 1 stycznia 2011 zastąpiono Narodowym Instytutem Dziedzictwa.

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 Encyklopedia powszechna PWN, wyd. PWN, Warszawa 1975.

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Herdsmen Kill Pregnant Woman, Fetus, Seven Others In Attack On Enugu Community
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Suspected Fulani herdsmen have killed a pregnant woman, ripped open her stomach and brought out the fetus in another attack on Mgbuji community, Eha-Amufu, Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State that claimed the lives of another eight people.
The attack by the herdsmen also left scores wounded, hectares of farmland destroyed and many residents missing.
According to the Sun, the latest killings took place on Sunday afternoon between the community's border with the Benue community.
It was gathered that the casualty figure may rise due to the number of persons injured.
An eye witness, Chinaza Akan, confirmed to the nespaper that one of the casualties was a pregnant woman. Her stomach was opened and the fetus removed, she said.
Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Eha-Amufu, Rt Rev Daniel Nkemjika Olinya, confirmed the attack, saying it was the third time violent herdsmen invaded Mgbuji community in 2021.
"The last before this Sunday's led to the death of six people. Five of them have not been buried. They came again this time and killed eight persons," he said.
Olinya further linked the killings to the eviction notice given to the herdsmen.
"Some of those kidnapped and released said the herdsmen insisted that they would continue there until IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, dropped his agitations for Biafra," he said.
The Enugu Command has reportedly commenced investigation.
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Labrys is a gynoid robot who developed a personality and then was immediately traumatized, causing her to develop a shadow once thrown into the TV world of Persona 4, who served as the main antagonist of the first Persona 4 Arena title. Through the events of P4A, Labrys was able to overcome the trauma of her past with the help of the Investigation Team from Persona 4 and obtain her Persona, Ariadne.
Labrys is a rushdown character who has large buttons and several frame traps who focuses on gaining axe levels to hit the opponent with massive damage. Her 236BC super and fully charged 214BC super are the two heaviest damaging supers in the game. While most of her mixup options are negative on block, they can be covered with assists and made to convert into both high damage and strong okizeme.
Under Red Axe, Labrys also does significantly more chip damage when in resonance, through all of her normals and specials, including non-axe normals such as 2B and 5B.
Before we go into how you should manage Labrys's axe level, let's go over how her levels increase and decrease and other factors to note when playing as Labrys.
At the start of each match, the axe gauge starts at level 3 (Green).
Using certain special moves will build the gauge faster then normal moves such as Guillotine Axe.
Labrys' Axe management is not as much of an issue as it was in the Arena games. Labrys has several routes both with and without assists to go from green-to-red that also double as giving her air guillotine enders which allow her to also get good okizeme.
Actually out-ranges a surprising number of characters.
Second hit of autocombo, nothing really special.
Jump cancellable, but leaves Labrys extremely punishable if pushblocked.
Do not press this button in neutral. Ever.
This doesn't have much use outside of combos.
Unlike in Persona 4 Arena, Labrys cannot move separately from Ariadne during this part of the move.
Decent-ish for cross-combo pressure, as it will lock the opponent in place for a moment.
Will knock the opponent down if they're airborne.
Despite using the axe, does not build axe level.
Usually you use this when trying to bait a dp, or picking up after j.214B where 4A wont work.
Range and angle make it somewhat unsuitable for air-to-air hits, but sometimes you need to make do with what you have. Has some combo use.
The pattern kind of resembles a labyrinth, which is neat.
Freezes you in place for the duration, making it bad for jump-ins.
This move has no reason to exist outside of combos. Cancel from this into j.214B to end your air combo.
Runs forward slightly before grabbing if performed outside of grab range.
Can combo into 5A afterward.
Lacks the vertical reach that many other reversals have.
A decent-ish way to interact with your opponent at about half-screen, but can't be followed up with winch dash.
A decent way to get in on your opponent from long distance. Make sure to cover yourself with an assist.
Overhead, very unsafe on block.
Low, safe on block though, can also continue into safejump on hit if you want to.
Faster, but cant combo solo after.
Usually used when active switching from labrys after using an assist to cover the animation for mixup. The hitstun on both versions is VERY long so you can do some pretty dumb cross combos as proration wont mess you up.
Because this does slightly more damage, you want to end combos with this version most of the time.
Speed of A version, can follow up like B version.
Not too useful outside of some weird conversions, unless doing a safejump or 4A after the B follow up you will need 2 meter to combo.
On hit, will knock airborne opponents up with a set stun time, allowing for easy combo followups.
Can burn meter with 236CC 2C. Not at all good use of meter but its fun.
Two hits, can build axe quickly but cannot combo solo after.
First hit is not an overhead, giving more time for the opponent to react.
Hitbox can be a bit...finicky, be careful when using to follow up certain character moves.
When using this assist, you can active switch to labrys once it launches to have the orb cover her. It can also be used in some rather unorthodox combos.
Decent anti-air, but lacks horizontal range.
Labrys comes in slightly behind you, limiting its usefulness as an offensive tool.
You can active tag to Labrys on hit to continue into a full combo off of this.
Not a great assist, but it does its job sometimes.
Will whiff if something hits the opponent after the move traps them, so a partner may screw you over.
The damage scales hard when used at the end of a longer combo. If you start a combo with red axe, it would be better to perform your super early to maximize damage.
Fully charged does an absurd amount of damage (10000 ), but it's too slow to actually be useful in most situations.
Since the move has guard point for the duration, you can use it to HEAVILY punish raw supers with long active times, like Ziodyne.
Can't be charged like the solo version.
Can combo into this from j.214B, timing is rather fast though so be careful.
To edit frame data, edit values in BBTag/Labrys/Data. Be sure to update both the move and the move Full sections. One is shown on the character page, while the other is shown on the frame data page.


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4) has a power-off stall speed which does not exceed 24 knots calibrated airspeed.
A. Any person operating an ultralight vehicle under this part shall, upon request, allow the Administrator, or his designee, to inspect the vehicle to determine the applicability of this part.
B. The pilot or operator of an ultralight vehicle must, upon request of the Administrator, furnish satisfactory evidence that the vehicle is subject only to the provisions of this part.
A. Notwithstanding any other section pertaining to certification of aircraft or their parts or equipment, ultralight vehicles and their component parts and equipment are not required to meet the airworthiness certification standards specified for aircraft or to have certificates of airworthiness.
B. Notwithstanding any other section pertaining to airman certification, operators of ultralight vehicles are not required to meet any aeronautical knowledge, age, or experience requirements to operate those vehicles or to have airman or medical certificates.
C. Notwithstanding any other section pertaining to registration and marking of aircraft, ultralight vehicles are not required to bear markings of any type.
A. No person may operate any ultralight vehicle in a manner that creates a hazard to other persons or property.
B. No person may allow an object to be dropped from an ultralight vehicle if such action creates a hazard to other persons or property.
A. No person may operate an ultralight vehicle except between the hours of sunrise and sunset.
2) all operations are conducted in uncontrolled airspace.
103.13 OPERATION NEAR AIRCRAFT;RIGHT-OF-WAY RULES.
A. Each person operating an ultralight vehicle shall maintain vigilance so as to see and avoid aircraft and shall yield the right-of-way to all aircraft.
2. No person may operate an ultralight vehicle in a manner that creates a collision hazard with respect to any aircraft.
3. Powered ultralights shall yield the right-of-way to unpowered ultralights.
No person may operate an ultralight vehicle over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement, or over any open air assembly of persons.
No person may operate an ultralight vehicle within Class A, Class B, Class C, or Class D airspace or within the lateral boundaries of the surface area of Class E airspace designated for an airport unless that person has prior authorization from the air traffic control facility (ATC) having jurisdiction over that airspace.
No person may operate an ultralight vehicle in areas designated in a Notice to Airmen under §91.143* or §91.141** of this chapter unless authorized by ATC.
* §91.143: Flight limitation in the proximity of space flight operations.
- No person may operate any aircraft of U.S. registry, or pilot any aircraft under the authority of an airman certificate issued by the Federal Aviation Administration within areas designated in a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) for space flight operations except when authorized by ATC, or operated under the control of the Department of Defense Manager for Space Transportation System Contingency Support Operations.
** §91.141: Flight restrictions in the proximity of the Presidential and other parties.
No person may operate an ultralight vehicle except by visual reference with the surface.
No person may operate an ultralight vehicle when the flight visibility or distance from clouds is less than that in the table below. All operations in Class A, Class B, Class C, and Class D airspace or Class E airspace designated for an airport must receive prior ATC authorization as required in §103.17 of this part.
We've all read and sort of absorbed the minimum safe altitude numbers in 14 CFR 91.119 and generally know that we're supposed to stay 500 feet above the ground and 1,000 feet above congested areas. However, the regulation is a little more complex than those basic numbers.
The problem is "congested area." Rather than publish a definition so pilots can know how to shape their aeronautical behavior, the FAA purposefully doesn't—it comes up with its definition on a case-by-case basis. The FAA says it does that so it can balance the pilot's interests with the need to protect persons and property. In enforcement actions, the FAA has successfully declared that a congested area includes a group of people on an airport ramp, sunbathers on a beach, a small subdivision covering less than a quarter mile, and traffic on an Interstate highway.
If there is a group of people on the ramp watching airplanes, the FAA has considered that group to make the area "congested." That triggers the clearance distances of 14 CFR 91.119(b). If the pilot is within 2,000 feet horizontally, he or she must be flying 1,000 feet above the highest obstruction unless it's necessary for taking off or landing. The FAA has long held that a low pass is not necessary for taking off or landing (and if the gear and flaps were up on final, the FAA has taken the position that the pilot wasn't approaching to land and then executed a go-around). So, if a group of people is hanging around the ramp at a fly-in and you want to make a low pass down the runway, make sure the runway is more than 2,000 feet away—although you may still be subject to the 500-foot minimum altitude regulation. If no one is around and the runway area is considered sparsely populated, the only minimum altitude is to be high enough to land safely if the engine quits; however, you still have to be more than 500 feet horizontally from vehicles and structures—including an airplane parked near the runway.
Today, everyone has a cellphone camera, and those images will be used against you if you are charged with illegal low flying. In addition, the FAA will subpoena your GPS data and use it.
Part 103 also uses the term "congested area"
§103.15 Operations over congested areas.


Some 250 graduates from the HEART Trust/NTA's South Eastern Region received their certification in various skill areas during a ceremony on Wednesday (December 7) at the Kingston Church of the Open Bible.
The cohort consisted of participants from the Portmore HEART Academy; Lluidas Vale Vocational Training Centre; Rockfort Vocational Training Centre; Old Harbour Vocational Training Centre; and Enterprise-based Training Department.
Areas of certification include business administration, bartending, electrical installation, housekeeping, welding and fabrication, general construction, garment construction, motor vehicle engine system, data operations, plumbing, early childhood, air conditioning and refrigeration, carpentry, concreting, electrical/electronic maintenance, furniture making, industrial electrical maintenance, wall and floor tiling, and steel fixing.
Graduates of the HEART Trust/NTA South Eastern Region at the graduation ceremony held on December 7 at the Kingston Church of the Open Bible. The group consisted of 250 trainees from the Portmore HEART Academy; Lluidas Vale Vocational Training Centre; Rockfort Vocational Training Centre; Old Harbour Vocational Training Centre; and Enterprise Based-Training Department.
Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the Jamaica Teaching Council, Dr. Canute Thompson, encouraged the graduates to build on the skills they have acquired so that they can become the best in their respective fields.
"You can reshape your destiny, you can secure your place in a global economy if you are willing to build on the skill you have, if you are willing to increase your output for each hour of the day, and if you are willing to think of ways in which no one has done it before and do it that way, while creating a market for it," he said.
Urging the graduates to be innovative in undertaking entrepreneurial ventures, noting that their success will depend not so much "on how well they are able to do what everybody else is doing but how well they can do what nobody else has done before".
Dr. Thompson further commended the HEART Trust for ensuring that the graduates are trained and certified to international standards.


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State of Yucatán Approves Same-Sex Marriage
Yucatán becomes the 22nd Mexican state to modify its constitution to make marriage "the free and voluntary legal union of two people with equal rights, duties and obligations."
The state's congress also banned so-called conversion therapy, which claims to alter individuals' sexual orientation.
Although same-sex marriage has been legal in Mexico since 2015, when the country's Supreme Court (SJCN) declared it unconstitutional to prohibit marriage between couples of the same sex, before yesterday's ruling, such couples had to apply for a pardon to be married in the state of Yucatán.
Mexico's status as a popular, gay-friendly destination has been reaffirmed in the past three months with the approval of same sex marriage in not only Yucatán but in Baja California and Sinaloa, as well. The change strengthens Yucatán's potential to evolve into Mexico's newest LGBTQ+ destination. In 2019, Mexico Secretary of Tourism Miguel Torruco Marques, the International LGBTQ+ Travel Association (IGLTA) and marketing and consulting firm Queer Destinations signed a "Letter of Intent" to further promote LGBTQ+ tourism to Mexico. Since then, Queer Destinations has been working with Yucatán to train, develop and certify tourism players in Mérida and throughout the region.
State Minister of Tourism Michelle Fridman Hirsch sees the constitutional modification as a positive step in attracting the highly coveted LGBTQ+ market. According to World Travel and Tourism Council indicators, 10% of the world's travelers are in the LBGTQ + segment and they spend more, on average, than their non-LGBTQ+ counterparts.
"Making the legal process for same-sex marriages opens up the state of Yucatán to the opportunity to attract even more weddings to our destination a source of economic impact that is welcomed particularly with the pandemic," said Fridman. "We celebrate the steps taken by our congress and look forward to continuing our work to offer our visitors a destination that is rich with culture, history, modernity and, above all, welcoming and safe to all."
Yucatán has long enjoyed a reputation as a romantic destination with transformative experiences across a land rich in history. Home to a thriving Maya community, gastronomy rooted in the colonial era and some of Mexico's finest architecture, the state is a must for anyone looking to incorporate the country's unique culture into their wedding day. Offering the unique duality of both ancient Mayan culture and modern facilities, the state' six regions provide unique, enigmatic and charismatic nuptials settings, from paradisiacal beaches of soft white sand, calm emerald waters and exotic flora and fauna, to historic French-style mansions, ancient and majestic haciendas turned into boutique properties and large outdoor venues that can easily accommodate the needs of every bride and bride and groom and groom.
Yucatán is home to a plethora of professional wedding planners, who can coordinate all details of a same-sex couple's special day. The international airport of capital city Mérida offers nonstop flights from Miami, Houston, Dallas, San Diego and Oakland/San Francisco.
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Polar Bear Digestive System – Adaptations , Diagram & Anatomy
Polar Bears are the most interesting to learn among all the bears. Their adaptability to the extremes of the tundra and their unique set of survival skills make them very interesting to study. Like its all other adaptations, the Polar Bear Digestive System is also one of its important adaptation to its environment. The unique abilities of Polar Bear Digestive System enables it to survive in the extremes of the northern tundra. We have gathered complete information on the digestive system of a polar bear that will help you learn how it is vital for the polar bear.
Polar Bear Digestive System
The polar bear digestive system is similar to the digestive system of humans.
2 kg (4.4 pounds) of fat is at least required by a polar bear in a day to survive and move in the arctic.
The polar bear digestive system takes 20 hours to digest the food (seal blubber).
The polar bear faeces (poop) is liquid, gelatinous and dark brown in color when its food in take is mainly seal blubber.
The polar bear stomach is muscular and expandable enough to hold 15% to 20% of the polar bears weight in it.
The stomach has the capability to digest 97% of the fat and 84% of the protein contained in the food that a polar bear eats in a day.
Just like dogs, polar bears can sweat through their mouth and nose.
The bladder of a polar bear is similar to that of other bears.
Polar Bear Digestive System Adaptations
The polar bear stomach also has one of the adaptation of the polar bear. It enables the polar bear to intake large meals when found unexpectedly.
Food is hard to find for polar bears in the north and when they find large amount of food (dead whale or a lot of seals) it will eat much more than its usual meal. This large amount of food intake is only possible due to the adaptation of polar bear digestive system in which the stomach can expand to hold food 20% of the polar bear's weight.
Unlike other bears the polar bear stomach is adapted to efficiently process meat rather than plants.
The polar bear has multi-reniculate kidneys like other marine mammals i.e. a system of several small kidneys.
Polar bears do not drink much water as they get most of their water from the seal blubber. They do not urinate (pee) often as their digestive system efficiently utilizes all their water intake from the seal blubber. This polar bear digestive system adaptation enables it to survive without fresh water in the north where only sea water, ice and snow is available.
Learn more: What Do Polar Bears Eat
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Changes Ahead in the California Death Penalty
The death penalty is setting up to be a hot topic in the next California election. Advocates on both sides of the issue have proposed legislation to be voted on in 2016. Proponents of the death penalty have asserted a ballot measure that would speed up executions in California while anti-death penalty advocates such as criminal defense attorneys aim to get a measure on the ballot which would repeal the state death penalty entirely.
In 2014, Californians for Death Penalty Reform and Savings proposed a measure aimed at reducing the time between conviction and execution in California from as long as 30 years to 10 to 15 years. The measure did not end up on the 2014 election ballot, but has been approved for circulation in California for the November 2016 ballot.
The initiative claims to expedite executions by increasing the number of available appeal attorneys and streamlining the appeals process through time limitations and restriction of frivolous claims. Proponents claim the measure will bring justice to victims and save taxpayers millions of dollars each year. The initiative's financial impact statement revealed it would increase state costs potentially in the tens of millions of dollars annually for several years while potential savings in state correctional facilities could eventually reach tens of millions of dollars.
On the other side of the argument, the measure for Death Penalty Repeal has been gaining attention. Longtime supporter of death penalty repeal, Mike Farrell, proposed the Death Penalty Repeal ballot measure in September of this year.
This measure would repeal California's death penalty, making the maximum punishment for murder offenses life in prison without possibility of parole. Should the measure be approved, it would apply retroactively to those already facing death sentences. The initiative's fiscal impact statement found a potential net reduction in state and local government costs of about $150 million annually within a few years.
Both ballot measures require over 300,000 signatures in order to qualify for the 2016 election. For more information on both proposed measures, visit https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/13-0055 (13-0055 (Death Penalty)).pdf and http://www.oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/15-0066 %28Death Penalty%29.pdf? .
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The Discover Learning Facilitator will be engaged in the successful design, implementation, and evaluation of the Discover Learning intervention and provide leadership and inspiration to youth participants in Discover Learning.
SCOPE OF ROLE: Save the Children has been operational in Tanzania since 1986 providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered in support of Government of Tanzania priorities and policies both directly and through local partners. Current programming focuses on child protection, child rights governance, education, nutrition, HIV/TB and emergency response. In 2012, as part of a global reorganization process, Save the Children combined programmes of SCUK, SCUS, SC Sweden to create a single operation in Tanzania. We currently have an operational presence in Dodoma, Shinyanga, Zanzibar, Songwe and Kigoma and we work through partners in other parts of the country. We employ nearly 100 staff and have an annual operating budget of approximately $12 million in 2017.
Dimensions: Maintains strong linkages with the community advisory board, street/school leadership.
- Ensure that classes are arranged, learning materials are made available before every session and that the children eat on time.
- Conduct/facilitate 3 parent/caregiver orientation and feedback sessions.
- Attend meetings, workshops and other events as requested.
Experience working with adolescents. Preference for experience working with early adolescents (10-14 year olds).
One year of work experience or higher education, preferably in adolescent health, education, and/or development.
Excitement and enthusiasm for learning new skills.
Experience working with public schools and local communities preferred.
Experience working in a classroom preferred.
Demonstrated experience working effectively as a member of a team.
High level of flexibility, enthusiasm, and excitement for innovation.
Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders including early adolescents, teachers, parents, and other key stakeholders.