As per this AskMefi question, I've been selected to be part of a US West Coast spoken word & performance tour in March 2020 and I'm looking to extend that to other places in the US while I'm up there.

I'm in Australia. I've lived in the US before but in the West Coast, so I'd like some assistance in figuring out how to best plan my potential tour elsewhere in a cost-effective and time-effective way. Mainly I'd like some help with working out a route and base itinerary - I can work on organising bookings, but if you can assist with that that'd be great too.

Budget is highly limited but let's chat!

I have a Marfy jacket pattern, and I'd like to hire someone to 1) enlarge it to my size and 2) perhaps add the 5/8" seam allowance. That is all. Thank you!

Posting on behalf of my boyfriend, who's looking to fill this position and having a hard time finding candidates. They're targeting a fresh high school or college grad but are open to anyone with enthusiasm for Asian Art. It's a super-cool, high-end museum store. Not a bad gig for an young creative type, and they'd technically be a University of Dallas employee.

Position Title Sales Associate
Functional Title Lotus Shop Sales Associate
Department Crow Museum
Salary Range Up to $27,955.00
Pay Basis Monthly
Position Status Regular full-time
Location Dallas
Posting Open Date 09/25/2019
Posting Close Date
Open Until Filled Yes
Desired Start Date 10/21/2019

Job Summary
As an integral member of the team, the sales associate provides best in class service while assisting customers with their selections and purchases. Sales associates are also responsible for re-stocking the floor and for keeping the store clean and presentable. Work hours include weekends and evenings.

Minimum Education and Experience
High school graduate or equivalent. A minimum of six months of office and/or customer service experience.

Preferred Education and Experience
1 year boutique/luxury retail experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Greet customers and provide a welcoming atmosphere.
• Actively engage store guests on the sales floor.
• Know and provide information about the museum, current exhibitions, store merchandise, and Asian cultures.
• Present merchandise and explain significance, use, and care of merchandise to customers.
• Know current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices.
• Open and close the cash register, which includes: counting money, separating charge slips, and balancing the cash drawer.
• Transact sales in Counterpoint and process cash, check, or credit card payments.
• Maintain records related to customer counts, sales, and inventory.
• Recognize security risks and assists to control shrink through customer service.
• Providing gift wrapping when requested.
• Re-stock the sales floor and keep clean and tidy.

Physical Activities
Working Conditions
Additional Information
The Lotus Shop at the Crow Museum is an indoor, climate controlled, cool environment that is designed to provide a comfortable experience for visitors of the museum and staff. Occasionally, you will be requested to work outdoors at public festivals and events. Noise and crowd levels fluctuate depending on internal and external programming

Special Instructions Summary
Important Message
1) All employees serve as a representative of the University and are expected to display respect, civility, professional courtesy, consideration of others and discretion in all interactions with members of the UT Dallas community and the general public.

2) UT Dallas does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, genetic information, or veteran status in its programs and activities, including in admission and enrollment. For inquiries regarding non-discrimination policies, contact the Director of Institutional Equity at InstitutionalEquity@utdallas.edu or the Title IX Coordinator at TitleIXCoordinator@utdallas.edu, or call 972-883-5331.

Application link here:

https://jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/13085?fbclid=IwAR2KGBrgVAQHzbhu6G5F_-1snQKz4zVwwuvLz2K-EmZAL1AUsEA_CVnwxiA

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I have some mental illness/executive function/autism issues that make applying to jobs a particularly excruciating and time consuming, and I need someone to help look through listings, customize my resumes and cover letters and send them out.

We would meet at a cafe for a few hours each week to coordinate and figure out a strategy and a weekly schedule, and depending on what makes sense at the time, either we'd crank through applications together, or you'd go off and work through them on your own.

I can pay $40/hr plus a $500 bonus if one of the applications you work on leads to me accepting a job.

Forgive me for the following display of ignorance.

I'm looking for someone to develop a simple and attractive static website. I'm agnostic about the development framework. The functionality needed would be a simple landing page that functions as about/contact and a page that would act as a form where users could upload a file (~25MB .wav). The files would be automatically uploaded to Dropbox or Google Drive, etc. (whatever is easiest). I have no visual assets (logos, images, etc.). I have some examples of design I have in mind as models (Jekyll pages, etc.) that I can share with you.

I have never hired anyone for a project of this kind, so I don't know what common practice is re: contract pay, but I have a soft budget of ~1,000USD.

I don't yet have a domain registered anywhere.

I'd like to have a set of women's pajamas with piping made from jersey knit Spoonflower fabric I designed. Here's the pattern: https://mccall.com/b6296. Please contact me for more info.

The Affecting Technologies group of the Center for Arts, Design + Social Research is looking to hire a designer or studio to work with us on designing a publication for print and web. The goal of the publication is to document the presentations, conversations, and projects from a recent convening we held in Sao Paulo, Brazil called Afetando Tecnologias / Maquinando Inteligencias (Affecting Technologies, Machining Intelligences). We would hope to create a durable, beautiful artifact together. Apply by 11:59 pm ET on 20th April 2020, or send us an email at affecting-tech-group@critical-computing.org with answers to the form. If you have questions, please write to us at affecting-tech-group@critical-computing.org. Portuguese and English applications warmly welcomed.

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O grupo Affecting Technologies (Afetando Tecnologias) do Center for Arts, Design + Social Research quer contratar um designer ou estúdio para trabalhar conosco na criação de uma publicação para impressão e web. O objetivo da publicação é documentar as apresentações, conversas e projetos de uma recente conferência realizada em São Paulo, no Brasil, chamada Afetando Tecnologias / Maquinando Inteligencias (Affecting Technologies, Machining Intelligences): http://www.iea.usp.br/eventos/afetando-tecnologias-maquinando-inteligencias. Esperamos criar juntos um material bonito e durável. Para se inscrever, preencha el formulário ou nos mande um e-mail com respostas para as perguntas em affecting-tech-group@critical-computing.org até 23h59 ET de 20 de abril de 2020.

I wrote a book for my son's birthday that is a version of the song Down by the Bay. I would love to accompany the not-quite-a-book with an MP3 of the song that he can sing along with. If you can sing and play an instrument (guitar, piano, kazoo, whatever) and put together a fun/happy/lively recording of the song, I want you! I was thinking $50 CAD? But I don't really know what's reasonable here. Also, I would somewhat prefer a Canadian just because I know how to email/text money to a Canadian, but I'm not really sure how I would pay anyone else. But if you have a way for me to pay you (I dunno a web site where I can "checkout" or whatever) then I'm happy for whoever.

I have a HostGator-hosted WordPress blog that is on an increasingly outdated version of PHP and WP. I would like to transfer it to a new host, ideally one that is cheaper and that lets me stop worrying about details like the PHP version. Setting up HTTPS would be good, too. The blog itself is a pretty standard WP installation without much in the way of plugins and with no custom code or complex theming, so hopefully the transfer will be simple.

I'm open to an hourly rate or a flat fee.

My employer is used to meetings in person, but during the CoronApocalypse has begun taking meetings in Zoom like many others. I just got through with a 2-hour (actually 1:51) meeting and my employer would like a summary -- not a transcription, but a summary -- of what was said. The idea is that they would be able to look at this summary and recall the flow of the discussion, what people were communicating at different points, we do not need word-for-word.

Challenges: (1) Recorded via a voice dictation stood up next to a laptop.
(2) 4 voices doing most of the talking, with a few others occasionally coming in. Unfortunately the main voices interrupt and try to talk over each other, which went poorly over Zoom. Fortunately the voices are distinct, and I can let you know who's who so you can label them appropriately.
(3) Some technical jargon related to construction, land/soil shifting and the law regarding buildings.

Let me know your estimate for this work, and when we reach agreement I can send you an 80MB MP3 file through Dropbox or Google Drive.

Deadline: done by this Friday evening

We also have another meeting with the same people scheduled for next week.

In Pandemie-Zeiten müssen Arbeitgeber ihre Beschäftigten besonders schützen. Die Liste der Vorschriften ist lang. Das Handbuch der Katastrophenschützer geht sehr weit: Es regelt sogar den Gang zum Getränkeautomat. Ein Überblick.

Die Schulen in Nordrhein-Westfalen sollen nach den Osterferien schrittweise wieder öffnen. Auch die Wissenschaftsakademie Leopoldina spricht sich für eine Wiedereröffnung der Schulen aus. Lehrerverbände und Virologen kritisieren diesen Vorstoß.

Vorgesetzte machen sich meist ein Bild von Arbeitnehmern, die sich bei ihnen bewerben – und recherchieren dazu im Internet. Doch auch die Bewerber forschen vor Vorstellungsgesprächen über ihre mögliche Führungskraft. Experten warnen dabei vor einem Fehler.

In Großbritannien sind seit Wochen die Schulen geschlossen, auch private Einrichtungen wie das berühmte Eton College. Für einige von ihnen wird es jetzt finanziell eng – auch weil nicht klar ist, ob überhaupt alle Schüler wieder kommen.

An einen normalen Schulalltag ist vorläufig nicht zu denken. Auch wenn in der nächsten Zeit immer mehr Schüler in ihre Klassenzimmer zurückkehren sollen, gelten künftig scharfe Abstandsregeln und besondere Hygienemaßnahmen.

Viele Eltern leiden aktuell unter großen finanziellen und emotionalen Sorgen. Das spüren ihre Kinder – egal wie alt sie sind. Familien sollten daher offensiv über die Krise reden. Denn mit den richtigen Antworten können Kinder jetzt viel fürs Leben lernen.

Die Schulschließungen im Zuge der Corona-Krise könnten für Deutschlands Schüler dramatische Konsequenzen haben. Denn jedes Schuljahr erhöht das Lebenseinkommen um rund zehn Prozent. Zukünftigen Akademikern drohen jetzt Verluste im sechsstelligen Bereich.

Gemeinsam gegen Mini-Me: Victoria Wagner will mit einem hochkarätig besetzten Netzwerk Deutschlands allzu homogene Wirtschaftselite aufmischen. Warum ein kultureller Wandel nicht nur in den Chefetagen nötig ist, erklärt die Agenturchefin im Interview.

Mit der Coronavirus-Pandemie erlebt die junge Generation die erste Krise ihres Lebens. Sie wird sich damit für immer verändern. Im Berufsleben muss sich der Nachwuchs auf schmerzhafte Verluste einstellen – politisch droht der Gesellschaft dafür aber ein neuer Linksruck.

In naturwissenschaftlichen und technischen Berufen sind Frauen immer noch unterrepräsentiert. Wer es versucht, fühlt sich mitunter fehl am Platz, kündigt – und ist als wichtige Fachkraft verloren. Denn im Büro stecken Frauen in einem Dilemma.

AirPods sowie die neuen AirPods Pro zählen zu den High-End-Ohrhörern – was sie können und für wen sich die Anschaffung lohnt, erfahren Sie hier in unserem praktischen Überblick.

Edle Restaurants satteln in der Corona-Krise um und liefern vorbereitete Menüs nach Hause. An ähnlichen Lieferdiensten sind bereits mehrere Food-Start-ups gescheitert. Denn das Geschäft ist kompliziert.

Sie möchten Ihre AirPods laden – und das möglichst schnell und unkompliziert? Lesen Sie hier, worauf zu achten ist.

Mit dem ersten Gaming-Headset Cage hat Hersteller Teufel einen ordentlichen Markteinstand geliefert. Jetzt erscheinen die Kopfhörer rundum erneuert. Im Vergleich zum Vorgänger beseitigen sie einen entscheidenden Makel.

Guido van Rossum hat die Programmiersprache Python Ende der 80er-Jahre entwickelt. Auch heute ist sie noch bei Netflix, Instagram und Co. im Einsatz. Für die weite Verbreitung gibt es einige Gründe.

Egal ob für Rollenspiele, Camping oder andere Outdoor-Aktivitäten: Walkie-Talkies für Kinder bieten den Kleinen jede Menge Spielspaß.

Vor kurzem stellte Apple die vierte Generation seiner Apple Watches vor. Wer auch gerne in die Welt der Smartwatches einsteigen will, aber lieber auf den Kosmos des kalifornischen Technikriesen verzichten möchte, hat eine ganze Reihe von Alternativen.

Eine Fitness-Smartwatch kann im Alltag sowie beim Sport nützlich sein – Features wie Herzfrequenz- und Schlafrhythmus-Messung, aber auch das Tracken von Schritten und verbrannten Kalorien können dabei helfen, gesünder zu leben.

Sie möchten sich ein MacBook kaufen, aber welches? Informieren Sie sich hier über die Vorzüge der jeweiligen Modelle und erfahren Sie, worauf es bei der Anschaffung eines neuen Geräts ankommt.

Die Vinyl-Schallplatte hat sich einen festen Platz im Musikmarkt zurückerobert. Das Angebot an Plattenspielern ist riesig. Der Test zeigt, dass bei neuen Modellen oft weniger mehr ist.

Für Konsolen-Fans und überzeugte Gamer ist es eine Grundsatzfrage: Playstation oder Xbox? Dabei gibt es zwischen den beiden Konsolen einige Unterschiede, aber auch viele Parallelen.

Keine Lust auf iTunes oder die Musik-App in macOS? Mit Swinsian gibt es eine Alternative mit vielen Funktionen. Im Test konnte das Programm überzeugen. Es gibt allerdings zwei Einschränkungen.

Wein erweist sich in Corona-Zeiten als krisenfest. Davon profitieren vor allem Gründer und ihre Internetshops. Dabei halten typische Käufer eigentlich nicht viel vom Online-Shopping. Das könnte sich nun ändern.

Was lässt zwischen zwei Menschen den Funken überspringen, was hält manche ein Leben lang zusammen? Forscher haben neue Antworten gefunden – und warnen vor einem Anfängerfehler.

Wer sein Haus nicht vererben möchte, kann es in eine lebenslange Rente umwandeln – ohne ausziehen zu müssen. Die Angebote dazu sind allerdings schwer vergleichbar. Drei Varianten können sich für unterschiedliche Eigentümer lohnen.

Viele Anleger setzen auf Aktien, die plötzlich billig zu haben sind. In der Krise offenbart sich aber, dass viel für einen anderen Ansatz spricht: nämlich Papiere zu kaufen, die jetzt stark sind – und danach erst so richtig steigen. WELT hat eine Liste zusammengestellt.

Obduktionen ergeben, dass viele Covid-19-Patienten an Embolien und Thrombosen sterben. Professor Nils Kucher, Angiologe am Universitätsspital Zürich, erklärt, warum Corona falsch eingeschätzt wurde, und kritisiert eine Entscheidung des RKI. (Video, 9:22 Min.)

What will happen on college campuses in the fall? It's a big question for families, students and the schools themselves. A lot of what happens depends on factors outside the control of individual schools: Will there be more testing? Contact tracing? Enough physical space for distancing? Will the coronavirus have a second wave? Will any given state allow campuses to reopen? For all of these questions, it's really too early to know the answers. But one thing is clear: Life, and learning for the nation's 20 million students in higher education, will be different. "I don't think there's any scenario under which it's business as usual on American college campuses in the fall," says Nicholas Christakis, a sociologist and physician at Yale University. So why are so many colleges announcing they will be back on campus in the fall? In many cases, it's because they're still trying to woo students. A survey of college presidents found their most pressing concern right now is summer and fall

Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: For the high school class of 2020, this senior year has been a series of disappointing cancellations due to the pandemic - first, classes, then prom and now graduation. Some schools are trying out video conference graduation ceremonies, and then there are the schools that are trying something a little different. NPR's Tovia Smith reports. TOVIA SMITH, BYLINE: For the millions of high school seniors who've been robbed of their capstone year, their last season on varsity teams, senior prom, awards night, it's been hard to let go of graduation, too. KEN FREESTON: To not have one just doesn't seem right to us. VINCE DIGRANDI: Absolutely. They've earned it. That's where I'm coming from. SMITH: In North Salem, N.Y., Superintendent Ken Freeston and Principal Vince DiGrandi started brainstorming last month for ways to get their seniors some pomp despite the circumstance, and they called a nearby venue. DIGRANDI: John, where we're at is

When Jessyka Bagdon set out to move her tap dancing classes online, big questions started popping up right away: What about kids who don't own their own tap shoes? How to tap dance at home without ruining the floor? And then came the really big challenge: Online programs like Zoom are designed for meetings, not dance classes. "They're made to pick up voices," she explains, not the clickety clack of tap-dancing shoes. "So how do we make the system not filter out our tap sounds as background noise?" So Blagdon, an instructor at 'Knock on Wood Tap Studio' in Washington, D.C., set about problem-solving. No tap shoes? Turns out Mary Jane flats work well. Saving the floor? A piece of plywood does the trick.And that muffled sound over Zoom? Blagdon says fiddling around with some computer settings can help. In the nation's capital, like the rest of the country, kids cooped up at home for weeks now are craving both physical activity and the mental and creative challenges that extracurricular

Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: There is mixed reaction today to new federal rules on how schools from kindergarten all the way through college must respond to cases of sexual assault and harassment. The Trump administration says their sweeping changes to Obama era guidelines will make the process fairer and help better protect accused students. But many others object both to the changes and to the timing. To talk about more details, we're joined now by NPR correspondent Tovia Smith. Hey, Tovia. TOVIA SMITH, BYLINE: Hi. CHANG: So first tell us what are some of these changes that have just been announced? SMITH: So these are largely meant to address what DeVos calls the kangaroo courts that have been handling or, in her view, mishandling these cases, and most of the changes aim to beef up protections for the accused students. So for example, at the college level, schools must now allow live cross-examination of students by the other student's lawyer or

Copyright 2020 West Virginia Public Broadcasting. To see more, visit West Virginia Public Broadcasting . ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The coronavirus shutdown is a major challenge for the nation's child welfare system. Reports of suspected abuse have actually fallen, but care providers say that social distancing restrictions mean even more stress for at-risk kids and families. Emily Corio with West Virginia Public Broadcasting reports. EMILY CORIO, BYLINE: The coronavirus pandemic comes at a time when West Virginia's child welfare system already faces devastating effects from the opioid epidemic. The number of children in state care has swelled in recent years, and the need for foster families has grown. Delvin Johnson is managing as best he can at the Davis Child Emergency Shelter. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) DELVIN JOHNSON: Do we have any beds for a 13-year-old male? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: I'm not sure, DJ. Let me go check. CORIO: But the beds have been full since the governor closed

May 7 is the date that Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat, declared it was safe to open up schools. The state has had fewer than 500 reported cases of the coronavirus as of this week. But according to the state's Office of Public Instruction, just a few school districts in small towns have taken the governor up on the offer. That gap — between a state executive proclaiming schools OK to open and the reality of tiny groups of students gathering in just a few schools — shows the logistical challenges educators and state officials around the country face in any decision to reopen. Willow Creek School in Three Forks, Mont., is opening its doors and expects a few dozen of its 56 students to show up. Troy, a northwestern Montana town, is holding limited and voluntary "study hall" visits, focusing on special education students, as well as some outdoor activities. The town of Glasgow says it will open its schools on a limited basis to students without devices. Libby, a town of fewer than 3

Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit NOEL KING, HOST: Is it time for states to reopen their economies? President Trump really wants it to happen. But the question is whether or not it's safe. DAVID GREENE, HOST: And there is a way to answer that. You test people - right? - for COVID-19. But are states testing enough people? Well, a Harvard analysis conducted exclusively for NPR suggests the answer broadly is no. KING: NPR science reporter Rob Stein has the details of that analysis. Good morning, Rob. ROB STEIN, BYLINE: Good morning, Noel. KING: So what does it show us? STEIN: It's based on estimates of the size of each state's outbreak, how much testing they're doing and how much testing they'd need to do to keep their outbreaks from, you know, spinning out of control. The Harvard analysis found nine states do seem to be doing at least the bare minimum amount of testing they'd need to reopen. But the other 41 states, plus the District of Columbia, are still not doing enough testing

Middle school spans those tween and early teenage years when, for many, puberty hits. Bullies seem to reign supreme. And we begin to grow into ourselves. Like most, writer and reporter Judith Warner was once a middle schooler. She's also the mother of two former middle schoolers. In her new book, And Then They Stopped Talking To Me , she investigates why the middle-school years can be so awful — and what we can do to help make them a little bit better. Interview Highlights On asking people what words come to their mind when thinking of middle school Soul crushing. Shattering. A rush of nausea. Any variation on the word misery that you can come up with. By and large, the answers were so powerful. And yet then there were a couple of people who had good memories too. And that was something that was important for me to hold on to and listen to in more detail. On deciding to write the book It really grew out of a kind of random thought one day when my daughter was in middle school and I

Primary schools in France are reopening next week. There will, of course, be social distancing measures in place. Class sizes will be limited to 15 and no games at recess. It's a gradual three-week process beginning with preschoolers. The government says the reopening is voluntary and students won't be forced to return. Still, many parents and administrators are against the plan. More than 300 mayors in the Paris region signed an open letter to President Macron, urging a delay in reopening and saying the timeline is " untenable and unrealistic ." They said schools needed more time to implement the required sanitary measures. Jean-Michel Blanquer, France's minister of education, talked with Mary Louise Kelly on All Things Considered about bringing students back to class for the first time since mid-March. Here are selected excerpts: Do you think they will come? Do you think you will have 15 students in classrooms come next week? Yes, because we are asking the parents during the last