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Your attitude is the reason you’re poor

The Next Web

Researcher Barbara Fredrickson, who I talked about earlier in this article, discovered the tipping point between negative and positive attitudes is a three-to-one ratio. A calculator on Fredrickson’s website for her book Positivity can help you evaluate your own positivity ratio. Positive thinking has a tipping point, as well.

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Apple’s latest sci-fi drama Invasion starts out too dang slow

The Verge

Over the first few episodes, you’re introduced to a sheriff in Oklahoma, a housewife in Long Island, a US soldier stationed in Afghanistan, a teen in London, and an expert in Tokyo working with the International Space Station. The ratio of human drama and sci-fi storytelling is completely out of whack.

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Kodland, which teaches kids digital skills, grabs $9M to scale its online coding school

TechCrunch

Kodland says it has around 1,000 teachers on its platform (some are employed by it, some are gig workers, depending on the market); while the “typical” ratio is one teacher per 15 pupils. Gift Guide: 20+ STEM toy gift ideas for aspiring young builders. It notes its platform does also offer one-to-one teaching.

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4 Times Churches Should Use Waivers

sgEngage

Sports events are a classic way to engage your teen and young adult ministries. Be sure to list the average ratio of volunteers to children at any given time in your waiver, so parents will have an idea about the level of monitoring their children will have. Sports Events. Some of these responsibilities may include: Changing diapers.

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HOW TO: Get Your Nonprofit Started on Snapchat

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. It’s too early to know whether it is a best practice to add back all your Friends, so to begin add Friends at a ratio of 1:10.

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Seven reasons I think "Datamasher" is so cool (and deserves your vote!)

Forum One

Datamasher promises hours of such entertainment, such as " Healthy States for Teens " or " Hospitals per Person ". For me, that means great satisfaction comparing the wonders of my home-town Wisconsin to our less-fortunate neighbors in Illinois. Datamasher let's you explore State data in meaningful, un-mashed ways.

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4 Important Membership Trends Every Museum Needs to Consider

Connection Cafe

According to the American Alliance of Museums, the average museum has 6 volunteers for every paid staff member , a ratio which s oars to 18:1 in museums with budgets under $250,000. The teens coming into adulthood are more likely than adults (57% vs. 49%) to pay more for brands that support the causes or organizations important to them.

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