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NextEV NIO have said that they have been working flat out since the last round of the Formula E championship in order to improve their car for Buenos Aires.
This year's race schedule includes a three-month gap between round two in Marrakesh, and the Buenos Aires ePrix in two weeks' time.
But rather than have this disrupt the team's efforts, driver and season one champion Nelson Piquet Jr said that the team have been using the time to improve the car's performance.
He said, "The break is giving us time to work hard within the team. Just because we're not on track it doesn't mean that we're not working and improving.
"Our ambition hasn't changed from winning races and the championship and we know we need to climb up a few steps before being the best car and team out there but we're working really hard."
Newly appointed Team Principal Gerry Hughes said that the work the team had put in over the past few months was part of their philosophy towards 'continual improvement', saying "We should remember that as a team we are essentially an all-new entity and we must continue to build and develop the team and focus forwards.
"On the powertrain development side of things we are still behind our main rivals in some key areas, but we will continue to accelerate our powertrain knowledge in order to apply our 'continual improvement' philosophy."
Despite being a new team in terms of structure and personnel, NextEV have had a strong start to the season.
They secured a brilliant one-two in qualifying at the opening round in Hong Kong, and secured another top five grid slot in Marrakesh.
Although their race pace has tended to let them down, their haul of 13 points has seen them score almost as many points as they did in the entirety of last season.

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Bethesda has this week unveiled a new limited edition Fallout 4 Xbox One controller they have created in a limited run of 5,000 that will be up for grabs later today.
But before you rush in you might want to know that the controller is actually wired and there is also a few slight differences that need to be noted when compared to other official Xbox One controllers.
Bethesda seems to have changed the D pad design and also added an extra button down below the right hand side thumb stick, without any explanation as yet to what its functions might be.
All of this week Bethesda is having a 20 percent off sale throughout their store and will be setting a new limited edition item each day this week until Friday. So to bag a bargain and also get your hands on some limited edition Fallout 4 goodies jump over to the official Bethesda online store via the link below.
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Nancy Lee's 35-plus-year teaching career has included building high school choir and musical theater programs nearly from scratch at Southwest and Washburn high schools. It's also included directing musicals in rural Iowa and teaching the children of East Coast mafiosos.
On June 13, Lee will retire after more than 21 years in Minneapolis Public Schools, the past 11 of them at Washburn.
Lee, a Southwest Minneapolis resident, said she plans to focus on an intensive summer theater program she founded for college students near her hometown of Osage, Iowa, located near the Minnesota-Iowa border. She also said she wants to find more professional theater opportunities in the Twin Cities.
"I think I'll be much more project-based during the school year here, and then summers will be my big work time," she said.
Lee grew up in a farming family, though she said her dad and grandma both were musically inclined. She said she originally took band in high school, before her choir director persuaded her to join his group.
"[He] really kind of inspired me to do this work," she said.
After high school Lee enrolled at Luther College, where she graduated with a degree in music education. Her first teaching job was in rural Farmington, Iowa, where she taught fifth- through 12th-graders and directed her first musical.
After a year, Lee and her husband, Hans, moved to New Jersey, where he was studying to become a Lutheran pastor. There, she taught at two schools, including a Catholic school in the mafia district of Trenton, New Jersey's capital city.
"They thought I was the most exotic creature to ever walk in the room [because of my] accent," Lee said. "The nuns looked at my husband, who's Norwegian, blond, blue-eyed, and they go, 'You better not come into our neighborhood, but you'll be fine.'"
The Lees moved back to the Midwest after a year, and Hans finished seminary and eventually began his pastoral career. After stints in Iowa and Wisconsin, their family settled in Minneapolis, where Lee took teaching jobs at Armatage Elementary School and then at Southwest High School in 2000.
Lee said Southwest did not have a choir when she arrived and that the principal gave her a year to get a program up and running. She said 15 students took choir that first year and more than 150 took it by her fifth year.
In 2008, Lee moved to Washburn High School, where the district had required teachers to reapply for their jobs as part of a "fresh start" initiative. She said Washburn had about 35 choir students at the time but that she gradually built the program to include 200 students. She also put on the first musicals at Washburn in years.
"All the equations were there to say, 'This can be successful,'" Lee said. "But it was truly starting over."
'Bring out the best'
Washburn parent Sue Johnson said Lee had to beg students to participate in the musicals when she directed her first show at Washburn. Nowadays, Johnson said there are not enough parts for all the kids.
Johnson, whose three kids have all done choir, said Lee is someone whom students know they can trust. She said she was impressed with how Lee coordinated a recent trip to New York City with over 100 choir students.
"She orchestrates it just as she conducts her choirs," Johnson said.
Eric Sayre, a 2006 Southwest graduate who is now band director at South High School, said Lee was encouraging but had high expectations.
Sayre, who participated in Southwest's musicals and an a capella group Lee supervised, said she always picked music that felt meaningful to students. He said she helped him write an original choir piece as a senior and then let him perform it.
Other parents and former students also said Lee had the ability to make everyone feel welcome.
Alma Neuhaus is a 2014 Washburn graduate who will begin a master's program in vocal performance this fall at Juilliard. She said Lee's classes were as much about creating community as they were about making music. Neuhaus said Lee gave students space to address things happening outside of her classroom.
Parent Deb Brisch-Cramer, who worked with Lee from 2009 to 2013, said Lee welcomed everyone who wanted to participate in the musicals, including students with disabilities. She said students felt they could talk to Lee about anything.
"She just had the ability to really bring out the best in kids," Brisch-Cramer said.
Lee hasn't been involved with the hiring of a new Washburn choir teacher, but she said she thought the school had strong candidates for the position. She said her biggest thrill in teaching has been seeing students figure out who they are through music.
The past three years, Lee has received honorable mention honors in the Excellence in Theatre Education contest run by the Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University. Her choirs have also received high ratings in statewide contests.
Washburn will hold an open-house retirement celebration for Lee on June 5.


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Every day, over 40 million people hop on to the grand old Indian Railways (IR) and embark on long-distance journeys. Despite being one of the largest national public transport networks in the world, it is plagued by operational inefficiencies, perennial delays and a massive demand-supply mismatch. Therefore, travellers are gradually choosing air travel over trains.
It is this trend that Manish Rathi, Kapil Raizada and Sachin Saxena set out to reverse with their Noida-based start-up, RailYatri. "We saw the opportunity of simplifying the process for millions of travellers by providing detailed information to make effective travelling decisions," says Rathi, who co-founded RailYatri in 2012. Six years down, what started as a crowdsourcing platform for train-related information, has evolved into a full-fledged services platform for everything related to rail travel. Today, Rail-Yatri provides a wide range of services including bus tickets, long-distance cabs, a wide selection of food, affordable accommodation on hourly packages, and of late, packaged tours to popular destinations.
While the last reported revenue on Crunchbase is $7 million, the start-up claims to have a revenue run rate of Rs.1 billion in FY18. Its revenue has been growing 17% YoY, for the past three years. It has a user base of 13 million, and is confident of increasing it to 22 million in FY19.
Siddharth Nautiyal, investment partner, Omidyar Network, led RailYatri's $10 million Series B funding in April 2018. He believes that the start-up has carved a niche for itself as the go-to platform for long-distance train travellers. "Some of the information was available at multiple sources; Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) itself did that. But the way RailYatri used crowdsourced data and analytics to bring everything together, won it millions of users. Even before we backed it, the platform had established itself," says Nautiyal.
Till date, the start-up has raised $16 million from investors including Nandan Nilekani, Blume Ventures and Helion Venture Partners, with the funds raised being used to diversify and provide a wider set of features for users.
Choosing tracks
Rathi, Raizada and Saxena have known each other since their days at GlobalLogic, a California-based digital product engineering services company, where they developed a mutual interest in the consumer mobility business. "The sheer market size of 23 million daily train travellers excited us. We also realised that most of the travel companies were focused on flights or international tours. The domestic opportunity remained untapped," says Rathi, who then co-founded Stelling Technologies in 2011.
Around that time, IR was exploring ways to disseminate information to its passengers more efficiently. This seemed the perfect launch pad for the co-founders of Stelling. They worked with IR on several products, including the re-launch of TrainEnquiry and creating RailRadar, which gave real-time information of all running trains via Google maps.
The success of these projects further convinced the co-founders of the potential in this space, and they decided to launch their own, consumer-facing app — RailYatri.
Their initial product, RailRadar, was a unique feature. In the wide railway network, to know 'where exactly your train is' while even between stations, using crowdsourced data, was something that helped passengers save time and anxiety. Even today, when RailYatri has re-launched a smarter version of RailRadar, this is one of the most popular features. "Our hypothesis was simple — if we could be a part of people's rail journeys, we could set up something bigger on that. The key was to answer their specific questions," says Rathi. They started by answering the most common question: "Where is my train". Soon, one query led to another, leading to a system that answered a gamut of doubts.
Along with the information, Rail-Yatri added a layer of intelligence to their platform. For instance, providing information entails giving schedules of all trains plying between point A and B. Intelligence, meanwhile, is in telling people which of the trains ply on time, and in which train your waitlisted ticket stands the highest chance of being confirmed.
Rathi says that the first layer of information came from the people themselves — crowdsourcing information on train location, and details of hospitals, hotels and restaurants around railway stations. The second layer of prediction algorithms was added by the team at RailYatri.
Rathi says, "We are a data-analysis company and, thus, all the information that is shared with our users are based on deep analysis of historic data. Let us take Rail-Yatri's estimated time of arrival (ETA) prediction — we have designed an indigenous algorithm, which is essentially an unsupervised machine learning model. The model takes into account the current location of the train and latest running-time performance to make the prediction. With each run, new data points are added, which further refines the prediction." Until this deep integration of technology was put in place, information was sourced from public data. But, with the intelligence layer being added, the platform tripled its user base — from 4 million to its current count.
Anil Kumar, CEO, RedSeer Consulting, says, "RailYatri is working to differentiate itself from its peers and IRCTC by offering a limited set of 'more intensely needed' services such as ticket confirmation forecasting (for waitlisted tickets) using big data tools, superior user interface and user experience (UI/UX) that makes it easy to get services such as in-train meals, and more. These new high-margin services being launched by them can support the lower-margin business of train bookings better." Globally, ticket bookings is a low-margin business, returning around 2-3%, while in other services such as food and hotels, the margin could vary from 10-30%.
Karthik Reddy, founder and managing partner, Blume Ventures, adds that RailYatri has stuck to their mission of simplifying train travel, in turn benefitting IR. "That mission is clear when one opens the app and sees layers of services provided to the customer. RailYatri keeps pushing innovation by researching possible diversification of the business, and making their predictive analysis more accurate every quarter," he says.
New junction
Realising the value created by the intelligence layer, the next step was to cater to the transacting needs of the user. "In 2016, we started building the marketplace model for RailYatri. The first thing we did was tie up with restaurants located along railway stations, connecting consumers to these outlets and delivering food onto trains," says Rathi.
At present, RailYatri provides food services across 210 cities, and this contributes to 20% of its total revenue. From beverages and regional dishes, to kids' special, snacks and desserts, RailYatri offers the user a wide variety of meal options and combo offers. In January this year, the company also acquired Kochi-based food delivery start-up YatraChef, to improve last mile delivery.
Following this, they then added bus tickets and long-distance cab booking service on their platform. In 2017, RailYatri started providing train-ticket booking service too. "Even today, 80% tickets are booked through agents. Hence, we have tied up with offline agents who book tickets for users at a nominal fee. We don't charge anything from the user," he says. With the addition of this service, the number of monthly active users has seen a 10% month-on-month growth in FY18.
Here, however, the start-up faces stiff competition not just from peers such as Trainman and Confrmtkt (see: Peer pressure) and larger online travel aggregators such as ClearTrip and Yatra, but also from IRCTC, a subsidiary of IR, which enjoys a dominant position and sells about 1.2 million tickets every day.
Recent reports state that instead of the earlier flat annual maintenance charge, IRCTC has decided to charge a fee of Rs.12 plus tax on every ticket booked. The new fee structure is touted to be a move to tap into a new revenue stream ahead of its IPO, and is likely to impact the already low-margin railway ticket booking service.
Reddy explains, "Technically, RailYatri has no competition from IRCTC, which is the only authorised agency for any e-ticket transaction in India. But, RailYatri has built technology to simplify access to authorised ticket channels."
Rathi adds that ticket booking is anyway not the main revenue generator for RailYatri. "It is simply a way to connect with the customer in the early stage of their journey, and then provide ancillary services," he explains. For its growth, RailYatri is looking largely towards three verticals — food, hospitality and tour packages.
To strengthen the hospitality vertical, RailYatri has partnered with hotel aggregators across the country. Of these, around 50 hotels, situated close to railway stations, allow one to book on an 'hourly' basis.
"Hourly bookings is the next big thing. This is important because more people are travelling for quick meetings, and there is always a need for stay options where travellers can take a quick shower or change and move on. RailYatri hotels with hourly stay options are situated close to the stations, and hence, this is our great differentiator," says Rathi.
The start-up has also taken their first step towards curating travel packages over the past couple of months. Important religious events such as Maha Kumbh, Sabarimala festival and special celebrations at Shirdi and Vaishno Devi are attended by millions from across the country. RailYatri offers travellers end-to-end solutions — from train, bus and cab bookings, station or airport pickups and hotel stay, to assured darshan at temples and special pujas. For religious packages, RailYatri has local agents who source VIP passes as well as arrange for special pujas at these sites.
For a first-time visitor, it becomes difficult to find out specific local details, and this is one of RailYatri's Unique Selling Points (USPs). "We even have on-stop guides to help devotees," says Rathi, adding that while they also have leisure-destination packages, the focus is on religious ones.
Curating tour packages was an idea conceived by IRCTC as early as 2007. Coupled with years of experience and a dominant position, IRCTC already has an edge over start-ups. RedSeer's Kumar, though, states that there isn't reason to worry. "Right now, this whole sector is evolving, as players are small and clear differentiators are yet to emerge. We will see more innovation from players such as RailYatri and others to better cater to specific customer needs."
Scaling up
In the travel space in India, the largest segment is 'package holidays', with a market volume of $4 billion in 2018, according to online statistics portal Statista. Omidyar Network's Nautiyal adds that the next half-a-billion people who will come online in India will be very different from the folks who have been online for the first 10 years of Internet penetration. "They will be crucial, and RailYatri seems to have the pulse of what it takes to succeed here."
What could be a challenge, instead, is the fact that nine out of 10 customers coming online in the next five years may not be fluent in English. RailYatri, therefore, has to be available in a lot more languages than they are available right now (English and Hindi).
Harminder Sahni, founder, Wazir Advisors, holds a similar opinion. "The most important factor for all online services companies will be convenience of booking, payment, cancellation and refund. With consumers becoming more and more impatient with their time and increasing attention deficit, UI/UX will become major differentiating factors," he says.
The co-founders at RailYatri are already working on these aspects. The start-up recently launched 'Rush-o-meter', a feature that predicts the sell-out time of available tickets. Based on historical data and machine learning algorithms, RailYatri calculates the number of hours or days the available tickets will get sold out by, thereby helping customers buy confirmed tickets. "The target is now to expand into more verticals, and eventually, be the most preferred mass-market travel app which harnesses the intelligence associated with travel, be it trains, buses, taxis or flights," signs off Rathi.


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The CW has released official promotional photos for "The Reverse Flash Returns," featuring the return of Matt Letscher as the Reverse Flash. Amanda Pays is apparently back as Tina McGee, too!
How is this possible? Does that mean Eddie's sacrifice was for nothing? We'll find out January 26 on The CW.
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A dolphin emaciated and suffering from shark bites was rescued Tuesday by St. Johns County sheriff's deputies and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission personnel after it beached itself at Ponte Vedra Beach in St. Johns County.
A very emaciated dolphin suffering from shark bites was rescued Tuesday morning onshore at Ponte Vedra Beach by St. Johns County sheriff's deputies and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission personnel.
Beachgoers discovered the dolphin about 10:15 a.m. in the sand above the lapping waves in the 700 block of Ponte Vedra Boulevard, said Kevin Kelshaw, a Sheriff's Office spokesman.
The young female dolphin had multiple shark bites, said Karen Parker, a FWC spokeswoman.
Rescuers including a FWC biologist, a veterinarian from Jacksonville University and sheriff's deputies carefully placed the weakened marine mammal in an inflatable swimming pool and covered its body with moist towels to keep it as comfortable as possible for the drive to Sea World in Orlando for evaluation and care.
"Our biologist said it's a guarded prognosis, but it looks like she's probably going to make it," Parker said.
Dolphins as well as sharks are common in the ocean at Ponte Vedra and other Northeast Florida beaches.
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After being given some old photos of Mr Bridges, Ebrington. With images all taken in the late 1890's. All the original photos were in black and white.
Using a website called Colourise.sg within minutes the black and white photos are brought to life.
Mr Bridges had a son who features in this image beelow with fellow residents at Ebrington Village Fete.
Simply using Colourise.sg within a minute or two the colourised version was ready!
Colourise.sg as per its website description is a is "a deep learning colouriser prototype specifically for old Singaporean photos." It works really well, really simple and give an option to have a slider to show you the before and after.
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Knowing Everett Ruess is a qualitative data visualisation installation that interprets the personal relationships embedded in the letters written by the 1930s Californian explorer. The work juxtaposes 18 different relationships found in the body of letters, and aims to visualise the varying degrees of conversational breadth and emotional depth found in each relationship. The work aims to develop an understanding about the people in Everett's life, and to use that knowledge to frame a deeper understanding of the polarities of an outgoing man who craved isolation.
Through a process of analysing 116 letters written over 5 years, an understanding of the various relationships emerged through considering the popularity of the topics discussed and degrees of intimacy in the tone of writing. A baseline was created by considering all the data together, resulting in a base grid that plotted 56 topics of discussion along a horizontal scale of popularity and vertical scale of intimacy. From that base, each line was drawn to pass through the topic points that relationship included, and avoid the ones it didn't. The width of the line itself indicates how popular that topic was in that relationship, and the depth of the line indicates how intimately that topic was discussed. When displayed, a guide was designed to aid in this interpretation.
Additionally, a small publication was designed to further aid in the interpretation of the work, as well as to provide insight into Everett's own history, as well as insight into the data analysis process that was undertaken and the results that were found.


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Essential Oils for Detox: The traditional way to cleanse our body
You have enough in DIY essential oils for body products and essential oils for wellness and remedies. Have you raised interest in expanding your knowledge about essential oils for detox? Eliminating toxins from our system could be a part of your routine. Therefore, you will not worry and feel guilty after indulging yourself with unhealthy food during special occasions.
Make it a habit to ensure the repair of body cells and removing poisonous waste from our system. Naturally, it will help organs such as kidney, colon, skin, liver, and lymph to be healthy. Let me share with you ten of my favorite essential oils for detox. However, you must keep in mind using pure grade essential oils (Grade A) since it is the highest quality. The better the quality, the best is the result.
Best Essential Oils for Detox
Are you curious about how to detoxify your body? Watch this video for a guide:
Of course, essential oils prove to be useful as remedy and cleansing your body even hundreds of years ago. However, no matter how beneficial it can be, you can never depend on it to work everything for you. These natural reliefs are far better off with your constant exercise, healthy diet, clean environment, and discipline. Doing your part will bring remarkable results. Being traditional is an advantage after all.


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Apple is Reportedly Partnering with Volkswagen to Build Self Driving Vehicles
The New York Times
According to a report by the New York Times, the plans to partner with Volkswagen comes after the tech giant was reportedly unable to ink a deal with BMW and Mercedes Benz.
The company plans to customize Volkswagen T6 Transporter vans to be used as shuttles for Apple employees.
The company's new self-driving program puts it up against rivals such as Waymo and Uber.
Rideshare Company, Lyft, Invests $100 Million in Driver Support Centers
Lyft COO Blog Post
According to a blog post by Lyft COO, Jon McNeill, the company looks to double its operational hours at all our current Lyft Hub locations, in 15 cities across North America.
Lyft Hub centers offer drivers heavily discounted oil changes and basic vehicle maintenance, electric vehicle charging stations, SUV and Car rentals courtesy of their partner Express Drive, Tax Help and Career support, and communal areas such as restaurants.
Krogers Buys a Meal Kit Company
Company Press Release
According to a company press release, Krogers has purchased Home Chef, a private meal kit company.
The deal is worth $200 million with an opportunity to potentially earn future payouts of $500 million over five years if certain milestones such as: significant in-store growth and increased online meal kit sales are achieved.
Home Chef is headquartered in downtown Chicago and employs approximately 1,000 employees. The company operates three distribution centers in: Chicago, San Bernardino and Atlanta. Home Chef's distribution centers reach 98% of all continental U.S. households within a two-day delivery window.
Once the deal is complete Home Chef will become a subsidiary of The Kroger Co.
Chipotle Announces a New HQ
Company Press Release
The company announced on Wednesday that it plans to relocate its headquarters from Denver, Colorado to Newport Beach, California.
The Newport Beach location will serve as the corporate center for the company's corporate functions including operations, business development, and marketing.
The transition is expected to affect approximately 400 employees in Denver and New York in Q4 2018.
Macy's Signs on a New CFO
Company Press Release
The company announced on Wednesday that it has appointed Paula A. Price as its new Chief Financial Officer where she will be overseeing the company's finance, accounting, investor relations and internal audit teams.
Price has 30 years of finance experience in retail and consumer facing businesses. She currently lectures on accounting and management at the Harvard Business school.
Price will replace Karen Hoguet who announced plans to retire at the end of the 2018 fiscal year.
The new appointment is effective July 9th, 2018.
The Government of Canada Has Blocked a China-based Company's Takeover of a Canadian Construction Company
Aecon Group Company Press Release
The Aecon Group announced on Wednesday that the Governor in Council has issued an order under the Investment Canada Act directing CCCI not to implement its proposed acquisition of Aecon.
The Aecon Group is a Canadian leader in construction and infrastructure development. CCCI is the international investment and financing arm of the China Communications Construction Company Ltd., It is one of the world's largest engineering and construction development companies.
The deal will not proceed.
Deutsche Bank Announces Major Job Cuts
Company News Release
The bank announced today that it will significantly reshape its Equities Sales & Trading business resulting in a reduction of its headcount by 25%.
Germany's biggest bank stated that the number of full-time equivalent positions is expected to fall from just over 97,000 currently to well below 90,000.
The move part is of an accelerated effort to bring down costs.
Tourism Vancouver Plans to Attract More Chinese Tourists
Tourism Vancouver Media Article
Tourism Vancouver, a destination marketing organization that represents approximately 1,000 members in tourism and related industries and activities, announced on Wednesday that it has signed a deal with Chinese technology giant, Tencent.
The deal will launch Canada's first official WeChat city app to provide real-time services to Chinese tourists.
Vancouver is expecting to see over 300,000 overnight visitors from China in 2018. According to Tourism Vancouver, the tourism industry contributes approximately $4.8 billion to the Metro Vancouver economy annually and provides over 70,000 full-time jobs.
Paddy Power Betfair Buys FanDuel
Company Press Release
According to a company press release, both companies plan to merge their US businesses.
The transaction combines FanDuel's technology, brand, and user base with Betfair's horse racing betting network, media business and online casino business in New Jersey.
The deal provides opportunities for the combined businesses to capitalize on the sports betting market opportunity in the United States. Earlier this month, the US Supreme Court allowed states to legalize sports gambling.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in Q3 of this year.
Tinder Introduces Places, a Feature That Connects People Who Share the Same Activities
Company Blog Post
Tinder announced on Wednesday that it is rolling out a new feature that allows individuals to discover new relationships while at the places they frequent the most, such as bars, yoga studios, and libraries.
The technology is powered by Foursquare and Mapbox and will be tested and made available in Sydney and Brisbane, Australia and Santiago, Chile.
Snap Launches Yellow, a Media Company Accelerator
Company News Release
Snapchat's parent company, Snap, announced on Wednesday that it will be launching Yellow, a launchpad for creative minds and entrepreneurs focused on building media companies.
The accelerator will select individuals and teams from around the world to join the three-month program. Snap will invest $150k in each group that is accepted.
Participants will receive funding, mentorship, and introductions to industry veterans. They will be provided with workspace at Snapchat's headquarters in Venice, California.
Facebook Rolls Out a Feature That Helps You Find Your Next Plumber
Company News Release
Facebook announced on Wednesday that it is working with Handy, HomeAdvisor, and Porch to provide its users with the ability to discover US-based professionals that specialize on home services, such as house cleaners, plumbers, and contractors.
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If you've been considering Snel for your web hosting, good choice! In this review we'll walk you through the need-to-knows so you can decide if it's the right host for you.
On the surface, web hosting companies all seem the same. They all offer shared server access at low prices, they all offer strong WordPress support, and they all promise high levels of uptime.
Yet when you dive a little deeper you start to see important distinctions, such as what the customer interface is like, perks like free domains, and marketing support for your site.
HostGator is one of the strongest all-round providers out there.
When someone looking for a great web hosting company which serves their services to developers, small and medium firms etc, they often end up at Snel.com.
About Snel.com:
Founded in 2010, privately held Snel is a web hosting company that focuses its efforts tightly on a specific slice of the hosting market. The company's products and services are targeted to the overwhelmed new or experienced user who needs reliable, simplified hosting for a personal or business blog at the lowest possible price point.
Snel is a web hosting provider which is so confident in its service, it provides customers with market comparisons from their direct competitors. This allows users to easily choose the package needed based on viewing the lowest rates and identifying the greatest amount of resources available. Another strong point of Snel is their support team, which was also awarded for their always expedient and knowledgeable answers to customer inquiries.
A cPanel console is available through Snel hosting plans for easy website management. Users need not worry about backups, as daily ones are performed by the company to ensure that all customers have their data safely stored. The Snel data center further provides a 99.9% uptime guarantee, and there have so far never been issues with data loss. The company offers only three VPS hosting packages that are not too different in terms of price, and if you're interested in earning some money, you can always become one of their affiliates and earn extra cash whenever your referrals take action on the site.
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⦁ 99.99% Uptime, Guaranteed:
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Before diving into any of the details about a web host, such as its unique features or special offers, it's important to know how reliable a service is. Snel is extremely reliable with a promised 99.99 percent uptime. In other words, if you land on a Snel site, on average, it's available nearly all the time.
A 99.99 percent uptime works out to less than an one minute of downtime per year. That's fantastic and exactly what you want — especially if you're planning to roll out a commercial website with a store front. Time is money, afterall.
Snel has an excellent support team that can be reached anytime via live chat or support ticket system. In my experience, they proved themselves to be very helpful and quick to respond. They resolved every last problem that I had set up.
Snel is one of the few web hosts that offers full 24/7 phone, live chat, and email support. I have found their support department to be very quick to solve issues, especially when it comes to handling site-specific issues or anything other than answering generic tech queries.
Affordable Price:
Snel really commits to its goal of simplifying hosting
Who Should We Choose Snel?
If you need customizable or dedicated space or the deployment freedom you'd find in more high-end VPS hosting solutions, Snel probably is not the best fit for your needs.
Rather, the company aims its fairly well-featured service plans at those of us who are not coders or experienced site developers — the people who run blogs for small businesses, side hustles and community groups who want to get a blog up quickly with as little fuss, muss, and cost as possible.
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Snel is an all-rounder. It's scored 97% in our research for a reason — it delivers on everything that matters. Whether you're starting out or looking to host another 100 sites, Snel has an affordable option for every situation.


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2000 years ago the gods held a foot race to determine which of the 120 Eto-musume, Zodiac Girls, would become the 12 Eto-Shin that would make up the Zodiac. Tricked into not participating by Chu-tan, the Rat Eto-musume, Nya-tan, our protagonist and the Cat Eto-musume, missed out on her chance to be one of the protectors of the 12 regions of Japan. Ever since the first Zodiac Festival, or ETM12 as it is referred to in Etotama, one has been held every 60 years with the possibility of one of the 108 Eto-musume remaining to win the chance to be a part of the Zodiac, but in that time none have succeeded. To win a place in the Zodiac, an Eto-musume must defeat each of the 12 Eto-Shin in a battle of their choosing. Having lost part of her memory during the last ETM12, Nya-tan is determined to become a member of the Zodiac, even if she does not remember why it is important. Should you be rooting for this amnesic and exuberant cat girl?
Nya-tan is an Asshole, but Lovably so.
Not since Sabagebu!'s Momoka have I had this much fun with a character that is an absolute douchebag of a protagonist, it was glorious to watch week-to-week, never truly knowing what dick thing she was about to do next to the other Eto-musume or Takeru, the one human in the series. Nya-tan is a cat and like all cats is lazy, narcissistic, violent and fickle, but in spite of these glaring character flaws she still manages to be endearing to the viewers, mainly because she is at the center of most of the best jokes and gags that the show has to offer. She can be surprisingly nice to others, but this is almost completely for her own benefit, though as the show progresses and you learn more and more about Nya-tan and her situation you come to learn that there is more to this cat than you were first presented with. I was amazed by just how much depth they were able to give such a shallow character in a show that focuses mostly on comedy and action.
A Colorful Cast of Interesting Characters
Outside of a handful of unnamed side characters which show up from time to time, there are 14 characters in Etotama, the 12 Eto-Shin, which you can see in proper order in the gif above, Nya-tan and Takeru. With all of them being introduced in one way or another in the first couple of episodes you might fear an overload of information, but through both their solid character design and unique personalities, they are memorable and immediately recognizable. 12 episodes is not a lot of time to try and really get to know this many character, so don't go in expecting much in the way of character progression outside of Nya-tan, but impressively none of the Eto-Shin come across as being one-dimensional. Each gets her set of gags, jokes, one-liners and eccentricities, even Uma-tan, the horse, who has a complex about being forgotten, won't be, if this show has anything to say about it.
I will also give Etotama some extra bonus points for being a show with 13 female characters and one male, but is not a harem whatsoever. This show is focused on comedy and action, romance is unnecessary, so it is left behind. Mei-tan, the sheep, does admit at one time that she may have feeling for Takeru, but that is as far as it goes. It is refreshing to see. Don't think this means that show doesn't pander to its audience, because it totally does.
The Fourth Wall is Dead
If you enjoy your fourth wall alive and well, than Etotama may not be for you, as the show takes almost every opportunity it can to let you know it is self-aware, from references to which episode they are currently on, what happened off-screen in between episodes, and what it thinks the viewer wants, Nya-tan especially believes she knows what that is. Every episode contains something that can be used to bludgeon Wall-kun and of course there is the expertly done recap episode, which is where the above gif is from, rarely do you see a recap episode not only succeed in moving the story along, which this one does, but also be genuinely funny at the same time. In almost any other season, Etotama would take first place in its ability to kill Wall-kun, but there just so happens to be this other show that aired in Spring 2015, so I will have to give it second place.
The Animation in General and the 3D in Particular
Etotama is a good looking show, the colors are bright, the animation is fluid and the quality doesn't take a dip, not even during the aforementioned recap episode. But what really stands out is the 3D animation that the show switches to when the battles between Nya-tan and the Eto-shin takes place. As you can hopefully tell from the several gifs in this review that show off the 3D animation, it is simply gorgeous, and is the best 3D animation that is trying to retain the look of 2D animation that I have ever seen, it even has great particle and lighting effects. It makes each of the battles, which are generally the climax of most episodes, a treat to look forward to. Shirogumi Inc., the primary studio involved with producing Etotama, out did themselves with this one. I looked and found that I have never seen one of the shows that they have previously worked on, but because of Etotama I will be looking for their name in the future and hoping that they are able to put this much care and attention into their next show.
The Battles
So you might be thinking, I can do this math, there are 12 episodes and 12 Eto-shin, so I get to look forward to one of these fights each episode, right? It is also mentioned in the first episode that if Nya-tan loses even one of these fights that she is out of the running, so they can't have much tension can they? Lucky for all of us these battles aren't usually fights, as I stated during the introduction to this review the Eto-Shin get to decide what the battle is and they have complete freedom to choose how they want to test Nya-tan, or if they even want to battle her at all. So, yes, there is not a lot of tension in the battles, as you know Nya-tan is going to win somehow, but they are still incredibly entertaining. It helps that they range from a game of extreme fetishist keep-away, especially violent rock-paper-scissors, surprisingly serene Shogi, martial art based kick-the-can, and a rocket-powered Mario-kart style race, bananas included. These battle really are a high point in each episode.
For some strange, but very enjoyable, reason the female announcer for each of the battles says all of her lines in a fantastic form of Engrish. I love those small touches.
Chu-tan, our antagonist, is rather boring for the first nine episodes and is probably the least fleshed out character in the show, up to that point. Most of what we get from her in the first three-quarters of the show are the occasional appearance where she will scowl a lot, pose in a badass manner, talk about how she hates Nya-tan and will see the cat clan destroyed, and then leaves until the next time. Luckily, with the majority of the focus on comedy and action, the drama being lacking does not hurt all that much, even if it is revealed later to be the catalyst for the whole story. Chu-tan eventually does get her time to shine, but not till the last three episodes, where the origin of the conflict between her and Nya-tan is explored and why it is that Chu-tan hates Nya-tan and not the other way around, as Nya-tan was the one tricked all those years ago.
Our one and only male character and our one and only human character, is also our least interesting. Takeru's personality boils down to being an all-around nice guy and he is so chill that not even a cat girl suddenly appearing out of his floor and licking his face causes him pause. He mainly acts as our primary avenue for exposition, as the other 13 characters have all known each other for thousands of years and know how everything works, so just about the time that you are starting to think, wait what's going on?, to yourself, Takeru will throw out one of the questions you are most likely contemplating. His other main purpose for being in the show is supplying Nya-tan with Sol/Lull, which is derived from positive human feelings, and is the power source for the Eto-musume. He is basically a battery, something the show itself mentions and makes fun of, as Dora-tan, the dragon, tries to take advantage of this when she starts an impromptu auction among the Eto-Shin for his possession. Takeru's saving grace, in all of this, is his ability to make some rather great observations and the occasionally necessary heart felt speech.
A few questions I have about Takeru that are left unanswered: Why is a high school kid living in a house all by himself in Akihabara? Why is he moving all of his stuff by himself in a hand cart through the city? Does he not have human friends? Where is his family in all of this? And how on earth is there possibly a house for rent in Akihabara that only cost 30000 yen a month? I don't care if there is a hole in the living room that usually transports you to the realm of the gods and comes with a ton of house guests, that is crazy cheap.
A Rough Start
The worst thing that Etotama has going for it, other than the fact that not enough people watched it, is that the first three episodes are rough, really rough. This is in terms of story telling and exposition only, so don't worry the animation, characters, comendy and action are all good from the start. Because of this I was strongly considering dropping the show before the fourth episode aired, I am very glad that I did not. I may just be slow on the uptake, but Etotama does a pretty horrendous job of setting the overall tone and direction of the show in the early going, which left me wondering what exactly it was that I was watching. Seriously, WTF? Did I miss some exposition somewhere along the line? This was exacerbated by the show and creators actively trolling the audience several times, something they continue to do throughout the series, one of which was epic in scale. If you have watched the show and know what I am talking about here please do not spell it out in the comments, don't think this should stop you from mentioning it, just keep it vague.
Having gone back and watched the first few episodes again in preparation for this review, I can happily state that they are considerably better and just as enjoyable as the rest of the show upon a second viewing, but it is not enough to keep this out of the terrible section. Only after having watched 11 episodes was I able to fully enjoy the beginning of this show. That is not something I would recommend as a path to successful story telling. Context matters, so I should not have to wait that long to receive it.
Going by the polls that both Richard Eisenbeis and Stanlick posted earlier this season and what discussions I have had this past season, Etotama is in my opinion the most criminally underrated and under watched show of Spring 2015. In spite of a few flaws and a rocky start, this show is an absolute gem and, sadly, going by how its disks are selling in Japan, this is probably the only season that we will get, so make sure to watch it.
Etotama is adapted from an ongoing manga published in Dengeki Daioh, written by Takashi Hoshi and Touru Zekuu and illustrated by Hiroma Hino.
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How the Israel Video contest works:
Make a Video
Register for the Contest
Registration for the 2018 Inspired by Israel video contest is now closed.
Rules and Regulations:
ELIGIBILITY – The Israel Video Contest is open to the public from around the world.
THEME – "Inspired by Israel" Any video that draws attention to Israel's immense value to the world and/or seeks to spread an important pro-Israel message will be eligible for this contest. The competition is sponsored by the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation.
DEADLINES – All entries must be received by July 23rd
- May 23rd 2018 – Contest Opens
- June 24th 2018 – Registration deadline, Submission period begins
- July 23rd – Submissions due by 11:59pm EST
- August 6th – Voting period begins
- August 13th – Voting ends August 13th 2018 at 11:59pm EST
- End of August – Winners announced! Award ceremony TBA
VIDEO REQUIREMENTS AND FORMAT – All videos must be newly created videos that have never been uploaded to any other public platform. Videos submitted may not be uploaded to any other platform for the duration of the contest.
JUDGING – All videos submitted to the Israel Video Contest will be judged in two stages.
- Stage One – Voting Period
The voting period will begin on August 6th and end on August 13th. During the voting period, anyone can vote for your video once. The top 10 videos that receive the most votes will then be sent to judges who will make the final determination on the top 10 winners. The next best 6 videos will receive prizes based on voting rank alone, without any further judgment.
- Stage Two – Judgment Period
A group of independent judges will have approximately one month to determine the top 10 prize winners.
AWARDS – A total of nineteen awards will be given. Each entrant, individual or group, may only win one award.
1 x Grand Prize Winner – $8000
1 x 1st Prize Winner – $4000
2 x 2nd Prize Winners – $1000
3 x 3rd Prize Winners of $500
4 x 4th Prize Winners of $250
5 x Runner-Up Winners of $100
Three other staff-choice awards of $1000 each will be awarded based on the votes of the staff of Israel Video Network.
Click here to read the full rules and regulations.
Meet The Judges:
Gila Milstein is co-founder of the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation. A registered nurse from Israel with specialization in psychiatric nursing, Gila served as an officer in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). An active community leader and philanthropist, Gila sits on the Board of several organizations, including the American-Israel Education Foundation (the educational wing of AIPAC), the MERONA Leadership Foundation, StandWithUs, and Aish Los Angeles. She serves as the President of Stand By Me, an organization that supports Israeli-American cancer patients and their families in Los Angeles.
David Suissa is President of Tribe Media/Jewish Journal in Los Angeles, and writes an award-winning weekly column on the essential issues of the day that is read around the world. Prior to Tribe Media, David was founder and CEO of Suissa Miller Advertising, which was named "Agency of the Year" by USA Today. David is also the founding editor of OLAM magazine, a publication on Jewish spirituality.
Shlomo Blass is the founder and owner of Rogatka, a Jerusalem-based production house which specializes in the creation innovative promotional content intended for wide distribution.
Blass has played a major role in several national and international campaigns and his clients include government offices such as the Israeli Prime Minister's office, the foreign ministry, think tanks, Start-ups, Hi-Tech companies, NGO's and more.
Hillel Fuld "Israel's pre-eminent tech marketer. CMO of ZCast, thought leader, writer, and strategic advisor. Hillel helps Israeli tech go BOOM!"
Yoni Kempinski is head of the video department and deputy editor for the English site at Arutz Sheva – IsraelNationalNews.com. Yoni hosted the weekly "Israeli Salad" video magazine and co-hosted the Arutz Sheva newscasts which were broadcast on cable TV in New York and Texas. The Arutz Sheva video department produces video reports, interviews, live coverage and special programs for the three Arutz Sheva websites – Hebrew, English and Russian.
Alex Traiman is a veteran journalist and filmmaker, and currently the Managing Director and Jerusalem Bureau Chief of Jewish News Syndicate/JNS.org. Traiman has directed and produced award-winning documentaries including Iranium and Honor Diaries.
Amy Friedkin is currently President of Israel21c, an online newsmagazine/educational organization that captures the stories of 21 st century Israel, uncovering the country's rich and diverse culture, innovative spirit, humanitarian contributions, and democratic civil society. A uniquely apolitical nonprofit organization, ISRAEL21c redefines the conversation about Israel.


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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch writer Harry Mulisch, author of 'The Assault' and 'The Discovery of Heaven', died of cancer on Saturday in his Amsterdam home at the age of 83.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Sunday called his death "a loss for Dutch literature and the Netherlands" while culture minister Halbe Zijlstra said he was the last of the 'Big Three' writers with Gerard Reve and Willem Frederik Hermans, both deceased.
Mulisch was often considered, at least in the Netherlands, a candidate for the Nobel Prize of literature. He wrote more than thirty works and 'The Discovery of Heaven' was named the 'Best Dutch Book Ever' by a jury of newspaper readers in 2007.
Born July 29, 1929 in Haarlem, Mulisch wrote his first major bestseller 'The Assault' about an act of resistance in World War Two, which dared to discuss the questions of wrong and right during the war as several innocent people get killed in retaliation for the death of a collaborator.
The book, published in 1982 when the war-time generation was still healing from its traumas, reflected Mulisch' own war torment as his father had collaborated with the German occupiers while his Jewish mother died in a camp.
The 'Discovery of Heaven' in 1992 is a cerebral work in which he related how God, disappointed with humanity, sends a new envoy to the world in order to restore some moral order.
Mulisch was a lank bespectacled man hardly ever seen without a pipe in his mouth. He was regularly seen in television shows and events and was famous for his early self-publicity stunts.
As a young writer, he would call the then trendy Americain Hotel at the central Leidseplein square, and ask for Mr Mulisch. A member of staff would then call around "telephone for Mr. Mulisch" and thereby make publicity for his name.
Reporting by Marcel Michelson; Editing by Jon Hemming
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I often see my clients sharing the very same posts from their business page on their personal profiles in an effort to extend their reach. Some people say you should take every opportunity to market yourself, but in my view that's true only to an extent. The moment your audience turns from indifference to loathing towards your marketing efforts you crossed the line between self promotion and spam. And when the audience is your social circle, that's not a good thing. Some people may even think you're just adding them to your friends list to become consumers of your marketing.
Of course, you should make your Facebook friends aware of what you do for a living: after all, if they didn't know, they are probably not your friends anyway. But do so in a subtle way: make the standard post about your new job position and invite them to like your business page, but do not try to force your page's posts down their throat – after all, if Aunt Grazyna wanted to know about your punk mixtape posted on SoundCloud, she would have accepted your invitation to like your page.
Beyond these obvious steps to let your friends know about what you are working on, you may want sometimes to produce some content specifically aimed at your personal page: stuff that you might be shy to post in your business profile, such as that day you introduced your baby to the office or when you had mom eating at your restaurant. Such content will generate more sympathy for your entrepreneurship among your friends than sharing posts from a page they did not want to join in the first place. So get creative and remember: quality wins over quantity – especially if you want to keep your friends!


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A superior ball screw repair will likely be a mini-sized metal bar that aims to tie or link two audio objects. This resource provides a helical thread about the stem that functions being an "adhesive" to produce a quick and exact binding. The screws also have a fantastic offer of dimensions and types, jointly with servicing. Even screw mend websites can not be found easily, by means of case in point for ball screw mend. For ball screw fix also involves a professional and positively knowledgeable.
With the many types of screws built, quite a few of such screws will be quite possibly the most normally utilized in our everyday life. These are unquestionably the types of screws as well as their attributes:
Self Drilling Screw
This screw using a pointy idea should be able to make its extremely personal route into thin metallic sheets. For that motive, when making use of this screw you ought to make sure that the space you should put within the screw is correct. Otherwise, you will alternatively damage the material which you wish to employ.
Self drilling screws are extremely well known in roof building and light-weight steel housing frames. To stop leakage ensuing from imperfect established up processes, self drilling screws are routinely geared up with rubber seals when used to mount a roof.
Gypsum screw
You might typically uncover this black screw in the ceiling or gypsum wall. For the reason that it is actually normally utilized from the restore of housing frames, gypsum screws tend to be made from stainless steel so it is basically tricky in dealing with humidity with the corners from the property.
Grub Screw
Equally as the title suggests, this specific screw does not have a head like screws to the total. Headless screws, aka grub screws, are outfitted with screwdriver grooves for easy established up.
Fastening Screws
The screw, also referred to as the cap screw or head screw, is used in the quantity of working day to working day devices setting up from beds, table legs, for the air conditioner support. You are able to also uncover these a screw in various modes of transportation together with bikes or vehicles.
Pan Head and Flat Head Screws
Pan head and flat head screws are classified as the two varieties of white / silver drywall screws generally used in the timber industry. This type of screw can be found in just about all domestic furnishings, from sofas, window frames to tables.
Not merely employed in family furniture, pan head and flat head screws may also be usually place in in low-voltage electrical installations in qualities. Equally of such screws generally are developed from zinc.
GRC screw
On condition that the recognize suggests, GRC screws are generally used to setup GRC item each and every around the walls with the dwelling and ceiling. This yellow screw has a pointed end utilizing a somewhat rounded head. GRC screws will even be acknowledged as drywall calsiboard.


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GIANNA MARTELLO VIP JUDGE FOR IDO WORLD GALA!- Press Release 79/2020
IDO Vice President and Sports Director, Fiona Johnson has today announced the second of the VIP judges for the 6th edition of the IDO World Gala Event 'Best of the Best'.
Professional dancer, teacher and choreographer from the United States of America Gianna Martello has been invited as a VIP Judge. Her raw talent and intensive training under the direction of Abby Lee Miller and the faculty at the Abby Lee Dance Company earned her regional and national accolades growing up as a "competition kid." At 16, Gianna began choreographing routines alongside Ms. Miller as well as on her own which led her to discover her passion for teaching and choreography. She has been on faculty at the ALDC for over 15 years and serves as a guest instructor and competition judge around the world.
Gianna was able to balance her academic and dance opportunities with great success. She graduated from Point Park University in 2011 with a B.A. in Advertising and Public Relations. Her choreography can be seen in the movie, "Dance-Off," Go90's 'Crashed' series, Kid's Choice Awards and Dance Class Live promos, Australia's "ASTRA Awards" Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition, and music videos for Rachael Sage, Alexx Calise, Nia Sioux, Todrick Hall, and many more. You may know her from the fan favorite, Dance Moms! You can catch her choreography being set on dancers such as Maddie Ziegler & JoJo Siwa on all 8 seasons of the hit reality T.V. show!
Gianna's true passion lies in teaching and making you feel confident when you step out on stage, or into the real world. She believes that you can learn so more from a dance teacher than just the steps. Her teacher instilled lifelong lessons throughout her entire childhood and Gianna wishes to do the same.
#ILoveIDO #IDOWorldDance #IDOGalaWorldEvent


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As a healthcare professional, service to others is something that is simply in your DNA. If you are like most Physical Therapists, it doesn't feel like you chose PT as a career but instead feel like you were called to the profession. On October 13th, PTs around the world are asking you to go a step further in service to your community. Known as PT Day of Service, this global movement with volunteers from at least 55 countries are pledging to participate in activities in their community to help energize, motivate, and inspire others to positively create the change that is needed.
Organizers of PT Day of Service know how busy you are and have made it easy for you to participate. Here is how you can participate:
- Pledge to Participate – fill out the form here to let organizers know you are participating.
- Find a Place to Serve – Find a location or an activity in your community where you can serve. Explore the PTDOS Ambassador Map to find a location near you or search for a local ambassador here.
- Get the Word Out – Use social media to spread the word to your colleagues to encourage them to join you. Use the hashtag #PTDOS and #choosePT when posting on social media.
- Complete Your Service Commitment – Whatever activity you choose, be sure to participate on October 13, 2018, or within one week of that date!
Participating in PTDOS activities can be as easy or as involved as you want. From serving meals at the local soup kitchen, helping less fortunate people in the community to mow their lawn or do some fall cleanup, or join a group that is painting houses. Every act of service makes a difference and has a positive impact on the lives of others.
Another important aspect of PT Day of Service is inspiring others to have their own impact on the community. One of the ways to do that is to document your participation through photos. Snap photos of your individual or group activity and post it through social media using the #PTDOS hashtag anytime during the week of October 8 through October 13th! You never know when a photo of your service work will resonate with someone else and inspire them to do something in their own community. Also, the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is sponsoring a "Get Caught Doing Good" photo contest and will award $500 for the best photo to the winner's charity of choice. Please be sure to post your PTDOS photos to Twitter or Facebook by Friday, October 19, 2018.
We want to hear from you. Please share your PT Day of Service plans in the comment section below, or join the discussion on our Facebook page using the #SHCcares and #SHCgivesback on your PT Day of service photos!


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Feeding the world's growing population
New Zealand's reputation as a quality food producer is growing.
New Zealand's reputation as a quality food producer is growing.
Over the next 50 years farmers around the world will need to produce more food than has been grown over the past 10,000 years.
Fertiliser helps farmers produce food efficiently by replenishing the soil. But fertiliser needs to be used responsibly.
The Fertiliser Association invests in research and tools to ensure farm profitability while minimising nutrient losses to the environment.
The Fertiliser Association of New Zealand promotes and encourages responsible and scientifically-based nutrient management.
Malcolm McLeod, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
Completed March 2020
Lake Taupō Protection Trust (LTPT), the Sustainable Farming Fund (SFF), Pāmu, Fertiliser Association of New Zealand, and Waikato Regional Council funded a field trial on N-leaching under grazed lucerne on a Taupo Lake Care member's farm. The project objective was to use lysimeters to quantify nitrogen leaching due to livestock urine from autumn-grazed lucerne or ryegrass/clover pasture.
Grazing was simulated by the application in autumn of ewe lamb or cow urine collected from animals whose diet included lucerne. Results showed that a single autumn urine application (simulated grazing) significantly increased N leaching compared to controls, but no significant differences were found between pasture or lucerne vegetation. When expressed at the paddock scale, assuming urine patches cover 3% of the paddock during a single grazing, the three-year average nitrogen leaching loss from the autumn grazing was approximately 2 kg TN/ha/yr under cow grazed lucerne and approximately 3 kg TN/ha/yr under cow grazed pasture. Controls (no grazing) showed leaching losses of approximately 1 and 2 kg TN/ha/yr for lucerne and pasture respectively.
"Studies like these are critical to understanding the nutrient flows in different farm systems," says Greg Sneath, Executive Manager, Fertiliser Association of New Zealand.
"It helps provide the information needed for building the tools for management and mitigation of nitrogen losses in productive farm systems."
The Fertiliser Association of New Zealand and Dairy NZ funded development of the Nutrient Management Adviser Certification Programme (NMACP). This industry-wide certification aims to ensure that advisers have the learning, experience and capability to give sound nutrient advice.
23 September 2020
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LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Chicago Bears coach Matt Nagy defended the manner in which his team conducted its offseason kicker search after multiple kickers who attended the rookie minicamp in May on a tryout basis and left without a contract were highly critical of the process.
"I understand — we brought in a lot of kickers that came in here," Nagy said Wednesday. "To me, I look at it as a positive, in the fact that we said we going to turn over every stone to find whoever's out there. We felt like we, at that point in time, when we brought in a bunch of kickers, we're going to test them all out and see what they can do.
"And then, within that time frame, we also put in some situations with the Augusta Silence early on to see how they could handle it. Is it exactly the perfect science? I don't know that, maybe not…I just really like how we're going through this thing. [Bears general manager] Ryan [Pace] and I talk about no regrets, right?"
Sports Illustrated published a story Wednesday that quoted several of the nine kickers — some of them anonymously — who the Bears brought in for an audition at rookie camp. The kickers' range of complaints included Nagy's obsession with Parkey's missed 43-yard field goal attempt in Chicago's playoff loss to the Eagles (the infamous double-doink), the way the Bears used metrics to evaluate the kickers, the overall negative mood in the special teams' room and a perceived bias that involved kicker consultant Jamie Kohl, who the Bears hired to aid them in their search.
Many, but not all, of the kickers invited to Halas Hall had at one time kicked at one of Kohl's camps.
"All of Jamie's guys, they could have shanked the kick, and it was like, 'Oh, you have really good rotation, your foot is wrapping around the ball,'" one kicker told SI. "I don't think this situation will be solved or will be what the team needs to be until Jamie Kohl is gone. The way he very much tries to control a room, tries to be the alpha."
Another kicker added: "All the vibes they gave us during the specialists meetings just did not seem positive whatsoever. It didn't seem like anyone did well. The vibe and the energy was off."
Former Notre Dame kicker Justin Yoon took issue with Nagy harping on Parkey's 43-yard miss. The Bears repeatedly in the offseason program called for their kickers to attempt field goals from 43 yards.
"It's not efficient for the team to continuously beat that one dead horse the whole time," Yoon said. "You have to build a system of confidence for your kicker. I don't think that's how the Bears are running it."
The Bears eventually whittled their list of kickers down to two at the beginning of training camp, but on Sunday, they waived Elliott Fry, which left Eddy Pineiro — acquired from the Raiders via a trade — as the lone kicker left on Chicago's current 90-man offseason roster.
The Bears want Pineiro to handle all kicks in the final two preseason games, but he's not been assured of the job. Pineiro, who spent last year on injured reserve in Oakland, has never attempted a kick in an NFL regular-season game.
"I really don't believe there's a kicker out there that never misses in practice and in the games," Nagy said. "It's how you respond to it … so we keep that in mind.
"Remember what I told you before, it's really easy in Chicago as a head coach of the Chicago Bears, as a fan of the Chicago Bears, as the media of the Chicago Bears, as the team of the Chicago Bears, it's really easy for us to just destroy every missed kick. And I think we have to keep those things in a little perspective and not get too crazy over a missed kick here or there."


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Legit Online Jobs calls itself a work from home program that doesn't require any prior skills or work experience beyond basic computer knowledge. According to the sales page, you'll be "posting ads for companies" and believe that it "runs virtually on autopilot." Once you pay for membership, you'll see why these claims couldn't be further from the truth.
The system that they're promoting is actually just Clickbank—which is completely free to join—and the strategy that they recommend will never work. There's absolutely no training provided and the website is a disgusting knot of dead links, making this product one of the worst work-from-home products that I have ever seen. Read about that and so much more in today's Legit Online Jobs review.
Why Legit Online Jobs' Sales Page Is Full Of Crap
The Legit Online Jobs sales page is very clear that, if you buy the system they're selling, you'll be earning money by posting short text ads for companies. They stress this time and time again, as I've highlighted in the screenshot below.
Judging from the sales page, it seems clear that this is some sort of data entry job where you'll be typing ads for the corporations whose symbols you see in the screenshot above. That's why you're in for a big surprise once you pay for membership, since you'll discover right away that Legit Online Jobs actually has nothing to do with what they claim to be selling.
Instead you'll be setting up an account with Clickbank, which is far from the "secret system" on the sales page. Clickbank is the most well-known marketplace for digital information products in the entire world, and more importantly, it's completely free to join. The process is explained very clearly on the Clickbank site, and there's absolutely no reason to pay Legit Online Jobs to sign up for a Clickbank account.
Their Clickbank Strategy Is Completely Hopeless
Now that you know how incredibly misleading the sales page is, it's time to take a look at the strategy that Legit Online Jobs recommends. Clickbank is about promoting products as an affiliate and making commissions, which can be a complicated and time consuming process. It couldn't be further from the "virtually autopilot" system promised on the sales page.
They recommend posting ads on free classified sites, which is extremely unlikely to result in making sales. I can't stress enough how unlikely this system is to earn you money, since it'll be nearly impossible to convert this traffic into commissions. Sales will only come from highly targeted traffic, not a random three-line ad on Craigslist.
It's an even bigger red flag that they recommend setting up paid ads as a way of seeing faster results. Paid ads are very unlikely to result in commissions unless you're a seasoned internet marketer (something that Legit Online Jobs doesn't train you for at all) than free classified sites, and here you'll actually be losing money in the process.
Earning money with Clickbank takes internet marketing skills, an effective strategy, and time. Legit Online Jobs doesn't help you with any of these, and instead makes it seem like you just need to post short ads—that's pure fantasy.
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Besides the hopeless Clickbank strategy, Legit Online Jobs also promotes a few other ways of earning money online. These include data entry, paid surveys, and selling on eBay. For each of these methods, there's a similar pattern to the one described above. Basically they just dump dozens of links (many of which don't even work) to information that you could find for free without a membership, and then call it a "strategy" for earning money online.
For example, I clicked on the eBay section and selected "books & magazines" as the category of products to resell. I was then provided with this endless list of links to sites that sell books. Many of these links are dead, and even the ones that work are helpless, because there's zero training provided about how to earn money by selling books. These links are worthless without training, and there's zero training provided.
The same is true about their paid surveys section. It's just a massive list of links, many of which lead to dead sites. You could've just Googled "paid survey sites" and found a similar list (or a better one), so there's absolutely no reason to pay for Legit Online Jobs membership for this type of free information.
All of the information you're given within Legit Online Jobs can be found for free, and there's no getting around the fact that there's not a single viable strategy for earning money online anywhere on the entire site. Instead of providing valuable content, they dumped massive lists of links into the members area to overwhelm you and act as if that's enough to charge for a product.
Conclusion: Legit Online Jobs Is Completely Worthless
The Legit Online Jobs product has nothing to do with the work-from-home program that they promote on the sales page. You won't be posting short ads for companies – you're just handed a pathetic, completely ineffective strategy for earning money through Clickbank. All of the "information" you're given can easily be found for free, and the website is horribly disorganized and full of dead links. There's not a single word of valuable training on the entire site, so I encourage you to stay away from this absolutely worthless product.
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Zahra Bakht is a Clinical psychologist having good communication and writing skills. She is able to deal with clients of different age and have different kind of problems. She is ambitious and motivated to work effectively in order to serve other who are in need of clinical attention.
She has done her Masters in Clinical psychology from University of Karachi and then she did Postmagistral Diploma from Institute of Clinical Psychology, Karachi.
Zahra Bakht has served her services in Combined Military Hospital for one month as a trainee psychologist. She participated in various workshops i.e. Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples, Person Centered Therapy with Children and Adults and 7th International CBT conference.She is working at Willing Ways Pakistan as a Clinical Psychologist.


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Associate of Arts in Coaching – 60 credits
This program focuses on providing tools to develop and enhance people's personal and professional skills, allowing them to help others to overcome emotional barriers that inhibit them from achieving their highest potential.
General Education Courses: 36 Credits
- AD1410 Humanity in Global Times
- BI1101 Introduction to Study of the Bible
- CH3013 Communication and Human Development
- CM2101 Composition I
- CM2108 Effective Communication
- EC4320 Economy Theory
- ED1109 Study Methods & Techniques
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- SC2101 Survey of American History
- SC2102 Philosophical Thinking
- SC2205 Study of Man and His Culture
Coaching Courses: 15 Credits
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- CH1010 Introductory Coaching
- CH2011 The Coaching Process
- CH2012 Culture of Success and Innovation in the Workplace
- PS2103 Cognitive Behavioral Psychology
Electives (3): 9 Credits
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- Equipped in the use of techniques of personal and group knowledge that improve the labor field.
- Able to promote long-term goals and execute an extraordinary performance.
- Enabled to maintain effective communication supporting the revision of the values of the group.
- Able to correct the use of composition skills, grammar, and punctuation.
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- High School Diploma or GED.
- Enrollment Agreement filled and signed. If a student is under 18 years of age, a parent or guardian must sign the Enrollment Agreement.
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- Pastoral Ordination if it were the case.
- Ministerial curriculum, copies of any certificate of courses took in related areas, and Ministry ordination, if they are older than 30 years and want to claim the credits for Life Experience.
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- Evaluation: After receiving the Enrollment Agreement and the copies of the requested documents, verification will be made by the corresponding departments. FCU will contact the students if additional documents are required. Transcripts must be official and sent directly from the university in a sealed envelope.
- Payment: If the student completes the Agreement and submits all required information, the next step is to pay the $260 Application and Enrollment fee, which is applicable to any program. (Application $40 & Registration & Processing Fee $110.00 – are not refundable + USD $110.00 Evaluation – refundable).
- Enrollment: Should the student's Agreement require additional analysis by the Institution, the student will be informed immediately. After being approved, the student will be effectively enrolled and will receive a welcome letter, the Catalog, and the Student Handbook. After that, the online student will receive an e-mail with information on how to access the Student's Portal and the template to be used for their assignments. On-campus students will receive their class schedule. The Student ID Card will be sent by mail. Now the student is ready to begin their classes!
Mode of Study
Three-Course Delivery Methods: Face-to-Face/Synchronous/Fully Online (Student's Portal).
4th Method for those who live near the headquarters or a branch of FCU: Hybrid.
Classes start immediately after enrollment, on an ongoing basis. For online courses, students take a minimum of (1) one online course a month. For on-campus courses, invitations are sent out and students confirm their presence a minimum of (2) two weeks prior to the course date.
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