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Having a great sex life is of paramount importance to most people, but being skilled in the art of knowing how to please your partner isn't so easy for some folks, unfortunately. What makes someone "good" at sex? For your reading pleasure, we've come up with 3 tips on how to be better at sex:
- Listen: So many people neglect to listen to the sexual kinks, dislikes and preferences of their partner. If you want to have great sex with someone, they have to be into what you're doing to them(unless you're into doing things that your partner specifically won't like. If that's you, then so sorry, we can't help you).
- Exercise: Exercising regularly is a great way to improve what you give and get out of sex with your partner. It's a proven way to increase circulation, jumpstart endorphin levels, reduce stress and increase a man's sexual stamina. Get moving!
- Add Something New Into The Mix: Adding something new to your sexual experiences is bound to challenge you and your partner. A new toy, roleplay game or rollout of a fetish forces you and your partner to have an important conversation about your likes and dislikes. Communication is sexier than people give it credit for. What can be more sexual and raw than two people talking about their fantasies and desires? If you're just hooking up with someone, you should still have this conversation. If they're not into what you're into, then hey, you may not be compatible, and that's ok.
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MONTREAT, N.C. -- Dominic Pautler and Matthew Difrancesco set school records Saturday, highlighting Belmont Abbey's day at the Montreat Invitational track meet. Pautler bested his record in the pole vault, while Difrancesco topped his own mark of in the 200-meter dash.
- Pautler vaulted 3.90 meters (12'-9.5"), over three inches more than his previous best of 3.82m (12'-6.25"). His mark earned him sixth place. The sophomore also posted Conference Championship qualifying marks in the long jump and javelin. He came up just short of a second record, placing fifth in the long jump. His distance of 6.73 meters (22'-1") was 1 1/4 inches shy of his best mark last spring. In the javelin, Pautler was eighth, throwing 46.79m (153'-6").
- Difranceso posted a time of 21.68 seconds in the 200, placing third overall. James Thierfelder finished 12th in 22.54.
- Daniel Grosch placed fifth in the 800 meters, covering the distance in a time of 1:59.32. His time earned him a spot in the Conference Carolinas Championship next month.
- Thomas Eichorn ran the 1500-meter race in 4:19.54, placing 19th. His time met the Conference Carolinas Championship standard as well.
- Christian Keghlian placed 12th in the 5000, running 17:31.35
- Belmont Abbey had three runners in the top 15 of the 3000-meter steeplechase, posting consecutive finishes. Edward Genao was 11th in 11:27.66, Zack Rezk was 12th in 11:30.88 and Justin Haggerty was 13th in 11:34.67.
- The 4x100 relay team of Pape Ndiaye, Thierfelder, Tyler Richardson and Difrancesco was third in 42.34 seconds, while the 4x400 team (Aspen Dillard, Richardson, Thierfelder and Difrancesco) was fifth (3:29.31).
- Dillard qualified for the Conference Carolinas Championship. He finished 10th in the high jump, clearing 1.82m (5'-11.5").
- Andrew Bryant earned a top 20 spot with a leap of 5.89 meters (19'-4").
- Ming Davis finished 16th in the javelin. He covered 39.95m (131'-1").
- Belmont Abbey competes at Elon's Phoenix Invitational next weekend.


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With the increasing hype
for bitcoin it is important to know how it works behind the curtain and what it's
really worth of. It was introduced by an anonymous founder who uses the alias Sathoshi
Nakamoto in 2009. Essentially, Bitcoin is one of the leading crypto currencies
without any physical form. It is generated and used electronically. Other
examples of crypto currencies are Litecoin, Ethereum and so on. There ae plenty
in the market.
The whole idea behind the
bitcoin was presented in 2008, depicting the proof of concept and gaining the
trusts of many. The best part of Bitcoin is eradicating the necessity of bank
in the system or a central authority. There is no requirement of governance by
third party. It is irreversible and
committed once a transaction is approved.
Bitcoin, as told earlier
does not have a physical form. But the value can be saved in a digital wallet.
This is either stored in cloud or in some other public server but connected to
owner's bank accounts. Value for the bitcoin is higher only because people are
willing to trade to the money against their account numbers. In short, the
value exists only because people believe it does. The concept behind bitcoin is
noting all the transactions in a ledger. Every participant has a copy of it. As
soon as a new transaction is made it is added to a block that contains all the
other transactions what happen during the specific time duration. This is referred
to as blockchain. Then, a miner takes a transaction and converts it into a hash
and adds it to the existing blockchain. After this is done, nodes pass a copy
of the blockchain so every node on the network is updated. Every node in the
network freely exchanges information not only about blocks but also about
transactions, alerts, and IP addresses of known nodes. So, if a user tries to
double spend the same bitcoins after already spending them, the nodes reject
the transactions after verifying the existing blockchain.
The user community of
bitcoin is so huge and there no need of any approval to add yourself to it. The
user encrypts the message using his private key and the decryption can be done
by the public key which makes it fail proof system. As the receiver is the only
person who would be able to decode it to a meaningful message. This feature
increases the privacy of the transaction. Every transaction has a different key
making it secure.
Every time a transaction
is made the amount from the sender's account decreases and the receiver's
account increases. Also, there is a new entry in the ledger which every
computer on the network has a copy of as record of transaction. It is important
to record that everyone knows every transaction and not just the sender and
receiver. Also, since there is no "bank" as such it makes it harder to
authenticate the incoming as we receive the amount from total strangers. Thus,
we should not trust anyone.
There is upper limit to
the total number of bitcoins that can be and that is 21 million. This limit is
expected to reach by miners by 2140. There is a mathematical explanation for this number too.
On high level, Bitcoin is just a file that contains all
the transactions with sender and receiver details with currencies like a
ledger. Bitcoin a currency which is made in a way it can not be copied. This
prevents people from spending the same money twice which is usually referred to
as double spending problem. There are 3 ways to earn it: earn it in return for
your goods and services, but it for money its worth or it can also be mined.
Miners are essentially the people who use high computational power and hashes
to solve complicated math problems and if they are successful then awarded with
a coin. With increase in number of miners, bitcoin is mostly not going to hit
any inflation till about the year 2140.
The transactions using
bitcoins is carefully designed to make it hackproof as it is implicit that we cannot
trust strangers. While sending money, following are the mathematical steps
incorporated to authenticate the transaction and only the rightful owner is
sending the message.
a) Public
key and private key: For encryption and decryption for confidential data
b) Hash:
For checking the confidential data's integrity after transmission. And how
legitimate it is.
c) Digital
Signatures: There are several software those can be used to Digitally sign the
old transactions.
Transactions (Nakamoto, 2008)
Transactions are like
money transfer. A user who needs to start a new transaction to transfer a part
of bitcoins to another user first needs to:
Create an output to the new user using new
owner's public key and digitally signing with their signature along with
previous hash
This hash can be used to look up previous
ownerships of the bitcoins
Here each transaction can have multiple
inputs and at most 2 outputs
4. Every
output from a user is either a Spent Transaction Output or an Unspent
Transaction Output
5. This
transaction is spread all around the network where nodes verify it.
This makes every node in
the network aware of all the all the transactions. Every ledger in the network
is this updated. But the issue here is the receiver needs to know that the
bitcoin is received it is a legitimate one the sender has sent from his quota
of account and not spending when he doesn't have. Thus, he would need a
confirmation from majority nodes that it was one of the first kind to be
Fig: Adding timestamp (Nakamoto, 2008)
A solution to this is as proposed by Sathoshi as
follows. The transaction also includes a timestamp server to the block. Here, a
timestamp is added to the hash along with the previous timestamp. Thus, every
timestamp hash contains the information of previous timestamps.
A proof of work protocol
is a vehicle really by which someone can effectively prove to you that they
have engaged in a significant amount of computational effort. Proof of work
protocols often amount to puzzles and these puzzles that can, one the one hand,
be challenging to solve by hand by that it means that it requires some serious computational
effort and really can't be short circuited. In bitcoin we incorporate a
blockchain concept for transaction. The main job here is for the miners to find
new coins.
Bitcoin uses SHA-256 for
its processing. We initially replace the block's hash with nonce value until a
suitable value is computed. Nonce is a unique set of random characters. Nonce
once used could never be used if once used in previous answers in its succession
as the nonce's would be thrown back as invalid. Which means that to fake or
change previous blocs, you would have no choice but to re-do all of the work of
the subsequent blocks.
There are two types of
voting i.e 1 CPU one vote and another is one IP one vote. Since CPUs are
measured in Gz then the right block chain will grow fast compared to the wrong
one as all the honest nodes vote. The chain with maximum approval is the one
chosen for reward. The difficulty increases with more bitcoins being generated.
There's a way to control
even the inflation of bitcoins as mentioned by Shatoshi where if the price of
bitcoins gets way high then reward of mining it then the problems/puzzles level
of difficulty increases and this the number of bitcoin decreases.
Proof of work for bitcoin (Nakamoto, 2008)
In a bitcoin network, all the peers are connected to
each other by unencrypted TCP channels. In the bitcoin protocol, peers
propagate addresses to help peers discover each other. Each peer stores
information about the known IP addresses of peers on network. The exact steps
that take place after the peers discover are:
a) The
sender and receiver of transactions validate each other. After validation, the
sender sends the transaction to receiver. After the receiver accepts the
transaction, propagates the information to all know peers.
b) After
the nodes receive the transaction, the add it to the existing blockchain and
each node works on finding a proof-of-work.
c) After
a node finds a proof-of -work, it propagates the block along the network to
peer nodes.
For a node to accept this a block all the
transactions in it must be valid. If it finds hash with the same value existing
already, then the block is discarded. Also, if a node receives two blocks
involving the same block, the first is accepted but the next is saved for
future reference.
Fig: Bitcoin Network In (1), a user wishing to
deposit bitcoins into a bank receives a public key, or address, belonging to
the bank. In (2), the user incorporates both his own public key and the one
sent to him by the bank into a transaction, which he then broadcasts to his
peers. In (3), the transaction floods the network. In (4), the transaction is
eventually received by a miner, who works to incorporate the transaction into a
block. In (5), this block is then flooded through the network, and in this way,
is incorporated into the global block chain. The bitcoins now belong to the
public key of the bank, successfully deposited.(Meiklejohn et al., 2013)
If you say you have a
bitcoin it means you have private key. Having a digital signature proves your
ownership on bitcoins. Public key is referred in block chain. Block chain for
the proof of work is the set of transitions that happens every now and then
where each of them refers to earlier record in the chain. Miners run the most
recent block and the old blocks and using hash functions where they solve the
mathematical problem. Once solved it's added to block chain and peers are
updated to use the new block chain. His concept of block chaining makes the
system more secure. All this requires huge computational power.
There would be cases
where two transactions are happening simultaneously and parallelly two nodes
might be working on them. In this situation the would-be conflict in block
chaining when the propagate together in the network. There would be a node
which will have to encounter both of these blocks together and would be
confused which one to digest first. Thus, the choose to go after the one that
is longest which means the most accepted one reported by the honest nodes. The
other blockchain is not considered.
This prevents the hacking
as if there would be a successful hacker he would have to own very high computational
power i.e. power greater than 50% of the network.
Fig: Fork in
a BlockChain (Zohar, 2015)
As the name suggests, this
is where a user tries to make a dishonest transaction. A user sends the same
amount twice which is practically impossible and dishonest. Dishonest
transaction is when the wrong transaction gets into the blockchain. This situation
can be handles in the following manner.
In the attacks, the
opponent tries to propagate typically the dishonest chain as in contrast to the
honest string. For an attacker to have success, not only must he propagate the
dishonest chain but additionally create an extended fork as described above for
all the nodes to accept the unethical link. So, the attacker must high an
extremely high computational capacity to produce a dishonest chain that may be
has enough blocks to be able to overtake the honest chain.
In the paper published by
Satoshi Nakamoto, typically the following are the final results posted the
probability of success or failure of honest chain to be discovered by next
block based their computation power.
Probability of success and
failure is calculated by Sathoshi (Nakamoto, 2008) in his paper and
it's described as follows.
p = probability an
honest node finds the next block
q = probability the
attacker finds the next block
qz =
probability the attacker will ever catch up from z blocks behind
qz=1 if pq
Here are the results published, we can see the
probability drop off exponentially with z using Poisson Distribution.
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Ballroom dancing is hot
Historically, ballroom dancing has not exactly stood out as a particularly sexy dance. But, thanks to the influence of ABC's runaway reality hit Dancing with the Stars (DWTS), these formal partner dances have been lifted from stiff to snazzy. If you avidly watch this high-energy show, you know that never before was the fox trot so alluring until Mario Lopez strutted his stuff in a skin-tight suit in the third season.
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More slinky costumes and swoon-worthy performances are in store for the next installment of DWTS. The show will once again pit stars and their professional dance partners against each other and a finicky panel of judges. The previous cast has been filled with folks who know a thing or two about being fit, including tennis champ Monica Seles, Olympic Gold Medal skater Kristi Yamaguchi, and actress/sex symbol Shannon Elizabeth.
And even though most of the contestants enter the competition already in great shape, after the rigors of eight-hour workouts and all of that cha-cha-cha-ing, they get even more fit — and losing weight is not uncommon. Former contestants Drew Lachey, Jerry Rice, and Stacy Keibler claimed to have lost at least 10 pounds each during their respective DWTS
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Granted, the celebs and other dance contestants are under the Hollywood microscope, meaning there is excruciating pressure to portray perfection. And let's face it, a celeb's job is to look good. A bonus for them in that ballroom dancing breeds toned arms, lean legs, chiseled abs and amazing flexibility — as beautifully illustrated in season four with Heather Mill's awe-inspiring cartwheel with her prosthetic leg.
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It comes as no surprise, then, that a recent Mayo Clinic report says dancing is comparable to any other vigorous exercise. If regularly practiced, dancing can lead to a slower heart rate, lower blood pressure and improved cholesterol levels, all signs of improved health and fitness.
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Depending on the style of dance, you can burn between 250 and 400 calories per hour. High-energy routines like the salsa, samba, and cha-cha can be compared to an intense workout at the gym. Plus, being a weight-bearing activity, ballroom dancing builds bone density and works nearly all muscles of the body and sharpens balance and coordination.
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"I sort of kicked the hornets' nest the other day, by expressing feminist opinions about books. It all came down to Lolita. "Some of my favorite novels are disparaged in a fairly shallow way. To read Lolita and 'identify' with one of the characters is to entirely misunderstand Nabokov," one commenter informed me, which made me wonder if there's a book called Reading Lolita in Patriarchy. The popular argument that novels are good because they inculcate empathy assumes that we identify with characters, and no one gets told they're wrong for identifying with Gilgamesh or even Elizabeth Bennett. It's just when you identify with Lolita you're clarifying that this is a book about a white man serially raping a child over a period of years. Should you read Lolita and strenuously avoid noticing that this is the plot and these are the characters? Should the narrative have no relationship to your own experience? This man thinks so, which is probably his way of saying that I made him uncomfortable.
All I had actually said was that, just as I had identified with a character who's dismissively treated in On the Road, so I'd identified with Lolita. I read many Nabokov novels back in the day, but a novel centered around the serial rape of a kidnapped child, back when I was near that child's age was a little reminder how hostile the world, or rather the men in it, could be. Which is not a pleasure.
The omnipresence of men raping female children as a literary subject, from Tess of the d'Urbervilles to Less Than Zero, along with real-life accounts like that of Jaycee Dugard (kidnapped at 11 in 1991 and used as a sex slave for 18 years by a Bay Area man), can have the cumulative effect of reminding women that we spend a lot of our lives quietly, strategically trying not to get raped, which takes a huge toll on our lives and affects our sense of self. Sometimes art reminds us of life."


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The local newspaper published this article.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Thanks to all the families for your participation and support! We had a wonderful time this summer.
Here is an article published by Brian Nelson. One of our host parents.
Here is an article published by Brian Nelson. One of our host parents.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
We still have several girls looking for homes in the St Augustine area. The girls are 15 and 16 with a variety of interests. We have a dancer who enjoys walking her dog,a surfer who likes to roller blade, a horseback rider and a girl who is into photography and baking! Do you have room in your heart and home to welcome one of these students to our area? Please contact Susan James at email@example.com or 904-806-1392. Students arrive on July 1st and are here for 27 days in July. Host families provide a bed, meals, limited transportation 2 days a week and a warm friendly environment. All students speak English and come with their own money and insurance.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Still looking for many homes in the St Augustine and surrounding communities. Can you help by hosting a Spanish student for 27 days in July? If you would like a reference from a previous family regarding this program and the experience, please contact me at 904-806-1392 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Need 9 more families
Please join us for education summer program which promotes family quality time! Looking for 9 more homes. Host families provide a bed, meals, limited transportation and a warm supportive environment to Spanish teens ages 14 - 17 coming to the St Augustine area on July 1st for 27 days. Students come with their own spending money and medical insurance and are anxious to experience the life of a typical American teen! All students speak English and attend 2 field trips a week. Host families are welcome to come along at group discount pricing.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
17 Students left to be placed in homes, please contact me today!
We are in need of 17 more homes, many are contemplating so if this is something you are interested in for the summer please contact me today, so you have a chance to get on the listing to pick your student! Host families provide a bed, meals and limited transportation to the bus stop or meeting place, twice a week.
When you choose to host an exchange student, prepare to embark upon a unique and exciting journey. Day to day dinners or traditions become brand new experiences with a fresh perspective and insight! These young people carry their heritage and values across the ocean with hope of living, learning and sharing with an American family!
When you choose to host an exchange student, prepare to embark upon a unique and exciting journey. Day to day dinners or traditions become brand new experiences with a fresh perspective and insight! These young people carry their heritage and values across the ocean with hope of living, learning and sharing with an American family!
Sunday, January 29, 2012
July 2012 schedule
· Arrival Sunday, July 1st at 4:55 Orlando, ETA St Augustine 10:00 PM
· Monday, July 2nd Ghost and Gravestone private charter tour 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
· Friday, July 6th shopping at St Augustine outlet malls 6:00 PM – 9:00PM
· Sunday, July 8th Welcome Party for students and families 4:00 pm at the Royal St Augustine Country Club, Highway 16, St Augustine.
· Tuesday, July 10 Sea World
· Thursday, July 12 Bowling at Anastasia Lanes 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
· Monday, July 16 Daytona Water Lagoon
· Wednesday, July 18th Concert by the Sea, St Augustine Pier 6:00 PM – 9:00PM
· Friday, July 20th Universal Studios
· Monday, July 23rd Farewell at the Meeting Room in Ponce De Leon Mall, there will be a DJ and light dinner served.
· Tuesday, July 24th Tour the Pirate Museum 4:00PM then downtown St Augustine souvenir shopping
· Friday July 27th, return to Orlando airport flight leaves at 8:00 PM
Need 25 families in the Northeast Florida area for this July 2012
Step to USA is a 27 day program for students from Spain ages 14 to 17. This is a great program for families with younger children as it's a great way to start off the summer with a responsible teenager in the home. Enrich your life with an exceptional young person and open doors to learn about a new culture. Hosting can change your world!
You do not need to have children to host. Host families provide a bed, meals, limited transportation and a warm supportive environment. Students all speak English, come with their own spending money and medical insurance. Students are expected to have chores and be treated as a family member not a guest.
Students arrive on Sunday, July 1st in Orlando and will be bussed to the Northeast Florida area to meet their host families. We are looking to place students from the Jacksonville area to Daytona. There will be a van service to help with transportation. The return date is July 27th. Students attend 1 all day and 1 half day field trip a week. Host family members are welcome to come along at group discount pricing. We will be visiting local sights as well as Universal Studios, Sea World and Daytona Lagoon. Bus transportation is provided for these field trips as well as airport transfers.
Interested host families can contact community coordinator Susan James at
904-806-1392 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Susan has personally hosted 18 students over the past 15 years. Spanish students are very good role models for today's teens. They are responsible, gracious and thrilled for the opportunity to come to America to live in an American home! If you have room in your heart and your home, would you please consider opening your home to a young person from abroad?
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The chocolate body wrap is an hour of pure bliss! I experienced this at the Savana Spa in London. They use pure cocoa butter with natural sugars to wrap your skin in a cocoon of chocolate goodness! The wrap conditions your skin whilst you're indulged in a hydrating chocolate face masque and relaxing head massage. The treatment really does help to lift the spirits as I had a pretty bad start to the day but left the spa feeling upbeat and delicious. You can book online via View London for the lowest price.
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This is just pure, gorgeousness in a jar. The scent alone is enough to satisfy your chocolate craving and with the added benefits of Shea butter, passionflower extracts and coconut, it really does what it promises and keeps your skin moisturised for a full 24 hrs. What's more it contains 97% natural ingredients and minimum preservatives, just enough to make it last the distance but gentle enough for sensitive skin like mine. Be careful with this one girls - it's addictive.
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3. Jelly Pong Pong Gourmet Lip Therapy
Blended with real sugar, honey and cocoa, this tinted lip glosses is heaven on the lips. It costs a little more than I would normally spend on a gloss but after trying it myself, I think it's well worth the money. It hydrates the lips far better than some of the cheaper alternatives and it leaves the lips looking soft, supple with a little bit shine that's not overly sticky. You only need a little to get your chocolate fix and with the delicious scent on your lips, you just may find that you can say no to that tempting packet of Minstrels. Is Gourmet Lip Therapy a new way to curb those chocolate cravings? It just might be....
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It doesn't smell like of cocoa, but it sure does look a chocolate explosion on the nails. This mouth-watering shade looks terrific against tanned skin and I found the flat brush a doodle to use in applying the colour. Not only does it look fab on the nails, the packaging is adorable with its chic little bow. This is definitely a bottle to display on the dresser.
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My dog hates Brown.
I'm not sure what created the animosity. Perhaps it stems from the years Prince was kept in our yard by means of an invisible fence. The fence kept him in, but didn't keep others out, so the Brown driver could easily enter our yard to leave a package at the front door.
Prince didn't like it one bit.
Sometimes when I brought the packages inside, I would see the words, BAD DOG, written on them. This made me curious about what transpired when I was not at home.
I never smelled pepper spray, but I guess, instead, Prince got kicked or hit by the drivers—not that I blame them. If a big, loud dog came tearing after me, I would try to fend it off any way I could.
It's been three or four years since we depended on the invisible fence, having graduated to a six-foot wooden one to contain our beast. But the scars remain.
Prince hates Brown with a passion.
When we take afternoon walks, I pray we won't encounter Brown because it takes every ounce of my strength to restrain Prince when we do. He will leap and pull at his leash in an effort to reach the enemy.
One day, Brown was coming straight towards us and Prince, as usual, was going nuts. We couldn't run away, so I plowed on, straight ahead, as fast as I could go, thinking the sooner we passed each other the better. Walking was difficult; Prince was lunging and jumping so that he kept getting in front of my feet, almost tripping me.
Brown stopped right beside us.
Prince was frantic, afraid that Brown had come for him, while I strained every muscle, trying to move us forward, away from the evil one.
We were two doors from the safe zone, when I saw a second Brown.
Right in front of our house.
If Prince was afraid before, he was certain now.
Brown was there for him.
We couldn't go forward and we couldn't go backward.
Brown in front. Brown behind.
So we stopped and I told Prince to sit, not that it did much good. I kept my eyes focused on him, held the leash taut, and continued to give the command.
Holding my breath the entire time.
And praying.
Mercifully, the Browns drove off in opposite directions and we made it home.
I always thought dogs were color-blind, but this is apparently not so.
Prince has no reaction to FedEx vans.
Only. Brown.
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Conducting Ethical Research: Challenges and Tools
March 2, 2015 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am
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The Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and the Translational Research Communities (TRCs) are hosting a series of monthly information sessions featuring a variety of topics and resources that can benefit researchers, faculty, students and study team members.
Holly Taylor of the Berman Institute and Elizabeth Jaffee of the TRC leadership, will discuss pressing ethical issues that can arise when conducting clinical research. They will review a number of case scenarios and field questions from attendees. Dr. Taylor will also present information about the ICTR Research Ethics Consultation Service.
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District reminds parents about weather procedures
As forecasts call for snow, the Davis School District reminds parents about procedures the district will use when it considers closing school for inclement weather.
The decision to close schools actually occurs in the early-morning hours when district snow plow drivers are out attempting to clear parking lots before students arrive at school. When plow drivers think conditions are bad, they make calls to the district's maintenance director, transportation director and facilities administrator, who then contact an assistant superintendent and superintendent of schools.
Flu season is sneezing its way into schools
It's that time of year when illness becomes more prevalent in our schools. So, how sick is too sick for school? Here are some tips to keep in mind if your student is sick. Click on the picture to view the pdf.
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Superintendency Message
Reflecting back on decade of accomplishments
By Craig Carter, Business Administrator
Another year and decade are coming to an end. As we reflect on the past 10 years, several things come to mind. We fought our way through the terrible recession of the early part of this decade. We managed over $70 million of budget challenges with minimal impact to student learning. We added 11 new schools and one rebuild to accommodate 7,000 new students since 2010.
The most important accomplishment this decade is our attention to the individual student and his/her success. In 2014, the Board of Education and district leadership decided to implement a districtwide accreditation. We were then and continue to be today, the only district in the state that has a district accreditation.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Davis By The Numbers
72,897 students enrolled in 90 district schools
95% graduation rate
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Creating has been a lifelong adventure and an important part of life for Karen. Art was practiced with Grandma Scarlett where she learned and important lesson - try everything. A love of power tools and creative design were honed with her Dad while hand-craft, sewing and creating with a sense of perfection were inspired by her Mom.
Karen takes her biggest inspiration from her love, Doug. They live in Calgary, Alberta where Karen works from her home studio.
Recently, Karen obtained a commission for 150 pieces of art to be installed in the Royal Palm Hotel and Resort in Miami, Florida. It was thrilling to receive this international recognition.
You can find Karen's work in private, corporate and commercial collections across North America and in various spots around the globe."
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6,7 "Jesus bent down and wrote with His finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask Him, He stood up and said to them, 'Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.'"
John 8:6,7 (ESV)
I wonder what He wrote in the sand, Jesus that is. I wonder what His self-talk was like as He listened to others question Him a lot.
Reminds me of the kinds of things athletes and coaches face at press conferences sometimes. Stupid, manipulative questions always tend to fly in and around us.
I bet Jesus' fingered answers in the sand came out something like this:
The first to punish sin must be a sinless one. [If I won't do it, then you better not do it either.]
Don't take the law into your own hands. [Vigilante justice is no justice. Let God be God.]
There's a big difference between noticing sin and condemning sinners. [Make sure you're terrific at the former and terrible at the latter.]
Invite people to leave a life of sin. [Don't try to make them or threaten them. Picture a special future. Let Me (God) do the work.] See John 8:11.
Jesus masterfully instructs us in how to deal with sin in and around us (and how to deal with all the stupid questions that normally accompany sin).
Not everything that gets our attention deserves our attention.
Reflect: How are you doing in these areas? Are you seeing sin as sin? Are you noticing it in you and around you?
Are you leaving it to God to do the condemning? Are you picturing a special future for self and others as sin is being dealt with and left behind?
A prayer to consider: Jesus, keep writing your best thoughts into me. My mind and heart need Your help to see everything and everyone in this world as I ought.
I don't wanna miss the mark on how I read others, myself, sin, things that matter, and things that don't. Coach me to sound mind and proper judgment for Your glory and my good. Amen.


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It's July, the first month in the second half of the year. If I asked the question, 'How has it been so far?' I'm sure I'll get a 'room-full' of stories of diverse kinds.
Instead, I'm simply going to ask 'What next?'
Since those other months have gone and you can't have them back, what are your plans for the coming months? What do you plan to achieve in the days and months ahead, in the second half of the year? Now is the time to start planning towards that.
If you didn't make any plans for the first half, I believe you need to start making plans now; think of the direction for your life and what must be done to get there. Remember that failure to plan is planning to fail. Plan nothing; get nothing.
Don't just wait for things to happen; that way, you will always be a victim of circumstances. Instead, decide what you want and where you want to go, determine to make it happen and go out and get it. Now, you may not get all you set out to get, but no matter what you get (big or little) you will have the satisfaction of getting some of what you want out of life and not just taking what life feels like throwing at you.
If you've failed in the past; learn your lesson, plan better, try again and give it all you've got. Remember, you have not failed until you stop trying.
Don't look back regretting; you honestly don't have the time for that. Life goes on – it doesn't care about your regrets and self-pity, no, it's only waiting for your next move. Move then. And make it big. Bigger than before. Keep looking ahead, and soon, you will get ahead. Promise!


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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday emphasised the importance of predictable financing for health security initiatives in developing countries and LDCs as the World Health Organization (WHO) had been caught wrongfooted in many cases due to the enormity of crises, dearth of resources and its capacity.
"Often WHO had been caught wrongfooted due to the enormity of crises, dearth of resources and its capacity. So, predictable financing for health security initiatives in developing countries and LDCs is an urgent need," she said.
The Prime Minister said this while speaking at the health security roundtable titled 'Health in Crisis – WHO Cares' hosted by Munich Security Conference (MSC), Centre for Strategies and International Studies, and WHO at Hotel Bayerischer Hof here.
"Ensuring global public health security is also a global responsibility. As a global organisation, WHO needs to maintain the lead to engage the nations on board," Sheikh Hasina added.
She said the emergence of contagious diseases like Ebola, Cholera and Tuberculosis globally reveal that the existing health system needs to be upgraded and transformed.
Hasina said global health is multidimensional spreading over boundaries and requires sustained high-level commitment and closer international cooperation.
"We need to work collectively. Advanced technology and innovation have provided us with opportunities to work on health security, particularly for the vulnerable sections of our society," she said adding that there are formidable challenges in ensuring health for all.
Hasina said health service is one of the basic needs of human being and thus requires the highest priority.
"Despite technological advancement in health sector, people still suffer from diseases. It's unfortunate that we're failing to ensure appropriate healthcare for our people while right to health is the fundamental premise as described in SDG-3," she said.
About Bangladesh, she said the government is pursuing consistent policies and providing financial support for the development of health security in the country.
"We saw remarkable improvements in health sector alongside our socioeconomic development. Our efforts have made us a role model of 'good health at low cost'."
Hasina mentioned that the government has reduced maternal mortality to 172 per 100,000 births, infant mortality to 24 per 1000 births and under-5 mortality to 31 per 1000 births.
The Prime Minister said full vaccination coverage is now 82.3 percent, life expectancy is more than 72.8 years while fertility rate per woman has dropped to 2.1. "The success in the use of information and communication technology for health services in Bangladesh is also recognised widely," she said.
Hasina said Bangladesh has also made commendable success in elimination of tuberculosis and leprosy. "Bangladesh in its development planning has prioritised a focus on making public health services available and accessible to all its citizens for the last three decades through Health for All (HFA), Primary Health Care (PHC), Essential Service Package (ESP)."
She mentioned that the government has established more than 18,500 Community Clinics and Union Health and Family Welfare Centres at rural and community levels through which it provides 30 types of medicine free. "We're also expanding the medicine and health coverage through establishing new medical colleges across the country, at least one medical college in every district."
She said the government has already integrated the health-related SDG targets into its development plans. The 'Vision 2021' and 'Vision 2041' have given top priority to ensure health security in Bangladesh.
"As per our election manifesto 2018, we are planning to expand the universal health coverage manifold and make health service free for child under one year and for elders over 65 years."
The Prime Minister deeply appreciated and recognised WHO for being with Bangladesh in its difficult journey, especially in achieving the MDGs, reducing child and maternal mortality as well as for the support in various vaccination programmes and combating HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other water borne diseases over the periods.
She commended the WHO activities in emergency areas like for displaced Myanmar nationals in Bangladesh and for managing emergency situations in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen and Libya.
Hasina underlined the effective, result-oriented international coordination and cooperation for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal-3 and other health-related Goals.
"And WHO, as our principal humanitarian organization rightfully deserves high-level political support from, and engagement with, Member States and non-State actors to guarantee health and happiness for all," she said.


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Digital analytics starts with accurate tracking. Most businesses today set up analytics tools from the popular Google Analytics to the enterprise Adobe Marketing Cloud, and use the data to monitor and improve business performance.
However, it's surprising to see many clients falling into basic tracking mistakes without even realizing it. This generates unreliable data and reports, and can lead to misleading business decisions.
The reason that tracking easily goes wrong is because setting up accurate digital tracking requires a mix of technical skills and business knowledge, and marketers and developers tend to lack one of the two.
Below are five popular tracking errors for Google Analytics and how to avoid them:
1. Mess up channel attribution due to untagged referral traffic
A common mistake for digital marketers is not setting up UTM tracking tags for certain referral sources that cannot pass referral data to tracking tools. For example, Google Analytics cannot track site visits from desktop email clients (e.g Outlook), clicks from Word/PDF documents, https visits to http site, etc.
If you do not set UTM tags for these traffic sources, they'll show up as direct traffic in Google Analytics reports. These traffic attribution errors can mess up the channel performance analysis and lead to inaccurate insights.
UTM (Urchin Tracking Module) tracking is a tagging mechanism that allows analytics tools to capture the source of a visit and allocate it to a proper channel traffic report.
You should tag all untrackable visits with a UTM tag. You can generate UTM links with Google URL builder. For example, a UTM for an email newsletter may look like this:
Another UTM tagging problem is the misuse of upper-case & lower-case letters, such as "Email" and "email". Google Analytics detects the "email" medium only, so if you set utm_medium as "Email", it will allocate the visit as the "Other" channel. It makes reporting more cumbersome.
For example, a Fashion retailer saw only three visits from the Email channel, while over 150,000 visits went to the "Other" channel.
2. Self-referral traffic errors caused by subdomains or third-party links
If you run an e-commerce site that sends users to third-party payment systems like PayPal to make purchases, then redirect them back to a "thank you" page on your site, that process can cause a self-referral traffic problem. This means the traffic is reported as referral traffic when it isn't. This problem also happen to sites that cross-link between different domains and subdomains.
For example, the painting school TheArtStudioNY.com sends visitors to 1shoppingcart.com for payments, then redirects them back to the site which creates a self-referral traffic issue.
To fix this issue, we need to take 2 steps:
Step 1. Use the linker plugin to simplify implementing cross-domain tracking with analytics.js
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
ga('create', 'UA-22892491-1', 'auto', {'allowLinker': true});
ga('require', 'linker');
ga('linker:autoLink', ['worldsecuresystems.com','theartstudiony.com'],false,true);
ga('send', 'pageview');
ga('require', 'ecommerce');
Step 2: Include these external domains in the Referral Exclusion list in Google Analytics
3. Developer accidentally removes tracking code during code upgrade
For websites that have ongoing development, the technical team may frequently upload new code to the production site and sometimes accidentally remove the tracking codes. If the site is not monitored closely, this can go undetected for days and cause major data losses, as well as a lot of frustration for analytics and marketing teams.
When you see data suddenly dropping to zero, check quickly with tools like Chrome Tag Assistant (by Google) and Facebook Pixel Helper to check if the tracking code or tags have been removed.
For example, The Beauty School website Google Adwords conversion tracking code was removed, and was added back afterward.
4. E-commerce tracking code cannot fire due to being misplaced
Sometimes, the technical team may move the scripts around to implement new features or improve page speed, which may stop conversion tracking codes from firing.
This kind of problem cannot be detected by tag-checking tools because all the codes are still there, but the order of those tracking codes causes the trouble.
For example, on "Order success" or "Thank you" pages in e-commerce, the e-commerce tracking code will not fire if it's placed above the Google Analytics tracking code. If the Ecommerce tracking code is fired before the Google Analytics code is fired, the Google Analytics Objects do not initiate to capture data.
<!– Google Analytics –>
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXX-Y', 'auto');
ga('send', 'pageview');
<!– End Google Analytics –>
To avoid this problem, GA tracking code should be placed before the closing </head>. Other Google Analytics tracking codes (such as event and ecommerce tracking) could be placed before the closing </body>
5. Capturing e-commerce values from the wrong variables
Another e-commerce tracking error that could be hard to detect is developers sending the incorrect variable data to e-commerce parameters in Google Analytics.
This error causes a mismatch between the sales data in Google Analytics and the sales numbers in the back end.
Developers tend to make this mistake when there are several similar variables in the database, so they mistakenly pick the wrong one to send to Google Analytics.
For example, the below e-commerce tracking code picks up the Total Price instead of the Unit Price.
ga('ecommerce:addItem', {
'id': "{{ trans.id }}", // Transaction ID. Required
'name': "{{ prod.product.name }}", // Product name. Required
'sku': "{{ prod.product.productCode }}", // SKU/code
'category': "{{ catalog.name }}", // Category or variationme
'price': "{{ prod.totalPrice }}", // Unit price
'quantity': '{{ prod.units }}' // Quantity
ga('ecommerce:addItem', {
'id': "{{ trans.id }}", // Transaction ID. Required
'name': "{{ prod.product.name }}", // Product name. Required
'sku': "{{ prod.product.productCode }}", // SKU/code
'category': "{{ catalog.name }}", // Category or variationme
'price': "{{ prod.unitPrice }}", // Unit price
'quantity': '{{ prod.units }}' // Quantity
This problem is not easy to detect early because the report looks fine in testing. You need to know the data fields thoroughly to be able to figure out the errors and request the development team to fix it.
Tools like Google Analytics can offer valuable insights for you to improve your business, but it all starts with accurate tracking. Many things can go wrong in digital tracking that can make the data unusable, so we'd better be prepared for the most common errors.
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10-Day Cambodia Photography Workshop
Join us for a 10-day adventure in Siem Reap and the surrounding areas.
Our 10-day photography expedition takes in the very best of Siem Reap Province, from the most supreme of the Angkor temples to her best-kept secrets; lose yourself in a sea of smiles in the city's sprawling local markets and the remote villages on the Tonle Sap lake; bask in the luxuriant green of the rice paddies in planting season; marvel at towering jungle waterfalls; and gain privileged access to modern Khmer performing artists from daredevil acrobats to mystical apsara dancers – all of this in the best light.
Highlights of the tour
- Angkor Wat, Ta Prohm and Bayon in the best light
- Hidden temples – away from the crowds
- Buddhist pagodas and monks life
- Phnom Kulen waterfalls
- Local life: markets and villages
- Life on the Tonle Sap lake: floating villages
- Phare Circus rehearsal
Dec 11-20, 2018 – 3 spots left!Looking for more dates? Why not explore our exciting new 12-day adventure tours?
Tour Price
Fix rate at USD $2,300 (single supplement $600).
Group Size
Small group: 3-8 Participants.
We believe in quality, personalised tuition, and so our host-to-guest ratio is always 1:5 or better.
A memorable photographic experience
It's not always easy to find the perfect combination between a beautiful place and your photographic abilities. Thanks to Angkor Travel Photographer it happened! read more on Tripadvisor
Amazing 18 Day Photography Adventure
…everything went like clockwork. Details were taken care of behind the scenes and never interfered with our itinerary and shooting.
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10-Day Cambodia Workshop Itinerary
Day 1: arrival and Angkor
On day one you'll arrive in Siem Reap, Angkor Travel Photography team will pick you up at the airport. According to your arrival time, in the late afternoon we will join the sunset inside the Angkor Archaeological Park.
We'll get to know each other a little better and set the scene for the rest of the trip over a delicious welcome dinner in the evening.
Day 2: Angkor, ancient temples and buddhist pagodas
Day two will be spent exploring the wonders of Angkor, including Ta Prohm and Angkor Thom with the Bayon and her 200+ smiling faces. We'll also have the unique chance to observe orange-robed monks and their unique buddhist rituals at one of the least-known pagodas within Angkor.
Day 3: Phnom Kulen, waterfalls and buddhist pagoda
Day three will be spent among the pre-Angkorian findings at Mount Kulen; here we'll marvel at the towering waterfall, the ancient reclining Buddha at the pagoda at the mountain top, and enjoy a picnic by the river of 1,000 linga.
Day 4: Angkor and countryside life
Day four starts with what is arguably the most iconic site in Cambodia: the sun rising over the silhouetted towers of Angkor Wat. We'll spend the remainder of the morning exploring the lush green of the countryside where we'll see the local people busy with rice-planting season before a long, relaxing lunch. The afternoon will be spent among some of the lesser-visited temples of Angkor, and the evening among the myriad of vendors selling street food at a local night market.
Day 5: post processing session and Phare Circus
Day five begins in a more leisurely fashion with an image review and post-processing session at the hotel. Spend the afternoon with privileged access to one of Cambodia's most exciting modern performances, Phare, The Cambodian Circus; we'll shoot the rehearsal and make-up, and afterwards have reserved VIP seating from which to photograph the show.
Day 6: local market and village on the Tonle Sap lake
Day six starts at one of the town's most vibrant local markets before calling in at Siem Reap's oldest buddhist monastery where we can witness the lives of the resident monks. We round off our photo adventure with the amazing stilted city of Kampong Phluk where we'll take in an entirely different way of life on the lake and finish with the sunset before we say our goodbyes at our farewell dinner.
Day 7: sunrise, brick factory and countryside activities
Day seven begins with a lesser-known but no-less beautiful sunrise, witnessing the local fisherman casting nets into a centuries-old reservoir. We'll spend the rest of the morning exploring some of the most unique photographic opportunities Siem Reap has to offer, including a trip to an incredible brick factory and to see the spider hunters of northern Siem Reap province. We'll spend the afternoon in the vibrant green of the Cambodian countryside.
Day 8: remote buddhist pagodas and floating village
The morning of day eight sees us chancing our luck at some of the more remote pagodas in the area, where we'll have a chance to more intimately experience the lives of the monks who live there. The afternoon will be spent exploring Mey Chrey, a remote part of the countryside that will be flooded this time of year, making for a beautiful vista of palm trees reflected in the paddy. We'll remain here for a sunset free from other tourists.
Day 9: local market and meet a local family in the countryside
Day nine begins with one of Siem Reap town's most incredible markets, the sprawling Phsar Leu, home to a host of colourful characters and produce unimaginable. Once you've had your fill of photographing (or maybe haggling with) the wide-smiled local sellers, we'll head into the countryside to witness a Cambodian family preparing traditional foods. We'll even be able to stay for lunch before heading back to Siem Reap to unwind with a massage before we review our images for the week and say farewell at a delicious evening dinner.
Day 10: departure
Depart day ten.
Inclusions and Exclusions
What's Included:
Accommodation (4-star boutique resort/spa)
Transport during photography excursions
Breakfast, Arrival and Farewell Dinners, and other meals as specified.
Guiding/Tuition from a Western professional photographer; second photographer guide where there are 6 participants or more.
All tickets and entrance fees.
Round-trip airport pick-up and drop-off
What's Excluded:
Airfare to and from Cambodia
Meals, Drinks and Snacks beyond those specified.
Alcoholic beverages beyond one with specified meals
Tips for Guides/Drivers etc.
Medical & Travel Insurance
General Information
Who Our Tours are Designed For
Our adventures are perfect for anyone who loves travel and photography, whatever your level of experience with a camera – the most important thing is enthusiasm. Our tours are specifically designed for photographers and aim to unlock opportunities that wouldn't be open to the casual visitor, all while ensuring that we shoot in the best light, away from the crowds.
Refine your Vision
Mastering photography is a wonderful lifelong journey; the objective of our tours is to help you become a better photographer, day by day, so that you not only capture wonderful images of Cambodia, but that you take away a wealth of new skills that will serve you well for all of your photographic endeavours yet to come. With our expert guidance, you'll quickly become more familiar with your equipment and refine your vision for incredible imagery without feeling swamped by technical details. You'll learn how to read light, how to frame a scene, and how to inject the element of story into your captures.
Equipment Recommendations
The best camera is the one that's with you! Don't get me wrong, we like a new toy as much as the next photographer, but you really can make incredible images with any setup – an entry-level DSLR/mirrorless and mid-range zoom is really all you need to make the most of Cambodia's best photographic opportunities. Of course you're welcome to bring more, a wide-angle zoom and your favourite prime are always handy, but they aren't a requirement for attendance. Compact cameras and smartphones are welcome, too. If you can, bring along your laptop so we can critique your photos and also show you a few tips for using Lightroom.
Meaningful Interactions with Local People
You'll get to meet local people and make meaningful connections, all the while capturing a beautifully intimate portrait of their way of life. Feel free to capture the people we encounter candidly, or we can show you how to break the ice so as to make your camera an asset that creates interesting opportunities like never before.
Expect the Unexpected
Our itineraries are fun and flexible, and flow naturally – each of our photography adventures is unique as spontaneous encounters and varying light conditions will mean different opportunities at every turn. One moment you'll be marvelling at the sun rising over the iconic towers of Angkor Wat; the next you'll be sat appreciating the harmony of a monk praying by candle light; or perhaps find yourself in a stilted home above the Tonle Sap, or bumping down a dusty track straddled by farmers in oxcarts pulled by water buffalo.
Small Group Experience
The largest tours we run are for groups of twelve. With two experienced professional photographers as tour leaders, this ensures that each of our participants will get plenty of individual, hands-on time with the instructors. It also means that we can travel in a less conspicuous manner, blending into our environment and not overwhelming local people during spontaneous encounters.
Responsible Travel
We are committed to responsible travel in Cambodia, ensuring that all of our tours are respectful of and give back to the local community. We have taken all possible steps to make sure our tours cause as little environmental impact as possible. We use local drivers on all of our excursions, and we take care to educate our tour participants of the ethics of travel photography and Cambodian customs. We advocate for responsible volunteering and tourism. The participants that join our tours come away not only with some amazing memories and photos, but also with a better understanding of how they can travel responsibly in future, as well as make a positive impact on Cambodia.
Simply fill out the form on this page to let us know your dates and preferences. We'll need a USD $300 deposit via Paypal to reserve your dates.
We understand that plans change, but please consider your deposit a firm commitment. A non-refundable deposit of USD $300 is payable to reserve your spot, with the remaining balance to be paid on or before 45-days prior to the commencement of the tour. Please check with us before making travel arrangements.


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LONDON: "Love Island", ITV's hit show watched by 6 million fans every night on TVs, tablets and smartphones, helped the British broadcaster beat advertising revenue expectations and rise to the top of the FTSE leaderboard on Wednesday.
The show, which ITV said will gain a winter edition next year, returned to screens in the final month of the company's first half and limited the decline in ad revenue to 5% for the period, beating its prediction of a 6% decline.
ITV Chief Executive Carolyn McCall said the political environment in Britain, where the issue of Brexit still needs to be resolved, was continuing to dampen ad demand.
"The economic uncertainty, and the fact it had been prolonged, has definitely affected our clients," she told reporters.
"In Q2, we've seen a tick-up as a result of having a big show like 'Love Island'; whenever you have a big programme it attracts people to spend money around that show, and we've seen that both on linear and on VOD (video on demand)."
McCall said ITV was performing well across its schedules, with the four highest rating dramas on British television in the period, including "Manhunt, on its main channel.
"Love Island" was notable, however, for the success of its sponsorships and tie-ups beyond the traditional 30 second spot.
"We've made an incremental 8 million pounds ($10 million)from 'Love Island' this year compared to last year, and that is not on the spot advertising side, that's on the other partnership deals that we are doing, including launching a make-up brand with (beauty company) Fenty," she said.
ITV reported total external revenue down 7% to 1.476 billion pounds ($1.84 billion) and adjusted core earnings down 13% to 327 million pounds for the six months to end-June, with the latter just beating market expectations.
It said total advertising revenue would be in a range of -1% to +1% in the third quarter, also ahead of analyst forecasts.
Shares in the group, which had fallen 34% in the last 12 months, were trading up 6% at 113 pence at 0846 GMT.
Analysts at Citi said the results "should turn heads for the better", pointing to a 2.3% decline in second-quarter advertising revenue versus guidance of about -5%, a beat of about 10% on adjusted core earnings and additional cost savings flagged by the company.
ITV has built up its studios production business in recent years to reduce reliance on advertising demand in Britain.
Total ITV Studios revenue fell 6% in the period, which it put down to the timing of programme deliveries, but it said it expected a solid second half, with shows such as "I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!" returning. Full-year revenue for the unit would grow by at least 5%, it said.
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No. 2 Mississippi Gulf Coast is five shots off the lead after the first round of the Coastal Alabama Invitational in Fairhope, Ala.
Jake Crosson (Fr., New Hope/Columbus) is in third place after firing a 2-under 70, leading the Bulldogs to a 9-over 297. They are behind Wallace State, which shot 4-over, and tied with Calhoun.
Gulf Coast, playing in its first event of the spring, is three shots ahead of Eastern Florida State, which is ranked third in the Bushnell Golfweek NJCAA Division I Coaches Poll. The Bulldogs are second in the Division II version of the poll.
Central Alabama, which is ranked eighth in Division I, is in fifth.
Brice Wilkinson (So., Madison Central/Madison) shot 2-over and is tied for ninth. Carter Nicholson (So., Pearl River Central/Carriere) is tied for 13th, Jon Hopkins (Fr., Hockerill Anglo-European College/Bishop's Stortford, England) is tied for 15th and Cameron Mobley (Fr., Northwest Rankin/Brandon) is tied for 21st.
The final round will be played Sunday at Rock Creek Golf Club.
Full results: http://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=team&tid=17614
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|T2. Gulf Coast
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|4. Eastern Florida State
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|5. Central Alabama
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|7. Spring Hill
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|T8. Jefferson State
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|T8. Andrew
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MGCCC scores
|3. Jake Crosson
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|T9. Brice Wilkinson
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|T13. Carter Nicholson
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|T15. Jon Hopkins
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|T21. Cameron Mobley
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We know that good posture is important for dancing well, and we've all heard the phrase 'Stand Up Straight. So what's the big dea? Why should we actually pay attention to our posture? Let's take a look and see why Stand Up Straight does more than just improve your posture.
Why should I worry about my posture?
Through recent studies, scientists have shown that focusing on your posture improves your willpower and self-control as well as self esteem!
In a remarkable study, social scientists asked college students to perform a variety of tasks. Anything from writing down what they ate to thinking positive thoughts, in order to see if any activities could improve the students' willpower. The most effective intervention that the scientists tested was to have the students work on their posture during the two-week experiment. As summarized in the book Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength,
That tiresome old advice—"Stand up straight!"—was more useful than anyone had imagined. By overriding their habit of slouching, the students strengthened their willpower and did better at tasks that had nothing to do with posture (emphasis added).
Since focusing on posture has such dramatic results not only in dancing but also in life, it's worth thinking about posture throughout your day-to-day activities. Whenever you are in front of a computer monitor or behind a steering wheel, take a second to un-slouch yourself. When you're chatting to someone at a work function, take a moment and make sure you're actually standing up straight. It's a small effort that pays large dividends in the long run! While there may be other things you might want to worry about in your dancing, paying attention to that somewhat annoying phrase will make a huge difference. People do not typically think about, or the outcome of what it could do! So go out there, 'Stand Up Straight' and go dance!
BONUS – You have a friend in me!
Oh… I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Brian B. I'm a professional dancer, dance studio owner and WCS fan, from Louisville KY. I have a passion for helping dancers just like you. You can read more about me here!
We built WCS Online with you in mind! We wanted dancers around the world to have a helping hand along the journey to becoming comfortable at WCS.
We have an entire team including myself, a web developer for our tech stuff, (I'm a dancer not a computer nerd) Ms Megan who is a teacher at our studio and my pro parter… you'll see her in a lot of the videos, Ms Emily (she's a pro dancer and teacher) and finally my mom! Yep, my mom works full time for us answering phone calls and running the customer service side of our studio and this website.
On our site you will find videos, articles and lots of other helpful hints to help you along. Heck you can even email me personally. So I have one final offer to you…
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A few years back we created a 'move of the week' video. Each week (or so) we send out an awesome WCS video via email. Some weeks its a pattern, some weeks a tip but its ALWAYS something that you'll enjoy. The other benefit is that you'll have my personal email address and you can ask me questions. Looking forward to helping you. All my best, Brian B


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Adele is the latest celebrity whose personal life has been invaded by hackers.
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According to the Daily Record, the leak is said to have included a baby scan and a photo of the singer's three-year-old son. Known to be very protective of her family and their privacy, the singer is reportedly very upset over the leaked photos.
It's speculated that the hacker gained access of the photos through the email of Adele's partner, Simon Konecki.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is letting us know he'll be back on the silver screen, Terminator style.
The Austrian-born actor and former Governor claims that there is a sixth Terminator film on the way. During a sit-down Australia's Channel 9, Arnold was asked about the possibility of another Terminator film, to which he responded: "I am looking forward to it, absolutely."
Arnold didn't share any additional information on the upcoming film. Stay tuned!
Pranking is ten times better when you're doing it with family.
Khloe Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, and Kendall Jenner gathered up the wigs, fake noses, and prosthetics to prank a group of tourists. Khloe played the grandma in the group, while Kylie and Kendall went on as her granddaughters. Fellow tourists on the bus were clueless about who they were sitting next to.
Check out hilarious clips of their prank here.
Mariah Carey gave her two children the best treat any kid could ask for — a trip to the toy store.
The songstress took dem babies to enjoy Hamley's Toy Store for some pre-Easter shopping. The twins enjoyed the giant store all to themselves, where the aisles were filled with dolls, stuffed animals, trucks and more.
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When We Were Young: 15 Photos Of Adele Throughout The Years
When We Were Young: 15 Photos Of Adele Throughout The Years
1. Still a 19-year-old on the rise.Source:Getty 1 of 15
2. The 20-year-old was finding her lane.Source:Getty 2 of 15
3. Yet to achieve success in the U.S., Adele was a force to be reckoned with in the UK.Source:Getty 3 of 15
4. Before snagging all of the major awards, Adele was just another nominee in attendance.Source:Getty 4 of 15
5. Finally, a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.Source:Getty 5 of 15
6. Another one, Grammy for Best New Artist in 2009.Source:Getty 6 of 15
7. Her success in America was undeniable.Source:Getty 7 of 15
8. 21 was just starting production when Adele hit up the "Sex and the City" premiere.Source:Getty 8 of 15
9. After finishing her second album, Adele's look got a lot more grown and sexy.Source:Getty 9 of 15
10. Working on 21.Source:Getty 10 of 15
11. Following her throat surgery, Adele got back to work.Source:Getty 11 of 15
12. "Skyfall" received the Golden Globe for Best Original Song in 2013.Source:Getty 12 of 15
13. In 2012, Adele became the second female artist to win six awards in one night.Source:Getty 13 of 15
14. She surpassed the Beatles after her second album spent 16 weeks at the top of the US Billboard 200 chart.Source:Getty 14 of 15
15. 25 never looked so good.Source:Getty 15 of 15
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I just love that quote, more and more. Anyways..
Quite recently I've seemed to have caught myself in this spiral, whether it's upward or downward or even a diagonal one is another question. Just lost focus of what I already have in front of me. I guess there has been a little bit of inner conflict or just me putting it off working on this little corner of mine on the internet.
Or maybe it's just the fact that I feel terribly overwhelmed with all the different things I have to do..so overwhelmed that I end up doing nada? I feel like my productivity flew out of the window along with my attention. Or have I just gotten lazy as it's almost a year that I packed up the structured life I had in China.
The other thing is that I had originally started this blog as a space that my friends could all keep up with my personal transformation. Does that sound egotistical or what? Let me rephrase, this space is for me to put out my thoughts as a journal because of the grand step I took. Something I think all of us crave to do but have so much fear to cross into the other side.
I have SO much to share with all of you but I just can't seem to get it out. I get bogged down with other things, after all I didn't just convert to live a life of travel. I'm not completely a jet-setter (YET!) The savings that I have cannot be fully depleted, I don't want to reach the point of desperation. Instead I've had to redirect and embrace a different side to life. The unconventional side that is being braved by many other unique characters that I met here in Chiang Mai. I needed to work as I have taken the decision a few months back that I wanted to be a digital nomad.
A question that came up while I did Fast Track quite recently was..
Are you mean to yourself?
Mean as in, do you put other things ahead of yourself?
An example would be sometimes you would check your own work email and send out the things that need to be done but when answering your personal emails from friends you just 'can't be bothered'?
Would you put much more efforts in helping out someone with a project but not the same effort in yourself?
Even if you are not feeling well one day are you willing to put it aside and help out someone else that needs a little pick-me-up?
It's not a bad thing but what I have seen from myself is that I've lost the 'healthy' measure of it. Compassion is key. I know myself that I am very compassionate and willing to give my time, attention, care and council to whoever I deem important to me but I will not give myself that same treatment? Is it a case that I would not find myself worthy of it? Maybe..
I get moments where I'm just so utterly excited to write or come up with an idea of what I want to share with all of you but then when I sit all day in front of my laptop doing other tasks I..can't. It's a combination of two things, I just feel like I should be refreshed and put out the BEST content I can come up with for other to feel inspired or to simply relate. The other thing is the excitement that stirred my spirit just goes on a disappearing act.
So what's the solution? Well, if you are like me, aware of it – change it!
But how?
I have yet to crack the formula but the last month I have been finding tiny insights to how to beat the "meanness" out of yourself. Be persistent with yourself. Accept your limitations or what hinders you but keep to it, find ways to go around it. I am so unfocused with so many different things to do or what to do or even ideas and projects proposed to me that it's easy to lose yourself in this spiral.
- Take a deep breath.
List out all the different things, obviously you won't be able to resolve it all at once but divide it into parts, give it all equal energy. A mental schedule of how you will dedicate each aspect with the same attention, not more or less. Otherwise I find it that you can lose your interest or even focus. Having this in mind you will learn that your brain is trying to readapt to all these changes..it takes time for it to want to catch up! We grow up with these invisible routines stuck in ourselves from society, family, friends, media and social media.
- Persist.
I am writing today because I am resolute that something needed to come out, be expressed even though I have other things that I should be doing but shouldn't I be working on myself? You cannot lose sight of the major reason for turning your life upside down. It's easy to with all the material pressures..bills to pay and what not. But still, dedicate time to it and you will feel rewarded for it. Even as I write thing I'm feeling so damn proud of myself!
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UNESCO fine-tunes its programme of action for Africa
As part of Africa Week, the Director-General of UNESCO convened an information meeting on the Operational Strategy for Priority Africa, on Wednesday, 28 May 2014. She reviewed all steps taken in recent months to expedite implementation of this UNESCO priority.
That information meeting was one in a new series of meetings designed to inform ambassadors and permanent delegates about programme delivery, while providing an opportunity for them to hear and interact with field office directors directly responsible for activities on the ground. In turn, Mr Firmin Matoko, Director of the UNESCO Liaison Office in Addis Ababa, Ms Hassana Alidou, Director of the UNESCO Office in Abuja, Mr Luc Rukingama, Director of the UNESCO Office in Harare, Mr Mohamed Djelid, Director of the UNESCO Office in Nairobi, Mr Félix Yé, Director of the UNESCO Office in Yaoundé, and Ms Ndong Jatta, Director of the UNESCO Office in Dakar, presented their respective offices' activities and answered Member States' questions. Their presentations are available here.
"UNESCO's priority must be to implement programmes that match Member States' expectations as closely as possible. We have a great many advocacy tools and reports, and we must also strengthen our presence as close to the field as possible. That was the tenor of the recommendations contained in the Independent External Evaluation, and that is the main thrust of the ongoing reform", the Director-General said, as she outlined the new framework for action comprising: the new operational strategy formulated with Member States, the African Union and local partners; the reform of the field network which was completed in late 2013; the delegation of authority; and the strengthening of the responsibilities of field office directors. "Everything has been put in place to denote a clear and definite emphasis on the field", said the Director-General.
The new Operational Strategy for Priority Africa is structured around six flagship programmes and two priority themes – the culture of peace and capacity building for sustainable development and for poverty eradication. The Director-General described the next steps under the Strategy, which were to mobilize and strengthen partnerships, particularly at the local level, duly taking into account the limited funds available. Another step would be to improve the sharing of results and highlight programme successes that could be instrumental in raising fresh funds. Africa's Minds Build a Better Future, a brochure of selected science, technology and innovation success stories that was launched with the Islamic Development Bank, is but an example.


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It didn't take very long for the Boston Bruins to strike Thursday night, and it was a usual suspect who found the back of the net.
David Pastrnak potted his 20th goal of the season just over two minutes into the Bruins' tilt with the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena. After Pastrnak broke up a Ryan McDonagh pass attempt, the B's winger situated himself right in from of Tampa Bay's net and cleaned up a Colby Cave rebound.
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Is President Trump a man of "wit and wisdom"???
100 Answers
- Anonymous1 week ago
Wit, yes he is a joke.
Wisdom, only in his teeth.
- Warren TLv 71 week ago
- 1 week ago
no he is a scam he filed for banckrupcy
- indegospirit1 week agoReport
as if he's the first. millionaires file for bankruptcy all the time, it has nothing to do with being broke
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- 2 weeks ago
no trump isn't much caple of he is just another inter planner dog of freemasons
I see you know nothing but spew mighty! You have to be asked to join which would not have happened, if it did he would have been black ball by members. I did not like the Donald when he was Democrat.
- 2 weeks ago
jesus christ was the greatest president of all time.
- McSchmeezerLv 42 weeks agoReport
fcuk jesus
- 2 weeks ago
Although utterly devoid of wisdom, I did think he was kind of funny during the campaign. Of course, the gravity of his position, words and deeds have since made it difficult to laugh.
- Bulldog reduxLv 72 weeks ago
Sure he is, much like Charles Manson.
- acid victim 25Lv 72 weeks ago
He's the most powerful internet troll in the world
....not even that, but he is trying like mad to get those to work for him. A bunch of Russians were given the job.
- marsel_duchampLv 72 weeks ago
no wit, just cheap name calling
no wisdom, just jingoistic phrases to stir up his base, and empowering tin pot dictators like Kim in NK by treating them as friends and equals.