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Situated on the west coast of Mexico, Banderas Bay offers 34 miles of incomparable coastline in the states of Jalisco and Nayarit. Banderas Bay is Mexico's largest natural bay and home to Puerto Vallarta's many great destinations.
North Coast
Riviera Nayarit's long, curving coastline is decorated by small beachside jewels - all of which offer an exceptional opportunity to experience the hidden havens that lie just north of the Bay.
This laid-back seaside community offers plenty of local color, many family run restaurants, plenty of shopping, a five-mile stretch of white sandy beaches, and a nice town plaza to enjoy.
Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo Vallarta is considered one of Mexico's best tourist and residential developments, conveniently located just 15 minutes north of Puerto Vallarta's International Airport.
Marina Vallarta
Located just south of the airport and 15 minutes from downtown, Marina Vallarta is a master-planned community.
North Vallarta
The area called the Hotel Zone is where you will find all of Vallarta's major hotels and beachside resorts.
El Pitillal
Just ten minutes east from most hotels, you will find Vallarta's own small Mexican village, Pitillal - a suburban area of Puerto Vallarta that has remained untouched by tourism.
Central Vallarta
Located in the center of the Bay of Banderas, downtown Puerto Vallarta is the site of the original fishing village that turned into a world-renowned tourist destination.
South Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta's South Side has a charming small-town feel, cosmopolitan lifestyle and friendly locals that makes it one of the most popular place for vacation and retirement.
Conchas Chinas
Following Highway 200 south from downtown Puerto Vallarta, exclusive residential real estate is for sale in the neighborhoods of Conchas Chinas, Punta Negra, Garza Blanca and Las Amapas.
South Coast
This South Coast area map will help you discover the natural beauty found in the remote towns and fishing villages that line Vallarta's South Shores.
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Archive for July 2013
History of the Computer – Computers and Technology
The size and using computers on the globe are so excellent, they are getting to be difficult for you to ignore ever again. Computers apparently us in countless ways a large number of times, we are not able to see them when they actually are generally. People of a computer after they purchased his or her morning coffee with the vending appliance As that they drove themselves to function, the site visitors lights that usually hampered people are manipulated by computers so that they can speed your journey. Recognize it as well as not, your computer features invaded each of our life.
The beginning and root base of computers commenced as all kinds of other inventions along with technologies have during the past. They evolved coming from a relatively straightforward idea as well as plan meant to help conduct functions less complicated and speedier. The 1st basic sort of computers was meant to do this; compute! They executed basic numbers functions including multiplication along with division along with displayed the final results in several methods. Some PHS displayed ends in a binary manifestation of electric lamps. Binary denotes only using ones along with zeros as a result, lit bulbs represented versions and unlit bulbs represented zeros. The irony on this is that men and women needed to complete another precise function for you to translate binary for you to decimal to generate it readable on the user.
One of several first PHS was named ENIAC. It turned out an enormous, monstrous sizing nearly that of a standard train car. The idea contained electric tubes, hefty gauge electrical wiring, angle-iron, and cutlery switches only to name many of the components. They have become difficult to think that PHS has progressed into baggage sized micro-computers in the 1990′s.
Computers sooner or later evolved straight into less archaic hunting devices at the end in the 1960′s. Their size ended up reduced foot it of a smaller automobile and they also were control segments involving information in faster charges than elderly models. Most computers right now was classified "mainframes" mainly because that a lot of computers ended up linked together to complete a granted function. The principal user of most of these computers ended up military businesses and significant corporations including Bell, AT&T, and Standard Electric, along with Boeing. Organizations including these got the funds to cover the engineering. However, operation of such computers essential extensive thinking ability and manpower means. The person with average skills could don't you have fathomed looking to operate along with use these kind of million greenback processors.
Office Politics – What is Data Storage in Your Workplace?
When this clock within the wall signals the tip of another for an extended time day at your workplace, we spend less our regular work, turn your computers off you need to on your journey property. No matter how big is or small the results storage system in this office is usually, we however save your work as a way to progress having whatever project we've been assigned. You will discover, however, companies of which hold some sort of storage system of any colossal measurement, and from time to time, even these data storage devices systems is usually liable to losing the data. Do young children and can where your data like magic disappears to right at the end of manufactured? Also, do young children and can where to start when your business facts actually may disappear?
In small companies which often normally include things like not many employees, each one will have his or her data storage devices system into their servers. Companies of which house quite a few employees ordinarily have a substantial SAN showcase or NAS cabinets that incorporate quite a few hard drives. This helps make their facts storage technological know-how slightly more difficult. SAN (Storage space Network) storage devices systems consist in excess of 50+ Terabytes connected with storage, perfect for just a business with copious amounts of facts that need storage. This additional data storage devices system is usually a hybrid connected with data of which does in excess of save your data. It executes functions like manage a lot of arrays, run looked after storage architectural mastery configurations and gives regular process checks. A Circle Attached Storage devices (NAS) include things like singular units that incorporate their unique operating in addition to file programs and takes care of singular hard drives. A circle of NAS self storage can make up a SAN.
Many corporations use excessive technology storage devices systems because that they can afford any period without the data. This cannot regularly be guaranteed nevertheless, as facts loss in addition to damage sometimes happen in almost any situation in order to any facts storage product or process. Systems including SAN include many enjoyable and pleasing features, but like another system, even SAN's are liable to becoming infected.
Just including data recovery on your personal computer won't be attempted by itself, data recovery on your large storage devices device need to be handed to the site the authorities. Data retrieval specialists will assist you to in reestablishing and locating that shed data. In times where that you are working with several grouped servers, calling on aid from data retrieval specialists will facilitate your small business data currently being restored and can lead to business seeing that usual. Data Storage is important, and in the event data is usually lost or maybe damaged, its recovery should be applied asp for this harmony in addition to progression on the workplace to stay.
VoIP Solution Advantages for Business
VoIP is a wonderful solution for virtually every business. VoIP cellular phone systems undoubtedly are a vital alternative offering an economical means for telephone long distance call bills that everybody is searching intended for.
One on the major aspects of switching into a VoIP alternative is so it costs even less than almost all traditional cellular phone services. When you select this VoIP electronics solution as a substitute, you'll possibly be installing some sort of converter pack called a ATA (Analog cellular phone Adapter) which is to be attached on your high-speed connection to the web. When having a hardware VoIP alternative, you computer won't have to possibly be on in order that you for making and receive messages or calls, although your web connection should be active.
There may be only just one telecommunications solution that's the mobility and power to ensure small business continuity in order to keep small business communications running within a major tragedy — VoIP published PBX services. A proficient IT team, together having support on the VoIP service agency or VoIP reseller is able to implement Authentication, management access (security passwords and firewalls), encryption, a audit recording of message or calls and, in the event necessary, creating those message or calls.
These lessened call prices are certainly available to help companies of which implement a totally converged VoIP alternative using IP devices or "soft phones" on the PCs or maybe PDAs. (Cable connection broadband access is a possible solution here along with the increased price tag in cable connection access need to be offset because of the reduction with your monthly cellular phone bill)..
You're sure to get a suitable solution while using the ideal mix off cost, attributes, and excellent that thinking of. The offering of a VoIP small business solution is usually a major conclusion. VoIP gateway's will supply the solution for just a business of which wants to manufacture a partial, or slow commitment to help new converged technological know-how and can mix in addition to match seeing that needed regular and IP cellular phone systems on their benefit.
If people business is in search of the most biotech solution for modern telephony that is certainly also the most affordable over a period of time span as small as one season, you must evaluate a VOIP solution while preparing you businesses IT intention and verbal exchanges systems.

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A brief visit to Tampa by Isaac, a tropical storm on its way to being a hurricane, may have prompted overdue reforms in the party political conventions and even raised the question of whether they're worth holding at all.
A brief visit to Tampa by Isaac, a tropical storm on its way to being a hurricane, may have prompted overdue reforms in the party political conventions and even raised the question of whether they're worth holding at all.
The storm forced the opening of the Republican convention to be truncated to just over seven minutes, and indeed it was gaveled to order and then recessed in just under one minute.
No one, except what one convention official called "non-headline speakers" who saw their slots canceled, apparently missed the first day. (One wonders how Donald Trump, one of those canceled, will handle being described as a non-headliner.)
To little notice, the governors of the hurricane-threatened states of Florida, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi delayed or canceled their convention appearances.
Isaac threatened to seriously derail the meticulously scripted Republican message. It raised the specter of viewers watching split-screen TV, with Mitt Romney reintroducing himself to America on one side and Isaac barreling into the Louisiana coast on the other, arousing uneasy memories of the Bush administration fiasco with Katrina almost exactly seven years ago.
Major damage would require a major federal relief effort, not a good time for the Republicans to press their message of small and limited government. One of their rising stars, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, wasn't satisfied that the president declared his state a disaster area even before Isaac reached land. Tuesday, Jindal demanded the feds agree in advance to pay for all disaster-related spending by the state and local governments.
The uncharitable may recall that Romney's running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, cut $10 billion in disaster relief from the budget until cooler heads prevailed. One of those cooler heads, House Speaker John Boehner, said he didn't think having a four-day convention "makes a lot of sense." The Democrats have already cut theirs to three days.
The conventions are made-for-TV spectaculars, and the Republicans watched uneasily as big names in news media slipped off to New Orleans.
Thanks to the presence of TV, the convention planners struggle mightily to keep any hint of dissent or disunity away from the cameras. Supporters of libertarian GOP candidate Ron Paul, who have been largely confined to the nosebleed sections of the convention hall, are angry at proposed rules changes that in the future would make insurgent candidacies like Paul's much more difficult.
The desire to head off any floor demonstrations for Paul or an attempt to place his name in nomination - thus introducing some unscripted fun to the proceedings - is one reason why roll call was moved up to Tuesday.
Isaac underscored the fact of modern political life that conventions are an anachronism - the candidates already decided, the platform agreed on in advance, the interest declining among major media, especially broadcast TV, and endless, repetitive speeches by every politician to whom the party owes a favor, a format that has all the pulse-quickening excitement of a Soviet Party Congress.
And that, in turn, raises the biggest question of all: Why bother to have political conventions at all?


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A fascination with light and colour led Mary McGouran to combine her studies in painting with a passion for photography while she was studying visual arts in her native Toronto, Canada. She is now based in Brighton, East Sussex.
Mary's speciality is hand colouring black and white photographs.. Her style is simple and elegant and succeeds in capturing the incandescent spirit of her subjects. Her love of photography gives each picture its identity while evoking a sense of reminiscence.
Mary is available to produce individual and group portraits for example of babies, mother and child, children, families and also pets. The session may take place in your own home, in the open air or another location of your choosing. The aim is to photograph the subjects in a location where they are at ease and thereby produce memorable images which look natural and that you will treasure.
Hand Coloured Fine Art Photographs
Photographic prints of most of the images you can see in this gallery are available for purchase. Alternatively, you may like to commission your own piece of art perhaps as a gift or as a framed photograph that hangs in your own home or work environment. Previous commissions have included individually hand coloured photographs of places or artefacts that hold special memories and of clients' own historical black and white images gently tinted to evoke the style of the period.
Commercial Photography
Mary works flexibly with commercial clients to produce illustrative, decorative or themed images to meet their needs. Her editorial clients have included PolyGram, Harper Collins, Random House, Sort of Books and Irish Life. She is also available for commissions of prints for display or for brochures and promotional material.
Contact Mary using the link above or on 07772 103569 to discuss your requirements and for information about prices, terms and conditions.


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Welcome to the portfolio of Josh Childers. Josh is a freelance designer/director in the commercial art and design industry. He creates conceptually driven work for design, visual effects and post-production companies. His focus is to create an imaginary world that carries an emotional message, connecting a brand or product with an audience. Josh has an education in fine art and figure drawing as well as graphic design, and over a decade of experience in animation and motion graphics.
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The CEBC Conference focused on opportunities for the local construction sector in relation to the idea of the introduction and development of the Western Powerhouse. Particular focus was on the implications of infrastructure, resources, employment, and innovation to consider how a consolidated region could develop itself.
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George Allen - What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports
November 9, 2010
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Run time: 5 minutes
Former Senator and Governor George Allen (R-VA) talked about his book What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports (Regnery Press, 2010). The son of NFL coach George Allen, Sr., brings the worlds of politics and sports together to show what Washington can learn from the greatest moments (and failures) in sports, as well as from the spirit and principles of fair play, hard work and keeping score. He was interviewed at the 33rd Annual National Press Club Book Fair and Authors' Night, a fundraiser for the Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library and The SEED Foundation held Tuesday, November 9, 2010, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.


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Speech for Dickinson College's Alumni Sustainability Career Reception
The text of my speech that I gave on February 2nd at my Alma Mater, Dickinson College, one of the Top 25 Green Colleges in the United States. This talk was given as the keynote address for an alumni and student networking reception related to careers in sustainability.
February 2, 2009 | Dickinson College - Carlisle, PA
To my fellow alumni who have come back to campus for this event, I say thank you. I am here, as are you, with the hope that we can grow a deep tradition of alumni returning to Dickinson to plant and sow within the future leaders, and with each other the lessons, the seeds of sustainability that you have procured along your post Dickinson journey.
To the Administration, while I know Dickinson already does an amazing job, I repeat, amazing job, at promoting and enacting sustainability practices, I challenge the school to a relatively simple task. While I am humbly honored to speak today I challenge you to elevate this event to a new level in the next year, and my first piece of advice to you, find an even better speaker. I'll do my best today to set the standard.
To the students, I challenge anyone of you, especially the seniors, to be in the years to come one of the top candidates to return to speak about the new business you've started or the job you've obtained in the sustainability field. Nestled here in this Cumberland valley, Dickinson continues a deep tradition of helping to shape the evolution of progress toward a more sustainable world, and I challenge you to embrace this history with a strong sense of your role in advancing this agenda.
Sustainability as a concept is broad in scope and is the type of concept best suited for the debates in Denny and the science labs of this building. In the news over the last two years we've heard a great deal about "going green". The "green jobs" platform was a major discussion point of the recent presidential campaign and has already become a highlight of the recent stimulus package discussions, and will be a big portion of the upcoming legislation in this year's Congressional agenda. Promises of millions of green jobs, the retooling of industry, and the dawn of a new energy economy are all being flaunted in what many are calling the arrival of "green on main street". And if you watched the super bowl last night, you might have caught an indicator of the new direction "green" will be taking in the years to come with GE's latest Ecomagination advertisement. So the definition of sustainability is constantly emerging and evolving in front of us. We'll get to what that means for your job prospects, where new industries are emerging and how business is changing.
First I'd like to explore how the context of Dickinson as your place to learn about the world can be your most significant asset in a field that is growing by the nano-second to become the most competitive arena in a global economy that is desperately seeking to redefine it self.
In 1783 Dickinson was chartered as a frontier college, situated as the western most and first college in the newly minted United States, the beacon of light beyond the Susquehanna. The same man who founded Dickinson, Dr. Benjamin Rush, was the same man who aided in the scientific training of Meriwether Lewis, prior to this young explorers famous expedition. Twenty years after the charter for Dickinson was established, in1803, Lewis and Clark set out to explore the remaining unofficially navigated regions of the North Americas, Jefferson's play in an ageless race by the Spanish, French, Dutch, and all Europeans for the discovery of a passage for trade and commerce. What they came upon was more than a passage to a place, but a passage to a future of abundance. Or so they reflected. The important lesson that stems from this story, beyond the great explorative glory associated with the feat, is the true purpose our nations desire to expand its resource bank. Lewis and Clark's story is fundamentally a story about the human's race to satiate a growing demand for natural resources, and one that was positioning the new nation for two centuries of industrial revolution.
As change is the optimal word these days, surely, the world, and more specifically the North Americas have changed since the corps of discovery. When Lewis and Clark arrived in the cradle of the Pacific Northwest traveling west, finally on the Columbia River to the Pacific, they found a region not unexplored but already awash with British influence, and in their own words more than a passage to long sought after navigation, but the final frontier in the race for the remaining natural resources of an untamed land. This comes from their journal entry:
" This country would form an extensive settlement; the climate appears quite as mild as that of similar latitude on the Atlantic coast if not more so, and it cannot be other wise than healthy; it possesses a fine dry pure air. the grass and many plants are now upwards of knee high. I have no doubt but that this tract of country if cultivated would produce in great abundance every article essentially necessary to the comfort and subsistence of civilized man."
The promise of abundance led to the belief in the certainty of progress' rewards. And for it, we are better in many ways, and in many ways, without many of the resources we started with. The simple lesson here, and while obvious, one that is critical to establish, is that our progress has been and will always be tied to natural resources.
"Environmentalism", has been put in a box as a movement, the consciousness of our environ, our surrounding, as labeled during the past 50 years following the resource rich industrial revolution, has been seen as a separate consideration; a condition of morality that comes after the consideration of other notions of progress, commerce, and comfort.
For you, I advise even with your existing understanding, to think outside the box, explore the concept that for the entirety of human civilization natural resources have been the fundamental consideration of society.
Wars have been and will be fought to secure them. Leaders made and broken in their management of them. Colleges established to better understand our approach to them. Water, land, minerals, food, forests, oceans, biological life, and this precious thing called air, and as we are learning as never before, even the most basic element, our relationship with carbon – are integral parts of existence – without them we would not be.
I believe in this new century it is critical for you to carry into any professional pursuit, whether it be a green job or not, to remember that you as a citizen have a fundamental relationship with natural resources. In a way, every job in our society, is a "green job". There is no separation between humans and the earth. This is not the creed of an environmental sect, but the engrained truth of our nature as human beings. We subsist -- we must sustain on these resources. In recent time we have increased the pace of borrowing from our future resources, in hope that the risk of losing these fundamental principals is worth what might be gained in interest earned. In President Obama's inauguration this new era was symbolically sworn in and in his speech he eloquently reaffirmed our pledge to recognize our fundamental tie,
"And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it."
Dickinson may no longer sit on the frontier, at the gate of western expansion, but it does sit on the frontier of the redesign of the western society, an era when we must see our existence as multidisciplinary and wholly interconnected. This is why Dickinson is a Top 25 green college. One fundamental truth has held strong here, one that you should pay attention to as you move forward into the new economy. No matter your course in life, you will find our human perfection and imperfection is natural, and we must constantly strive to understand how to become more efficient, leave less of an impact while increasing the state of our humanity.
The concept of sustainability is an integral principal, and the practice of it is one that demands we approach the complexity of supply chains, human rights, resource demands, ecological systems, and basic needs with a curious and reverent approach to balancing our systems of civilization. Here you have that as your basis – and I believe this will be your greatest tool going into this new world.
Since Lewis and Clark left the Columbia basin and its ecosystem their footprint has not receded, but grown, leaving a lasting impression beyond their own comprehension. The fisheries of the Columbia Region and the Pacific, and for that matter the world, have been in rapid decline, the lands which were fiercely protected and vied for amongst tribal adversaries, have been parceled out for agriculture, corporate, individual, and government interest. Forests have been plowed by the demand for paper and home building. Dams of concrete stop the gravity of the once fierce Columbia to supply water for farms and homes and electricity for the region. The contested rights to water access for farmers and fish have reached the level of a national crisis. Municipal waste, urban growth boundaries, and traffic all burgeon beyond the region's ability to facilitate it. This story can be repeated across the nation, and the world, as we've tested the limits of abundance.
Of course, there are always two sides to the story of progress. As has been stated by a petroleum company recently in the media, "humans are also a natural resource." In the Pacific Northwest, I encountered a place where natural resources were from the beginning the foundation of society. Yes, the story of the west is one of paradise lost, but it also transforming right now into a story of rediscovery. The west is a microcosm of the change that is happening across this country, one of ingenuity, resurgence, and the fertile ground for the world's leading sustainability practices.
Landfills have been turned into methane burning electricity generation facilities. Windfarms and biodiesel coops owned by farmers and tribal governments help turn fallow land to new revenue. Organic farms have replaced the pesticide rows that once contaminated salmon bearing streams into healthy contributors to the ecosystem. Forests have been restored as sustainable forestry practices are backed by international paper and forest product companies. Smart grid technologies designed by the leading minds at Microsoft that will manage the efficiencies of the electric grid and peak demand from homes and business. Fisheries are built to be part of sustainable supply chains that lead to to sustainably caught fish being brought to local markets. Solar installers and engineers are building regional business to retrofit homes reducing the demand for new coal plants and creating strong local economies. Architectural firms are building LEED certified buildings and energy efficient residential standards, rail systems for cheap alternative transportation, and ports are restoring river banks and ecosystems employing urban workers. The list goes on.
The west is not perfect by any means, we are not perfect. There will continue to be the cost to our lives, and it will be natural resources. In the discussion of sustainability and the environment, there is a great deal of complexity. Sustainability, much like a perfect union, is something that we constantly strive for, and that pursuit will be an everlasting promise that we hope to live up to. We will constantly be chasing our natural resource dilemma, but we will do it with a ripe awareness.
The perspective you bring from your time here will be the most critical as you learn how to grasp the complexity. I assure you this is the most important lesson to take into any position that requires you to problem solve. In your lifetime this is the legacy you have inherited, it is true, we have both the limitation of our resources and the limitlessness of our capability, and while it requires hard work that only means there is work to be done.


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Account Executive or Junior Project Manager
- Recruiter
- Gabriele
- Location
- Caterham, Surrey
- Salary
- up to £26k plus some nice softer benefits and a social team
- Posted
- 02 January 2019
- Closes
- 31 January 2019
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- Job Function
- Account Handling, Account Management, Manager, Design Management, Production, Project Management
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Account Executive, ideally someone with 1 years' experience to work for a super cool agency near Croydon! - This is an integrated marketing and design agency with a difference. They really do help brands make a difference and hold more meaningful conversations with their audience.
That's because they are a genuine mix of bright people who understand content, marketing, digital, film and video and how strong design ideas help to build a brand.
And they are building their team too, and want to meet an Account Executive with at least a years' experience in a similar agency, who can support a Senior Account Manager and learn to build and grow client relationships, increase profitability and engage with their clients, their brand, their concepts. And such a great mix of clients too, from retail, leisure, travel, to consumer and corporate, tech to name a few. Big names with big messages.
As their Account Executive, you'll work with a team of 16+ people, with more senior Account Management people around you to learn and grow with, plus a mix of creatives, UX, digital designers, to strategists, business partners as well as 4 others in client services. You're fully supported to learn and grow and be promoted as others in there already have.
And this integrated marketing and design agency has a list of great softer benefits which we love, are based near Caterham in Surrey, 20 mins south of Victoria Station, London. You can train it or park your car outside - quality of work and life balance very important to this agency too, which we like to hear.
ESSENTIALS please:
| A genuine client relationship person in the making, grow and build them
| A natural communicator and team player
| At least 1 years' experience working in marketing, communications, design or branding
| Strong communication skills and a positive personality please


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A unique feature of ISB is the integration of career development into the curriculum. Our students are enrolled in the ADAPT Program through the Center for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Career Development.
Training in Writing Grants
As part of the comprehensive exam, students are required to submit a proposal to a PhD supporting program such as the NIH or NSF predoctoral fellowship programs. This requirement provides exposure to real-life competition for grant money and provides training in scientific writing skills.
Ethics Training
Scientific ethics is an important requirement for a career in science and is usually overlooked in most graduate programs. The required course in Scientific Ethics ensures that students are prepared for making informed decisions when questions of ethics arise.
Career Development Training
In the third year of study, students submit a career development plan, detailing their goals for obtaining future postdoctoral or job training, to their Dissertation Advisory Committee. The Dissertation Advisory Committee will guide the student in identifying, applying for, and securing top postdoctoral positions.
Students are encouraged to participate in numerous career-development workshops offered throughout the year. View additional career development information.
Students will be integrated into the career development activities of local, national, and international societies promoting molecular biology. Additionally, students are encouraged to participate in conferences and symposia, both local and non-local, to apply for travel fellowships, and to take advantage of young investigator awards, poster awards, and presentation awards that are available to young scientists.
Opportunities for Women Scientists
Women have comprised approximately 50% of students in biological and biomedical science graduate programs for many years; however, the number of tenured female faculty members has remained low. The University of Pittsburgh has demonstrated a clear commitment to increasing the number of women in senior academic positions, and the successful recruitment and development of female scientists at this institution is reflected in the makeup of the ISB faculty.
Female trainees are encouraged to participate in the Organization of Women in Science (OWIS), which provides students with the opportunity to interact with successful female role models. In addition, the "Survival Skills and Ethics" workshops and career development programs sponsored by the Office of Academic Career Development include specific attention to gender specific issues. Interested students are invited to explore the following weblinks:
Student Diversity
ISB actively seeks a diverse student body, and offers a number of relevant activities to ensure success of students in the program including academic support and counseling, peer tutorial services, and guidance in professional networking.


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Doting Tarantula Owner Gets Spider Hairs Fired Into his Eyeball
In what sounds like a medical mystery suitable for Dr. House, doctors in Leeds couldn't figure out why antibiotic treatment wasn't working for a 29-year-old British man with a three week history of a red, watery, and light-sensitive eye. As the doctors soon discovered, this wasn't your normal case of pink eye, according to the Los Angeles Times:
Once examined under high magnification lenses, hair-like projections were spotted at varying depths within the cornea. When these details were discussed with the patient, he immediately recalled an incident that had preceded the onset of his symptoms. 3 weeks earlier, he had been cleaning the glass tank of his pet, a Chilean Rose tarantula. While his attention was focused on a stubborn stain, he sensed movement in the terrarium. He turned his head and found that the tarantula, which was in close proximity, had released "a mist of hairs" which hit his eyes and face.
It's hard to believe a blast of projectile hairs to his eyeball slipped the patient's mind.
In hindsight, protective goggles would have been a good investment considering that Chilean Rose tarantulas are known to launch their barbed hairs at attackers in self-defense. The hairs were too tiny to be removed by microforceps, so the spider owner is left with taking steroid eye drops to clear up his symptoms.
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text: This year is our 30th Anniversary! Since our opening in 1985, we have watched Huntsville change, adapt and most importantly grow into a vibrant and caring community. With each generation we are delighted to welcome new ideas, new constructions, and new plans for a better and brighter tomorrow. Thank you for thirty years of support - we are committed to serving you yesterday, today and tomorrow!


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21st Century Internet : What you need to know
191 pages
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This book presents what the internet is today, how it works and how to use it. The 21 Century Internet: What you Need to Know will guide you on blogging and microblogging; on social networks, tweeting, pinging, and webscraping. You will become familiar with new internet tools such as RSS, API, AJAX and RIA. You will also understand the concept of cloud computing , video and audio conferencing, and learn how to easily use internet applications on your mobile.
It will help you to know:
- the definition, aims, brief history and present scope of the Internet,
- the push and pull technology and the structure of the Internet,
- the configuration of URLs and how to use them to get Internet resources
- about website design, owning a website and domain name system,
- about Internet Services Providers, types of connection and the requirements,
- about privacy policies and statements on the internet
You will learn how to:
- logon, browse, open email accounts, chat and download from the Internet,
- use search engines to explore for jobs, scholarships and other opportunities,
- recognize and rectify problems you encounter while browsing,
- add favorite sites, monitor browsing history and set preferences,
- detect, avoid and block spammers, scammers and fraudsters,
- access specific sites for any information
You will find information about e-commerce, ebooks, Web 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and the New Internet; about the advantages and disadvantages of the global network in the 21st Century.
Posté le 2 février 2014
Maybe because I am interested in, I enjoyed read this book. It gave me more details about How Internet is working. I think that everybody should read it, even people with knowledge about Internet because it is a way to remind fine points you may have forgotten.
Posté le 5 mai 2011
Je l'ai lu et je l'ai trouvé assez benefique pour comprendre comment marche l'internet, les site web et les basique de navigations. Par contre il faudra une version plus recente car le truc informatique evolue tres vite…


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HAMPTON — A Newton man was arrested on Monday, Aug. 25 and charged with first degree and simple assault and was arrested again 2� hours after he posted bail for violating terms of his release.
HAMPTON — A Newton man was arrested on Monday, Aug. 25 and charged with first degree and simple assault and was arrested again 2½ hours after he posted bail for violating terms of his release.
The Hampton Police Department arrested Antonio Medeiros, 24, no address provided. Police said they are continuing to investigate the case.
Hampton officers were called to a reported domestic altercation at 31 I St. at Hampton Beach late Monday evening. Upon arrival, the officers located a 24-year-old victim who had suffered a stab wound to his side. The Hampton Fire Department transported the victim to the Exeter Hospital. The victim is suffering from a collapsed lung and is currently still hospitalized.
Medeiros was arrested at the scene.
Witnesses told police they heard a woman screaming and saw the suspect, Medeiros, allegedly punching a female. Witnesses said they then observed the victim of the stabbing go up stairs to intervene. The female was able to escape to across the street. The suspect then emerged from the apartment with a knife and stabbed the victim in the side of the torso, according to witness statements.
Medeiros' bail was set at $5,000 cash and $5,000 personal recognizance and a no-contact order set by the bail commissioner. Hampton police said shortly after his arrest a family member posted the cash bail and Medeiros was released.
According to police, Medeiros violated the no-contact order of the bail less than 2½ hours after he was released. According to police, at approximately 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 26, an officer found Medeiros in violation of his no-contact bail condition and arrested him on that offense. Medeiros was then held without bail and was arraigned Tuesday at the Hampton District Court. During his arraignment the court set a new bail of $50,000 cash and $50,000 personal recognizance and set a probable cause hearing for Sept. 15.


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Friday Links are a round-up of my favorite posts/videos/projects/photos from around the web.
Happy Friday! I haven't posted very much this week, because we have been away on a little adventure to the Windy City. I was there for a conference, and Bryan tagged along so we could enjoy some time together and do a little exploring when I wasn't in meetings. We had SUCH a great time, and I'll be sharing more about our time there next week. For now, this weekend is all about rest, laundry, and catching up from being away. And also enjoying the warm weather—Chicago is COLD! Have a great weekend, friends! XO
For your weekend reading pleasure…
- This really interesting article from the NY Times about a moral bucket list, idea that there are experiences one should have on the way to the richest, fullest life possible.
- This post from Shauna Niequist about spiritual growth and the importance of continuing to add new tools to your toolbox.
- Some party planning tips from Emily at Cupcakes and Cashmere.


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EAST STROUDSBURG — Junior Niki Pasquarella will look for her first All-PSAC cross country performance while the talented tandem of freshmen Doug Jankowski and Greg Laraia lead a young men's team into the 2008 PSAC Cross Country Championships, which will be held on Saturday at Lock Haven.
EAST STROUDSBURG — Junior Niki Pasquarella will look for her first All-PSAC cross country performance while the talented tandem of freshmen Doug Jankowski and Greg Laraia lead a young men's team into the 2008 PSAC Cross Country Championships, which will be held on Saturday at Lock Haven.
Pasquarella earned All-PSAC status in outdoor track last season, placing third in the steeplechase, and hopes to add cross country honors to her growing resume with a top-20 performance on Saturday. She has led ESU in 10 of its last 11 meets, including placing sixth out of 65 runners on Lock Haven's course earlier this year.
On the men's side, Jankowski has turned in the Warriors' top performance in three of their six regular season meets, while Laraia clocked ESU's top time at the Fordham Invite in his first collegiate race. Five of the squad's 10 runners will be freshmen, but 22nd year head coach Joe Koch expects the men to contend for a spot in the top half of the very competitive PSAC.
The Warriors will be competing without four-time All-PSAC runner Iuri Pinto for the first time since 2003 and aren't expected to have a runner at the front of the field, but can still make noise in the conference if they run as a pack. Against a large national field at Slippery Rock, ESU's top five runners were separated by just 41 seconds and all placed in the top 50. The 2008 schedule also includes a team championship against a 13-school field at the Don Cathcart Invitational in Maryland.
Juniors Pat Carr and Ryan Doyle, two runners with PSAC experience, will be in ESU's top group. Sophomore Chris Zadroga and juniors Jeff Buck and Kyle Weir will push for spots in the top five, and three more freshmen — Sam Janssen, Sean Norberg and Tom Zarnoch — will also make their PSAC debut. Norberg and Zadroga were third and fourth, respectively, at last week's Nevins Invitational.
Koch's women's squad will have its top 10 runners available for the first time all season and could be in line to knock off several teams who finished ahead of ESU earlier this year.
Freshman Jonna Trexler competed last week for the first time since the season-opening Fordham Invite and finished fifth in the Nevins Invite behind junior Rachel Ostroski, who was second. Sophomore Amy Moratz should also be among the Warriors' top five, and senior Amanda Bradbury was the team's top finisher at last year's PSAC championships and has always run well at the PSAC and NCAA regional meets.
Sophomore Kristine Goemaat and freshman Brooke Dunphy can also break into the top five, and senior Kathleen Magerr, junior Bree Kelly and freshman Jenna Fisher will look for solid performances on Lock Haven's course.
The men's race begins at 11 a.m., followed by the women at noon. Jankowski was sixth and Laraia was eighth at the Lock Haven Invite on Sept. 13 to help ESU finish second of six schools, while the women were fourth out of six paced by Pasquarella (6th) and Moratz (16th).
Pocono Mountain West graduate Kristina Taylor has started 16 of 18 games as a freshman on the Shippensburg University field hockey team this fall. Taylor, a forward/midfielder, has scored 13 goals and has six assists for the 17-3 Red Raiders.
Stroudsburg graduate Jenelle Anthony, a senior midfielder on the Susquehanna University field hockey team, has scored two goals and has four assists this season, starting in 14 of the team's 15 games.
Stroudsburg graduate Megan Pickarski, a freshman at Rutgers University, will compete in the Big East Cross Country Championships today at Van Cortland Park in the Bronx.
In Rutgers' most recent meet, the Metropolitan Championships, she was the team's seventh finisher in a time of 20:05 over the 6,000-meter layout at Van Cortland. She finished 27th of 125 competitors.


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If you're a die-hard fan of the BMW brand, chances are you've made, or owned, some sort of BMW art in your life. Whether it be doodling the BMW Roundel in a notebook or buying a BMW poster for a bedroom wall, chances are there's some sort of BMW artwork in your life. But it's not likely that any of us have ever made anything quite like this.
Meet Nicole, a math teacher who has an artsy side and whose husband owns a BMW M3 that they both seem very much obsessed with. Nicole is working on an alphabet project where she creates artwork based on each letter of the alphabet. When it came time to do the letter M, she chose BMW's M Division, with some prodding from her M-loving husband. So she set out to make some artwork based on the M Division and she used a method of paper-folding, called "Quilling", to do so. What she ended up with is awesome.
If you're thinking, "Well, I'm a gearhead and I don't like artsy stuff", get that notion out of your head right now. Nicole understood the idea that car enthusiasts aren't typically the artsy type and also understood that BMW M followers are very loyal and well versed folks. So she set out to make something that reflected the complex mechanical nature of motorsport while also doing her research into BMW M's history. She even tracked down the origin of BMW M's famous colors, which have subtly changed quite a bit over the years, so they would be as accurate as possible. She didn't mess around.
What she ended up making was the M logo, but making the three colored stripes hollow and filling them with color coordinated shapes, symbols and pieces that are relevant to BMW and its M Division. Inside the stripes, we can see a tach with the needle bouncing off the rev-limiter, which is brilliantly done, the different indicators you'd typically see inside a BMW gauge cluster and a large BMW Roundel, just to name a few. The shapes change colors as they move through the stripes and it really is expertly done. It seems as if it must have taken so many painstakingly precise hours of work to create.
Nicole takes us through the process, step by step, throughout this forum and gives the entire community high-resolution images of her work to be downloaded. It's a genuinely awesome piece of automotive artwork and we should all be thanking Nicole for it. Guess who has both a new desktop and mobile wallpaper. This guy.


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Shortly after the energy bill raised CAFE standards, EPA administrator Stephen Johnson announced the EPA was denying California's application to regulate vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. This was widely reported in the traditional media, but the LA Times dug a little deeper and got more on the story than most. The LA Times also discovered that the EPA may be ignoring the May's Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA:
In response to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that the EPA could and probably should regulate greenhouse gases as a threat to public health, Johnson had promised to have his staff prepare by Dec. 31 a national proposal on how greenhouse gases from vehicles should be regulated.
Staff and other sources said the proposed standard cleared all EPA internal reviews and was forwarded to the Department of Transportation last week, before the energy bill was done.
But it is now unclear, when, if ever, such a proposed regulation will be issued.
Johnson ordered staff to stop work on the federal greenhouse gas proposal, said two sources inside and outside the agency.
The portion related to California's waiver request is also worth reading:


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(loosely) a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced thesame way or not, as bear "to carry; support" and bear "animal" or lead "to conduct" and lead "metal;" a homograph.
The folks around here are going through a phase of books with homonyms. They absolutely L-O-V-E them! They're going bonkers over Amelia Bedelia and Fred Gwynne books, so I had to pass along the love. Seriously, they think these books are hilarious!!! So if you would like to give it a whirl, here are some of our favorites:
Books written and illustrated by Fred Gwynne (Yep, for those of us -parents- who remember The Munsters TV show, these are by "Herman Munster." FUNNY!):
The King Who Rained (c. 1970)
A Chocolate Moose for Dinner (c. 1976)
A Little Pigeon Toad
The Sixteen Hand Horse
Books written by Herman Parish and illustrated by Lynne Avril:
picture books:
Amelia Bedelia's First Library Card (c. 2013)
Amelia Bedelia's First Vote (c. 2012)
Amelia Bedelia's First Field Trip (c. 2011)
Amelia Bedelia's First Apple Pie (c. 2010)
Amelia Bedelia's First Day of School (c. 2009)
Amelia Bedelia's First Valentine's (c. 2009)
I Can Read! books Level 1:
Amelia Bedelia Makes a Friend (c. 2011)
Amelia Bedelia Sleeps Over (c. 2012)
Amelia Bedelia Hits the Trail (c. 2013)
chapter books:
Amelia Bedelia Means Business (c. 2013)
Amelia Bedelia Unleashed (c. 2013)
Amelia Bedelia Road Trip (c. 2013)
Amelia Bedelia
Come Back, Amelia Bedelia
Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower
Thank You, Amelia Bedelia
Play Ball Amelia Bedelia
Amelia Bedelia TREASURY
Amelia Bedelia and the Baby
Amelia Bedelia Helps Out
Good Driving Amelia Bedelia
Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia
Calling Doctor, Amelia Bedelia
BRAVO, Amelia Bedelia
Amelia Bedelia's Family Album
Amelia Bedelia, Rocket Scientist
Go West, Amelia Bedelia!
Merry Christmas Amelia Bedelia
Amelia Bedelia 4 Mayor


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Tired of your busy and hectic lifestyle? Don't have enough time to visit a fitness center or gym facility? If yes, then you can take advantage of these body weight exercises to help you take your fitness results to the next level without even going to the gym. Rest assured that these workouts are safe and they can yield excellent …Read More »
8 Powerful Ergonomic Tips for Your Office Work Station
Last year studies regarding unhealthy practices at the work place singled out sitting too much as a growing concern for most U.S citizens. Most with desk jobs put themselves at risk of serious health complications at their work stations without even realizing it at all. If you are one of the many whose job requires you to sit all day, …Read More »
Can Watermelon Juice Prevent And Relieve Muscle Soreness?
If your bodybuilding workouts are leaving your muscles sore and tender, then you might be very happy to hear that the secret of overcoming this problem, which faced majorly by many athletes, can be dealt with a glass of natural watermelon juice. Watermelon, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, can lessen sore …Read More »
Stretching Gives Instant Relief for Back Pain
In today's busy, stressful world many people suffer from all sorts of body aches and pains. These conditions might be related to hard physical work, being overweight, or simply using poor posture, but the number of Americans suffering from back pain is at a record high number so let's take a look at one simple method you can use in …Read More »
The Top 8 Reasons Which Cause Fatigue
One of the top health issues nowadays for both men and women is Chronic Fatigue, a condition which leads to extremely low vitality levels. From minor tiredness to the more genuine incessant exhaustion disorder named Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), fatigue is hitting a record for individuals. It has been proven that over 1 million Americans suffer from this CFS condition. …Read More »
What To Know About Chiropractic & Sleep
Chiropractic is popularly known for spinal care and pain management in the neck, back, legs and arms, but what about enhancement of sleep quality? Concerning that, chronic and long-term sleep disorders normally affects about 1.5 million Americans every year and also accounts for an approximate amount of $16 billion in terms of medical costs every year, without even including the …Read More »
Drinking Water Is Vital For Good Health
We, as consumers, are being bombarded on a daily basis by all the advertisements for drinking sports drinks, coffee, tea, sodas, beer, and the list goes on. While an occasional drink of these is not going to send your health into a downward spiral, a daily habit of consuming these refreshments IS detrimental to your overall health. What about water? …Read More »


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Six RC piers of Cleddau Bridge, extending up to 35 m above water level, were strengthened by wrapping up to seven layers of carbon fibre fabric around the upper 1.8 m and impregnating it with epoxy resin. The resulting CFRP composite was designed to resist bursting forces beneath the bearings in conjunction with pre-tensioned steel bars.
Prior to the strengthening works being carried out, a migrating corrosion inhibitor was applied to the surface of the concrete.


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posted by joonie4ever
Recently, Yoona's snappy reply made people laugh hard.
On MBC's "SNSD's Christmas Story," hosted par Alex and Oh Sang Jin, Yoona gave a fantastic wedding performance with the song "Introduce me to a nice person."
After the performance, Oh Sang Jin says, "There are lots of stars who say toi are their Miss Right, like Lee Seung Gi, Jan Geun Suk, Chun Jung Myung, Yoon Sang Hyun, and more."
And when she was asked who her Mr. Right is, Yoona replied, "I'm thrilled every time I hear those remarks par so fabulous stars. I appreciate all those people who showed me affection."
Next, when the host Oh asked her "Who would toi choose if there left only the two hosts in the world—me (Oh Snag Jin) and Alex", Yoona quipped, "How about going out with Alex, and later getting married to Oh?


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Keep track with the gilt edged easel calendar from a favorite of mine, Sugar Paper
Hello, New Year. Happy 2018 to you! As we usher in 2018 with snow and bitter cold here on the East Coast, we also usher in new ideas, new beginnings, inspiration and future planning. I just knew my year was off to a great start when a wonderful friend from college reached out to get together. It had been in the neighborhood of 20 years since we had seen each other, and when we did, it was like no time had passed. Don't you love it when that happens?
In order to keep track of moments large and small, I am starting to write things down more. I am going to try to become less reliant on my iphone and start taking notes in a notebook. They say (in this NY Times article) it is better for learning and remembering key facts from meetings, and is less distracting. And when it comes to meaningful interactions, more real time IRL, less screen time. I'm in.


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WHO: Youth ages 16-24 and adults 50+
FORMAT: Participants must attend one 2-hour group learning session and a 6-8 hour independent Field Assignment. The Field Assignment activities may include, but are not limited to crop management and composting tasks, such as weeding, natural pest management and controls, irrigation, record keeping (garden journals), and general maintenance of the common areas in the garden and communal urban farm.
PHASE 1: Sept 1 – Dec 30, 2015
PHASE 2: Jan 15 - Jun 30, 2016
TIME COMMMITMENT: Participants must be available a without interruption for a period of 10 months, Sept 2015 to June 30, 2016. In addition, participants must be able to dedicate 8-10 hours per week for group learning sessions and field assignments in the garden.
INCENTIVE: Participant benefits include a one-year tuition-free education in urban agriculture, food justice, and community organizing. In addition, participants receive a $100 monthly stipend for three consecutive months (September, October, and November) upon completion of 4 weekly lessons and a 6-8 hour weekly Field Assignment during each of those three months.
WHO: Priority enrollment goes to residents of Boyle Heights & surrounding East side communities.
FORMAT: In addition to weekly crop management duties, members participate in two Saturday meetings per month and contribute to general maintenance of common areas and shared resources.
TIME COMMITMENT: Minimum 4-month commitment from start date, Sept - Dec 2015. 5-10 hours weekly, or what ever it takes to be a Fierce & Positively Productive Farmer!
INCENTIVE: Participant benefits include access to a fair share of all fruits and vegetables grown at PJ and the satisfaction of sharing and trading your harvest with others.
WHO: The CommuniTREE Crew consists of residents of Boyle Heights & surrounding East side communities.
FORMAT: TREE CREW participants attend a 6-8 hour Tree Care course at Proyecto Jardin taught by Oscar Sanchez, ISA Certified Arborist of Tree Care LA. Quarterly trouble shooting consultations are provided by Certified Arborists from Tree Care LA and other partner organizations.
TIME COMMITMENT: 8-10 hours per month to care for 5 fruit trees over a 12-18 period, beginning September 2015
INCENTIVE: Participant benefits include access to a fair share of all fruits and vegetables grown at PJ and the added benefit of knowing your efforts strengthen individual and collective capacity to advance community food sovereignty in Boyle Heights.


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James 1:27 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
27 Pure and undefiled religion before our[a] God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
What is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI?)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a special test that produces very clear, detailed pictures of the organs and structures in your body. The test uses a powerful magnetic field, radio waves, and a computer to create images in cross-section. While an X-ray is very good at showing bones, an MRI shows soft tissues such as ligaments and cartilage and organs such as your eyes, brain, and heart.
When is it used?
Healthcare providers use MRI to see problems in the brain and spinal cord and to see the size and location of tumors. It can be used to examine joints and soft tissues. MRI is also helpful in diagnosing diseases and disorders of the eyes and ears.
Injuries show up well on an MRI. For example, an MRI may show whether you have torn ligaments or torn cartilage in your knee and help your healthcare provider decide whether or not you need surgery. It is also useful for injuries involving the shoulder, back, or neck.
An MRI may also be used to evaluate:
· Nerve disorders, such as multiple sclerosis
· Diseases of blood vessels, and
· Problems with the adrenal glands, kidneys, prostate gland, and bladder.
How do I prepare for the procedure?
No special preparation is needed. You may eat normally and take any usual medicines. For the test, wear loose, comfortable clothing without metal fastenings such as zippers or clasps because metal will interfere with the test. Do not wear jewelry. If you have any metal in your body (such as plates or screws from a previous surgery) tell your healthcare provider. If you have a pacemaker you may or may not be able to have an MRI, depending on the type of pacemaker. If you have any metal fragments in or around your eyes you cannot have an MRI because the test may injure your eyes. If you have anxiety or claustrophobia (trouble with small or crowded spaces), let your provider know. If you wear a transdermal patch (medicated skin patch), you may need to remove it before the MRI. Some patches contain metals in the backing of the patches. They could overheat during an MRI scan and cause skin burns. Talk with your provider about this.
What happens during the procedure?
You lie down on a cushioned bed that moves into a tunnel-shaped magnet that is open on both ends. If you get nervous when you are in small closed spaces your provider may need to give you medicine to help you feel less nervous, or go to a site with an open MRI scanner. You will have to be very still during the procedure so the pictures will not be blurry.
Sometimes you are given a shot of a fluid called gadolinium before getting an MRI. This causes any abnormal areas to become very bright on the MRI. This makes them easier to see.
Most MRIs take between 25 and 40 minutes. You will hear loud knocking and a whirring sound while the pictures are being taken. You will wear earplugs or listen to music so that the noise doesn't sound so loud. You will be able to speak with the person doing the test through a sound system so you can let him or her know if you are having any symptoms.
When the test is over you may go home. Your healthcare provider will schedule a visit with you to discuss the results.
What are the benefits and risks?
An MRI is painless. There is no radiation. If you were given a shot of gadolinium, there is a chance you will have an allergic reaction, but this is very rare.
Although there is no evidence that an MRI will hurt a baby during the first trimester of pregnancy, it is advised not to have an MRI at this time of pregnancy. MRI may be used safely later in pregnancy.


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The summer of 2018 will bring a return of U.S. military pilots as the U.S. Navy Flight Squadron, the "Blue Angels", has scheduled a show Aug. 18 and 19 at Terre Haute Regional Airport.
The Blue Angels in early December released a two year schedule — for 2017 and 2018.
The Blue Angels are scheduled to perform 63 demonstrations at 33 locations in 2017 and 63 demonstrations at 33 locations in 2018, including Terre Haute.
In 2002, the first Terre Haute Air Show featured the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, attracting 50,000 people to the air show. In 2003, the show attracted 35,000 and in 2004, it dropped to 12,000, due to a very rainy weekend. The show rebounded in 2005 with 48,000 spectators and more than 30,000 in attendance in 2006.
"I think it can be great," said David Patterson, executive director of the Terre Haute Convention and Visitors Bureau. "I always thought it was a great event and I think this will be a wonderful event in 2018. Having an internationally known act like the Blue Angels will be a wonderful event for the community. I am looking forward to being a part of that."
Return to www.tribstar.com for more information on this event.


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In his Harvard Business Review article, Why Technologists Should Think Like Biologists, Samuel Arbesman points out that one way they learn about a system is by examining when that thing goes wrong. That is one way that I learned about XBRL-based digital financial reports. By looking at basic, fundamental accounting concept relations that were not working as I would have expected.
This short article is worth reading.


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This spring wedding day was chock full of special people and lovely locations and skillfully coordinated by Sara Cavallon Celebrations. We started at Elizabeth's parents' home, which had plenty of room for the girls to spread out and enjoy a relaxed morning. The couple married at Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian in the Old Village, and horns galore filled the Gadsden House reception on East Bay Street. Take a look at this elegant, fun pastel affair, and scroll down to see links to the creative team that made it all happen.
Elizabeth and her girls noshed on nibbles from Hamby's Catering, while Jonny Sherwood worked his way through the lineup making the bride, her mom and all her friends extra gorgeous. I loved the special first look when her dad first saw Elizabeth in her gown!
After the ceremony, we made some portraits around the church and the Hope House.Meanwhile my assistant for the day, Rachel Ashcraft, was photographing all the lovely florals and furnishings at the reception venue before the guests arrived.This wedding was so springy! Pastels with lots of pinks, even in some of the drinks!
The newlyweds were happy to sneak to the 3rd floor for a few minutes to eat some yummy appetizers and have a celebratory toast before they were introduced to all the wedding guests in the courtyard.
Gadsden House Reception Creative Team
Event Planning | Sara Cavallon Celebrations
Photography | Carolina Photosmith
Gown |Martina Liana at Gown Boutique
Florals | Justin Wham
Hair | Salon Bellezza
Makeup | Jonny Sherwood
Ceremony Location | Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian Church
Caterer | Hamby Catering
Cake | Gala Desserts
Rental Items: Snyder and Event Haus
Reception Location | The Gadsden House
Reception Music | Andrew Theilen Band
Invitations | Dodeline
Transportation | Holy City Transportation and Lowcountry Valet
Hope you'll recommend this post and reach out about wedding or portrait photography! And don't miss Elizabeth's bridal portrait session. We had so much fun wandering downtown and swatting at no-see-ums on a creek dock.


text: good 2 u March 20, 2017 by Wen Zeng in life, digital, boston This guy went to my high school and I've never spoken to him but his music is great. Brief image updates: I made yellow paracord adjustable wrist straps for the G1 and the X100T :) Yellow is my favorite color, actually. I'm excited for spring break next week. I started cutting my own hair and I realized that the lighting is beautiful in my room on sunny days.


text: June 1, 2013 – Tim Draper, Draper University's "zany" founder was interviewed last week by Raj Mathai of NBC News. The interview took place at Draper University, Raj and his crew spent a good amount of time hanging out with us and getting to know some of our students. Check out "The Interview with Venture Capitalist Tim Draper" here: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/The-Interview-With-Venture-Capitalist-Tim-Draper/209751091


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Rebekah Peppler, Food Stylist, Writer, Recipe Developer
Oh, Rebekah! This is the type of person you can while away an entire afternoon with. A midwestern gal with Wisco roots (and proud of it!), she's happiest talking about summer sausage and singing the virtues of the oft-misrepresented 7-layer salad (have you heard of either?). Rebekah's down-to-earth demeanor belies her fancy classically-trained pastry chef background and Type A-when-it-comes-to-work personality, but it's this ability to maintain balance so effortlessly while giving everything a just-so finishing touch that makes her the popular food stylist she is. She works hard, parties harder, and makes everything look like a breeze in the process—that's when you know you're dealing with a pro.
Read on to learn what surprising ingredient Rebekah tries to incorporate into much of her baking and get your hands on a KILLER Negroni rhubarb float recipe—AND! A chance to win her Short Stack Editions: Honey cookbook!
Hi Rebekah! Please tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do as a food stylist. Can you share with us the road you took to get to where you are today?
I studied journalism and art history in college back in Wisconsin then moved to New York City to study pastry arts at the French Culinary Institute. I always knew I wanted to combine my love of words, food and beauty in one place. Food styling and writing are two incredible channels to do so.
I've found that the job of a food stylist is very often glorified into this epic dream gig. Don't get me wrong, it totally is. But it's not just hanging out on set with tweezers and spray bottles making food look gorgeous. The thing most people don't know about food styling is the vast disparity between time in the kitchen and time on set. I spend 90 percent of my time sourcing, shopping, schlepping, prepping and cooking the food and about 10 percent playing with the food on camera. All that "preliminary" work leads to the perfect final shot, not just the fun Dexter tools.
How did your Honey Short Stack book come about?
I've known and worked with the team behind Short Stacks for years now and consider them both friends and colleagues, a combination that always make for crazy fun collaborations. I remember when the idea behind the publication was just a twinkle in the publisher Nick's eye and I told him once he made it happen, I was in. Once Short Stacks came to fruition, he called me up, asked which ingredient I wanted and it snowballed from there. I'm lucky I claimed honey, it's such an incredible ingredient to play with.
Please walk us through a "typical" project. How exactly do you develop a recipe? Many people don't know what goes into creating one, especially all the unseen labor that goes into simply procuring and preparing the ingredients.
Since I'm not sure a "typical" shoot exists, I'll walk you through a stand-alone recipe. When I'm developing recipes they're normally for either a magazine, online publication or a cookbook. First, a client reaches out with an idea of what they need, say 10 easy fall recipes for a food magazine. We work out the contract (rate, deadline, etc.), then I come back to them with one to two sentences on each recipe detailing the range of ingredients, what method I'm planning on using and anything else that might interest them. They come back to me and say, your ideas are perfect, go develop! I write up full drafts for each recipe (littered with "TK"s to fill when I'm in the kitchen), run to the store(s), shop all the ingredients and hop in the kitchen. Depending on the recipe, I'll test it two to four times to get it just right, sometimes more if it's finicky. Then I'm on my computer filling in the TK's and adding any changes I made along the way. I also make sure each recipe is written in the style of the publication (everybody has their own quirks). I send the finished recipes out with my invoice and log all the details into my personal accounting sheet for the year (freelance is all about organization--I don't know what I'd do without Excel and Moleskin notebooks). If all goes well, I'll eventually see the recipes in print, send a copy to my mom and et voilà! A recipe.
How would you describe your cooking style + food aesthetic? Where do you draw inspiration from?
While I'm all for sampling the newest thing to enter the food world, when I'm in my home kitchen it's all about the classics with a twist. I grew up in the Midwest (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) and in a kitchen brimming with hearty, locally-sourced ingredients. To me, cooking at home isn't so much about technical skill or crazy ingredients but rather--as hokey as it sounds--the heart you put into it. My heart happens to have a particular fondness for dairy.
What do you like to make for yourself after a full day of cooking for others?
Does a glass of wine count? Honestly, after a completely packed day surrounded by food on set I can usually be found on the couch with a wine glass in one hand and a hunk of cheese in the other. Bonus points for also taking the time to pull out crackers and olives but don't count on it.
What do you love most about your kitchen?
My kitchen is petite but has epic (compared to what I've had in the past) counter space. I put two stools on the opposite edge of the middle island and have spent many afternoons force feeding friends/getting them tipsy while I test recipes on the other side. It also boasts a (modest 20-inch) gas stove (especially dreamy as I suffered through electric in many of my past apartments) and (a first in my seven years in NYC) a dishwasher.
Also, since the apartment is south-facing, it's flooded with light all day long which makes for particularly lovely prep and writing days (and even more delightful fire escape cocktail hours). Plus, the dainty size of the space has really allowed my Type A tendencies to blossom, forcing me to be extra creative with storage: I have one drawer and four narrow cabinets all day to work with and I can say with a happy heart that the only thing that is relegated to the (apartment's only) closet is the ice cream maker. If that's not a win, I don't know what is.
Where do you shop for kitchen supplies?
Honestly, for such a tiny space (my apartment has a single closet), I have a completely stocked kitchen. I'm still holding out for a Vitamix but otherwise I can't fit another thing in. If I need something for a shoot it's NY Cake and Bake in the city, A Cook's Companion on Atlantic in Brooklyn or I'll hop on Amazon Prime.
More often, I'm shopping for ingredients and there's plenty of places I love: Kalustyan's, Sahadi's and Dual Specialty Store for spices and dry goods. I'm constantly at Whole Foods, Fairway and Union Market. Plus there's a deli down the street from me that has the craziest stuff; I'm always in there.
Favorite utensils to use at home?
A fish spatula and a Microplane. They're in constant rotation.
Top pantry essentials in your kitchen?
I have an over-stocked pantry due to all the recipe testing I do, but personal essentials include whole coffee beans, honey, good crackers and always, always gummy candies.
Do you have a secret ingredient you love to use?
It's not a really secret or a surprise if you've ever worked with me but I absolutely love malted milk powder. The, I'd-bring-it-to-the-desert-island-with-me, kind of love. You give me free reign and 9 times out of 10 I'll put either that or poppy seeds into a recipe. I also end up putting a ton of booze in recipes. My bar, conveniently located next to both my kitchen and my bed (a perk of living in a teeny apartment!), is nicely stocked and never fails to provide inspiration. Sometimes I'll just buy an interesting spirit not so much for the cocktails I can make with it but what I imagine I'll dream up in the kitchen with it.
I've also recently started playing with powdered milk. Like the kind you get in the bag for a ridiculously cheap price. I'm trying to figure out how to make a cookie I used to eat as a kid and I'm convinced the secret lies in that bag of Carnation instant.
Guilty pleasure ingredient or dish?
Seven layer salad. If you're not from Wisconsin you may not know what this is but, basically, fill a casserole dish with (in this order) a layer of lettuce, chopped bell peppers, red onion, celery, mayonnaise, sharp cheddar cheese and bacon and you have the dish I eat as soon as I land on home soil. I just got back from a trip home and, no joke, I ate it once a day… mostly for breakfast. So far, no one I've met in NYC (or anywhere outside my home town) gets the allure but I'm working diligently on changing that.
Who are the chefs and food producers you admire?
There are so many people in food to admire right now and I'm so darn fortunate to work with a lot of them. I'll keep it short and personal: Melissa Clark is a dream to work with and her recipes are always spot on. I was cooking her recipes way before we met and find myself even more enamored with them—and her—the longer we work together. Same goes for my assistants, Jade Zimmerman and Adelaide Mueller. Those woman can cook and they make me look better than I could ever make myself. Lauren Deen for taking a chance on me so many, many years ago and pretty much throwing me into the start of my food styling career. And, oh, my grandma for pretty much everything. She still grows and picks her own raspberries and knows how to make a pie with them that will make you weep.
Favorite cookbooks, blogs and sites?
Anything by Dorie Greenspan. I spent most of college baking from her books and she never steered me wrong. Same goes for Julia (Child).
Whose pantry would you like to raid?
Does everyone read that as panty raid at first? For the pantry, I'd raid my mom's. She has the most meticulously organized and perfectly stocked pantry. It's insane and I'm never happier than when I'm cooking in her kitchen. I'd also raid Bon Appetit's, because their test kitchen manager Brad keeps that place stocked to a T.
As for a panty raid, she's going kill me for saying this but I'd totally raid my close girlfriend Erin Hartigan's… she knows why. (Sorry, E.)
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Negroni-Rhubarb Floats
Courtesy Rebekah Peppler
Makes about 2 cups
1 pound rhubarb, sliced into 1-inch pieces
½ pound strawberries, hulled and quartered
6 tablespoons granulated sugar
3 ounces Campari
3 ounces gin
2 ounces vermouth
1 vanilla bean, split and scraped
1 orange peel ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
Vanilla ice cream
Champagne or sparkling wine
Preheat the oven to 400°F.
In a medium bowl, combine the rhubarb, strawberries, sugar, Campari, gin, vermouth, vanilla bean and seeds, orange peel and salt. Toss to combine and dissolve the sugar. Spread on a baking sheet in an even layer and roast until the rhubarb and strawberries are soft and jammy, 10 to 15 minutes. Set aside to cool.
To serve, scoop vanilla ice cream into chilled coupe glasses. Top with a generous spoonful of the roasted rhubarb mixture and a hefty splash of champagne. Serve immediately.
Thank you for opening your home to us! Stay updated with Rebekah and her delectable creations on social media:
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For your chance to win a copy of Rebekah's Short Stack book, Honey, please leave a comment below. You have until Friday, August 14, 11:59pm/EST, to enter. Winner will be chosen at random - good luck!
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ESPN - NEW YORK -- Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned for life by the NBA in response to racist comments the league says he made in a recorded conversation.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said he will try to force the controversial owner to sell his franchise. Sterling has also been fined $2.5 million, and Silver made no effort to hide his outrage over the comments.
"I fully expect to get the support I need from the other NBA owners I need to remove him," Silver said.
The rebuke, which came three days after the scandal broke, is the harshest penalty ever issued by the league and one of the stiffest punishments ever given to an owner in professional sports.
Silver said a league investigation found the NBA's longest-tenured owner was in fact the person on the audiotapes that were released over the weekend.
"We stand together in condemning Mr. Sterling's views," Silver said. "They simply have no place in the NBA."
Sterling acknowledged he was the man on the tape, Silver said.
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It's unclear how Sterling will respond, and a lawsuit certainly seems possible.
"This league is far bigger than any one owner, any one coach and any one player," Silver said.
There really isn't much left to say on this story, but I wanted to get a post in on it following the news today. Impressive move on the part of Adam Silver here. Obviously a big statement needed to be made here with this insane bigot, and forcing him out of a job is pretty much the biggest move possible for the NBA.
Now I know he's still going to come out with millions upon millions when all is said and done and the court room visits have been made, but in terms of showing the public that your organization won't tolerate views like Sterling's, this is as much as we could hope for I guess. It really is just a shame it got to this point with this asshole, as he's had a pretty substantial history of blatant racism.
But for the moment, nice work Adam Silver. You may look like Skeletor and sound like a nerd, but for your first huge controversy as commissioner you stepped up and made a strong statement against intolerance.
P.S. Sterling's girl is not hot, okay? I've heard outlandish statements being thrown around that this chick is sexy and she's just not. Like a 7 to 8 body and a low 4 face. She's the definition of dirty/sexy 80-year-old-man-charming gold-digger. I mean, yeah, I'm glad this guy got exposed and all, but this woman is the worst, and I'm sick of her getting any sort of credit for being attractive.


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The least of these...
I just got done with a crazy travel adventure that involved three rental cars, unexpected overnight stays, three legs of flight through five airports and a through-the-night drive in order to make my destination. I had a great time ministering God's Word to a receptive audience, as well as some quality time connecting with some old friends. All things considered, it was a good trip. During one particular leg of the trip, I was reminded of Jesus' words to His followers: "And whatever you do, even to the least of these, you do to me." The "least of these" was a reference to people who were not always looked after in society. Some were prisoners, some were sick, some were probably just down and out; old, homeless or lonely.
As I was changing my tickets for the third time, I walked passed two elderly ladies sitting in wheel chairs right by the ticket counter. They seemed set and taken care of, so I didn't give them a second thought. When I came back through the line for the fourth ticket change, they were still there, but this time, there was a young woman sitting at their feet.
I didn't think much of it until I realized she was on the phone, talking to the airlines on their behalf. I found out that these two ladies had been sitting at the desk for five hours (five hours!) waiting to get help with their tickets. Since they were both in wheel chairs, they couldn't get to the front of the line, and they were both too kind to be pushy.
After five hours, one kind woman who was in the same flight-delaying weather pattern we were all in, asked them, "Do you ladies need any help?" That's all it took. For the next thirty minutes, she set aside her own travel problems and focused on helping these two elderly women get to their doctors appointments in Boston.
In all the chaos of the moment, I paused to realize: "I didn't even think once about helping these women." It's not that I even could have, but I probably could have helped them get to the ticket counter, I could have created awareness for the airline employees or at the very least, I could have said, "Hi, how are you doing today?"
But I didn't.
In the focus I had over my own circumstances, I didn't take the time to look outward and see the circumstances of others. After all, I had a flight to catch (which ended up being canceled), cars to rent and a speaking engagement to make. But at the end of the day, I would have ended up at the same destination, at the same time, through the same crazy route whether I had helped them or not. I'm confident of this: I would have felt better about my day if I had accomplished something productive through all of the craziness.
How often do you stop and pause, and look around at the world near you? How often do you try to engage the needs of others as you are going through life? Sometimes I think I'm guilty of compartmentalizing need-meeting. In other words, I go through my day, and meeting the needs of others is scheduled from 4:15-4:27, and I check it off the list. But what about the needs of those we cross throughout the day?
It reminds me of another blog I wrote about a time I did stop and help out -- two homeless guys coming through Salem. Both days were busy. Both days were a bit chaotic. One day I paused, one day I didn't.
Let's not get so focused trying to live the Overboard Life, that we forget to actually…live the Overboard Life.
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