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Lkld 2. Share photos on Twitter. The de los Reyes Sisters. Share photos on Twitter. Wild, check out 1 down! :) thank you christina for sending th. Sawing a hole in the wall for our new kitchen window: What the heck happened to poor Garfield? Baby Born Inside an MRI Machine, Captured in Breakthrough Imagery. To add some powerful new data to doctors and scientists understanding of birth, a baby was just born for the first time inside an MRI machine.

Baby Born Inside an MRI Machine, Captured in Breakthrough Imagery

The amazing images needed some innovative adaptions of medical obstetric tech so everything worked. Magnetic Resonance Imaging is an amazingly powerful, truly sci-fi-like technology that has none of the "dangerous rays" worries about other medical imaging techniques like CT scans, and since its inception in the 1970s it's revealed many human and animal biological secrets from the way our brains work in real time, to how our joints move, to how blood flows through the tiniest vessels in the body. Pretty much every sector of human biology (including sex) has been explored--except one: Live human birth, which until this week hadn't been attempted. Photo : yfrog.com/h2tg2aj - Shared by DISupdates.

Share photos on Twitter. Social Media for PR (PRCA 3030) for Spring 2010. For professors' eyes only: What students can't access via antiplagiarism programs. Enhance your leadership skills in your organization and community.

For professors' eyes only: What students can't access via antiplagiarism programs

At the School of Advanced Studies, you will refine your skills as a researcher and build theoretical knowledge. We offer online doctoral programs to professionals who want to make a meaningful social contribution to their communities and influence change in their fields through scholarly research. These skills can help learners like you build your skills as a scholar and make a difference in the community through the use of research, theory and practical experience. Our unique educational model allows learners to collaborate with doctoral faculty and like-minded professionals from all over the world, online and through in-person residencies.

Together, you will focus on real problems and come up with solutions using research and reflective dialogue. Learn more about our admission requirements, explore our degree programs (listed below), then speak with an enrollment advisor who can help you get started. What LOLcats can teach us about social media efforts. Hmmm. Wonder how Prof. Nixon will incorporate wild animals into today's classes. Photo : yfrog.com/0ovgn0j - Shared by jangles. What Is Plagiarism? : Grammar Girl. Trace your friends from foursquare. Monitoring, measurement and buzz words, oh my. The race to see who offers the best social monitoring and measurement solution is in full force right now.

Monitoring, measurement and buzz words, oh my

We've started to learn what is working and what isn't. The technology and understanding is getting better. There is more psychology, scientific method and good design being injected into the creation of a lot of the newer solutions out there. Tracks on a Map. Student excuses – Not much innovation « Service (Co-) Creation. On Wednesday I listed some innovative and some of my least favorite student excuses on twitter.

Student excuses – Not much innovation « Service (Co-) Creation

Here is a summary of mine and other examples that were offered… Universal Grade Change Form. One serious rolling. #wareagle. Eric Stonestreet's photos - Went huntin today. Share photos on Twitter. Shop Vac. My daughter's making our famous Fireside Cocoa mix. Smells heavenly. - December 5, 2010 - barbarani. State Department To Columbia University Students: 'DO NOT Post' WikiLeaks On Facebook, Twitter. UPDATE: On Monday, John H.

State Department To Columbia University Students: 'DO NOT Post' WikiLeaks On Facebook, Twitter

Coatsworth, the SIPA Dean, reversed the university's earlier position, affirming that students "have a right to discuss and debate any information in the public arena...without fear of adverse consequences. " Wired obtained the email: Freedom of information and expression is a core value of our institution. Thus, SIPA's position is that students have a right to discuss and debate any information in the public arena that they deem relevant to their studies or to their roles as global citizens, and to do so without fear of adverse consequences Talking about WikiLeaks on Facebook or Twitter could endanger your job prospects, a State Department official warned students at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs this week.

An email from SIPA's Office of Career Services went out Tuesday afternoon with a caution from the official, an alumnus of the school. Philip J. This is not true. Stephen D. Stop being a fucking pussy. Ok, you want to be successful.

Stop being a fucking pussy

You think you’re trying your hardest. Dammit you are pretty sure you’re gunning for it, really hard! But here is the truth: You’re not. In every industry, there is an edge. In your business or personal life, it doesn’t matter– somewhere, there is a cliff. Thing is, the edge is where all the cool stuff happens. You are actually in the middle of an open field, inside your house, clutching your purse, crying like a little girl while looking at an edge you see on television. In other words? Nickel-and-dime crime one of nine to get presidential pardon. Ronald Foster was busted for mutilating pennies in 1963.

Nickel-and-dime crime one of nine to get presidential pardon

For decades, he didn't know it was a felony. NEW: Ronald Foster convicted in 1963 of cutting pennies into dimes for vending machines Foster is among first nine pardons of President Obama's administrationThe pardons were granted to people convicted of a range of crimesPresidential pardons traditionally are granted during the holiday season (CNN) -- For 42 years, Ronald Foster didn't know he had a felony conviction for cutting up pennies. It seemed like a nickel-and-dime crime at the time. President Obama apparently agreed, and on Friday he pardoned Foster and eight other people for unrelated crimes.

Foster stands out among the list of convicted thieves, drug dealers and users, and not just because his conviction is the oldest. "We cut the lip off, and we were using them in the barracks only, in the vending machines. Agency PR. Share photos on Twitter. Design The Difference… Same Difference? - Design The Difference. Wrap Your Gifts in Viral Videos With QRapping Paper. I'll admit it, I tend to give rather dull and predictable gifts: books, perfume, framed photographs (hi Mom and Dad), and the like.

Wrap Your Gifts in Viral Videos With QRapping Paper

Which is why I was pretty excited to come across QRAPPING PAPER, a wrapping paper printed with QR codes that can be scanned with a code reader to pull up 50 different — but equally ridiculous — holiday-themed YouTube videos. It might just save those I love best from another year of utter boredom. The paper was designed by Artist/Art Director/Entrepreneuer Justin Gignac who says he began "wondering why people weren't doing anything more fun" with QR codes while playing around with one a few months ago.

Postcard Inn on NBC's Today Show- December 2010. Share photos on Twitter. Sign In. Thanks @klout for the Tangled pack! Fun to open. Share photos on Twitter.