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A little background on the traveler's worst enemy: «Jet lag occurs when we experience a desynchronization between our internal body clock and the external time clock of our destination,» explained Natalie Dautovich, Ph.D., an Environmental Fellow at the National Sleep Foundation.

Whether it is a criminal record check for a new employee, a credit score for a new car or a little bit of both for your new landlord, you are virtually guaranteed to experience a background check at some stage in your life.

Why not mix in the racial background of Superman, GI Joe, Little Red Riding Hood, Humpty dumpty, the fantastic 4, spiderman, the spaghetti monster and Adam & Eve while you're at it?

We get very little background on the young women, and none of the participants dwell on religion or morality at all.

His Scotch Presbyterian background is very basic to his views and it is a little of what we all need at this point [«James Reston: America's Conscience,» by Madelaine Blais, Womens Wear Daily, August 17, 1973, p. 7].

Before I tell you which recipes we enjoyed, I want to give you a little background on how we celebrate birthdays at our house.

A while ago my friend Amanda (it's her amazing and florescent carrot butter on that little whole grain toast in the background) introduced me to a pre-made quinoa tabbouleh salad at Costco, it had extra bells and whistles, like mung beans and brown rice, but it was lacking something so I decided to re-create it at home.

Iâ $ ™ m always amazed at people making decisions based on little to no background info.

You will enjoy looking back at them when they were so little, having the NICU in the background.

There are many text books available for key stage 3 science, but we have found most of them to be full of theory with little room for hands - on science or questions, although they are interesting and provide good background to science, although there are some which suggest experiments, many of which can be done at home.

The front cover of BooBoo by Olivier Dunrea shows a little blue goose staring at colored bubbles against a white background.

When I made the decision to take ownership of Bella Luna Toys in 2009, I felt a little daunted when I realized how many websites there are now selling wooden and natural toys on the web, but as I explored them, I realized that few retailers have the background in education, or the years of experience using these toys, both in the classroom and at home, that I have.

At the end of our four weeks in South America, I realized that I had missed a little bit of that independence, and a lot of the learning experience and socio - historical background.

A little background before I continue: In most Israeli hospitals, babies are nursed in their mothers» rooms during the day, but stay in the nursery at night.

At night, I turn the brightness down all the way, and the Kindle app has an invert mode where it puts white on black background instead of black on white background, so it's pretty dark, and I found that a pretty comfortable experience and certainly preferable to my previous way of reading in the dark which was getting out a little AA battery — powered book light that I had to clip onto my Kindle — which seemed so backward that you have to have a second electronic device attached to your first electronic device — but [the] eInk screen on the Kindle doesn't light itself.

«The program is meant to provide authentic research experience to students with little to no background knowledge in science,» says David Asai, senior director of science education at HHMI, based in Bethesda, Maryland.

I don't have formal training in this at all, so I do wish I had a little more formal background.

Currently, our robots are little more intelligent than sea slugs, and even after decades of clever research, they can barely distinguish figures from a background at the skill level of an infant.

A little background: Ho's #ThrowbackThursday post provided a glimpse at her bikini competition days.

We asked her if she could tell our following at An Oasis of Healing a little bit about her background and why she arrived here.

But before we get into discussing how to reverse the disease, take a look at what causes type 2 diabetes for a little background information.

So, just to fill everyone in with a little extra background, I went to Case Western Reserve for my undergrad, then went to West Virginia University for medical school, and now I'm at the Emory School of Medicine doing general surgery residency.

But if you didn't have a chance to go to those conferences and you haven't read the blog articles, this should at least help clarify this particular part of the hypothesis and Melissa's question, of course, specifically, and then if you need more background and want to dive a little bit more deeply into this topic — which I recommend; it's pretty interesting, and there are a lot of misconceptions and misunderstandings out there about it — then you can check out those articles on the podcast or I think you can purchase a recording of both the Wise Traditions presentation and the Paleo f (x) presentation.

Little background about me, I grew up in Chicago eating on the healthier end of the standard American diet, at least what it was when I was a kid.

To give you a little more background, and to help you make an informed decision about what you decide you can or can not eat... let's take a look at allergies and intolerances.

A little background behind the coat... I scored it on MAJOR sale at the Saks OFF 5TH outlet in Palm Springs over the summer.

it was so cool today — at the end of the sermon, a metronome started playing quietly in the background behind Pastor Ryan — a little audio reminder of God's rhythm — His presence.

Before I tell you about the life - changing experience that I had at the Loft Hair Studio, let me give you a little background:

Luckily I was able to work from home with my laptop and was cozy at home (for those of you who are new followers here is a little background about myself).

Phoenix starts out the book with a little background on himself, including his childhood spent at his dad's used car lot and how he got started collecting vintage slides.

I was a little intimidated at first because I was never really a dancer, and I know that it was founded by a dancer, but I am here to say that you absolutely do not have to have a dancing background to do any kind of barre class.

A little background story if you haven't gotten the chance to read the Bahamas post is that we were on a Disney Cruise for my cousin's wedding and they got married at Castaway Cay!

.2 nd of all 1 picture of my guys dick pic got him busted because his little brain didn't look at the big picture of his own background that..

«The other profile not only doesn't show the guy at his best but also there is very little in the background of the photos to give people a clue about his life and lifestyle.

However, a closer look at the «profile photos» shown in the background on OlderWomenDating might make you a little suspicious.

Graphically the game does run at a respectable 60 frames per second however as me mentioned, it is lacking that polish of bigger developers as cars are quite detailed but the backgrounds are a little lacklustre.

For anyone not intimately familiar with the background and names within the upper echelons of The Third Reich, the coming and goings of so many characters in Downfall can be a little confusing at times; yet the film avoids becoming unnecessarily convoluted.

Developer Derek says «I really want Spelunky to be as fun to look at as it it to play, and to that end, we've added lots of little details to the backgrounds to try and make each part of the game feel even more distinct.»

Amityville II: The Possession (1982 — Damiano Damiani) Though this sequel (or prequel depending on what you want to believe about the background of the stories) plays out its devil possession story little by little, it's quite amazing how it reaches a major crescendo around the 20 minute mark and then another at an hour before its final inevitable fiery showdown.

The backgrounds are so incredibly tough to see at times that it can be a little frustrating navigating for answers.

When a little girl shows up in a bright blue dress and the student flirts with him at a bar surrounded by red in the background, we're thrown completely out of the moment for Ford's insistence on making his symbolic point so crystal clear.

At the press of a button, your little white protagonist on a black backdrop falls through the floor to become a black character on a white background.

But Ehrenreich has the acting chops (he's brilliant in the Coen brothers comedy, Hail, Caesar) to at least put a little meat on the bare - bones background of how the inexperienced Solo got his swagger on as a smuggler, befriended Chewbacca [insert Wookie roar!]

DeBlois has not toned down the little touches in favor of the spectacle, though; Toothless is just as much of a giant oversized kitten in disguise as ever, and the film is at its best when these giant lizards are bounding around the background of a scene left to their own devices.

In a study that examined whether some countries are particularly effective at teaching students from disadvantaged backgrounds, Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann find little difference in the rank order of countries by the performance of students from families where a parent had a college education and the rank order of countries by the performance of students whose parents had no more than a high school diploma.

Taking all these results together, one implication stands out above all: That schools bring little influence to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context; and that this very lack of an independent effect means that the inequalities imposed on children by their home, neighborhood, and peer environment are carried along to become the inequalities with which they confront adult life at the end of school.

Pretend gun - free zones, where law - abiding adults (who pass a fingerprint - based background check and a safety training class) are still disarmed, are magnets for evildoers who know they will be able to murder at will with little threat of being fired upon.

Its limits are so great that approaching them requires pretty antisocial levels of speed and commitment, and at a more relaxed pace there's little (background five - cylinder noises aside) to suggest you're in anything more extreme than a basic A3.

At times there are almost a dozen visual elements scattered across a black background with little visual hierarchy to differentiate the important elements from the secondary.

That queue has a little background worker that is gently tapped on the shoulder and asked to please process the information at its earliest convenience.