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iLearn Collaborative Terms and Conditions
A. Acceptance of Terms.
Welcome to the iLearn Collaborative ("iLC"). iLC provides the Services (defined below) to you subject to the following Terms and Conditions ("TAC"), which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you. You can review the most current version of the TAC at any time at: https://www.ilearncollaborative.org/terms-and-conditions. By accessing and using the Services, you accept and agree to be bound by the terms and provision of the TAC. In addition, when using particular iLC owned or operated services, you and iLC shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such services, which may be posted and modified from time to time. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into the TAC. iLC may also offer other services that are governed by different Terms of Service. In such cases the other terms of service will be posted on the relevant service to which they apply.
B. Description of iLC Services.
iLC provides users with access to a wide variety of digital content, professional development courses, resources, and instructional and support services. Our Services include without limitation ilearncollaborative.org (our "Site"), various communication tools, forums, personalized content, branded programming, consulting services, training services, our website and user interfaces through its network of properties and resources which may be accessed through any various medium or device now know or hereinafter developed (the "Services"). Our Services also include Learn Collaborative Membership, Professional Development Courses, Professional Development Digital Content, iLearn Collaborative Digital Content Warehouse for K-12 Content, and Consulting Services.
iLC reserves the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Services (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that iLC shall not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the Services (or any part thereof).
You also understand and agree that the Services may include advertisements.
C. Notice and Consent to Electronic Communications
When you use our Site, Products, or Services, or send e-mails to us, you are communicating with us electronically. By using this Site, you consent to receive communications from us electronically, including, without limitation, e-mail and text messages. We will communicate with you by e-mail, text messaging or by posting notices to your account on our Site. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement for enforceability purposes, including notice and the enforcement of electronic signatures.
D. Accessing Our Services
Access to our Services is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the services we provide without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason our Site is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our Site, or to our entire Site. We have the right to terminate your access to the Site if we determine that you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of the TAC.
You agree that by using this site, you are at least 18 years of age, or visiting under the supervision of a parent or guardian, and legally able to enter into a contract. If you provide any information to us that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or iLC has reasonable ground to suspect that such information to us that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, iLC has the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Services (or any portion thereof).
Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features that augment or enhance the current Services shall be subject to the TAC. You understand and agree that the Services is provided "AS-IS" and that iLC assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any user communications or personalization settings. You are responsible for obtaining access to the Services, and that access may involve third-party fees (such as Internet service provider or airtime charges). You are responsible for those fees. In addition, you must provide and are responsible for all equipment necessary to access the Services. You understand that the technical processing and transmission of the Services, may involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.
E. Member Account, Password, and Security.
You are solely responsible for keeping confidential any password and account you may be granted to access our Services. You are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. You agree to immediately notify iLC of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security. iLC cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this Section. We advise you not to share your password, payment methods or any other information associated with our Site or your account with anyone.
F. Use of Our Services
As a condition of using our Site, Products, and Services, you agree not to use our Site, Products and Services, among other things, to:
1. Impersonate any person or entity, including but not limited to an official of iLC or its affiliates, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
2. Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, or other materials (hereinafter referred to as "Content") transmitted through our sites;
3. Harm minors in any way;
4. Harass, threaten, embarrass or cause stress, unwanted attention, or discomfort to a person or entity;
5. Transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable, as solely determined by iLC;
6. Transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party;
7. Transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited advertising, promotional information, bulk e-mail or other solicitation;
8. Transmit or otherwise make available any Content containing any "virus," worm," "Trojan horse," or any other computer code, file, or program designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
9. Interfere with or disrupt our Site, Products, Services, servers or networks connected to our sites, or disobey any requirements or policies of networks connected to our Site, Products, or Services; or
10. Intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law.
You further agree that this list is not intended to be complete, but merely illustrative. We reserve the right in our sole and final judgment to determine whether certain conduct violates this Use of Our Site Section.
G. Services Delivered via an Alternative Site
In its sole discretion, and upon your request, iLC may allow you to access its Services via a Learning Management System that you license directly from a third-party provider. In this case, iLC will put forward its best efforts, with the support of your technical team and staff, to ensure that our Services function correctly in your system. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all terms and conditions related to the use of our Services and our Site apply to the use of our Services on any alternative site.
H. Grant of Limited License to Use the Products and Services
Unless otherwise specified, the Services are for your use only and we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, license for that purpose. Except for the foregoing limited license, no right, title or interest shall be transferred to you. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, duplicate, publish, license, create derivative works from, or offer for sale any information contained on, or obtained from or through, the Site, without our prior, express written consent. You may not circumvent, remove, alter, deactivate, degrade or thwart any of the content protections on our Site and Services. Any unauthorized use of the Services or its contents will terminate the limited license granted by us.
I. Intellectual Property and Proprietary Rights
Unless otherwise indicated the Content displayed on our sites is the property of iLC and our affiliates, third-party providers, or their respective licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. Any such Content may be displayed solely for your personal, non-commercial use. You agree not to reproduce, modify, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, display, retransmit, or sell such Content without the prior written permission of the respective owner.
J. Links
Some links within our web site may lead you to other sites (third-party sites). iLC does not have control over those sites and is not responsible for their content or your reliance on the information contained there. Our links to third-party sites do not necessarily create an endorsement or approval of any content on those sites. Once you go to a third-party site, you do so at your own risk. You are subject to the terms, conditions of use and privacy policies of the third-party site.
K. Cookies
This website utilizes cookies, which are small text files placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit our site. Cookies enable you to move from page to page on our website, and allow information you enter to be remembered.
Using cookies helps us improve the functionality of our website and enhances your experience when using it. Cookies can be disabled by changing the settings on your browser. If you do decide to disable cookies, certain areas and features of our website may not perform as designed. By using our website, you consent to our use of cookies as described above. Please note that non-iLC websites you are directed to from our website may have their own cookie policies.
L. Disclaimers of Warranties
Commentary, testimonials, reviews, and other materials posted on our website along with the Services themselves are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents. Any of the material on our website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
iLC and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, or agents makes no warranties, representations or claims of any kind with respect to any of the information in the Services, including without limitation the accuracy, completeness and suitability for any purpose of this information. Under no circumstance shall iLC or any of its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, or agents involved in the creation or delivery of the material in the Services be liable to you or anyone else as a result of damages from your access or use of material on the Services.
1. EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED, Your use of the SERVICES ARE at your sole risk. The Services are PROVIDED on an "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" basis. iLC and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, or agents expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
2. iLC AND its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, or agents MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (ii) THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE; (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE; AND (iv) ANY ERRORS IN THE SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED.
4. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM iLC OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TAC.
M. Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL iLC, OR ITS SUBSIDIARIES OR ANY OF THEIR, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE (JOINTLY OR SEVERALLY) TO YOU FOR PERSONAL INJURY OR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES OR LOSS, WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES, OUR SITE, AND ALL CONTENTS AND SOFTWARE ASSOCIATED THEREWITH. IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES FOR LOSSES ARISING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES, OUR SITE, AND ALL CONTENTS AND SOFTWARE ASSOCIATED THEREWITH EXCEED THE PURCHASE PRICE OF THE RELEVANT PRODUCT OR SERVICE. IN THE EVENT THAT A CLAIM DOES NOT RELATE TO A SERVICE, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY RELATED DAMAGES SHALL BE LIMITED TO ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00). THE LIMITATIONS STATED HEREIN WILL APPLY EVEN IF THE ABOVE STATED REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. IF ANY APPLICABLE AUTHORITY HOLDS ANY PORTION OF THIS SECTION OR OTHER SECTIONS OF THE TAC, INCLUDING ANY PORTION OF THE PRIVACY POLICY, TO BE UNENFORCEABLE, THEN THOSE PORTIONS DEEMED UNENFORCEABLE SHALL BE SEVERED AND THE TAC SHALL BE ENFORCED ABSENT THOSE PROVISIONS AND ANY LIABILITY TO iLC WILL BE LIMITED TO THE FULLEST POSSIBLE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
N. Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless iLC, its affiliates, and its/their officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to reasonable attorney's fees) arising from: (i) your use of and access to the Services; (ii) your failure to comply with any of term of the TAC; (iii) your violation of any third party right, including without limitation any copyright, property, or privacy right; (iv) or any activity related to use of the Services (including negligent or wrongful conduct) by you or any other person accessing the Services using your Internet account or (v) any claim that any Response submitted by you causes damage to a third party. This defense and indemnification obligation will survive the TAC and your use of the Services.
O. Waiver and Severability
The failure of iLC to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the TAC shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. No waiver by iLC of any right or provision of the TAC shall be effective unless it is expressly stated to be a waiver and is communicated to you in writing.
If any of the TAC are determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable to any extent, such term, condition, or provision will to that extent be severed from the remaining terms, conditions, and provisions which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.
P. Choice of Law and Forum
You and iLC each agree that the TAC and the relationship between the parties shall be governed by the laws of the State of Colorado without regard to its conflict of law provisions and that any and all claims, causes of action or disputes (regardless of theory) arising out of or relating to the TAC, or the relationship between you and iLC, shall be brought exclusively in the courts located in the county of Denver, Colorado.
Q. Entire Agreement and General Information
The TAC constitutes the entire agreement between you and iLC and governs your use of the Services, superseding any prior version of this TAC between you and iLC with respect to the Services. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use or purchase certain other iLC services. The section titles in the TAC are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. iLC may freely assign the TAC and all of the policies and other documents incorporated or referenced in it (including all rights, licenses, and obligations under it or them), in whole or in part and without notice).
iLearn Collaborative is located at 3461 Ringsby Court, Suite 315, Denver, CO 80216. Additional information about contacting us is available on our Site.
Terms and Conditions for Specific Services
Additional terms and conditions apply for specific services. If you choose to utilize a specific Service enumerated below, you agree to be bound by the corresponding additional terms and conditions under such specified section below.
R. General Membership
a. Benefits/Dues - Member benefits and dues are specified here. Membership dues and benefits are subject to change at any time and without notice
b. Term - The membership term is 1 year, beginning with and including the month the annual dues payment is received. Membership dues are nonrefundable.
c. Benefit Activation - All membership benefits are valid only during the membership term. Activation of some benefits may require action from the member.
S. Professional Development Courses
These terms and conditions apply to use of the courses in this catalog (https://www.ilearncollaborative.org/professional-development-coursecatalog).
a. Payment - Payment must be received prior to enrollment in a course and is non-refundable.
b. Pre-Requisites - In order to enroll in intermediate or advanced courses, the user must have demonstrated mastery of beginner concepts. Mastery may be demonstrated through either the successful completion of beginner courses, an iLC placement test, or via another process mutually agreed upon with iLC district leadership.
c. College Credit - Users wishing to receive college credit for the course must complete the appropriate university enrollment process and pay appropriate fees directly to the university, prior to starting the course. For Western State University, see here (http://www.western.edu/academics/extended-studies/ilearncollaborative-professional-development).
d. Course Access - Access to the course content, the facilitator, peer forums, and any synchronous sessions will be open for the duration of the course, as determined during the enrollment process, typically 3-6 weeks. If the user is unable to complete the course in the designated time frame, iLC may, in its sole discretion, allow the user to re-enroll in the same course in exchange for a $50.00 administrative fee. Re-enrollment, if permitted, may or may not be for a consecutive period of time.
e. Distribution - iLC reserves the right to select the technology used to deliver the course.
f. Digital Content Usage - The digital content may be used exclusively to promote the individual user's learning. The user agrees that he or she will not distribute the digital content, and that he or she may not rent, lease, lend, sell, redistribute or sublicense the digital content. The user may not copy, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, modify, or create derivative works of the digital content, any updates, or any part thereof.
g. Conduct - The user is expected to participate in peer discussions and forums in a professional manner. If, in iLC's sole discretion, participation is deemed unprofessional or inappropriate, iLC reserves the right to un-enroll the user and prevent the user from accessing other courses or Services.
h. Certificate of Completion - The user will receive a certificate of completion at the conclusion of each course if the user receives a passing grade of 80% or better. This certificate may be used towards re-certification and is typically worth 15 clock hours for a 3-week course. If the user did not receive a passing grade of 80% or better, and would like to try again, they may request to re-enroll in the course for a $50.00 administrative fee. Re-enrollment, if permitted, may or may not be for a consecutive period of time.
T. Professional Development Digital Content
a. Content
These terms and conditions apply to use of the digital content in this catalog (https://www.ilearncollaborative.org/professional-development-coursecatalog).
b. License
iLC owns all proprietary rights, including patent, copyright, trade secret, Trademark and other proprietary rights, in and to the materials it provides its users ("Licensed Materials"). The Licensed Materials shall remain the property of iLC and the user holds no ownership rights to said items.
The license to use the Licensed Materials is non-transferable. The user agrees that it will not distribute the Licensed Materials, and that it may not rent, lease, lend, sell, redistribute or sublicense the Licensed Materials. The user may not copy, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, modify, or create derivative works of the Licensed Materials, any updates, or any part thereof.
Upon the termination of this and any other agreement to use the Licensed Materials, for whatever reason, the License granted to the user pursuant to this Agreement shall automatically and immediately terminate. The user shall immediately discontinue its use of the Licensed Materials and shall promptly take all steps to refrain from further use of the Licensed Materials.
c. Content Customization
The user may elect to revise the Licensed Materials or make additions to the Licensed Materials (collectively "Content Enhancements") at its sole discretion provided that it agrees that (a) the user may only use the Content Enhancements to provide professional development to those individuals exclusively employed or directly contracted by the user and (b) iLC may incorporate the Content Enhancements, at its sole discretion, into the Licensed Materials that are sold or licensed to other clients without permission by the user who created the Content Enhancements. The user agrees to take such steps as are necessary or reasonably requested by iLC to ensure that iLC can access and utilize the Content Enhancements, including without limitation obtaining assignments from the user's employees, agents, and independent contractors of any intellectual property rights such employee, agent, or independent contractor may otherwise have or claim in the Content Enhancements.
d. Membership
The user agrees to maintain an active iLC membership. For avoidance of doubt, failure to maintain an active membership is a breach of the TAC and of the terms and conditions for the Professional Development Digital Content and could eliminate the right to retain and utilize the licensed materials, at iLC's sole discretion.
e. Facilitation
The user may only utilize iLC-certified facilitators to deliver professional development programs utilizing the Licensed Materials. The requirements for iLC certification will be agreed to and specified in the order form but typically involve the completion of a 5 or 6 course series in the target subject matter. The user will therefore pay the required fees in order to obtain appropriate certification for facilitators as needed.
f. New Course Creation
The user may choose to partner with iLC to create new digital content ("Joint Content") to support professional development programs. The user and iLC shall jointly own all intellectual property rights with respect to the Joint Content developed under this Agreement, in whatever form or medium it may be created, including without limitation all copyrights, patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and other intellectual property related to the Joint Content. Each party agrees to take such steps as are necessary or reasonably requested by the other party to ensure that the Joint Content is jointly owned by both of the parties, including without limitation by obtaining assignments from that party's employees, agents, and independent contractors of any intellectual property rights such employee, agent, or independent contractor may otherwise have or claim in the Joint Content. Each party may use the Joint Content at any time and in any way it sees fit to further its respective interests, including without limitation (a) by licensing others to use the Joint Content, without payment to the other party to this Agreement, (b) by selling that party's rights to the Joint Content, provided such sale does not affect the ownership rights of the other party to this Agreement, and (c) by making derivative works from the Joint Content, provided, however, that neither party shall have any ownership rights in any derivative works created from the Joint Content by the other party. Except with respect to the Joint Content, neither party shall have or gain any rights in any intellectual property of the other party by virtue of this Agreement, and all copyrights, patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and other intellectual property (other than the Joint Content) owned by one party will continue to be owned solely by that party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither party shall have the right to utilize the logo or branding materials of the other party unless mutually agreed in writing.
For avoidance of doubt, iLearn Collaborative partners with districts to capture education best practices and share them with other schools and districts. Subject to the conditions herein, iLC reserve the right to make any courses co-created together, either in whole or in part, available in our professional development catalog and for licensing by other districts.
U. Digital Content Warehouse for K-12 Content
a. Content
These terms and conditions apply to the use of the digital content in this catalog (https://www.ilearncollaborative.org/digital-warehouse-course-catalog).
b. Membership
The user agrees to maintain an active iLC membership. For avoidance of doubt, failure to maintain an active membership is a breach of the terms and conditions for the Digital Content Warehouse and could eliminate the right to access the materials, at iLC's sole discretion.
c. Contributions
After the appropriate fees are paid and membership gained, iLC agrees to provide a complimentary 12-week course on how to create high quality digital content and the user agrees to require any staff that intend to submit content to the Digital Content Warehouse participate in this course or request a placement waiver from iLC staff based on demonstrated experience in digital content creation in advance of such staff member's submittal of content to the Digital Content Warehouse.
The user agrees to contribute at least 1 high quality, unique course (as defined in iLC's training) for every 2,000 students served, with a minimum requirement of 1 course and a maximum requirement of 4 courses, every 12 months. Should the user be unable to meet this requirement, it may instead pay fees that support content curation efforts, according to the current fee schedule.
d. Content Usage
Content usage is governed by the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode).
You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.
Please read the license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/bysa/4.0/legalcode) in full detail to know your rights.


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Mobile operator Three is apparently set to block online ads on its network. The move is expected to be announced at MWC next Tuesday, and is guaranteed to cause major controversy. According to reports, the firm's partnered up with Israeli outfit Shine, which specialises in cutting ads from digital content.
It's understood that Three is still in the process of working out a strategy, but it's likely that the most data-hungry types of advertising, such as those annoying videos that play automatically, will be targeted first. Trials involving select UK customers are expected to kick off over the next few months.
It's safe to say that ad-reliant digital publishers aren't best pleased. Things could be about to turn nasty. [Telegraph]

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Mobile Macro | Photojojo
Gina Todorovich
I've wanted a macro lens for ages.
I'm talking since at least college, which amazingly translates into about a decade here (YIKES!).
I still haven't bought one.
BUT…I did get one for my birthday this year—for my phone!
My friends who gave it to me joked that they decided on it when asking themselves, "How can we get Noe to spend MORE time on her phone." In all seriousness, they did an amazing job picking out a gift for me that I love, will use a lot and hadn't even thought about (or known about) for myself. Well done, Jacques and Paula. Well done.
I fell in love with my Photojojo macro lens almost instantly. I mean, I barely finished brunch before I tried it out on some flowers, bolts, buttons, eyes and just about anything with detailed texture. And anything that can compete with food for my attention and interest—you know it's legit.
In addition to being able to—and having to—get SUPER close to what I'm photographing, I'm excited about how I can incorporate the macro lens into more abstract mobile photography that I have been experimenting with. Now I don't consider myself anywhere near the level of some photographers* in this realm, but once I get my iPhone, y'all better watch out! (Kidding…kinda…) ;)
And yes, this means you will probably be seeing more pictures of flowers now. Can you blame me? Look at the colors of these...
Don't worry though. It won't be all flowers. Just started an album today for macro shots that aren't as easy to distinguish. I'm sure I'll be putting this little macro lens (that I should also mention has a wide angle attachment) to good use.
*Check out Patrick Onofre, Jorge Bañales and Jon Betts to see some awesome abstract mobile photography (and more, of course).


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What is Bacteremia and How Can It Affect Me?
Nobody is quite sure how many species of bacteria live in the mouth, but estimates range from between nearly four hundred to six hundred and fifty different species. Some are benign, while others are not so friendly. Bacteremia is more often called blood poisoning but this does not mean there is poison in your blood. Instead it refers to the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream.
If you have a dental procedure or have gum disease, then the bacteria in your mouth can easily enter your bloodstream. Once in your bloodstream, these bacteria can travel just about anywhere in your body. Most healthy people will be able to cope with this, and the condition can create few or no symptoms, and will resolve itself without treatment. However bacteremia can be a serious issue for anyone with a compromised immune system or who has any other underlying health conditions.
Symptoms of bacteremia include:
- Suddenly developing a high fever
- Feeling as if you have chills
- Increased heart rate
- Feeling nauseous, actually being sick or having abdominal pains
It is a serious condition that can require hospitalization and intravenous antibiotics. If not treated promptly Bacteremia can develop into sepsis, and can even become life-threatening.
All this might sound very worrying, but the risks for healthy people are negligible, and you can rest assured that Midtown Dentistry will take every precaution to ensure patients are safe during treatment. Part of this involves taking down detailed information on patient's general health, including any medical conditions and prescription medications being used. Wherever necessary you will be supplied with antibiotics if required.
Certain people are more at risk, including anyone who has underlying structural heart defects. In this case Bacteremia could result in the development of bacterial endocarditis, a life-threatening condition affecting the heart valves. Diabetics are potentially more at risk as they are more likely to develop gum disease, and are less able to fight bacterial infections. Anyone whose immune is suppressed for any reason is more at risk, as are alcoholics and people who are malnourished, and anyone who is undergoing chemotherapy or other treatment for cancer.
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Fantasia on "Iste Confessor"
Fantasia on "Iste Confessor"
a fantasia for solo organ (4')
Commissioned by Choir & Organ Magazine for their New Music Series.
Completed in June, 2012.
Based on the plainsong "Iste Confessor"
Commissioned by Choir & Organ Magazine, for premiere at Salisbury Cathedral. World premiere by John Challenger at Salisbury Cathedral on September 30, 2012.


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ICAS response: Recognition and measurement of social benefits
ICAS has responded to the IPSASB's consultation on 'Recognition and Measurement of Social Benefits'
Read ICAS' response
Key messages
We agree that there is a gap in international public sector accounting standards for transactions which involve social benefits and welcome IPSASB's efforts to take this project forward to help strengthen the reporting of financial position in government financial statements.
A principles based approach is essential given the myriad nature of social benefit schemes and legal frameworks. It is also the corner stone of high quality accounting standards. We would therefore welcome greater clarity of the principles underpinning a standard on social benefits.
These could include the following:
- Supporting simpler, transparent and meaningful information for readers
- Proper application of materiality
- Alignment with IFRS principles, avoiding unnecessary specialism and new definitions; only diverging from IFRS where there is a clear, justifiable need of a uniquely public sector matter that is material, adversely impacts the true and fair view and is not covered by IFRS
The application of a social benefits standard sits best at national, i.e. whole of government accounts level, not below. We suggest that this is clarified going forward.
The implications for going concern are material. These will also need to be considered and justified. Governments with credit ratings, access to capital markets and tax raising powers should be able to demonstrate a form of either going concern or pending default. We believe it is important that each country explains clearly and succinctly in its Strategic Report (or equivalent high level narrative commentary preceding the financial statements) what its obligations are and how it intends to fund them as they fall due. How these liabilities have been treated in the financial statements also needs to be clearly referenced and explained in the accounting policies.
We would add that accruals accounting is only part of the overall picture. Financial planning and sustainability reporting should also be given greater priority.
Discussion is still at a conceptual stage and we would welcome further information and examples to inform an impact assessment and support informed discussion on the potential consequences of different options for practical implementation.


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Courtesy of David Letterman.
Were there ever instances where you thought, Maybe I was too hard on that person?
Oh, yeah. I always felt like, We got 500 people in the audience and it's my responsibility to get a laugh. Many times, the laugh would come at the expense of the guest. I regret that now, but at the time you think, I've got to do anything to keep my head above water.


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We have an exciting day ahead this coming Sunday - Easter Sunday! It is the glorious time when together we focus on celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Because Jesus is alive, He is able to give life to any person who will put their faith and trust in Him. Jesus died for you and me, but He did not only die. He arose! What He accomplished when He came out of that tomb has changed the destiny of all who trust in Him!
This Sunday, April 24, we will begin with a 7:00 AM Easter Sunrise Service! I hope you and your family will come to sing and celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord. Then, at 8:00 AM, we will eat a wonderful breakfast together prepared and served by the men of our church. They will arrive around 5:00 AM to start cooking!
After breakfast at around 8:45 AM, an Easter Egg Hunt for children will be held inside the building. Sunday Bible Study will begin as usual at 9:30 AM, and our 10:30 AM Morning Worship Service will feature beautiful and inspiring Christian music to celeberate our Lord's victory on the cross and with the empty tomb.
It promises to be a great day! I hope you can share it with us. Everyone in attendance at the morning services will be free to take a copy of the film "Jesus" to use in their own home, or to share with someone else. Be praying that God will be glorified in all we say and do on Resurrection Day!


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Blazer – Teenflo
Tee- AA
'Jeggings' – Alfred Sung ($19.99)
Shoes – Seychelles
Friday was one of those days that went off without a hitch. Oh wait, does without a hitch mean to hell and back? If so, then that's what it was.
It started off with me running around as per usual. It happened to be a rainy morning. Scratch that. It was pouring rain. I got to my bus stop and waited. Waited. Waited. There were 5 people there before me so I knew I hadn't missed the bus. Waited. Waited. 20 minutes later I decided that my bus was just not coming. I kept waiting. Next bus half an hour later shows up. Of course it's completely packed because there are 2 bus worth of people jammed into one bus. It's almost 8 by this time. I work at 8:30. It takes me an hour and a half to get to work. You do the math. A bus ride, metro ride and another bus ride later, I get to work. An hour late.
Fast forward to the end of the day. We leave a little late = I miss one of my normal connections. This means that instead of taking a bus, a metro and another bus, I have to take a bus, a metro, a bus and then another bus. Of course there's retarded traffic so I miss the last connection. The next bus isn't for another 20 minutes. It's (still) pouring rain and freezing. I walk over to salvation army to keep warm and do some browsing while I wait for my bus. I see a sign saying 50% off. SCORE. I find a really nice coat. It's 24.99. Hmmmm that's only 12.50. I notice the sign says sale ends at 5:00pm. It's 7:00. I shouldn't buy the coat… but it's nice but I don't need a coat, but its in perfect condition… I'm running out of time to make a decision so I decide to buy it. I get to the cash, there's a guy there. They are talking about some plug, the guy goes to see if he can find some sort of plug thing. The old friendly man at the cash makes me WAIT till the guy comes back. Waiting… small talk… waiting… I look over. The guy is browsing the BOOKS. Look at my watch, bus leaving in 4minutes. I ask the man if he can cancel the guys' stuff on the register and pass me. Apparently this idea hasn't occurred to him… He does it (slow as molasses in January) I pay $25 for this coat I don't even need. I rush into the rain, across the street in time to see my bus leave… In the end I don't even want this damn coat. What is wrong with me?
It's days like those that make me want to just curl up in a ball and stay in bed all day every day. I worked 3 years for a company where I had to get up at 6am, out the door at 6:30 to be at work for 8am and then back home by 6:30pm. Now it's been over a year I've been doing the above daily treck.
Despite my 'super D duper' day, I was pretty happy with this outfit. I had a sudden inspiration from Zoe to fold up the bottom of these jeggings pants and pair them with a v neck tee and heels. If only I were 8 inches taller. Then I would steal Zoe's identity.
p.s. Freakin hair. It's going on the chopping block. Soon.


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Beauty Blog Love: 1/9/2011./
I am loving CHANEL's new Black Pearl nail polish. Check it out on Christine. {15 Minute Beauty Fanatic}
Shannon has a great interview with celebrity hair guru Nick Arrojo. {A Girl's Gotta Spa}
Want to try a fancy eyeliner trick? The Glamour girls have the details on something new to try. {The Girls in the Beauty Dept.}
Condition your hair like Oprah? I want to know how, do you? {The Beauty Brains}
There is a new FDA approved skin laser on the market and Felicia had me all a twitter about it yesterday. {This That Beauty}
Supergasm is here and Karen is wearing it well. {Makeup and Beauty Blog}
If it is from Dior and it is supposed to perfect my skin, I want in. {Beauty 411}
*** Be sure to enter the giveaway for 1 of 3 $100 Sephora gift cards. Just tell me a few of your favorite beauty products of 2010 to be entered to win.


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Top 5 Zest Blogs of 2016/ Toby Ealden
Back in September we launched our new website, complete with this blog! As we celebrate the end of an awesome year, here's our 5 most read blogs of 2016. Head behind the scenes at Zest as we look back at our national tour of Thrive, the R&D of our new show and some of our thoughts of Audience Development. Enjoy!
How do you react to someone who thinks completely unlike you? It turns out that joining an R&D process for a show about difference, otherness and broken communities was the perfect opportunity for me to learn how to listen.
Last week saw us begin the process of making a brand new show. A show about difference and how the fear of those 'other' to us can spill into hate. And what a week we chose to begin that process.
We've have been talking theatre with young people up and down the country and our findings show that a much more proactive approach to getting young people into theatres is needed.
People often say that if can't explain what you do to a small child then you don't have a real job – I have this problem a lot as a dramaturg. Dramaturgy is a sort of "story-science" for theatre – an understanding of the right amounts of a recipe to put into a production to make sure it's just right and that the audience can follow what's happening. It's this role that I've been doing on Zest's new show, Thrive
When Toby from Zest approached me to be in Thrive, he knew the project would be close to home. At the time myself and my brother were looking after my mum who was sick with Cancer at home. I told him at the moment my mum was my top priority and I will let him know when I can. He would always check in on me and my family and never pressured me to do the show. Toby texted me on my birthday wishing me a happy birthday and sending his wishes and love to my mum. Unfortunately, the day after my mum passed away.


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A website about being a School Librarian, writing book reviews, and generally blathering on.
Friday, January 20, 2012
The flexible line between educator and administrator
In Kathy Hribar's article A Journey Towards Inquiry, she confronted this same question. The answer, as found by her, is to make small changes in your lessons. Big changes aren't necessary, small and simple steps, with time and patience will make the greatest difference. Doug Johnson takes a bit of a different tact, but comes to a similar conclusion, in his article Make Your Point-It's Good to Be Inflexible. As School Librarians, we are constantly being asked to prove our worth as both educators and members of the administration, how can we do this when teachers can choose to never take advantage of the services offered? We are forcing teachers, who might already have biases against the necessity of school libraries, to choose to go to the library amongst their already packed schedules. If we made it a natural part of the education system, where time was always set aside, we allow teachers and students the opportunity to explore what the library has to offer.
This flexibility of a school librarian is helpful when considering the role they can play with the administration of the school. Because they exist on the line between educator and administrator, librarians can present the outside eye on how scheduling works, but they also can work with a bigger cohort to help flesh out this perspective.
To me, this duality of roles is the most attractive part of being a school librarian. As a classroom teacher, it was particularly difficult to get outside of my classroom or department to see how the rest of the school worked. As a librarian, I hope to get outside this box and explore how the school works as a whole.
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"Duality" is a good word. It's what intrigued me about the job as well.ReplyDelete
Hmm- do we have control of scheduling? It was my understanding that fixed schedules were developed by administrators and in my experience, the librarian has little input into this. I guess with flexible scheduling there is some control, but you ARE at the mercy of teachers' schedules and needs. It would be important to maintain open lines of positive communication with all teachers to let them know when and where you are available and how you can help them further BOTH their goals and your goals.ReplyDelete
I've always been attracted to our many different jobs as librarians. I think it's part of what makes our job fun.ReplyDelete


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Democratize IT. A banal catch phrase until you see off-the-shelf gaming boxes from PC maker Dell being used for visual supercomputing.
CEO Michael Dell showed the "Stallion" Visualization Cluster at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) running on standard Dell XPS gaming machines during his keynote Tuesday at SC08, a conference in Austin, Texas, focused on high-performance computing. (The keynote was streamed over the Web.)
The Stallion "visualization wall" uses XPS boxes to power 30-inch Dell displays. "The largest display of its kind in the world, at 307 million pixels," Michael Dell said.
"Literally these are gaming systems. We just leverage what was going on the commodity technology market," said Kelly Gaither, associate director at TACC, speaking as part of Dell's keynote address.
Dell is also looking to Nvidia to democratize supercomputing and bring it down to the desktop. "Advances in graphics technology are actually creating some new opportunities in supercomputing," Dell said. "We announced today that we're extending our partnership with Nvidia to advance their CUDA architecture in Dell's precision workstations," he said.
"So this really is the supercomputer on your desk. Adding one (Nvidia) Tesla card to Dell Precision workstations delivers a theoretical performance of 1 teraflop," he said. "That's seven times higher than (a high-end) Thinking Machines (supercomputer) back in 1993." (A teraflop is one trillion floating point operations per second.)
Dell also announced Tuesday that it has teamed up with Intel and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to build the Hyperion hyperscale computing environment at LLNL. The National Nuclear Security Administration's Advanced Simulation and Computing Program at the facility expects Hyperion to speed the development and reduce the cost of powerful high-performance computing clusters vital to U.S. Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration missions, including climate change, and other global challenges.
"Hyperion is a test bed that will share those breakthroughs with the entire open-source community," Dell said.
But Dell's big message was how mass-market and standard commercial computing technologies have invaded the supercomputing space. "429 of the top 500 supercomputers are based on the x86 architecture," Dell said, referring to the computing architecture being used in laptops and desktops today. "What you see here is some of the things from the commercial world in managing large data centers really penetrating very heavily (into high-performance computing)."
"Three years ago, using our blade chassis, we put 240 cores in a full-size 42U rack with 2.8GHz CPUs, and that was 1.3 teraflops of theoretical peak performance per rack. Today, we get 512 cores in a 42U rack with 3.3GHz CPUs, and that's 6.82 teraflops per rack," Dell said. ("U" is a unit of measure that describes the height of equipment used in a rack computer. Typically, 1U equals 1.75 inches.)
More addressable memory space--critical for high performance computing--will come with Intel's Nehalem processor, he said. Nehalem will support memory spaces of up to 1 terabyte (trillion bytes) of system memory, Dell said. Most PCs today support 4 gigabytes (billions of bytes).
In related news, Nvidia announced that Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) will use Nvidia Tesla GPUs to boost the computational horsepower of Tokyo Tech's Tsubame supercomputer.
Through the addition of 170 Tesla S1070 1U systems, the supercomputer now delivers nearly 170 teraflops of theoretical peak performance, placing it among the world's Top 500 Supercomputers.
"Tokyo Tech is constantly investigating future computing platforms and it had become clear to us that to make the next major leap in performance, Tsubame had to adopt GPU computing technologies," said Satoshi Matsuoka, division director of the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center at Tokyo Tech in a statement.


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Optophono is proud to take part in the 2017 Digital Design Weekend at the V&A Museum in London. We will be showing projects by:
Una Lee: OAZE (2017) interactive sound map
Helena Hamilton: Butterflies (2017) for overhead projector and electronics
Pasquale Totaro: Pyramid Synth (2017): the snythesizer that turns objects into sound
Gascia Ouzounian, Christopher Haworth and Julian Stein: Long For This World (2013): create your own music for sleeping
Peter Bennett, Christopher Haworth and Gascia Ouzounian: various apps from our AHRC-funded "musical selfies" project Pet Sounds (2016)
Where to find us at the V&A:
Seminar Room 5, Learning Centre, Victoria & Albert Museum
10 AM-5.30 PM, Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 2017.
Free entry.
We are grateful to the V&A and to the AHRC Digital Transformations Scheme for their support of this project.


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Author, journalist and web talk show host G.W. Pomichter with C0-Author William DuPree announced that their latest project, a novel titled Yesterday's Tomorrow, will compete for an Amazon Publishing contract through the new Kindle Scout program.
The Kindle Scout program is a reader driven selection process that help Amazon determine the best projects to which to offer a 5-year e-book and audio book contract. If selected, the book will be published in these formats exclusively through Amazon, while the authors will retain the paperback rights and will be allowed to release a paperback through Pomichter's small press Lexicon Communication Company, which also owns the popular Hangin With Web Show.
"I would like to ask for your help," Pomichter wrote in a press release to the Florida Book News. "We need to secure as many nominations as possible if we are going to succeed."
Yesterday's Tomorrow, is ready to be published, and a Kindle Scout campaign page has been set up to gather reader input on the project.
"We have chosen to publish this book through Amazon Publishing, using the Kindle Scout program for the unique experience that realy gives readers a chance to weigh in on what they want to read," DuPree said. "If selected, Yesterday's Tomorrow will receive a 5-year Amazon Publishing contract, and we will be able to bring this book to a larger audience."
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He may be selling books, but reality has not been kind to Chris Anderson. His theory that the future of business is selling more of less as presented in his best-selling book, The Long Tail, is refuted by observational data.
And his latest
novel idea – that the future of business is $0.00 – looks downright
absurd in today's economy. That's the thesis behind his upcoming book, Free. In fact, it's so absurd that Anderson had to address the elephant in
the room in a recent guest piece in The Wall Street Journal.
In The Wall Street Journal, Anderson writes:
"All this worked well in a rising economy, where non-monetary riches such as attention (Web traffic) and reputation (Google PageRank, which determines how high your site will appear in a search) could be turned into cash with the wave of a venture capitalist's wand or a well-timed acquisition. But this year, for the first time since 2001, the overall tide of investment and advertising won't rise. Indeed, it will almost certainly fall."
He asks what this means to "Free as an economic model".
In his eyes, this is great news for consumers, who don't have money to spend anyway. They're all going to buy netbooks (which, incidentally, aren't free) and use web-based applications (which, incidentally, often aren't as free as they used to be).
When it comes to answering the question of how good this is for businesses who are supposed to be providing all of this free stuff, the words of Borat spring to mind: "Not so much."
Anderson waxes philosophical:
"What about the oldest trick in the book: actually charging people for your goods and services? This is where the real innovation will flourish in a down economy. It's now time for entrepreneurs to innovate, not just with new products, but new business models."
He goes on:
"…Free is not enough. It also has to be matched with Paid. Just as King Gillette's free razors only made business sense paired with expensive blades, so will today's Web entrepreneurs have to not just invent products that people love, but also those that they will pay for."
Amen. Unfortunately, if it seems like Chris Anderson, the high priest of voodoo economics, is rewriting history, that's because he is.
In his original Wired article, he wrote:
"It's now clear that practically everything Web technology touches starts down the path to gratis, at least as far as we consumers are concerned. Storage now joins bandwidth (YouTube: free) and processing power (Google: free) in the race to the bottom. Basic economics tells us that in a competitive market, price falls to the marginal cost. There's never been a more competitive market than the Internet, and every day the marginal cost of digital information comes closer to nothing."
"One of the old jokes from the late-'90s bubble was that there are only two numbers on the Internet: infinity and zero. The first, at least as it applied to stock market valuations, proved false. But the second is alive and well. The Web has become the land of the free."
Apparently, through the Great Recession, Anderson is learning an important economic lesson: just because somebody treats you to lunch on Monday doesn't mean they're going to pay for your meals for the rest of the week or for the rest of your life.
Nor would you want them to.
Unfortunately Anderson still doesn't quite get it. When he suggests that entrepreneurs need to develop "new business models" to support their giveaways, what he's really suggesting is that these entrepreneurs convolute their business models even further, to develop new ways of convincing Peter to pay for Paul.
Think of it this way: the advertiser (Peter) previously wanted to get some face time with Paul (the consumer). You knew Paul so Peter was more than happy to pay for a nice lunch so that everyone could spend some time together. But Peter has a lot less money to spend these days and has a lot less desire to pay for six-course meals that may or may not lead to business being conducted. Just because you've already made reservations at a steakhouse doesn't mean that Peter is going to continue footing the entire bill.
That's a problem because Paul has come to expect filet mignon, not Filet-O-Fish, and you've agreed implicitly to provide it. If Paul, on the other hand, knew you as a chef and not as a host, chances are that he'd have been willing to pay you to cook the meal in the first place.
This is why the original business model (charging the users of your product or service) is still the best: you're selling directly to the person who receives the value you create.
While Anderson writes that "The psychological and economic case for [Free] remains as good as ever — the marginal cost of anything digital falls by 50% every year, making pricing a race to the bottom, and 'Free' has as much power over the consumer psyche as ever" I think he should ask himself whether he's watching the right game.
Frankly, I've never started a business that was in a "race to the bottom" when it comes to pricing – or anything else. Why would you want to? There are so many opportunities to create products and services of tremendous value that individuals and companies will happily pay gobs of cash for.
Even for those who do compete in markets where marginal costs are falling, there's almost always opportunity to differentiate, compete more effectively and charge more by providing a better product, quality service, highly-customized solutions, etc. Price is a reflection of value. Deliver higher perceived value and a higher price isn't necessarily more 'expensive'.
From this perspective, the challenge entrepreneurs face is not to find new ways to give stuff away for free but to build stuff that people don't even expect to be free because they're eager to pay for it.
But I digress. At least Anderson is starting to get it. Perhaps he should revise his new book now that he realizes "Free may be the best price, but it can't be the only one."
Unfortunately, that would probably require an entire rewrite and a title change, as it's clear that his latest theory about "the future of business" has been dismissed by reality before it was even published. Of course, I expect plenty of people will pay for Anderson's new book, ironically providing yet another demonstration of just how wrong Anderson was in the first place.
I for one can't wait to see what Anderson believes the "future of business" will be next year. I'm sure it will make for a sexier book than the one I'm currently working on, which is titled "So Paid: How I Make Big Money Selling Stuff to People."


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UNTIL last spring, running was going great for 15-year-old Erik Kraus. He had been training hard without a break for 18 months and was becoming faster and faster.
Then, when spring track started, something went awry. Every time he raced 1,500 meters, his time was 15 seconds slower than in the previous race.
Erik's father, Dr. William Kraus, a runner himself and a cardiologist at Duke University who studies exercise, was concerned. Erik was tired all the time; his legs felt heavy; he was frustrated, irritable. Could it be the condition that athletes dread: overtraining?
Overtraining is the downside of training, the trap that can derail an athlete's success. It's a real physical condition caused by pushing too hard for too long. It can happen with too much exercise, too much intense exercise, or both. Its hallmarks are poor performances, exhaustion and apathy.
"You just feel bad," said Dr. William O. Roberts, an internist at the University of Minnesota who specializes in treating athletes and is a former president of the American College of Sports Medicine. "The spark is gone."Continue reading the main story
It can come on so insidiously that before athletes know it, they find themselves trapped in a downward spiral. The harder they train, the worse they do.
But there's another trap — the overdiagnoses of overtraining, said Dr. Steven Keteyian, the director of preventive cardiology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
Dr. Keteyian, who has written textbook chapters on the condition, cautions that it is quite rare. But many athletes worry about overtraining every time they fail to perform as well as they think they should.
"It doesn't happen over a two-week period of time," Dr. Keteyian said. And it is unlikely to strike someone running 20 miles or so a week or doing the equivalent amount of another endurance sport, he said.
"Twenty miles is nothing," Dr. Keteyian said. "Talk to me when you are running 50 miles a week. If you are a runner and have a steady history of running 40 to 70 miles a week and now you are pushing it to 80, 90, 100 miles a week and your times are dropping and you are feeling sluggish, then I'll start to listen."
If overtraining has occurred, "it's a long road back," Dr. Keteyian said. The only cure is to take weeks or months off. No athlete wants that, Dr. Keteyian said, so it's important not to jump to conclusions.
Dr. Kraus knew that overtraining was unlikely. But his son seemed to meet the criteria, such as they are. He began looking for credible data on overtraining but was soon disappointed to discover that overtraining remains poorly understood and understudied.
There is no definitive test for overtraining. Instead, the diagnosis is reached by exclusion. Besides slower times and fatigue, Dr. Keteyian and others say athletes may notice that their muscles are weaker and that their coordination is poorer. Their heart rates may be higher than they should be with moderate exercise. And their resting heart rates, taken first thing in the morning, can be higher, too.
Overtraining is an unintended consequence of the only known way for athletes to improve — by pushing their bodies and stressing themselves by deliberately going faster or longer than feels comfortable. "Training a little bit beyond your capabilities is the only way to get better," Dr. Kraus said. "But you have to balance that with rest and recovery. It's a fine line. Where is that edge and how do you get as close as possible without going over it?"
Elite athletes and their coaches are acutely aware of overtraining, said Frank Busch, the head coach for the University of Arizona's swimming team and an assistant coach for the United States men's Olympic swimming team. And they have become adept at heading it off.
Not too long ago, coaches thought that volume — hours upon hours of training — was the key to outstanding performances, Mr. Busch said. "The result was sort of an arms race among swimmers and other endurance athletes to see who could train the most," he said. "Athletes began getting overtrained."
Now coaches and swimmers know that there is a point of diminishing returns. Coaches look for signs that their athletes are doing too much. Performance is one indicator, of course, but so is something as simple as a swimmer who has stopped smiling, Mr. Busch said. "That's usually a sign that they are dreading practice or there is something else going on. Maybe they are exhausted around the clock."
Dr. Roberts said that among his recent overtrained patients was a young man who was a stellar Nordic skier. A year and a half later, in marched another: the man's mother, a middle-aged woman, also a prize-winning Nordic skier.
"They both trained too hard," Dr. Roberts said. Both, he added, "were more or less self-coached at the time." No one was monitoring them.
"Athletes are obsessed and gullible," Dr. Keteyian said. "They will do anything they can to improve their performance and they don't know when to stop."
Dr. Roberts suggested that athletes who feel tired all the time first take some time off from their sport, perhaps a few days to two weeks. If they still do not feel better, they should see their primary-care doctor and mention that they are concerned about overtraining. Or, he said, they might want to seek out a physician who specializes in sports medicine — a list is available on newamssm.org.
"An athlete would want to look for a physician who practices the broader scope of sports medicine and has not limited his or her practice to musculoskeletal problems," Dr. Roberts added.
As for Dr. Kraus, he told his son to take a two-week break. That did not help. He had the youth tested for ferritin, an iron storage protein. Overtrained athletes can have low iron levels and anemia, although overtraining is not the only cause.
But even though Erik's ferritin levels were sub par, and even though they rose slightly when he took iron supplements, he felt as tired and sluggish as ever. In the end, Erik Kraus ended up taking two months off. It was not easy. Like other athletes, he wanted to train, wanted to race, and he worried that he would never be competitive again. Now, finally, he has returned to running.
"When he first started back, he said, 'Oh, my gosh, this feels good,' " Dr. Kraus recalled. Then Erik went for an eight-mile run with the fastest runner on his team. He not only kept up with his teammate but pushed him at the end.
Erik returned home from that run all smiles. "He said, 'Dad, I had a breakthrough today,' " Dr. Kraus said.
The Personal Best column last Thursday, about athletes who overtrain, included an incorrect Web address for a listing of sports-medicine doctors. It is amssm.org, the site of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine not acsm.org, the site for the American College of Sports Medicine.


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Online professional development programs for your district or university program. Graduate or continuing education credit options.
Professional Learning Communities:
Online Cohorts
Faculty participate in a professional learning community online using a Blackboard course shell (or similar platform) with an online moderator. The PLC may focus on specific topics or institutional goals. Participants access materials and resources online, participate in discussion and collaborate online, conduct student study, peer review posted materials, and/or mentor new teachers. Asynchronous communication allows participation on a flexible schedule from a variety of locations. Provides a practical, sustained, participant-directed professional development experience.
Professional Development that is:
- a continuous process, not a one-time product
- learner-centered: individuals and groups identify needs and goals
- problem solving applied directly to students and classes
- collaborative, cooperative, supportive
- networked with affinity groups and national models
- reflective
What makes it successful?
- establishing an effective learning community
- effective use of digital networking tools
- excellent moderation
Read more about it:
Nussbaum-Beach, Sheryl. (2009) Creating Learning Organizations. The Professional Development Sourcebook, Vol 2:1, p. 8, Oct. 1, 2009
Humefeld, Ross. (2009) When Teachers Are the Experts Education Week, Vol 29:10, p 24-25, Nov. 4, 2009.
Rich, Elizabeth (2009) The World's Largest English Department: A Ning group for English teachers reveals the potential of online social networking to break the culture of professional isolation. The Professional Development Sourcebook, Vol 2:1, p 26-29, Oct. 1, 2009
Fulton, Kathleen and Riel, Margaret. (2008) Collaborative Online Continuing Education: Professional Development Through Learning Communities. Edutopia.org 7/13/2008
Differentiation/Special Needs/Inclusion
Differentiated Learning for Diverse Needs
An interactive online training suitable to all educators:
- Multiple entry points; adapt learning to your needs
- Covers disabilities, gifted, and English language learners
- Collaboration and co-teaching models reviewed
- Collaborate with colleagues online
- Practical ideas for addressing diverse needs in your classroom
- 30 clock hours professional development, credit option
What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Students with Special Needs
- Covers IDEA, IEPs, 504, differentiated instruction, classroom management
- Understand the K-12 special education system
- Practical ideas for addressing specific needs in your classroom
- Collaborate with colleagues in online forums
- Personal interaction with the instructor
- 30 clock hours professional development, credit option
Advanced Study in Teaching Special Populations
An advanced online training for general education teachers.
- Addresses quality standards for teacher license programs
- Great for district teacher induction programs
Inclusion & Co-Teaching Resources & Collaboration
A resources and collaboration forum for inclusion teams.
- Review resources on collaboration, co-teaching, Universal Design for Learning
- Collaborate and co-plan to address specific needs in your school
- Peer and Moderator feedback
- Confidential online work areas for teams
Online Learning:
Introduction to Hybrid and Online Teaching
An online course designed for all educators. Learn to teach online through direct experience.
- 21st Century Literacies
- Internet Safety
- Copyright and Creative Commons
- Web 2.0 Tools, Bookmarking, Forums, Blogs, Wikis
- Digital Libraries and Learning Resources
- Course Management Systems
- Experience Online Learning in this Model Course
Online Learning Practices for Administrators and Policy-Makers
Gain an understanding of online learning practices through direct experience. Same topics as above, geared towards administrators and policy-makers. Online networking with colleagues.
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Apache POI - the Java API for Microsoft Documents
Project News
11 January 2019 - Initial support for JDK 11
We did some work to verify that compilation with Java 11 is working and that all unit-tests pass.
See the details in the FAQ entry.
09 April 2019 - POI 4.1.0 available
The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 4.1.0. This release features a new EMF renderer and support of SVG images in XSLF, improvements to Java 9+ support, a handful of new formula function implementations and numerous bug fixes. Several dependencies were also updated to their latest versions to pick up security fixes and other improvements.
A summary of changes is available in the Release Notes. A full list of changes is available in the change log. People interested should also follow the dev list to track progress.
See the downloads page for more details.
POI requires Java 8 or newer since version 4.0.1.
26 March 2019 - XMLBeans 3.1.0 available
The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of XMLBeans 3.1.0. Featured are a handful of bug fixes.
The Apache POI project has unretired the XMLBeans codebase and is maintaining it as a sub-project, due to its importance in the poi-ooxml codebase.
A summary of changes is available in the Release Notes. People interested should also follow the POI dev list to track progress.
The XMLBeans JIRA project has been reopened and feel free to open issues.
POI 4.1.0 uses XMLBeans 3.1.0.
XMLBeans requires Java 6 or newer since version 3.0.2.
20 March 2017 - CVE-2017-5644 - Possible DOS (Denial of Service) in Apache POI versions prior to 3.15
Apache POI in versions prior to release 3.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a specially crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. Users with applications which accept content from external or untrusted sources are advised to upgrade to Apache POI 3.15 or newer. Thanks to Xiaolong Zhu and Huijun Chen from Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. for reporting the vulnerability.
Mission Statement
The Apache POI Project's mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2). In short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java. In addition, you can read and write MS Word and MS PowerPoint files using Java. Apache POI is your Java Excel solution (for Excel 97-2008). We have a complete API for porting other OOXML and OLE2 formats and welcome others to participate.
OLE2 files include most Microsoft Office files such as XLS, DOC, and PPT as well as MFC serialization API based file formats. The project provides APIs for the OLE2 Filesystem (POIFS) and OLE2 Document Properties (HPSF).
Office OpenXML Format is the new standards based XML file format found in Microsoft Office 2007 and 2008. This includes XLSX, DOCX and PPTX. The project provides a low level API to support the Open Packaging Conventions using openxml4j.
For each MS Office application there exists a component module that attempts to provide a common high level Java api to both OLE2 and OOXML document formats. This is most developed for Excel workbooks (SS=HSSF+XSSF). Work is progressing for Word documents (WP=HWPF+XWPF) and PowerPoint presentations (SL=HSLF+XSLF).
The project has some support for Outlook (HSMF). Microsoft opened the specifications to this format in October 2007. We would welcome contributions.
There are also projects for Visio (HDGF and XDGF), TNEF (HMEF), and Publisher (HPBF).
As a general policy we collaborate as much as possible with other projects to provide this functionality. Examples include: Cocoon for which there are serializers for HSSF; Open Office.org with whom we collaborate in documenting the XLS format; and Tika / Lucene, for which we provide format interpretors. When practical, we donate components directly to those projects for POI-enabling them.
Why should I use Apache POI?
A major use of the Apache POI api is for Text Extraction applications such as web spiders, index builders, and content management systems.
So why should you use POIFS, HSSF or XSSF?
You'd use POIFS if you had a document written in OLE 2 Compound Document Format, probably written using MFC, that you needed to read in Java. Alternatively, you'd use POIFS to write OLE 2 Compound Document Format if you needed to inter-operate with software running on the Windows platform. We are not just bragging when we say that POIFS is the most complete and correct implementation of this file format to date!
You'd use HSSF if you needed to read or write an Excel file using Java (XLS). You'd use XSSF if you need to read or write an OOXML Excel file using Java (XLSX). The combined SS interface allows you to easily read and write all kinds of Excel files (XLS and XLSX) using Java. Additionally there is a specialized SXSSF implementation which allows to write very large Excel (XLSX) files in a memory optimized way.
The Apache POI Project provides several component modules some of which may not be of interest to you. Use the information on our Components page to determine which jar files to include in your classpath.
So you'd like to contribute to the project? Great! We need enthusiastic, hard-working, talented folks to help us on the project, no matter your background. So if you're motivated, ready, and have the time: Download the source from the Subversion Repository, build the code, join the mailing lists, and we'll be happy to help you get started on the project!
Please read our Contribution Guidelines. When your contribution is ready submit a patch to our Bug Database.
by Andrew C. Oliver, Glen Stampoultzis, Avik Sengupta, Rainer Klute, David Fisher


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Do or Don't: spending money on art
There is magic in art. It is unexplainable, but it makes you feel different, it moves you and excites you in a strange, but lovely way. Art is everything around you – it is movies and music, it is people, places, theatres. Art is the beauty in the ugly and unpredictable world we are forced to survive in. Art is the reality, art are all the fairy tales. Art is the nature, but art is also everything else. Art is what you understand, what you know, but what remains unsaid, as well. Art influences you too often unconsciously. But the question is, if in this world full of doubts and uncertainty, in this practical and mercantile world, it is so worthy, to spend money on art.
You will give hundreds or thousands pounds on something that you will hang on your wall on leave on your coffee table. It will be pure beauty, but instead of saving for a new car, for a house, for your child's education, for your bright and shiny future, you will spend them on decoration. Well the frames full of photos and the candles all over the house will make it look cosy, as well.
Yeah, you will spend some more money and you will get a unique, fancy and sophisticated painting. You will then place it on a wall in the living room and it will change the perspectives so much, that you could hardly remember what it was before, without it. It is worth it, a lot. A nice piece of art cannot be compared with photos, not because they have no value for you, but because a painting might make your home a lot more splendid and might bring it a spirit that could make it cosy and fancy in the same time.


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Review Forms - Dean Jeff VanDerWerff
When undertaking formal reviews of faculty performance and accomplishments, the VPAA recommends that you familiarize yourself with the review criteria set out in the Faculty Handbook.
To aid you in this task, a selection of tables with appropriate review criteria has been developed. You may access this collection of review criteria here: REVIEW CRITERIA.
In an effort facilitate a clear and accurate documentation of the results of Faculty Statatus Reviews I have designed a number of forms.
Once you hit "submit" - the form will be sent to Brenda Meyer who will then add it to our "Closed Minutes" section of the J Drive.
For protection, each form is password protected - the FSC secretary and Academic Deans have been given the password.
Kindly Choose the Appropriate Form (from the list below)
6 Year and Continuing - Non Tenure Track
Promotion to Associate Professor
Post-tenure review of Assistant Professor
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In the 21st century you can do pretty much anything on the internet. You can work, pay bills, read newspapers or communicate with friends around the world. Why not use the world wide web for your own entertainment? How about considering an online casino as a great and convenient way to get people to enjoy themselves.
Suppose you would like to visit the land-based casino. In that case, you have to plan a trip to a city or a destination where you will physically find the casino. If your trip is not a weekend, you have to take a vacation, spend a lot of money on transportation, lodging, food, etc. Adding the money you want to play you can end up with a pretty high number.
Bet from the comfort of your own home
But if you want to play at the online casino, all you have to do is turn on your computer, tablet or smartphone. As you can see, within a few minutes you can already enjoy your favourite gambling game.
If you don't prefer live game rush, online casinos are a perfect choice. You can play by yourself, you are free of all distraction and therefore you can concentrate perfectly. In addition, you can use your time much more efficiently because you don't have to spend hours in a hotel room or in the restaurant.
In an online casino, you play only for yourself, you also have fun and you have a great chance to win. In addition, in the online casino you can play for free, so you do not have to risk your money, you can play at your own pace and all the attention is only for you.
A great selection of games and exclusive bonuses
But one of the best thing about online casino is that you have so many choices. Today, there are hundreds of online casinos where you can choose from literally hundreds of games. This is also the undisputed advantage of online gambling. In a classic land-based casino, you usually only play typical gambling games like roulette, blackjack, baccarat etc.
Yes, these options are available also in the online casino. But here you will find some games in several versions. The biggest selection is mostly for slot machines. But there are usually ten or more versions of blackjack, video poker or roulette. If you want to try another game, you do not have to go anywhere. Just click on the part of the casino where you pick the games and that's it. In addition, some casinos offer you exclusive games that you play only with them.
Another unquestionable advantage of online casinos is bonuses and promotions. Not only casinos offer entry bonuses, bonuses for the first to xth deposit, but also the opportunity to collect loyalty points. That means that if you become regular customers, the casino will offer you special bonuses several times a week just for you or a variety of promotions to help you win exclusive and more valuable prizes.
How it all works
Let's look at how online gambling works. But do not worry. We will not deal with technical details. This section will try to get your head around how gambling works at basics. While you sit at your computer with your legs crossed someone is working. To be precise, not someone but something. It's a computer system that takes care of everything that works.
Online casinos are a constantly running operation that works 24 hours a day. It has tens of thousands of customers and millions of dollars at stakes. Because of this, online casinos use state-of-the-art software that is still being developed, upgraded and improved.
Continuous and seamless service, sincerity and security. The friendly and professional casino service is the result of an independent, modern computer system on the one hand and the other hand good management, quality customer support and a user-friendly environment.
And the best thing? You don't have to download anything. When you play at your computer, all you have to do is open a browser and you can play instantly. On the same principle also works mobile casino. All you have to do is open a website in you smartphone or tablet. If you don't want to play in the mobile browser you can also download an app.


text: Tylar Merrill is a felt artists who enjoys creating new and exciting felt art by blending an array of natural materials. Her playful approach often incorporates unusual found objects into many of her finished works. Her artistry includes exquisitely crafted felt fashions, accessories and unique art objects. Tylar loves the process of felting and is always experimenting with new styles and techniques, exploring new themes in color, textures, and form. She has always loved color, fiber, and texture. Felting has given her the opportunity to combine and explore color, texturing, 3-dimensional form, folk art and fashion design. Tylar also highly values working with wool because it is a renewable resource and a healthy component of our ecology.


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Due to severe snow and ice the RTITB office will be closed all day on Monday 11th December 2017. This decision has not been taken lightly but we feel it is in the best interests of safety for both our staff and candidates due to attend courses at the RTITB Instructor Academy.
The good news is that we are able to continue working remotely despite the office closure. Our staff are available via e-mail, and we will be diverting the office phones to our personal mobiles to handle as many of your calls as we can during this time.
There will unfortunately be no RTITB Online Shop orders processed or dispatched tomorrow, we are really sorry for the delay in the purchased items getting to you.
We will be doing our best for you, but won't be at full service until the office re-opens, which we hope will be Tuesday.
We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused and thank you very much for your patience and understanding. Please do call or email us and we will get back to you as quick as we can. If you struggling to get through on 01952 520200 you can also dial: 01952 520209, 01952 520207, 01952 520215 or 01952 520217.


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greetings! i'm back from a lovely week away in the sunshine state. i snapped this photo on a long walk- it just screams "florida." i know it's been a bit quiet around here but the warmth truly did wonders for my soul and i'm ready to get back to work.
we had an amazing trip filled with family, wonderful food, a surprise engagement(!) and you guessed it: relaxation- where the only "work" to be done was on our tan. we sat by the pool, drank cocktails such as the appropriately named paradise found, got all dressed up for fancy date nights, and went for leisurely strolls each day. it was... epic, as my family would say. i was able to check a few things off my winter to do list, too!
but as the song goes, "back to life, back to reality." (children of the 80s/90s don't you love that song?) and that's my m.o. as of late. i've got organization on the brain. there's no time like the beginning of the year to propel us in the right direction. clothing, paper, clutter- everything needs a refresh and reboot. the organization enthusiasm may have a little something to do with this planner. i can keep my schedule, lists, and goals all in one place. hopefully this will remedy my post it note issue...
aside from the fact that it's freezing and snowing right now (and i'm suffering from vacation withdrawal,) i'm looking forward to the next two days spent getting back on track.
again, happy new year and have a wonderful weekend, friends!


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Benefits Of Brussels Sprouts
Brussels sprouts are part of the cruciferous vegetable category, that also includes broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage. This group of vegetables offers a unique composition of antioxidants that promotes good health. Additionally, brussels sprouts are low in calories, while offering protein, vitamins and minerals to support a healthy body.
Finding creative ways to incorporate then into your meals is important as these vegetables are packed with so many antioxidants, minerals and vitamins that their appeal to the rest of our bodies is considerable.
Aids Weight Loss
Brussels sprouts are a perfect food if you're looking for something that's filling yet low in calories. One cup of cooked Brussels sprouts contains just 56 calories, and is packed with four grams (16% of the RDA) of dietary fiber, which can aid in digestion, prevent constipation, maintain low blood sugar and prevent overeating.
Rich In Antioxidants
A host of antioxidant ingredients are found in Brussels sprouts, and serve well to protect against oxidative stress on the body's cells.
Cancer Prevention
When you eat Brussels sprouts, you're helping your body to ward off chronic oxidative stress, which is a risk factor for many types of cancer and other chronic diseases. Glucosinolates in Brussels sprouts and the detox-activating isothiocyanates are shown to fight against and even prevent various cancers, including bladder, breast, colon, lung, prostate, and ovarian cancer.
The sulforaphane found in Brussels spouts also protects our stomach lining by obstructing the overgrowth of Helicobacter pylori, a bacteria that can lead to gastric cancer.
Glucobrassicin, a glucosinolate that is particularly abundant in Brussels sprouts, has been shown to fight inflammation. Not to mention just one and a half cups of Brussels sprouts contain about 430 milligrams of omega-3 fatty acids (about 1/3 of the daily recommended allowance). Finally, the levels of vitamin K found in Brussels sprouts has been shown to effectively regulate the body's inflammatory responses.
The high fiber content of Brussels sprouts lowers our cholesterol by binding with bile acids that the liver produces from cholesterol for digesting fat. Because many of these bile acids are coupled with fiber, the liver is charged with producing more bile acid to digest fat, and therefore requires more cholesterol to do so, ultimately lowering the cholesterol amount within our bodies.
Cardiovascular Support
Brussels sprouts contain the isothiocyanate sulforaphane made from glucosinolates. These powerful compounds not only trigger anti-inflammatory activity in the cardiovascular system, but also prevent and even possibly help reverse blood vessel damage.
By regulating inflammation within the body, Brussels sprouts can fight against the onset of heart attacks, ischemic heart disease, and arteriosclerosis. Furthermore, the lowered cholesterol mentioned above also lessens the possibility of arterial blockage, and the folate content suppresses the amino acid homocysteine that has been shown to contribute to heart disease.
Promotes Healthy Bones
Brussels sprouts are rich in vitamin A & K, which promotes healthy bones & teeth, prevents calcification of the body's tissues, serves as an antioxidant and another anti-inflammatory agent, and is essential for proper brain and nerve function.
Boosts The Immune System
The levels of vitamin A & C found in Brussels sprouts ensure a healthy immune system, ward against hyper tension, lower blood pressure, fight lead toxicity, combat cataracts, and serve as a powerful antioxidant that prevents "cellular rust," which can lead to atherosclerosis, heart disease, stroke and cancer.
Ocular Health & More!
Vitamin A Brussels sprouts not only boosts immunity & maintains healthy bones and teeth, it also protects eyes against cataracts and macular degeneration, prevents urinary stones, and is essential to our reproductive organs.


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Engaging Body and Soul: Cultivating Feminine Wisdom
Paperback – October 5, 2014 | Number of pages needed* | ISBN here* | ISBN here*
Engaging Body and Soul: Cultivating Feminine Wisdom focuses on how contemporary women mediate the complexity of their bodies to arrive at a spiritual awareness of themselves. The arguments in this book support the co-origination and co-participation of body and soul in the interpretation of women's lives. This book discusses the works of women poets, essayists, fiction writers, and feminist philosophers of different spiritual and sexual orientations who express their thoughts and their experiences of sexuality, and how these experiences connect with their spiritual side.
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