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Salt-Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare has joined American Well's online care marketplace, best known as "the Exchange."
Through the Exchange, Intermountain will make its nurse practitioners and physician assistants available for patient telehealth visits on Amwell.
The offering is available now to patients living in Utah, and soon will also be available to patients in Idaho.
Intermountain Healthcare already serves its patients and communities through Intermountain Connect Care for on-demand telehealth visits.
William Daines, MD, medical director for Connect Care at Intermountain Healthcare, said the exchange makes it possible for healthcare organizations to redistribute their services online to new patient populations. Healthcare providers – such as health systems, health plans, employers, and retailers – can connect and exchange services with one another, instantly, online.
American Well CEO Roy Schoenberg, MD, said the Exchange also allows health plans to connect their members online to established provider brands.
American Well launched the Exchange in May 2016. The first partners to join were Cleveland Clinic, LiveHealth Online from Anthem, and Nemours Children's Health System.


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Friday came and my thoughts drifted to Black Bridge Brewery. After work I drove directly there. Jen had my favorite Pandora station playing, Def Leppard Radio. The soothing, solid riffs of "Animal" poured out of B3, elegant and beautiful like the Locomotive Stout that filled my glass.
These things are what make a town's local brewery successful. The connections. The interest in customers. The support of those customers for the businesses in their community. The casual, friendly, personable ambiance of Black Bridge makes it a cool haunt.
It encourages my ambivertness. Maybe that needs explanation. There are introverts and extroverts right? The introverts recharge their good selves in solitude. The extroverts need activity and social connection. According to a buddy, I am an ambivert; I'm quite comfortable either way. Sitting alone with a stout or a Scottish export is terribly relaxing. I'll walk away from it as happy as can be. But I really like chatting with the folks at B3. They've got cool intel on the happenings downtown. I'm finding out some engrossing back story, too. Being in the right place at the right time and employing ambivertness I sometimes get samples of pending beers. And that is just cool.
So, Scorched Earth will be on tap soon. I've been waiting for it to return. If you like beer with hot peppers in it, this is an outstanding example of the style. And if like Evil Red, well, Scorched Earth is built from it with some additional malt to help balance the spicery.
Imagine a cutting board with hot, hot peppers chopped up all over it. You scrape up those pulpy remains and toss it in a glass. Add am amber ale and a couple ounces of IPA. Voila! This is the piquancy of Scorched Earth. You can smell the heat, the rinds of habanero. Some habanero will be in the kegs and some ghost pepper.
My lips perceived a somatic sensation of burning, a numbing. I could feel a specter of heartburn, a fire swelling in my gut. Generally descriptions such as that would cause people to be concerned for their health. They may think twice about ingesting a substance that would cause pain and discomfort. Well, what's life without a bit of fun and risk, eh? Don't worry, it won't kill you or anything. It's just going to be a hot beer.
Tim said there was some hops in the batch, too. He said you had to really concentrate to find them. I guess I suck at concentration. I did drink Scorched Earth with an Evil Red, its parent. I could taste those hops. It made its offspring dry. Interesting.
Watch for its release in the coming week.

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IRS Form 1098-T for 2019
Your 2019 1098-T will be mailed by January 31, 2020 to the home address you have listed in Access Stout. Amounts reported on Form 1098-T may assist you in completing IRS Form 8863 – the form used for calculating the education tax credits that a taxpayer may claim as part of your tax return. To find out if you are eligible for a federal education tax credit, see detailed information in IRS Publication 970, page 9.
Note, in previous years, form 1098-T included a figure in Box 2 that represented qualified tuition and related expenses (QTRE) billed to your student account for the tax year. Due to a 2018 IRS tax reporting change, Box 1 will report the amount of QTRE you paid during the year and Box 2 will be empty.
The University of Wisconsin-Stout is unable to provide you with individual tax advice, but should you have questions, you should seek the counsel of an informed tax preparer or adviser.
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I recently set off for a mini getaway, as requests for overnight trips to Arenal Volcano begin to spill in for high season. I decided to pay a visit to Arenal Springs Resort & Spa as my clients have been looking for a mid range accommodation with great views.
From the moment we arrived for our inspection the staff was amazing. They greeted us with welcome drinks and lead us to check in, which was surprisingly quick and painless.
They helped us to our room. It was perfect. The walkway arrived at a large patio with rocking chairs. The room was full of natural light. Two queen beds, large bathroom complete with a 1/2 outdoor shower. There was a mini fridge, coffee maker and flat screen tv. The best part of the room was the breath taking view of the volcano.
Like a kid in a candy store I was torn between heading to check out the hotel spa vs the hot springs first. Tough life … I know! lol Figured I better get booked in for a little TLC so I walked down to the spa. I booked a facial and massage and then carried on down to the hot springs. Good thing I booked them for the following day as once I got in…there was no getting out of the springs.
The property has their own thermal waters, so no need to head to another place to soak in the famous benefits of hot springs. They have 4 different pools, a jacuzzi, 2 cold pools including one for the kids. Now that I think about it … I didn't see one child there. I would recommend Hotel Los Lagos for people travelling with children. There is a little more to do there for them.
We finally got out to go have dinner. We found the food at the Ti-Cain restaurant at the resort pricey, but good. Breakfast was included in our stay and the buffet had something for everyone. During our couple days we also wandered out to eat a couple meals as well. The locals told me the best steak was found at Don Rufino. I'm an Albertan that has lived in Argentina so I'm pretty picky about good steak. I wasn't impressed with Don Rufino. I usually head to Restaurante La Parada infront of the park for a good cheap meal, with plenty of people watching included.
My spa treatment was great. The massage and facial lasted almost 2 hours. The setting is serene as the wood treatment areas are surrounded by lush gardens and a Koi pond.
For anyone interested in doing yoga, they have a beautiful area for your practice. GORGEOUS!!!
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Arenal Springs and Resorts to anyone looking for an overnight trip to Arenal. Great Place!
p.s. I was to busy in the hot springs and spa to take my own photos…these are compliments of the hotel 🙂


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Okay well, I seriously don't like these boys, but somebody I know just loves them and I
to them and they suck. And since she loved them so much I decided to find the tabs to
one of their songs and I couldn't find it anywhere. So I had to make them myself. It's
hard in this song because I can't hear the guitar anywhere. Also, I put this in
because I have no clue what the Korean stuff means. I think this is pretty close.
standard tuning (EBGDAE)
intro: Gm7/Bb C Dm
Gm7/Bb C
Gm7/Bb A/C# Dm Eb Csus4 C
Naegyeoteh baby baby isseojweo woo...
(How can I forget all the special memories of you. Still remember, my little princess)
F(add2) Dm7
What I'm feeling must be love
Bb Csus4 C
It's hard to hide it when a smile appears on my face
F(add2) Dm7 D
I start to miss you, before the day even ends
Gm7 Fsus4/C C
What should I do? My heart has fallen ill
Gm7 Am Dm Gm7 Am7 Dm
You won't see laziness in me anymore
Gm7 Am7 Dm Bb Am Gm C
I only want to show you my best
F Am7 Bb D/F#
C C7/Bb Am7 Dm
I'm going to fly high up into the sky And tell the world I love you
Bm7(b5) E/G# Am7 Dm
Your aura lasts deep into the night, girl
Gm7 Csus4 C
I will become a star watching over you
Bb(add2) Csus4
You're my love
F(add2) Dm7
"Let's split up." "Be happy"
Bb Csus4 C
Let's vow never to say, those words to each other
F(add2) Dm7 D7
Stay by my side, just as you are now
Gm7 Csus4 C
I know I'm lacking, but I hope you understand
Gm7 Am7 Dm Gm7 Am7 Dm
Anticipate a more mature me
Gm7 Am7 Dm7 Bb
I want to become the man, that was made for you
Edim/Bb A/C# Dm F/C BbM7
Gm Gm7
Please give me permission, to stay in your heart forever
Asus4 A Dm F/C
If you feel the same way I do
There will be no pain
F/A Csus4 C
Now I will protect you, now I will protect you
For you
(Do you know how much I love you? Please stay by my side)
Db 7 Gb Gb/Bb
Oh~ My little princess
Cb Eb/G Abm Db
Bbm7 Ebm
I'm going to show you the love I've kept hidden until now
Cdim F/A Bbm Ebm
Forever, with an unchanging heart, girl
Abm Abm7 Dbsus4 Db
I'm going to love you more than myself You're my love
CbM7 Dbsus4 Db Gb
I promise you. Oh woo
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By Lowell Ponte
Wednesday, 29 October 2008 09:09 AM
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Barack Obama's ideology of "redistribution of the wealth" can be called socialism, Marxism, fascism or welfare-state liberalism. But whatever label you give it, add the words irrational and sinful.
Mr. Obama describes himself as a Christian, but what he advocates violates at least two of the Bible's 10 Commandments — the ones covering stealing, and coveting anything belonging to your neighbor.
Barack Obama says he wants to "spread the wealth around," a noble idea for a multimillionaire like Obama, so long as the wealth he voluntarily spreads is his own.
Trouble is, he is proposing to redistribute politically and without their consent what other people have earned.
This can only be done by first expropriating, i.e., stealing, what others have earned; in effect, stealing a large part of their life, energy, and talent and robbing opportunities from their children.
Liberals often say of the religious right that they "don't want those people imposing their morality on me."
But when Barack Obama takes one person's earnings in order to give them to another, he is imposing his morality on the rest of us at gunpoint.
Obama's morality is collectivist and judgmental, and assumes that government owns what you have earned and has the right to decide which others are more deserving of the fruits of your labor than you are.
In such political transfers of money, government always rakes off for itself a huge shipping and handling fee — 81 cents of every tax dollar in the case of Democratic President Lyndon Johnson's "war on poverty," which let only pennies of each taxed dollar trickle down to those whose poverty continues to justify the government's theft.
Under President John F. Kennedy, 52 cents of every tax dollar went for national defense. Today, more than half of every tax dollar goes for "transfer payments," taking money out of your pocket to put it into somebody else's.
JFK's national defense provided defense for the "general welfare" of everybody. Today's transfer payments, like today's use of eminent domain, is usually just the expropriation of one person's property so it can be given for the "individual welfare" of somebody else more favored by politicians.
This is unconstitutional. As legal scholar Richard Epstein argued in his classic book "Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain," today's transfer payments violate your Fifth Amendment right to receive just compensation when the government confiscates your property.
Mr. Obama's divide-and-conquer political tactics of race and class warfare are based on envy and covetousness, and on voters who can be bamboozled into thinking they will share in the loot his government pirates from the most productive citizens.
This is deeply unethical, anti-Christian politics that turns those who selfishly vote for such piracy into a politician's morally debased accomplices in theft.
As socialist playwright George Bernard Shaw observed, "Whoever promises to rob Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul's support."
But even in godless Darwinian terms, any society that confiscates the resources of the productive to buy the votes of the unproductive is committing slow suicide. It shifts resources from society's best people to its worst.
Equality is the socialist's rationalization to justify wealth redistribution, but this too is immoral and irrational. Capitalism, as an engine of productivity, creates wealth that all share in varying degrees, which is why America's poor are materially richer than average European's or the upper class in Third World socialist nations.
And like the physics behind how an engine works, social progress is driven by difference, not equality. If all were given or allowed to keep only the same amount of money, why would some work harder to invent or produce things for others?
Such "equality" is typical of primitive societies — and why they remain primitive. By punishing the productive, these societies end up sharing poverty, not wealth.
If Mr. Obama truly wants to redistribute wealth and privilege, then let him have a lottery each year to redistribute the choicest social positions — movie star, NFL quarterback, rock star, or even president of the United States.
You might have the bourgeois capitalist notion that such prestigious jobs should be earned by talent, but why? The same logic that says capital need not be left in the hands of the capitalists who achieved the most with it can also be used to justify redistributing movie star roles or classroom "A" grades equally among the citizenry.
Think this is crazy? Think you have no wish to watch the average person next door play James Bond in the movies, or quarterback the New York Giants, or be named by lottery instead of audience votes as the next "American Idol" winner?
Yes, the quality of performances in these fields would turn to junk if we stopped selecting our stars by merit, but this is precisely what Barack Obama proposes to do with business and industry when he redistributes to non-capitalists the capital that fuels capitalism.
Lenin, the Marxist founder of the late Soviet Union, wanted a utopian society in which "the cook will run the state." What the U.S.S.R. produced was a society of slaves ruled and exploited by a privileged aristocratic elite of the sort that now rules China and Cuba.
Instead of next Tuesday's silly election, egalitarian Barack Obama should call for a computer lottery to select one citizen at random to become our next President.
We have already greatly weakened our society by the degree of "progressive" taxation (oddly named because it thwarts progress) we already pay. The top 10 percent of earners now pay 70 percent of all individual income taxes. But Barack Obama brays that the rich are not paying "their fair share" of taxes?
The bottom 50 percent pay only 2.9 percent of the total and see government merely as a big machine to dispense them goodies, e.g., Obama plans to give $2,000 welfare payments as "tax cuts" each year to those who now pay no income tax. Why? To buy their votes for the Democratic Party.
Truth be told, nothing violates the ideal of equality before the law more than our progressive income tax system.
When Mr. Obama discriminates against productive citizens by making their tax burden heavier than what others pay, how can this be justified in the name of equality — especially when the result is a redistributive society that turns some citizens into accomplices to theft, and others into resentful victims of this theft?
Mr. Obama, of course, claims that he will tax only the wealthy and leave those earning less than $250,000 a year, or $200,000, or $150,000 — his slippery promises keep shifting — with no tax increase.
This same kind of rhetoric was used to impose the income tax, that supposedly would hit only the wealthy and never go above 3 percent of income, but today robs more than half of us.
The Alternative Minimum Tax was originally imposed to catch only 13 ultra-wealthy families that paid no tax; but this year the AMT could squeeze thousands of dollars from each of 40 million American families whose otherwise-legitimate tax exemptions it disallows.
In 1992, Bill Clinton promised, like Obama, a middle class tax cut, but only weeks after taking office he launched instead the biggest tax increase in American history.
Mr. Obama has vowed not to renew President George W. Bush's tax cuts set to expire in 2010. This would impose a $2 trillion tax increase that will batter American families earning as little as $42,000 per year.
But truth be told, all Americans will suffer a gigantic tax increase if Obama is elected. The businesspeople and companies on whom he dumps crushing new taxes will merely pass them along to you and your family in higher prices.
This Obama tax increase will be invisible. He will doubtless use the higher prices his taxes cause to decry "greedy capitalists" and demand that they pay even heavier taxes.
Do not be fooled by the sinful divide-and-conquer class hatred and envy Obama is using to gain power for himself.
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Greetings My Brother, we're glad your journey has brought you to our hairy phamily, lotsa kynd, helpful, friendly folks here. We hope to see ya round often. namaste'
Really liked your idea with the incense bottle, i work with glass and have heaps of drill bits so i'm goin to give it a go!
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Wow thank you for your kind words about my antennae! Couldn't imagine a day without them.
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I think a lot of people have this destination on their bucketlist; Cuba. Now the borders are open with the US people are afraid the country will change fast and the authentic Cuba will disappear fast. I am the lucky one, because I can cross it of my list. Last November I went to Cuba for 17 days. My first trip outside Europe. Let me take you with me.
I have to be honest with you. Cuba wasn't really on my list. Well actually all the countries that I haven't seen yet are on my list. I want to see the whole world! But a friend of mine keeps a smaller bucketlist and Cuba was on it. In January 2015 she asked me if I was interested in joining here. Like I said I don't really have a list so, as long as I haven't been there, I am in! So that's how it started. We decided to go in November due to best travel time and ticket prices. My retour ticket was around 650 euros and I bought it six months ahead. Same as my backpack and other travel gear, because it was my first backpack trip.
My travel friend came to visit me here in Barcelona in September, so we could plan our trip. Luckely we had the same interests and we had our travel schedule ready in less than one hour. The plan: Havana, Viñales, Las Terrazas, Cienfuegos, Trinidad, Santa Clara, Remedios, Cayo las Brujas and back to Havana. I think we saw quiet a lot in such a short time.
We stayed the first three days in Havana. A bit short, but we planned to have a few days more at the end of the holiday. It was strange to arrive in Havana. I saw so many pictures before, and than it was all real. I was in Havana! The other strange thing was that I arrived alone. My friend missed here flight, because the first plane was delayed and she missed the flight to Havana. Luckely she arrived the next day. Havana was cool. I really liked the atmosphere and the city. I enjoyed walking around and be part of it. We stayed here in a hostel which we booked before. After this experience I wouldn't recommend it. A casa is cheaper and nicer if you like to have contact with the locals.
Than it was time to go to Viñales. To leave the big crowded city behind and enjoy some nature. We shared a taxi with two Spanish guys we met in the hostel and we arrived in the early afternoon in our casa. The owner was such a sweet women and the casa was beautiful. We wanted to see the surrounding by horse. I'm not really a horse riding type, but someone recommended this. The owner knew someone who offers this and I have to admit, it was really cool. We visit a river where we could swim, someone showed us how to roll cigars and the best for last, coffee! The farmer explained us the growing, harvesting and roasting process. Amazing. And I saw the arabica plant in real for the fist time.
The next day we had a relaxing day at the beach of Cayo Jutias. Exactly what you expect from a beach in the Caribbean: blue water, white sand, palm trees and cocktails. The last day in Viñales we rent a bike and explored a bit and than it was time to leave. Up to Las Terrazas. If you plan to go here, make sure you have a reservation for a casa. We didn't had one and this eco village was almost full. We ended up in a dirty not official casa. We didn't felt very comfortable and we were happy we brought a sleeping bag. The things we did made up the bad casa. The nature, a small hike, swimming at a waterfall, awesome dinner in an eco restaurant and hanging around with the locals. Las Terrazas is a such a peaceful village.
We decided to go to Cienfuegos, but we didn't do a lot here. We walked around a bit, but it was really hot here. We used the time to plan out the rest of our trip and we had dinner with two Dutch guys we met before in Viñales. The next day we took the bus to Trinidad. We had some problems with the casa so we decided to look for another one. Took some time, but eventually we found a nice casa. Next to that we also made a reservation for a hiking trip in Topes De Collanter next to Trinidad. After dinner we went to bed to have enough energy for the excursion. This excursion is one of my highlights of the Cuba trip
The excursion we did outside Trinidad is one of my highlights. We went with a small group of six people and a very nice and sweet guide. We saw a lot. A beautiful view, a cave, a waterfall, different kind of plants. We had time for a swim and a small nice hike and there was coffee in the end.
A little tired of the party in the cave and enough Cuba libres, we followed our trip to Santa Clara. We just visit this city for the monument of Ché. The city is not beautiful at all. Don't know If I would go there again. The casa on the other hand was perfect. From Santa Clara we took a bus to Remedios. The original plan was to stay at one the beautiful beaches in the North. Eventually we realized that all the beaches are full of expensive hotels and most of them were fully booked. We decided to stay in Remedios (where absolutely nothing happens) and shares a taxi to Cayo las Brujas. It was a day well spend on this beach. Unfortunately the next day the weather was bad. It rained all day, so we were stuck in our casa. We just relaxed, read some books and did some drawing and writing (life without WiFi). The next day we took a taxi back to Santa Clara and from there a bus to Havana.
These last days we just relaxed, enjoyed the city and some good food. We stayed in two really nice casas with the most friendly people in the world. They stay forever in my heart.
Cuba might not be your first choice for a backpack adventure, but I can recommend the country of Ché. It's up to you if you come here for the history or just to enjoy the island. My friend was more interested in the history. She was reading about it before the trip and during the trip. I, on the other hand, was more interested in the culture, the landscapes and the coffee. The daily life in Cuba and how I would fit in. I wouldn't recommend Cuba if you don't speak a word of Spanish. It makes it less interesting, more difficult and maybe even more expensive.
Don't expect a cheap holiday. Cuba changed a lot already and it was more expensive than we expected. It will be a more luxueus backpack trip than if you compare it to Asia. Sleeping in nice places and quit good tranfers.
I'm looking back with a smile on my face. This trip took a place in my heart. My first long trip, my first backpack, all the people I've met and all the coffee I have seen. Muchas gracias!


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Small Kitchen Designs
If you only have a small space available it can be tricky to find a kitchen design that offers the functionality you desire and the aesthetics you require. But in the hands of a talented designer, your small kitchen will be transformed into a practical haven.
Small kitchen designs need specialist attention to ensure every spare centimetre is used for maximum effectiveness but, when designed correctly and cleverly laid out, your small kitchen can provide all the functionality you need. There are plenty of small kitchen ideas here to help get you started.
In small kitchens it's important to carefully consider how corners can be best utilised so they don't become "dead" space. Clever internal fittings can make sure all the available storage space is maximised while providing plenty of access to your items.
Small kitchens benefit from well-considered design as in the example above. Stacked appliances save on space as well as group similar-use items together for added functionality. White cabinetry makes a small kitchen appear larger and, when paired with a darker benchtop, makes for a visually dramatic space.
A restricted space doesn't mean you won't have room to personalise your small kitchen. Above is a great example of expert design with a large fish tank incorporated into a galley kitchen. The owner had requested a solution that included a built-in fish tank and was amazed when the designer was able to find the space for such a large unit.
Careful use of open space will give your small kitchen a sense of light and air. In this example a small sit-down area was included at the edge of the kitchen so visitors can interact with the cook without encroaching on their space. Open shelving above and great choice of neutral tones, helps make the kitchen feel much larger than it actually is.
Small kitchen designs benefit from smart use of colour and tone to create the impression of a large space. Strong colours draw the eye to the rear of this kitchen above (right), which encourages visitors to enter and interact with the space. Note how the choice of open rangehood makes the wall appear taller and wider than it would if cupboards were placed to either side. This is an indication of well-considered design.


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Carlyle Group names manager for U.S. crude export terminal project
By Collin Eaton
HOUSTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Lone Star Ports LLC will lead development and operation of a Carlyle Group-backed crude export terminal in Corpus Christi, Texas, that can fully load supertankers, according to a statement from the project leaders on Friday.
Carlyle Group and the Port of Corpus Christi Authority in October jointly proposed building a $1 billion crude export terminal on an island controlled by the authority. The partners have said they expect to begin operations at the facility in late 2020.
Thursday's announcement adds a project manager to oversee development and construction of the facility, one of three competing to be the first to begin operations in the area.
There are more than six proposed terminal projects along the Texas and Louisiana coasts angling to handle exports of U.S. oil, with booming production expected to reach more than 12 million barrels per day (bpd) next year.
Corpus Christi's three projects would be the closest to the Eagle Ford and Permian Basin shale fields. New crude pipelines that will ferry an additional 2 million bpd to the South Texas port are expected to begin operations late next year.
Lone Star, a recently formed joint venture between Carlyle and construction company The Berry Group, reached preliminary agreements to connect the proposed terminal to crude pipelines owned by Hilcorp Energy Co's Harvest Midstream and to Epic Pipeline LP. The two pipelines will have access to more than 1 million bpd of crude oil production, the companies said in a statement.
Lone Star is led by former EQT Corp midstream executive Jeremiah Ashcroft III, who has previously led development of other marine terminals.
Lone Star also disclosed a deal with services provider Martin Midstream Partners LP to work together on the Corpus Christi project.
When completed, the Carlyle-Port of Corpus Christi terminal will have the capacity to store 4 million barrels onshore and load 1.4 million bpd onto tankers.
Carlyle earlier agreed to help finance dredging of the waters near the export terminal to reach a depth of 75 feet, which would allow supertankers that carry up to 2 million barrels of crude to fully load at its docks. (Reporting by Collin Eaton; editing by G Crosse and Nick Zieminski)


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Though many churches claim to be Christ-centered, most Christian sermons continue to present Jesus as a divine therapist, a motivating coach or as a political activist. So how does one faithfully read and study the Bible with Christ at the center? What does it mean to preach the Christ from all the Scriptures? That's the focus of this edition of the White Horse Inn as Michael Horton talks with Dennis Johnson, author of Him We Proclaim, Preaching Christ in All the Scriptures (originally broadcast July 1, 2007).


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The refurbishment of the Allende Hall in Mons-en-Barœul, which included the monumental concert hall and its rehearsal rooms, involved very high precision acoustic engineering and used Texaa®'s Vibrasto covering.
The refurbishment of the Allende concert hall was part of the overall urban renewal programme in the town centre of Mons-en-Barœul, originally laid out by Henri Chomette, following the principles of the Athens Charter proposed by Le Corbusier. The hall forms one of the corners of the central square, facing the town hall in a courteous salute, reflected in the large glass facades of the first floor. The public space lends itself to the assembly of audiences in front of the entrance that is sheltered by a substantial overhang from the building. Although they are all uniformly erected with grey concrete, the facades glisten with quartz inclusions that were set in the prefabricated concrete slabs and polished.
Once you cross the threshold, there is a striking impression of monumental volume, because the space with dimensions sufficient to seat 500 people, extends before you in all three dimensions. Light wells enhance perspective, whose aesthetic is heightened by the contrast of white and black. Visitors are then invited to go to the exhibition gallery, the studios or the concert hall. To enter the large hall, audience members pass through hushed vestibules, where a Texaa® acoustic covering has been installed in a distinctive way. A composite covering made up of three layers has been applied to the walls. The top layer consists of Aeria* sound-transparent fabric. This acoustic "skin" stretched over the walls lends a pleasant feel and encourages a respectful silence, required as people enter the hall. The use of this acoustic material on the walls is also carried over to the studios.
The main hall is complemented with the facilities of three recording studios and a rehearsal room. Like the hall, the studios are triangular and trapezium-shaped, and generate a changing perception of space. Since the walls are not parallel, reverberation is reduced, but not enough to go to the next level of comfort that the architects Dominique Coulon & Associates sought to achieve. The walls were modelled, specifying the necessary quantities of membranes, resonating coverings and dissipating surfaces. In other words, the quantity of wall covering was not solely determined by aesthetic considerations. Acousticians from Euro Sound Project approved the Vibrasto acoustic material, which is very effective when stretched and anchored in front of absorbent laminates 50 to 80 mms thick, ensuring sound absorption close to 100%. Good anticipation during the installation made it possible to fit the coverings flush without revealing their complex supports. The shapes of each piece of covering designed by the architects and upholsterer covered the oblique lines and vertical folds with hardly a trace, while the joins between the 150-cm-wide strips were meticulously concealed.
Using tensioning battens supplied by Texaa® the acoustic covering could be pinched to form pencil-line joints. The shades chosen by the architects came from the subdued general colour scheme of the building: white, black and grey. In the rehearsal room the benefit of the stretched and anchored wall-covering can be enhanced even more by drawing a curtain inside the glass facade overlooking the forecourt outside.
*Aeria, a sound-transparent fabric with an exclusive Texaa® patent.
Texaa® offers a range of twenty-two colours, some of which are pleasantly bright and lively.
The Salvador Allende cultural centre at Mons-en-Barœul, a suburb of Lille in northern France.
260 metres of Vibrasto System 30 in the following colours: MR 640 Nacre, MR 540 Gris and MR 520 Graphite.
Principal: Mons-en-Barœul town council
Contractors: Dominique Coulon & Associates, architects in charge
Architects: Dominique Coulon, Olivier Nicollas
Associate architect (on-site supervision): Agence Damien Surroca
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Ginghamsburg to host blood drive
MIAMI COUNTY — Ginghamsburg Church will host a community blood drive on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 8 a.m. to noon in the South Campus Chapel, 7695 S. County Road 25-A, Tipp City.
The blood drives come during the heart of winter and continues the theme of Ohio's first Blood Donor Awareness Month. Everyone who registers to donate will receive the commemorative "Ohio Blood Donor Awareness Month" t-shirt. Schedule an appointment online at www.DonorTime.com or call (800) 388-GIVE.
Soup and sandwich supper set
TROY — Join First United Church of Christ, 120 S. Market St. in Troy, for their annual soup and sandwich supper from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 9.
First UCC's Relay for Life Team will be serving homemade chili, beef vegetable soup and chicken and noodle soup, as well as hot dogs, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, brownies, cookies and drinks. Admission is $7 for adults and $3 for children 5–10 years old, children under 5 eat free.
Please use the Canal Street entrance, which is handicapped accessible. All proceeds benefit Relay for Life
Beamish to play organ
TROY — This Sunday, Pastor Don Crist has chosen as his topic for the sermon "The Waiting Room." Service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at St. John's United Church of Christ. The choir will sing "The Gift of Love" by Hal Hopson. Ginny Beamish will play "Voluntary in A Minor," anonymous; "Andavite" by Daniel Gottlob Turk, and "Allegro Energico" by Ludwig van Beethoven on the organ.
A downtown landmark on the corner of Walnut and Canal Streets since 1883, St. John's is an accessible and friendly church. Parking is available on the street. For more information, call St. John's United Church of Christ at (937) 335-2028.
FLC invites community
TROY — First Lutheran Church invites the community to its Sunday worship service at 9:30 a.m. Pastor Holst will preach the sermon, "Where God's Grace Finds You." Worship participants are, Joel Hootman, organist; the Daffner Family, ushers; Barbara Decker, lector. The bulletin assembly team is Ed and Rita Piner.
There is always a special message for the children. Sunday School at 8:30 a.m. and a staffed nursery is available.
Mid-week Bible study, "Anxious for Nothing," will be held Wednesdays at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. FLC's Deborah Circle meets Tuesday, Feb. 12, at noon. All are welcome.
Looking ahead: FLC's new praise and worship service starts Sunday evening on March 3 at 6 p.m. Ash Wednesday services with the imposition of ashes and Holy Communion will be held at noon and 7 p.m. on March 6.
First Lutheran Church in Troy is located at 2899 W. Main St., at the corner of Washington. Contact the church at (937) 335-2323 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit www.firstlutheranchurchtroy.org for more information.
Hutsons to perform
CASSTOWN — Bryan and Yvonne Hutson, Christian vocalists and songwriters Of Rescue Me Ministries, will perform on Feb. 10 at 9 a.m. at Bethel United Methodist Church and at 10:45 a.m. at Casstown United Methodist Church. A fellowship luncheon will follow at noon.
Bethel United Methodist Church is located at 2505 E. Loy Road in Piqua and Casstown United Methodist Church is located at 102 Center St. in Casstown. Call Bethel UMC at (937) 339-4828 or Casstown UMC at (937) 339-4828 for more information.
Rescue Me Ministries was formed in 2012 to encourage and challenge other couples to fight for their marriage and family. For more information, visit www.rescuemeministries.com or Facebook.
Griefshare seminars upcoming
TROY — You don't have to go through it alone. St. Patrick Church offers "Griefshare," a seminar and support group to the parish and local community. This is a weekly seminar and support group for people grieving the cessation of a close personal relationship by death. At GriefShare, you'll learn valuable information that will help you through this difficult time in your life.
All programs will be held in the St. Patrick Parish Center, 444 E. Water St., upstairs in Room 3, each Wednesday for 13 weeks. They will offer two sessions: 1-2:30 p.m. or 7-8:30 p.m. The next session begins Feb. 13.
St. Patrick is also offering a loss of a spouse seminar on Saturday, Feb. 16, at 10 a.m. in the Parish Center.
Cancer support group to meet
TROY — The St. Patrick Church cancer support group will host "Finding Hope by Learning the Facts about Cancer." Meetings will be held the second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m.
All are welcome to these informative sessions and welcome suggestions for topics.
For questions, contact Pat Smith at (937) 335-2833, Ext. 105, or firstname.lastname@example.com
Princess Ball upcoming
COVINGTON — On Feb. 16, Fields of Grace Worship Center will be hosting their fifth annual Princess Ball.
Cinderella will be attending the ball this year. Each little girl will have a chance to meet her and have their picture taken with her. Each little girl will receive her own wrist corsage and can visit the candy bar for a sweet treat. She will also be able to make a keepsake to take with her to remember her special night at the ball.
The ball will take place at the Covington Eagles hall from 6:30-8 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. There will be a $10 per family admittance.
Please use the entrance located on Debra Street.
For more information, contact Fields of Grace, Monday through Friday at (937) 573-4282, on Facebook or visit fieldsofgrace.org.
Movie showing rescheduled
PIQUA — Rescheduled due to weather: Join Victory Baptist Church at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 17, for a special showing of "Billy Graham: An Extraordinary Journey." This 75-minute movie tells the story of how God used Billy to reach millions of people and features Franklin Graham sharing the same message his father dedicated his life to preaching.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. The church is located at 1601 South St. in Piqua. For more information, call (937) 773-6469 or www.facebook.com/VBCPiqua
Sportsman banquet offered
TROY — First Baptist Church Troy will offer its Fourth annual Family Sportsman Banquet on Saturday, March 2, at the church, 53 S. Norwich Road, Troy.
Free workshops and activities will be offered from 1:30-4:30 p.m. and will include turkey calling, airsoft target shooting, Indian artifacts, archery and more.
Dinner and a speaker, Dr. Fred Adams, founder of Sword Deaf Ministries, will be from 5-7 p.m. An avid outdoorsman, Dr. Adams, who has been deaf since age 1, has a unique and often humorous perspective on the outdoors. An admission ticket at $10 is necessary for dinner. Day of the event tickets will be sold if available.
For more information or to purchase tickets, call the church office at 339-3602 or visit www.FBCTroy.com.


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I am 5.5 months clean.. the first couple of months were as expected had the majority of the physical withdrawals and lingering insomnia. I began sleeping again with no issues around the 6 weeks mark. Over the last 5 months I have experienced these flare ups of anxiety which are so intense. Physically they felt like I had a constant supply of adrenaline pumping through my body for days at a time then eventually the anxiety would dissipate and I'd feel normal again. I have had a flare up recently at the beginning of this month and things haven't quite gone back to normal. My sleeping has gone way off and I am now struggling to fall and stay asleep. Although sleep has been an issue for me during withdrawal it generally has always settled back down and I'd sleep a good 6-8 hours a night. Since my repeat episode I haven't been able to get past 5 a night quite. Falling asleep is becoming impossible for me. Is this paws? I wasn't expecting at nearly 6 months the symptoms to be getting worse? As a side note I don't take any medication or touch any cbd/alcohol etc. Does this sound normal? My DOC was opiates for roughly 1 year.


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Sydney Chance is a newly made vampire. She and Demetri Bastian, her lover and maker, are on their way to Australia. They are looking forward to a quiet, restful vacation in the remote Outback where Demetri maintains an old family homestead. They arrive only to be thrust into a perilous quest when a large group of cattle is found slaughtered. Friends arrive to help, and new friends are met in the desert. As the bloodshed and brutally escalates, the hunt commences.
Set in the Australian Outback, populated with characters that lived fully in my imagination, and filled with thrilling action and tender moments; this book held my rapt attention from start to finish. The conversations were believable and sometimes quite witty. This is the 2nd book in the Journey of the Damned series but was entertaining and surprisingly readable on its own. There were a few references made to earlier events from the first book, but they just whet my appetite, and made me more determined to read it, also. I was somewhat disappointed that Forbidden ended with a bit of a cliff-hanger, but that is alright, since I actually want to read more of this series anyway. I genuinely liked the sassiness of the leading female character, and I loved the way in which she told this story.
Sometimes love's journey begins with a glance, sometimes with a kiss, but some journeys begin with a bite. Sydney Chance has found her eternal destiny in the arms of her lover, vampire Demetri Bastian. Their rocky beginning gives way to an adventure fitting the lifestyle of the undead. They've conquered an enemy who threatened their love and discovered powers and gifts contingent on their immortal bond. Everything is finally just as it should be until they set out for a romantic adventure in the Australian Outback. Upon their arrival, they're met with an unexpected problem, when Connor Ryan, the determined son of a human friend, sets his sights on Sydney and tempts her with more than the taste of his blood. And, after an unexpected attack by rogue vampires on a murderous rampage, their coven must unite to help Connor's family and a local Aboriginal tribe, eradicate the lethal enemy. Can Sydney fight the temptation of forbidden fruit or will bloodlust force her to betray the oath she's made to Demetri? Will an unstable lover from Demetri's past destroy more than cattle, or will her twisted agenda rip Demetri from Sydney's arms forever? The journey may have started with a bite, but it just may end with a bang.


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Breastfeed they said. It will be special they said…..
But it wasn't. It hurt!
The messages we give women about breastfeeding don't always match up with the experience itself. Breastfeeding is a way to nourish a baby, it has multiple benefits to both mother and child, but "special" isn't a reason to breastfeed.
The benefits of breastfeeding include helping develop a full immune system (not to be confused with stopping children from catching colds). Breastfed babies have fewer allergies than their formula fed counterparts, healthier gut flora, a lower SIDS risk. Fewer breastfeeding mothers encounter postpartum depression, and some types of cancer.
Breastfeeding is FREE! You don't need to buy bottles, sterilising equipment, once you've fed your baby you can do whatever you want you don't need to wash anything, store anything (once you put the boob back in your shirt that is ….) So breastfeeding benefits the whole family! But that doesn't make it special.
Breastfeeding can be time consuming in the early days, babies frequently feed for hours at a time. Breastfeeding can be hard to establish because women and babies need to LEARN how to do it, despite it being natural. Breastfeeding is undoubtedly one of the most natural acts a mother and child can share ….. but shark attacks are natural too and no one expects us to enjoy those!
Breastfeeding is no more special than giving your baby a sandwich. Sure you will sometimes gaze into their little eyes and have a moment of pure joy, connectedness, love that knows no bounds, but it's entirely possible that a mother feeding her baby from a bottle with artificial milk will feel that same way. That's how we love our children. It's normal.
So look into breastfeeding, after all it IS natural, and it IS beautiful, it has immeasurable health benefits to both mother and infant, and it's fully costed at the outset ….. but it's just normal baby feeding. Besides, setting aside two years to do something "special" can seem pretty impossible! On the other hand, if we frame breastfeeding as NORMAL rather than special, it doesn't seem such a challenge.
I recommend making a breastfeeding plan (it's as important as a birth plan). Know the signs of low supply vs the signs formula culture has imprinted on our brains (fussy baby, frequent feeding, not sleeping through the night, not being able to pump – ALL of these are normal, they have nothing to do with supply).
Tell your family how you need to be supported while you establish feeding. Set yourself up to feed successfully by having realistic ideas of breastfeeding, not by imagining hours of beauty, peace and connection.
Breastfeeding isn't special, it's NORMAL! Commit to providing your baby with normal food.


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The term 'meme' was popularised by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene. The reason that our genes are selfish essentially boils down to survival of the fittest – your genes are selfish, because they want to replicate themselves. That's why 'a chip off the old block' sounds so comforting. If genes mutate, then your offspring might be weaker in some way. So the strong survive. Hence the term 'good genes'.
Anything that spreads is a meme
For our purposes, a meme is any cultural product that spreads. The miniskirt was a meme. So are jokes and social interaction. And most notable of all – viral videos. Anything that spreads through a community or culture is essentially a meme (diseases excepted in our case).
Memes are important in social media, because the greater the advantage of the receiver passing on your message, the greater your reach and the lower your CPM (in money and/or time). There must be some value in the meme to the person passing it on. It could be something to make others laugh, a great retail deal, a valuable article or an interesting course. Or the favourite meme: gossip.
So, although it is somewhat challenging to produce a viral meme, it provides an exceptional return. Viral memes seldom occur through hard work – they just happen once in a while through natural selection.
Going back in time
One of the first viral memes that I recall appeared in 1995 with the dancing baby which you can see here. It fascinated us at the time. I wanted to dress up an adult in a baby costume who would then do this dance for an ad (I can't remember the brand I proposed it for), but I got some strange looks around the table, so I let it go. Still think it would have made a great ad though.
There are many other memes with unusual names and I don't know if you'd be able to pick up the Concise Oxford Dictionary in the next few years (assuming the print version will still exist), which will have to describe every meme's name.
Internet memes come from the strangest places and have some of the most wonderful names, such as lolcats. These are pictures of cats with a funny caption (lolspeak). For example it could be a cat biting a computer mouse with the caption 'I has mouse'
Great ads that offer amazing stories are very powerful meme's too. The Dove beauty patch being one of my favourites.
An invisible horse and clumsy dance moves
I'm not sure why, but Gangnam Style spread like wildfire on Youtube. I mean, it was just a bunch of people dancing – who would have predicted it would become the most-liked video in YouTube history going on to win the MTV Video of the Year?
Released by South Korean rapper, Psy, in July of 2012, this video inspires a dance style involving an invisible horse and clumsy dance moves which you've probably seen. The 'Gangnam Style' itself is a parody of people's perceptions of the upscale Gangnam District in the city of Seoul, where the residents are known to be wealthy and trendy.
The lyrics aren't that bad either, for example:
A girl who looks quiet but plays when she plays
A girl who puts her hair down when the right time comes
A girl who covers herself but is more sexy than a girl who bares it all
A sensible girl like that
I'm a guy
A guy who seems calm but plays when he plays
A guy who goes completely crazy when the right time comes
A guy who has bulging ideas rather than muscles
That kind of guy
Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Now let's go until the end
The brain drain
This excerpt from an article by Michael Harris in WIRED, explains the predicament of our younger generation (or perhaps it's a distinct advantage?):
Recently, my two-year-old nephew Benjamin came across a copy of Vanity Fair abandoned on the floor. His eyes scanned the glossy cover, which shone less fiercely than the iPad he is used to but had a faint lustre of its own. I watched his pudgy thumb and index finger pinch together and spread apart on Bradley Cooper's smiling mug. At last, Benjamin looked over at me, flummoxed and frustrated, as though to say, "This thing's broken."
MRI studies actually show that if you take people who have never been online before, and expose them to the internet, even for just a few hours – different parts of the brain light up afterwards. Although we still have approximately the same size lump of grey matter, going online matters to the brain – new neural circuits are formed to deal with the way information is presented, and how you interact with it.
Unlike folk tales that have been passed from generation to generation, memes are mostly 100% accurate. The meme I receive is the meme I pass on, in the same way that the genes I have are the genes I pass on. Fidelity is 100%. The problem then becomes a little clearer – the internet generation don't have to think deeply about things. Only the first generation who have created the meme have done much thinking. The rest of us just pass it on as easily as a flick of the finger. But with so much information readily on hand, perhaps that's even an evolutionary advantage: not getting too involved – there's just too much information.
So there's a stronger link between genetics and social media than we think: only the strong survive.


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Let's cover computer security.
The first thing we're going to talk about is something called a dictionary attack which has to do with your passwords. When creating your passwords, some sites require extremely specific and complicated passwords, which is actually a bit unnecessary. The type of attacks they're trying to guard you from are dictionary attacks.
Dictionary attacks are programmed to try every word in the dictionary, or in its own database of common words and passwords, as the password for a large mass of usernames. If your password is Kangaroo, they're probably going to break into your account. Most passwords aren't this simple, but that doesn't matter. They attack such a massive amount of accounts that they only need a few passwords that are relatively simple. When creating a password, you want to use different cases, numbers, and symbols, but one of the most effective ways to create a good password is to throw some random letters in there (ex: kangarooSyCA67). Also, stay away from sequential numbers.
Phishing, another thing to watch out for, is emails or webpages that mimic other valid sites to try and trick people into entering their personal information, though the site truly isn't connected to the site it's trying to mimic. In general, two ways to safeguard from these attacks are checking the address in the browser and to open a new browser and go to the website that is claiming to contact you.
Let's also discuss encryption and HTTPS. If you are at Starbucks trying to access your bank account, you have reason to be suspicious that someone could see and take your information. You will want to look for a green HTTPS instead of HTTP at the beginning of the web address. That means that the site you're sending your information to is encrypting your passwords and other information, scrambling up data according to a code that only they know.
In general, whenever you're showing private or sensitive information, check for HTTPS. A few other general tips: don't share passwords between important accounts. If a site you use gets hacked into, your password may be compromised regardless of its strength. Also, don't download strange files. If you don't recognize the file type like .pdf, .txt, .jpg, be wary. Some of these files you download can be very powerful and even run your computer from the inside.
Lastly, keep your software updated, particularly software that interacts with the internet. One way that information can be compromised is when 'bad guys' find holes and gaps in security of older versions of software. Those bugs have been patched in newer versions, so if you keep everything updated, you'll avoid lots of problems. These are very basic things you should know about how to keep your information safe on your computer.
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(CBS News) WASHINGTON - One of baseball's greatest pitchers is celebrating a major victory.
A jury in Washington found Roger Clemens not guilty Monday of charges that he lied to Congress when he said he never used performance-enhancing drugs.
Outside the courtroom, Clemens became emotional talking about the charges, saying, "All of you media guys that know me and follow my career (know that I) put a lot of hard work into that career. And uh, so, again, I appreciate my teammates that came in and all the emails and phone calls."
This is one more case of federal prosecutors taking on a high-profile defendant, and losing in court. It's another bitter defeat for the Justice Department. And it's just one of the issues that has Attorney General Eric Holder on the political hot seat.
It was the second time federal prosecutors struck out in their efforts to convict Clemens.
2008: 60 Minutes interview with Roger Clemens
Defense attorneys accused the Justice Department of a witch hunt, saying 100 agents conducted more than 200 interviews attempting to prove Clemens lied to Congress when he denied using steroids.
"I have never taken steroids or HGH (human growth hormone)," Clemens told a hearing in February 2008.
And the Clemens acquittal comes just weeks after prosecutors failed to get a conviction in the case of former Senator and former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards.
The two cases cost the Department of Justice millions, and Holder has drawn heat for the high-profile failures.
But his nastiest personal fight is with Congress. It centers on "Fast and Furious," the botched gun-running sting conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Republicans accuse Holder of withholding documents that may reveal who was responsible for the debacle.
Holder defends his actions.
"I'm the attorney general who put an end to the misguided tactics that were used in 'Fast and Furious,"' he told a Senate panel last week.
Issa willing to postpone contempt vote against AG
House committee schedules contempt vote against Holder
Read the memo and draft version of contempt report (PDF)
Gov't answers CBS News "Fast and Furious" records requests with blank pages
Republicans prep contempt citation against Holder over Fast and Furious
ATF let "gunwalking" suspect go after arrest
Opponents say Holder's decisions are driven by politics and aimed at defending the administration.
Now, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and scores of GOP lawmakers are calling for Holder's resignation.
"You leave me no alternative but to join those who call upon you to resign your office," Sen. John Cornyn (R, Texas) said the Senate hearing last week.
"I don't have any intention of resigning," Holder said.
Author and journalist Dan Klaidman says the attorney general is always a favorite target in an election year.
"It's a sensitive position, at the intersection of law and politics and investigations, and you're often kind of in the cross-hairs," Klaidman explains. "But Eric Holder has had a particularly rough ride."
What may leave the greatest mark on Holder's legacy is his retreat in a major terror case.
In November 2009, he vowed to try the 9/11 conspirators, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in a civilian court just blocks from ground zero.
Public resistance forced Holder to scrap those plans, and return the case to military prosecutors at Guantanamo Bay.
Still, there have been major successes. Holder's Justice Department secured convictions against key terror suspects, including the "Underwear Bomber," the Times Square bomber, and the terrorist plotting to bomb New York subways.
And Justice recently has made record recoveries -- more than $4 billion -- in health care fraud cases.
Even his critics, say he's a savvy jurist, he's good on the law, he's strong on the law, (but) he seems to run into trouble with the politics.
"He'd probably be the first to say that he's not the most adept politician out there," Klaidman observed. "Over time, some of these controversies don't seem quite as important years from now."
Holder, a close friend of President Obama's, is clearly weary, but he's not expected to leave before the fall election.
He told senators the battles have been tough, but he believes he's won more than he's lost.
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NCAA decision gives spring sports athletes extra opportunity
Nate Burleyson, Assistant Sports Editor
April 6, 2020
DePaul spring sports athletes had to cope with the quick news that they would not be playing another second of their still-young seasons in mid-March, when the Big East shut down all spring sports competition due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Softball, men's and women's tennis, men's golf, and men's and women's tra...
Big East to cancel all spring sports competition
Nate Burleyson, Asst. Sports Editor
March 12, 2020
The Big East athletic conference is canceling all spring sports for the remainder of the season, they announced in a press release on Thursday afternoon. This decision to cancel comes after the NCAA made the decision earlier to cancel its spring and winter championships. Earlier today, the Big East men's basketba...
Women's tennis will meet Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA Tournament
Joshua Gurevich, Assistant Sports Editor
April 30, 2019
DePaul found out during Monday night's NCAA Women's Tennis Selection Show that they will be facing a familiar foe in the first round of the tournament. The Blue Demons will face the Kentucky Wildcats on Friday in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Wildcats finished sixth in the regular season and lost i...
Women's tennis wins Big East Tournament title over Xavier
Joshua Gurevich, Asst. Sports Editor
April 22, 2019
For the fourth time in the last six years, the Blue Demons reign over the rest of the Big East conference after winning the tournament title 4-3 over Xavier on Monday. Coming into the tournament, DePaul was the second seed after a regular season that saw many of the players suffer nagging injuries....
Blue Demon tennis places six on All-Big East teams
Paul Steeno, Sports Reporter
May 7, 2018
It was raining down All-Big East honors in Chicago Monday. The Big East Conference announced their All-Big East teams for this season and between the men's and women's tennis programs, the Blue Demons placed six athletes on that list. On the women's side, seniors Keisha Clousing and Patricia Lancranjan...
Women's tennis grapples with injuries in search of another Big East title
Evan Sully, Staff Writer
March 30, 2018
"Adverse" doesn't even begin to describe the type of season it has been for the women's tennis team. Sitting at an overall record of 5-5, the Blue Demons have been short-handed with injuries. However, that hasn't halted the team's spirit or level of optimism for the remainder of the seas...
Blue Demon Rundown
Andrew Hattersley, Assistant Sports Editor
January 16, 2018
Track and Field The Track and Field team returned to action this past weekend for their first meet since the first week of December. One of the standouts of the meet was Alexia Brooks who tied a school record in the 60M hurdles prelims and then broke it just a while later, clocking in at 8.51 seconds, ...
Women's tennis coach Mark Ardizzone's recruits in Europe
Garret Neal
October 9, 2017
Serbia, Greece, Bosnia, Romania. The women's tennis team is chock full of talented players from all over Europe, in large part due to the unique approach head coach Mark Ardizzone takes to recruiting. Each year, Ardizzone embarks on a solo trek across several European countries, stopping only to...
Women's tennis sweeps pirates in finale
Garret Neal
April 23, 2017
A DePaul team that came into this match winning three straight and nine of the last ten once again took care of business as they defeated the 7-7 Seton Hall Pirates 4-0, giving DePaul a win to finish off the season before the Big East tournament starts. Things started off closer than that score might a...
DePaul women's tennis takes down Kansas State 4-3
Sam Johnson
February 27, 2017
The Blue Demons managed to stop a two-game losing skid, and put the past behind them Sunday, as they defeated the Wildcats with great play against tough competition. The DePaul women's tennis team (5-6) defeated the Kansas State Wildcats (7-4) in a close game at home, 4-3. The most recent loss for...
Women's tennis shoots for spotlight
January 31, 2016
Women's tennis head coach Mark Ardizzone does not make the goals for the team. He hasn't done so the past 10 years. The players will get together before the season and decide what they want to accomplish, then they all sign it to keep each other accountable. Read More »...
DePaul women's tennis beats Kentucky, falls to Michigan
May 10, 2015
DePaul women's tennis bowed out of the second round of the NCAA tournament Saturday with a 4-2 loss to Michigan, ending their 2015 season. Instead of being dissatisfied with the day's result, however, the team was happy that they had gotten to previously uncharted territory. Read More »...


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Developers claim connection rush as RO slams shut
Prominent solar developers in the UK have started to tally up their recent work, totalling what was connected to the grid prior to last Friday's Renewables Obligation deadline.
Prominent solar developers in the UK have started to tally up their recent work, totalling what was connected to the grid prior to last Friday's Renewables Obligation deadline.
As the pipeline of solar projects continues to grow in Ireland, the gap between the number of grid applications submitted and the number of planning applications becomes more evident. After attending ISEA's recent planning workshop, Lauren Cook, research analyst at Solar Media, explains why developers should work closer with planners on future projects.
In-house market research conducted by Solar Media Ltd can now reveal exclusively that the UK added 223MW of new solar PV during the second quarter of 2016.
Lauren Cook, market analyst at Solar Media, looks at the types of developers vying for position in the nascent solar market of Ireland ahead of the government's policy framework expected in the coming months.
The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has estimated that just 88MW of solar was installed in Q2 2016, less than half than was deployed in Q2 2015.
Often, with potential new solar markets, there can be a lot of hype and uncertainty regarding precisely how much deployment to expect and the timelines for this new capacity to come online. Lauren Cook, analyst for Solar Intelligence, discusses the potential for solar in Ireland in the years to 2020 and beyond.
Finlay Colville, head of market research at Solar Media, reveals how UK solar is preparing for the final deployment deadline under the ROC framework.
Finlay Colville, head of market research at Solar Media, explains what the uncertainty caused by the recent vote to leave the EU means for UK solar and the burgeoning market in the Republic of Ireland.
UK solar has continued to break records after generation reached a new peak of delivering almost a quarter of electricity demand.
Quercus Assets Selection has announced the successful debt financing of three UK solar farms after securing £13.6 million of portfolio level debt from Santander UK over a ten-year tenor.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has claimed that 98MW of solar capacity was added in May and revised upwards its Q1 deployment estimate.
Finlay Colville, head of market research at Solar Media looks into how the government continues to struggle with solar deployment
Primrose Solar has secured a £42 million debt financing deal with Deutsche Bank to refinance the Eveley solar farm it purchased in December last year.
The wait is over, and the counting has been finished by our research team. The size of the UK solar market in the first quarter of 2016 can now be revealed and analysed in detail.
Finlay Colville reveals the EPCs to feature in positions 6 to 2 in this week's Top 20 list
Finlay Colville reveals the EPCs to feature in positions 16 to 12 in this week's Top 20 list


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The whole idea is to get testosterone into your blood, where it can get to work.
The most efficient method is to inject using a needle, which will put about 99.9% of the testosterone into your veins (unless you make a mistake with your needle, yikes!) of which 70% will be bio-available. The percentage is lower with gels.
Of course that's baked into the dosage recommendations. There's no limit to the dose you can get from a gel- it's just a question of using enough. But it's a shame to see good testosterone go to waste, so let's review how to get the most out of your testosterone gel.
First, understand how gels work. NKNW is a transdermal gel- transdermal meaning "through skin."
Testosterone won't pass through your skin if you just sit in a bathtub of liquid testosterone. (It's fun to imagine someone trying though. Maybe an 80's action hero or Soviet athlete.) It would be expensive and completely useless. Very little would penetrate your skin and enter your blood. Likewise you could cover yourself in raw testosterone powder, but nothing would happen.
It's a different story if the powder sits in a gel or cream. A well designed gel acts as both a "delivery agent" and "penetration agent," breaking your skin just enough to let the testosterone molecule pass through. Luckily, the testosterone molecule is relatively small, so you don't need the most powerful agents. For instance, AndroGel 1.62% and NKNW 5% Gel rely on simple rubbing alcohol.
"If you soaked in a tub of liquid testosterone and VODKA, would that do the trick? What if you SNORTED it?" Don't try it at home folks.
Straight out of the box, you should absorb about 10% of the testosterone in your gel. Again, that should end up leaving you with the proper dose, but why settle for 10% when you could get to 15% or even past 20%?
Basically, maximizing absorption is a question of weakening your skin to help make the delivery agent's job a little easier.
That's why the first tip is to apply Testosterone Gels like NKNW or Andro-Gel after a shower. Water makes your skin more soft and ready to absorb. Soaking in a bath would be even better, but who takes a bath first thing in the morning? (Morning is the best time to use a gel because that's when your body naturally produces extra testosterone.)
The second tip is to moisturize your skin before applying NKNW. Borrow your girlfriend's or find a masculine product.
Third, apply to an area where your skin isn't tough. With NKNW we recommend your shoulders. Theoretically, the backs of your hands and feet would work, but aren't convenient. The scrotum is very soft, but as a gel, it's not very convenient to let NKNW sit there.
Why don't most Gels include extra powerful enhancers or moisturizers already?
It's a long story. DSMO is great for penetration enhancement but it falls short, on the molecular level, as a delivery agent. Plus, some people have strong reactions and the odor can be unpleasant- the S stands for sulfur.
NKNW in particular was developed to balance of power and comfort. It's gentle on your skin, with very little odor and natural preservatives. NKNW packs a serious punch on its own, and combined with a penetration agent that works for you, the sky's the limit.
A word about comfort.
That may be the last thing on your mind- are we talking about Testosterone or my wife's moisturizer?
But there's no limit to how far you can break down the skin. With some transdermals you'd think people were performing surgery, or road rash after a motorcycle accident. And that's not to mention the smells.
That would make sense if the testosterone molecule were larger, and had more trouble passing through your skin. Or if your gel was extremely expensive or hard to find, you would want to squeeze every last drop out of it, even if it left you with a nasty rug burn. But at that point, it's better to use injections.
With a testosterone gel you want to find a middle ground. You're using it every day and it shouldn't be expensive, at least if you have insurance or a good, reasonably priced supply.
Speaking of reasonable prices. . .
With Androgel, NKNW and other Testosterone Gels, 90% of consumers use them straight out of the tube or dispenser.
But here are three more tips, especially useful if your skin is naturally tough or dry.
If DMSO is too strong, or the smell drives you crazy, you can substitute it for moisturizer to prep your skin. We mentioned that above, but the twist is that you can follow up with sun block after the gel has dried. That's two passes with a seperate product.
The other thing is that as you spread the gel, you want to be very gentle. If you're too aggressive about rubbing it into your skin, you can actually damage the molecule and make it useless.
The other thing is to be careful about about washing your hands after using a testosterone gel. Applying to your shoulder is one thing, since the skin is soft and the testosterone absorbs fast. And your shoulder doesn't rub against to many things during a typical day. But your hands are tougher, so the testosterone will just sit there, spreading around to the things you touch. Not good, especially if you're around kids or women.
NKNW was inspired by the formula of the industry leader AndroGel, but we added a few twists.
First, two extra penetration enhancers: Oleic Acid, which is found in olive oil, and Isopropyl Mystrate, an ingredient in luxury perfumes.
Then we tripled the Testosterone by volume to 5%, which makes for cleaner, faster application, and a better price. Finally we chose Vitamin E as a healthy preservative.
We're proud of the formula, but NKNW is most famous for being available worldwide, without a prescription, via the online currency Bitcoin.
Androgel is a billion dollar product developed by a 100 billion dollar company.
It's hard to argue with the quality.
But big pharmaceutical companies, besides being very greedy, struggle to push the limits and innovate. It takes years and millions of dollars to approve a new formula. It isn't like a big corporation introducing a new flavor of soda pop. Studies and approvals can take decades to complete.
So while we're free to innovate and respond to our customers, AndroGel will stick with its classic formula for the next 100 years. "Good enough!"
Of course AndroGel really is good enough in many ways, and of course it improves life for millions. But this is a case where the little guys in our NKNW laboratory have actually developed a better product than the big shots.
See for yourself.
A 30 day experiment is enough to get the picture without committing to decades of "replacement" therapy. A month of higher testosterone is exactly the shot in the arm that some guys need.
Seen the price of boosters and placebos?
Then you know what a deal this is.
Stock up because it can't last forever.


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Audition Requirements
Professional Division
Professional Division Admission & Auditions
The Professional Division programs at The Ailey School are designed for dancers between the ages of 17 and 25 who wish to pursue a professional career in dance. Our programs are geared towards developing dancers with a wide range of technical skills and artistic sensibility, preparing them for the vast range of performance, choreography, and teaching opportunities available to them in today's dance field.
Artistic Criteria
The Ailey School recommends that students have a minimum of 3 to 5 years consistent dance training in ballet and modern in order to be a seriously considered candidate for acceptance. Criteria for acceptance vary, depending on the structure, curriculum and requirements of each program. The audition panel decides which program is appropriate for each applicant at the audition or upon viewing of the video. Decisions are emailed to applicants within 2 to 3 weeks of the audition.
We are looking for:
- An advanced-beginner to intermediate level training in ballet and modern
- A toned, flexible, well-proportioned body
- A demonstrated sense of musicality
- A desire to explore the artistry and esthetics of movement
- A commitment to developing technical skills
- A willingness to enhance one's sense of discipline
Audition Process
Auditions consist of abbreviated classes in ballet and Horton technique. There is no barre and students should arrive warm and ready to dance. No solos are required. Resumes and headshots are not required. An advance online application and audition fee are required. Walk-ins will not be accomodated.
Ailey/Fordham BFA Admissions Criteria
For BFA Program Admissions Criteria, visit BFA Admissions


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Forecast: Typhoon Noru to hit Kagoshima on 04/05 August, moves further northwards - Japan
|Update 2017-08-03: According to current forecasts typhoon Noru will hit the southern parts of Japan overnight Saturday (04/05 August, local time). It will move in northern direction, coming from Kagoshima prefecture, and will finally affect Kyushu island as well as the southern parts of Honshu island. Shikoku island may also be affected. Noru is expected to bring maximum sustained winds of about 170 km/h; wind gusts could reach more than 200 km/h (equivalent to a category 2 hurricane).
The Typhoon can cause uprooting of trees and damage roofing material. A storm tide of up to 2.5 meter above average is possible. Due to heavy rainfalls and rise of water level, coastal flooding and local inland flooding (and landslides) can be expected. Inhabitants of coastal regions and low-lying areas are advised to take shelter.
2017-08-02: Typhoon Noru developed over the Northwest Pacific, which is forecast to hit Kagoshima Prefecture, in south-western Japan, overnight Saturday (04/05 August).


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Snakes and Lattes, the awesome Toronto board game cafe, has become something of a Mecca in the designer games hobby; a successful business that most gamers which they had in their home town. I traveled there last year ahead of my trip to the Gathering of Friends and it was as wonderful as it sounds.
I had not visited Snakes and Lattes post-renovation until a few days ago. The wall between both sides had been torn down, resulting in a much more open space. The bar became larger and the front area a big storefront Continue reading


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A massive street improvement project along California Avenue in Palo Alto has driven street traffic to a trickle and caused businesses to lose up to 40 percent of their revenue, feeding frustrations among owners who aren't being compensated for the losses.
The Streetscape Project, designed to increase foot traffic in the area, entails reducing four traffic lanes to two, widening sidewalks and adding plazas among other improvements. It began in March and was supposed to be completed by this winter. But the now $6.9 million project is already behind schedule and hundreds of thousands of dollars over the city's original estimate.
The loss of business is fueling tensions between local merchants and the city government as Palo Alto shifts from a quaint town of small shops to a more upscale suburban metropolis.
"The California Avenue project stinks," said Al Ghafouri, owner of Printer's Café. "Everybody is having a lot of trouble on California Avenue. No exceptions. Everybody."
Dissatisfaction among the California Avenue merchants was brewing before construction even began. Despite a unanimous city council vote in favor of the project, some business owners felt they weren't consulted.
"I think that there's a little bit of a disconnect between whatever the forces are that were really behind the project and the people that are here," said Michael Ekwall, owner of California Avenue restaurant La Bodeguita Del Medio.
Project inspector James Beauchamp said he expects renovations to be completed in March 2015. But delays and miscommunications are leaving business owners frustrated and skeptical. "It was supposed to be done in August and now they're thinking a year from Christmas," said Steve Frank, owner of Avalon Yoga.
There is precedent for such concern. The Mitchell Park Library and Community Center was more than two years behind schedule and millions of dollars over budget. The Streetscape Project has already increased its budget several times as well.
The cost of replacing the fountain at the Caltrain station was projected to be $70,000, but is actually costing $647,000. Building sidewalks is costing $1.15 million compared to the estimated $700,000. Even planting and irrigation costs are over $70,000 above projected costs. Palo Alto officials attributed the sharp increases to design modifications and utilities upgrades that were added.
The city council, however, believes that such expenses will prove worthwhile. In the Feb. 14, 2011 meeting where the council approved the project, the city's economic developer Thomas Fehrenbach cited several cities that had completed similar projects where business dramatically improved — some by up to 37 percent. Council members today agree that the potential downfalls and high costs will ultimately pay off.
"I think in the long term it will be a really good investment," council member and former mayor Pat Burt said.
Some business owners, despite their woes, agree with the city council that the renovations are a necessary improvement.
"I walk that street all the time, and having to look out for four lanes of traffic, it's insane. It's just not safe," said Kerry Hoctor, owner of Village Stationers. "By taking it down to one lane each way, it slows people down. Maybe you have a couple of people stuck at a crosswalk or whatever, but they're stopping and they're looking at your store, hopefully, that's the whole idea. You don't want them zipping by."
Still, with property values increasing because of the renovations — and rents along with them — some business owners worry that California Avenue's unique character is changing.
"There used to be a funky little bookstore, it's becoming an upscale hot dog restaurant … there used to be a little Indian restaurant, now it's an upscale pizza restaurant," Frank said. "The Counter is there. Starbucks is there … most of the businesses are going to be chains."
Burt, the council member, agreed: "The downside to it is that we could make it so nice that it becomes gentrified … driving out small businesses."
Either way, owners can agree on one thing: the project is here to stay, and they have to accept it.
"Whether it's really impacting our business or we see it grow, I'm willing to pay the piper now to hopefully, when this is all done, have a beautiful California Avenue," Hoctor said.


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I enjoyed this article from Fox Sports. Apparently, a French Precalculus textbook created a homework problem asking if football (soccer) superstar Paul Pogba is doing the perfect dab by creating two right triangles.
I enjoyed this article from Fox Sports. Apparently, a French Precalculus textbook created a homework problem asking if football (soccer) superstar Paul Pogba is doing the perfect dab by creating two right triangles.
Posted by John Quintanilla on May 23, 2017
I'm doing something that I should have done a long time ago: collecting a series of posts into one single post. The following links comprised my short series on a couple of easily stated but remarkably difficult geometry problems.
Part 1: The world's second hardest easy geometry problem.
Part 2: The world's hardest easy geometry problem.
Posted by John Quintanilla on May 2, 2016
Math With Bad Drawings had an interesting post about solving for in the following picture (this picture is taken from http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/MathFun/Triangle.htm):
I had never heard of this problem before, but it's apparently well known and is called Langley's Adventitious Angles. See Math With Bad Drawings, Wikipedia, and Math Pages for more information about the solution of this problem. Math Pages has a nice discussion about mathematical aspects of this problem, including connections to the Laws of Sines and Cosines and to various trig identities.
I'd encourage you to try to solve for without clicking on any of these links… a certain trick out of the patented Bag of Tricks is required to solve this problem using only geometry (as opposed to the Law of Cosines and the Law of Sines). I have a story that I tell my students about the patented Bag of Tricks: Socrates gave the Bag of Tricks to Plato, Plato gave it to Aristotle, it passed down the generations, my teacher taught the Bag of Tricks to me, and I teach it to my students. In the same post, Math With Bad Drawings has a nice discussion about pedagogical aspects of this problem concerning when a "trick" becomes a "technique".
I recommend this problem for advanced geometry students who need to be challenged; even bright students will be stumped concerning coming up with the requisite trick on their own. Indeed, the problem still remains quite challenging even after the trick is shown.
Posted by John Quintanilla on October 12, 2015
In a recent class with my future secondary math teachers, we had a fascinating discussion concerning how a teacher should respond to the following question from a student:
Is it ever possible to prove a statement or theorem by proving a special case of the statement or theorem?
Usually, the answer is no. In this series of posts, we've seen that a conjecture could be true for the first 40 cases or even the first cases yet not always be true. We've also explored the computational evidence for various unsolved problems in mathematics, noting that even this very strong computational evidence, by itself, does not provide a proof for all possible cases.
However, there are plenty of examples in mathematics where it is possible to prove a theorem by first proving a special case of the theorem. For the remainder of this series, I'd like to list, in no particular order, some common theorems used in secondary mathematics which are typically proved by first proving a special case.
2. Theorem. In where , , and , we have .
This is typically proven using the Pythagorean theorem:
Lemma. In right triangle , where is a right angle, we have .
Though it usually isn't thought of this way, the Pythagorean theorem is a special case of the Law of Cosines since .
There are well over 100 different proofs of the Pythagorean theorem that do not presuppose the Law of Cosines. The standard proof of the Law of Cosines then uses the Pythagorean theorem. In other words, a special case of the Law of Cosines is used to prove the Law of Cosines.
Posted by John Quintanilla on June 26, 2015
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Posted by John Quintanilla on April 21, 2015
Arccosine has an important advantage over arcsine when solving for the parts of a triangle: there is no possibility ambiguity about the angle.
Solve if , , and .
When solving for the three angles, it's best to start with the biggest angle (that is, the angle opposite the biggest side). To see why, let's see what happens if we first use the Law of Cosines to solve for one of the two smaller angles, say :
So far, so good. Now let's try using the Law of Sines to solve for :
Uh oh… there are two possible solutions for since, hypothetically, could be in either the first or second quadrant! So we have no way of knowing, using only the Law of Sines, whether or if .
For this reason, it would have been far better to solve for the biggest angle first. For the present example, the biggest answer is since that's the angle opposite the longest side.
Using a calculator, we find that .
We now use the Law of Sines to solve for either or (pretending that we didn't do the work above). Let's solve for :
This equation also has two solutions in the interval , namely, and . However, we know full well that the answer can't be larger than since that's already known to be the largest angle. So there's no need to overthink the matter — the answer from blindly using arcsine on a calculator is going to be the answer for .
Naturally, the easiest way of finding is by computing .
Posted by John Quintanilla on October 21, 2014
The Law of Cosines also recognizes when the purported sides of a triangle are impossible.
Solve latex a = 16$, , and .
Hopefully students would recognize that , thus quickly demonstrating that the triangle is impossible. However, this also falls out of the Law of Cosines:
Since the cosine of an angle can't be less than -1, we can conclude that this is impossible.
Stated another way, we have the implications (since , , and are all positive)
Since the last statement is impossible, so is the first one.
Posted by John Quintanilla on October 20, 2014
Arccosine has an important advantage over arcsine when solving for the parts of a triangle: there is no possibility ambiguity about the angle.
Solve latex a = 16$, , and .
To solve for, say, the angle , we employ the Law of Cosines:
Using a calculator, we find that . And the good news is that there is no need to overthink this… this is guaranteed to be the angle since the range of is , or in degrees. So the equation
is guaranteed to have a unique solution between and . (But there are infinitely many solutions on . And since an angle in a triangle must lie between and , the practical upshot is that just plugging into a calculator blindly is perfectly OK for this problem. This is in stark contrast to the Law of Sines, for which some attention must be paid for solutions in the interval and also the interval .
From this point forward, the Law of Cosines could be employed again to find either or . Indeed, this would be my preference since the sides , , and are exactly. However, my experience is that students prefer the simplicity of the Law of Sines to solve for one of these angles, using the now known pair of (exactly known) and (approximately known with a calculator).
Posted by John Quintanilla on October 19, 2014
In my capstone class for future secondary math teachers, I ask my students to come up with ideas for engaging their students with different topics in the secondary mathematics curriculum. In other words, the point of the assignment was not to devise a full-blown lesson plan on this topic. Instead, I asked my students to think about three different ways of getting their students interested in the topic in the first place.
I plan to share some of the best of these ideas on this blog (after asking my students' permission, of course).
This student submission comes from my former student Allison Metlzler. Her topic, from Precalculus: the Law of Cosines.
What interesting (i.e., uncontrived) word problems using this topic can your students do now?
Real world word problems are an effective engagement because the students can actually relate to the events occurring in the problem. Below are two word problems where one deals with animal footprints and the other talks about trapeze artists.
1. Scientists can use a set of footprints to calculate an organism's step angle, which is a measure of walking efficiency. The closer the step angle is to 180 degrees, the more efficiently the organism walked. Based on the diagram of dinosaur footprints, find the step angle B.
2. The diagram shows the paths of two trapeze artists who are both 5 feet tall when hanging by their knees. The "flyer" on the left bar is preparing to make hand-to-hand contact with the "catcher" on the right bar. At what angle (theta) will the two meet?
The problems were obtained from http://www.muhsd.k12.ca.us/cms/lib5/CA01001051/Centricity/Domain/547/Trig/13-6%20Law%20of%20Cosines.pdf.
How could you as a teacher create an activity or project that involves your topic?
Activities are a great way to engage students. They require the students to explore the topic and make new discoveries. It can also benefit students who learn best by doing hands-on work. The activity, http://hilbertshotel.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/law-of-sinescosines-mapquest/ involves the law of sines, the law of cosines, and MapQuest. You will need a map of your school or just one of your school's buildings. The students will then create triangles to figure out the length of different parts of the school. In order to do this, the students will have to use the law of cosines and sines. They will be able to measure the angles of the triangles using protractors. Then they can calculate the lengths of the sides of the triangles. You can then relate this activity to the real world job of surveyors. You would also need to point out to the students that because they are rounding their calculations of the distances and angles, there is a loss of accuracy. Also, you should note that in real life, surveyors would compute the distances using a different method in order to be completely accurate. This activity is very interesting and helps the students get a good understanding of the law of cosines.
How can technology (YouTube, Khan Academy [khanacademy.org], Vi Hart, Geometers Sketchpad, graphing calculators, etc.) be used to effectively engage students with this topic?
A video is a great way to engage students because it's visual and auditory which helps student understand concepts better. The video below uses Vanilla Ice's song, Ice, Ice Baby, to introduce the law of cosines. I would play it from the start until1:51. At 1:51, the video starts introducing the idea of the law of sine. Besides just introducing the general idea of the law of cosines, it also shows how it's derived from the Pythagorean Theorem. The video also clearly states that the Pythagorean Theorem only works with right triangles so that's why we need the law of cosines- to help solve all triangles. It points out that you cannot only solve for a side of the triangle, but also the angles of the triangle. Another reason this video is engaging is that it is a well-known song that is catchy. Thus, the students will be able to remember the connection between the video and the concept of the law of cosines.
Apply the Law of Cosines (n.d.). In MUHSD.k12. Retrieved April 4, 2014, from http://www.muhsd.k12.ca.us/cms/lib5/CA01001051/Centricity/Domain/547/Trig/13-6%20Law%20of%20Cosines.pdf
Dahl, M. (Producer). (2009). Law of Cosines Rap- Vanilla Cosines [Online video]. YouTube. Retrieved April 4, 2014, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wsf88ELFkk
Newman, J. (2013, January 10). Law of Sines/Cosines "Mapquest". In Word Press. Retrieved April 4, 2014, from http://hilbertshotel.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/law-of-sinescosines-mapquest/
Posted by John Quintanilla on July 22, 2014
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I read about Stephanie using a new program to post on her blog so I asked her about it. I'm completely amazed at how easy this is. For those who don't know about it, Windows Live Writer is a blogger assistant (I don't know if that's it's official title, but that's what I'm calling it).
I thought I would share some LOs with you. Yesterday, my family took a trip to the zoo, and on the drive down to San Antonio, I did some digital scrappin'. My first experience with taking the laptop on a trip. It was really nice to have something other than sleep on the way down there. Of course, the glare on my screen was a little much, but I was able to work around it.
I created two Bubble LOs using photos from the other afternoon. For credits, click on the LO.