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2019 - December Environmental Clean Up

Saturday, December 14, 2019

Volunteers will need to bring their own gloves, refillable water bottles, and are encouraged to dress for the weather. Please be prepared by wearing a hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen.

Volunteers will break out in groups and one person in each group should have their cell phone to download the Clean Swell App to track the data of what trash was picked up (app training will occur on site). If you are interested in competing for the most trash collected, we will be having a "Trash Tournament" using the iAngler App. Please download these apps prior to the cleanup as service isn't always the best at the beach.


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Is THA a Bad Idea for a Patient with a High BMI?

    Patients who are morbidly obese – those who have a BMI over 40 – are at higher risk for medical and surgical complications after joint replacement procedures and should not undergo the procedure until their weight is addressed.

    That’s the argument William J. Hozack, MD, made in a debate on total hip arthroplasty in patients with a high BMI at ICJR’s annual Winter Hip & Knee Course.

    Dr. Hozack, from The Rothman Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, debated David F. Dalury, MD, from Towson Orthopaedic Associates in Towson, Maryland, who believes surgery can be safely performed in these patients.

    We asked Dr. Hozack to review his concerns about performing THA in patients with a BMI over 40. Click the image above to hear his comments.

    Producer and Director: Michael Bugera; Post Production: Charles J. Maynard

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Zac Cranko · Richard Nock

Tue Jun 11 02:20 PM -- 02:25 PM (PDT) @ Room 102
There has recently been a steady increase in the number iterative approaches to density estimation. However, an accompanying burst of formal convergence guarantees has not followed; all results pay the price of heavy assumptions which are often unrealistic or hard to check. The \emph{Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)} literature --- seemingly orthogonal to the aforementioned pursuit --- has had the side effect of a renewed interest in variational divergence minimisation (notably $f$-GAN). We show that by introducing a \textit{weak learning assumption} (in the sense of the classical boosting framework) we are able to import some recent results from the GAN literature to develop an iterative boosted density estimation algorithm, including formal convergence results with rates, that does not suffer the shortcomings other approaches. We show that the density fit is an exponential family, and as part of our analysis obtain an improved variational characterization of $f$-GAN.

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Zac Cranko (ANU)
Richard Nock (Data61, The Australian National University and the University of Sydney)

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The IDSN January 2011 newsletter includes news that: Campaigners for Dalit rights finished 2010 on a strong note with lots of activities around Human Rights Day on 10 December and participation in various international events. In India, terrible atrocities against Dalits continued to make headlines, and in Nepal, the efforts to include strong provisions against caste discrimination in the constitution gained further momentum. The United Kingdom move closer to making caste discrimination illegal, as government commissioned research provided evidence of this form of discrimination in British society.

Read the January newsletter here

The staff at the IDSN secretariat would like to wish all of you a very Happy New Year. We shall do our best to ensure that the struggle for Dalit human rights makes further headway in 2011 – and we shall strive to keep you informed about such developments. You can now also follow IDSN’s work on the IDSN Facebook Page.


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Sneijder – Afterdark 002: Los Angeles

Sneijder – Afterdark 002: Los Angeles

After his ‘Buenos Aires’ inaugural popped Afterdark’s mixcomp cherry last August, the spring of 2019 sees label honcho Sneijder ready for a second drop. Doubling down, the album expands to two discs and finds Afterdark bringing the sound of the underground to Los Angeles. Capturing every fader-flip, drum-kick, synth-soar and reciprocal crowd cheer, in the liveliest of live forms Sneijder’s ‘Afterdark 002’ defines the trance divinity of the City of Angels.

Packed with exclusive music from the likes of Giuseppe Ottaviani, Key4050, Stoneface & Terminal, Simon Patterson and others, with finger-on-pulse intuition ‘002’ shifts between the melodic, the uplifting, the tech and the out-&-out tough. Boasting a track list rammed with upfront, cutting edge club music from the Afterdark roaster and seasoned artists across the trance and tech spectrum.

Sneijder’s ‘Afterdark 002 – Los Angeles’ brings LA to you this May 24th.

Comprising of 16 tracks, in about the finest way possible, disc one commences with Sneijder’s most recent single, ‘Back Home’. Having notched an 8.5/10 in DJ Mag (“when song and mainline meet, honest-to-goodness magic happens” declared the mag), the Irishman rolls ‘Home’ into an early uplifting ascension. Collectively Cold Blue’s synth-storming ‘Another Life’, ‘Redemption’ from Italian doyen Alessandra Roncone and newcomer Billie Gillies’s thrill-packed ‘Evolve’ send it airborne. Sneijder proceeds to slide recent Giuseppe Ottaviani chart-topper ‘Panama’ between Craig Connelly’s remix of his & Karen Kelly’s ‘Be With You’ and his own firestarting, ‘Resonate’.

Album-exclusive ‘Here Once Again’ sees the mix go up a gear, opening it up into its tougher second act. Stoneface & Terminal’s ‘Mind Games’, Mandy Reid’s ‘Infiltration’, ‘Taipan’ from Renegade System and others orchestrate the floor action before Sneijder’s harmonic, anthemic revision of Ben Gold & Sivan’s ‘Stay’ kisses it off.

From disc 2’s outset, Sneijder drops straight back into a tougher groove. Alex Di Stefano dives ‘Into The Flames’, Shugz explores ‘The Darkside’ and David Forbes produces a ‘Phenomenon’ – each raising its pressure by degrees. Into that slipstream comes another swathe of Sneijder’s own, with his recent rewire of Nick Callaghan’s ‘Kill Jester’ and his team-ups with David Forbes (on ‘Flashback’) & Nick Callaghan (‘Marching Orders’) bringing techier tones. The second mix reaches its dizzying zenith with some weapons-grade gear from O’Callaghan & Kearney’s Key4050 project. ‘Egon’ and ‘Utterly Butterly’ viscerally bookend James Dymond’s bringback of Maria Nayler anthem ‘Angry Skies’ and Simon Patterson/Sam Jones pair-up ‘Rotavator’.

If you’ve not clubbed in LA before, this compilation will all-but secure those credentials for you. Across its 30+ tracks, two or more musical hours and disc deuce, Sneijder musically divines LA to a forensic level. You can pre-order/bookmark ‘Afterdark 002 – Los Angeles, Compiled & Mixed By Sneijder’ here (

Sneijder – Afterdark 002 [Los Angeles] – tracklist

Disc 01
01. Sneijder – Back Home (Club Mix)
02. Cold Blue – Another Life
03. Alessandra Roncone – Redemption
04. Billie Gillies – Evolve
05. Sneijder – Resonate
06. Giuseppe Ottaviani – Panama
07. Starpicker – Elated
08. Sneijder & Karen Kelly – Be With You (Craig Connelly Remix)
09. Sneijder – Here Once Again
10. Project 8 – Reason I Say This
11. Stoneface & Terminal – Mind Games
12. Renegade System & Ed Lynam – Redux
13. Mandy Reid – Infiltration
14. Manuel Le Saux & Unbeat – EVO
15. Renegade System – Taipan
16. Ben Gold & Sivan – Stay (Sneijder Remix)
Disc 02
01. Sneijder – Violate
02. David Forbes – Phenomenon
03. Shugz – The Darkside
04. Alex Di Stefano – Into The Flames
05. Nick Callaghan – Kill Jester (Sneijder Rework)
06. Sneijder & David Forbes – Flashback
07. Sneijder & Nick Callaghan – Marching Orders
08. Simon Patterson featuring Lucy Pullin – Blink
09. Ashley Bradbury – Sesh Gremlin
10. Sneijder – Break The Silence
11. Dante – Cognitive Behaviour
12. Key4050 – Egon
13. Billy Gillies – Open Your Mind
14. Maria Nayler – Angry Skies (James Dymond Remix)
15. Simon Patterson & Sam Jones – Rotavator (Sam Jones Remix)
16. Iain M – Serotonin
17. Sneijder – Decimate
18. Key4050 – Utterly Butterly

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Int J Prosthodont 8 (1995), No. 2     1. Mar. 1995
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Influence of Surface Treatment on Bond Strength Between a Heat-Activated and a Light-Activated Resin Composite
Guzman / Moore / Andres
The shear bond strength of two light-activated resin composite mateials to a preformed heat-polymerized resin material was measured. The substrate was a urethane dimethacrylate material designed for use as a direct bonded pontic. In the first phase of the study, the shear bond strength between the substrate and a urethane-based resin composite and seven surface treatments was evaluated. In the second phase, a Bis-GMA resin composite and three surface treatments were studied. The study showed that a bonding agent was essential for the achievement of an adequate bond strength between the light-activated and heat-polymerized resin. However, there was a significant difference in bond strength depending on the type of light-activated resin composite and bond agent used. A Bis-GMA based light-activated composite, together with its bond system (22.82 MPa), provided higher bond strength than a urethane-based resin composite and its bonding system (14.45 MPa). There was a direct relationship between cohesive failure and bond strength; as bond strength increased, the number of cohesive failures increased as well.


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New GOP Senator Will Sit on Committee Overseeing Agency That Regulates Her Husband’s Business

Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler — who was just sworn into office this week after being appointed by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp — is diving headfirst into the culture of Washington in her new role sitting on a committee that oversees the government agency that regulates her husband’s business.

Loeffler, who has never held a political office her life, was appointed to Senate Agriculture Committee where she will be one of the senators overseeing the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission. One of the companies that the CFTC oversees is the Intercontinental Exchange Inc, where Loeffler’s husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, is the CEO. The conflict of interest was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

In a statement to the Wall Street Journal, Loeffler said, “I have worked hard to comply with both the letter and the spirit of the Senate’s ethics rules and will continue to do so every day. I will recuse myself if needed on a case-by-case basis.”

But her new role has already caused criticism, Robert Maguire of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington summarized the development in a straightforward tweet, writing, “Republican leadership has assigned Georgia’s new interim senator to a committee that oversees the federal agency that regulates her husband’s business.”

Though Loeffler has never been elected to office, she and her husband have a long history of pumping money into politics. The Center for Responsive Politics notes that they have given $3.2 million to political committees and have even donated to Democrats including to Hillary Clinton in 2007.

Loeffler replaced Senator Johnny Isakson and her appointment caused a bit of tension in the party. Many Republicans had backed Georgia Congressman Doug Collins, who has enjoyed an elevated profile in the impeachment era, but Kemp tapped Loeffler for the role.

  1. Phillllilllilis,
    “WHAT is Ron Wyden’s NYC address where he lives with his family?” you asked.

    Your question indicates you know what I say is true. You’re really bad at “pretending” to be stupid. Just be you.

    He and his family live in a townhouse on East 19th St. in NYC, when not making visits in OR and DC. It’s a documented fact, not least of which by The Oregonian, a Leftist organ if ever there was one. You can look these up.

    That he continues to hold office in OR is a disgrace as this is NOT his primary residence nor where his family resides.

  2. “you might want to look at the REPUBLICAN leader turning a blind eye” Phyllis

    I don’t call him Moscow Mitch for no reason. He is also at least as dangerous as the simpleton in the White House, so I haven’t taken my eye off of him yet.

  3. >>Phyllis Softa<<

    I don't think it's quite fair to criticize Mitch McConnell or his wife (as Republicans) for doing LESS than the former Vice President named Joe Biden who abused the power of his office to help his son – Hunter – stay out of jail with a quid pro quo he admits to in regards to the corruption he was obviously involved in in Ukraine. OR, using Air Force 2 as their personal, family aircraft to suck $1.5 BILLION from the Chinese Communists and the banks in China for their personal enrichment. I have seen no figures on how much quid pro quo Joe – the demented hair sniffing creep – got from several European Nations although I doubt "The Creep" would get out of bed for less than $1 Million.

  4. Apparently Screw and WHC are now okay with Maxine Waters on the banking committee. WHO knew that would ever occur?

  5. Just as WHC said. Mad Max Waters sat on the same committee overseeing her activities, and her husband’s, in a banking scandal. No wonder she can afford to live outside the district she represents*.

    *easily exceeded by Ron Wyden (D-OR) who lives in NYC with his family but still pretends to represent OR.

    1. WHAT is Ron Wyden’s NYC address where he lives with his family?

  6. Sounds a lot like Maxine Waters being a member of the House Financial Oversight Committee as her husband cheated the heck out of the system leading to the financial crash of 2007..

    And it also smacks of Hunter Biden taking advantage of his father’s position when he was VP..

    All examples are improper/illegal behavior, but the fact that only this example is worthy of reporting shows the obvious bias of the media and the Democrats.

  7. Yes, Morte206 and Confused James, I am well aware that appointments happen on both sides of the isle. I am not THAT confused.

    “WHAT is “corrupt” by appointing an individual to a vacant position?” Confused James

    You are confused, Confused James. I did NOT say that. If you read what I ACTUALLY wrote, you will see that I mentioned corruption in relation to her committee appointment. Go back and check. I dare you. Comprehension 101.

    1. Gov Kemp did appoint her, but it WAS Mitch McConnell that approved the committee assignment. Both you and Morte and James failed to mention that salient point. If you are looking at corruption, you might want to look at the REPUBLICAN leader turning a blind eye.

  8. As a Trump supporter I think this is terrible. This is a conflict and one of the many things wrong with DC!

    1. Mitch McConnell approved the appointment. His wife arranges business meetings with Chinese officials and her family. You perceived Mitch was going to change the culture of DC?

  9. GC: It must be nice indeed just ask Tina Smith the junior senator from MN. She was appointed to fill Al Franken’s seat until she won a specially held election at a later time.

    I will agree with you though that Ms. Loeffler’s committee assignment is a dubious choice at best.

    1. ALL governors appoint a Senator when a vacancy arises before the end of the term. But it is the leader of the Senator’s party that approves committee assignments. That would be Mitch.

  10. It must be nice to be just APPOINTED as a Senator!

    Senator Kelly Loeffler and Gov. Kemp have a lot to learn about not giving even the APPEARANCE of corruption.

    1. WHAT is “corrupt” by appointing an individual to a vacant position? Is it because she is a REPUBLICAN and not one of your Socialist/Fascist comrades? YOU need to learn something about how the American political system works.

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Registration for the 2020/2021 WHS fall athletic season is now open.

The fall season will consist of the following sports:

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Gaspari Nutrition HyperAmino

Gaspari Nutrition HyperAmino is a high energy amino acid muscle growth and recovery formula designed to help power you through your workouts and your day! Use it before, during, and after your workouts OR drink it instead of coffee for an anabolic high-charged energy/recovery/growth cocktail – HyperAmino!

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  • Increases Energy
  • Stimulates Protein Synthesis
  • Enhances Recovery Ability
  • Improves Nutrient Delivery
What is the new HYPER AMINO® by Gaspari Nutrition? It’s an energy amino complex that will take the Energized Amino category by storm by giving you some never before seen ingredients that drive clean, jitter and crash-free energy that lasts, as well as time tested, proven ingredients like the anabolic power of BCAAs, the recovery power of key amino acids and a nitric oxide blend to promote increased blood flow so these powerful compounds can get where they need to go as fast as possible! HYPER AMINO® is intended to be used as a pre, intra, and post-workout drink, as well as on off-days when the process of recovery makes growth happen. Not to mention it’ll give you a great energy kick to start the day!

Muscle Growth, Recovery & Energy - Hyper Amino® Does It All - only by Gaspari Nutrition!

Discuss with your physician before taking if you have a medical condition or are taking any prescription medications. Stop use and discuss with your physician if any negative effects occur. Do not exceed the suggested dose. This product contains caffeine, do not combine with other stimulants. Do not use within 4 hours of bedtime. Must be 18 years old to use this product. Keep away from children. Do not use if the seal has been tampered with. Store in a cool, dry place.

Serving Size: 1 Scoop (10 Grams)
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HYPER AMINO® Amino Blend – 5 Grams
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Micronized L-Leucine, Micronized L-Isoleucine, Micronized L-Valine

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Micronized L-Citrulline, Micronized L-Arginine

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L-Tyrosine, Micronized L-Histidine, Micronized L-Lysine, Micronized L-Phenylalanine, Micronized L-Threonine, Micronized L-Methionine

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Mix 1 scoop to 4-10oz. cold water, juice, or your favorite beverage. On workout days, consume before, during, and post-workout. On off-days, consume first thing in the morning and throughout the day.

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Passport Services

Update from the U.S Department of State

Please read the Passport Operations in Response to COVID-19 information from the U.S. Department of State

The East Brunswick Public Library is an officially-designated passport application acceptance facility with passport processing hours set for your convenience and free parking.

Passports by Appointment

  1. Passport appointments can be made by calling 732-390-6761.
  2. We are able to process DS11 applications only at this time. Customers who qualify to use this form are:
    • First time applicants
    • Children with or without prior passports (if the applicant was under the age of 16 when the expired passport was issued
    • Adults who have passports that expired more than 5 years
  3. Passports will take 3-4 months to arrive.
  4. Hours are:
    • Monday and Wednesday: 11 am – 5 pm
    • Tuesday and Thursday: 1 pm – 7 pm
    • Friday and Saturday: 11 am – 2 pm
  5. Please come to the entrance of the library at your assigned time. A Passport Agent will meet you and escort you into the building.
  6. Masks are required to be worn in the library as per New Jersey Executive Orders and the East Brunswick Public Library Code of Conduct.
  7. Please note that you may not browse, check out library materials, or sit in library chairs other than designated seats in the Café. You must exit the building at once after your appointment is complete.

Basic Instructions for U.S. Passport Applications First Time Customers!

You must apply in person if:

  • You are a first time applicant,
  • Your previous passport was issued before you were 16 years of age, or
  • Your previous passport expired more than five years ago.
  • All minors must be present and both parents must execute the application. Minors age 16 and over must execute the application. One parent should accompany minors ages 16 to 17 unless the minor has a valid driver's license (not a learner's permit).

Passport Requirements

To obtain a U.S. passport, you will need each of the following four items:

Proof of citizenship

(Be prepared to surrender these documents: they will be returned by the Depart. of State approx. 1 week after receiving your passport.)

U.S. Born
U.S. born persons need an original birth certificate, listing both parents' names, with a raised seal and filing date from the Bureau of Vital Statistics or city of birth. Hospital-issued birth certificates and birth certificates issued by Hudson County Clerk's Office or the city of Jersey City are not acceptable. If your birth certificate was issued by the Hudson County Clerk's Office or the city of Jersey City, you must obtain a birth certificate from the New Jersey Bureau of Vital Statistics in Trenton (609-292-4087 or 609-633-2860).

Children under the age of 16 - All minors must appear in person
Both parents must execute the application of a minor under the age of 16 with valid ID. If the second parent is not available to sign, the appearing parent must have notarized written consent of the other parent granting permission (Form DS3053) along with a copy of front and back of the ID used to perform the notary. Other acceptable documents for a non-appearing parent are death certificates, court orders granting sole custody or a Statement of Exigent/Special Family Circumstances (Form DS-5525). Birth certificates are required for children who have had previous passports to establish parental relationship.

Minors age 16 and over must execute the application. One parent should accompany minors ages 16 and 17 unless the minor has a valid driver's license (not a learner's permit). Please see the back of DS-11 for more information.

Foreign-born persons must submit a naturalization certificate. Foreign-born children of naturalized parents may apply for a U.S. passport, provided the child was under the age of 18 when the parents became naturalized. Please call us (732-390-6761) for requirements.

Proof of Identity - One of the following, must be an original

  • Valid New Jersey driver's license
  • Out of state driver's license (requires one additional ID)
  • Naturalization Certificate
  • Prior US passport
  • Government employee ID
  • Official Military ID card

If you do not have any of the above mentioned ID items, please call us (732-390-6761) for further information.

Present 1 passport photograph taken within the past 6 months. Photos MUST BE 2x2 inches in size (no exceptions). It should be front view with a white or off-white plain background. The customer must be the only person in the photo.

East Brunswick Library offers on-site photo services - the fee is $12.00 for 2 photos.

Fees & Processing Time

You will need to make TWO payments: one to the U.S. Department of State (separate check per person) and one to The Library. All fees are set by the Department of State and are non-refundable. All passport processing facilities charge the same fees.

Passport Fee
This fee must be paid by check or money order payable to "U.S. Department of State." One check/money order per application form. On bottom left side of check/money order, please write applicant's full name and date of birth.

Passport Book Fee for Routine Processing
  • Customers Age 16 and older: $110.
  • Customers under age 16: $80.

Execution Fee
Execution fee is $35.00 per applicant. Payment to the library can be made by credit, cash or check. You may combine this fee if there is more than one applicant in your group as well as the photo fee.

Processing Time

Expedited Services are suspended as per the Department of State. Customers who have a life & death emergency must call Customer Service (877) 487-2778 to schedule an appointment at a Regional Office

Passports will take 3-4 months to arrive.

The U.S. Passport Card

The Department of State began offering a U.S. Passport Card the summer of 2008 in response to the needs of border resident communities for a less expensive and more portable alternative to the traditional passport book.  The card has the same period of validity as a passport book: 10 years for an adult, five for children 15 and younger.

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If you don’t really understand it, you can still go to heaven.  But if you are logical, you can’t.

That’s the message about creationism and salvation recently from the young-earth creationist Institute for Creation Research’s Jason Lisle.

Lisle debated “old-earth” creationist Hugh Ross at the National Conference on Christian ApologeticsBoth men spoke with The Christian Post after their debate.

It’s possible to still go to heaven if you don’t embrace a young earth, Lisle said.  But that is only true if you are willing to embrace illogic and ambivalence.  In order for the Bible to make sense, Lisle argued, Christians need to insist on its obvious meaning.

One problem, Lisle noted, was that children tend to reject illogic.  “Some people,” Lisle told the CP,

will say they can live with the inconsistencies. They’ll tell me: ‘Well, it’s just Genesis that I allow the scientists to tell me what it meant.’  But, what we’ve found is that children will see that inconsistency, and they will be more consistent, they will reject all of the Bible. They’ll say, ‘Well, mom and dad don’t really believe in the Bible because they don’t believe in the first few chapters. Why should I believe in the Gospel?’ We’ve seen that happen. The statistics are just alarming. We see the students walking away from church in droves.

Christians CAN be saved if they don’t accept a young earth, Lisle concluded. However, it doesn’t make any logical sense for them to do so.  As he explained,

If you believe in millions of years, if you believe the fossils are millions of years old, you have death before Adam sinned, in which case death cannot be the result of Adam’s sin if it was already there for millions of years. If death is not the penalty for sin then why did Jesus die on the cross?

As astute observers from both sides have noted, this is one idea on which atheists and young-earth creationists agree.  Jason Rosenhouse, for instance, an atheist mathematician and student of American creationism, agrees with young-earth creationists that evolutionary science is a fundamental challenge to traditional Christian faith.

Those who hope to maintain faith—especially a faith built around a belief that the Bible is God’s inerrant Word—while embracing evolutionary science or the idea of a very old universe have a tougher case to make.  As Hugh Ross, the old-earth creationist, explains, “God’s revelations in Scripture and nature do not, will not, and cannot contradict.”

Bridging the worlds of creation and evolution may make intuitive sense to Ross and many more Bible-believing Christians out there.  But the logical case for a rigid choice between either atheism or young-earth creationism remains compelling.  For those who believe in an inerrant Bible, the choice can seem all-or-nothing.

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  1. “Irreducable complexity” is pretty logical. Complex organisms that would die if any one part was not present cannot evolve to be that way. Things cannot change or evolve that cannot live in lesser stages.

  2. The first sentence, if I’m interpreting it correctly, is insinuating that the logical person cannot go to heaven because young earth / creation is illogical. Any logical person cannot accept creation and as a result (the logical person) must also reject the existence of a God / creator.

    This differs from the point that was being made by Lisle. Lisle’s point was simply that only the illogical person who accepts evolution can believe in God and go to heaven.

    So I’m responding to the insinuation of the first sentence with something I consider to be logical disproof of evolution. Creation, to me, is the logical explanation of the origin of matter and life.

    • OSL, The first sentence was meant to present Lisle’s view in a provocative way. As I understood him, Lisle was saying that one does not need to embrace young-earth theology in order to be saved. But if one is logically consistent, and one believes the Bible to be inerrant, one will choose between the two logical alternatives: either the Bible’s creation story is true, or the Bible as a whole is not trustworthy. Given a belief in Bible inerrancy, the latter alternative would lead people to reject faith. The former will lead to young-earth creationism.

  3. I believe Lisle’s point is that…
    To believe the Bible is the inerrant word of a perfect God, is to perceive it’s content as wholly truthful without exception. If one claims to believe, yet accepts contrary doctrines as truth, the only logical possible explanation is that either they don’t believe or they have no real concept of the discrepancy. In such a case, someone could have a genuine belief in the saving blood of a sinless Christ and go to heaven, while unknowingly professing a belief in a doctrine that contradicts the Bible’s creation account.

    I believe you want to construe Lisle’s statement to mean…
    If you are logical, you cannot possibly go to heaven, because no logical person would believe in the Bible and the creation account.

    That is indeed what you say in your opening sentence. “If you don’t really understand it, you can still go to heaven. But if you are logical, you can’t.”

    This is not the point Lisle is making. Not even close.

    “Lisle was saying that one does not need to embrace young-earth theology in order to be saved”
    –True, but only if one is unaware of the contradiction of old-cosmos/evolution views and the Biblical account of creation. To be aware of such contradictions and still hold onto them as truth can only occur if you knowingly consider portions of the word of God to be false.

    “If one believes the Bible to be inerrant, one will choose between the two logical alternatives”
    –False, There is only 1 logical choice for someone who truly believes the Bible to be truth – the Bible’s creation story is true. If the Bible is true then it must be true that the earth was created by God in 6 days. An honest belief in the truth of the word of God cannot lead one to determine, as you say, that the “Bible as a whole is not trustworthy”.

    One who rejects the Bible and the Christian faith does so out of a disbelief in the Bible as the inerrant word of God. For them there is only one logical choice as well – evolution. They can logically only accept explanations that are arrived at by first excluding the possibility of a Creator. To do otherwise would not be logically consistent when starting from that premise.

    • “One who rejects the Googliad and the BingMS faith does so out of a disbelief in the Googliad as the inerrant ifthenelsemacro of GreatOffice95version.”
      ps. BTW who the hell is GreatOffice95version? (Argument from ignorance)

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10 Things I do Every January

The beginning of every new year calls for action to straighten out things. A new year calls for new beginnings. In your personal life, in business and in almost all things, people often take stock and see where they can make amends or start out afresh once again. I know this is true for me and I suspect for many people as well. Perhaps that’s why making new year resolutions is quite popular, even if many people do not follow up with keeping those resolutions. Personally I set goals for the year, instead of resolutions and as the months roll by, I track these goals to attempt to meet them.

To help me create order and a unique system, I try to do these 10 things every New Year. I try to do some of the on New Year’s Day and the rest in the first week of the New Year. Not all of them are financial, but this system helps to a large extent set the tone for the year.

1. Create Goals For The Year

I try to create concise and measurable goals for the year. I love simplicity, so I don’t try to put everything on my goals list. To a reasonable extent, I try to create goals in these areas of my life: Spiritual, Family, Career, Financial, Physical, Social and Intellectual. I track these goals throughout the year, especially at the beginning of every month. Sometimes, I don’t meet all the goals on my list but monthly or quarterly reviews help to re-focus my attention on the things I need to do to reach my goals in these areas. It’s like a self-check system. This is why writing down your goals can be a powerful strategy. For example, one of my Intellectual goals in 2019 is to read 6 non-fiction and non-financial books (of course I will also read at least about 6 financial books; aim is to read a book a month).

2. Calculate Net Worth

The real measure of growth in your finances is your net worth. It simply is calculated by subtracting all your liabilities (debts, loans, mortgages etc) from all your assets (retirement accounts, investments, cash, life insurance, real estate etc). The goal is to try as much as possible to have your net worth be going up every year. You can calculate this every month (like most personal finance bloggers do), every quarter or every year. I track ours every quarter and the first of January every year presents the first time to calculate our net worth for the year. There are many net worth calculators online. Better still you can just use a financial aggregation sites like Mint or Personal Capital and let them do it for you after you input all your figures. You can try this calculator here

3. Check Credit Report

You can check your credit report from the 3 credit bureaus (Experian, Transunion and Equifax) for free once year. I usually check ours every January 1st. Even though I have creditkarma which helps me track our credit report daily and sends me monthly details, I still do this traditional practice of checking the reports myself to make sure everything is fine (I check the reports for unusual activity or any account I’m not aware of). In this our current world of credit breaches, this is the least you should do. You can check your credit report at annualcreditreport.com

4. Detailed Review of Household Trends

I’m very old school and despite all the fancy budgeting apps present these days, I still do our family budget in pen and paper. At the end of the year, I have a page where I detail all the trends for the year. These typically include total spending on different categories like how much we spent on utilities for the year, how much we spent on gas or car maintenance, our charitable giving, total savings, grocery spending etc. Every January 1st, I review these trends and compare it with the previous year. It helps provide some vital household financial statistics and helps keep some things in perspective for me

5. Rebalancing

I’m a lazy investor: I only invest in total market Index funds. I love keeping it simple. Tons of studies have shown that being a lazy investor is much more superior to being an active and sophisticated investor. So we only have a few index funds in our retirement accounts. For example, both of our Roth IRAs only have one single investment inside of it: Vanguard Small Cap Value Index Fund, VSIAX. Our workplace retirement accounts have a few total market funds and some bonds. Rebalancing, which is the art of rearranging your asset allocation of stocks and bonds back to the set allocation, is predictably very easy for me. Often times, I rarely have to do anything. If the market had shifted considerably in the past year, then I may have to do a little rearrangement here and there. I think rebalancing is overrated but some smart financial professionals have argued that it can add about 1% to your total returns over your investing lifetime. So I do it when it is necessary, on every New Year’s Day. If there’s not much changes in our set asset allocation, I just leave everything alone

6. Review Insurances

Once you buy your insurance, the natural thing is for most people to lock it in and forget about it for a long time. Bad idea. Sometimes, shopping for your insurance across different companies can show you some huge savings. Every January 1st, I try to review our insurances: Auto, Homeowner’s, Umbrella, and even our Term Life Insurances. When I compare rates and find significant savings between our current company and another, I make the change. This is why using a captive agent of one single company as your insurance broker is not a good idea. It’s best to shop across several companies and find the best deal and savings for you.

7. Contribute to Roth IRAs

I love the Roth IRA. It’s not a secret, it’s my favorite retirement account. I think it’s the best retirement plan in the country. In 2011, I asked a financial adviser if I could open one and he told me I could not because I was still on H-1 visa and that I could only open one when I got my permanent residence. Knowing virtually nothing about personal finance and investment at that time, I believed him. About a year later, when I was beginning to acquire some knowledge myself, I researched and saw that I could actually open it even with my H-1 visa status. It just took a few minutes online on E-Trade and I opened a Roth IRA (I have since transferred the account to Vanguard). I’ve never looked back since then.

Since the past 2 years, I’ve decided to fund our Roth IRAs every January 1st (technically by January 2nd since the 1st is a holiday and businesses are closed that day). I save all through the year to get the maximum amount and then dump it in one fell swoop in January. This way, it gets exposed to the market all year through. Investing early is one of the best ways to invest.

8. Review Estate Plan

Technically, I’ve not done this before but I intend to add it to my to do list every January. Estate planning always takes the back burner but I’m determined to shake off that inertia and do something about this going forward. A simple Will can be obtained online, but because this is one area of personal finance that is least exciting to me, I may eventually have to get an Estate attorney to help me do this, then every January, I will look at any changes that may be necessary depending on our family situation

9. Document Assets Inside the Home

In 2018, thousands of home were completely destroyed by fire in California. Many of the homeowners did not have the time to remove valuable things from the home. There are also stories of homes being destroyed by hurricanes or other types of storms. These events, while rare, can be devastating. One of the headaches associated with losing a home is fighting with the Homeowner insurance company in rebuilding your home. Assets inside the home are supposed to be covered too. However when you don’t have a record of all the assets inside your home, how do you argue with the insurance company to reimburse appropriately? This is where documenting the assets on video comes in. I stole this idea from Clark Howard. So, every January 1, I try to make a video of the major assets inside the house. You can use your camera to do this short video. Ideally, you can store it electronically or online where fire or water will not destroy it.

10. Call Loved Ones

This includes family and friends. The frenetic pace of life guarantees that you tend to forget to keep in touch with some beloved family members and friends throughout the year. Often times, I find that I have not talked to some close friends or family members in over 6 months! It is not by design. Life happens. New Year’s Day affords me an opportunity to start on a clean slate again. Social interactions is one of the reasons why we can live longer. No man is an island. If you stay alone and keep to yourself all year long, you can get bogged down with depression. Social interactions are vital for happiness. So every 1st week of January, I make an attempt and scroll down my phone list to see those I have not talked to in a long while and try to catch up. After all, like Suze Orman says, “It’s people first. Then money. Then things”. Hopefully, this sets a position motion to periodically reach out through the year to those I have not spoken with in a long while.

So do you have a system that you use every new year? Do you do any of the above on New Year’s Day? Comment below

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  1. This is such an insightful article. Thanks for writing this. I will certainly be adopting these goals for 2019.
    Happy new year!

  2. I’ve done 1-5, however, the rest are a work in progress. I’m planning on getting #6 done before the end of this week and I’m confident that I will be able to find better rates! I just may be able to use that savings to fund our #7 🤔

  3. Phenomenal list. Thanks for sharing. You gave me a couple of important reminders.
    I started checking my credit report every 4 months or so. Since there are three agencies with free reports you can rotate through them without paying anything and get a check-up through the year. Just a thought.

    • Actually this is what I used to do: check our credit report once per quarter from one of the 3 credit agencies. However, since I have creditkarma which sends me monthly updates, I just got lazy about this and only do a detailed credit report check on January 1. But your though is on point. Thanks for stopping by, appreciate you.

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10 Ways to Tidy Up Your Phones and PCs for the New Year

Organize your phone, tablet, and computer with these quick and easy tasks from productivity expert Jill Duffy. Investing just a little time here at the beginning of the year could make a big difference for all of 2020.

Many of us spend far too much time on our phones and PCs, and it doubtless got worse over the holidays. Sure, you could try to do the digital detox equivalent of Dry January to cut your screen time down, but for most people, that's not a realistic option. One thing you can do is organize your devices, streamlining them so that you can at least get things done more quickly. And while you're doing that, you might as well do all the other things you've been putting off, like backing up your photos and tightening up your security. Now that the holidays are over and we're getting back to real life, it's time to focus on being productive again, and cleaning up your devices is an excellent way to start.

Here are 10 recommended tidying tasks for your devices to start the New Year on the right foot.

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1. Transfer Photos and Videos Off Your Phone

Photos! They're often the culprit of data deluge on smartphones. You probably want to keep a few photos stored locally, like a good headshot so you can add it to online accounts, and maybe a couple of pictures of your pets and favorite family members (not that anyone plays favorites, of course). Beyond that, do you really need pictures from so-and-so's graduation three years ago?

Get Organized Bug ArtTransfer photos off your smartphone and put them somewhere safe, like a computer that you regularly back up or an online storage service. Many online storage services have an app that lets you move photos with almost no action required on your part. Once you free up that space, you'll have a lot more room to take new photos and videos, as well as download music, podcasts, apps, and more.

2. Back Up Your Devices (or at Least Your Most Important Files)

Smartphones fall into the toilet, hardware crashes during updates, laptops get stolen—there are so many ways to lose your data. If you aren't backing up your computers and mobile devices, now's a good time to start.

The ins and outs of PC backup are way less intimidating than most people think. If backing it all up sounds like too much to tackle, focus instead on backing up your most important files. You can use a cloud storage and file syncing service, such as Dropbox, to do this very quickly and easily.

Backing up smartphone data takes little more than turning on a preinstalled service, like iCloud, and assessing whether you need to purchase more storage space or delete unnecessary files. If you need help, we have instructions for how to back up an iPhone and how to back up an Android device.

3. Run a Tune-up Utility

If it's been a while since you gave your computer a tune-up (or you've never done one), now's the time. All you need to do is pick a good tune-up utility and let it run. Some tune-up apps have a free tier of service or free trial, so even if you aren't sure which one to buy, you should be able to run a quick tune-up.

Read the instructions or watch a video tutorial so you understand exactly what will be cleaned up before you run it. The first time you do a tune-up on your desktop might take a little bit of time, so feel free to kick back and watch a movie. Or move on to step 4, since your phone should be free.

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4. Remove Apps You Don't Use

Here's another easy clean-up task to do while vegging out in front of the TV: Swipe through your phone or tablet looking for apps you don't use or need and delete them.

On iOS, there's a special setting that automatically deletes apps you haven't used in a while if your phone runs low on space. Find the option by going to: Settings > General > iPhone Storage > Offload Unused Apps

From this same page, you can see how much storage space each app takes up and when you last used it. When you tap the app for more information, there's a Delete App button, so you can manage your apps here rather than go back to the home screens to do it.

See these additional tips for freeing up space on your iPhone if you need to do more in this area.

You can remove unused apps from a laptop or desktop computer, too, although it requires slightly more of your attention. If you need help, follow the links for instructions on how to remove apps from Mac and how to remove apps on Windows 10.

5. Clear Your Cache and Dump Your Trash

How long has it been since you cleared your browser cache and history on your computers? Have you ever done it on your smartphone and tablet? For most browsers, look for the History option and clear all of it.

Be sure to dump the supposedly deleted files from other places where it doesn't happen automatically, including Apple's Photo app, email, and Google Drive.

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Other places to focus on deleting unnecessary digital debris are old text messages (the ones with videos and images can take up excessive space), Instagram search history, and WhatsApp archives. The Instagram one is a little hard to find because it keeps moving. As of this writing, it's at Profile page > Settings > Security > Clear Search History.

6. Sweep Your Inbox

If your email inbox contains more unread messages than you can emotionally handle, this tip is for you. I call it sweeping the inbox. You move all messages from the inbox to a new folder. You're not deleting them. You're not ignoring them. You're merely putting them into a safe space that's out of your immediate line of sight.

You decide the rules. You can move all messages or only messages that older than one month, for example.

Name your folder whatever you want; I suggest "2019 Unread" or "2019 and Older." Something like that will do. Here's how to do it:

Sort your messages by date and select all from this/last year or this year and older. Drag them into the new folder. Voilà. That's it. If you're handy working with "rules" in your email program, you can select and move messages that way.

7. Unsubscribe From Bulk Email

Since we're talking about email, another easy task to knock out on New Year's Day while watching a movie is to pick through your email messages and unsubscribe from all the stuff you never actually open or read. If you don't actually read The New York Times daily briefing, for instance (I subscribed for a month before acknowledging that I read at most one out of every five), just stop getting it. The same goes for other newsletters and online deal emails from retailers. So many of those "exclusive" discounts are in fact offered right on the retailer's website when you land on it. You don't need the email.

For all bulk messages that are sent responsibly, there's an unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email. It's usually in small print and it's not always in a different color or underlined (tricky bastards).

If you're looking for more inbox relief, you should read my 11 Tips for Managing Email More Effectively.

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8. Update Your Email Signature

Here's another simple mail-related task that takes a minute or two: Update your signature.

"I don't even have an email signature," you might say. Are you sure?

In Gmail, check at Settings > General > Email Signature.

If you use a mobile email app, including apps that came preinstalled on your phone or tablet, and never changed any of the default settings, there's a good chance your emails say "Sent from…" and fill in the name of your device or email provider. Following the instructions for changing your email signature on iOS or Android won't take long at all.

While you're at it, check your email "from" name. Especially on mobile devices, it's easy to confuse the nickname you gave to the account (e.g., Gmail) with your "from" name, which is what recipients see in their preview when they get messages from you.

9. Freshen Up Your Playlists

No matter which music service or podcast app you use, the new year is a great time to take stock of what you have, remove the audio files you don't want, and rearrange everything how you want it.

Spotify has a way of getting crowded with playlists. If you need a little help learning all the tools to organize your songs, see this list of Spotify tips. PCMag also has tips for organizing Apple Music and iTunes.

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Remember to set up playlists for yourself that support other New Year's resolutions you might have, like workout playlists or songs or podcasts you can listen to while doing a hobby. For example, I have podcast playlists called Kitchen Time for shows I enjoy while cooking.

You might decide to tidy up your Spotify playlists or unsubscribe from podcasts that no longer release new episodes. Maybe you've made a New Year's resolution to work out more, in which case you could spend a little time putting together a workout playlist. On an average day, this chore might seem like a poor use of your time, but when you have a few hours to kill over a winter holiday, it's just right.

10. Clean Up Your Passwords

In an age when so much of what we do is online, including storing important documents, having secure passwords can be more important than backing up your files. A password manager is your key to greater online safety and security.

If you already use a password manager (you hero, you), now's a good time to think about whether you should update any passwords or add two-factor or multifactor authentication to keep your accounts secure.

If you don't have a password manager, let me briefly explain what they are, as sometimes people have a misunderstanding. A password manager is an app that creates unique passwords for all your online accounts. Now here's the key part. Whenever you want to log in to an account, the app types your username and password into the login fields for you in a secure way. So if you go to, say, Facebook's login page, the password manager automatically fills in the fields for Email/Phone Number and Password. You don't have to type anything. You can open your password manager app and look at the passwords if you ever need to, but you don't have to.

Pick a password manager that meets your needs and try it for an hour or so. Get a feel for it. When you use a password manager for the first time, there's a hurdle to clear during the first week or two, as you need to teach the app your existing passwords and give it permission to save them or replace them with new, stronger passwords. That hurdle disappears as you use the app. So stick with it.


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Codacy Duplication Scala Seed

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We use external tools at Codacy, this is the library we use across the multiple external tools integrations. For more details and examples of tools that use this project, you can check TODO.

Add to your SBT dependencies:

"com.codacy" %% "codacy-duplication-scala-seed" % "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT"

You shouldn't worry about the library itself, we use it as a core in our tools, and everything is well explained in our Docs section.

How to integrate an external duplication tool on Codacy

By creating a docker and writing code to handle the tool invocation and output, you can integrate the tool of your choice on Codacy!

To know more about dockers, and how to write a docker file please refer to

We use external tools at Codacy, in this tutorial, we explain how you can integrate the duplication tool of your choice in Codacy. You can check the code of an already implemented tool and if you wish fork it to start yours. You are free to modify it and use it for your integration.

  • Docker definition with the tool you want to integrate

Assumptions and Behaviour

  • To run the tool we provide the configuration file, /src/.codacyrc, with the language to run and optional parameters your tool might need.

  • The files to analyse are located in /src, meaning that when provided in the configuration, the paths are relative to `/src.

  • .codacyrc

    • duplication:
      • language: Language to run the tool
      • params: Object with key/value parameters
  "duplication": {
    "language": "Scala",
    "params": {
      "maxTokens": 5

You are free to write this code in the language you want. After you have your results from the tool, you should print them to the standard output in our Result format, one result per line.

  "cloneLines": "case class Foo(bar: Int)",
  "nrTokens": 2,
  "nrLines": 1,
  "files": [
    { "filePath": "path/to/my/file1.scala", "startLine": 1, "endLine": 2 },
    { "filePath": "path/to/my/file2.scala", "startLine": 5, "endLine": 6 }

The filename should not include the prefix /src/ Example:

  • absolute path: /src/folder/file.js
  • filename path: folder/file.js

Submit the Docker

Running the docker

docker run -t \
    --net=none \
    --privileged=false \
    --cap-drop=ALL \
    --user=docker \
    --rm=true \
    -v <PATH-TO-CODACY-CONFIG-RC>:/src/.codacyrc \

Docker restrictions

  • Docker image size should not exceed 500MB
  • Docker should contain a non-root user named docker with UID/GID 2004
  • All the source code of the docker must be public
  • The docker base must officially supported on DockerHub
  • Your docker must be provided in a repository through a public git host (ex: GitHub, Bitbucket, ...)

Docker submission

  • To submit the docker you should send an email to team [at] codacy [dot] com with the link to the git repository with your docker definition.
  • The docker will then be subjected to a review by our team and you will then be contacted with more details

If you have any question or suggestion regarding this guide let us know.

What is Codacy

Codacy is an Automated Code Review Tool that monitors your technical debt, helps you improve your code quality, teaches best practices to your developers, and helps you save time in Code Reviews.

Among Codacy’s features

  • Identify new Static Analysis issues
  • Commit and Pull Request Analysis with GitHub, BitBucket/Stash, GitLab (and also direct git repositories)
  • Auto-comments on Commits and Pull Requests
  • Integrations with Slack, HipChat, Jira, YouTrack
  • Track issues in Code Style, Security, Error Proneness, Performance, Unused Code and other categories

Codacy also helps keep track of Code Coverage, Code Duplication, and Code Complexity.

Codacy supports PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, and Scala, among others.

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Red Ink: Exit The Magazine, Enter New Literary Journal

Tawa Ducheneaux / Cover artist Quinton Maldonado and Red Ink faculty advisor Dr. Barbara Robins look over Maldonado’s modern take on ledger art.

Christina Rose

Red Ink: Exit The Magazine, Enter New Literary Journal

In Kyle, South Dakota, a May 7 gathering of more than 50 students, elders, community members and staff met at Woksape Tipi Library, on the Oglala Lakota College campus, and celebrated Red Ink Magazine’s 25th anniversary, and the production of the last edition of the magazine.

The end of Red Ink Magazine is the beginning of “Red Ink: International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art & Humanities,” under the direction of Simon Ortiz, well-known poet and author of several books, and professor, Department of English, at Arizona State University. “We have been in the process of bringing Red Ink to Arizona State University-Tempe for the last three years,” Ortiz said.

Red Ink is the only Native publication in the country that features solely the writing of Native students. Published through the University of Arizona since 1990, Red Ink Magazine was asked by a new director of American Indian Studies to cease publication of the magazine, according to Sheila Rocha, managing editor of the final issue. For the last few years, Rocha and others attempted to continue the magazine through other departments, however, “everything was under a tight budget squeeze,” said Rocha, who has been involved with the publication since 2010. While working toward the completion of her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona, Rocha took a position at Oglala Lakota College. She and Ortiz agreed Rocha would produce the last issue there.

With a staff of mostly Lakota students, Rocha and the students began the challenging process of putting the magazine together. “It was very tough, especially because of the distance and the difficulty of getting from one place to the other on Pine Ridge. The [students] didn’t have a lot of [publishing] experience, but they have the passion,” she said.

The students at OLC were charged with choosing submissions from student writers and artists. “This magazine really emphasizes Lakota creativity and artistry,” Rocha said.

The final edition features contributions of artists and writers from the Lakota nation including “Dancing With Words”—a young poets group, community members, and Red Ink’s exiting editorial board. Special literary guest is poet Tanaya Winder, nominated for Best New Poets 2014 Anthology, 2010 winner of the “A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Orlando Prize” in poetry, as well as a semi-finalist for the Kenyon Review/Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry.

Ortiz describes the new publication as being more like a literary journal and less like Life Magazine. He said, “That is the last issue of that staff, that’s the work they did. We are using our own sources at ASU, a different format. If you look at other literary publications they are somewhat different.”

Many things will remain the same, but with a new staff in a new location, there are bound to be some changes. “I am sure the new board has a vision for what it will be like. It’s hard to say until we can see it,” Rocha said.

“The point of the publication is to get the words, the stories, and the art out to the public,” Ortiz explained. “The way we write and speak is knowledge, our own voice. Our knowledge is important to the nation as a whole, not just to indigenous people, not to Native Americans or Lakota or Acoma, but for the public at large.”

Ortiz said they will make sure that indigenous aesthetics in the literary journal will continue. “Literature, including poetry, is very much a part of Native expression. It is how our own people think and feel and speak,” he said.

“Even though there may be some differences in the way we continue the publication, there will be a lot of agreement because we are working for the same reasons: for our land, our people, our culture, for humanity. That will always be the same.”

Red Ink Magazine featured the indigenous voices of new and upcoming artists and scholars. Previous editorial staff and contributors include Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon-Silko, Rigoberta Menchu, Simon Ortiz, Laura Tohe, N. Scott Momaday, Bunky Echo Hawk, Tanaya Winder, Joy Harjo, Gerald Cournoyer, John Trudell, Leo Killsback, Ryan Huna-Smith, Sherwin Bitsui, and a host of others.

Find out more about Red Ink Magazine on Facebook or purchase a copy of this and other issues online.

Red Ink has put out a call to Indigenous Peoples for writings, scholarly works, art works, and humanities essays. Submit items by June 1, 2015 to

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Navajos to build portion of major water pipeline

Window Rock, Arizona (AP) October 2012

The Navajo Nation and the U.S. Department of the Interior have reached a financial agreement to have the tribe build 43 miles of a major water pipeline.

The 280-mile, $1 billion Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project will serve Navajo communities in New Mexico and Arizona, the city of Gallup and parts of the Jicarilla Apache Nation in northern New Mexico.

Federal officials announced an agreement to provide the Navajo Nation with $43 million to design and build a portion of the pipeline along U.S. 550 south of Farmington, N.M., a pumping station and four storage tanks.

Water delivery could begin in 2015. The entire project will take longer to complete.

Federal legislation passed in 2009 settled the Navajo water claims in the San Juan River basin and authorized the pipeline.


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Seminars IFIC

Parton transverse-momentum distributions in electro-production and e+e- annihilation

by Prof. Gunar Schnell (U. Pais Vasco/IkerBasque)

Seminar Room, 1.1.1 (IFIC)

Seminar Room, 1.1.1

Paterna (Valencia)

Transverse-momentum distributions of partons both in the nucleon and in the hadronization process have gained enormous attention during the past two decades. They go beyond the traditional picture of collinearly moving partons and allow for a three-dimensional picture of hadrons and hadronization and for a rich phenomenology of partonic spin-momentum correlations. Transverse-momentum distributions have been extensively studied in lepton-nucleon scattering, in particular the so-called Sivers and Collins effects. However, lately they also have become subject of investigations in e+e- annihilation, especially with the large data set of Belle. In this talk, results from the HERMES experiment on lepton-nucleon scattering as well as from Belle, BaBar and BESIII on e+e- annihilation will be discussed.

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Blogging with Facebook “Notes” to Improve Visibility

facebook notes for bloggingFor the past couple of months, I’ve been conducting a little experiment with Facebook’s Notes feature, and I’m ready to declare it something of a success.

I got the idea from a post I saw on Facebook (surprise!). A Canadian journalist named Mitch Joel mentioned that he was going to begin using Facebook’s upgraded Notes feature as a blogging platform. For years, Joel said, bloggers have hosted their blogs on their websites, or on blogging platforms. Then they would put a link to their posts on social media in an effort to drive traffic to their own site. Once someone is there, the conventional thinking goes, they may take a look around and maybe even buy something from you.

But readers are sometimes unwilling to click a random link to an unfamiliar site. And besides, they’re already on Facebook. If the point is to get readers for your posts, why not blog where the readers are? Continue reading “Blogging with Facebook “Notes” to Improve Visibility”

Thrifty Thursday: Jingle for Savings

santa ordering books onlineHere come the holidays, full speed ahead! You don’t have to worry about your budget or your list – we’ve got great gifts and deals for you! Get the most for your dollar by getting your books right here on Thrifty Thursday.

Readers: look in the comment section below. If you see one you like, click over and buy it. How easy is that? (If you don’t see the book covers, adjust your browser’s adblock settings.)

Authors: if you have a book priced at 99¢ or less (that’s right, post your free eBooks here, too!), follow the instructions below and post it right in the comment section. Got more than one bargain book? Go ahead and post them all if you like, but only one book and ONE link per comment please!

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So let’s give it a try, shall we? Please make sure to follow the RULES above. Now, go ahead and tell the world about your cheap read. IU is a safe-for-work site. PLEASE do not post links to erotica, religious, or political titles.

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A Social Purpose Food Skills Employability Program

Gather Culinary Academy is Hamilton’s first free culinary job training program for people living in poverty and
seeking to enter or re-enter the workforce in the culinary arts. This program is led by Indwell, a local charity that creates affordable housing communities to alleviate poverty and support skill-building that leads to independence. Partnering with the City of Hamilton, Hamilton Health Sciences, and Compass Group Canada, this intensive program provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to become successfully employed in the culinary industry.

“... our students are given the tools to have great impact on the community and culinary world.”
Two of my great passions are food and people, I am so excited to share these passions at Gather Culinary Academy. I truly believe our students are being given the tools to have great impact on the community and culinary world.
Chef Tyler McDonald

Dates & Location

  • September 23, 2019 – December 6, 2019
  • 205 Melvin Ave, Hamilton

Our first session is full!
Please check back for future opportunities.

Course Schedule

topics covered

  • Basic knife skills
  • Commercial kitchen equipment use, maintenance, and cleaning
  • Hands-on meal preparation
  • Food safety and proper food storage
  • Kitchen time management and planning
  • Large batch recipe reading and measuring

  1. Must be currently receiving O.W. or O.D.S.P.
  2. Attend info session.
  3. Must attend and complete all training dates.
  4. Must be 18 or older.
  5. Police clearance may be required.
  6. ESL Level 4/5 – must be able to communicate and understand.
  7. Must have daycare in place.

Please contact me about future sessions of Gather Culinary Academy!

We’d like to recognize the incredible partners that have come alongside Indwell to make this project happen. Key partners in the financial and practical support of the program include The City of Hamilton, Compass Group Canada, and Hamilton Health Sciences.

We need your help. There many ways that you can support this life-changing work. Please consider the following opportunities:

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Gen 2 DC Dry Herb & v3.5 Concentrate Combo Atomizer Kit

Both of these atomizers are completely rebuildable.

Gen 2 DC Dry Herb & V3.5 Atomizer

all you need to vape dry herb and concentrates, just switch atomizers,  PLEASE NOTE each atomizer has different settings…

You need your own Mod battery for this deal, check out the complete vaporizers page if you want the whole kit)


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Dream on, Landscape in the Mist, Greece….

It’s Decision day in Greece, I don’t want to get into predicting  on this. I synchronistically came upon this image and tracked it down. A picture is worth a thousand words. The pic is from a movie by famous Greek Film Director Theo Angelopoulos,translated as Landscape In The Mist whose synopsis perfectly encapsulates Greece’s current situation, as well as the rest of the world. chaos Uranus…. what do you think?

Moon enters Pisces in the a.m.  Film, illusion, delusions, projection….

Dream on…. this is the perfect illustration for Greece right now

Landscape in the Mist a 1988 Greek Director Theo Angelopoulos

Landscape in the mist Astrology Tara Greene

SYNOPSIS by Theo Angelopoulos
LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST is a film about the void. It is a film about despair, about the failure of contemporary society. The prodigal father who figures in almost every Angelopoulos film here has evaporated into his mythical essence – leaving his children to become the wanderers in search of him. In the «chaos», two children appear, little Alexandros and his older sister Voula. In order to exorcise their loneliness, they invent a secret universe for themselves, inhabited by their dreams. Every night they go to a train station to watch the departure of a train to Germany, where they have been deceived by their mother (herself an off-screen presence) into believing that their absent father is living. One night they finally dare to get on the train. But their voyage turns out to be hazardous and pointless and disappointing. They confront suffering, physical and moral illness, jealousy, evil and death, if also love – as many ordeals and rites as initiations. Evading the half-hearted pursuit of the police and uncaring relatives, sneak onto trains, hitchhike in vans and lorries, and suffering poverty, rape and exploitation, take a dangerous leap of faith, an eerie plunge into liberation and danger. The familiar Greek landscape – the cafes, the depopulated towns and deserted beaches – are played for a strangely harsh fairytale quality, seen through the eyes of two children whose introduction to the real world borders on the surreal. The film is filled with extraordinary, unforgettable moments that are at once real and hallucinatory and contains intriguing references to other Angelopoulos’ films. The children even encounter the Travelling Players now, thirteen years later, without a stage to act on, their costumes put up for sale. At the end Alexandros tells Voula the same story from Genesis that she told him at the start: «In the beginning there was chaos.» The children do finally reach the border, but of course there is no border with Germany and perhaps the river they cross is actually the Styx and perhaps their whole journey was a search for order in a chaotic world.

Moon trines Mars in Cancer

Good for family get togethers, big picnics by the water. and Moon conjuncts Neptune PDT at days end Monday in EDT.

Happy Remembrance birthday to  Jean Cocteau another film maker,French poet, surrealist  born July 5, 1989

“True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.”
surrealism, flm, Astrology Tara Greene
From  BLOOD OF A POET 1930 film still
And how are you feeling with Saturn now Retrograde for three weeks now? I am still meditating on this. We do need support. I am going away to L.A. on the 14th of July I  am busy getting things ready for that.
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Blood of a Poet 1930 with Massive Attack music

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Influencer Rate Map

Find out what you should be charging or paying based on different types of influencers in the industry.

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Administrate has a broad customer base, with customers based all over the world and representing a number of different industries. One great example of this is AMS Group, the leading provider for a range of driver training, industry training, and health & safety courses, which is based in Hamilton, New Zealand! This means they offer courses on things such as transport training (truck licensing, heavy machinery, forklift operation), as well as crane, scaffolding, and health & safety areas. This is perfect proof that not all of our customers run classroom-based sessions or eLearning - we can help you manage courses with a more hands-on element just as easily!

Life Before Administrate

"AMS Group had previously tried other Event Management Systems but had struggled to gain traction with any of the options trialled. AMS needed an application that was flexible, transparent, and easy for all the staff to use and interact with."

Jo Pennell - Operations Manager, AMS Group

Before discovering Administrate, AMS Group had tried other systems but were unable to find something to fit their needs. They needed something that was easy for the entire team to use, so all their data was easy to access and use when needed.

Administrate is a system to manage your entire training operation from one place, cutting out the need for additional systems, duplicate data entry, and importing and exporting data. With everything stored centrally, you never have to worry about searching for what you need, and you can be confident that all your Administrate users can access all the vital data they need.

Before Administrate, AMS Group were using spreadsheets for each of their training locations to manage their bookings, meaning that their Administration team were having to update course availability on the website manually. This meant things could be missed quite easily and the risk of human error was high. It also meant that staff were wasting a lot of time as everything was manual rather than automated.

Going Live with Administrate

"We went live on Administrate on October 1st 2017, and it has been a real journey for the business. Over that time our business has increased turnover and student registrations in events. The issuing of certificates and wallet cards was a manual process that consumed administration hours. These are now all done directly out of Administrate.

Our events are well managed, our communication to our customers continues to grow in professionalism, and we can now easily produce training management reports for our customers. With each month we extend our use and functionality of the system and have recently signed up for a three year contract. Administrate will be our business efficiency and productivity driver. Our next step is to integrate our website and accounting system with Administrate."

Jo Pennell - Operations Manager, AMS Group

Since kickoff with AMS Group in October 2017, we have built an incredibly strong and successful relationship with them by helping their business grow and perform better.

Below are some of the key features AMS Group were looking for when they came on board with Administrate:

  • A CRM for managing all customers and communications, and automatic triggers for comms - Administrate comes with a built-in CRM to allow you to store all the details of your students, staff, and suppliers in one central place. You can then use these customer details across the entire system, including setting up automated communications!
  • Web bookings and payments - Administrate supports online course bookings, as well as payments from a number of popular payment providers. Integrating your website with Administrate as AMS Group is on the road to doing will mean that all your course information can be pulled directly onto your website without any additional work. It also means that all course sales will be pulled back into Administrate so that you can keep track of all the details of the sale in our CRM and sales system.
  • Events scheduling - Administrate makes setting up all your courses a total breeze and cuts out as much of the manual work as possible. You can even use our course templates to help set up multiple instances of the same course in a matter of clicks.
  • Trainer and resource management - Managing your staff and resources is easy with Administrate. You can easily input all the details of your entire team and all your resources into Administrate to make sure everyone has access to a complete staff and resources record. Then, when it comes to setting up your courses, you can easily select the staff and resources you need from the data available. We'll even prevent you from double booking, or alert you to possible clashes, so you can be confident your courses will always run smoothly.
  • Reporting - Reporting was key to AMS Group as they needed to be able to make data-driven decisions quickly. Administrate's built-in reporting system means you can easily report on any of the data you have stored in the system. Reports will also be updated in real-time to reflect any new data that has been entered and to ensure you are always working with the most accurate figures possible.

Administrate also built a custom integration for AMS Group with a national certification board in New Zealand (NZ Transport Agency) which passes unique certification numbers stored against student contact records to a registry to help cut their manual tasks even further but still help them keep track of everything they need to in one place.

Get the Support You Need

"Now a system is only as good as the people around it and the support you receive. I can’t recommend the people who are wrapped around this product highly enough. Through the implementation process, we had a high level of support and guidance. We now have an Account Management team working with us that totally meet my needs as a customer. I always find Team Highlander responsive, keen to listen to and understand our business and our needs, highly solutions-focussed, and enormously easy to deal with. It is this level of customer service that is the jewel in the Administrate crown."

Jo Pennell - Operations Manager, AMS Group

Administrate is here to make sure your team keep up to speed with the system as quickly as possible, as well as providing continuing support for any issues that arise. Each customer has a dedicated Account Management team who are here to help them, and our Support team is on standby if customers need to submit a support ticket for a problem they have encountered. Our Professional Services team is also here to provide implementation support to all our new customers to ensure the onboarding process is as smooth as possible. Finally, all our customers have access to Administrate University - an online learning course to talk you through using all the main parts of the system.

AMS Group meet weekly with their Account Management team to discuss things such as open support tickets, new releases, upcoming projects, and areas of improvement for workflow efficiency for their users to ensure everything is moving along as expected, and they are happy with the service Administrate is providing.

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Literacy and Basic English
Provided by: The Immigrant Education Society
Provides flexible English language classes to beginners who cannot read or write basic English.
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AI Village @ DEF CON

August 9th, 2018
Cyber Security Summit Virtual Charlotte

 August 9th, 2018 - August 12th, 2018

AI Village @ DEF CON

United States  »  West, USA  »  Nevada »
August 9th, 2018 - August 12th, 2018

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Machine Learning techniques are becoming more prevalent in core security technologies like malware detection and network traffic analysis. Its use has opened up new vectors for attacks against non-traditional targets, such as deep learning based image recognition systems used in self driving cars. There are unique challenges in defending and attacking these machine learning systems that the security community needs to be made aware of.

The AI Village’s mission is to educate the community about the use and abuse of AI in security and privacy. We do this by introducing attendees to the state of the art in attacking and defending AI systems in interactive and non-conventional ways, and dispel popular myths about what AI can and cannot do. We will provide a setting to educate at large through engaging contests, workshops, and a platform for researchers in this area to share their latest research.

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